Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Murdering Mort (now with even more chest hair)


Randy scores with the 3-pointer this week (sorry to the Mav fans for whom a Basketball reference is a cruel reminder). Last Week's mort is Deathwing, a Hypertime version of Dick Grayson who becomes a stooge for evil Raven late in the New Teen Titans run. His story is actually more complicated than that, having served as part of the Team Titans, time travelling heroes from the future sent back to stop the birth of Donna Troy's baby, since he would grow up to be the evil Lord Chaos. Except, he wouldn't apparently, as Lord Chaos and the Team Titans were created by former Titan Monarch as Sleeper Agents to turn the tide of battle against the heroes during the Zero Hour event. Except, not all the Team Titans were part of the plan apparently, since when Monarch was defeated, all of the Team Titans that he created dissappeared, but Deathwing didn't. It was later learned that he was plucked from our time line by the Time Trapper in an effort to create his own sleeper agents to counteract the sleeper agents of Monarch during the Zero Hour event. Confused, yet? This is why the Teen Titans line folded.
There are few things better than Silver Agey Superman goodness. The Mort above is one example of it. Who is he?

4 Comments:

Blogger KeeperOfBooks34 said...

I always forget this guy's name. (Mostly because of his absurd wardrobe choice. He shows more skin that a Desperados Dancer, and no one wants to see it.)

So I cheated and looked him up. I thought he was a Daxamite, but that is wrong. I'll let Jan Ember try now.

2:46 PM

 
Blogger KeeperOfBooks34 said...

I'm not sure he qualifies as a Mort, though, since he is one of the heroes who attempts to aid Superman during his Last Stand in What Ever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

2:47 PM

 
Blogger january embers said...

Alas, I am a little clueless on this one. All the glory rightfully goes to Keeper of Books!

3:01 PM

 
Blogger KeeperOfBooks34 said...

Well then, the mort is none other than Vartox of Valeron.

He's just as strong as Superman and twice has hairy. Also like Superman, he fights to protect an adopted home.

His roll in What Ever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow was very small. In fact, you only see him in background of a wide shot along with Superwoman, if I recall correctly.

Which brings me to a question. Since What Ever Happened is set on Earth 1 (the original), does that make him Earth 1 Vartox even though he isn't from Earth?

7:04 AM

 

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