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When asked, I have said that Golgotha is one part Doom, one part the Skull, with just a scosche of the Humongous, from MAD MAX, thrown in for flavor.

(I imagine he rather sounds like the Humongous.)

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My inspiration here comes in part from an article I read in TIME about a million years ago. A visit to a cancer ward in a large hospital, specifically a ward where men were being treated for throat, jaw and face cancer brought on by smoking. These were guys who had essentially had the bottom half of their faces scooped out. One, who still had some semblance of a throat, tho most of his lower face was gone, had been fitted with a plastic tube that allowed him to continue to smoke. (This was in the days when smoking was still allowed in hospitals, even in the wards.)

So here was this guy, with no lower half on his face, nothing at all he could taste with, yet he still had to smoke -- and the doctors allowed it!

Cool!

Man, the things villains will build to get their nicotine fix!