Tuesday 26 September 2017

Scarecrow - Gotham Season Four (2017)

The alter-ego of Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow first started off being the object of Jonathan's terror, being constantly haunted by an illusion ever since being injected with the fear toxin created by his father.

Being bullied, harassed and tormented by a gang wanting to exploit his knowledge in the creation of the gas, his psyche broke down, eventually hearing the voice of the scarecrow they were using to control him speak his name. He set about starting to embrace his own fear, wanting to get revenge on the people who had locked him away and threatened him.

Scavenging around the room he was left in for supplies, Jonathan made himself a costume to embody his new persona, fitting dispensers into the suit that allowed him to use samples of the fear toxin that he had kept hidden on his person as a means of self-defence should any of the gang attempt to hurt him.


"A Dark Knight: Pax Penguina"

Following the arrest of Merton and the other members of his gang at the Iceberg Lounge opening night, Grady Harris returned to the gang's safe-house, yelling upon entering that he wanted Jonathan to produce more of the toxin so that they could break Merton out of prison.

But upon unlocking the door to Jonathan's makeshift cell, he is startled to find that the scarecrow that they had been using to intimidate the teenager was dismantled, with the garments forming a new costume for the boy to wear.

Turning on his captor, he remarked that Jonathan Crane was all but gone, demanding to be called the Scarecrow. Advancing on Grady, he doused the criminal with fear toxin, watching as his tormentor was left reeling and panicking in a small heap on the floor.

Friday 22 September 2017

The Mutants: The Dark Multiverse Earth 52 - Batman: The Red Death (2017)

An infamous street gang operating within Gotham City, the Mutants often appeared in vast droves when Batman and the G.C.P.D were otherwise engaged.

Their members were often seen wearing black goggles with tinted red lenses, which became a identifying feature for them.


"Ride the Lightning"

After the sky above Gotham had turned blood red, the city quickly fell to riots and looting to such an extent that people suggested that the bridge was blown up and left to become a "No-Man's Land." The Mutants were among the people out in the streets taking advantage of the chaos, destroying cars and attacking fleeing citizens.


Appearances:
  1. None
Mentions:
  1. "Ride the Lightning" (First and Only Mention)

Thursday 21 September 2017

Nora Fries: The Dark Multiverse Earth 52 - Batman: The Red Death (2017)

The wife of the famous cryongenic scientist Victor Fries, Nora suffered from a fatal disease that was slowly killing her.

As a last resort, Victor developed a cryostatsis formula, which he used on Nora to put her body in a for of suspended animation until he could find a cure for her.

Through the manipulation of the formula's cryogenic properties, she was still alive during the end of the Batman and the birth of Red Death.


Appearances:
  1. None
Mentions:
  1. "Ride the Lightning" (First and Only Mention)

Fries' Cryostasis Formula: The Dark Multiverse Earth 52 - Batman: The Red Death (2017)

A formula developed by the scientist Victor Fries, the cryostatis formula was primarily used to keep his wife Nora alive and stop her from succumbing to the fatal disease that was slowly killing her. The formula encased the localised area where the injection was made in ice, before moving up the body, lowering the heart rate of the patient to the point of mirroring suspended animation.

Batman discovered the existence of the formula and managed to procure a sample through unknown means, keeping it with him as a potential weapon to use against his enemies - or Speedsters.


"Ride the Lightning"

In an effort to incapacitate the Flash and siphon off the Speed Force into his own body, Batman injected Barry in the leg with a sample of the formula, calculating that his increased metabolism would be able to burn through the formula within three seconds.

 However he went on to declare that he would not need them, punching his friend so hard in the face that it would knock him out.


Appearances:

  1. "Ride the Lightning" (First and Only Appearance)

Victor Fries: The Dark Multiverse Earth 52 - Batman: The Red Death (2017)

The husband of Nora, Victor Fries was a well respected doctor and scientist, famous his work in the field of cryogenic preservation and medicine. Upon learning of his wife's illness that would eventually kill her, Victor began searching for a cure, developing in a formula in the meantime that would put her in suspended animation.

