| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''ComicBook/TheFlash'' '''[[Characters/TheFlash Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''Title Character'''\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/TheFlashTheFlashes The Flashes]] ([[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen Barry Allen]] | [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]])\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/TheFlashSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]]'''\ |
| 5 | [[Characters/TheFlashTheFlashFamily The Flash Family]] | [[Characters/TheFlashOtherSpeedsters Other Speedsters]]\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/TheFlashRoguesGallery Rogues Gallery]]'''\ |
| 7 | [[Characters/TheFlashEvilSpeedsters Evil Speedsters]] | [[Characters/TheFlashTheReverseFlashes The Reverse-Flashes]] ([[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]] | [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]]) | '''The Rogues'''-]]]]] |
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| 9 | The Flash's version of the supervillain mob. They work with a variety of gimmicks, but one thing they have in common is their goals. |
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| 13 | !!Captain Cold's Rogues |
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| 15 | [[folder:The Team as a Whole]] |
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| 23 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Comes up quite a bit. While the team projects the appearance of being blue-collar criminals who only got together for survival and actually kind of hate each other, each team member has gone out of their way numerous times to help another when it didn't benefit them. |
| 24 | * CameBackStrong: In the ''Hell to Pay'' storyline, Neron resurrected the Rogues that were sacrificed during ''Underworld Unleashed'', giving them vast powers and then unleashing them on the world as part of a ploy to get control of Wally's connection to the Speed Force. Unfortunately, these Rogues have no moral compass and willingly kill thousands with no impunity. They prove to be such a threat that even the Justice League has trouble bringing them down. |
| 25 | * CaperCrew: A supervillain variant. With someone like The Flash running around, they came together to have a better chance of robbing banks and getting away with it. |
| 26 | * DartboardOfHate: There's a picture of the Flash (it's not clear whether it's Barry or Wally) on the wall in one of their safehouses. Not only is it riddled with darts, someone also [[FaceDoodling drew on it]]. |
| 27 | * ADayInTheLimelight: They've gotten a few stories where they're the direct stars, most notably the ''Rogues Revenge'' and ''Rogues Rebellion'' minis set respectively during ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013''. |
| 28 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: Inverted. They were all independent villains when introduced, but since it became clear that the Flash family was so much above them in strength individually, and they all basically had the same motive anyway, it became increasingly common for them to team up. Nowadays, they're pretty much used as a single unit. |
| 29 | * DwindlingParty: In ''Forever Evil: Rogues' Rebellion''. Lisa is already out of the picture due to her [[HeroicRROD Villainous RRoD]] (she gets revived by Hartley's music), Len gets separated from the group when they escape from Central City, Axel gets incapacitated by Poison Ivy's KissOfDeath (although he quickly gets better), Mick commits an HeroicSacrifice so they can get away from Gotham, and Marco winds up going into a TenMinuteRetirement after everything that happens (he comes back). |
| 30 | * DysfunctionJunction: Everyone, aside from Axel Walker, has...severe issues, to say the least. None of them seemed to have a happy home life. |
| 31 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 32 | ** In fact, there are actual rules that Cold set in place. [[PragmaticVillainy While they're mostly to avoid getting too much attention]], some ''are'' still the standard version of the trope. the rules are: |
| 33 | *** It's about the money. So jobs that lead to ruling the world and such are generally turned down by the team, while revenge plots are discouraged. |
| 34 | *** Don't kill a cop, if it can be avoided. Cop killers get more attention from superheroes and police. |
| 35 | *** Never kill a cape, but especially speedsters. For the same reasons as above. |
| 36 | *** No drugs. It messes with their heads and leads to mistakes. |
| 37 | ** While not explicitly one of the rules, the Rogues also tend not to kill indiscriminately, because it would (again) attract unwanted escalation, and bank jobs in general don't require much bloodshed. |
| 38 | ** Because of how petty and sadistic he is, they despise Eobard Thawne so much that [[DeathIsCheap the first time he died]], they desecrated his corpse. |
| 39 | ** They also use a pocket dimension to bury dead Flash villains. This place is kept secret, and ''everyone'' who's a Flash villain is invited when someone is buried, even non-Rogues like Grodd. |
| 40 | ** [[spoiler:When the Rogues found out the second Captain Boomerang was feeding people to his Black Lantern dad during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', they informed him in no uncertain words that]] "the Rogues don't kill women and children" [[spoiler:before booting him into the pit with his father]]. |
| 41 | * EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Well, a ''dysfunctional'' family, but generally they act as each other's family. It helps that none of them are really close with their own, non-supervillain families. In fact, it's implied that Captain Cold got his Rogues back together after ''years'' of the team being inactive ''because'' he needed family after his sister's death. |
| 42 | * FireIceLightning: Weather Wizard's most preferred use of his powers is to generate lightning, creating this dynamic with Captain Cold and Heat Wave. [[spoiler:Tragically, a combination of the three elements was what (temporarily) killed Bart Allen.]] |
| 43 | * FugitiveArc: They were already wanted criminals to begin with, but [[spoiler:the murder of Bart Allen]] earned them the wrath of the entire superhero community, forcing them to go into hiding in ''Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge''. As if that wasn't enough, most other super''villains'' are out for their blood as well for Snart's blunt refusal to join Libra's Secret Society. |
| 44 | * HeelFaceTurn: ''The Flash'' was one of the first comics to attempt this seriously, and at some point, almost every Silver Age Rogue had attempted to go legit, to varying degrees of success. This was retconned to be the work of the Top, however, who gleefully undid it all during the Rogue War. It's implied that two of the Rogues, Pied Piper and the Trickster, legitimately went straight, though Top's meddling blinded Trickster to the fact that being on the right side of the law didn't mean he was in the right. |
| 45 | * HonoraryTrueCompanion: Paul Gambi, technically not a Rogue, but was treated as part of their inner circle. In ''Final Crisis'', he was kidnapped and tortured by Libra's Secret Society to get at the Rogues, and they promptly retaliated to rescue Gambi. |
| 46 | * LegacyCharacter: Played with. While there are some, it's generally frowned upon and Mirror Master II says to Trickster II that he had to work to earn his place, but they did eventually accept him. The only Legacy Character who was actually invited into Cold's Rogues was Captain Boomerang II, and Cold had ulterior motives with that. |
| 47 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: It's easy to dismiss the Rogues because of their goofy names and gimmicks, but that would be a big mistake. As Flash himself has pointed out in the past, the Rogues aren't just a regular [[LegionOfDoom team of villains]]. They're Central City's version of the ''Mafia''. It's also notable that while largely remaining BadassNormal (until the New 52), they went through the same SerialEscalation that the Flash themselves have had, while some of them demonstrate NewPowersAsThePlotDemands. |
| 48 | * OneSteveLimit: Intentionally avoided. Though roughly half of them qualify as a LegacyCharacter, they make it a rule to never have two members with the same title. They still have Captains Cold & Boomerang, however. |
| 49 | * ParentalSubstitute: Axel sees the Rogues as his father figures. It's unclear if they know that, however. |
| 50 | -->'''Bart:''' They say not having a father figure is a big factor in creating juvenile offenders. Along with social morality and media influence. What do you think, Trickster?\ |
| 51 | '''Axel:''' I think you're a total prude! I got father figures, brainiac. They're called the Rogues. |
| 52 | * PragmaticVillainy: As noted above, they have their rules and a code of honor. More importantly, they don't want to rule the world, just get away with the loot, and the less fuss they make with other heroes, the better. |
| 53 | * RenegadeSplinterFaction: during ''Rogue War'', Trickster's HeroAntagonist Rogues are members who split off from the original group. |
| 54 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Basically the main reason they're a threat to the Flash is that some of their individual gimmicks go through the same escalation that the Flash family's SuperSpeed does, to the point some of them approach PhysicalGod level. Captain Cold's cold gun and arsenal has oftentimes shown the same level of dexterity as ComicBook/{{Iceman|MarvelComics}}, Weather Wizard can throw around [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor-level storms]], Trickster and Golden Glider have an arsenal of gadgets each that is comparable to Batman's, and the vagueness of Mirror Master's gimmick has led to him becoming a RealityWarper who commands a pocket dimension that can do anything he wants it to. |
| 55 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: Probably the most famous and popular example in the DCU. Played with, as they do like to invoke NotSoHarmlessVillain. |
| 56 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: The team has constant infighting and get on each other's nerves, but they work ''very'' well with each other. |
| 57 | * UnwittingPawn: The only reason they decided to team up for the first time was due to manipulations by Grodd. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Abra Kadabra]] |
| 61 | !!Abra Kadabra |
| 62 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7d612b8d2214c0a5e85a75de6d60cb400f322a5b_hq.jpg]] |
| 63 | [[caption-width-right:300:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kadabra-oyl-temp_8818.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see his appearance prior to Rebirth]] |
| 64 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Abhararakadhararbarakh/Citizen Abra |
| 65 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #128 (May, 1962) |
| 66 | |
| 67 | ->''"Revel in the glory! Reward me with your accolades! I stand before you Abra Kadabra the ultimate escape artist...for God himself cannot hold me!"'' |
| 68 | |
| 69 | A magician criminal from the 64th century who came back in time because technology in the future has rendered his craft and skills obsolete (and also because the 64th century is a ''very'' [[CrapsackWorld unhappy place]]). Obsessed with being in the spotlight, Abra is determined to gain attention. He decided to do so by becoming a supervillain and regular member of the Rogues. In modern interpretations of the Rogues, he's only ''kind of'' considered a member, as his more violent ways and personal vendetta against the Flashes goes against the Rogues' principles. |
| 70 | ---- |
| 71 | * ArchEnemy: Wally West's most recurring and personal foe back in the 90s, even though in the modern age Hunter Zolomon/Zoom has overshadowed him. |
| 72 | * AttentionWhore: You know someone has ego problems when they travel through time and become a supervillain just for the sake of getting acknowledged. |
| 73 | * BeardOfEvil: He has a goatee plus a DastardlyWhiplash. |
| 74 | * BerserkButton: |
| 75 | ** ''Never'' mention the name of Houdini around him. Just don't. Also, he loathes not being the center of attention, and if someone else takes away applause from him. He was once tricked into undoing his own plan to erase Linda from existence because the very nature of the plan meant that nobody believed his claim to have delivered such a decisive blow to the Flash. |
| 76 | ** Outing him as a fraud who uses tech instead of real magic is a wonderful way to get him to drop all pretenses of showing off, and [[LetsGetDangerous get serious in a hurry]]. |
| 77 | * BlackSheep: Of the Rogues. He doesn't work for money, he does try to kill cops and capes. That said, the Rogues have no problem feeding Kadabra's ego if his powers are useful to their schemes, and he's more than willing to take the spotlight off of the rest. While Boomerang and Top may be more annoying personally, however, Kadabra's willingness to ramp up the body count and burn up the budget leaves him out of the Rogues more often. |
| 78 | * BodyHorror: When he returned for the first time during Waid's run, Kadabra is burned and horribly disfigured. This is because when he was last seen, Kadabra was hit by a truck that immediately burst into flames. |
| 79 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: He absolutely ''hates'' the 64th century and spends so much time in the 20th century because he finds it more welcoming. |
| 80 | * ClarkesThirdLaw: He can do "magical" things because his 64th century tech is just that advanced. |
| 81 | * EvilVersusEvil: He leads his 64th century compatriots into rebelling against their tyrannical leaders, but Kadabra himself is not the most stable of people. Wally helps the revolution, but he chooses to take Kadabra back to the past with him because it will be dangerous to put him in charge. It's one of the major contributions to the Wally-Kadabra [[ItsPersonal rivalry]]. |
| 82 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Averted. Despite traveling back to beyond the stone age (from his perspective), he prefers modern life to the future, and could adapt if he so chose. |
| 83 | * FreudianExcuse: He became a super-villain because...he always wanted to be a magician, but A: he's not very good at it, and B: that's very hard to do in a time-zone when technology has advanced to make miraculous feats possible. Later comics also add in that he's a devout individualist in a world where individuality is ''illegal''. |
| 84 | * {{Gaslighting}}: Abra once tried to make Barry think there was no Flash and it'd all been in his head, with the bonus of him being [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly burned by the lightning bolt]]. He nearly succeeded at it until he brought up the Reverse-Flash, who couldn't exist if there was no Flash to begin with. |
| 85 | * AHeroToHisHometown: When Wally briefly travels to Kadabra's time, it's revealed that Kadabra was an inspiration for the masses to rebel against that time period's authoritarian rule. |
| 86 | * ItsPersonal: He mainly wants attention...unless things involve Wally West. He kidnapped Linda Park from her and Wally's wedding, and wiped her existence from the world. This caused Wally to vanish into the Speed Force without her to ground him. Later, he would also claim responsibility for Wally's disappearance from the New 52, again, because he hates Wally ''that much''. |
| 87 | * LargeHam: As expected of a man who craves attention, he tends to showboat a lot. |
| 88 | * MagicFromTechnology: To better preserve the Flash's ThematicRoguesGallery of "science criminals", it's been explained since the beginning that Abra's powers aren't magic, just the use of 64th century technological devices, which are so advanced as to seem magical to mere 20th century viewers. He actively describes his abilities as "magic" as well. |
| 89 | * MrFanservice: His third outfit had a wide, open coat. |
| 90 | * PretenderDiss: During a period where Kadabra was thought dead, a stage magician decided to adopt his monicker. He ignored Wally's warnings so Kadabra promptly returns and gives his poser a CruelAndUnusualDeath. |
| 91 | * PuppetPermutation: One of his most memorable stunts involves turning the Flash into a living marionette puppet. It's since become a signature trick of his. |
| 92 | * RetGone: |
| 93 | ** Kidnaps Linda during her wedding and wipes everyone's memories of her. |
| 94 | ** He also removed Wally from existence in the New 52, with the side effect of accidentally erasing his own memory as well. |
