When Tesla (and Paypal and SpaceX) founder Elon Musk kids his adoring public about being an evil, dastardly super villain, perhaps it’s not as tongue-in-cheek as they might think.

In a recent Washington Post article, reporter Andrea Peterson drew more than a few parallels with the South African-born entrepreneur and notoriously wealthy, evil comic masterminds. There’s Lex Luthor from Superman or Dominic Greene or Ernst Stavro (both from Bond) or Norman Osborn who eventually becomes the Green Goblin in Spiderman — just to name a few.

Oh, and there’s this, unveiled by Musk himself at the company’s factory in Fremont, California on Tuesday: a paranoid, risible new feature on the latest version Tesla’s Model X …

The “bioweapon defense mode” that — get this — can be enacted with the push of a button.

“This is a real button,” said Musk. “If there’s ever an apocalyptic scenario of some kind.”

Here’s the gist with few Musk quotes thrown in, via The Daily Beast:

In case of a biological attack, pulling the trigger on the electronic dash display would activate the car’s air filter. The all-electric Tesla version is 10 times the size of a regular car’s filter and is lauded as being 800 times better at filtering viruses. In case of biowarfare, pressing the defense mode button would activate the maximum air filtration, which Musk called “hospital level air quality.” (It was a well-timed brag, coming right on the heels of a major scandal over emissions at Volkswagen.)

Doomsday prepping aside, the car also goes zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds.