| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' '''[[Characters/{{Superman}} Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''Title Character'''\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/SupermanTheCharacter Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/SupermanSupportingCast Supporting Cast]]'''\ |
| 5 | [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] | [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]] | ComicBook/AmbushBug | ComicBook/{{Steel}}\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/SupermanRoguesGallery Villains]]'''\ |
| 7 | [[Characters/SupermanCentralRoguesGallery Central Rogues Gallery]] ([[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Alexander "Lex" Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanBizarro Bizarro]], [[Characters/SupermanBrainiacCharacter Vril Dox/Brainiac]], [[Characters/SupermanCyborgSuperman Cyborg-Superman]], [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], [[Characters/SupermanDoomsdayCharacter Doomsday]], Characters/{{Lobo}}, [[Characters/SupermanMisterMxyzptlk Mister Mxyzptlk]], [[Characters/DCComicsMongul Mongul]], [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryPhantomZone Phantom Zone Criminals]] [[[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]]]) | [[Characters/SupermanRoguesGalleryAToL A-L]] | '''M-Z''' ([[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]])\ |
| 8 | '''Spin-Offs'''\ |
| 9 | ''Characters/{{Supergirl}}'' ([[Characters/SupergirlTheCharacter Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl]], [[Characters/SupergirlSupportingCast Supporting Cast]], [[Characters/SupergirlEnemies Rogues Gallery]]) | ''Characters/PowerGirl'' | ''Characters/{{Superboy}}'' ([[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Conner Kent/Kon-El]], [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent]], [[Characters/SuperboySupportingCast Supporting Cast]], [[Characters/SuperboyEnemies Rogues Gallery]]) | ''Characters/LegionOfSuperheroes'' ([[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesFounders The Founders]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesSilverAge Silver Age]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesBronzeAge Bronze Age]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesFiveYearsLater Five Years Later]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesPostboot Postboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesThreeboot Threeboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesRetroboot Retroboot]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesRebirth Rebirth]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesOtherHeroes Other Heroes]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesTheFatalFive The Fatal Five]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesLegionOfSupervillains The Legion of Supervillains]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesOtherVillains Other Villains]], [[Characters/LegionOfSuperheroesSupportingCharacters Supporting Cast]])-]]]]] |
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| 12 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 13 | |
| 14 | [[folder:Massacre]] |
| 15 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/massacre_dc_comics_superman_maxima.jpg]] |
| 16 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Adventures of Superman'' #509 (February, 1994) |
| 17 | ->''“Giving up? That isn’t like you, Man of Steel! Or are you trying to figure out how I always stay one step ahead of you? Come on, Superman — Make a move! Try to surprise me!”'' |
| 18 | |
| 19 | An alien mass murderer that clashed with Superman. |
| 20 | ---- |
| 21 | * TheAlliance: He joined the Alien Alliance alongside Maxima. |
| 22 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: He can read nerve impulses, predicting what his opponents can do. |
| 23 | * BallOfLightTransformation: Massacre has the power to travel cosmic distances by converting himself into a form of energy. |
| 24 | * DarkAgeOfSupernames: Massacre. Not exactly subtle, is it? |
| 25 | * DreadlockWarrior: His hair appears to be made of thin dreadlocks. |
| 26 | * EnergyWeapon: Has energy blasters on his gauntlets. |
| 27 | * ForTheEvulz: Travels the galaxy, killing anyone he feels like just for fun. |
| 28 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Massacre is certainly an intimidating name. |
| 29 | * ShouldersOfDoom: Wears massive pauldrons. |
| 30 | * SuperStrength: Superman has compared his punching power to Doomsday, and his feats of strength include easily pressing and throwing a three ton concrete block at Superman. |
| 31 | * TrickedOutGloves: Has energy blasters on his gauntlets. |
| 32 | [[/folder]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Master Jailer]] |
| 35 | [[quoteright:186:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f15b380bbbf4b6cdae358d53099870b5.gif]] |
| 36 | ->'''AKA:''' Carl Draper |
| 37 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' #331 (January, 1979) |
| 38 | ->''"I don't want to hurt anyone. Well-- that's not entirely true. I try and pretend I'm like everyone else. I brush my teeth and eat dinner and watch the evening news. I conform to the ethics they preach. But sometimes it's hard. Sometimes I forget I'm not working at the brig anymore. I miss it. I miss having prisoners to play with. The truth is. I don't want to hurt anyone-- I just have to."'' |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Carl Draper is a prison architect and locksmith who has gone off the deep end and is now obsessed with trapping people. He has a strange ability to summon and control chains, cages, and other restraining paraphernalia. Post-Crisis, he doesn't have powers, but can create complex DeathTrap devices. |
| 41 | ---- |
| 42 | * ChainedByFashion: His Post-Crisis costume incorporates chains. |
| 43 | * DaddysLittleVillain: Carla Draper, Post-Crisis, who had an open quasi-villainous identity as Snare and has also "borrowed" her father's Deathtrap hologram under the name Locksmith. Draper's CharacterBlog revealed that he suspected Carla was also responsible for the occasional Post-Crisis appearances of a Master Jailer. |
| 44 | * DarkAgeOfSuperNames: His Post-Crisis name was Deathtrap. In fact, it makes perfect sense as he creates death traps, yet sounds pretty dark when compared with "Master Jailer". |
| 45 | * DishingOutDirt: In one battle, he revealed that his powers work on sand, as well. |
| 46 | * HeelFaceTurn: He gave up crime and became chief of security for ''Checkmate''. |
| 47 | * TheJailer: His creations can even give Superman trouble. |
| 48 | * KarmaHoudini: In the Post-Crisis version, Draper was a respected designer of restraining equipment who was always ''absolutely horrified'' when the mysterious Deathtrap hacked his systems and sent his latest invention after Superman. And he got away with this ''every time''. |
| 49 | * MasterOfUnlocking: It is said that the Master Jailer is virtually unparalleled in escape artistry, matched or surpassed only by Batman and Mister Miracle |
| 50 | * VariableLengthChain: His outfit. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Maxima]] |
| 54 | [[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1664339_696484_maxima_standing.jpg]] |
| 55 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #645 (September, 1989) |
| 56 | ->''" It's over Superman! It's every planet for itself! The first who takes Warworld wins... and devil take the losers!"'' |
| 57 | |
| 58 | The queen of Planet Almerac. Impressed by his power, she asked Superman to become her king, and to father her children, but when he refused, she got ''pissed''. At times, she's hit on other powerful men like ComicBook/CaptainAtom (he rejected her in favor of Plastique) and Amazing Man (he stated that he wasn't interested in having kids yet). She got some CharacterDevelopment, switched between being a good guy and bad guy several times, then met her end in the storyline ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar''. |
| 59 | ---- |
| 60 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: She has made numerous attempts to make Superman her husband, even outright saying that she'd be the ideal woman to repopulate the Kryptonian people due to how genetically similar they are. While a tempting offer, Superman was instantly repelled due to her being a conqueror and how she'd raise their children to follow in her footsteps. Every attempt she made since then is met with annoyance at best and outright displeasure at worst. |
| 61 | * ActionGirl: A warrior ''and'' a queen. |
| 62 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the New 52, she's a member of the Crucible Academy and a heroic character. She also had no desire to be queen of Almerac, choosing to make it a Republic and becoming president instead. |
| 63 | * AdaptationalSexuality: She is a lesbian in the New 52 and has a crush on Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}. |
| 64 | * AllAmazonsWantHercules: Maxima is passionately attracted to Superman because he is one of the only men in the universe who is as strong as she is and hence, a desirable father to her children. Pity that Supes doesn't give a crap because she wanted to raise their kids to be conquerors and she didn't take rejection gracefully. At other times, she's hit on Captain Atom and Amazing Man, who are also pretty tough, and (in New-52 universe) even Supergirl, which suggests that she's drawn to strong people, regardless of sex. |
| 65 | * AlmostKiss: When she proposes marriage to Superman by pointing out how genetically compatible they are, she leans in for a kiss when she thinks he'll accept. She's about to reach his mouth before he says he has no interest in fathering despots. |
| 66 | * AmazonianBeauty: She has a muscular yet voluptuous build for her attractive body. |
| 67 | * BestHerToBedHer: Attracted to Superman because he can beat her in a fight. |
| 68 | * BloodKnight: Really enjoys fighting. |
| 69 | * ClingyJealousGirl: When Superman rejects her because he's married to Lois, she is ''pissed''. |
| 70 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: Maxima, a redheaded space traveler with PsychicPowers, is a corrupted character copy of Jean Grey from ''ComicBook/XMen''. Jean Grey is an explorer, teacher and protector who really only did bad things because she was brainwashed by the super villain Mastermind, and even then only because she had a CosmicEntity inside of her that said [[GoneHorriblyWrong brainwashing attempt caused her to lose control of]]. This leads to Jean Grey being unfairly hunted by a galactic empire, who don't care about the fact she wasn't in full control of her actions, or that there were ''two'' other beings more responsible for what happened than she was. Maxima is the leader of the galactic empire and willingly uses her powers to devastate worlds and expand it. Jean Grey has an infamously TangledFamilyTree that faces tragedies largely out of her control, because she and her husband [[ContrivedCoincidence just so happen to be]] a genetic combination that leads to great power [[StalkerWithATestTube that other people want]]. Maxima actively seeks to create one, desiring powerful mates to father children that will continue her despotic legacy. Maxima ''does'' occasionally try to be a benevolent ruler and protector of the weak, but this is only for the sake of courting heroic males like Superman, not because she's genuinely altruistic like Jean Grey, and will gladly revert to her true colors when men like Lobo are on her radar. Her interest in Superman and Lobo in particular is a corruption of Jean Grey's LoveTriangle with Cyclops and Wolverine. Also, during one of her stints with The Justice League Maxima is possessed by Eclipso, who was {{retool}}ed into a CosmicEntity not unlike The Phoenix Force by DC. The difference is that Jean Grey and The Phoenix Force get along and mean well, that Mastermind induced rampage aside. Eclipso and Maxima do ''not'' get along, as he was deliberately derailing her plans to get in Superman's tights for his own ends. |
| 71 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Before, she would completely ignore anybody not at Superman's level of power. |
| 72 | * DiplomaticImpunity: Comes with being a queen. |
| 73 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: She thinks Superman not killing anyone is because they're not worth his time. |
| 74 | * FieryRedhead: A redheaded royal with ''superpowers''. |
| 75 | * FlyingBrick: Her strength, speed, and durability are roughly equal to Superman's. |
| 76 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Becomes more heroic to win Superman's heart but when he rejects her because he's married to Lois, she returns to evil. |
| 77 | * HeroicSacrifice: Intercepted a planet-destroying blast. |
| 78 | * HumanAliens: Much like Kryptonians, her race is superficially indistinguishable from normal humans. |
| 79 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Grows more heroic over time. |
| 80 | * IncompatibleOrientation In the New 52, she is unwilling to find a mate and have children because she is a lesbian. Likewise, her affection for Supergirl isn't returned. |
| 81 | * LackOfEmpathy: At first. |
| 82 | * LegFocus: She tends to wear outfits (usually costumes that are either stripperiffic or very formfitting body suits) that highlight her legs. |
| 83 | * LoveAtFirstPunch: Maxima really fell for Superman after he beat her up. |
| 84 | * MindOverMatter: Telekinesis is one of her powers. |
| 85 | * MsFanservice: Maxima is a tall and buxom redhead with the tendency to wear outfits that are very {{Stripperiffic}} and bare her midriff and highlight her long legs. Even when her outfits cover her whole body, they tend to be very skintight and highlight her build. |
| 86 | * MostCommonSuperpower: She has very large breasts. |
| 87 | * OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: She is this to Clark. The fact that, unlike any human woman[[note]]Bare in mind that, at the time, it was unknown if Superman could even breed with a human or if it was safe to do so. His son, Jon Kent, proves that, yes, he and Lois can have kids.[[/note]], she can give him children is the only thing that comes close to tempting him. |
| 88 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: "My moment of glory came in the struggle against the monstrous Doomsday. Now ''that'' was a battle!"[[note]]Keep in mind, Doomsday wiped the mat with the entire Justice League, including her.[[/note]] |
| 89 | * PsychicPowers: Telekinesis and telepathy. |
| 90 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Queen of Almerac and had a period as a superhero before pulling a HeroicSacrifice by blocking a planet destroying blast. |