| 95 | * StageMagician: How he styles his entire character and [[{{Idiosyncrazy}} themes his crimes]]. |
| 96 | * TimeTravel: Either an escapee or an exile from the 64th century, depending on what story you're reading. |
| 97 | * WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Despite being more insane than most of the Rogues normally feel comfortable with, his malevolence is kept in check by his showmanship -- everything must be a spectacle, and his imagination is so limited that he's usually beaten. |
| 98 | [[/folder]] |
| 99 | |
| 100 | [[folder:Captain Boomerang I]] |
| 101 | !!Captain Boomerang |
| 102 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6capboom.jpg]] |
| 103 | [[caption-width-right:250:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_boomerang.png[[/labelnote]] to see his appearance prior to Rebirth]] |
| 104 | [[caption-width-right:250:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captainboomerang_246.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see his classic appearance]] |
| 105 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' George "Digger" Harkness |
| 106 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #117 (December, 1960) |
| 107 | |
| 108 | ->''"It's not a bloody children's toy. It's a refined and elegant weapon which, in the hands of a master like yours truly, can lop yer bloody head off!"'' |
| 109 | |
| 110 | A cowardly and pragmatic mercenary/regular ComicBook/SuicideSquad member who wields razor-sharp, cybernetic boomerangs. Hated by his fellow Rogues due to being a DirtyCoward and {{Jerkass}} of the utmost extreme. Digger eventually died during a shoot-out with Jack Drake, father of [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake]], but was resurrected at the end of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''. |
| 111 | ---- |
| 112 | * AscendedExtra: Captain Boomerang was originally a rarely used and barely remembered gimmick villain for the Flash; after being a major character in ''Suicide Squad'' he was established as one of the most famous and visible member of the Rogues. |
| 113 | * BackFromTheDead: |
| 114 | ** Resurrected in ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' after exposure to the White Light when he was a member of the [[ZombieApocalypse Black Lanterns Corps]]. |
| 115 | ** After being killed in ''Suicide Squad: Rebirth'', got resurrected in issue #8 of the 2016 ongoing - in an ironic twist, as a result of taking down Zod, who'd killed him in the first place. Of course, his luck being what it is, he then had Zod's immobile body fall on him. |
| 116 | * BadassBandolier: In ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'', writer John Ostrander and artist Luke [=McDonnell=] added a bandoleer of boomerangs to Captain Boomerang's costume, which has become standard in all of his subsequent appearances. |
| 117 | * BastardBastard: Post-Crisis, it was revealed that he was the product of an affair his mother had. Boomerang didn't know about this until adulthood, and blames his father's poor treatment of him for his criminal career, but he showed signs of sociopathy from a very young age. |
| 118 | * BattleBoomerang: Is an expert at the combat uses of Boomerangs. |
| 119 | ** PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Once threw a (specially-treated) boomerang through the time barrier! |
| 120 | * TheBogan: Even when not subjected to Flanderization, there's no denying he's an uncouth Australian. |
| 121 | * BoomerangComeback: He pulled this stunt against a member of the Jihad in the second issue of the original series of ''Suicide Squad''. |
| 122 | * BoxedCrook: His lengthy run with the ''Suicide Squad'' has him serve the government while officially being a convict. |
| 123 | * ButtMonkey: The number one punching bag of the Suicide Squad, not that he didn't deserve it. |
| 124 | * CaptainEthnic: Of the Australian variety. Other Australians hate him for giving Australia a bad name. |
| 125 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the Silver Age he wasn't much nastier than the other Rogues, with wacky schemes and little loss of life. |
| 126 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: In ''Suicide Squad''. Most notably, he once let Mindboggler get shot just because he didn't like her, disguised himself as Mirror Master so he could continue committing crime while still part of the squad, sold the Atom out for half a million dollars (though this was part of a sting operation, Boomerang was perfectly happy to do it anyway), and convinced Slipknot to try and run away to see if his explosive bracelets worked. [[note]][[AnArmAndALeg They do.]][[/note]] |
| 127 | ** In a Silver Age story, after [[EnemyMine helping Barry drive off an alien invasion]] he broke the truce and captured the Flash immediately after they were routed. |
| 128 | * CombatPragmatist: Not at all afraid to use any dirty tactic available to him. |
| 129 | * ComplexityAddiction: As straightforward and sensible as he likes to think he is, he is utterly in love with his gimmick to the point of madness, having once directed an entire torpedo in a boomerang arc (to surprisingly great success) to hit a target just because he ''wanted'' to. |
| 130 | * DirtyCoward: In ''Suicide Squad'', he often betrayed the team or ran away to avoid getting hurt. |
| 131 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: Unceremoniously immolated by General Zod in ''Suicide Squad: Rebirth #1''. |
| 132 | * DueToTheDead: The Rogues hold a decent funeral for Harkness (any supervillain closely associated with the Rogues invited), then rampage around the city in his honor, committing random acts of crime using his boomerangs. |
| 133 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: Pre-Flashpoint, his ''Brightest Day'' resurrection temporarily gave him the power to generate explosive boomerangs of pure energy. |
| 134 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He was genuinely trying to be a good parent to his son Owen before his death. |
| 135 | * EmbarrassingNickname: "Boomerbutt", from Amanda Waller and eventually the rest of the Suicide Squad. |
| 136 | * EthnicScrappy: He is this InUniverse. Nobody, not even his fellow Australians, seems to like him. |
| 137 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He thinks childish or racist insults are the height of wit, makes horrible puns about how he "always comes back," and once referred to killing people with his bladed boomerangs as a failed attempt at using "sedative boomerangs." |
| 138 | * FinalBoss: Of the [[Comicbook/{{Robin}} Red Robin series]]. |
| 139 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: The clash between Wally and Zoom through the timestream in ''Rogue War'' caused Digger to briefly wind up in the future where he met [[spoiler:Meloni Thawne-Allen]] and conceive Owen. |
| 140 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Nobody really likes him in the squad or the Rogues, and [[JerkAss for good reasons]]. |
| 141 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: In a neat twist, Captain Boomerang is a ''marketing plan'' gone horribly wrong. He was originally given the name and costume by the Wiggins Toy Company to sell boomerangs to kids, and immediately thought of ways to use this identity to commit robberies. |
| 142 | ** Retconned post-Crisis in Ostrander's Suicide Squad; it turns out that he stuck around in the job for a couple years before steadily getting fed up with it when the expected fad never took off. Eventually, he decided enough was enough, and decided to make what he thought was a better use of his situation; a.k.a. stealing someone's wallet. And it just so happened that the Flash was nearby, signing autographs. He noticed the theft, but wasn't able to stop Boomerang from getting a cheap shot in, due to Flash's lack of experience with him. The two have been going at it ever since. |
| 143 | * {{Jerkass}}: Even the other Rogues don't like him much -- not because he's evil, just because he's a colossal dick. |
| 144 | * KarmicButtMonkey: Boomerang suffers a lot more then his teammates, but since he’s a DirtyCoward, {{Jerkass}} and PoliticallyIncorrectVillain it’s hard to feel any sympathy for the prick. |
| 145 | * LaughablyEvil: He may be a total bastard in every sense of the word, but he escapes being a HateSink by being completely hilarious. |
| 146 | * LetsGetDangerous: He's ordinarily useless in combat as a member of the Suicide Squad, but only because he's utterly uninterested in helping out and an utter coward to boot. Put his life on the line, though, and as Amanda Waller put it, he'll "fight like hell to get out of it," and quite successfully at that. |
| 147 | * LukeYouAreMyFather: Post-Crisis, it turns out Mr. Wiggins, president of a toy company, was his biological father. |
| 148 | * MutualKill: With Jack Drake (Tim Drake's father) in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'' (Post-Crisis universe). |
| 149 | * NotAMorningPerson: He reacts violently to waking up. |
| 150 | * PetTheDog: He showed sympathy to Wally over Daniel West's death and assured him his father died a hero. |
| 151 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He made a number of racist and sexist remarks during his time on the ComicBook/SuicideSquad. Shortly after [[DeathIsCheap his death]] in ''Identity Crisis'', it was implied he also made a number of homophobic remarks to the openly-gay Pied Piper. |
| 152 | * SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: While Trickster and the Top are also toy-based villains, the former's a genius inventor and the latter has superpowers. Boomerang has neither -- and, oh yeah, he's got a higher body count than any Rogue who isn't a straightforward killer. |
| 153 | * TheSociopath: He's formally diagnosed as one early in the original volume of ''Suicide Squad'', and is a textbook example of the low-functioning type: abrasive, impulsive, petty, and compulsively determined to break rules and flout authority even when it's not to his benefit. |
| 154 | * StopBeingStereotypical: Other Australians detest his over-the-top CaptainEthnic attitude, and the country has collectively decided to pretend that he's an American faking being an Aussie because they're ''that'' embarrassed by him. |
| 155 | * TheUnfavorite: His father never treated him well his whole life, due to both parts of his BastardBastard nature. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Captain Boomerang II]] |
| 159 | !!Captain Boomerang II |
| 160 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_o_clock_43.jpg]] |
| 161 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Owen Mercer |
| 162 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Identity Crisis'' #3 (October, 2004) |
| 163 | |
| 164 | ->''"Okay, Georgie...just be cool...and focus. He may be fast...but he's just like any other moving target. And you're a @#$%ing gunfighter, Georgie. Draw."'' |
| 165 | |
| 166 | The son of the first Captain Boomerang who inherited the title after his father's death. Significantly more likable than his father. |
| 167 | ---- |
| 168 | * CainAndAbel: The Cain to Bart Allen's Abel, not that either of them know they are brothers. |
| 169 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed during the Blackest Night. |
| 170 | * FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: He went from a sort of villain to hero, then straight back to a villain. |
| 171 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He’s a bit impatient and rude, but he has a good heart. That is until he devolved into a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk after he lost his father. |
| 172 | * HistoryRepeats: Brothers raised in different environments, with one growing up a hero and the other as a villain, just like Bart's own grandfather, Barry Allen and his twin Malcolm Thawne. |
| 173 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:During ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' by his Black Lantern ring-possessed father after being pushed into a pit by Captain Cold for feeding women and children to his dad.]] |
| 174 | * LamarckWasRight: Had super-human accuracy and even SuperSpeed because his father was a highly trained boomerang-wielder who regularly fought against a super-speedster. Of course, now that we know he's part-Thawne, it makes a whole lot more sense. |
| 175 | * LegacyCharacter: Inherited the Captain Boomerang title after his father's death. |
| 176 | * LongLostSibling: To Bart Allen, though neither ever found out. Meloni Thawne is their mother. |
| 177 | * LukeYouAreMyFather: Captain Boomerang at first was nervous about meeting his son but Owen spoke to him first. Owen expressed admiration for his famous father and the two hit it off. |
| 178 | * MissingMom: Meloni Thawne. |
| 179 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: When he sacrifices people to his Black Lantern father during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', one of his victims is a villain called Sandblast, who he lured with promises to get him into the Rogues and is mentioned to be a sex offender just before he is shoved into the pit Owen's father is dwelling in. |
| 180 | * PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: It comes with the Captain Boomerang title. |
| 181 | * SuperSpeed: Earlier on they were {{Flash Step}}s, but he later started to develop the full version. |
| 182 | * TooDumbToLive: When he and Lawton were on the Suicide Squad, Lawton made his disdain for Owen clear by threatening him and complaining about his MotorMouth. Owen retaliated by deflecting Lawton's bullets with tiny boomerangs made out of paper clips while Lawton was practicing in the shooting range to make him think his shooting skills were slipping. As Bronze Tiger pointed out this was dumb on 2 levels; 1) if Lawton began to question his skills it could negatively impact his performance in the field resulting in himself or another squad member (like Owen) killed; 2) Lawton is not an idiot and would likely find out Owen was messing with him. Which he did. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Captain Cold]] |
| 186 | !!Captain Cold |
| 187 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capcoldrebirth.jpg]] |
| 188 | [[quoteright:250:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5c058cc8_cc6c_4a31_9dbe_94ee05ef95c7.jpeg[[/labelnote]] to see him as "King Cold" in ''Year of the Villain'']] |
| 189 | [[quoteright:250:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CaptainColdNew52_7410.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see his New 52 appearance prior to Rebirth]] |
| 190 | [[quoteright:250: Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Flash182_6420.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see Captain Cold as he appeared pre-Flashpoint]] |
| 191 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Leonard "Len" Snart |
| 192 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Showcase'' #8 (June, 1957) |
| 193 | |
| 194 | ->''"Hate is cold! Hell is cold! And sucker -- I am Captain Cold!"'' |
| 195 | |
| 196 | Leader of the Rogues and the Flash's long-time archenemy, Leonard Snart is a skilled career criminal and mechanic who took up supervillainy after he accidentally invented a "cold gun", which freezes things by slowing molecules to absolute zero. (A process that is non lethal putting people in temporary suspended animation. Unless he tunes it not to be.) Strict, professional, and blunt, Cold runs the Rogues tightly and efficiently, enforcing his strong code of honor on them while using their combined skills to pull off countless heists. |
| 197 | ---- |
| 198 | * AbusiveParents: His father was a violent drunk who regularly beat him, his mother, and his sister. |
| 199 | * AntiVillain: Although Captain Cold is a resolute career criminal, his professionalism, sense of honor and general disinterest in murdering people other than the Flash makes him a very sympathetic and likable character. |
| 200 | * ArchEnemy: He is perhaps the most notable enemy of both Flash II and Flash III. |
| 201 | * BadassBoast: Delivered one when he killed Chillblaine. |
| 202 | --> "Hate is cold! Hell is cold! And sucker -- I am Captain Cold!" |
| 203 | * TheBadGuysAreCops: His abusive father was a cop, explaining a good deal of his attitude towards police today. |
| 204 | * BeardOfEvil: During ''Year of the Villain'', he grows a beard. It's also him at his most ruthless. |
| 205 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With his sister, Glider when they team up against The Flash. |
| 206 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He loves his sister Lisa with all his heart, and also very protective of his fellow Rogues. |
