Reference · the words of Villain Con

Glossary

The words you need for Villain Con, as the Council uses them. If a word is not here, you were not invited to know it.

The end screen of Villain Con 26: the host in a cap in front of the studio backdrop — This is now an end screen. See below.

Villain Con: The yearly convention for people in the villain line of business. If you weren’t invited, you’re not invited. On the record every year since 2021; 2021 was held digitally. See Villain Con through the years.
The Council: Villain Con’s governing body. Issues notices, embargoes and public statements, approves funding, and in 2026 commandeered the Mystic Theatre. See the Council.
Hammerhead: Half human, half hammerhead shark, and not the good half. A friendly rival; “nemesis” is his word. See his casting file.
The Resistance of Justice Society (RJS): The other side. Held the rights to clouds and let the contract expire (2022). Answered the power of the horse with time travel (2023), and took on artificial intelligence (2024).
The power of the horse: The RJS motto, a horse-stance squat. Villain Con took it on in 2023. “The roosters are about to come home to slay.”
Disguise name: What the Villain Con attendance form asks for instead of your name. Personalised and embargoed. The host’s is not to be said.
The shark tank: The opening ceremony: a giant revolving tank of sharks that encircles everyone. Guests only. Missed in 2021, back in 2022, and in 2026 the host finally gets to be in it.
The patent department: Where Hammerhead hangs around. Must be a fish thing.
K Cider: The branded drinks deal at Villain Con. The host’s, three years running by 2022. Contested.
The embargo: What stops things being shown. In 2021 the official licensed hoodie arrived under embargo and had to be taken off to film.
The Silver Screen Seance: The theme of Villain Con 26. A seance calls back the dead, and so does a remake; the Council took the old-fashioned big screen. See the Silver Screen Seance.
Mystic Movies: The name over the stage of the Mystic Theatre. “I am taking movies away, and that’s where Mystic Movies comes in.”
The Mystic Theatre: A paper toy theatre played by a stage engine, commandeered for the week. See how it works.
Simulmake: Two films made as a pair and released together, each complete on its own. In 2026: Santa Origins and The Real Thing. See the simulmake.
A 119: A film of 119 minutes, not 120. The minute you get back is a gift from Villain Con. See 119minutes.com.
NLP: “It’s not against you. It’s through you, into your mind.” Day 1 says it is fine. Day 5 says the music has been doing it all week.
Stay asleep: The instruction of Villain Con 26. Every other year it was the opposite.
Easy breezy: How every week at Villain Con is described before it starts. Checked afterwards: “a couple of broken arms”.
Corridor speak: Things overheard from the Council in a corridor. Not a ruling. Take with a grain of sodium chloride. Salt is available at the back.
The regular way: What the Council allows when the gift is forbidden: no eyes on the public, no humming. The rules said nothing about screens.
LEAVESNUTS: The drink in The Real Thing, named, with total sincerity, after the very ingredients themselves. Its clean version, New Nuts, is wanted by nobody.
The airborne virus policy: Masks must be worn in public. This is not the public. If you’re watching this, you’re not the public either.
Take seventeen: The last recording of Day 4. The Council does not accept an eighteenth. That’s how a loop ends.
The lamp: The owner of the Mystic Theatre’s compensation for the week. Please blow it out when you’re done.
This is now an end screen: How every Villain Con video has ended since 2021. What it means is the video is finished.