"It has come to my attention that in addition to providing me a useful service you are providing many people unuseful antiservices and I intend that you," he gestures vaguely, "stop."

"That being the general you, I assume? The group I control directly is strictly business. In any case, what did you have in mind and what are you offering? It's possible you might be able to convince me."

"The general you, yes, Elite in general. The service you have been providing has been useful and I don't have a replacement lined up and skimming off the top of that alone would make any reasonable people quite a comfortable income, to say nothing of your other aboveboard behavior. I invite you to continue that, but only that."

"A good deal for my group, and for Regis Rex and many of the others. Less so for Bastard Son. The Elite gets a lot from having a broad tent. If you're powerful and capable, you can succeed. Requiring that operations be entirely aboveboard would drive off quite a few, and what they'd be doing instead is hardly likely to be better."

"How sad for those people. I invite you to solve this problem."

"I confess I don't quite understand the mentality of people who wake up one day and decide to be supervillains. It seems like the sort of thing one might fall into - in which case it will behoove you to be very unslippery - or the kind of thing that might happen incidentally as a consequence of wanting some thing technically orthogonal to villainy per se, like money or attention, in which case it would behoove you to find ways to make them part of a non-villainous employee benefit package. Do you deal with a substantial number of people who just want to be supervillains, full stop, yet have interests small-time enough that you can meaningfully control them - that is, they aren't just really enthusiastic about anarchy in general or something?"

"How much of this problem can we solve by finding areas of illegality I can live with? Run a thriving ring of well-treated volunteer sex workers. Sell marijuana to informed adults. Smuggle hardworking Mexican immigrants over the border."

"Oh, it's a question of your morality? I thought you were insisting on following the law. This makes it easier, but you'll understand if I don't answer the question. Anything else you'd like to whitelist?"

"The law is a convenient shorthand but if it becomes inconvenient one can dispense with shorthand. Why exactly will I understand if you don't answer the question, pray tell? If the problem cannot be solved with a whitelist, then you see, I will have to think of something else."

"If I want to find out, I will, and if you won't tell me, it makes me think I want to find out."

"It's a you don't seem to want be particularly convenient for me. At some point something less conducive to your apparent interests will seem more convenient. Your incentive structure might work or it might not; but you were the one objecting to the possibility of would-be supervillains choosing to self-employ."

"I might want to see an org chart." Can he just dramatically call up an org chart of the entire Elite? Is there such a thing?

"What I want is an idea of the extent to which I should treat them as different organizations at all. But I imagine you're a biased source on that so maybe I'll just snoop some more."

"We'll have you spied on as well, then. In the meantime, now that we aren't trying to trick you into anything, we can probably speed up the transpacific production. Unless you'd rather wait until you've verified that we're acceptable?"

"Let's stick with things like cures for cancer for now. If you want Endbringer bits, try to be more socially acceptable."

"Lovely. Anything else to discuss?"