| 207 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: In the Flashpoint timeline, Snart is Citizen Cold, Central City's star hero. He's adored by the public, but the police, the villain community, and hero community all know he's nothing but a complete asshole who uses the hero facade as an excuse to do whatever he wants. But this all depends on how much the citizens actually love him, because without their support he couldn't get away with half the crap he openly pulls. He's even willing to secretly set up his battles with supervillains by baiting them with misinformation. |
| 208 | * BlameGame: Once Snart "rescues" his father from Libra's Rogues, the two of them start throwing the blame of Lisa's death at each other. |
| 209 | * BlessedWithSuck: Downplayed during his metahuman period: His integrated freezing abilities made him more powerful than ever but liquid tended to freeze around him, so he couldn't get drunk, and when he got tossed into the water it freezed on him, and he had difficulty moving. |
| 210 | * BountyHunter: In a reformed period, teaming up with his sister as "Golden Snowball Recovery Services," and hunting fugitives, lost kids, and missing objects for rewards. |
| 211 | * BreakoutVillain: He wasn't even the official leader of the Rogues in their first few outings, but the popularity of the character elevated him to the spot. |
| 212 | * BreakTheBadass: His time in the Suicide Squad does a number on his self-esteem, to the extent he's nearly DrivenToSuicide. Then Lex Luthor comes giving him an offer of new tech and powers... |
| 213 | * BrotherSisterTeam: With Golden Glider, they often serve on the Rogues together (although some acquaintances feel she would have stayed in her UsedToBeASweetKid state [[TheCorruptor if not for his influence]]) and were the "Golden Snowball" during a reformed period. |
| 214 | * BroughtDownToNormal: The New 52 version had his powers pulled out of him by Deathstorm, the Crime Syndicate's Firestorm. |
| 215 | * CasanovaWannabe: In the Silver Age, he seemed to develop a crush on a different woman every week. |
| 216 | * CrazyPrepared: He's well aware of the possibility of losing his gun in the middle of combat. In a move that Batman himself would approve of, he's set a codeword for the gun to start firing even if he isn't holding it. |
| 217 | * DeadpanSnarker: Commonly answers with snark. |
| 218 | * DespairEventHorizon: His time with the ComicBook/SuicideSquad as the SoleSurvivor of every mission truly broke him leaving hope ripe for the temptations of Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom during Year of the Villain. The next time he confronts the Flash, his ambition has risen beyond being a thief to wanting to steal Central City itself, and he is much more willing to kill, abandoning a great deal of the code that distinguished him from the rest of the supervillain community. |
| 219 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's generally been portrayed as viciously mercenary, but strictly professional. It's never -- well, rarely -- personal. He’s practically the comic book poster child for this trope. |
| 220 | * EvilVersusEvil: He participated in the fight against the Crime Syndicate in ''Forever Evil'', and successfully killed Johnny Quick. |
| 221 | * FashionVictimVillain: Invoked. He's fully aware how silly he looks, and has no problems killing people who think he's a joke because of it. Additionally, the outfit's practical -- Cold doesn't have the RequiredSecondaryPowers to be immune to his own gun, and its use could freeze him to death or blind him. |
| 222 | * AFatherToHisMen: Above all, Cold runs a tight ship and goes out of his way to ensure that the Rogues are focused on the job at hand. Not that he's above tough love to do so, nor is he above encouraging their darker behaviors. |
| 223 | * FreezeRay: Technically. It's really supposed to slow down molecules, the ice is a side effect. In his words, it's a cold gun, not an ice gun; his gun slows molecules to absolute zero, while [[Characters/{{Batman}} Mister Freeze's]] just shoots ice. He explains in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'' issue 6. |
| 224 | -->'''Captain Cold:''' A lot of guys shoot ice. But I don't ''freeze'' things. I ''eliminate'' movement altogether. I ''stop'' atoms ''cold''. |
| 225 | * FreudianExcuse: Subverted. Cold went criminal because he felt like it, not because of his father's abuse. |
| 226 | * GoodFeelsGood: In the New 52 as a member of the Justice League, he started to realize that being a good guy feels good. This went down the drain with ''Rebirth'', not only he went back to his criminal ways, he also cemented himself as the crime lord of Central City. |
| 227 | * HarmlessFreezing: His cold gun has been designed to just put people frozen into suspended animation without doing long-term damage. That said, it ''can'' kill if he wants it to, which makes it a good idea not to push the guy. |
| 228 | * TheHeavy: as the leader of the rogues he plays role in almost every story they are in. |
| 229 | * HeroAntagonist: On one of their first jobs during their time as {{Bounty Hunter}}s, Len and Lisa are contracted by a small town to apprehend the "Porcupine Man", who the townspeople believe kidnapped three boys. The Porcupine Man is soon revealed to be Wally (gone missing after an experiment to restore his powers). The Snarts learn Wally's circumstances and wind up protecting ''him'' from the town. Once Wally returns to his senses, he teams up with the Snarts to rescue the three boys, who were actually were not kidnapped at all, and were instead trapped in a mine shaft cave-in. |
| 230 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He claims the Rogues do not kill women or children, and [[spoiler: murders Owen Mercer for sacrificing women and children to the Black Lantern version of his father in a desperate attempt to revive him]], yet has no problem with Axel Walker murdering homeless people (including women) and the second Mirror Master [[spoiler: killing Pied Piper's parents and two of their servants.]] |
| 231 | * AnIcePerson: Post-ComicBook/New52, there was a period when he had direct cryokinesis without having to use his freezing guns. It was later revealed that he used to use freezing guns, but used a machine to integrate his cold gun's powers into himself. [[StatusQuoIsGod This is reverted to cold gun again]] after the events of ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013. |
| 232 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: He's trained himself to predict the Flash's movement, and with his cold gun he is one of the few people in the world who can hit the Flash ''while he's running''. Granted, being the ArchEnemy of the Flash and being an normal human armed with a special gun would require this trope to be effective. |
| 233 | * TheLeader: Even though there are rivals to this position from time to time since Silver Age, Cold always reclaims his position as the de facto leader of the Rogues every time in the end. |
| 234 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: Cold typically leaves his enemies alive, unless they piss him off. |
| 235 | * LukeIMightBeYourFather: During Owen Mercer's early time with the Rogues, he believes the reason Snart personally took him under his wing was because Snart thinks Owen's mother was his sister Lisa. |
| 236 | * LowerClassLout: He grew up poor white trash and fully acknowledges it, but woe betide anyone who brings it up around him. |
| 237 | * ManOfKryptonite: DependingOnTheWriter. He can count as this whenever he's in a story where cryokinesis is his actual superpower rather than something he can only fire from his gun. And as extreme cold can be one of the Flash's weaknesses/vulnerabilities, Captain Cold being able to generate ice as an actual superpower from his body can give the Flash as much trouble as he needs to. |
| 238 | * MySisterIsOffLimits: Don't look at his sister. Don't even think about it. Even the Rogues aren't entirely immune from this, but he's most concerned about the Flash trying to date her (even though Barry isn't remotely interested in Lisa). |
| 239 | * NeverHurtAnInnocent: Refuses to kill innocent bystanders or those not involved in his business. |
| 240 | * NobleDemon: As the leader of the Rogues, he institutes rules against killing and petty revenge schemes. |
| 241 | * NotMeThisTime: Snart was suspected to be a SerialKiller [[CopKiller targeting police officers]] because the killer's M.O. is to freeze his victims. Obviously Snart isn't responsible; not only that, the killer was not even using Snart's tech, but rather Mister Element's. |
| 242 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: A guy dressed up as an eskimo and who calls himself Captain Cold can't be much of a threat right? '''Wrong'''! Cold may have a Code of Honor, but he is utterly ruthless and is considered the Flash's nemesis for a ''reason''. |
| 243 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Year of the Villain'', time in the Suicide Squad has turned him from a pragmatic, honor-bound thief to a murderous conqueror who calls himself ''King'' Cold. Also, he indulges in puns he normally avoided. He seems aware of it, and so does his sister, but he does not care, even when he points his cold gun at his fellow Rogues and freezes them solid in a rage. |
| 244 | -->'''King Cold:''' Y'know… used to be I lived by a code. Never kill anyone unless it was ''do'' or ''die''. But things change.\ |
| 245 | '''Golden Glider:''' (''about a robotic security guard saying escapees would be "iced"'') See, it's things like this that tell me how much Belle Reve ''changed'' my brother. He used to ''hate'' puns. |
| 246 | * PetTheDog: He sent flowers to Elongated Man after his wife's death. While other villains may do this as a form of mockery it was a genuine display of respect from Cold. |
| 247 | * PowerFist: With his Cryokinesis he could freeze his fists into thick powerful weapons. |
| 248 | * PunchClockVillain: Considers himself a businessman as much as a villain, and has strict rules of conduct. If not on a mission, he's likely to hang out or watch the local sports team. |
| 249 | * PungeonMaster: Subverted. Cold may dress like an eskimo and have a silly name, but he outgrew puns years ago. This is notable when he fights [[LegacyCharacter the fourth]] Chillblaine. It is a measure of how much he changed in ''Year of the Villain'' that guards he uses do indulge in puns. |
| 250 | -->'''Chillblaine:''' You're an absolute Zero!!\ |
| 251 | '''Captain Cold:''' Kid, I outgrew that [[SymbolSwearing $#!^]] years ago. |
| 252 | * ReedRichardsIsUseless: Played straight. When called on the fact that each of the Rogues have access to technology and abilities that could make them rich legitimately, Cold freely cops to the notion that their life of crime is largely due to bad habits. |
| 253 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against Chillblaine, the man who killed his sister; and, later, against Inertia, for tricking the Rogues into killing Bart Allen and making them the top public enemies. |
| 254 | * SecretKeeper: He knows what ''really'' happened between Mark and Clyde Mardon, as Mark drunkenly confessed the truth to him one day. However, the ''reader'' doesn't know, as Cold has kept his mouth shut on the matter. |
| 255 | * SelfMadeOrphan: He confronted his abusive father but couldn't bring himself to kill the man...so [[KillItWithFire he had Heat Wave do it]]. |
| 256 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Of all the Rogues, he is the most focused member. |
| 257 | * TheStoic: Befitting his nickname, Cold does not show his emotions readily. |
| 258 | * StraightEdgeEvil: Forbids the Rogues from using drugs. |
| 259 | * TokenEvilTeammate: As a member of the Justice League in the New 52, though to a lesser extent than ComicBook/LexLuthor. |
| 260 | * TookALevelInBadass: While he was certainly dangerous Pre-New 52, in the reboot he takes an offer by Dr. Elias to merge his cold gun's powers into himself. Doing so this made him a metahuman who can slow down the Flash just by being near him, making their fights even more equally matched, as Barry can no longer just disarm him. Many of the other Rogues also became metahumans with powers based off of their tech. This was eventually undone for most of them though. |
| 261 | * UnfortunateNames: His real name. |
| 262 | -->'''Paul Gambi:''' ''[running backstories past an amnesiac villain]'' Your name's Leonard Snart, which is two strikes against you right there...\ |
| 263 | '''Captain Cold:''' ''[narrating]'' My name's...man, I hate it. My name's Leonard Snart. It's a bad name, I know, but my parents were bad people. |
| 264 | * VillainsOutShopping: He watches hockey games sometimes and in Issue 750, a punk tries to rob the same convenient store Snart is in. He stops the mugger, but exposes himself in the process when he used his cold gun. The store clerk mistakes Snart for a fellow mugger and alerts the police. This just annoyed Snart because he actually ''wants to pay'' for the purchase he's made. |
| 265 | * WildCard: During ''Crossfire'', Snart refuses to be part of Blacksmith's Network (even though his fellow Rogues have joined), and even helps the Flash's allies...if only to serve his own ends. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Doctor Alchemy/Mister Element]] |
| 269 | !!Doctor Alchemy |
| 270 | [[quoteright:282:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dralchemy.jpg]] |
| 271 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Albert Desmond |
| 272 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Showcase'' #13 (March, 1958) |
| 273 | |
| 274 | ->''"With this Philosopher's Stone I can transmute any element into any other. I bet your heart wouldn't work so good, if it was...oh, say...coal!"'' |
| 275 | |
| 276 | A man suffering from a split personality, only said split personality happens to be a mad supervillain who's discovered the power to transmutate any element into any other. Alchemy is obsessed with expanding his scientific work ([[ForScience for a given value of science]]) and works with the Rogues to achieve those goals. The character originally fought under the identity of Mister Element, using an "elemental gun" that could transmute any element into any other element when fired, then retired that identity and took up the identity of Doctor Alchemy after finding the PhilosophersStone. He would switch between the identities repeatedly over the years before settling on the Doctor Alchemy identity permanently. |
| 277 | ---- |
| 278 | * AlchemyIsMagic: He has the power to transmute any element into another. |
| 279 | * BoxedCrook: An InvokedTrope, as Alchemy would usually rather stay in his cell and read esoteric texts while waiting for his "experiments" in the outside to bear fruit. It helps that he can leave prison any time he feels like it by summoning the stone. |
| 280 | * CasanovaWannabe: His "psychic twin"/split personality Alvin, who among other things had a habit of transmuting Golden Glider's underwear. |
| 281 | * ChestInsignia: The "A" on his hood. |
| 282 | * ChronicVillainy: In the Silver Age, he was frequently portrayed as a good man subject to strange criminal compulsions. |
| 283 | * TheCollector: He collects books, from [[TomeOfEldritchLore tomes of alchemy]] to modern novels. |
| 284 | * CoolMask: The Mister Element costume is distinguished by always wearing an elaborate gas-mask. Presumably, it's to protect him from any DeadlyGas either created to attack the Flash or produced as a side-effect of his transmutations, like when melting his way into a safe with gouts of hydrochloric acid. |
| 285 | * ContinuitySnarl: Hoo, boy...perhaps not as bad as ''Comicbook/{{Hawkman}}'', but his past has become a twisted tangle of developments, shifts and {{retcon}}s over the decades. |
| 286 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Justified. His evil personality is the only one who knows how to use his transmutation and that personality deliberately kept it from other scientists because he believes other humans are too insignificant to deserve it. |
| 287 | ** In later appearances, he doesn't care about money, just knowledge. It's implied he happily stays in prison so long as he's got access to a proper occult library. |
| 288 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, his element gun didn't transmute the elements, but rather fired various element-based capsules and other ammunition. He was also prone to oddities like wearing a mask to "breathe only pure oxygen" thanks to his commitment to his elemental theme. Additionally, his villainous compulsions were initially blamed on a bizarre connection to a distant star's radiation. |