However as of the merging of the Flash and Batman into the vigilante Red Death, he had yet to find the cure.



Appearances:

  1. None
Mentions:
  1. "Ride the Lightning" (First and Only Mention)

Monday 18 September 2017

Kid Apollo - Gen13 (2006)

A member of the Authoriteens, Kid Apollo was a meta-human with the ability of flight, super-speed, super-strength and projection of energy. Growing up, he had no mentors or other adults to help him control his abilities, forcing him to learn the limits of his power - since the reality in which the Authoriteens originated from was a world without any grownups.

He formed a deep friendship with fellow Authoriteen Daybreaker, with many of his teammates claiming that he was "overprotective" of the latter, though had no idea why this was. Kid Apollo developed a disgust of the female body, as well as having a  very rigid belief in what made someone a man, viewing anything out of this as being wrong and a perversion.


"Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Fire and Wind"

Kid Apollo listened to Daybreaker and the Contractor in silence as The Authoriteens watched a clash between Gen13
and Liberty Snots.


"Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Battle of the Band of Brothers"

Entering the battlefield, he hovered over his fellow teammates, glaring at both parties as Daybreaker explained their mission to the two baffled rivals.

When the team was questioned by M-T about the exact nature of their device, Kid Apollo mockingly told the latter that what was happening had nothing to do with him, referring to him as "shortstuff." He suggested in a patronising tone that M-T should go back to his house to "floss and drink plenty of milk." Upon being told to "die screaming" from "fucking himself", Kid Apollo angrily attacked the Liberty Snots with an energy blast, ordering them to run away or else die.

Fighting alongside his teammates, he stated that he had had "enough," confronting both Rainmaker and Freefall. Fairchild stepped in to aid them, however he broke through their attack and threw Caitlin into the ground. Incapacitating her, he demanded to know who was going to be his new opponent.

Picking up Burnout from a great height, he dropped the young hero and sent him plummeting to the ground, returning to join the assembled group.


"Road Trip, Part Five: Club Kids - Left of Centre"

Lifting Burnout up by the back of his t-shirt, Kid Apollo prepared to throw him into their "matter decompressor," however stood back to allow Daybreaker and Nestling to use the device first on Grunge. He is horrified when Grunge starts bleeding from his eyes, praying to heavens in fear. He was also highly embarrassed when the latter had formed a pair of breasts, seeking comfort from Daybreaker, who told him that he would forget he ever saw them if he pushed Grunge into the device. He eagerly does so, calling Grunge a "freak" and adding that it would be a "merciful" act. However he is blasted backwards by a sonic cry from Sweet Sally, who had returned with the rest of Liberty Snots to aid them - on the insistence of M-T.

As he got back up, Kid Apollo expressed his confusion and insecurity about masculinity - unable to cope with Sweet Sally's androgyny - questioning aloud his own ignorant indignation on whether they "know that boys are boys." Continuing his assault on Grunge, he grabbed him by the throat and coldly told him that he was going to die, referring to him as a "sissy." However before he could kill Grundge, he is attacked from behind by Fairchild.

Seeing Daybreaker being attacked by Mangacide, he angrily declared that they would forget the matter decomposer and instead just kill all who opposed them. Focusing on Magnacide, he released an energy blast at her, knocking his opponent to the ground as he declared that their deaths "were for your own good."

However Grunge punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground,where he angrily snapped that
he had got covered in mud. He furiously called Grunge a "stuck-up little gnat" and mockingly asked if he really thought the power he absorbed from Fairchild was enough for the Gen13 member to beat him. He is terrified to learn that in fact he had been touched with pure energy from the decomposer, beginning to crumble into a skeleton before their eyes.


Appearances:

  1. "Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Fire and Wind" (First Appearance/Unnamed)
  2. "Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Battle of the Band of Brothers" (First Introduced by name)
  3. "Road Trip, Part Five: Club Kids - Left of Centre"
  4. "Road Trip, Part Six: Club Kids" (Final Appearance/Flashback Only)

Daybreaker - Gen13 (2006)

The alias of a teenager called Denny, Daybreaker grew up in a reality where no adults resided. He often spoke using slang from his world, which would not be make sense to many inhabitants across the rest of
the mulitverse.

