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Carmen Sandiego. This was the Netflix series where instead of starting out as an agent of Acme, Carmen starts out having been raised from a baby by the forces of VILE. Just as the original Carmen turned to a life of performative crime, stealing things just to screw with her former agency but always letting them recover the goods if they can solve her puzzles, this Carmen dedicates herself to destroying the criminal organization she was once part of. And I'm pissed because because Netflix only released 3 of the 4 seasons so I can't see the end. As far as this cable channel goes, the series ends on a cliffhanger. The series has spectacularly animated action sequences although there's no way Carmen's broad-brimmed had could stay on through all that. It's a kid's show but a high quality kid's show. Catwoman: Hunted. Speaking of cartoon heroic thieves, I also watched the Japanese version of Catwoman who takes on a crime syndicate who offend her with their human trafficking ways. She is helped in that endeavour by Batwoman and Interpol which is being depicted as an actual police agency. It all has a very Japanese filter. I kept wondering when Lupin III was going to show up because damned if that wasn't a knockoff of his background music. Coroner. Third season. I kind of liked the ultra-short hair the lead actress was rocking in the first season as a legacy from shaving her head to play Medusa in that ill-conceived Inhumans TV series. But she's letting it grow out and it's at a rather awkward stage at the as of the third season. The episode dated quickly since it was all about Covid with the victim being a health care worker in the pandemic.

Shayera Neramani was born as one of the royal daughters of the Shinagar Imperium but came out on the losing end of the succession dispute to her maniacal brother Katar. Defeated she fled to Earth, where, as Death Hawk she proceeded to try to collect a force of Earth's supervillains to return and defeat the Imperial Legion who supported her brother since villains would be more easily motivated by offers of money and power and less restrained by reluctance to use lethal force. She has the powers of winged flight, superhuman strength, and is armed with a weapon that can shapeshift between mace and spear as needed.

Then there's the challenge of deciding which side of the line a fusion of hero and villain will stand on. Take for example Barry Dillon, AKA Lightning Flash, a man who, struck by lightning, gained the power to absorb electricity and release it again as lightning bolts, or use it to fuel superspeed. Should he be a hero or a villain?

Combining heroes with villains has a tendency to lend a grotesque flavour to Meld's hero population. While Thunder Woman is conventionally attractive as a combination of Wonder Woman and Thundra apart from being about a foot taller than Wonder Woman the others are turning out a bit grotesque. For example our next entry: In the 19th century a strange meteorite landed in Europe made out of a glowing green mineral with the additional strange property of turning the flesh of those who touched it a translucent green that left the underlying skeleton visible. In honour of this property the sculptor in whose hands it fell chose to carve it into a bust depicting the visage of a green skull. He did various things with the scraps he'd carved away, turning them into stones set into rings and necklaces. They faded into clarity about a day after being separated from the main mass but would turn green if brought back into contact with it. A group of people who became known as the Green Flame Society discovered that the gems would temporarily grant them superhuman powers which they used as secretly as possible to become wealthy and influential as they played a crucial role in the formation of Germany. In the end, however they were devastated by infighting between the pro and anti-Nazi factions in the 1930s, and the Skull and several of the power items fell into the hands of one Alain Schmidt who fled to the United States and made his superhero debut as the Green Skull, endowed with a dizzying array of superpowers that included invisibility, insubstantiality, flight, telepathy, and forcefield generation. He dedicated himself to defending his new country with all his many powers but after the war a former friend became his arch-enemy, Captain Anarchy. In the years leading into American entry into World War II, the United States invested resources in a "super-soldier" program with mixed results that include the man who would one day becomes known as Captain Anarchy when developing psychosis as a side effect of the treatment as well as a deathly pale complexion and lips drawn back in a near-permanent rictus that put something that can loosely be described as a smile on his face. Armed with a circular shield made out of an exotic metal that tore through Green Skull's defenses, he became that hero's most dangerous foe in the post-war era.

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Meanwhile in a city with an odd fondness for gargoyles and frequently overcast weather... First boy genius Bruce Osborn was orphaned in his youth and then the CEO of Oztech tried to murder him to keep him from taking control of his inheritance. The murder attempt failed and Osborn took his revenge by turning himself into a nocturnal boogeyman. Enhanced by the super serum he was working on that accidentally got into his blood during the murder attempt he developed a dizzying array of Halloween themed weaponry and flew through New Gotham's streets on a jet glider as the Goblin Knight. Janet Caldwell's father was a mad scientist who experimented on her, giving her the powers of shrinking and flight with the intent of using her to assassinate those who stood in the way of his grandiose schemes. But after her father accidentally killed himself, Goblin Knight took her under his wing, creating the duo of Goblin Knight and Pixie.