| 91 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Has worn both green and purple. |
| 92 | * StalkerWithACrush: Although she is a lot more sane than most examples. |
| 93 | * StalkerWithATestTube: A Kryptonian/Almeracian hybrid could theoretically grow up to be the ultimate warrior. |
| 94 | * StatuesqueStunner: Canonically 6'2", and exceptionally beautiful. Superman (6'3") was the only Justice Leaguer from that era who came close to her height, but even then she appeared to be nearly a full head taller than him. |
| 95 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: She often wears gowns and casual attire that are generally immodest by Superman's standards. |
| 96 | * SuperBreedingProgram: She did the research to show Superman that, yes, his Kryptonian DNA and her Almeracian DNA are compatible and that their offspring would be very powerful, which is what she desires most. |
| 97 | * SuperpowerLottery: On top of being near Kryptonians in all physical stats, Maxima possesses teleportation, telekinesis and telepathy. |
| 98 | * {{Tsundere}}: To Supes and other men she sets her eyes on. |
| 99 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: Played With. She does seem to find Superman attractive, but she doesn't care whether or not he loves her, nor does she really care for love. She only wants him for breeding. She admits that Captain Marvel is a nice guy, but since his super powers have nothing to do with his genetics she has no interest in him. On the otherhand, while Maxima is generally interested in ''any'' man of sufficient power, should it be tied to his genetics, it is ''Superman'' in particular that she fantasizes about having in her pallace raising her kids. |
| 100 | * WomanScorned: As Superman, Captain Atom, and Amazing Man found out the hard way, turning down a woman who can trade blows with ''Doomsday'' is a really bad idea. |
| 101 | * {{Yandere}}: Since Superman rejected her advances, Max periodically attempted to wreak revenge, including an alliance with his nemesis Brainiac. She had also been known to set her sights on other heroes, sometimes in less violent ways (her attempted romance with Amazing Man during the period she was a reformed heroine), sometimes much more so (kidnapping Aquaman). |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Menagerie]] |
| 105 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/menagerie_5.png]] |
| 106 | ->'''AKA:''' Pamela |
| 107 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #775 (March, 2001) |
| 108 | ->''"Can't smell him. Scorched air. No sonar..."'' |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Pamela and Sonja were Puerto Rican sisters who were infected with alien symbiotes (possibly by TheMenInBlack) that provide them with a range of abilities. Pamela was recruited by Manchester Black into The Elite. After Black induced a stroke in Pamela for attempting to betray him, putting her into a vegetative state, Sonja assumed control of the crèche and became the second Menagerie and joined the Justice League Elite under Manchester's sister Vera. |
| 111 | ---- |
| 112 | * {{Expy}}: Primarily the Authority's Engineer, only instead of {{Nanomachines}} her versatile abilities are organic in nature. Because she often flies with leathery wings she also emulates Swift, and her abilities carrying some mild body horror and being alien in origin might be a reference to Jack Hawksmoor. |
| 113 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: Her body is a living hive for Giger-esque alien symbiotes that can assume any form to fulfil whatever function she desires. |
| 114 | * TheMenInBlack: Manchester Black once stated that the rogue Men in Black (from the Department of Extranormal Operations) once picked up the dregs of society, turning them into weapons and selling them off to the highest alien bidder. Pamela was bonded to an "alien warrior crèche" (or "symbeasts"). |
| 115 | * TouchedByVorlons: Pamela was bonded to an "alien warrior crèche" (or "symbeasts"). |
| 116 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Pamela has control over alien lifeforms known as "Symbeasts" which are tiny symbiotic parasites that shift and assemble over a host to form a variety of shapes and weapons. She can command them to take any form she can think of. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Misa]] |
| 120 | [[quoteright:237:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misa.jpg]] |
| 121 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' Vol 2 #115 (September, 1996) |
| 122 | ->''"Tee-hee! What a blast! With my bag of tricks, I'll have them running in circles for hours! We 'Hairies' may be genetic geniuses, but my people are nowhere nears a fun as these 'normals'."'' |
| 123 | |
| 124 | Misa is a girl that just wants to have fun. Her father Jude, and mother, Lucy Diamond Sky, are the leaders of a small race of advanced, genetically engineered people who were made by a scientist at Project Cadmus. Her people call themselves the Hairies, and they're seclusive pacifists, and Misa wants no part of their ways. She mostly just likes to cause trouble for the entertainment value, and often vexes Superman. She even joined the Superman Revenge Squad at one point. |
| 125 | ---- |
| 126 | * BagOfHolding: Misa carries a bag of tricks contains an arsenal of high-tech gadgets of her own design. |
| 127 | * GreenAndMean: She wears a green dress and she's a troublemaker. |
| 128 | * HippieParents: Her parents Jude and Lucy Diamond Sky are the leaders of the reclusive pacifist Hairies, who act very much like {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. |
| 129 | * MindControlDevice: Misa's bag of tricks contains a harmonizer that lets Misa possess the mind of whoever puts it on. |
| 130 | * ThePrankster: Misa's main motivation is stirring up trouble, rather than personal gain or revenge. |
| 131 | * {{Teleportation}}: Misa's bag of tricks includes a short-range teleporter. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Mister Z]] |
| 135 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mister_z.jpg]] |
| 136 | ->'''AKA:''' George Bailey, General Zeiten |
| 137 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' Vol. 2 #51 (January, 1991) |
| 138 | ->''"You ought to be flattered, man of steel, for in my many years, I have met few like you... Of course, they too wound up within my crystal. Truly gifted individuals are rare, and their lifespans are so brief... So, in order that I may partake of their companion-ship whenever the fancy strikes... I trap their essence within the limbo of this magic gemstone."'' |
| 139 | |
| 140 | Mister Z is a mysterious immortal who traps famous people from history within a crystal. The crystal was destroyed when attempts were made to place Superman within the crystal. |
| 141 | ---- |
| 142 | * ArcVillain: Of the "Blackout" arc. |
| 143 | * CharacterNameAlias: One of Mister Z's aliases is George Bailey: the name of the central character in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. |
| 144 | * ClassyCane: Carries a famous walking stick topped with a gemstone that is the CrystalPrison that stores the famous souls he steals. |
| 145 | * CrystalPrison: Collects souls in the gem set into the handle of his cane. |
| 146 | * HaveWeMetYet: Superman and Mister Z's "first" meeting took place in 1943 in ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'', but by that point the time-displaced Superman had already faced Z's future self in the 1990s (although there is no indication that Z was ever aware of the time-travel angle). |
| 147 | * HypnoticEyes: Mister Z is an accomplished hypnotist. |
| 148 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: Mister Z has used his immortality to amass an immense personal fortune. In the present day, he is usually dressed in impeccably tailored suits. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he wore Nazi uniforms. |
| 149 | * PutOnABus: Mister Z was last seen stranded on a desert island. |
| 150 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: Mister Z is apparently immortal. The one time he has been seen to be killed, he later woke up in the morgue and escaped to parts unknown. |
| 151 | * YourSoulIsMine: Mister Z is a mysterious immortal who traps the souls famous people from history within a crystal. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Neutron]] |
| 155 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Neutron_9362.jpg]] |
| 156 | ->'''AKA:''' Nathaniel Tyron |
| 157 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #525 (November, 1981) |
| 158 | ->''"Do you '''feel''' it, Superman? Can you tell how '''strong''' I am becoming? The blast merely had the explosive force of '''ten hydrogen bombs'''-- and my power is still '''growing!''' My body has become an ever-increasing '''nuclear chain-reaction!''' In time, Man of Steel, I'll be able to '''decimate worlds! Nothing''' will be able to stop me then, Superman-- Not even you! '''Now''' do you see why, Superman? Because of you, I am being converted into '''pure energy'''! And as you know-- '''energy can never be destroyed!'''"'' |
| 159 | |
| 160 | Nathaniel was a petty thug who was transformed by an accident into a living mass of nuclear energy, needing a containment suit to have a physical form. After murdering the ones responsible, he now does whatever he feels like, putting him in conflict with the Man of Steel. |
| 161 | ---- |
| 162 | * AchillesHeel: Completely wrecking Neutron's powersuit will stop him far faster than attacking Neutron himself. Of course, you've got to be prepared for the [[NukeEm nuclear explosion]] that will result from that. |
| 163 | * AtomicSuperpower: Nathaniel Tryon has been transformed by a nuclear meltdown into a living radiation entity. With the assistance of a specially designed suit, Neutron can retain his physical form and ability to interact with the outside world, although he has also demonstrated the ability to jettison the radioactive emissions that compose him and exist as a pure energy being outside his suit. |
| 164 | * AxCrazy: Neutron ''really'' enjoys killing people. |
| 165 | * BloodKnight: Always spoiling for a fight. |
| 166 | * ContainmentClothing: Neutron is a being of sentient nuclear energy that can only be held in a special containment suit. |
| 167 | * EnergyAbsorption: Neutron can metabolize and store radiation in his body. |
| 168 | * EnergyBeings: To the point where if you strip away his containment suit he loses his physical. |
| 169 | * {{Flight}}: Neutron can fly under his own power. |
| 170 | * ForTheEvulz: He even gives a speech about how he doesn't know the people he is attacking. He's doing it because it is ''fun''. |
| 171 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Neutron was little more than a B&E man before he was exposed to radiation. |
| 172 | * HandBlast: Usually emits radiation from his hands, though he can fire it from any part of his body, including his face. |
| 173 | * HavingABlast: As well as his {{Hand Blast}}s, Neutron can release his nuclear energy as an area of effect blast. |
| 174 | * ImplacableMan: "Cold won't do it. Neither will heat. I don't even need to ''breathe''!" |
| 175 | * NighInvulnerability: Neutron's completely immune to heat, cold, and suffocation, and since his body is nothing more than a living chain of fission reactions, physical force is all but useless against him. |
| 176 | * NuclearMutant: Nuclear powered and a relentless psycho. |
| 177 | * PowerIncontinence: Unfortunately, he doesn't care at all. He'll just laugh if he accidentally barbecues bystanders. |
| 178 | * PsychoForHire: Neutron's not above hiring out his services to other villains like Luthor, but he's in it for the kicks, not the cash. |
| 179 | * PureEnergy: Neutron no longer has a physical form. He's pure radioactivity. |
| 180 | * TheSocialDarwinist: Believes that anyone who can't hack being irradiated should just hurry up and die. |
| 181 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Nat Tyron gains nuclear powers under the name Neutron. |
| 182 | * SuperStrength: Even without emitting radiation, Neutron still hits with the force of a nuclear blast. |
| 183 | * WalkingWasteland: He thinks it's funny, too. |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Nimrod the Hunter]] |
| 187 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nimrod_4.jpg]] |
| 188 | ->'''AKA:''' Maxim Zarov |
| 189 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' Vol 2 #6 (April, 2012) |
| 190 | ->''I am Maxim Zarov, codename 'Nimrod'. Hunter of the mighty. I have killed everything that ever lived. I look forward to killing a man from another world."'' |
| 191 | |
| 192 | A hunter and marksman of uncanny skill, Maxim Zarov gained a deserved reputation as the finest big game hunter on Earth and became known as "Nimrod the Hunter". As his skill and reputation grew and grew, so did his pride, and he believed he had reached the logical end of his career when he shot a charging tyrannosaur through the head at less than a hundred meters. Until, that is, one of his beaters convinced him to try to kill the alien Superman, recently revealed to the world. Intrigued, Nimrod took the challenge. |
| 193 | ---- |
| 194 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: To Marvel's Kraven the Hunter. |
| 195 | * BadassNormal: It takes serious cajones to hunt Superman when you have no powers and are armed with conventional weaponry. |
| 196 | * EgomaniacHunter: Believes that Superman is the only game left on Earth worthy of his attention. |
| 197 | * HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: And game doesn't come much more dangerous than Superman. |
| 198 | * OneSteveLimit: Shares his codename with a minor Batman villain. |
| 199 | * ScarilyCompetentTracker: Part of his skill set. |
| 200 | * SupervillainPackingHeat: Nimrod has a high-grade sniper rifle with an advanced scope. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Obsession]] |
| 204 | [[quoteright:323:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dana_dearden_001.jpg]] |
| 205 | ->'''AKA:''' Dana Dearden, a.k.a. 'Mrs Superman' |
| 206 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Adventures of Superman'' #532 (February, 1996) |
| 207 | ->''"I'll do anything for you, Superman! Ever after this time, I'm still as crazy about you as when I first caught sight of your after-image...even though you made me look like an idiot and married someone else."'' |
| 208 | |