| 289 | * EnemyWithout: During a period when he was reformed, the Philosopher's Stone created an EvilTwin named Alvin so that his repressed villainous side could act out. |
| 290 | * EvilRedhead: The aforementioned "Alvin." |
| 291 | * {{Expy}}: In his ''Gotham Central'' appearance, he's essentially an alchemy-themed version of Franchise/HannibalLecter, minus much of Lecter's bizarre code of morality. |
| 292 | * ForScience: Though originally a thug like most of the other Rogues, Alchemy's main motivation is to expand his knowledge and abilities, to the point where he refused to leave his cell during a prison break, killing his would-be rescuer, because he hadn't finished reading the books he already had. The second he was done, he left jail on his own. |
| 293 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: From the mid-1960s to the 1990s; these days he's just pure evil. This was when you would see both Mister Element and Doctor Alchemy running around, as Alvin took up the Doctor's identity to commit crimes and Albert would return to the Mister Element costume to try and fight him. |
| 294 | * IdenticalStranger: In the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Alvin Desmond was Albert's "astral twin", a non-related {{doppelganger}} who looked just like him and had TwinTelepathy with him. |
| 295 | * InTheHood: In contrast to Mister Element, the Doctor Alchemy costume wears a large "mystical" looking hood to conceal Albert's identity. |
| 296 | * InsufferableGenius: The Doctor Alchemy personality thinks of himself as the most brilliant person in the world, which is why he [[CutLexLuthorACheck refuses to consider using his element-manipulating skills to make more money legitimately]], as it would mean teaching his skills to the "inferior minds" that are the rest of humanity. |
| 297 | * MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Desmond's powers allow him to escape at his leisure; he just prefers to spend his time in prison so he can read in peace and quiet. |
| 298 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's apparently a brilliant chemist, and calls himself "Doctor", but he uses his knowledge and skills to commit crimes. |
| 299 | * PhilosophersStone: The source of all of Albert's powers. Initially, he wielded an "elemental gun" as Mr. Element, which was basically a technological version of this. He changed his identity to Doctor Alchemy after finding the actual Stone. |
| 300 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' appearance saw him make racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks. |
| 301 | * RedemptionDemotion: At one point while he was reformed and holding down a generic white-collar job, Eobard Thawne sought him out after reading about his noted chemical genius. He claimed that even if he wanted to help, he only had that knack for chemistry when his "evil side" was ascendant ([[CutLexLuthorACheck not that he did all that much with it]] ''then'', either). At another point post-Crisis, he had a job as a university professor but struggled with his research since "Alvin" had control of the Philosopher's Stone. |
| 302 | * SmallNameBigEgo: For all his sneering and intellectual superiority, he's a fairly minor villain even among the Rogues and generally accomplishes little more than acts of petty, personal cruelty. |
| 303 | * SplitPersonality: His longest running characterization was that he had two personalities; one perfectly law-abiding, the other a ruthless criminal. Exaggerated with the reveal of Alvin Desmond, who was first a criminally inclined "astral twin" whose TwinTelepathy [[MindRape infected Albert with his criminal tendencies]] and then changed to being a physical manifestation of Albert's repressed evil persona created by the Philosopher's Stone. |
| 304 | * SwissArmyWeapon: Mister Element's elemental gun, which transmutes elements as Albert wills. It can create protective barriers by transmuting the air into solid metal, open entrances in walls or floors by transmuting patches of the floor into air, create tranquilizer gas and smoke clouds for non-violent confrontations...or just produce jets of flame, acid and poisonous substances when Mister Element wants to fight seriously. |
| 305 | * {{Transmutation}}: Via either the Philosopher's Stone or the Element Gun. |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Golden Glider]] |
| 309 | !!Golden Glider |
| 310 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_o_clock_3.jpg]] |
| 311 | [[caption-width-right:200:Click [[labelnote:here]][[quoteright:178:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lisa_2.png]] [[/labelnote]]to see her New 52 appearance prior to Rebirth]] |
| 312 | [[caption-width-right:200:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goldenglider_6873.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see Glider as she appeared before New 52]] |
| 313 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Lisa Snart |
| 314 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #250 (June, 1977) |
| 315 | |
| 316 | ->''"Do you have any idea what it's like to love something that you know is wrong, and if you ever touch it...it hurts you?"'' |
| 317 | |
| 318 | Captain Cold's clever sister and a former figure-skater who joined her brother in supervillainy after the death of her lover, the Top. Pre-New 52 she wielded a pair of specially designed skates that effectively allow her to fly, but after the reboot she's gained a SuperpowerLottery. |
| 319 | ---- |
| 320 | * AdaptationalBadass: She's much more capable in the New 52 with her SuperpowerLottery. Not that she was much of a slouch beforehand. |
| 321 | * ArmedLegs: Her ice skate blades were used as weapons. |
| 322 | * AscendedExtra: She went from minor villain (before Flashpoint) to leader of the Rogues (New 52). |
| 323 | * AstralProjection: In the New 52 she has intangibility and prehensile binds as a spirit. Her body is kept in a hospital. |
| 324 | * AvengingTheVillain: Took up supervillainy to avenge the death of her lover the Top, and once helped his ghost possess Barry's father with the aim of possessing Barry. |
| 325 | * AxCrazy: During the Wally West era, her sanity was notably lower than her fellow Rogues'. |
| 326 | * BigBadDuumvirate: After becoming the leader of the Rogues, she becomes this with her brother Captain Cold. |
| 327 | * BodyHorror: During an investigation, Linda runs into Lisa in the latter's business office. It was dark in the office and Linda went into self-defense thinking she was about to be attacked...except Lisa is already frozen for a while now. Linda's reflex only caused Lisa to [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]] into a ''very'' bloody mess. |
| 328 | * BountyHunter: Her usual non-villainous role is using her talents to hunt down other criminals for profit. |
| 329 | * BrotherSisterTeam: With Captain Cold. |
| 330 | * ColorCharacter: Except in the New 52, where she goes by Glider. In ''Rebirth'' she once again goes by ''Golden'' Glider. |
| 331 | * DemotedToExtra: |
| 332 | ** During Messner-Loeb's run, she was the most frequent Rogue after Pied Piper to get page time and her and her brother were treated as a BrotherSisterTeam. Waid made little use of the Rogues as a whole and killed them all off, only to revive all but Lisa over time. Johns run, which made greater use of the Rogues, opted to keep Lisa dead so that she could serve as a tragic part of Snart's character as he found it a more interesting and relatable direction to take them [[note]]Geoff Johns' sister, Courtney Johns, tragically died in a plane explosion when she was 18; the character Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore) was named and modelled after her in tribute, but it's easy to see the RealitySubtext of having Captain Cold's grief for his own younger blonde sister be made into one of his central redeeming traits[[/note]]. |
| 333 | ** After the first team of ''ComicBook/New52'' Flash left the book, her prominence and status quo shifted back to her original roots. |
| 334 | * EnemyMine: During ''Year of the Villain'', she assists Barry in fighting Captain Cold's takeover of Central City. [[spoiler:Once it's over, though, she helps bust Len out of jail immediately.]] |
| 335 | * GemstoneAssault: She used jewelry-based gadgets, including crystals that grew on contact with the air, weighted moonstones and pearls, and hypnotic gems. |
| 336 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: In the Messener-Loebs run, where she’s semi reformed but still extremely homicidal. Among other antics during the hunt for The Turtle she assaulted and nearly killed a hapless civilian for wearing an “I Love Turtles” shirt. |
| 337 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: With the Chilblaines; Lisa is typically depicted as quite a short woman (officially she's 5'5, and FridgeBrilliance comes in when one remembers short stature is beneficial for women's figure skating), while the Chilblaines were each selected specifically because they were very large DumbMuscle brutes she could wrap around her finger. |
| 338 | * KickChick: Due to having ArmedLegs, her fighting style consists mostly of kicking. |
| 339 | * LightIsNotGood: Her costumes have a gold and white motif and is one of the villains. |
| 340 | * MiniDressOfPower: Her golden dress. |
| 341 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Putting aside how she was more violent than her brother, and during the Silver Age was motivated by pure ''spite'' against the Flash in comparison to the other Rogues who were just looking to earn money, Lisa used a wider array of gadgetry than both her brother and The Top, combining elements of both their gimmicks alongside her own 'trick gems' [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands which could pretty much due whatever she wanted them to do]]. While a lot of criminals fear Cold, Lisa they ''dread''. |
| 342 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: One of the many who became a Black Lantern during the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''. She went after her brother for his heart, [[spoiler:but Cold was able to kill the last of his emotion for her to finish her off]]. |
| 343 | * OhCrap: This is the brief glimpse we had of Lisa's FrozenFace before Chilblaine killed her (and Linda accidentally shattered the remains). |
| 344 | * OutlawCouple: |
| 345 | ** With the Top. |
| 346 | ** Later, with a variety of Captain Cold Expies she named Chillblaine. [[spoiler: Until one killed her.]] |
| 347 | ** In the New 52, she's in a relationship with Mirror Master. |
| 348 | * PimpedOutDress: She wears a dress inspired by olympic ice-skaters. |
| 349 | * ProperlyParanoid: While hunting the Turtle to find out where he was keeping Wally, Lisa accosted a random civilian for wearing a "I Love Turtles" shirt, assuming he was somehow involved or connected to the Turtle. However, it's revealed shortly after that the Turtle ''was'' responsible for that guy's shirt, after all. |
| 350 | * PrettyInMink: She wore an ice skating dress with white fur cuffs. |
| 351 | * ReallyGetsAround: Lisa was quite the flirt, and was said to have had sex with all the other Rogues who weren't her brother; in fact, one comic had her make out with each one, one-after-the-other, right in front of her then-current boyfriend, and later, it was suggested she might have been Captain Boomerang II's mother because of her prior relationship with his dad and the other Rogues. She flirted with both Barry and Wally, the former only when manipulating him and purely out of hate but she still seemed to up for it, while Wally she seemed to be genuinely attracted to, enough to act catty towards his girlfriends, and was implied to have been up for sleeping with him after they worked together. And then we get the Chilblaines, who were a long list of multiple boyfriends she took on as partners-in-crime and disposable sex objects. |
| 352 | * ReformedButNotTamed: When she and Len were reformed Post-Crisis, she was still a rather violent sadist. For instance, when the Flash's allies were searching for the Turtle (who kidnapped the Flash), she used it as an excuse to attack a random pedestrian wearing an "I love turtles" shirt. |
| 353 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Lisa was the only female Rogue for a long, long time. |
| 354 | * TheStarscream: Usurps Captain Cold as leader of the Rogues in the New 52. |
| 355 | * StatusQuoIsGod: ''New 52'' had her as the co-leader of the Rogues with Len while ''Rebirth'' has brought her back down to her roots and gave back her skates as a huge part of her arsenal, as well as giving her a dress more resembling of her original costume. She also had her named changed to "Glider" but this also reversed back to original status quo as well. She keeps her meta powers (without the drawbacks now) and her relationship with Mirror Master though. |
| 356 | * {{Stripperific}}: Her main attire post-2011. Her previous minidress of power now gains cut-outs to show her midriff and loses the sleeves, and becomes mostly white that's sometimes rendered slightly sheer. |
| 357 | * TheVamp: She once used a hypnotic gem to make the Flash fall in love with her, letting her commit crimes with impunity. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Heat Wave]] |
| 361 | !!Heat Wave |
| 362 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Heatwave_3770.PNG]] |
| 363 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Mick Rory |
| 364 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #140 (November, 1963) |
| 365 | |
| 366 | ->''"Forward? I can never change what I am inside, Flash! Not today and not tomorrow. All that's ahead of me is a nightmare. I just couldn't face that and now that I have...I'll burn it all!"'' |
| 367 | |
| 368 | A hot-tempered pyromaniac and [[VillainousFriendship Captain Cold's partner-in-crime]] who wields a powerful fire gun. Despite his poor mental state, he and Cold have worked together for years now and Heat Wave is always ready to partake in Cold's latest scheme. |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | * BaldOfEvil: Played with. In the regular series, he is bald, despite his scalp being rarely shown, but he's still a FriendlyEnemy. Compare to the Flashpoint incarnation who caused violence and destruction on a massive scale, but he had hair. |
| 371 | * BodyHorror: Integrating his heat tech with himself burned his skin, leaving it red and raw. [[spoiler:His encounter with the Sage Force manages to undo that.]] |
| 372 | * ChestBlaster: In the New 52, he emits flames from a grate on his chest. |
| 373 | * ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted; his suit is specifically designed to protect him from the flames. Killed his would-be replacement in ''Rogues Revenge'' when his suit failed. |
| 374 | ** Even then, he's clearly sweating in some scenes where he's especially close to intense heat. |
| 375 | * TheDragon: Frequently fills this role for Captain Cold. |
| 376 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: While he's not especially malevolent, his pyromania prevents him from reforming. |
| 377 | * HeroicSacrifice: During ''Forever Evil: Rogues' Rebellion'', he sacrifices himself so the team can get to Glider. |
| 378 | * KillItWithFire: He does this to a '''BLACK LANTERN'''. Keep in mind that only anything associated with the Emotional Spectrum has a sure-fire chance of killing a Black Lantern, and even then it is usually two Lantern rings working together. "Everything has a melting point", indeed. |
| 379 | ** Even normally, he's capable of burning the Flash, whose protection from friction gives him serious resistances to fire and heat. |
| 380 | * OutOfFocus: The one reformed Rogue that never got a spotlight. He only became prominent again after the Top's brainwashing was undone. |
| 381 | * PlayingWithFire: In the New 52, he is a metahuman with pyrokinesis. However, he often defaults to using his heat gun anyway if he has it on hand. |
| 382 | * {{Pyromaniac}}: Mick is a genuine pyromaniac who feels a constant urge to set fires and watch things burn, even if he resists the urge. |
| 383 | * ReformedButNotTamed: Even in his HeelFaceTurn period, Rory still has a bout of pyromania. |
| 384 | * ReformedButRejected: Became one of the suspects for [[ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004 Sue Dibny's murder]], even though at that time Mick's reformed and was now working for Cadmus. ComicBook/BoosterGold points out that the latter argument is NotHelpingYourCase. |
| 385 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Burned down his childhood home while his family was still inside. Not of malicious intent; he ''just couldn't help it.'' |
