Mostly Hero

What she couldn’t take was not so much the rejection and heartbreak, as the thought of killing her lover for pathetic crime passionel reasons. She liked to think she was mature and restrained enough to kill people for more dignified, careerist reasons.

Hold on, he now told himself. Just a minute. Who is this Mr Grand Villain person Great Aunt is talking about?
Great Aunt coughed discreetly, even apologetically. ‘Yes, about that,’ she said. This was when it came out that the full name of hero’s grandfather had not been Mr Squeaky Clean Great Guy Top Ace Superhero, a name which nobody but Grandson had appended and about which nobody had corrected Grandson when, in childhood, then youth, then adulthood, Grandson had presupposed it was. Instead, hero’s grandfather had been called Mr Grand Villain Extreme Omni-Imperious Arch-Grand-Arch Emperor Supreme Baddie of the World.