| 209 | Dana Dearden is aptly described by the aliases she's used: Obsession and Mrs. Superman. She was a young woman obsessed with Superman. She dated [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]] to get close to Superman, and when that didn't work she stole mystic artifacts which granted her the strength of Hercules, the speed (and flight) of Hermes, the thunderbolts of Zeus, and the sight of Heimdall. |
| 210 | ---- |
| 211 | * AlliterativeName: '''D'''ana '''D'''earden |
| 212 | * EscapedFromHell: During her time in Hell, ComicBook/HarleyQuinn recruited the deceased Dana to her gang as part of an attempted breakout. |
| 213 | * {{Flight}}: The coin that gave her the speed of Mercury also granted her his ability to fly. |
| 214 | * GenderedOutfit: Wears a costume inspired by Superman's but which leaves her legs bare. |
| 215 | * KilledOffForReal: She [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed herself]] to save Superman from a magic-based attack. As of 2021, this death has stuck. |
| 216 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Her Superman obsession drives Dana to obtain superpowers, and later declare herself 'Mrs Superman' after a photo emerges of Supes wearing a wedding ring. |
| 217 | * MostCommonSuperpower: Is in the same league as Characters/PowerGirl. |
| 218 | * StalkerWithACrush: Describes Dana's relationship with Superman. |
| 219 | * SuperSenses: Has the heightened senses of Heimdall, watchmen of the Norse Gods. |
| 220 | * SuperSpeed: Has the speed of Mercury. |
| 221 | * SuperStrength: Has the strength of Hercules. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Paragon]] |
| 225 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paragondc0.png]] |
| 226 | ->'''AKA:''' Joel Cochin |
| 227 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Justice League of America'' #224 (March, 1984) |
| 228 | ->''" Perfection isn't easy. It's not simple. But it's not impossible."'' |
| 229 | |
| 230 | A Justice League villain with a superiority complex though he's squared off against Superman solo. His power is that he's has heightened versions of the abilities of anyone around him (though he quickly loses these powers when the people he is emulating exit his range.) |
| 231 | ---- |
| 232 | * TheBusCameBack: After his single appearance against the Justice League, he went unseen for more than two decades until become a recurring opponent of Superman. |
| 233 | * CurbStompBattle: Subverted. In his initial appearance Paragon faced and defeated the Justice League of America by duplicating their unique abilities... but is later defeated by the Red Tornado, an inorganic android, and Green Lantern (armed with his power ring), whose artificial powers Paragon could not duplicate. |
| 234 | * OmnicidalManiac: In his earliest appearance Cochin's stated goal was the eradication of all those he considered "inferior"—more than three-quarters of the human race. |
| 235 | * OneSteveLimit: Shares his codename with a ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} villain. |
| 236 | * PowerCopying: He can copy the powers of everyone near him at heightened levels. The only reason he hasn't taken over the world is because he only retains his copied powers while the source of them is nearby. Plus, he is unable to copy the powers of inorganic beings such as the Red Tornado or weapons such as Green Lantern's ring. |
| 237 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: After his single appearance against the Justice League, he went unseen for more than two decades until become a recurring opponent of Superman. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Prankster]] |
| 242 | [[quoteright:182:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b32b40a960b11b46ca570ed89e2e4e44.jpg]] |
| 243 | ->'''AKA:''' Oswald Loomis |
| 244 | ->''''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #51 (August, 1942) |
| 245 | ->''"I'm not a murderer -- I'm a prankster. This was just a big joke!"'' |
| 246 | |
| 247 | The original Prankster was a criminal and conman who used elaborate practical jokes to commit crimes. Post-Crisis is a former children's variety show host who got canned in favor of newer types of children's programming--which drove him over the deep end. Now he makes weapons disguised as or styled after traditional pranks, such as cream pies, joy buzzers, whoopie cushions, runaway refrigerators, etc. Has been able to remain as least a nuisance to Superman over the years through clever tactics and misdirection. Superman can't immediately figure out what he needs to punch, but by the time he's found it, he's usually pretty irritated. Notable for being one of Supey's longest-running villains, he first appeared in 1942. |
| 248 | ---- |
| 249 | * AffablyEvil: Post-Busiek anyway; prior to that, he was more of a jerk. He is openly friendly, jovial, and cheerful, and is happy to help out his employers as best he can. |
| 250 | * AntiVillain: While he's not a good guy by any means, his motivation is more the thrill of the chase than actual success, and he has lines he won't cross. He's just a guy who loves the limelight, not a psychopath. It's noted that he treats his employees well, for one. |
| 251 | * CardCarryingVillain: He completely wraps himself up in the supervillain aesthetic, with deathtraps and wacky schemes being done pretty much ForTheEvulz. |
| 252 | * DepravedKidsShowHost: This is the backstory for the Post-Crisis version. Beginning his career as a children's television host, he turned to crime after his show was cancelled. |
| 253 | * ExplodingCigar: Has used the lethal version as a weapon. |
| 254 | * ForTheEvulz: Why he became a villain. |
| 255 | * FountainOfYouth: Oswald Loomis gains a younger, more athletic body after selling his soul to Lord Satanus. |
| 256 | * GadgeteerGenius: Has some impressive toys. |
| 257 | * GreenAndMean[=/=]NotWearingTights: Oswald is a mean-spirited practical joker who eschewed spandex in favor of a variety of green suits for most of his career. |
| 258 | * HarmlessVillain: Prankster is more of a nuisance than a threat, which makes him ideal for more dangerous villains to hire as a distraction. (He does have his occasional NotSoHarmlessVillain moment, though.) |
| 259 | * HiredGuns: Under Kurt Busiek, he begins to work as a "distraction-for-hire". Criminals can hire him to keep Superman and the police occupied while they commit their crimes unopposed. |
| 260 | * InstrumentOfMurder: In one of his early appearances, the Prankster used a miniature gun concealed in a playful-looking flute. |
| 261 | * ItAmusedMe: Seriously, how can you not love a guy with no powers, whose primary goal is just pulling the biggest practical jokes on the largest number of people possible, and whose favorite target is the most powerful being on Earth? Sadly, he usually is portrayed as genuinely evil underneath it all, but DependingOnTheWriter, he may simply be the world's most ambitious performance artist. |
| 262 | * LaughablyEvil: He still retains that old comedian charm, and puts it to work in his crimes. His goal is as much to have a great time as it is to actually succeed. |
| 263 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: At the very beginning, Oswald was portrayed as short, fattie, freckled and with missing front teeth. Starting from John Byrne´s take on the character, he was featured to look and even to speak as a young Creator/StanLee. |
| 264 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Most notably in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''. He also has a very low tolerance for clients who turn on him. |
| 265 | * PieInTheFace: It can be regular pie or have some kind of nasty surprise in it. |
| 266 | * PragmaticVillainy: He strictly sticks to low-level diversions, mainly to allow bank heists or the like, so nobody will try very hard to take him down. He ''can'' make his artifacts outright lethal, but he feels it's not really worth it. He also refuses to ''sell'' his stuff, only rent it - he's a comedian, not an armorer. |
| 267 | * ThePrankster: Well, yeah! |
| 268 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Wears a green suit and an orange tie. |
| 269 | * SmokescreenCrime: During the ''ComicBook/OneYearLater'' storyline, Luthor hires the Prankster to wreak havoc across Metropolis while he secretly breaks Kryptonite Man out of prison. Following this experience, the Prankster starts providing services to other criminals as a distraction-for-hire. |
| 270 | * WeNeedADistraction: His modern M.O.; Prankster exists as a means for lesser villains to stay out of trouble by creating bombastic and grandiose schemes that Superman will rush to stop, leaving his charges free to do whatever lower-key crimes they like. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Preus]] |
| 274 | [[quoteright:281:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/preus_99.jpg]] |
| 275 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Adventures of Superman'' #625 (April, 2004) |
| 276 | ->''"How you shame the legacy of the Superman, Kal-El."'' |
| 277 | |
| 278 | A fanatical member of the Kandorian Citizen Patrol Corps (CPC) and a fervent worshipper of "The Superman", Preus encountered the Man of Steel when he was trapped in Kandor as "Kal-El." Convinced that Kal-El is a race traitor who perverts the image of The Superman, Preus attempted to kill him, before escaping into the real world where he battled both Superman and Lyla. He later became the leader of a cult of white supremacists, facing off against Superman and the Martian Manhunter. |
| 279 | ---- |
| 280 | * AbsoluteXenophobe: Though he can't decide whether all the aliens should die, or serve the MasterRace that is the Kryptonians. |
| 281 | * ArcVillain: He and Lyla share the position of main villain in ''Godfall''. |
| 282 | * AxCrazy: A Kryptonian psycho. |
| 283 | * BadassCape: In Kandor. It burns off during his battle with Superman in Metropolis. |
| 284 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Preus only sees good and evil. |
| 285 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: His eyes become black after he breaks free into Metropolis. |
| 286 | * ChestInsignia: A copy of the Superman symbol. He later burns a line through it to demonstrate that he has thrown away his belief in The Superman. |
| 287 | ** BroughtToYouByTheLetterS |
| 288 | * CowboyCop: A very dark take during his days with the CPC. |
| 289 | ** DirtyCop: In the sense of being a fascist bastard who considers all non-Kryptonian life expendable, and doesn't give a damn about bystanders. |
| 290 | ** RabidCop: A psychopath with a badge. |
| 291 | * {{Cult}}: Leads a gang of white supremacists after the events of ''Godfall''. |
| 292 | * EvilCounterpart: Not only does he have Superman's powers, but he follows a very warped version of the Man of Steel's code. |
| 293 | * EvilerThanThou: With Lyla in "Godfall". While she's the one behind almost everything that happens in the story, Preus seizes the role of BigBad from her in the end. |
| 294 | * EyeBeams: Though his are black instead of red. |
| 295 | * FantasticRacism: Seeks to kill all of the "impure," which includes most of Kandor's alien population. He's none too fond of humanity either, following his escape. |
| 296 | * FinalBoss: Lyla may be the BigBad of ''Godfall'', but Preus is the last bastard standing, and assumes the role of main antagonist as the arc reaches its climax. |
| 297 | * FlyingBrick: After escaping to Metropolis. |
| 298 | * TheFundamentalist: A fundamentalist worshipper of Kandor's cult of Superman. |
| 299 | * AGodAmI: Comes to see himself as the reincarnation of The Superman after making his way to Metropolis and gaining his powers. This may just be a way of rationalizing his manifestation of "alien" abilities to himself. |
| 300 | * TheHeavy: In ''Godfall'' where Lyla's the BigBad, but Preus moves the plot. |
| 301 | * HeroWorshipper: Of the highly-fictionalized godfigure "The Superman". |
| 302 | ** BrokenPedestal: After he finally realizes that Kal-El is Superman. At this point, Preus snaps and tries to kill Kal-El for failing to live up to his own idealized image of who Superman was. |
| 303 | * HighlyConspicuousUniform: From being a CPC. |
| 304 | * HolierThanThou: Convinced that he is The Superman's most fervent disciple. |
| 305 | * InspectorJavert: He initially pursues Kal-El because he believes the latter has killed his own son (who was actually a construct created by Lyla). |
| 306 | * KarmicTransformation: He doesn't take the emergence of his powers very well, as he is now an alien freak, the very thing that he loathes so much. |
| 307 | * KnightTemplar: To scarily demented levels. He's a xenophobic RabidCop who thinks that all lawbreakers should be killed and is willing to accept veritable tons of collateral damage. |
| 308 | * LightIsNotGood: He may be a blonde bearing BlingOfWar, but he isn't good ''at all''. |
| 309 | * LightningBruiser: He is this in Kandor because of his power armour, and is this in Earth because he is a Kryptonian. |
| 310 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: One could make a very good case for Preus being in need of institutionalization, given his rabid religious views, BlackAndWhiteInsanity, and general detachment from reality. |
| 311 | * PoliceBrutality: Kills suspects, accepts blocks of civilian casualties, racist to the core... Preus is bad policing personified. |
| 312 | * PoweredArmor: Wears a suit of power armor as a member of Kandor's police force. It compensates for the exposure sickness, allows him to fire energy blasts, enables flight (not that he needs it outside of Kandor) and can turn psychic attacks back on their users. |
| 313 | ** BlingOfWar: The suit is gold-enameled. |
| 314 | ** ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Well, in Kandor anyway, where his PoweredArmor is the only reason he has any powers. In the real world he doesn't need the suit... but [[ClingyCostume has to wear it anyway]]. |
| 315 | ** ClingyCostume: His armor is now burned into his body. |
| 316 | ** {{Flight}}: The suit's rocket boots enable flight. |
| 317 | ** PowerPalms: Discharges his energy blasts from them. |
| 318 | ** PsychicBlockDefense: His armor is designed to keep both his body and his mind safe. When Lyla tries to MindRape him, he amplifies her attack, turns it back on her, and shreds her mind along with half a city block. |
| 319 | ** RocketBoots: How he flies in Kandor. |
| 320 | * ANaziByAnyOtherName: Preus' racist rhetoric should have a very familiar feel to any students of WWII history. |
| 321 | * SanitySlippage: He was a self-righteous, arrogant bastard with a tenuous grip on reality from the beginning. After emerging from Kandor into the real world and becoming one of the aliens he so hates his last few shreds of sanity vanish, and he's reduced to a screaming, ranting madman. |
| 322 | * TheSocialDarwinist: A believer of this. |
| 323 | * StateSec: What the CPC is. |
| 324 | * SuperSenses: Has them. |
| 325 | * SuperSpeed: He is a LightningBruiser. |
| 326 | * SuperStrength: Has it. |
| 327 | * SuperiorSpecies: Many Kryptonian villains have this view, but Preus takes it to psychotic levels. General Zod would likely be embarrassed by Preus' deification of their race. |
| 328 | * VilerNewVillain: He's a Kryptonian supremacist like Zod and fulfills a similar role of being an EvilCounterpart to Superman. However, Zod can at least have some PetTheDog and NobleDemon moments and Superman can at least reason with Zod sometimes. Preus has none of those positive qualities and remains a monstrous, extremist villain who can make Zod look reasonable. |
| 329 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: Doesn't realize at all that Kal-El is as Kryptonian as he is, and that Kryptonians themselves are just "aliens" on Earth. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:The Puzzler (I, II &III)]] |
| 333 | !!The Puzzler I |
| 334 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/puzzler_i.png]] |
| 335 | ->'''AKA:''' Unknown |
| 336 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #49 (June, 1942) |
| 337 | ->''"Round and round the wheel of fortune spins--but should the indicator land on the red instead of the blue section, a strangling device will automatically put you out of your misery!"'' |
| 338 | |
| 339 | The Puzzler is himself something of a puzzle. Who he really is and how he became obsessed with games, tricks and puzzles is unknown. |
| 340 | ---- |
| 341 | * BadassInANiceSuit: His usual 'costume' is a double-breasted business suit. |
| 342 | * BadassNormal: It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to take on Superman when your only real skill is being an expert at games and puzzles. |
| 343 | * CallingCard: His sign is a bent nail – half a common puzzle. |
| 344 | * DisproportionateRetribution: The Puzzler once entered a card-playing tournament as a masked contestant. He did well, but was ultimately beaten at poker, rummy, hearts, casino, blackjack and bridge. He vowed ironic revenge for this humiliation. He beat the poker champion to death with a fireplace poker, although was prevented from his attempts to kill the others in equally ironic fashions. |
| 345 | * {{Idiosyncrazy}}: All of his crimes are themed around puzzles and games. |
| 346 | * NoEscapeButDown: At the end of his first appearance, the Puzzler escapes by leaping from a suspension bridge into the river. |
| 347 | * ProtectionRacket: His first criminal enterprise was operating a business in Metropolis which consisted of extorting people if they don't pay him for protection. |
| 348 | * SoreLoser: To put it mildly. He attempts to murder the five people who bested him in a card game tournament. |
| 349 | * ThemeSerialKiller: After being beaten in a card game tournament, the Puzzler vowed ironic revenge on the five players who bested him. He was only able to kill one champion, the poker champion. He beat him to death with a fireplace poker. The others (the bridge player who he tries to throw off a bridge; the hearts player to have a heart attack; the rummy champion to die of poisoned rum; the casino player killed in a casino) were saved by Superman. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | !!The Puzzler II |
| 352 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/puzzler_1.jpg]] |
| 353 | ->'''AKA:''' Valerie Van Haaften |
| 354 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' Vol 2 #187 (December, 2002) |
| 355 | ->''"Hi people. My name is Valerie Van Haaften a.k.a. The Puzzler. One P, two [=Zs=]. I once fought Superman to a standstill. Check my clippings."'' |
| 356 | |
| 357 | Valerie Van Haaften is the Puzzler, an enemy of Superman who can break down her body into puzzle pieces. For years she admired Superman, even having the idea of becoming a heroine and joining a team of superheroes to draw his attention. Unable to realize her dream, Valerie started a life of crime. |
| 358 | ---- |
| 359 | * DetachmentCombat: Valerie can detach the various puzzle pieces that comprise her body and propel them at the same speed as bullets from a gun. |
| 360 | * {{Flight}}: Valerie can fly, although the exact mechanism for this has not been established. |
| 361 | * LogicalWeakness: She can be stopped if the majority of her pieces are kept apart from each other. Superman took advantage of this in their second battle by trapping her head under a garbage can and containing the rest of her in his cape. |
| 362 | * ManOfKryptonite: Her powers are magical in nature, meaning she can hurt Superman quite easily. |
| 363 | * NighInvulnerability: She cannot be hurt in a conventional sense, she just breaks into pieces. |
| 364 | * PullingThemselvesTogether: Valerie's body is comprised of puzzle pieces. If separated, they will reassemble themselves. |
| 365 | |
| 366 | !!The Puzzler III |
| 367 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/puzzler_iii_7.png]] |
| 368 | ->'''AKA:''' Agent Eans, Puzzlebot |
| 369 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Justice League of America'' Vol. 3 #3 (July, 2013) |
| 370 | |
| 371 | A descendant of Vandal Savage, the third Puzzler infiltrated ARGUS under the alias of Agent Evans. He later transferred his consciousness into the body of an android named Puzzlebot that he had constructed to commit robberies. |
| 372 | ---- |
| 373 | * TheAssimilator: The Puzzlebot is capable of assimilating any technological object into his own body that comes into contact with a puzzle-like device he sends. |
| 374 | * BrainUploading: Agent Evans transferred his consciousness to his invention without knowing that only the data of his consciousness would be put in the robot. |
| 375 | * EyeBeams: The Puzzlebot can fire heat beams from its eyes. |
| 376 | * SuperStrength: His android body gives Puzzler superhuman strength. |
| 377 | * SuperToughness: His android body gives Puzzler superhuman durability. |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:The Quarmerr]] |
| 381 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quarmer3.jpg]] |
| 382 | ->'''AKA:''' The Sand Superman |
| 383 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' #233 (January, 1971) |
| 384 | ->''"I want-- '''life!''' I want to continue '''existing'''... I want to '''help''' people-- as '''you''' have done! I want to be '''Superman'''-- and so '''you''' must '''die!'''"'' |
| 385 | |
| 386 | An identity-less being from the extradimensional realm of Quarm, brought to our world in the same freak accident that rendered all kryptonite on Earth harmless (more showed up from space later, of course). The Quarmerr formed a body for itself out of irradiated sand and leeched off of Superman's life force, trying to steal his identity. The villain of the "ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'' story arc by Denny O'Neil, often considered the official start of the Bronze Age at DC. |
| 387 | ---- |
| 388 | * AntiVillain: Really, it just wants to survive as its own entity. |
| 389 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Having no identity of its own, the Quarmerr shows some interest in doing good merely because it's such a central aspect of who Superman is, but it's perfectly willing to kill Superman to gain his identity for itself. |
| 390 | * CanonDiscontinuity: While later stories did not dispute that the Quarmerr's story arc had happened (indeed, its introductory issue is still considered a classic), the intended lasting effect -- leaving Superman only half as powerful as he had been -- was forgotten almost immediately, and he went right back to being able to shove planets around soon afterward. However, rendering all kryptonite currently on Earth harmless ''did'' remain a plot point for almost a decade. |
| 391 | * HeelFaceTurn: The Quarmerr [[ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam returns briefly]], years later, forced to help the evil sorcerer Karmang; but the Quarmerr ''still'' doesn't care about mortal affairs and absolutely doesn't care about Karmang's crazy agenda, so it surrenders and tells [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Mary Marvel]] all of Karmang's plans at the earliest opportunity so it can just [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere opt out of the whole annoying situation]]. |
| 392 | * ItIsDehumanizing: The Quarmerr is not remotely human, and is referred to as "it," not "him." |
| 393 | * KnightOfCerebus: Intended as this by the writers. The Quarmerr's story arc was meant to introduce more serious drama into the Superman books after the goofiness of the Silver Age (and it succeeded at this), and also to permanently reduce Superman's powers (though later writers mostly ignored the supposed de-powering). |
| 394 | * LifeDrinker: Absorbing Superman's powers and essence into itself. |
| 395 | * MrExposition: Most of what Superman learns about the Quarmerr's nature comes from Wonder Woman's sometime mentor, the blind mystic [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies I-Ching.]] |
| 396 | * SentientSands: After Superman got hit with a blast of weird energy from an experiment and landed in the desert sand, leaving an impression of his body, the sand where he landed later formed itself into an imitation of his shape and shambled confusedly away, not even realizing what it was. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Queen of Fables]] |
| 400 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-queen_of_fables_6875.png]] |
| 401 | ->'''AKA:''' Tsaritsa |
| 402 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''JLA'' #47 (November, 2000) |
| 403 | ->''"You call me the Queen of Fables. You may attempt to court me now."'' |
| 404 | |
| 405 | Tsaritsa was the actual evil queen from ''Literature/SnowWhite''. Awakening in modern times, this cruel tyrant hopes to reawaken her empire. |
| 406 | ---- |
| 407 | * AxCrazy: Batshit insane in general. |
| 408 | * DomainHolder: After breaking free from the story book and gaining the ability to travel back and forth, it's revealed that inside the book, she is completely un-killable and her power over reality is at its peak. |
| 409 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: She doesn't understand why Superman, whom she thinks is PrinceCharming, would choose to marry a "peasant" like Lois Lane instead of royalty. |
| 410 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: A queen but definitely not a good person. |
| 411 | * KryptoniteFactor: She is weakened by contact with Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, since she and her powers thrive on fiction. However, she was able to break the normally indestructible Lasso at one point. |
| 412 | * MageInManhattan: She can conjure up any storybook creature or prop to do her bidding. She can also trap people inside fairy tale worlds. |
| 413 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: Threatened to kill Lois Lane if Superman would not give in and marry her. |
| 414 | * RealityWarper: Has the ability to wildly alter reality into "storybook" worlds. |
| 415 | * RefugeeFromTVLand: What she does. |
| 416 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: She occasionally harasses Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}}, trying to get revenge on "Snow White". |
| 417 | * SealedEvilInACan: She was originally defeated when Snow White trapped her inside a story book. In her first appearance, she was defeated by being trapped in a U.S. Tax Records book. |
| 418 | * StalkerWithACrush: She thinks Superman is PrinceCharming and hopes to marry him. She even once abducted him and trapped him in a Kryptonian forest (gleaned from tales of Krypton). |
| 419 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's 5'10'' and a beauty, especially when she tried to seduce Superman while in Kryptonian garb. |
| 420 | * TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: Once she uses her powers, both herself and her targets are mostly bound to follow the rules of the story. |
| 421 | * ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: She thinks Wonder Woman is Snow White and Superman is Prince Charming. Nothing can convince her that she is mistaken, not their powers, not the fact that the story of Snow White happened hundreds of years ago, nothing. |
| 422 | * VainSorceress: She uses magic to maintain her looks. When tied up in Wonder Woman's magic lasso, she reverts to an old woman. |
| 423 | [[/folder]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[folder:Radion and the Protector]] |
| 426 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/radion_and_protector1_7.jpg]] |
| 427 | ->'''First Appearance:''' (Protector) ''Superman'' #307 (January, 1977);(Radion) ''Superman'' #308 (February, 1977) |
| 428 | -> '''Radion''': ''"Fallout will spread across the nation, reaching everywhere, touching a million, two million, three million people... What is touched will be contaminated... and those contaminated will produce mutations... Some will be mutations like myself, with [[IronicEcho powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men]]... Others will be monstrosities... yet still, they will represent the future of mankind... a future I will control!"'' |
| 429 | |
| 430 | Two men mutated by radiation exposure, who now use their powers to "protect" industries that damage the environment, specifically in the hope of creating more mutants like themselves. Protector is ''relatively'' sane, but Radion is straight up mad. Villains of the storyline "ComicBook/KryptonNoMore." |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * AtomicSuperpower: |
| 433 | * ChestInsignia: A radiation symbol and a flaming sword, respectively. |
| 434 | * GreenAesop: Villains who deliberately want to destroy the environment. |
| 435 | * HandBlast: Radion can fire nuclear blasts from his hands. |
| 436 | * IronicName: Not many villains would call themselves "the Protector", but it depends what one is trying to protect, doesn't it? |
| 437 | * {{Mutants}}: By nuclear radiation. |
| 438 | * OneSteveLimit: Protector is also the name of a member of the ComicBook/TeenTitans. |
| 439 | * PoisonousPerson: Radion can kill people with his touch. |
| 440 | * ToxicInc: What they've dedicated themselves to "protecting". |
| 441 | * TranshumanTreachery: They don't care how many may get killed or horribly mutated by the nuclear catastrophe they try to cause, as long as some become superhumans like themselves. |
| 442 | * {{Transmutation}}: The Protector's main power is to change the elemental makeup of his own body. That and [[{{Flight}} flight.]] |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:Red Cloud]] |
