T T HE P LASTIQUE HE LASTIC AN T HE P LIABLE P RANKSTER P OISON I VY DC C P M DC C FIRST APPEARANCE FURY OF FIRESTORM #7 (December 1982) STATUS Reformed villain REAL NAME Bette Sans Souci FIRST APPEARANCE BATMAN #181 (June 1966) FIRST APPEARANCE POLICE COMICS #1 (August 1941) EEL O’BRIAN STARTED OUT on the wrong side of the law, but is OCCUPATION Former terrorist BASE Quebec, Canada STATUS Villain REAL NAME Pamela Lillian Isley OMICS OMICS STATUS Hero REAL NAME Eel O’Brian working hard to make up for it. In 1941, he was just a lowlife HEIGHT 5ft 6in WEIGHT 141 lbs EYES Blue HAIR Red OCCUPATION Criminal; eco-terrorist BASE Gotham City OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE Chicago gangster. Shot by a guard at the Crawford Chemical Works, he SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Is able to cause objects to explode by HEIGHT 5ft 6in WEIGHT 133 lbs EYES Green HAIR Chestnut HEIGHT 6ft 1in WEIGHT 178 lbs EYES Groovy goggles stumbled into a vat of acid, which seeped into his touching them with her fingertips. A demolitions expert, Plastique SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Poison Ivy’s altered body chemistry enables HAIR Basic Black SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Capable of stretching has received training in urban terrorism and possesses an her to exude a venomous variety of floral toxins to which she alone is E wounds. He escaped and ended up at Rest Haven, a E NCYCLOPEDIA every atom in his body into any shape he wishes. He is seemingly incendiary temper. immune. She carries with her a plethora of pernicious plants that NCYCLOPEDIA unbreakable and his shape-changing is limited only by his own spiritual retreat.While there, he realized that amazing germinate from fast-growing seed pods. overactive imagination; also has a mercurial sense of humor. changes in his human form would also allow him to change his ways. He became the hero Plastic Man. Plastique was a radical French- Canadian terrorist committed to Botanist Pamela Isley was a shrinking violet when she YOUR FLEXIBLE FRIEND LUCKY BREAK winning Quebec’s independence went to work for famed scientist (and super-villain-in-the- After serving in both the ALL-STAR SQUADRON and the FREEDOM FIGHTERS Eel O'Brian’s life by any means necessary. Originally making) Dr. Jason Woodrue.The future FLORONIC MAN with distinction during World War II, Plastic Man was employed by the changed for the she possessed no superpowers, and experimented on her, hoping to create a human/plant F.B.I. and then its sister agency, the National Bureau of Investigations.To this better when he so she wore a suit rigged with hybrid like himself.Woodrue succeeded all too well, PRETTY POISON Ivy once grew wild in Wayne Manor, day, he continues to handle cases for the N.B.I., usually paired with the ought to have plastic explosives into the offices creating the ravishing-but-deadly Poison Ivy.Where Isley taking over Bruce Wayne’s mind with her seductive sloppy, lazy, and dull-witted Woozy Winks.These two improbable partners died in the of the New York News Express in an was gangly and unremarkable, Ivy was gorgeous and pheromones. Little did Ivy know have an impressive track record.Together they have brought down accident. attempt to extort the newspaper’s unforgettable. Isley’s porcelain skin soon took on a green that she had Batman numerous villains, including, the Dart, Even Steven, and the Brotherhood owners. pigmentation as chlorophyll replaced her human blood. Ivy in her thrall! of the Savage Caribou. FIRESTORM foiled her incendiary even exuded man-maddening pheromones and natural In more recent times, Plastic Man has successfully worked plot and sent her to prison, but toxins. She was Poison Ivy in more than name. alongside BATMAN behind bars Plastique received an Ironically, the sun-loving Ivy found herself drawn on several cases, injection of an experimental serum to gloomy Gotham City, where she sowed the FIRED UP Plastic Man had KEY STORYLINES that gave her the ability to explode seeds of a criminal career to fund her despite their strikingly different to return to action in order • PLASTIC MAN (3RD SERIES) #1–6 (FEBRUARY–JULY 2004): objects by touching them.A second true cause as a green guerrilla BUGGED OUT Queen temperaments.In fact, the Dark Knight to save America from the Plastic Man and Woozy Winks in one of their most criminal caper teamed Plastique championing the world’s Bee manages to get the recommended Plas for membership for the fiery Fernus, an ancient madcap adventures yet. with KILLER