Editing Professor Johann Faust

Professor Johann Faust

He was diabolical in ambition and whimsical in design. He ruled his little castle in the ocean periodically sending out the most ridicules of mad scientist plots, content in being the iconic figure if his profession. And slow but surely the Russian practicality and weight of numbers eroded his madness driven defenses until he stood trapped in a prison of his own design.

And then they forgot about him. Seriously, in 1965 the paperwork was destroyed in a fire and he was literally forgotten by the prison staff. Professor barely noticed of course. His self image had changed, he was the scheming prisoner who is locked away forever by the greatest prison in the world, ELSE HIS MADNESS THREATEN THE COSMOS ONCE MORE. He loved it.
When he found out about be Hive, he was furious. He had been forgotten, his grand genius not even deserving competent watch. So he killed the Hive King, locked the cell doors and contacted the authorities demanding that he would activate the fortresses SEISMIC ANIALATOR, capable of TEARING the EARTH in TWO! Unless the world meets his demand: 

Do his baby justice. In his warped, ancient mind he was content at living out the epilogue to his epic story in his own creation, the ultimate testament to his genius. For lesser minds to escape at their leisure, to turn his grandest creation into a glorified pirate cove was an insult he would never abide by. So now he is prisoner in name only, and Sheol's dutiful technical caretaker.

Faust is in the running for greatest (mad) scientific mind in the world, and all of his best work goes into Sheol.