| 446 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_cloud_2.jpg]] |
| 447 | ->'''AKA:''' Robinson Goode |
| 448 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''DC Nation'' Vol 2 #0 (July, 2018) |
| 449 | ->''"I would never kill you, Lois Lane. That 'Clark' of yours would never come back from that. But maybe Olsen here sends a sincere message. This he'll remember. This you'll respect. This will make both of you think twice before coming back to Earth. And you'll be out there to remind him...Never come back."'' |
| 450 | |
| 451 | Robinson Goode is a reporter for the ''Daily Planet''. She is also secretly Red Cloud: an enforcer for the metahuman crime syndicate the "Invisible Mafia". |
| 452 | ---- |
| 453 | * DeadlyGas: Often makes people breathe her in, suffocating them to the point of death. |
| 454 | * {{Flight}}: While in her cloud form, Goode is weightless; this means she can defy the pull of gravity to fly. |
| 455 | * {{Intangibility}}: While in her cloud form, Robinson has all the same properties as air. As such, she cannot be damaged physically and can travel through small gaps. |
| 456 | * SuperSmoke: Robinson is able to transform herself into a cloud of red mist. |
| 457 | [[/folder]] |
| 458 | |
| 459 | [[folder:Riot]] |
| 460 | [[quoteright:212:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e99c0ecc7fef6d586c16757646470d80.jpg]] |
| 461 | ->'''AKA:''' Fredrick von Frankenstein |
| 462 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman: The Man of Steel'' #61 (October, 1996) |
| 463 | ->''"We got split personalities! Multiple personality dis-orders! A multitudionous multiplicity...Of madcap madness! an' together...We're a laugh riot!"'' |
| 464 | |
| 465 | A bizarre man with the power to duplicate himself whenever he's struck. He lives only to sow chaos and confusion. He may be a distant relative of the infamous [[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} Doctor Victor von Frankenstein]]. |
| 466 | ---- |
| 467 | * AlliterativeName: He normally shortens his full name to Freddy Frankenstein. |
| 468 | * CatchPhrase: "You're losing it!" |
| 469 | * HelpYourselfInTheFuture: Supposedly he summons his duplicates from his immediate past or future, though not much is ever made of the [[TemporalParadox implications]] of this. |
| 470 | * HiveMind: Maintains total control over each duplicate, with them all speaking at the same time. |
| 471 | * HydraProblem: Every time he's hit, he duplicates. |
| 472 | * ImplacableMan: Riot's powers mean he has no need to sleep, and the nature of his powers means that it's hard to hurt him as any impact against one duplicate is distributed across all of the duplicates currently active. |
| 473 | * MesACrowd: Has the ability to create duplicates of himself at will, or upon impact, and can reintegrate whenever he chooses. |
| 474 | * {{Mutants}}: Riot's experimentation with a cloning machine activated his latent metagene, giving him the power to duplicate himself. |
| 475 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Like [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], he's a lot smarter than he looks. |
| 476 | * PopCulturedBadass: Constantly spouts pop cultural references. [[https://babblingsaboutdccomics4.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/advs_543_001.png Case in point]]. |
| 477 | * PsychoForHire: Has hired out his services to other groups, including Intergang, the Superman Revenge Squad, and Roulette. The money's always second to the adrenaline rush for him though. |
| 478 | * ShoutOut: His name is a reference to ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. |
| 479 | * SkullForAHead: Under that mask, his powers left him deformed with a tight-skinned, nearly skull-like face. |
| 480 | * SlasherSmile: His face features a permanent grin. |
| 481 | * SuperStrength: Holds Superman mid flight in place with a few copies. Clark needs to struggle to get out, which makes more copies. |
| 482 | * SuperToughness: Barely feels a full speed rush by Superman by having enough clones to take the hit. Should be noted here that Riot's durability can change based on how many copies of himself are around, so he can hypothetically tank harder hitting attacks with more clones. Superman mused at one point that he could hit the original Riot and produce two unconscious duplicates at the start of a fight, but if Riot has a dozen or more duplicates active already, he can't do enough damage to any single Riot to stop them all. |
| 483 | * TalkativeLoon: Never shuts up. |
| 484 | * WallCrawl: A secondary power. |
| 485 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: His power may allow him to forgo sleep but don't actually remove the psychological need for it, driving him insane. He needs outside help to regulate them and merge his duplicates to get some much needed rest. |
| 486 | [[/folder]] |
| 487 | |
| 488 | [[folder:Rock]] |
| 489 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/micah_flint.png]] |
| 490 | ->'''AKA:''' Micah Flint |
| 491 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman: The Man of Tomorrow'' #8 (March, 1997) |
| 492 | |
| 493 | Micah Flint was a volunteer in Project High Frontier, a series of [=LexCorp=] experiments to bioengineer humans for deep space exploration, which ended up turning him into a being of stone with super strength. Obsessed with revenge on Lex Luthor, he gained a great hate when Superman stopped him. |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | * GoneHorriblyRight: Project High Frontier was attempting to bioengineer humans to be able to survive in deep space. With Micah, they succeeded, just not in a way that he wanted. |
| 496 | * MeaningfulName: Micah Flint. Mica and flint are both types of stone. |
| 497 | * NighInvulnerability: Being made of stone, Rock's body is almost indestructible. |
| 498 | * RockMonster: [=LexCorp=]'s experiments transformed Flint into a being of stone. |
| 499 | * SuperStrength |
| 500 | * SuperToughness: Being made of stone, Rock is nearly impossible to damage. |
| 501 | [[/folder]] |
| 502 | |
| 503 | [[folder:Rogol Zaar]] |
| 504 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6433105_4689315714_ahr0cdovl3d3dy5uzxdzyxjhbweuy29tl2ltywdlcy9plzawmc8ymjcvmdyzl29yawdpbmfsl01pu18xxzquanbnpze1mjy2ntqyodk.jpg]] |
| 505 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #1000 (June, 2018) |
| 506 | ->''"A whole army of Jor-El's greatest nightmares... all escaped from his own nightmare world... come to punish his entire family for what he has done to all of us."'' |
| 507 | |
| 508 | A powerful alien warrior who considers Kryptonians a cosmic plague. Rogol Zaar claims to have been responsible for the destruction of Krypton, and has come to Earth to eliminate Superman and Supergirl. |
| 509 | ---- |
| 510 | * BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: His primary weapon is a giant battleaxe that amplifies and feeds off his rage for extra power. |
| 511 | * CultOfPersonality: Has one surrounding him that's so great that anyone bearing his axe immediately has his supporters kneeling to praise his glory. |
| 512 | * EmpathicWeapon: His axe comes when he calls and even retains a connection when he is separated from it in the Phantom Zone. Supergirl takes it and finds it reacting to protect her when she seems threatened, while also amplifying and feeding off her rage for power in combat. |
| 513 | * EvilIsBigger: Like many of Superman's other alien villains such as Mongul, Darkseid, and Doomsday, Rogol Zaar towers over Superman. |
| 514 | * FacialHorror: His profile picture is from a flashback. His present day appearance looks like his upper lip and nose have been flayed off. |
| 515 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: He's made the center of an arc that retcons Krypton as murdered by him instead of merely dying, and his motivation is stated to be because Krypton destroyed his world, but there is very little development past this single detail and he's ultimately just the pawn of a far more vile BigBad. |
| 516 | * ItsPersonal: If his immense hatred and destruction of Krypton wasn't enough, he also killed the shrunken city of Kandor to raise the personal stakes for our heroes. |
| 517 | * NighInvulnerability: Invulnerable to most forms of damage. Only extremely powerful opponents like Superman can hurt him. |
| 518 | * RogueAgent: Of the Circle, a secret cabal of galactic powers that covertly tried to manage the universe. He worked for someone who wanted to be more proactive by destroying worlds before they became a problem, and when presented with the opportunity to destroy Krypton took it even though the operation was denied. |
| 519 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to go toe-to-toe against Kryptonians. |
| 520 | * VilerNewVillain: Zod has been given some nobler traits in the New 52, only seeking to release [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his family]] from the Phantom Zone and taking them to build a New Krypton on another planet. Rogol Zaar is introduced to draw as much enmity with him and Clark as possible, and it's the ensuing EnemyMine situation and its fallout that puts the two on more amicable terms. |
| 521 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: He wants nothing more than to extinguish Kryptonians by his own hands but his reaction to kryptonite suggests Kryptonian ancestry. |
| 522 | [[/folder]] |
| 523 | |
| 524 | [[folder:Ruin]] |
| 525 | [[quoteright:204:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/446d213a0660496585f9e1d37c32eacf.jpg]] |
| 526 | ->'''AKA:''' Emil Hamilton |
| 527 | -> '''First Appearance:''' (as Hamilton) ''Adventures of Superman'' #424 (January, 1987); (as Ruin) ''Adventures of Superman'' #630 (September, 2004) |
| 528 | ->''"Haven't you learned by now, Superman? There is no Emil Hamilton. Not Anymore! For you and your friends ... there is only Ruin!"'' |
| 529 | |
| 530 | Professor Emil Hamilton was once one of Superman's greatest friends. He often used his scientific genius to assist the Man of Steel in the never ending battle against evil. Unfortunately, his mind eventually snapped. Donning a suit that exploited Superman's weaknesses, allowed him to teleport, and concealed his identity, he began a campaign to destroy him, targeting his friends and loved ones first. Superman was horrified to find his friend under the mask. When Emil tried to justify his actions by claiming that Superman was sucking the Sun dry of its energy, causing mankind's extinction in 4.5 billion years, Superman realized that he was crazy beyond help, and put him away. |
| 531 | ---- |
| 532 | * AnArmAndALeg: During the events of ''ComicBook/TheFallOfMetropolis'', he's shot in an arm and by the time he's rescued, it's too far gone and has to be amputated and replaced with a robotic one. |
| 533 | * ArtificialLimb: As noted above, he replaced his lost arm with a robotic one. |
| 534 | * AxCrazy: Homicidal and unhinged. |
| 535 | * EvilGenius: He is a brilliant scientist and inventor. |
| 536 | * ExtradimensionalShortcut: He teleports by going into the Phantom Zone and can emerge anywhere else in the world. |
| 537 | * FaceHeelTurn: Former friend of Superman turned Supervillain. |
| 538 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: |
| 539 | ** His Ruin phase isn't the first or even the second time he's gone villain. He was introduced as a research scientist who'd just snapped when Lex claimed ownership of his force field technology. It was only after his parole that he became Superman's ally. And this isn't counting his DCAU incarnation. |
| 540 | ** In ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}},'' he has regained his senses and become a good guy again, rebuilding Jimmy Olsen's [[Creator/JackKirby Whiz Wagon]] vehicle and calling it "a rather helpful rehabilitation exercise, as it were." |
| 541 | * MadScientist: He's always been mentally unstable. Superman was rehabilitating Emil when he allowed the scientist to be his science adviser. At his best, he was an AbsentmindedProfessor. |
| 542 | * NotQuiteBackToNormal: During Brainiac 13's attack on Metropolis, Hamilton's robotic arm was infected with the vallain's nanites, turning him into the evil cybergang leader Overmind. Though the nanites were dealt with, seemingly restoring Hamilton to normal, Superman's words when he figures out Ruin's identity ("I was so sure he'd recovered, that he was well again...") suggest that they might have caused some lasting damage, leading to Hamilton's SanitySlippage. |
| 543 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He gives his motivation for trying to destroy Superman as preventing his presence from killing the Sun. Besides his calculations saying it'll take several ''billion'' years for this to actually happen, he makes a point to drag as many innocent people as possible into the crossfire to break Superman emotionally first. |
| 544 | * OneSteveLimit: The codename "Ruin" is also used by a ComicBook/BlueBeetle villain. |
| 545 | * PowerAtAPrice: His teleportation technology is bad for his health, limiting the number of times he can do it per day. |
| 546 | * PoweredArmor: As Ruin, he dons a "power suit" that fired red sunlight and kryptonite radiation, allowed teleportation through the Phantom Zone, and other nasty surprises. |
| 547 | * TheProfessor: Before his FaceHeelTurn, he was Superman's "scientific advisor", eking out a general living as a technical consultant. He was responsible for creating many devices that aided Superman, including the Phantom Zone Projector and early Superman Robots, as well as helping Superman during such problems as the 'Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite', when Red Kryptonite created by Mister Mxyzptlk shut down Superman's powers; until Superman's powers were restored, Hamilton provided him with various machinery such as a force field belt and an armoured suit to allow him to continue as a hero. |
| 548 | * SelfDestructMechanism: If the suit is forcibly removed from Hamilton's body, it self-destructs with a massive force, apparently enough to destroy a small city, although enough time elapsed between the removal and the explosion for Superman to get it to a safe distance. |
| 549 | * SkewedPriorities: The reason Hamilton created the Ruin identity to oppose Superman is that he determined that Superman's presence on Earth is draining Earth's sun of power and accelerating its death. However, considering that his calculations state that the sun will die in 4.3 ''billion'' years... even if humanity as a species lives that long, if the human race hasn't developed the means to leave Earth by that point they probably ''deserve'' to die. |