| 386 | * ShownTheirWork: Mick is a genuine pyromaniac, and is compelled to set fires and watch things burn. It takes [[MoreThanMindControl mind control]] to get him to stop, and even then he feels the urge. |
| 387 | * TragicVillain: He's legitimately mentally ill and has sought out psychiatric help, but all the therapy he takes has made no progress in curbing his impulses to start fires. |
| 388 | * VillainousFriendship: With Captain Cold. |
| 389 | * VitriolicBestBuds: He and Captain Cold rub each other the wrong way. They also work well together on missions, and while Cold isn't above taking advantage of Heat Wave, is also protective and concerned over Rory's mental health. |
| 390 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Is afraid of coldness, from an incident where he was LockedInAFreezer as a child. |
| 391 | [[/folder]] |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:Mirror Master I]] |
| 394 | !!Mirror Master I |
| 395 | [[quoteright:211:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_o_clock_1_2.jpg]] |
| 396 | [[caption-width-right:211:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/samscudder_4295.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see Mirror Master as he appeared before New 52]] |
| 397 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Sam Scudder |
| 398 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #105 (March, 1959) |
| 399 | |
| 400 | ->''"So you won't put your neck on the line for anyone else? That's not the Rogues' way, man."'' |
| 401 | |
| 402 | A professional thief and amateur scientist who miraculously discovered a way to travel into a pocket dimension through reflective surfaces. Utilizing this, Scudder decided to take his crimes to a new level and became a supervillain. Scudder later died during the ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'', but was subequently revived by the New 52 reboot. |
| 403 | ---- |
| 404 | * AscendedExtra: He gets a lot of focus and provides the narration in ''Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion''. |
| 405 | * CharacterDeath: Until the New 52 brought him back. |
| 406 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: One of the most glaring examples. This guy invented technology that allows for teleportation ''and'' replication of matter, and all he used it for was petty crimes. |
| 407 | * TheDragon: Acts as King Cold's number two in ''Year of the Villain''. Notably, he is the ''only'' rogue to work with him. |
| 408 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: Before he died, Scudder designed a mirror that would "infect" the Flash with his greatest doubt until doing something about it became an irresistible compulsion. Shortly after his resurrection, Barry ran into and broke this mirror, which amplified his feelings about his mother's murder… leading to ''Flashpoint'' and everything that followed. |
| 409 | * TheHedonist: In ''Year of the Villain'', after getting rich from Trickster, he elects to try making life his personal party and retire, only coming back in the hope of getting Glider to rejoin him. |
| 410 | * MagicMirror: He can do absolutely ''anything'' with mirrors, mostly involving teleportation and making reflections solid. |
| 411 | * {{Narcissist}}: In ''Year of the Villain'', which seems to be a large part of why he and Glider broke up. Mick spells it out on finding his lair as a house of mirrors. |
| 412 | -->'''Heatwave:''' I love fire… but he only loves ''himself''. Sorry, Glider.\ |
| 413 | '''Golden Glider:''' You're not wrong. |
| 414 | * OutlawCouple: With Glider in the New 52. |
| 415 | * RealityWarper: In the Mirror World, he can shape it to his liking. He can even [[spoiler: make copies of Turbine's wife and daughter]] for Turbine to convince him to join the Rogues. |
| 416 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: The Mirror Master costume has always been orange and green. |
| 417 | * TrappedInAnotherWorld: In the New 52, when the Rogues tried to integrate the abilities of their gadgets into themselves, Mirror Master ends up getting trapped in the Mirror World. He's still of use, as he can bring others into the Mirror World as well. By ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'', he found a way to free himself. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Mirror Master II]] |
| 421 | !!Mirror Master II |
| 422 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mirror-master_evan-mcculloch_pictureboxart_160w_4400.jpg]] |
| 423 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Evan [=McCulloch=] |
| 424 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Animal Man'' #8 (February, 1989) |
| 425 | |
| 426 | ->''"I can use a mirror a thousand different ways. Can turn a man inside out. Cut a hole through a seven-foot concrete wall. Make ye see things from yer fantasies -- or from yer nightmares. They laugh at us. At me. Bein' the bloody Mirror Master...'cause they don't see. They don't look inta the mirror with honesty at 'emselves. Everyone needs an escape. An escape from the sins a' yer past. And the sins a' yer future. The real world. S'just not for me. Spat on my face, took my life and twisted it around. Made me inta somethin' I didn't choose ta be. I ain't ever going back. I ain't ever leavin' wonderland."'' |
| 427 | |
| 428 | A Scottish crook who once operated in the UK, Evan [=McCulloch=] made a deal with the US government to be a test subject in experiments involving the old Mirror Master's recovered equipment. During the tests, [=McCulloch=] stole the equipment and escaped. Using the weaponry, he became the new Mirror Master and promptly joined up with the Rogues. Once a HitmanWithAHeart, he slowly became more and more ruthless. He would later join Blacksmith's team of "more villainous" Rogues and indulge in his more villainous behaviour, before joining up with Captain Cold's Rogues once again. |
| 429 | ---- |
| 430 | * ActuallyADoombot: One of his powers is to create doppelgangers of himself as well as of other people. |
| 431 | * AttemptedRape: Was the victim of this in his pre-teen years, when an older boy tried to molest him. Evan fought back and killed them before they could. |
| 432 | * TheBusCameBack: [=McCulloch=] ''finally'' makes his post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' debut in ''ComicBook/TheFlashDawnOfDC'', almost 12 years after the ComicBook/New52 and its {{Cosmic Retcon}}s sidelined him in favor of resurrecting Scudder. |
| 433 | * CompositeCharacter: In the New 52, Sam Scudder is the sole Mirror Master once more, but takes a lot of Evan's traits. He's implicitly younger, more imaginative, and makes more use of the Mirror Dimension's capabilities rather than developing different forms of mirror technology. |
| 434 | * CreatorProvincialism: A Scottish rogue created by Creator/GrantMorrison. |
| 435 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Played with. When Lex cut [=McCulloch=] a check to join the Injustice Gang, [[spoiler:Batman had a better offer in donations to [=McCulloch=]'s old orphanage.]] |
| 436 | * DrugsAreBad: Suffers from a cocaine addiction, and deals it on the side. |
| 437 | * FunetikAksent: Evan has a distinct Scottish accent. |
| 438 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Originally. Not so much anymore. |
| 439 | ** Specifically, [=McCulloch=] draws the line at going after a target's family, and has a soft spot in his heart for orphans. |
| 440 | ** And he quits the Injustice Gang partly because Batman pays him more than Lex, but when Lex offers to double it the Mirror Master says that it's not really about money, and is visibly disgusted by the Joker. |
| 441 | * HitmanWithAHeart: Started out as this, but later lost the HiddenHeartOfGold part. |
| 442 | * ImpostorForgotOneDetail: During the climax of ''Crossfire'', he disguised himself as Hartley again to get the Flash to drop his guard. Wally didn't buy it for one second because [=McCulloch's=] disguise has a ponytail, and Wally knew Hartley cut his hair a while ago. |
| 443 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Disguising himself as Pied Piper to frame him for killing Piper's parents. He was JustFollowingOrders from Blacksmith, but he seems to be a bit too proud of himself for it.]] |
| 444 | * LegacyCharacter: He's the second character to use the name Mirror Master. In addition, the alternate future shown in the miniseries ''The Last Days of Animal Man'' shows a daughter who continues her father's legacy as a supervillain using mirror-based gimmicks called Prismatik. |
| 445 | * MagicMirror: He can do absolutely ''anything'' that makes use of mirrors, however vaguely. |
| 446 | * PalantirPloy: Every reflective surface in existence [[ParanoiaFuel is his spy camera]]. |
| 447 | * {{Patricide}}: He accidentally killed his father during his job as a hitman. He would also be on the receiving end of this in the alternate future shown in ''The Last Days of Animal Man'', where his daughter found him trapped in the mirror dimension and driven insane by his years of isolation before choosing to put him out of his misery. |
| 448 | * PrettyBoy: Not always apparent because of his mask and tendency to SlasherSmile, but when Evan's expression is neutral and he's not wearing his mask, he's shown to be a youthful, handsome young man. |
| 449 | * RapeAsBackstory: He grew up in a boy's home where an older youth would periodically molest the younger boys, Evan included. Evan's first murder was killing them in self defence when it was his turn to be raped. |
| 450 | * RetGone: In the New 52, Sam Scudder is back to being Mirror Master so Evan didn't appear until ''ComicBook/DawnOfDC''. |
| 451 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: He made his debut as a villain in Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'', but would subsequently become a regular enemy of the Flash Family like his predecessor. |
| 452 | * SadClown: Is one of the more quippier and taunting of the Rogues, prone to making digs during fights and comes off as an arrogant SmugSnake. In actuality though he's deeply depressed and full of self-loathing, born from the TraumaCongaLine that is his childhood. |
| 453 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Ended up killing his father by accident in his job as a hit-man. As a result, his mother committed suicide. |
| 454 | * SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: He became increasingly amoral the longer he was with the Rogues. |
| 455 | * SuperiorSuccessor: Captain Cold says he's better than Scudder ever was. In practice, he's not wrong; Scudder was a genius when it came to actually making the technology, but Evan showed far greater imagination with it, doing things that Scudder never thought of doing and demonstrating abilities that greatly surpassed anything Scudder demonstrated. |
| 456 | * TermsOfEndangerment: Tends to call Wally "[[UnfortunateNames Flasher]]" as a taunt. |
| 457 | * ThinkingUpPortals: Thanks to him the Rogues can make a quick getaway from anything using his mirror portals. This is also a guarantee when he and Captain Cold are together, since Snart can just use his cold gun to ''create'' a reflective surface. |
| 458 | * UnwittingPawn: Under Brother Grimm's orders (although [=McCulloch=] has no idea who he is), he trapped Wally in a twisted MirrorUniverse[[note]]not to be confused with Earth-3 or the Antimatter universes[[/note]]. |
| 459 | * ViolentGlaswegian: He's a Scottish man who has been established as one of the most amoral and ruthless members of the Rogues. |
| 460 | * {{Yandere}}: In one issue of the Waid run, he stalks an ex-girlfriend who went into the witness protection program and is eventually dragged away by the police while screaming that he loved her. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Pied Piper]] |
| 464 | !!Pied Piper |
| 465 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/piper1.jpg]] |
| 466 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Hartley Rathaway |
| 467 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #106 (May, 1959) |
| 468 | |
| 469 | ->''"It's time to pay the Piper."'' |
| 470 | |
| 471 | Hartley Rathaway was born deaf to incredibly rich parents. After his hearing was medically restored, he was amazed by music and sound. He developed a vast knowledge of sonics, and using this knowledge, fought the Flash as the Pied Piper. |
| 472 | |
| 473 | Shortly after the Flash's death in the ''Crisis'', Hartley has a HeelFaceTurn, becoming close friends with the Flash III, Wally West. |
| 474 | ---- |
| 475 | For more information, read Characters/TheFlashSupportingCharacters page. |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Rainbow Raider]] |
| 479 | !!Rainbow Raider |
| 480 | [[quoteright:242:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rainbow_raider_001.jpg]] |
| 481 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Roy G. Bivolo |
| 482 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #286 (June, 1980) |
| 483 | |
| 484 | ->''"Why waste your time Flash? Even if you catch me, nobody'll appreciate it!"'' |
| 485 | |
| 486 | Roy G. Bivolo believed he was destined to be a great artist, but his colorblindness made it impossible. His optometrist father created a pair of goggles that should have allowed him to see color, but instead gave him the power to shoot rainbow-colored beams of light, and presented them to Roy on his deathbed...which Roy then used to commit art theft as the Rainbow Raider. He was killed by Blacksmith for the offense of being obnoxious. |
| 487 | ---- |
| 488 | * ButtMonkey: Too ridiculous for even the Rogues to work with, despite his power levels. |
| 489 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Would have happily lived out his life as an artist or a forger, but for being colorblind. |
| 490 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He stopped himself from using his powers over emotions to force Monica Mayne to love him. |
| 491 | * EyeBeams: With a variety of effects, often in common with the emotional spectrum from Franchise/GreenLantern, though the Raider's powers predate most of that storyline. |
| 492 | * FashionVictimVillain: InUniverse this is people's reaction to his outfit, and justified by his colorblindness. |
| 493 | * HarmlessVillain: Nobody can even ''try'' to take Bivolo seriously. |
| 494 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His powers would actually be pretty damn useful in the right hands. Unfortunately, Bivolo is too much of a moron to use them to their full potential. |
| 495 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Blacksmith vivisects him with one of his own paintings. |
| 496 | * IronicallyDisabledArtist: He was born with total colorblindness, which meant that he couldn't succeed in the art world despite his technical skill. He resorted to art theft instead. |
| 497 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He became this, once going so far as to attend a villainy motivational seminar in a futile effort to stop losing all the time. Neron once sent him an invitation to his [[NotSoHarmlessVillain upgrades-for-souls]] meeting just so the Trickster could steal it from him. |
| 498 | * KilledOffForReal: Both him and his successors, the Rainbow Raiders, who stole his gear and powers. However, the various universe shufflings bring Roy back to life in the ''Rebirth'' continuity. But he's still a loser. |
| 499 | * LightEmUp[=/=]LightIsNotGood: His power is mostly manipulating light to create rainbows, which he uses to travel, attack and change people's emotions somehow. |
| 500 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: One of the worst cases on record. |
| 501 | * SuperZeroes: Not by design, but he ended up that way. This guy is such a loser even Creator/GeoffJohns refused to revamp him. The Rainbow Raiders, meanwhile, are so z-list that when they commit group suicide during ''Blackest Night'', no-one notices or cares, not even the Black Lanterns. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | [[folder:Replicant]] |
| 505 | !!Replicant |
| 506 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/replicant_0003.jpg]] |
| 507 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Tony Gambi |
| 508 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash Secret Files and Origins'' #2 (November, 1999) |
| 509 | |
| 510 | ->''"I've decided to copy and keep your powers...Since you're never going to need them again."'' |
| 511 | |
| 512 | The nephew and adopted son of Paul Gambi (the man who designed the Rogues' costumes), Tony Gambi underwent a process to gain metahuman replication powers after Captain Boomerang nearly died in a confrontation with the Flash (actually an alternate version of Wally, but they didn't know that). Desperate to appease his fellow Rogues, Replicant became a dangerous foe for the Flash, capable of copying any weapon he encounters. |
