Here are the nom­in­ees for the Wel­ling­ton Supervil­lain of the Year cat­egory for the Second Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards (2AWA).

Who con­trols the traffic lights?
Who keeps start­ing gram­mar fights?
They do, they do
Who keeps buses off the maps?
Who keeps lightrail under wraps?
They do, they do
Who’s in love with John McGrath?
Who thinks only of the car?
They do, they do.
Who builds only ugly towers?
Who abuses their all their powers?
They do, they DO!
(with apo­lo­gies to The Simpsons)

Only the most bad­dest wick­ed­est and evilest should apply, and they do, after the jump.

A. Terry Serepisos for the buildings

An explo­sion in a bling fact­ory Wel­ling­ton’s tallest phal­lus build­ing? Surely a city so hung up on design and urb­an­ism would­n’t allow such a thing? Espe­cially from a man with such a bad hair­cut.

B. John McGrath

We hate on John for the spam, and the annoy­ing vans that drove around, and for call­ing us out on being “Gramma Nazis” and because one of us lost their cam­era in one of his bars and we’re sure it was some­how his fault. Also, we hate on him because we’re pretty sure that were he to read this, he’d declare it to be because he’s a tall poppy, and not because he’s a dick.

C. Everyone at UNO magazine

Remem­ber when we wrote about the first issue of UNO and how we hoped sub­sequent issues would get bet­ter? And then the next issue had on its cov­er “Terry Get’s It” ? And we went “[sic] [sic] [sic]!”? Ew. Please magazine run from some oth­er city which does­n’t even both­er to include events list­ings for the city you’re pre­tend­ing to be from and is so sad that it needs to be giv­en away because no one is buy­ing it, don’t claim to rep­res­ent us at all. Because you don’t.

WINNER!!!
D. Kerry Prenderghastly

Do we even need to explain this one?

E. Rex Nicholls.

Or should that be Wrecks Cuba? Okay, so we like Cafe Itali­ano. But we can­’t think of a single oth­er thing that you’ve done that we do like.