These are the rules. Take Marvel hero or villain and fuse them with the DC villain or hero. But heros must be combined with someone on the other side of the fence (more or less) and vice versa. Guessing the source characters is left as an exercise for the student. Thunder Woman: In the 23rd century alien invaders with superhuman strength and durability had conquered the Earth for centuries. In the society they created women were reduced to the status of property and it was a mark of status to have a large harem. While the daughters of the invaders also inherited enhanced power they were fitted with power suppression manacles to keep them under control until one day a genius among them figured out how to create a rift into the past, freed several thousand of the concubines and led them into a escape into modern times taking with her, her unborn child, Diana. That girl grew up and when she learned the time of invasion was nigh she rebelled against her mother's cautious plan to live as a hidden society that would grow in power and one day emerge to start an uprising in the 23rd. Instead she decided to risk changing the future and left for the outside world to foil the invasion at the start by teaming up with the heroes who had first faced the invader. Kallark the Superion: Superion was the ruler of a dying planet who decided to invade and conquer the Earth so his people could move there. His vast strength, speed and durability made him the most powerful foe the Freakish Four had yet faced and they would have been defeated had Thunder Woman not appeared to team up with them.

The Freakish Four: This foursome of strange-looking heroes were blessed and cursed with power thanks to a mysterious anomaly in space. They consist of: Jackie Frost: A beautiful animate ice statue of a woman, Jackie Frost has powers over cold and frozen water. Despite her powers she’s a fun-loving thrill seeker who wants her sister to “lighten up”. She’s always up for a snowball fight but she’s also a brilliant physicist. Shadow Woman: Jackie Frost’s sister, Susan is the mistress of stealth, able to become a two-dimensional living shadow, take shortcuts through the Darkness Dimension, create animate entities of “solid darkness” and boost her strength in shadows. Claymore: Jackie’s actor boyfriend Ben has become the Face of the team since while his clay monster form is quite frightening his shapeshifting power allows him to regain his cinema-idol good-looks for part of each day and pass for normal. He keeps his misery hidden from the public. Dr. Richard Woodrue: Briefly tried to call himself Doctor Floronic but there was universal agreement that name was unbelievably terrible so he stuck with his actual name. He’s half-man, half plant, and all scientist. Unlike his younger colleague Jackie he’s serious-minded and a bit pompous. Even so he managed to become romantically involved with Susan. The Four have foes of course. For example Clayshaper: An older actor envious of Claymore’s career, he managed to get his hands on a small sample of Claymore’s body and managed to bond with it, giving himself much more limited shapeshifting powers as well the power to create clay statuettes of people that could influence their minds or large statues that could copy a character’s form and powers. Doctor Terrific: A genius associate of Jackie Frost and Dr. Woodrue he used that genius to develop technology to become a superhero in his own right until a combat injury caused facial disfigurement that he blamed Woodrue for since Woodrue was there and he had always regarded the other man as a rival. Since then he has been secretly creating threats to attack the Freakish Four while still acting as a now grimmer hero in a suit of powered armor. Even so, it is only a matter of time before he becomes known as Doctor Terror. Metalsmith: Another genius, he has uploaded his own mind into a robot body and crafted more robots to challenge the Four, a team that consists of Silver Ghost who can turn intangible, Iron Vulture who can fly and is very strong, Red Mercury who fights with with stretchy semi-liquid tentacles that can drain vitality, Golden Dragon who can fly and breath fire and Galena who can alter her mass and create barriers

For context: https://www.businessinsider.com/laura-loomer-downplayed-covid-19-brutal-case-of-the-virus-2021-9 She has described her symptoms as "brutal" and said she feels like she "got hit by a bus." Loomer has previously said she hoped to catch COVID-19 to prove that it's a "hyped up virus." Laura. Seriously?

Did you assume a lobster-gods gender?

Mentioned as "Growth is the amazing power to make yourself an easy target."

Those are from 1920s Germany along with the highly interesting Alraune who would make a good Poison Ivy style villainess but a century too late for BM II and III. Doctor Mabuse was a true supervillain capable of impossible feats of disguise along with mind control and who repeatedly dies to come back in a new body.

Characters of the time period who could inspire supervillains include "Melmoth the Wanderer" (1820) a man who traded his soul for great longevity but now tries to to find others willing to sell their souls in order to fend off the approaching end of his bargain and Doctor Frankenstein and his monster (1818), Volkert the Necromancer, a German charlatan who pretends to be able to summon and communicate with the spirits of the dead, using stage magic to sell the act,

Black Mask II or IIi would have run into at least one villain who was fond of death traps like the classic pendulum trap or burying or immuring people alive. This sort of thing was rather popular in the gothic fiction of the time although it survives into the present only through Edgar Allen Poes "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "Cask of Amontillado". The old "tying someone to the railroad tracks" gimmick was a continuation of the trope, although that started in the 1860s when they had the necessary railroads. That time frame is also when the sexy vampire was first invented with Byron-inspired Lord Ruthven in 1819, which led to Varney the Vampire in the 1840s and then Carmilla, the first sexy lesbian vampire in the 1870s.

I just had a very pop culture dream. I was a Starfleet officer shooting zombies but then a special metal covered one shows up that's impervious to regular shots and I can't remember how to change the settings on my phaser.