Thank you all. I have written a couple more versions that I was waiting to post until I got feedback on this, second version. The first version of the logline is further down. There it has the correct title, which is “Booster”. I didn’t see that it said “Boosts” here until it was too late. The dangers of posting from a mobile phone with autocorrect.

I hadn’t thought about what the villain’s powers would be until Karel asked. For now I think it will be an ability to shoot energy beams and create force fields.

I think I will tinker a bit more with the other versions of the logline before I post those.

I came up with a self help guru who lacks confidence in his own abilities, thinking it would follow Blake Snyder’s idea that there should be irony in the description of what the protagonist is and does. The whole thing with the villain came later.

I was thinking that he’s having problems as people keep taking his advice the wrong way, very few comes to his lectures, he hardly sells any books, his agent leaves him to become a screenwriter in Hollywood and the girlfriend is quite unappreciative in the beginning. The only person who listens and thinks his advice is good is the villain who is there in his secret identity persona.

I’m a bit torn about what the villain wants too. From taking over the world ? sparking some obligatory “Pinky and the Brain” references ? to just doing some thing that will gain him a seat on the council of super villains. He’s not very good at being a super villain either. Apologizing for everything and has an overbearing mother who calls and nags at him at the most inconvenient moments.