| 513 | ---- |
| 514 | * AllYourPowersCombined: He has the ability to replicate the powers of any weapon he comes across. He has the abilities of most of the Rogues (specifically Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Captain Boomerang, the Weather Wizard, Heat Wave and Dr. Alchemy). |
| 515 | * AscendedFanboy: He idolized the Rogues growing up and jumped at the chance to become one. |
| 516 | * AvengingTheVillain: tries to get revenge on the Dark Flash on behalf of Captain Boomerang after the latter got seriously injured during a fight. |
| 517 | * TheDragon: To Abra Kadabra during the ''Dark Flash'' storyline. |
| 518 | * DynamicEntry: Introduced by literally dropping in on top of Dark Flash to rescue Cold and Boomerang, temporarily knocking Dark Flash out. |
| 519 | * FamilyOfChoice: He knew most of the Rogues growing up and considers them to be family. As a MoralityPet, this seems to be a mutual case, as the Rogues collectively see him as a surrogate son. |
| 520 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: As a kid, when he looked up to the Rogues as role models. |
| 521 | * JumpedAtTheCall: The second he saw a way to maybe join the Rogues, he immediately wanted in. |
| 522 | * MeaningfulName: His supervillain name was chosen under this precept; he can become a replica of any technological device he likes. |
| 523 | * {{Metamorphosis}}: After he receives his powers, he's told that the process can't be reversed and he'll never go back to looking like a normal human. However, since he's got the powers of his role models, he takes it in stride. |
| 524 | ** It helps that among these powers, he does have Kadabra's wand, so some level of shapeshifting would be possible with practice. |
| 525 | * StoryBreakerPower: With a powerset that includes that of ''many'' Rogues, he can really give any Flash a run for his money. This is probably why Replicant is not very prominent. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder:The Top]] |
| 529 | !!The Top |
| 530 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/top_0002.jpg]] |
| 531 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Roscoe Dillon |
| 532 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #122 (August, 1961) |
| 533 | |
| 534 | ->''"Here I am! Ready to be on '''TOP''' of the world! "'' |
| 535 | |
| 536 | Once a small-time crook, after landing in jail for the hundredth time or so, Roscoe Dillon decided to try his hand at supervillainy and turned to his childhood love of tops as a motif. While creating his costume and weapons, Dillon discovered that he had the metahuman power to spin at high speeds, alongside telepathically-enhanced intelligence, and used his powers to pull off daring robberies. Dillon's body later died during an encounter with the Flash, with his nigh-supernatural intelligence causing his mind to persist as a disembodied spirit capable of possessing others. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * AxCrazy: He's actually pretty unhinged. |
| 539 | * BackFromTheDead: Sort of. His body was destroyed but his mind survived. |
| 540 | * BattleTops: His weapon of choice. Has a wide variety of tops with different effects. |
| 541 | * TheBusCameBack: He was written out during ''ComicBook/New52'' (a character InNameOnly non-withstanding) but in ''Rebirth'' era of comics his existence was first implied in a future Flash Museum and then fully confirmed in ''Flash Annual #1 (2018)''. |
| 542 | * TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Remember when most of the Rogues [[HeelFaceTurn went legit]] during the later years of Barry Allen's Silver Age career and throughout Wally West's career prior to the ''Rogue War'' arc? That was Top's doing via MindControl.]] |
| 543 | ** Possibly averted -- Top's arrogant enough that he takes credit for all these examples, but [[spoiler: Hartley resists once Wally shows his trust, and James Jesse quits his black ops anti-Rogue government job, which had led him to give Captain Boomerang a FateWorseThanDeath. Though re-adopting his Trickster persona, James remained morally opposed to most of the Rogues' activities, implying the Top's attempt to push him back to Heel status actually resulted in a HeelFaceDoorSlam a little closer to the side of angels. Given that the only other Rogue to even flirt with heroism was the mentally unstable Heat Wave, who was reverting on his own before the Top removed the brainwashing, the Top may not have been as good as he claimed.]] While the other Rogues had their moments, they were so brief as to be unimportant, making the Top more a SmugSnake. |
| 544 | * DecompositeCharacter: In the New 52, following ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}''. Originally, the character of Roscoe Hynes was introduced who used the name Turbine. A few story arcs later, Roscoe Dillon appears but is radically changed from his pre-''Flashpoint'' counterpart. Rather than being a Rogue who can spin at super-speeds, he could instead create vortexes and was recreuited by Eobard Thawne due to his powers being connected to the Speed Force and never used the name Top. Following ComicBook/DCRebirth, a seperate character named Roscoe Dillon was introduced in ''The Flash Annual'', who resembled the pre-''Flashpoint'' Top. |
| 545 | * EvilPlan: In one [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] story, he set up one that took effect ''after'' his death: he hid five discs throughout Central City and then tasked five of his fellow Rogues to find the discs before Flash did, lest the discs explode and destroy the city; once found, the discs were then to be stacked on top of each other in a specific order to deactivate them. [[spoiler:Turns out that stacking them this way set the trigger for the ''real'' bomb. Fortunately, the Flash figures out what is going on and helps to stop the scheme.]] |
| 546 | * ForTheEvulz: "Do you want to know ''why'' I do this? ...It's for the ''thrill''. The thrill of ''spinning'' your world ''upside'' down. Dragging your ''psyche'' through the ''mud'' and ''dirt'' that ''ours'' has gone through. We'll ''see'' what kind of hero you ''are'' then, Flash. We'll see..." |
| 547 | * FreudianExcuse: His parents pushed him to be the best at everything, and when he couldn't, he lashed out to tear down those he thought were better than him, hence his arrogant demeanor. |
| 548 | * GlassOfChianti: Was a wine connoisseur, which made him an outcast among the blue collar Rogues. |
| 549 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: His eyes glow green. |
| 550 | * HeelFaceBrainwashing: [[spoiler:Zatanna puts him under her spell on Barry's request, and in this brief phase Dillon in turn brainwashed some of the Rogues into turning a new leaf.]] |
| 551 | * {{Jerkass}}: Like Captain Boomerang, he's barely tolerated by the Rogues because he's such a raging prick. Unlike Captain Boomerang, it's because he considers himself superior to the rest of the blue collar villains in the Rogues, which means they prefer Boomerang to Top. |
| 552 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: Considers himself a refined and elite member of high society. |
| 553 | * ManipulativeBastard: He manipulates the Rouges into infighting and then plans to kill them off. |
| 554 | * OutlawCouple: Used to be this with Golden Glider. |
| 555 | * PresidentEvil: Top died and possessed the body of a senator, carrying his powers with him back from the grave. He attempted to run for office but quickly reverted to type. |
| 556 | * PsychicPowers: The source of his spinning power, a weird form of self-telekinesis. He could also induce vertigo in those around him, and his telepathic "essence" has possessed people after his death. |
| 557 | * PungeonMaster: When he went mad, he made constant top-related puns. "Oh, tip-''top''!" "I'm on ''top'' of the world!" "''Top'' of the morning to you, Flash!" |
| 558 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Top certainly has the ''potential'' to be a dangerous foe, but he's way more small-time than he thinks he is. |
| 559 | * SmugSnake: Though he's easily one of the more powerful members of the Rogues, his arrogance usually makes him strike out on his own rather than work with ''lesser'' minds, despite them all being more practical. |
| 560 | * SpectacularSpinning: His powers all work through spinning himself around and around at SuperSpeed. |
| 561 | [[/folder]] |
| 562 | |
| 563 | [[folder:The Trickster I]] |
| 564 | !!The Trickster I |
| 565 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_flash_vol_5_66_textless.jpg]] |
| 566 | [[quoteright:350:[[labelnote: Click here to see him before Rebirth]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_o_clock_4.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 567 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Giovanni "James Jesse" Giuseppe |
| 568 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #113 (July, 1960) |
| 569 | |
| 570 | ->''"The Trickster brings you thrills and chills...The Flash against the greatest horror of his life!"'' |
| 571 | |
| 572 | A cheerful and snarky professional thief with a bag of gadgets he invented himself. Trickster joined the Rogues and became a close [[FriendlyEnemy frenemy]] of the Flash. Giuseppe later retired from the supervillain business and joined the FBI. He eventually returned to villainy at the finale of Rogue War. |
| 573 | ---- |
| 574 | * AbusiveParents: In "Rebirth", we find out that his parents where white trash second rate circus acrobats who ripped their act off the Flying Graysons. They were abusive who didn't approve of their son reading books, believing he should get in the family act...which was just a distraction while plants pickpocketed the audience. |
| 575 | * TheBarnum: Some depictions play up his sense of showmanship. |
| 576 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: He occasionally talks to the audience. |
| 577 | * TheBusCameBack: After being absent since ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', he comes back with a vengeance in "Rebirth"; he was locked up and forgotten in Iron Heights under the abusive Warden Wolfe, and finally escaped (Wolfe destroyed all records of James' incarnation) and laid low until the opportunity presented itself to pull off his biggest trick. |
| 578 | * ChainedHeat: With Piper in ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis''. |
| 579 | * ChronicVillainy: Even when he joins the FBI, it's for practical reasons: he can't risk dying and going to Hell after pissing off the devil. |
| 580 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Hasn't been seen since ''Flashpoint'', with Axel as the sole Trickster in the New 52 and Rebirth eras. Until he reappeared in 2018. |
| 581 | * CircusBrat: He was a circus brat, which might explain his...eye-catching costume. Ironically, he suffered from acrophobia, which earned him little sympathy from his performer parents. |
| 582 | * {{Conman}}: His preferred role. He much prefers being a showman to actual fighting. |
| 583 | * DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Twice! In fact, his role in Neron's defeat during ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'' is the reason why he did his HeelFaceTurn, because he knew if he went to Hell, Neron would seek revenge. |
| 584 | * DisguisedInDrag: For a con, and flirted with Captain Cold while he did it. |
| 585 | * FakeDefector: Joins the FBI and works against the other Rogues, but does it to avoid Hell, not out of genuine desire to reform. |
| 586 | * FriendlyEnemy: One of the few Rogues to genuinely like the Flashes. |
| 587 | * GadgeteerGenius: He developed ''miniaturized antigravity'' as a teenager with pretty minimal resources. |
| 588 | * HeelFaceTurn: Eventually joins the FBI after making a habit out of pissing off the devil just for grins. |
| 589 | * HeroAntagonist: Recruits Piper (on the run after his parents' murder), Heat Wave, and Magenta, under the banner of putting an end to Snart's Rogues, culminating in ''Rogue War''. |
| 590 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: When he starts pulling toys out of his pockets, you'll want to duck. |
| 591 | * InHarmsWay: Why he couldn’t just retire as an agent. He had to come back despite living well off as a retired former criminal. |
| 592 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: More Heart of Gold than jerk, even. One of the few Rogues to avoid ever killing, and genuinely tried to help Mick Rory reform. It's up in the air whether the Top ever brainwashed him like the rest of the Rogues, as the only real change after it's "reversed" is that he abandons the FBI for torturing Captain Boomerang. |
| 593 | * JustFriends: With Catwoman. He considers her the "Most fascinating woman that he ever met." |
| 594 | * KillerYoyo: Has included yo-yos in his arsenal. |
| 595 | * LukeYouAreMyFather: He was surprised when he found out that Billy Wong was his son. |
| 596 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: His persona when he joined the FBI had him cool, calm, and professional in contrast to his circus persona. |
| 597 | * NotQuiteFlight: His Airwalker Shoes. |
| 598 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: In "Rebirth". Being forgotten by the public and tortured by Warden Wolfe ''broke'' him and he decided to pull of a trick that made sure he'd always be remembered. |
| 599 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He was homophobic to Pied Piper in ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis''. What makes this baffling to many fans was he wasn't like that before and in fact wondered why the hell Pied Piper was mourning Captain Boomerang, implying that Boomerang made homophobic remarks. |
| 600 | * PracticallyJoker: Seen as the Flash's answer to the Joker, albeit LighterAndSofter due to being more calm and focused, originally. When he comes back in "Rebirth" he starts acting more like his [[Series/TheFlash1990 psychotic]] [[Series/TheFlash2014 television counterparts]]. |
| 601 | * PretenderDiss: to say that he's not really fond of his successor is an understatement. |
| 602 | * PrimalFear: He invented air-walker shoes to get rid of his acrophobia, and this led to his fame as an aerialist at the circus. |
| 603 | * RetCanon: In "Rebirth" his name is now officially James Jesse. |
| 604 | * SayMyName: Usually right after someone has discovered that he just pulled a con on them; needless to say, it happens a lot. |
| 605 | * TookALevelInJerkass: He's considerably nastier in "Rebirth" and it's justified. After a while James' tricks started to get predictable and then he was thrown into Iron Heights, where Warden Wolfe took sadistic delight in breaking James' spirit by making him the guinea pig to prove that the prison was inescapable, and taunting him how the public and even his fellow Rogues had forgotten him. So when James ''did'' finally escape he'd resolved to pull off a trick so Central City would never forget him again! |
| 606 | * VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: After his return in "Rebirth" he manages to slip away at the end in true Trickster style.]] |
| 607 | * WeWouldHaveToldYouBut: Why he keeps getting in trouble. |
| 608 | [[/folder]] |
| 609 | |
| 610 | [[folder:The Trickster II]] |
| 611 | !!The Trickster II |
| 612 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_o_clock_32.jpg]] |
| 613 | [[caption-width-right:250:Click [[labelnote:here]]\ |
| 614 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TricksterII_8800.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see Axel as he appeared before Rebirth]] |
| 615 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Axel Walker |
| 616 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' Vol 2 #183 (April, 2002) |
| 617 | |
| 618 | ->''"That's your problem, old man. You got a conscience. Me? I was born without one. Cool, huh?"'' |
| 619 | |
| 620 | An amoral punk who took up the Trickster identity after the first Trickster retired, taking the old one's place on the Rogues. Distrusted by his fellow Rogue members for his rudeness and mental instability, they nonetheless treat him like one of their own. |
| 621 | ---- |
| 622 | * AnArmAndALeg: During "Gorilla Warfare", he offers to be a guide for Grodd and holds out his right hand for a handshake. Grodd rips his arm off, thinking he doesn't know anything. He gains an {{Artificial Limb|s}} to compensate. |
| 623 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: He's a teenager while the rest of the Rogues are full-grown adults. Lampshaded by Barry in #54 of the ''Rebirth'' run, much to Axel's ire. |
