Oooooh, I absolutely LOVE this concept! You can count me in! ^_^

I've even got a character concept already. I can see it, some kind of scientist struggling to get government research to continue his otherwise perfectly harmless research, so he and their lab assistants resort to less legal means of funds acquisition. Like this is a "your uncharismatic middle-aged neighbour and a bunch of undergrad students work together to dress him up in Spirit Halloween costumes and rob banks" level of supervillainy, except they're actually really competent at it and manage to pull it off, and then it just kinda grew from there.

I can also always go for a more traditional evil genius if you'd prefer, of course. There's a ton of excellent material there as well :)