What villain do you wish could get The Spot treatment? Both DC or Marvel? For it's Riot from Superman's comics. His powers are so broken and it is disappointing how he is not used in comics or other Superman related media.
Underrated villains with lots of potential
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>Riot, also known as Frederick von Frankenstein, is a super-villain and an enemy to Superman. His career began as a brilliant scientist and he used a phase shifter to work on multiple projects at once. This unlocked a metahuman ability inside him to create duplicates of himself. Unfortunately, having multiple bodies meant he could never really fall asleep, and the sleep deprivation drove him insane.
Sheesh, poor bastard. Pretty much anyone would become a supervillain if they couldn't get any sort of sleep.
Shame, it's always great to have villains that Superman can't harm directly so you can't see he isn't just about being physically strong. But modern writers are hacks that can't write anything that isn't a basic bitch shonen knockoff, so whatever.
Can he recombined himself or is it that once he splits he's split for good?
He can't die. Hitting or cutting him causes to split. Superman is always forced to use other means to defeat him so he doesn't make copies. However in one arc he learns how to create copies on command which should make him a Justice League level threat. Now he occasionally appears as a background lackey. Like Spot.
Cool.
Eh, it's not like it's hard for him to send a few of himself out on loan is the thing. Imagine if someone brought him back to the foreground after he built some crazy super tech again that he had been getting the supplies and funds for by just using his doubles to do dirty work for others?
Monsier Mallah
There's already a big push for gay monkeys in comics, he wouldn't have a niche.
The push needs to be even bigger.
Eh?
Another Superman guy. Dominus has a dumb name and dumb design, but a he's a high priest of a cosmic space religion, desperately and fruitlessly seeking enlightenment and infinite cosmic power and awareness after he was passed up for taking on the role of basically the will of the living universe as Kismet.
>Dominus
He was in Generations Shattered/Forged
if you mean the spot treatment as in "treat them like a joke for half the movie then give them a huge power boost but still kinda treat them like a joke" then none of them. but if you mean the spot treatment as in "take them seriously for once" then nobody needs it more than killer moth.
I mostly just think he looks cool as fuck.
I don't think I've EVER seen this character used majorly in any story I've ever read.
He shows up a few times in the the Brave and the Bold cartoon.
I'm pretty sure he might've been Jack the ripper, and he had sword-cane fights with Sherlock Holmes.
He was the only good character in Suicide Squad: Black.
I want to see the Kangaroo from Spider-Man. Not so much tapping into his power set to make him stronger, I just think there's potential for cool action scenes and set pieces with a character who could jump up and kick Peter into the ground while he's mid swing.
The Spot treatments stupid because it's always obvious their powers good and it's the person that sucks. In fact there was a Daredevil storyline where the underworld tried to train Spot but he was such a failure that they hooked him up to a machine so someone else could use his powers.
A bad ass sci-fi outlaw cowboy is a good IDEA for an all American hero like Superman...but he never really caught on. Give him a bit more Science Fictiony appearance and put him in some "weird western" style stories where Superman has to stop him (ex: He robs a space train)
Terra-man used to be one of Supes's bigger foes. Shame he never covered post-crisis. One of the reasons I like him so much it's the implied impact of humanity's perception among the galaxy he has. He's a dangerous, gritty outlaw bounty hunter not to be fucked with, announcing proudly to aliens that he's from Earth.
>He's a dangerous, gritty outlaw bounty hunter not to be fucked with, announcing proudly to aliens that he's from Earth.
sounds like he'd make a good GL foe
If I recall his "up date" post crisis was pretty lame. His original origin is great. I'd have given him a cyborg arm or something to make him look a big for "Sci fi" but still retain his Old West aesthetic
Post crisis was unfair to alot of Superman villains.
>Funnyface was a failed comic artist who wished he could have sold one strip to a syndicate. He was more gifted in science and developed a way to materialize figures out of two dimensional images. He used the villains from the funny pages to commit robberies around Metropolis. A captured Lois Lane used the ray on the strips' heroes, who could help Superman defeat him.
A novel idea but comic strips are too limited. Maybe extend his gimmick to 20's era black and white cartoons?
if we're talking about villains who need a day in the spotlight, i nominate sheila sorrel, aka lady granite.
if plastic man is an unstoppable force, sheila is his immovable object. it's easy to see why she's considered the unofficial nemesis to plastic man by the 20 people who have heard of her.
what is she a longue singer or something
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>it's easy to see why she's considered the unofficial nemesis to plastic man by the 20 people who have heard of her.
It's because her one appearance was reprinted in the 70s in a nostalgia book that was many people's first intro to Jack Cole.
That said, yeah, she really is the only Plastic Man villain who has made any sort of name for themselves. Dr. Dome appeared on the Ruby-Spears cartoon, but really isn't that interesting.
i always assumed rubberneck was plastic man's nemesis
i think rubberneck was invented for the cartoon
doctor phosphorus is cool and aside from weasel the only reason why i wanna watch creature commandos