| 550 | * {{Teleportation}}: As Ruin, he is able to enter the Phantom Zone (though at a detriment to his health), and reemerge anywhere, effectively allowing him to teleport. |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | [[folder:Silver Banshee]] |
| 554 | ->'''AKA:''' Siobhan [=McDougal=]/Siobhan Smythe |
| 555 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #595 (December, 1987) |
| 556 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9e9773455186ee681c95948981af8e22.jpg]] |
| 557 | ->''"You are also a fool, Superman. As all mortals are fools... It is not my touch that kills... It is my voice!"'' |
| 558 | |
| 559 | Siobhan made a deal with an evil spirit to gain the power to take over her woman-hating Gaelic tribe. Forced to find a certain occult book as payment, she remorselessly kills anyone in her path, forcing Superman to stop her. |
| 560 | ---- |
| 561 | * AmazonianBeauty[=/=]StatuesqueStunner: Her official stats are whopping 5'11, 150/160 lbs. or so, and still looking fairly hot for a skull-faced GorgeousGorgon. |
| 562 | * DealWithTheDevil: Dragged into an infernal netherworld during a ritual, an entity called "the Crone" granted her powers and the ability to return to Earth as the Silver Banshee, but demanded payment in the form of an occult book that belonged to her father. |
| 563 | * DraggedOffToHell: Twice. The first when she was a normal woman (see above). The second time when Batman found the book among some stolen goods in Gotham City. Superman brought the book to Castle Broen where he was confronted by Silver Banshee. The Crone appeared at the castle, and after an enigmatic warning to Superman, she dragged the Banshee to her Netherworld. |
| 564 | * IGaveMyWord: She does keep any promise she makes, like when she promises not to kill somebody. |
| 565 | * IKnowYourTrueName: If she knows your true name, then if you hear her scream, you will die. Fortunately, Superman's true name is Kal-El, and he's not telling her that anytime soon. |
| 566 | * LogicalWeakness: Since her powers are powered by her [[SuperScream voice]], she needs air. Superman once beat her by [[WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies dragging her to the edge of space]], bringing her back down before she suffocated, and during a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanUnlimitedMonsterMayhem car chase with Solomon Grundy]], she couldn't scream continuously, needing to stop and catch her breath. |
| 567 | * OurBansheesAreLouder: The banshee of the DCU are typically mystical in origin, receiving immortality, super strength, and a hideous scream that can kill those who hear it. Of course, Silver Banshee has to know your TrueName before. |
| 568 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: She is immune to her own scream and well as sonic attacks from others, like ComicBook/BlackCanary's Canary Cry. |
| 569 | * SuperScream: Even if she doesn't know someone's name, her scream is still very destructive, and debilitating to people with super hearing like Superman and Supergirl. |
| 570 | * SuperStrength: Described as having the strength of 10 men. |
| 571 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: A murderous banshee with long, silvery hair. |
| 572 | [[/folder]] |
| 573 | [[folder:Solaris]] |
| 574 | [[quoteright:336:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/solaris_1.png]] |
| 575 | %%[[caption-width-right:336:some caption text]] |
| 576 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''DC One Million'' #1 (November 1998) |
| 577 | ->''"Do you fear the tyrant sun? Face the scourge of worlds!"'' |
| 578 | An advanced artificial intelligence surrounded by a star-sized plasma field, Solaris was created in the late 20th Century by the time-travelling [[ComicBook/DCOneMillion Justice Legion]]. As mankind would begin to colonize other planets, Solaris was intended to warm and illuminate the outer parts of the Sol System and maintain a communications network between Earth and her colonies. After gaining self-awareness, he went rogue, becoming a spacefaring menace that boosted his power by draining energy from actual stars. After being defeated by the modern-day Superman, he would go on to become one of the greatest enemies of the Superman Dynasty in several alternate future timelines. |
| 579 | ---- |
| 580 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Solaris was created to ''help'' humanity. And he ''did'' for a long time, [[FaceHeelTurn but he eventually had other ideas]]. |
| 581 | * CyberCyclops: His sole feature is a massive hot blue eye. |
| 582 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: The Solaris of the 853rd Century has a ''major'' inferiority complex stemming from thousands of centuries feeling like he can't compare to Superman. |
| 583 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Implied to sound this way, [[PaintingTheMedium as he is often drawn with dark speech bubbles]]. |
| 584 | * FaceHeelTurn: Helped solve a lot of humanity's problems for a long time, but eventually went rogue. |
| 585 | * FreudianExcuse: He's a massive supercomputer created to help humanity, which he did for a time....and yet, he knew deep down that compared to the man in red and blue, he'd always be seen as a glorified tool despite being a sapient being. What's complicated is Solaris' creation is due to a time paradox caused by ''himself'' meaning he's forever trapped in a hopeless loop. |
| 586 | * GreenEyedMonster: He envies Superman for all the love and attention he receives. |
| 587 | * LightIsNotGood: A sun-like robot with malevolent intentions. |
| 588 | * MonumentalDamage: In the [[ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal Metalverse]], Solaris has taken over Metropolis. He destroys the Daily Planet's iconic globe fixture and uses the building as a perch to survey his "kingdom". |
| 589 | * RedBaron: The Tyrant Sun. In ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'' he is called a Sun-Eater, which was an [[ComicBook/FinalNight unrelated threat]] in the pre-''Flaspoint'' continuity. |
| 590 | * RoboticPsychopath: Solaris is a wicked artificial and mechanical sun which is hellbent on proving himself superior to Superman. |
| 591 | * SentientStars: A star-sized spacefaring supercomputer. |
| 592 | * SinisterSentientSun: Solaris is not an actual star, just a gigantic [[FacelessEye ocular robot]] that looks like a G-type star that has been crossbred with the [[Franchise/LordOfTheRings Eye of Sauron]]. Nevertheless, he plays up the imagery for all it's worth. |
| 593 | * StableTimeLoop: Solaris only came into existence because of his own actions, as it was ''his'' virus sent to the 20th century that led to the monster's creation from its programming. |
| 594 | * StarKilling: He draws power from draining the energy of stars. |
| 595 | [[/folder]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | [[folder:Superboy-Prime]] |
| 598 | [[quoteright:330:[[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superboy_prime_punch.png]]]] |
| 599 | ->'''AKA:''' Clark Kent / Kal-El of Earth-Prime |
| 600 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''DC Comics Presents'' #87 (November, 1985) |
| 601 | [[caption-width-right:330:Superboy Prime [[MemeticMutation punching time]].]] |
| 602 | ->''"They'll '''never''' get rid of me. I '''always''' survive."'' |
| 603 | |
| 604 | A younger version of Superman from the AlternateUniverse of Earth-Prime, where (other than him) the only super-powered beings existed in comic books. Prime's world was destroyed in the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' and he took refuge in an extradimensional space with the Earth-2 Superman, Earth-2 Lois Lane, and Earth-3 Alexander Luthor Jr. Originally a noble and optimistic young hero, years of isolation and Alexander's manipulations turned Prime into a hateful monster who despised the "inferior" heroes of New Earth for being allowed to live while his world died. |
| 605 | |
| 606 | After a murderous rampage in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Prime participated in the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'' before being sent back, powerless, to the reconstituted Earth-Prime by the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes following ''Legion of Three Worlds'' (in which his future self was revealed to have become the Time-Trapper). |
| 607 | |
| 608 | Once thought to have his entire history erased by the events of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', Superboy-Prime was revealed to be trapped in the Monsterlands, where Dr. Sivana and Mr. Mind discovered him. |
| 609 | ---- |
| 610 | See [[Characters/SupermanSuperboyPrime Superboy-Prime]] for more info. |
| 611 | [[/folder]] |
| 612 | |
| 613 | [[folder:Subjekt-17]] |
| 614 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/320487_73669_subjekt_17.jpg]] |
| 615 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' #655 (October, 2006) |
| 616 | ->''"Chose Su-Per-Man! Choose! Protect human monsters by hurting an innocent! cy hurting me more! Or stand with me against them! STAND WITH ME!"'' |
| 617 | |
| 618 | The apparent sole survivor of his own dead world, he came to Earth and was subsequently captured by a government organisation that tortured him for most of his life until Superman found his prison. |
| 619 | ----- |
| 620 | * AchillesHeel: The soviets used repeated sound patterns in order to control him. Upon learning this, Superman whistled these same patterns to induce spasms in their second fight. |
| 621 | * AggressiveCategorism: Humans to him are nothing but monstrous torturers that would take the next chance to dissect him again. |
| 622 | * BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Being experimented on since birth has twisted him into someone that wants to see all of humanity dead without compromise. |
| 623 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Appears to regard all humans as equally guilty of what he went through, even though his actual captors are now all dead and Superman serves as proof that not all humans are like that. |
| 624 | * CategoryTraitor: He can sense Superman is an alien like him but can't comprehend why he would side with humans over him. He tries to force Clark to choose between standing with him or with humanity. |
| 625 | * DirtyCommunists: Another contrast between him and Superman is that he was technically born and raised in the Soviet Union, kept in the custody of their government. Downplayed in that he has no political or national affiliation past that. He's introduced speaking Serbian but later speaks (broken) English. |
| 626 | * EvilSoundsRaspy: His speech bubble has a thick, craggy outline with a blue gradient towards the top and a very thick, rough font for the lettering. |
| 627 | * FlyingBrick: Another parallel to Superman. His first attack made Superman taste blood. |
| 628 | * HulkSpeak: Subjekt speak like Hulk. |
| 629 | * MindOverMatter: He possess telekinesis powerful enough to hold Superman in place. |
| 630 | * MysteriousPast: It's never revealed why his parents were on their spaceship or even if they meant to come to Earth. |
| 631 | * TheNameless: 'Subjekt-17' is just what his captors called him, and it's unclear if he ever had a name of his own. It's one of the many grievances he has against humanity. |
| 632 | * PsychicPowers: The suite of abilities he gains under Earth's yellow sun includes psychic abilities such as telepathy and telekinesis. |
| 633 | * ShadowArchetype: Superman has to acknowledge that Subjekt-17 is basically evidence of his own nightmare of what might have happened if he'd been found by someone other than the Kents and his alien nature was more obvious on top of that. |
| 634 | * TheyWouldCutYouUp: His backstory is being vivisected practically his entire life, soon after he was born. His present appearance is riddled with long surgical scars crudely stapled shut, making him resemble Frankenstein's monster. |
| 635 | * TragicMonster: Vivisected as a test subject by callous scientists that treated him like an animal at best and monster at worst, he sees himself as a broken, crippled thing with nothing to his life but retribution against the species that tormented him for decades. His last appearance has him seemingly dying and sounding first outraged and almost heartbroken that Clark chose the human monsters over him. |
| 636 | * TranquilFury: His rage is bottomless but after his initial rampage he quietly bides his time. [[PerceptionFilter Telepathically cloaking]] himself, he moves among humans for months to learn more about them for the best opportunity to strike. |
| 637 | * VillainTeleportation: His first battle against Superman was abruptly interrupted by Arion teleporting him away. His second and final fight ends with him disappearing with far less fanfare seemingly under his own power. |
| 638 | * WeWillMeetAgain: His last appearance is vowing to return and make Superman pay along with the rest of humanity. Hasn't been seen since and it's likely he died from the injuries of his final battle against Clark. |
| 639 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He is an alien superbeing tortured since birth that has nothing left to live for but utter contempt for humans and a desire to watch them all suffer. |
| 640 | * XtremeKoolLetterz: Subject is spelled with a 'K'. |
| 641 | [[/folder]] |
| 642 | |
| 643 | [[folder:Terra-Man (Pre-Crisis & Post-Crisis)]] |
| 644 | !!Terra-Man I (Pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}}) [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superman249_09_the_challenge_of_terra_man_0.jpg]] |
| 645 | ->'''AKA:''' Tobias "Toby" Manning |
| 646 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' #249 (March, 1972) |
| 647 | ->''" Is there any way I can bust loose from this hombre-- Or will he stick me in the pokey till I'm ready fer Boot Hill? Only one way to find out, folks-- Tune in tomorrow night at nine-- Same Terra-time... Same Terra-channel!"'' |
| 648 | |
| 649 | A literal [[SpaceWestern space cowboy.]] The son of an outlaw in the Old West, alien criminals killed his father and [[AlienAbduction abducted him.]] Growing up in interstellar space, he eventually became a master {{Space Pirate|s}} in his own right—even acquiring a spacefaring alien steed resembling a Pegasus—and decided the time had finally come to return home to Earth. Upon arrival, he found he'd spent so much of his life traveling at relativistic speeds that a whole century had gone by. Moreover, the Earthling populace seemed overly impressed with some consarned ''alien'' named Superman. Taking great offense at this, the outlaw named himself [[PlanetTerra Terra]]-Man and set about making life as miserable for the alien as possible. Superman has lampshaded the fact that Earth is too much of a low-tech backwater to be a worthwhile target for a space pirate; Terra's only real motivation in coming back here is to pick fights with Superman. He talks in very broad cowboy jargon and is usually played at least somewhat for laughs, but his array of alien weaponry makes him one of Supey's more powerful enemies. |