FROST in a failed attempt to blow up the diminishing fauna. Ivy also drop on Plastic Man, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. Plastic Man Martian threat. a rare occurrence. has served the League well, despite his • JLA #65 (AUGUST 2002): Plastic Man reconnects Niagara Falls power plant. discovered a worthy foe in tendency to joke about everything. with his son, thanks to Batman. Plastique became semi-reformed when offered the BATMAN, who has resisted Batman also learned that Plas had a son, born out of wedlock. • PLASTIC MAN (3RD SERIES) #1-4 opportunity to work with the SUICIDE SQUAD in exchange Ivy’s fragrant charms Eel’s son grew up to inherit his father’s incredible “plastic man” (NOVEMBER–FEBRUARY 1988-89): Plas and Woozy for a commuted sentence. Since then, she has changed her while uprooting her abilities, although with greater control. Plastic Man's seeming death face the incredibly inept Ooze Brothers. criminal ways and hooked up with CAPTAIN ATOM, terrorist schemes. in the Obsidian Age, 3000 years ago, left the JLA traumatized. • POLICE COMICS #1 (AUGUST 1941): eventually becoming his wife. Perhaps affected by Captain As time passes, Ivy Reduced to atoms, he spent the next three millennia using his Eel O'Brian turns from petty criminal Atom’s apparent death, Plastique has largely dropped out becomes more conscious mind to reassemble himself.Those millennia of isolation to costumed crime fighter, thanks to a of sight. DW plant-like and less have had a profound affect on him, and O’Brian has rededicated freak accident. human, making himself to playing a positive role in his son's life, virtually forgetting P LUNDER her increasingly his heroic persona in favor of becoming a daily difficult to presence.When a demon from Mars’s ancient past FIRST APPEARANCE FLASH (2nd series) #165 (October 2000) defoliate. SB emerged on Earth, Batman forced Plastic Man to STATUS Villain REAL NAME None; a mirror clone of Joseph Morillo once again be a hero. Eel remains an occasional OCCUPATION Bounty hunter BASE A mirror image dimension GREENBACKS Poison Ivy hero, a pal to Woozy Winks and a full-time HEIGHT 5ft 11in WEIGHT 190 lbs EYES White HAIR None loves the color of money, father. RG SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Plunder is an expert hitman renowned especially because robbery and for his unerring aim; he also possesses numerous handguns PLASTIC SOLUTION Batman shows extortion help to fund her exotic and other firearms in his armor; a powerful, if unsophisticated, the still reassembling Plastic environmental causes. hand-to-hand combatant. Man—after 3000 years—to the JLA. OLAR OY Plunder was a bounty hunter that P B existed in a mystical “mirror FIRST APPEARANCE LEGIONNAIRES #43 (December 1996) world” housed within the STATUS Hero REAL NAME Brek Bannin diamond wedding ring of Linda OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE Earth Park (see PARK, LINDA), the wife of HEIGHT 5ft 5in WEIGHT 140 lbs EYES Blue HAIR Blond Wally West, the third FLASH. SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Like all natives of Tharr, can generate A mercenary for the mirror subzero temperatures as a natural defense against a near-sun orbit. world’s Thinker, Plunder discovered that his dimension was fading into non-existence, and hoped Tharr’s Brek Bannin has the native to escape into our world.The power to generate cold.When there Thinker hired Plunder to was an open call for recruits to join capture two of the Flash’s the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, Rogues Gallery, MIRROR Bannin was among the first to FATHER AND SON It took Batman to help, MASTER and CAPTAIN COLD, apply. He failed the tests but but Eel has rebuilt his to lure the Flash into their decided to team up with relationship with his mirror dimension.The Flash other rejects as the LEGION OF SUBSTITUTE son, who also possesses escaped the Thinker’s trap and returned to our dimension. HEROES.They were called into action when R.J. his father’s incredible Plunder is the mirror image of Detective Jared Morillo, Brande (see BRANDE, R.J.) summoned their help stretching power. a Flash ally from the Department of Meta-human during one of the DARK LORD Mordru’s attempts to Hostility. Plunder shot Morillo, assumed his form, and conquer the universe. Polar Boy admitted they weren’t briefly took his place. Discovered, Plunder forsook ready at the time, but has since acted as team leader, Morillo’s identity and resumed bounty hunting. PJ hoping for the day he graduates to the real Legion. RG