Daybreaker was a meta-human with the ability to predict the events of battle and simulate every conceivable outcome before it actually happened. He was also a highly trained fighter both in hand to hand combat and with his bow staff.

Upon joining the Authoriteens, he became friends with Kid Apollo, who would always look out for him. He had very strong feelings for Kid Apollo, as well as harbouring deeply inset misogynistic views on women and their bodies.


"Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Fire and Wind"

Watching from the shadows of a tree as Gen13 fought with the Liberty Snots, Daybreaker mused to Contractor that their targets were the team who were not fighting all in black clothing. He went on to tell them that he had used his powers of precognition in combat to perceive every possible outcome in their upcoming battle with the Gen13 team - seeing it as the only way to stop the destruction of the Multiverse. He added that everything will "turn out groovy."


"Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Battle of the Band of Brothers"

Approaching the two teams, he addressed the assembled meta-humans and introduced the young Authoriteens, explaining that they were preventing the whole Multiverse from exploding. He goes on to ask if they were going to "rap, cats and kittens, dig," confusing Sweet Sally and the others, forcing the Intern to interpret what he was saying. He goes on to declare that the Gen13 were travellers who did not belong there and needed to be destroyed to stop the ripple effect that was putting reality itself in danger. He childishly laughed at the Interns use of the word "ripple" and it's closeness to the world nipple, wiping away a tear of joy as he told the latter that he was the bad one. Expressing his desire not to fight with them, he mocks the Intern for repeating the word "ripple" and using it in the presence of a girl - something Intern had told him off for.

As Nestler kissed M-T on the cheek as he left, he made a quiet remark about her, before clenching his fist with excitement as Fairchild told them that they would fight. He ordered the team to attack, arrogantly declaring that their was no way that Fairchild (mocking her for her ginger hair) could beat him, but was interrupted by a punch in the face that sent him flying backwards. As he hurtled towards an abandoned basket ball court, he scolded himself for not using his powers to run through the battle "a thousand more times" to predict such a move.

Returning to the field, Daybreaker declared that the team had almost won the battle, helping them knock the rest of Gen13 out.


"Road Trip, Part Five: Club Kids - Left of Centre"

Helping Nestler drag Grunge, he told the defeated opponent that he would feel better when he was dead, although noted that what he said sounded better in his head than what was verbalised. He went on with his point, stating that Grunge shouldn't think that what he was doing was suicide, but instead that he was saving the multiverse and would retcon all the events that had been altered by the Gen13's existence. He was grossed out by Grunge's final request for a kiss, commenting that "girls had cooties", before telling Nestling that he had not been meaning any offence to her. However he expressed no harm in permitting the request, childishly making retching noises as Grunge kissed Fairchild. Hearing the Contractor's warning, he tried to pull the two part, only to beaten back by Grunge who had absorbed some of Caitlin's powers from the kiss.

Comforting the embarrassed Kid Apollo about seeing a pair of breasts, which had formed on Grunge's body from using his absorbing powers on Caitlin, he told his friend that he could forget that he ever saw them by pushing Grunge through the matter decompressor.

Watching Kid Apollo get punched into the ground, he remarked that the young teen did not like that. However he is more alarmed by the revelation that Grunge had absorbed the power of the matter decompressor and used it to reduce Kid Apollo into a pile of bones, watching his friend die in silent despair.


"Road Trip, Part Six: Club Kids"

Enraged by the death of his friend, Daybreaker attacked Fairchild with his bow staff, screaming at her and calling her names. But he is quickly subdued, crying over the death of Kid Apollo. Seeing the arrival of the Tranquillity police force, the Authoriteens all return back to their own reality, having failed to complete their mission.


Appearances:
  1. "Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Fire and Wind" (First Appearance)
  2. "Road Trip, Part Three: Club Kids - Battle of the Band of Brothers" 
  3. "Road Trip, Part Five: Club Kids - Left of Centre"
  4. "Road Trip, Part Six: Club Kids" (Final Appearance)