| 650 | ----- |
| 651 | * AlienAbduction: When he was a boy in the 19th century. |
| 652 | * ArsenalAttire: Several items of Terra-Man's costume were actually high-tech weapons in disguise, such as a neckerchief that would wrap itself around a target and constrict, and spurs that transformed into {{Deadly Disc}}s. |
| 653 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: The aliens who abducted him altered his physiology to allow him to survive in the vacuum of space unaided. |
| 654 | * CigarChomper: In keeping with his gunslinger image, Terra-Man smokes cigarillos: just like Creator/ClintEastwood does in the {{Spaghetti Western}}s that were popular when the character was created. |
| 655 | * DeadlyDisc: Terra-Man's spurs transform in deadly spinning discs he can control remotely. |
| 656 | * DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Terra-Man's Six Shooters are modified to fire tracer bullets and other specialized applications; some of these bullets were made of Kryptonite on at least one occasion. |
| 657 | * DyingMessage: After being shot, Jess Manning drew a rough outline of the Collector's ship in the dirt and planted a bullet in the centre to indicate who had killed him. It was this drawing that eventually helped Toby regain his memories. |
| 658 | * FantasticRacism: Against Superman for being an alien bigshot on Earth. |
| 659 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: A 19th century man in the present day. |
| 660 | * TheGunslinger |
| 661 | * HomingProjectile: Terra-man's arsenal of {{Trick Bullet}}s included heat seeker rounds that would home in on their target. |
| 662 | * LaughablyEvil: Although he's definitely ''not'' a [[HarmlessVillain harmless villain,]] his stories usually have a humorous element to them, even if it's just the writers having fun by going [[ExaggeratedTrope completely over the top]] with his [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents cowboy dialect.]] |
| 663 | * MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: In ''Action Comics'' #468, Terra-Man controls a fleet of driverless cars and sends them charging towards Superman as the urban equivalent of a [[AnimalStampede cattle stampede]]. |
| 664 | * OurWormholesAreDifferent: Nova who had the ability to open wormholes; allowing near-instantaneous interstellar travel. |
| 665 | * {{Outlaw}}: It runs in the family. |
| 666 | * {{Pegasus}}: Named Nova. Nova can fly in space and create [[OurWormholesAreDifferent space warps.]] |
| 667 | * RapidAging: One of Terra-Man's western themed alien gadgets was a chewing tobacco which could age Superman. |
| 668 | * RayGun: An endless variety of them, but mostly made to look like six-shooters. |
| 669 | * ShowdownAtHighNoon: Any confrontation with Terra-Man is almost guaranteed to end in one of these. In ''World's Finest'' #261, he and [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin The Penguin]] hypnotise Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} and Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} into having one. |
| 670 | * SpacePirates: His profession. |
| 671 | * SpaceWestern: A Wild West outlaw in space. |
| 672 | * TimeDilation: Spent so many years traveling around at near light-speed that a century passed back on Earth. |
| 673 | * TrickBullet: His six-shooters can fire a variety of different ammo, including [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells kryptonite slugs]], [[HomingProjectile heat seekers]], explosive rounds, and bullets that teleport their target. |
| 674 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Toby Manning was holding up stagecoaches as a 10-year old. |
| 675 | * WeirdWest: A Wild West outlaw in space. |
| 676 | * TheWildWest: Where he originally came from. |
| 677 | * YouKilledMyFather: Manning was raised by the alien known as the Collector, who had killed his father: wiping Manning's memory of his father's death. Manning travelled with the Collector for years, stealing for him as he had for his real father, but eventually his memories returned and he murdered the Collector to avenge his father. |
| 678 | |
| 679 | !!Terra-Man II (ComicBook/PostCrisis) |
| 680 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/terra_man.jpg]] |
| 681 | ->'''AKA:''' Tobias Manning |
| 682 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman ''Vol 2 #46 (August, 1990) |
| 683 | ->''"You're talkin' about buildin' strongholds, instead of saving this planet... I've got a big problem with that!"'' |
| 684 | |
| 685 | Tobias Manning was a guy obsessed with protecting the environment, and with cowboys. He went on a crusade to eliminate any perceived threats to Mother Nature, which unfortunately includes all aliens like Superman. He was eventually murdered by [[Characters/ShazamBlackMarvelFamily Black Adam]]. |
| 686 | ---- |
| 687 | * AgeLift: This version was born much later than Pre-Crisis. |
| 688 | * {{Cowboy}}: What he likes. |
| 689 | * FantasticRacism: Against aliens. |
| 690 | * GreenThumb: His plants could restrain Superman and drain his energy. |
| 691 | * TheGunslinger: His powerset. |
| 692 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Black Adam split him in half. |
| 693 | * KilledOffForReal: By Black Adam. |
| 694 | * KnightTemplar |
| 695 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He did genuinely care for Mother Nature. |
| 696 | [[/folder]] |
| 697 | |
| 698 | [[folder:Titano the Super-Ape]] |
| 699 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4d07404a362020ac8cedf4f1417192ae.JPG]] |
| 700 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' #127 (February, 1959) |
| 701 | -->''"The chimp has suddenly grown incredibly large! The nuclear rays of the exploding uranium meteor must have caused a strange biological change! Run, Miss Lane! If that creature goes berserk, with his strength he can destroy the city!"'' |
| 702 | |
| 703 | A [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever fifty-foot-tall ape]] with incredible strength, savage intelligence, and the ability to shoot rays of kryptonite radiation from his eyes. Originally a normal chimpanzee, Titano was used as a lab animal by amoral scientists; a FreakLabAccident turned him into a gigantic monster. What sort of ape he is, and the exact details of how he gained his powers has varied between incarnations. Popular enough to have guest-starred in Creator/LouScheimer's ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' and Creator/BruceTimm's ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. |
| 704 | ---- |
| 705 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: What sort of ape he is varies on continuity: |
| 706 | ** Pre-Crisis he was a gorilla. |
| 707 | ** Post-Crisis he was a chimpanzee. |
| 708 | ** Post-''New 52'' an albino gorilla. One wonders when they will make him a gibbon or orangutan. |
| 709 | * ApesInSpace: His pre-crisis origin had him as an ape launched into space and getting mutated after being exposed to radioactive asteroids. |
| 710 | * AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Titano is smarter than your average chimp or gorilla, though by how much is hard to quantify. |
| 711 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Pre-and-Post-Crisis. In the New 52, he's only slightly larger than an average gorilla. |
| 712 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: Pre-crisis Superman deals with him by sending him back to prehistoric time where he can enjoy himself with the dinosaurs. |
| 713 | * CooldownHug: Has received them from both Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. |
| 714 | * {{Expy}}: Aside from being a KingKongCopy, he seems to be based on a large gorilla called Chandu that's ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' once fought in the year before Titano's debut. Chandu had heat vision, Kryptonite EyeBeams and XRayVision. |
| 715 | * EyeBeams: Fires Kryptonite rays from his eyes. |
| 716 | * InterspeciesFriendship: In some versions of his story, Lois is the only human he trusts, because she was kind to him before his mutation. |
| 717 | * KillerGorilla[=/=]KillerSpaceMonkey: Though as mentioned above, whether he is a chimpanzee or a gorilla has changed between incarnations. He used to be the page image on the second trope. |
| 718 | * KingKongCopy: He was created so that Superman could face off against Franchise/KingKong without violating copyright. |
| 719 | * MagicMeteor: Technically not a meteor because it hadn't entered Earth's atmosphere but one of these gave him powers while still in space. |
| 720 | * ManOfKryptonite: One of the oddest examples, being a giant ape with the ability to fire Kryptonite from his eyes. A second New 52 version had him as a Kryptonite-powered robot. |
| 721 | * MixAndMatchCritters: In his first appearance, he had the body of a gorilla and the head of a chimpanzee but his pre-crisis version was consistently a gorilla after that. |
| 722 | * NonMaliciousMonster: In his earliest appearances his only threat was being a giant that innocently copied what he saw people doing around him. His only malicious was directed at Superman for fighting with him. |
| 723 | * PrimateVsReptile: In the 90's, a regular gorilla appeared in commercials for "Titano's Pizza" where he had to fight Jimmy Olsen dressed as a giant turtle. |
| 724 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: His Post-Crisis story says that animal testing is wrong because it causes the animal unnecessary pain...and makes them grow gigantic and wreck the city. |
| 725 | * SuperStrength: Even for a fifty-foot tall ape, Titano is freakishly strong. |
| 726 | * TragicMonster: It's usually acknowledged in-universe that he's a tortured animal rather than an evil villain. |
| 727 | [[/folder]] |
| 728 | |
| 729 | [[folder:Ultraman]] |
| 730 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ultraman_7.jpg]] |
| 731 | ->'''AKA:''' Kal-Ul (Pre-Crisis), Lieutenant Clark Kent (Post-Crisis), Clark Kent/Kal-Il (New 52) |
| 732 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Justice League of America'' #29 (August, 1964) |
| 733 | ->''" ...I am Ultraman! Nothing can kill me. Nothing can hurt me. Nothing has ever freakin' scratched me. Metropolis is mine. Its people are mine. They love me."'' |
| 734 | |
| 735 | One of Superman's first and best known {{evil counterpart}}s, Ultraman is a criminal from an alternate universe who gains his powers by being exposed to Kryptonite. He is a member of the Crime Syndicate, a team of supervillains paralleling the Justice League. See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaCrimeSyndicate their page]] for more info. |
| 736 | |
| 737 | |
| 738 | (Not to be confused with the [[Franchise/UltraSeries Japanese hero of the same name)]] |
| 739 | ---- |
| 740 | [[/folder]] |
| 741 | |
| 742 | [[folder:Ulysses]] |
| 743 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2a06fcdac4b5280c1fd6047a2420f7a9.jpg]] |
| 744 | ->'''AKA:''' Neil Quinn |
| 745 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superman'' Vol 3 #32 (August, 2014) |
| 746 | ->''"You're right, Superman. A perfect world doesn't happen overnight. A perfect world has a cost. And Earth must pay for it."'' |
| 747 | |
| 748 | Neil Quinn was the son of Peter and Bridget Quinn, two scientists involved in a government project tasked with investigating the properties of the mysterious fourth dimension. The fourth dimension's energies caused their laboratory to almost collapse, so Peter and Bridget threw their son into the fourth dimension to keep him safe. Adopted by the inhabitants of the Great World, Neil developed superpowers and was tasked with travelling across the five dimensions to find people who could be sacrificed to sustain the Great World. |
| 749 | ---- |
| 750 | * ActionBomb: He can amass all the energy in his body in one massive explosion. After the destruction of the Great World, he attempts to destroy Metropolis with it. [[spoiler:Superman stops him with an ActionBomb of his own.]] |
| 751 | * AntagonistInMourning: When the New 52 Superman dies, he's visibly saddened by it, despite his smug attitude when Clark showed up earlier. |
| 752 | * AntiVillain: He has sacrificed millions of innocent people to keep the Great World running and was planning to the same to humans. According to Ulysses, the Great World needed to be powered by living people each decade. |
| 753 | * ArcVillain: Of ''The Men of Tomorrow'' story arc. |
| 754 | * BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: His adopted parents debate whether not needing to sleep is a good thing or a bad thing. |
| 755 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Upon being hit by Superman's super flare, Ulysses' body is horribly disfigured and his hair is burned off]]. |
| 756 | * CurbStompBattle: To Superman in their first confrontation. |
| 757 | * EnergyAbsorption: His mutated physiology allows him to absorb any kinds of energy, such as Superman's EyeBeams. [[spoiler:Superman's [[ActionBomb super flare]] proves to be [[GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy too much for him]], however.]] |
| 758 | * EngineeredHeroics: His team-up with Superman to defeat one of Klerik's {{Mooks}}? A trick to earn the world's trust. |
| 759 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes For all his hatred of humanity, Ulysses genuinely loves his biological parents. |
| 760 | * {{Flight}}: He takes to the skies whenever he fights Superman. |
| 761 | * GalacticConqueror: He's conquered multiple planets in the five universes. |
| 762 | * ImmuneToDrugs: Possesses immunity to all poisons, diseases and toxins. |
| 763 | * ManOfKryptonite: He absorbs red sun radiation and accidentally depowers Superman when he tries to use the energy as a light source. |
| 764 | * MultiversalConqueror: Rules five universes and intends to take Earth next. |
| 765 | * NeverGetsDrunk: Possesses immunity to all poisons, diseases and toxins. |
| 766 | * PlanetLooters: [[spoiler:Sacrifices the populations of various planets in TheMultiverse to save his adopted homeworld]]. |
| 767 | * TheSleepless: Says he's never needed to sleep. |
| 768 | * SupermanSubstitute: His origin is an inversion of Superman's with him being a human baby sent to another world in order to save his life. |
