Goomba from Super Mario

Oddjob from Goldfinger.

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First, I apparently can’t read a calendar.  The henchman post that went up yesterday was supposed to be today.  So I switched the one that was turning up tomorrow to Friday and now I have a gap.  This topic is being stitched together after a comment brought up ‘Minions’.  It was really about the yellow guys, but it got me thinking about how a minion would differ from a henchman.

The truth is that they have a lot in common.  Both work for a ‘bigger’ villain for one reason or another.  They usually follow orders to various levels of effectiveness.  Minions and henchmen seem to be in endless supply. They get taken out very easily and you rarely know their names.  Both get overlooked fairly often unless they are a specialized henchman like Oddjob.  Those can be…