Just finished an old Ant-Man story where the villain's plot is foiled because he just hadn't counted on the possibility of ants being nice. Egghead is sad and confused by this.
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In his first appearance, Egghead tries to convince the local ants to help him overthrow Hank Pym as part of his job to make the city... um... "safe for crime," as a Humphrey Bogart lookalike on page 2 puts it.
Short story shorter, the ants pretend to play along with Egghead but fill Pym in on every step of the fly paper-laden plan. Turns out the ants don't consider Pym their ruler; they just like him and like helping him out, and Egghead just can't deal.
Now there's Comics Code nonsense all over these early Marvel stories (police are a perfect benevolent incorruptible force, communism is the stuff of evil, etc.) but there's something endearing about all of that taking a back seat to a simple triumph of Kropotkin over Malthus.
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