| 769 | * SuperSpeed: His speed allows him to take Superman by surprise. |
| 770 | * SuperStrength: Ulysses is strong enough to exchange blows with Superman. |
| 771 | * TranshumanTreachery: After being adopted by the people of the Great World, he was more than willing to sacrifice millions of humans to protect his adopted home. |
| 772 | * VillainousBreakdown: He completely loses it when the Great World is destroyed, attacks Superman and threatens to destroy Metropolis, believing Superman tricked him into destroying his adopted home. |
| 773 | [[/folder]] |
| 774 | |
| 775 | [[folder:Viroxx]] |
| 776 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/viroxx.JPG]] |
| 777 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' #778 (June, 2001) |
| 778 | ->''"This sytem contains nine planets. They must all be converted into energy for Viroxx."'' |
| 779 | |
| 780 | An obscure Post-Crisis villain, Viroxx is an alien entity from beyond our galaxy that feeds on the life force of planets. Superman is summoned by a fleet of countless races that have escaped Viroxx's destruction of their homeworlds to help defeat it. While they are seemingly successful in this task, Viroxx survives and sends one of its drones to pursue Clark and convert him to their side. They are unsuccessful and transform [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lois Lane into a drone instead]], forcing Superman to seek the alien refugees to help him in saving his wife. Viroxx comes close to absorbing Earth, but in the end, its stopped by the combined efforts of Superman and the alien fleet and sent retreating into darkspace. |
| 781 | ---- |
| 782 | * ArchEnemy: To Korsa Majalis, an alien scientist who had his planet destroyed by the entity, whom also converted his wife into its drone. However, being a barely sentient creature with a death toll of ''[[AMillionIsAStatistic trillions]]'' at best, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Viroxx doesn't return the sentiment]]. |
| 783 | * ArcVillain: The main threat of the ''Infestation'' storyline. |
| 784 | * EldritchAbomination: In over five thousand years, this thing left devastation and death in its awake, is a force of nature interested only in absorbing energy and nobody found a way to destroy it. In the end, it takes Superman and all refugees combining their firepower to injure it and sending it running away from our galaxy rather than killing it. |
| 785 | * EnergyBeings: Viroxx looks like a massive glowing cloud of golden energy due to having been born from a star. |
| 786 | * {{Expy}}: Though it could be easily considered one to [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] due to feeding on planets, its also very (possibly coincidentally) similar to a C'tan from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', due to being gas entities that subsist on living energy (both planets and individuals' life force) and being served by a soulless robotic army that it has created from its victims. |
| 787 | * ItsPersonal: |
| 788 | ** To Korsa, for destroying his world and turning his wife into a drone, which led to [[OffingTheOffspring their daughter being absorbed by her mother as energy for Viroxx]] and [[ShootTheDog him being forced to kill her in self-defense]]. He becomes an unfettered KnightTemplar driven to destroy Viroxx at all costs and pursues it into dark space even after it has been driven out from the galaxy. |
| 789 | ** Superman, noble and kind as he is, vows to stop Viroxx from claiming anymore lives. However, he becomes even more invested in the fight when [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lois Lane is also transformed into a drone]] as well (she is [[StatusQuoIsGod saved by the end though, as expected]]) |
| 790 | * NighInvulnerability: Absolutely nothing fazes this thing; Superman tried to punch it to no avail, several ships focused their firepower on it to annihilate it and Viroxx was able to reform FromASingleCell, then Korsa created a superweapon designed specifically to destroy it only to backfire when its absorbed and made it even ''stronger''. It takes a ridiculous amount of power to injure it, and in the end, they don't even kill it, they merely send it running with its tail between its legs. |
| 791 | * PlanetEater: He feeds primarily on planets' life-force, but any energy absorbed by its drones from individual victims is also transferred to him. |
| 792 | * SuddenlyVoiced: At first, its a completely voiceless entity communicating with its drones telepathically. After absorbing Korsa's superweapon, it gains the ability to speak and its [[EvilIsHammy appropriately thunderous]]. |
| 793 | * UnwillingRoboticisation: Viroxx converts any living beings into its "warrior-cells", cold and unfeeling psychopaths driven to kill anyone and convert them into energy in turn for its master. The process is supposedly irreversible, though after Viroxx is driven out from the galaxy, the refugees find a way to cure the infected. |
| 794 | * TheVirus: It certainly deserve the name and its frequently compared to as a sentient virus by everyone. |
| 795 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Viroxx flees the galaxy following its crippling defeat by Superman and his allies, though it wasn't destroyed at the end. Korsa pursues Viroxx into dark space vowing to destroy it, but neither of the two were ever seen again after this storyline. |
| 796 | [[/folder]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | [[folder:Vyndktvx]] |
| 799 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vyndktvx_white.png]] |
| 800 | [[caption-width-right:350:The Demon from Dimension 5]] |
| 801 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' Vol 2 #1 (November, 2011) |
| 802 | ->''" No, it was Mxyzptlk, and no one else can see it! He tricked all of us! The whole thing's a trick where he always wins in the end."'' |
| 803 | |
| 804 | The former court jester of the Fifth Dimension's King-Thing, who fell out of favor when Mr. Mxyzptlk paid his country a visit. Jealous of all the wonderful tricks his would-be rival dazzled the royals with, Vyndktvx enacted an audacious "trick" of his own, one that would not only bring ruin down on the upstart prankster's bowler-hatted head, but to the life of Mxyzptlk's favorite assistant and star of his very best farces as well: Superman. |
| 805 | ---- |
| 806 | * AccidentalMurder: Sort of... he wanted to kill Mxyzptlk for upstaging him, but killed the King-Thing, who had borrowed Mxy's hat, instead. [[spoiler:But since the Fifth Dimension is in a self-perpetuating loop, he actually did kill Myx as well, since Myx ''became'' the King-Thing.]] |
| 807 | * AnArmAndALeg: Jor-El fighting back the Multitude from Krypton caused Vyndktvx's Multispear to backfire on him, damaging his hand. Being who he is, he proceeded to take out his anger on [[spoiler:the Kents]]. |
| 808 | * BigBad: Of ''ComicBook/ActionComics2011''. He's the founder and leader of the Anti-Superman Army. |
| 809 | * BigRedDevil: One of his forms is a multi-limbed and multi-faced caricature of one. |
| 810 | * CainAndAbel: Though he doesn't know it, Mxyzptlk is his brother, and he kills him. |
| 811 | * CelestialParagonsAndArchAngels: He initially takes a form that Superman indentifies with angels, just to caught Superman by suprise, but Superman still recognizes that he's not with friends and the Metalek know exactly who he is. |
| 812 | * CompositeCharacter: He has a human counterpart in the third dimension that's an adaptation of obscure Superman villain Ferlin Nyxly (because that last name is the first part of his mother's name). |
| 813 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: Vyndktvx destroying thier homeworld the reason the Metaleks are [[HostileTerraforming Xenoforming]] planets, coming into conflict with those planets indigenous life and with other space travelers. When Superman shows up to save some human astronauts from Metaleks on Mars Vyndtvx tries to team up with them against Superman only for them to save Superman and attack Vyndktvx, who somehow failed to grasp that the Metaleks only fight Superman due to their incompatible goals but truly ''hate'' Vyndktvx. |
| 814 | * EvilCounterpart: To Mister Mxyzptlk. However, that doesn't necessarily make his enemy "good". |
| 815 | * EvilIsPetty: Mxy makes him look like a chump, so he tries to murder him. He also tries to ruin Superman and then kill him, even though Clark's never done a thing to him, extending this hatred to ''every'' version of Superman across the multiverse. During all this, he also takes the time to reduce a child to hamburger meat, just because he can. |
| 816 | * {{Expy}}: He takes a lot of cues and even uses a comparable set of minions to the villainous version of [[spoiler:Mister Mxyzptlk]] from ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' |
| 817 | * GreenEyedMonster: He was intially jealous of Mxyzptlk for being a better jester who could take his position, and somewhat justified a Mxyzptlk did exactly that, causing Vyndktvx to become envious and to want it back by killing Mxyzptlk. |
| 818 | * HollywoodVoodoo: He can use "isomorphic magic" to remotely influence a person's life in a negative fashion too subtle to perceive or resist (such as tweaking probabilities that they get into a lethal but otherwise mundane car crash) so long as he has a possession of theirs to act as a medium. |
| 819 | * TheManBehindTheMan: He influences or creates several villains to attack Superman. |
| 820 | * OxymoronicBeing: A royal court jester who doesn't have a sense of humor and is rather button-down. |
| 821 | * ParentalAbandonment: His mother died in childbirth and his father had him sent away because he couldn't bare to look at his kids in his grief. |
| 822 | * {{Retcon}}: In the ''New 52'' continuity, it's him who's responsible for the death of the Kents, but by the start of ''Rebirth'' it's changed so Doctor Manhattan caused it instead. |
| 823 | * SatanicArchetype: Aside from his BigRedDevil OneWingedAngel form, he built up his Anti-Superman Army by appearing to them fresh off defeats to make deals for revenge against Superman. |
| 824 | * SelfMadeOrphan: He didn't know the King-Thing was his father when he killed him by mistake. |
| 825 | * StraightEdgeEvil: Unlike the cigar-chomping Mxyzptlk. |
| 826 | * TechnicianVersusPerformer: The Technician to Mxyzptlk's Performer. |
| 827 | * TheUnpronounceable: Subverted. Signifying his lack of whimsy compared to Mxy, his name is rather easy to say. |
| 828 | [[/folder]] |
| 829 | |
| 830 | [[folder:Wrath]] |
| 831 | [[quoteright:369:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wrath_ii_prime_earth_0001.JPG]] |
| 832 | ->'''AKA:''' Jenny (last name unknown) |
| 833 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Action Comics'' Vol. 2 #43 (October, 2015) |
| 834 | |
| 835 | Born on the South Side of Metropolis, Jenny rose through her unfortunate circumstances to fly through law school and landed the best job in the DA's office. However, none of that could help stop Brainiac from collecting part of the city and consequently killing her mother. Later, she was gifted the ability to manipulate shadows by Vandal Savage, and sought to use this power to weed out the monsters of society. She caught the attention of Superman when she attacked, infected, and experimented on Metropolis citizens with her shadows. |
| 836 | ---- |
| 837 | |
| 838 | * CastingAShadow: Wrath has darkness manipulation powers. |
| 839 | * CombatTentacles: The shadows that Wrath creates can be used as tentacles to strangle her foes or be used as spiky projectiles. |
| 840 | * EmotionControl: Wrath's shadow power can extend to those nearby, controlling them to feel very angry and cause chaos. |
| 841 | * OneSteveLimit: The name Wrath is used several other characters in Franchise/TheDCU, including [[LegacyCharacter a series]] of ComicBook/{{Batman}} villains, a son of [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Trigon]], and one of [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Seven Deadly Enemies of Man]]. |
| 842 | * PsychicLink: Wrath maintains a a telepathic connection to everyone whom comes under the thrall of her shadow. Everything they see, feel or otherwise experience, she'll know of it immediately. |
| 843 | * SuperToughness: Wrath is able to be thrown through walls by Superman, even though he was in his weakened state, without any serious injury, even laughing through the beatdown from Superman's anger. |
| 844 | [[/folder]] |
| 845 | |
| 846 | [[folder:Yellow Peri]] |
| 847 | [[quoteright:217:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yellow_peri.jpg]] |
| 848 | ->'''AKA:''' Loretta York Grant |
| 849 | ->'''First Appearance:''' ''Superboy'' Vol. 2 #34 (October, 1982) |
| 850 | ->''" I summon the Hand of Fate to take Superman in its grip!"'' |
| 851 | |
| 852 | The blond bombshell calling herself the Yellow Peri derives her powers from an ancient magical spell book. By touching the mystical book with one hand and her forehead with the other, she can read its spells and use its magic in all matters of ways. She debuted as a teenager when Clark was still Superboy (in the Bronze Age), then returned years later as an adult. |
| 853 | ---- |
| 854 | * AntiVillain: Normally, she's actually trying to be a ''hero'' -- she's just spectacularly ''bad'' at it. |
| 855 | * AnArmAndALeg: In the ''Reign in Hell'' miniseries, a demonic attack that causes Peri to savagely lose both legs from the knees down. |
| 856 | * CleavageWindow: Her costume has one, alhough how prominent it is [[DependingOnTheArtist depends on the artist]]. |
| 857 | * ClingyMacGuffin: Despite being seperated from her on multiple occassions, including being thrown into space and sealed in lead, her TomeOfEldritchLore always finds its way back to her. |
| 858 | * IneptMage: As the Yellow Peri, she attempts to use her powers to help others, though her magical gestures, more often than not, seem to backfire. |
| 859 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Whenever seperated from her TomeOfEldritchLore, Loretta loses all memory of even being the Yellow Peri. |
| 860 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: In ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'', Yellow Peri attacked Stargirl during the Starheart's campaign against elemental or magic based powers. |
| 861 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: The Yellow Peri derives all of her powers from the magic book. She is able to read its spells and use its magic by touching one hand to her forehead and the other to the book. There does not seem to be any limits to her powers when they are utilized. |
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