| 624 | -->'''Barry:''' Trickster doesn't deserve to die because of ''my'' mistakes, Commander Cold! He's just a kid, Cold! |
| 625 | -->'''Axel:''' Hey! I'm...not...a...kid...I'm a Rogue! |
| 626 | * ButtMonkey: In ''Forever Evil: Rogues' Rebellion''. To wit, he gets shot in the foot by the Archer, beaten by Parasite, trapped in Mirror World (albeit Sam flat-out states that it's for his own protection), used as leverage by Poison Ivy after falling victim to her KissOfDeath, and knocked out of the sky by a man-bat. His luck gets better once he beats Zsasz, however. |
| 627 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Axel opens up an arcade dedicated to the Rogues' battles with the Flashes, without any malicious intent. Barry thought the police outside the venue wanted to arrest Axel, but they're actually there for ''security detail''. |
| 628 | * DisappearedDad: Implied; his parents are divorced and it's later suggested that his father was the one to leave after giving him some words to live by (see ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld). Lampshaded in an issue of ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' when Bart asks if he turned to crime because he [[FreudianExcuse lacked a father figure]] and he snaps that the Rogues are the only father figures he needs. |
| 629 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: One of his favorite activities is stealing cars and joyriding around Keystone. |
| 630 | * FamilyOfChoice: Genuinely sees the Rogues as his family despite being TheFriendNobodyLikes. He calls the other Rogues his father figures in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' and in ''Rebirth'' says that the Rogues are the only family he's got [[spoiler: shortly before his DisneyDeath.]] |
| 631 | * ForTheEvulz: Unlike most of the Rogues, he has no FreudianExcuse. He just causes trouble for shits and giggles. |
| 632 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of the other Rogues like or trust him. |
| 633 | * GangOfHats: Briefly led a gang of punks who dressed up like him. It was short-lived because they were using an old Rogue safehouse as a hideout, and there they cross paths with the old tenants. |
| 634 | * HandicappedBadass: He's every bit as dangerous as he was before getting his {{Artificial Limb|s}}. |
| 635 | * {{Jerkass}}: |
| 636 | * JetPack: His flying shoes. He uses them to set Mr. Zsasz on fire in Forever Evil. |
| 637 | * LegacyCharacter: Stole the first Trickster's gimmicks, something James Jesse does not find amusing. |
| 638 | * PsychopathicManChild: He kills people for childish reasons. |
| 639 | * PracticallyJoker: Moreso than his predecessor, being an AxCrazy CircusBrat. |
| 640 | * ThePrankster: Why he became a villain, stole the originals equipment and did merciless pranks for no way. |
| 641 | * TheTeamNormal: The only member of the Rogues to not have his weapon integrated into his DNA during the New 52 era. |
| 642 | * TeensAreMonsters: A teenage supervillain. |
| 643 | * ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: "Either you're the trickster, or you're the one gettin' tricked!" |
| 644 | * TotallyRadical: Talks like this a lot. |
| 645 | [[/folder]] |
| 646 | |
| 647 | [[folder:Turbine]] |
| 648 | !!Turbine |
| 649 | [[quoteright:298:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Turbine1_6929.jpg]] |
| 650 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Roscoe Hynes |
| 651 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' Vol 4 #8 (June, 2012) |
| 652 | |
| 653 | ->''"The Speed Force is like a giant ball of energy that's always moving forward. But as it does, it creates excess energy that builds up and needs to be released. When you use your powers, you tap into that built-up energy. Things get crazy when the energy builds up. Like a pressure cooker that's ready to blow. But then...you run and everything goes back to normal. You're the release valve for the Speed Force."'' |
| 654 | |
| 655 | Roscoe Hynes was a Tuskegee Airman who led a squadron of prototype planes during World War II. During the first combat mission, Hynes broke formation to test out the prototype plane's capabilities. He then appeared to disappear in thin air, but was actually absorbed into the Speed Force dimension. |
| 656 | |
| 657 | In the Speed Force dimension, Hynes gained wind powers, but was stuck there for 70 years. When the Flash entered the Speed Force, he finds Hynes and takes him back to the present. |
| 658 | |
| 659 | At the end of the Gorilla Invasion arc, the Rogues offer Hynes a spot on their team after he helped them fight the gorillas. |
| 660 | ---- |
| 661 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After his death, Barry says that everything in his cell points out he was seeking out redemption for what he had done and even before everything, he was just a man who wanted to return his own time period.]] |
| 662 | * AntiVillain: He really wasn't much of a Rogue and was only in it to get back his family via Mirror Worlds. According to the books found in his cell, he starts regretting joining the Rogues in the first place. |
| 663 | * BeingEvilSucks: He realizes his wrong ways shortly after joining The Rogues. [[spoiler: Unfortunately Cold [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves doesn't take lightly]] to Turbine's attempt at redemption.]] |
| 664 | * BlowYouAway: His time in the Speed Force gave him wind powers. His main strategy is to [[TornadoMove make whirlwinds]]. |
| 665 | * CivvieSpandex: His outfit is really a prototype flight uniform he wore when he was a Tuskegee Airman. |
| 666 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He's disappeared after the initial Flash run by Manapul & Buccellato ended. The writer who came after them, Robert Venditti, reintroduced Roscoe Dillon again. Nothing is heard from Hynes, or his fate since then. [[spoiler: Until the "A Cold Day In Hell" ''Rebirth'' story, where he shows up [[BusCrash murdered in Iron Heights]].]] |
| 667 | * DecompositeCharacter: He was supposed to be ComicBook/New52 version of The Top but the characters are now officially seperate from each other. |
| 668 | * DyingToBeReplaced: [[spoiler:Hynes is killed ''right before'' the return of Roscoe Dillon.]] |
| 669 | * {{Expy}}: He's the New 52 Top, down to the first name. Apparently someone didn't tell Robert Venditti, who proceeded to bring back the Top in ''his'' run. |
| 670 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Originally from the 1940s, he was stuck in the Speed Force for 70 years before being released into the present day. |
| 671 | * FriendlyEnemy: He was originally the Flash's ally and has nothing against him. After the Gorilla Invasion arc, the Rogues offer him a place to live and [[spoiler:mirror copies of his family]] if he joins them. |
| 672 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He spent 70 years in the Speed Force and never aged a day. |
| 673 | * RegretfulTraitor: [[spoiler:After joining the Rogues, he regrets the choices he made and tries to redeem himself by ratting them out, which doesn't end well for him.]] |
| 674 | * SpeechImpediment: He tends to stutter when nervous. |
| 675 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: What he really wants is to go back to his time and be with his wife and daughter. |
| 676 | [[/folder]] |
| 677 | |
| 678 | [[folder:Weather Wizard]] |
| 679 | !!Weather Wizard |
| 680 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_o_clock_9.jpg]] |
| 681 | [[caption-width-right:185:Click [[labelnote:here]]\ |
| 682 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/weather_wizard_0006.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see Wizard as he appeared before New 52]] |
| 683 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Mark Mardon (Pre-Flashpoint), Marco Mardon (''New 52'' and onwards) |
| 684 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' #110 (January, 1960) |
| 685 | |
| 686 | ->''"You're good with a gun. But people like me? We're more like '''gods'''."'' |
| 687 | |
| 688 | An unstable crook who discovered a wand that can control the weather, invented by his brother Clyde. His brother had intended to use the wand to help mankind, but Mark decided to use it to commit crimes, soon becoming a member of the Rogues. |
| 689 | ---- |
| 690 | * TenMinuteRetirement: In ''Rogues' Rebellion'', where he temporarily quits the team after Mick's HeroicSacrifice. |
| 691 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Following his RaceLift from ''New 52'' and onwards, his name is changed from Mark to Marco. |
| 692 | * AlliterativeName: '''Mar'''k (later '''Mar'''co following his RaceLift) '''Mar'''don. |
| 693 | * BadassBoast: Facing a pack of gunmen. |
| 694 | -->'''Weather Wizard''': Guns? Man made your ammunition. God made mine. |
| 695 | * BadassLongcoat: In the New 52. |
| 696 | * CainAndAbel: Pre-New 52, Mark accidentally murdered his brother in a confrontation over the weather wand. Averted in the New 52, where him and his brother (renamed Claudio) were very close, and it was his sister in law who killed his brother. |
| 697 | * CulturedBadass: A very well read man who's nevertheless a scary competent thief. |
| 698 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Lampshaded. Clyde wanted to use the weather wand to help people and aid in the growth of crops, a very profitable pursuit. Mark, being an unimaginative goon who likes the thrill of committing crimes, saw no real use for it beyond furthering his criminal activities. |
| 699 | * DelusionsOfEloquence: Mark thinks he's a real scholar-type and often overcompensates to make himself seem smarter. |
| 700 | * EmotionalPowers: After his weather powers were integrated into his body in the New 52, they started affecting his emotions. When he made it rain enough to water crops, he became so depressed he had suicidal thoughts. |
| 701 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Pre-Flashpoint, he ultimately balked at killing his own son for more power, and was clearly haunted by murdering his brother to the point of living in denial about it. |
| 702 | * EvilGloating: Mardon has an urge to make himself look smarter than the rest of the Rogues, and to that end researches new uses for his weather abilities, and is fond of throwing out Mark Twain references. |
| 703 | * ForTheEvulz: At the beginning of Flash Vol. 3, Captain Frye mentions to Barry that Mardon's been raining out every ballgame in Central City for the last few weeks. |
| 704 | -->'''Barry:''' What are his demands?\ |
| 705 | '''Frye:''' He doesn't have any. He's just being a jerk. |
| 706 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: One of the few non-speedsters in the DCU to have lightning eyes. |
| 707 | * JackOfAllTrades: Has tremendous overlap with the other Rogues in terms of powers, but rarely the level of finesse with them. |
| 708 | * MagicFeather: His Weather Wand eventually became this to him. |
| 709 | * MakingASplash: He gets a lot of use out of the ability to produce violent downpours of rain. |
| 710 | * PapaWolf: To his son, Josh. While he initially just wanted the child for his powers (Josh somehow has ''natural'' weather control powers), once he sees that the boy has his brother Clyde's eyes, he hesitates, and later shows attachment to him beyond his powers. |
| 711 | * RaceLift: In the New 52, he's reimagined (along with his brother, by extension) as Latino with the name ''Marco'' Mardon. |
| 712 | * SanitySlippage: The longer he has been bonded to the wand the more unhinged Marco has become. By the time of Rebirth (specifically issue 77 of volume 5), he mentions that the wand has made him more sensitive to the “ravages that mankind has wrought upon Mother Nature” saying he is no longer Weather's Wizard but “her assassin”. It’s so bad that even Mick calls him nuts. |
| 713 | -->'''Mick Rory:''' Forecast says a case of the crazies is a-brewin', Len… |
| 714 | * ShockAndAwe: His go-to method of attack, alongside [[BlowYouAway destructive wind blasts]] and [[AnIcePerson impromptu blizzards]] is throwing lightning bolts. |
| 715 | * SinisterScythe: He’s begun using one to channel his powers by the time of "Year of the Villain". |
| 716 | * TheUnfavourite: Apparently, once his mother realized that Mark had a "better" name than his brother Clyde she almost made them ''switch''. |
| 717 | * WeatherControlMachine: His weather wand. |
| 718 | ** In the New 52, he integrates the powers of the weather wand into himself. Now he can control the weather himself. He still uses the wand to call down lightning. The wand itself is reimagined as more of a staff. |
| 719 | * WickedCultured: Has a taste for classic literature. |
| 720 | * WouldHurtAChild: Played with. While initially intending to sacrifice his infant son (who exhibited similar powers, without the wand), Mardon eventually realizes he can't bear to, since the boy has his brother's eyes. Later, Inertia kills the child, which leads Mardon to murder Inertia, himself a child. |
| 721 | [[/folder]] |
| 722 | |
| 723 | !!Blacksmith's Rogues |
| 724 | [[folder:The Group as a Whole]] |
| 725 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blacksmith_rogues.jpg]] |
| 726 | |
| 727 | * DarkerAndEdgier: The team is filled with much more people who have committed much darker crimes, such as rapists and serial killers. |
| 728 | * EvilerThanThou: Essentially served as this to Cold's Rogues. |
| 729 | * EvilVersusEvil: Initially, they ended up running into the Thinker when their takeover plan for the Twin Cities ran headlong into his; later, they wind up in the middle of the war between Cold's Rogues and the Trickster's "reformed" rogues. |
| 730 | * {{Foil}}: While Cold's Rogues were made up mostly of ordinary criminals who relied on fancy gadgets and were decent people at heart or at least Freudian Excuses, Blacksmith's Rogues are made up mostly of metahumans who have little to no moral standing. |
| 731 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: Consisting of Weather Wizard, the second Mirror Master, Girder, Magenta, Murmur, Plunder, and the second Trickster. |
| 732 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Almost all of them were introduced as longtime Iron Heights inmates who had fought Flashes in the past. |
| 733 | [[/folder]] |
| 734 | |
| 735 | [[folder:Blacksmith]] |
| 736 | !!Blacksmith |
| 737 | [[quoteright:246:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bsmthskinn_138.jpg]] |
| 738 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Amunet Black |
| 739 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash: Iron Heights'' (October, 2001) |
| 740 | |
| 741 | ->''"It's high time you started taking the Rogues seriously."'' |
| 742 | |
| 743 | A cold-hearted metahuman criminal who runs the Network, an underground black market for supervillains. She has the power to bond flesh with metal, which she uses to surround herself with ebony armor. |
| 744 | ---- |
| 745 | * ArcVillain: For "Crossfire." |
| 746 | * BaldOfEvil: Becomes this as a result of her ExtraOreDinary abilities. |
| 747 | * TheBlacksmith: Well, aside from it being her super-villain name, the trope is played with in that she (covertly) outfits the criminals of Keystone City with their weapons and gadgets, and also because of her own ExtraOreDinary powers. |
| 748 | * TheChessmaster: During the aforementioned ''Crossfire'' arc. |
| 749 | * DiabolicalMastermind |
| 750 | * EvilCounterpart: Served as one to Goldface, a reformed criminal and her ex. |
| 751 | * ExtraOreDinary: She has the ability to bond flesh with metal. She uses this to turn her own skin into an ebony metal compound, and to kill the Rainbow Raider by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice shoving one of his own paintings through his chest]]. |
| 752 | * EvilVersusEvil: During ''Crossfire'', just as the Network starts making its move, did the Thinker AI show up and pull an AssimilationPlot on Keystone City. |
| 753 | * ManipulativeBastard: Manipulates ''everyone''. |
| 754 | * MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Grodd literally throws her aside when she tries to regroup her own Rogues against Flash during Pipeline breakout. |
| 755 | * NebulousCriminalConspiracy: She was running her organization behind the scenes for at least ''15 years'' before it was first brought to light. |
| 756 | ** ComicBookTime in effect, of course, since this would mean she's been running it since before any of the current superheroes showed up -- including Green Lantern, who inspired Goldface's tech, which Blacksmith used to start the Network in the first place. |
| 757 | * TheSyndicate: Hers is called The Network. It's an underground black market for super-villains. |
