• Elon Musk embraced comparisons of him and the “Simpsons” supervillain Hank Scorpio on Twitter.
  • “Ok fine I’m Hank Scorpio,” Musk tweeted in response to a fan.
  • Scorpio, a maniacal supervillain hell-bent on world domination, features in the “Simpsons” episode “You Only Move Twice.” At the episode’s climax, he attacks his enemies with a flamethrower.
  • In 2018, Musk made headlines after selling 20,000 of his Not-a-Flamethrower devices for a total of $10 million.
  • Musk has frequently been the subject of jokes about secretly being a supervillain thanks to his innovative, often wacky devices and gadgets, such as the Not-a-Flamethrower and the new Tesla Cybertruck.
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Elon Musk welcomed comparisons between himself and the “Simpsons” supervillain Hank Scorpio on Twitter on Wednesday.

In response to a post that said “we all know” Musk is the character, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX replied:

Hank Scorpio is a supervillain in the animated sitcom ‘The Simpsons.”

He appears in the episode "You Only Move Twice," in which the Simpson family relocates to an idyllic town when Homer gets a new job, only for Homer to discover that his new boss, Scorpio, is a maniacal villain hell-bent on taking over the world.

During the final scenes of the episode, Scorpio is seen firing a flamethrower at enemies.

Musk was previously compared to Scorpio in 2018 when he started selling a flamethrower, jokingly called the Not-a-Flamethrower. The flamethrower sold 20,000 units for a total close to $10 million.

Musk was criticized by US politicians for creating the device, prompting him to announce every flamethrower would be shipped with "a complimentary boring fire extinguisher."

The machine's tongue-in-check name was a response to shipping and customs regulations that restrict the transport of anything called a flamethrower.

Musk has previously been compared to other supervillains such as the Superman nemesis Lex Luthor, and he has frequently been the subject of jokes about secretly being a supervillain thanks to his innovative, often wacky devices and gadgets, such as the Not-a-Flamethrower and the new Tesla Cybertruck.

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A Washington Post article suggested Musk had a "dark side" and shared interests with Bond villains such as Dominic Greene in "Quantum of Solace," who used environmentalism as a cover, and Ernst Stavro Blofeld, for his interest in outer space.