Wiktionary
n. 1 The spirit each person is believed to have in attendance, according to certain religious or mythological traditions, which tries to negatively influence him, and is opposed by one's (term: good genius); loosely, someone who is a bad influence. 2 Literally, a brilliant person who uses his abilities for negative or harmful ends; especially a criminal mastermind.
Wikipedia
Evil Genius is a single player real-time strategy and simulation video game developed by Elixir Studios and published by Sierra Entertainment, released on 28 September 2004. Since 2 March 2006, the intellectual property rights of the game have been owned by Rebellion Developments.
The game is inspired by the spy thriller genre (notably the James Bond film series), and is set in an alternative 1960s–70s era. Most closely resembling Dungeon Keeper, players act as a villainous force attempting to achieve global domination whilst fending off the forces of justice; to this end the gameplay is split between management of a base and the completion of "acts of infamy" in the rest of the world. The game has stylish, cartoon-like visuals and contains a great deal of tongue-in-cheek humour, particularly playing to clichés of the spy genre.
On 8 August 2013, Rebellion Developments announced via their official Twitter account that there is an online game in the works entitled Evil Genius Online; the game is currently in open beta as a Facebook game. At the same time, the developers announced their intention to create a "fully-featured PC follow-up" to the original game.
Evil Genius is a novel written by Catherine Jinks and published in 2005 by Allen & Unwin, Australia. The book follows the story of Cadel Piggot, a child prodigy.
Sequels in the trilogy are Genius Squad and Genius Wars.
The Evil Genius book series is a collection of paperback publications published by McGraw-Hill/ TAB Electronics.
Evil genius may refer to:
- Evil demon, a philosophical concept also called "evil genius"
- Evil Genius (novel), a 2005 novel by Catherine Jinks
- Evil Genius (video game), a 2004 real-time strategy video game
- Evil Genius (song), a song from the 1981 album Precious Time by Pat Benatar
- Evil Genius (book series), a DIY projects book series ". . . for the Evil Genius"
- Evil Geniuses, an electronic sports team
- A stock character, see Mad scientist
Usage examples of "evil genius".
They were dead, primarily, because he, Reynolds, had set foot in Hungary, but he had not been their executioner: only the evil genius of Hidas could be held accountable for that.
When Andre-Louis Moreau, now a leader in the Revolution, was told by the tearful Madame de Plougastel that she was his mother and that his evil genius, the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, was his father -- this revelation drawn from her only when Moreau had his enemy at the sword's point -- it seemed to me drama could go no higher.
Hard upon Benvolio's entry comes the evil genius of the play, Tybalt, of the house of Capulet.
Vathek is a tale of the grandson of the Caliph Haroun, who, tormented by that ambition for super-terrestrial power, pleasure and learning which animates the average Gothic villain or Byronic hero (essentially cognate types), is lured by an evil genius to seek the subterranean throne of the mighty and fabulous pre-Adamite sultans in the fiery halls of Eblis, the Mahometan Devil.
Fu-Manchu--the greatest and most evil genius whom the later centuries have produced, the man who dreamt of an universal Yellow Empire--I should have acquired a certain facility in describing bizarre happenings.