| 758 | * TakingYouWithMe: In one last-ditch move, Amunet tried to use her powers to destroy the bridge taking as many people as she can, but the Flash just rebuilt it in seconds. |
| 759 | * VillainDecay: Introduced as the Flash's newest BigBad in "Crossfire," she has made only one brief appearance since in which she ties to rally some escaping rogues [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil only to be swatted aside by Grodd and left in the rubble]]. |
| 760 | ** Within "Crossfire" itself, she goes form successfully running a black market undetected for decades to, within the space of a few weeks, having her entire network exposed, losing half her henchmen to prison and the other half to Captain Cold, and going to prison herself. |
| 761 | [[/folder]] |
| 762 | |
| 763 | [[folder:Magenta]] |
| 764 | !!Magenta |
| 765 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4237683_magenta3.jpg]] |
| 766 | [[caption-width-right:250:Click [[labelnote:here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rco028.jpg[[/labelnote]] to see Frances after her HeelFaceTurn in Rebirth]] |
| 767 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Frances Kane |
| 768 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''New Teen Titans'' #17 (March, 1982) |
| 769 | |
| 770 | ->''"Don't just stand there with your mouth open, Flash. Aren't you going to say hi to Magenta?"'' |
| 771 | |
| 772 | A jealous ex-girlfriend and former Teen Titans teammate of Wally's, who is a metahuman with the power of magnetic field manipulation. Kane's powers and troubled past left her mentally unstable and prone to lashing out, eventually becoming a supervillain after trauma suffered and a rejection from the Flash pushed her over the deep end. After working for Cicada briefly, she became an on-again-off-again member of the Rogues. |
| 773 | ---- |
| 774 | * AbusiveParents: After her powers activated, her religious fundamentalist mother believed that Frances was possessed and disowned her. |
| 775 | * BetterAsFriends: Wally and Frances finally come to this conclusion in ''Flash Annual #1 (2018)'' after the years of HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. |
| 776 | * CantStayNormal: Even when she tries to live life without using her insanity-causing powers, situations arise that force her to use them and risk going mad. |
| 777 | * ChronicVillainy: See CantStayNormal and WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity. A nasty downside to her powers. |
| 778 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: She had a crush on Wally since their childhood back in Blue Valley. Wally returned her feelings later on when she joined Teen Titans. |
| 779 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: Wally really, really wanted a super-powered girlfriend, and when Frances trusted him in the aftermath of her powers manifesting and killing her family, he pressured her into being a superhero. She's never really recovered from this betrayal until ''Flash Annual #1 (2018)'', where she makes peace with Wally over everything and decides to move forward. |
| 780 | * TheDragon: To Cicada in "Blood Will Run". |
| 781 | * {{Expy}}: Especially in her earliest appearances, she's a metahuman version of the title character from Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''. |
| 782 | * FallenHero: First she was a hero who sometimes went through odd mood swings. Then she was neutral, realizing she had problems and seeking help, but ended up being taken advantage of which made her issues worse. Then she was an AntiVillain, able to live a normal happy life as long as she kept her powers in check, but violently insane once she started using them. And then she finally fell completely, to the point where her good side barely ever returns any more. |
| 783 | * FreudianExcuse: Her father was abusive, and Wally clearly cared more about her powers than about her when they were together. While she can and has gotten treatment for her insanity, she associates her powers with her trauma and breaks down quickly if she's forced to use them. |
| 784 | * FreudianThreat: She continually tells Girder that if he keeps hitting on her, she'll tear him in two. When she does, it's a messy enough vertical tear that he's unlikely to have genitals after. |
| 785 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She turns against Wally once he becomes the Flash. Then she makes up with him and is fine. Then she isn't and is working for Cicada. Then she works for Blacksmith's Rogues, before joining James Jesse's heroic Rogues. Then she turns on all Rogues in "Rogue War". Then Flashpoint happened and she was ''never'' Magenta and lives a peaceful, normal life...until Wally reawakens her pre-Flashpoint memories and she turns on him again...only to be fine by the end of the same issue, where they make up. |
| 786 | * HeelFaceTurn: In ''Flash Annual #1 (2018)'', she is shown to be making peace with Wally and turning to good side for good once again. She also says that she's getting treatment from A.R.G.U.S specialists and has been better since then. |
| 787 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: She didn't initially want to be a hero, but Wally pressured her into using her powers. Now that she's a supervillain, in her more AxCrazy moments she sometimes blames Wally for not letting her be normal. |
| 788 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Initially, Wally's pressuring her to become a superhero pushed her to use powers she associated with her father's death, making her lash out violently. Later, she worships Wally, and kills in his name. |
| 789 | * MagnetismManipulation: Technically, she's actually using magnetic field manipulations. |
| 790 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: Magenta really is mentally ill and could seriously use some therapy, but her violent mood swings and powers make it incredibly difficult for her to get treatment. The one time she ''did'' try to get treatment, her therapist turned out to be a criminal mastermind who mind controlled her into committing crimes. Needless to say, this didn't do her mind any good. |
| 791 | * TheMissusAndTheEx: She's the Ex in the DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu situation in Linda Park's entry. |
| 792 | * MoodSwinger: Due to her SuperpoweredEvilSide.l she can go from stable to volatile very fast. |
| 793 | * PsychoExGirlfriend: Although at the core the "psycho" and "ex-girlfriend" parts are separate. It helps her case that she actually has a mental illness to back this up: in the rare cases where she has control of herself, she has no problem not being with Wally and even became friends with Linda Park. |
| 794 | * SelfMadeOrphan: She killed her father by accident when her powers manifested; she later claims to have killed her mother intentionally at some point. |
| 795 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Magenta, originally her superhero identity. |
| 796 | * TragicVillain: Left to her own devices, she'd really prefer to be normal or, on a good day, heroic. Unfortunately, her identity is something of public knowledge, and her powers, though useful, come at a horrible price. |
| 797 | * TraumaCongaLine: The poor girl lost her father and brother when her powers activated and was disowned by her {{Jerkass}} mother soon after. |
| 798 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Pretty much all her problems stem from her initially gaining powers, and those only emerged because the Franchise/GreenLantern villain Doctor Polaris was unknowingly triggering them while reaching out for sources of magnetic force to try and free himself from an interdimensional void. |
| 799 | * WhatTheHellHero: In ''Flash Annual #1 (2018)'', when Wally comes to her and reawakens her pre-Flashpoint memories of their relationship and her being a Rogue, Frances gives one to him by pointing out his selfishness, saying she was better off not remembering being Magenta. They make up later on and become friends again. |
| 800 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Her powers always caused violent moodswings, but they got more and more severe until it turned into a SuperpoweredEvilSide. Eventually she couldn't use them without becoming a supervillain. |
| 801 | [[/folder]] |
| 802 | |
| 803 | [[folder:Girder]] |
| 804 | !!Girder |
| 805 | [[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/girder.jpg]] |
| 806 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Tony Woodward |
| 807 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash: Iron Heights'' (October, 2001) |
| 808 | |
| 809 | ->''“I’m not supposed to be here. They told me they’d help. I was just minding my own business. Doing my job...agg...Do you know what it’s like, Flash? To feel yourself rust away?”'' |
| 810 | |
| 811 | A sociopathic bully who's metahuman power activated after he was thrown into a vat of molten steel at STAR Labs. His power twisted his body into one made out of a patchwork of metal, causing him to decide to become a supervillain. |
| 812 | ---- |
| 813 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Has an "attraction" for Magenta, and he made unwanted advances towards her. After making another crude pass, Magenta ripped Girder in half. |
| 814 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: He's portrayed as EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas in ''New 52'' while prior to reboot, he was a complete jerk that's convicted of rape. |
| 815 | * BeardOfEvil: Girder is easily identified by his full and wild beard. |
| 816 | * BlessedWithSuck: His body oxidizes easily and painfully. |
| 817 | * DreadlockRasta: His hair is made up of metal dreadlocks. |
| 818 | * DumbMuscle: Only kept around by the Rogues for how his immense strength compensates for his burdening stupidity. |
| 819 | * {{Jerkass}}: He is rude and mean-spirited to the upmost extreme. |
| 820 | * MadeOfIron: Literally, following his StartOfDarkness, as his skin is iron and it makes him durable as well as strong |
| 821 | * NeverMyFault: Girder's basic justifications for being a villain are "people did this to me and I don't deserve it," completely ignoring his past crimes. |
| 822 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Did this to a female co-worker in his backstory. His fellow workers' retaliation led to him [[NiceJobBreakingItHero getting superpowers]]. |
| 823 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted. For all his strength and immunity to attacks, simple oxidation is agony. |
| 824 | * TheSociopath: Sees nothing wrong with raping women. |
| 825 | * SuperStrength: Has superhuman strength. |
| 826 | * WeaksauceWeakness: The major drawback is that the steel body began to rust when exposed to oxygen. |
| 827 | [[/folder]] |
| 828 | |
| 829 | [[folder:Murmur]] |
| 830 | !!Murmur |
| 831 | [[quoteright:167:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Murmur_7795.jpg]] |
| 832 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Dr. Michael Amar |
| 833 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash: Iron Heights'' (October, 2001) |
| 834 | |
| 835 | ->''“ssshhh”'' |
| 836 | |
| 837 | A surgeon turned serial killer obsessed with silencing the voices of everyone around him, Michael Amar was incriminated by his inability to keep from talking. While in Iron Heights Penitentiary, he took the name Murmur, cut out his own tongue, and sewed his mouth shut so he'd never incriminate himself again. Years later, he hatched a plot to escape from prison by using a deadly engineered disease to kill the guards and the Flash, but Wally, Jay, and the Pied Piper put an end to it. He has since become a persistent and deadly thorn in Wally's side. |
| 838 | ---- |
| 839 | * AxCrazy: He suffers from schizophrenia which makes him hear voices. He also had some other form of mental disorder that made him blurt out whatever was on his mind, which caused him to inadvertently confess to his murders during his trial. The latter no longer matters as he no longer has the ability to speak. |
| 840 | * CallingCard: His is to cut out his victims' tongues and sew their mouths shut. Including his own. |
| 841 | * DeadlyDoctor: Murmur was known to be a skilled surgeon before his psychotic spree. |
| 842 | * HearingVoices: Why he kills people. |
| 843 | * HellbentForLeather: He wears a black leather outfit. |
| 844 | * LeanAndMean: Lean and extremely cruel. |
| 845 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: As he appears among magic-based villains in All-new Atom, both the voices and his unusual blood could have some kind of supernatural origin; sadly, it is never elaborated on. |
| 846 | * PerfectPoison: Aside from his knives, he uses a type of anthrax-like poison made from his own unusual blood chemistry to kill his victims. This poison turns the victims' lungs to mud unless the antidote can be administered in time, and it is HIGHLY contagious. |
| 847 | * PsychoKnifeNut: Seems to love knifes, must be a psychopath thing. |
| 848 | * SerialKiller: Of the Visionary type; he hears voices and kills to silence them. |
| 849 | * TongueTrauma: He hates the sound of speech and goes about cutting peoples' tongues out, including his own. |
| 850 | * TheUnintelligible: Again, it's because he cut his own tongue out. |
| 851 | * WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: Cut out his own tongue and sewed his lips shut. |
| 852 | [[/folder]] |
| 853 | |
| 854 | [[folder:Plunder]] |
| 855 | !!Plunder |
| 856 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/plunder_0003.jpg]] |
| 857 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' [[spoiler:Jared Morillo]] |
| 858 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' Vol 2 #165 (October, 2000) |
| 859 | |
| 860 | ->''“I’ve got a read on them. The hunt is on.”'' |
| 861 | |
| 862 | A gun-toting villain from a mirror universe created by the Mirror Master, Plunder followed Wally back the real world when Wally made his escape. He joined up with Blacksmith's "New Rogues" and used the fact that he was [[spoiler:Detective Morillo]]'s mirror counterpart to keep the police out of the picture while her evil plan went into action. Much later, he was killed by Zoom during the "Rogue War" story arc. |
| 863 | ---- |
| 864 | * BoomHeadshot: How he kills Officer Morillo. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Plunder didn't count on Morillo's HealingFactor.]] |
| 865 | * ColdSniper: Does not care about anyone else, full-stop. He'd have killed Morillo's wife [[spoiler: if not for needing her to maintain his cover]]. |
| 866 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Played straight. |
| 867 | * TheDragon: To the mirror-universe Thinker. |
| 868 | * EvilCounterpart: He's a criminal mirror-universe version of [[spoiler: Jared Morillo, a good cop in "our" world.]] |
| 869 | * KilledOffForReal: A disorganized and misguided Zoom was able to defeat Plunder and shatter his pieces either killing him or sending him back to his original reality. |
| 870 | * MistakenIdentity: Uses this to his advantage during the "Crossfire" story arc. |
| 871 | * PsychoForHire: Gets hired by Blacksmith, but has no loyalty to her or the rest of her Rogues. |
| 872 | [[/folder]] |
| 873 | |
| 874 | [[folder:Tar Pit]] |
| 875 | !!Tar Pit |
| 876 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tar_pit_dc_comics_flash_monteleone_b.jpg]] |
| 877 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Joey Monteleone |
| 878 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Flash'' Vol 2 #174 (July, 2001) |
| 879 | |
| 880 | ->''"The name's '''TAR PIT''' not "guy." Now bring it on, dudes."'' |
| 881 | |
| 882 | The younger brother of a local crime boss, Joey Monteleone had the metahuman ability to project his consciousness outside of his own body. He then projected it into a vat of tar and was unable to return to his real body; however, he quickly took to his new form. |
| 883 | ---- |
| 884 | * AstralProjection: His ''actual'' power. Joey was just trapped in his BlobMonster form. |
| 885 | * BlobMonster: He's a burning heap of tar. |
| 886 | * DumbMuscle: Seriously thinks he won the SuperPowerLottery, but can't pass for human or even touch anything without burning it. |
| 887 | * ForTheEvulz: He doesn't have big ambitions, and is mostly into supervillainy for the fun of it. |
| 888 | * JumpedAtTheCall: He enjoys being a supervillain and even took quickly to being a big freaking tar monster. |
| 889 | * KillItWithFire: A side-effect of being made of tar. |
| 890 | * NoSell: Being made of tar meant he didn't have a heart to rip out by the Black Lanterns during ''Blackest Night''. |
| 891 | * TotallyRadical: Is constantly in awe of how cool his life is. |
| 892 | [[/folder]] |
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