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The Riddler (Modern)

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THE RIDDLER (Edward Nigma/Nygma)- Modern-Day
Created By:
Bill Finger & Dick Sprang
First Appearance: Detective Comics #140 (Oct. 1948)
Role: The Gamesman, Intellectual Equal
Mental Problems: Obsession With Riddles & Games, Egotism, Overly-Competitive, Inability to Not Give Himself Away
PL 5 (113)
STRENGTH
1 STAMINA 2 AGILITY 2
FIGHTING 7 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 5 AWARENESS 5 PRESENCE 1

Skills:
Athletics 3 (+3)
Deception 9 (+10)
Expertise (Criminal) 5 (+10)
Expertise (Current Events) 8 (+13)
Expertise (Science) 8 (+13)
Insight 7 (+12)
Investigation 10 (+15)
Perception 3 (+8)
Persuasion 2 (+3)
Stealth 2 (+4)
Technology 8 (+13)
Vehicles 1 (+5)

Advantages:
Daze (Deception), Equipment 10 (Riddler Cane +2, Large Bases & Traps), Fascination (Deception), Ranged Attack 4

Offense:
Unarmed +7 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Cane +7 (+2 Damage, DC 18)
Initiative +2

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +2, Fortitude +4, Will +6

Complications:
Enemy (Batman)
Obsession (Puzzles)- Nygma has a pathological obsession with riddles and games, and must constantly leave clues to taunt the heroes, and lead them to his current location. He desperately wants his genius to be known, and will come up with insane schemes JUST to test The Bat.

Total: Abilities: 54 / Skills: 66--33 / Advantages: 16 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 10 (113)

The Riddler- Sudden Superstar:
-So as I said, Frank Gorshin's portrayal of the Riddler turned the character into a huge star- making only a tiny handful of appearances before 1966, he was now thrust into the spotlight and made a recurring villain. Though he fits strangely into the now "ultra-dark" Bat-books, which his whole design (lime-green tights and domino mask) screamed "Silver Age". That version appears in a lot of cartoons and toys, but in the comics he became more of a snide intellectual or goofy weirdo.

-The Riddler appears in a one-shot story in The Question, having a mental breakdown when his murderous rampage (he's killing people who fail to answer his riddles) is halted by the hero, who counters riddles with philosophical ones- the Riddler is allowed to escape (after MURDERS?) for getting one last riddle right. Very few stories are recapped on Wikipedia until the modern era, honestly... but then he becomes a WHOLE lot more important in modern times, as in Hush, he uses a Lazarus Pit to cure his cancer, and the insanity that immediately follows it causes him to deduce Batman's secret identity- he then shares this information with Hush. However, Batman uses one of those "Oh but the secret is worthless if you tell anyone" routines to keep Riddler from revealing it further, as well as the fact that the League of Assassins would be after him if they found out he used the Pit.

The Riddler Becomes a Major Character/Crimefighter:
-The Riddler is humiliated repeatedly in a later arc, but recovers his mental abilities upon regaining a surpressed memory- that he was accused of cheating scholastically by a jealous father, who beat him as a result. So Nygma's riddles are a subconscious desire to always tell the truth and prove that he wasn't cheating. He seems to become much more deadly, but he's still used as a jobber in Green Arrow and then gets KO'd by the Shining Knight in the background of Infinite Crisis, missing the year of 52 in a coma as a result. He awakens cured of his obsession with riddles, but amnesiac of Batman's secret identity, nonetheless "reforming" in a strange sort of way, allying with a disgusted Batman and trying to become a crime-solver, despite his massive ego. He figures out that the Dick Grayson Batman is a not the original immediately, and has to deal with a former victim now engaging in serial killing to lure Nygma out, and a woman named "Conundrum" who idolized him and tried to become a copycat.

-Tony Daniel brings him "Back To Basics", with a bomb blast at a party reawakening his psychosis, turning him into a cackling, rambling madman. He later teams up with a girl called "Enigma", his own daughter, and it's implied he murdered her after she called him a has-been. Over the past several years, the exact threat-level the Riddler provides is up in the air- sometimes he's a deadly, lethal adversary and the only Rogue to match Batman's intelligence and seriously tax him mentally. At other times he's just a helpless weirdo with a goofy gimmick, and is often easily defeated. He can vary even from year to year, with little consistency- his longest "set" character was as an egotistical "hero" who helped people as a detective, mostly annoying Batman with it.

The Riddler's Attributes:
-The Riddler is one of the weakest enemies Batman faced as far as power goes, so he's only PL 4 (actually less capable than Bullock or Montoya!). His whole schtick lies in the GM portraying him as a behind-the-scenes sinister genius who traps the heroes in a game or something, or tests their ability to read into clues, which is one of those things that translates more to an epic D&D-style Dungeon than an individual with an impressive statline.
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Killer Croc! Rainbow Creature! The Riddler!)

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Yeah, the suit and tie is definitely an improvement from the spandex.
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Re: The Golden Age Riddler

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Jabroniville wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:36 am -He's often used only sparingly compared to the other major Rogues- various writers (John Byrne, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm) have all stated that his riddle-themed crimes make him the hardest villain to write for. The character had only appeared three times across two decades, at which point Frank Gorshin's portrayal rocketed the character to fame, and made him a recurring Bat-Rogue and one of the Top Eight at least. The Riddler used to be a classic "Silver Age" kinda design- a lime-green leotard with purple undies and question marks all over them. This was his 1960s form until Gorshin had his TV uniform changed to a smart green and purple suit and bowler hat- this version has subsequently become his comic book standard, and appeared in the Animated Series.

-The Golden Age Riddler is clever and crafty, and looks to be in better shape than his modern-day incarnation.
It actually took 25 years for the green business suit & hat look to become the standard. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Riddler kept the green leotard with purple belt look. Even got a variation of it for "Challenge of the Super Friends."

The story goes that when Bill Dozier picked up several issues Batman and Detective Comics, one of them was the Riddler's one pre-Gorshin silver age appearance. (It would appear after doing two Riddler stories in 6 months in 1948, Schiff gave up on him.) And that one comic was the inspiration for the first 2 episodes (1st arc.)
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Killer Croc! Rainbow Creature! The Riddler!)

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I wish writers would remember that not every villain needs to be some grim, dire threat to the hero. The Riddler is someone who is all about matching wits with his opponent and enriching himself through crime. He doesn't really want to hurt anyone, he's just a crook with a gimmick. He'd fit right in with the Flashes Rogues save that he's a bit of an intellectual snob and they're more like blue collar criminals.

Not every villain needs to be Ra's Al Ghul, Bane or the Joker in one of his more hateful episodes. The Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler work because they're just criminals breaking the law. That they usually aren't usually trying to hurt anyone personally doesn't detract from the fact that they're breaking the law and stealing things that don't belong to them. Some villains are deadly menaces, some are just crooks, some are just annoyances. It helps to have a spectrum of villainy so that not everything feels like some life or death struggle. It's entirely possible for the Riddler or Penguin to order someone killed, but it's not their main goal. And frankly, the sentences for manslaughter and murder are much harsher on people than for burglary or robbery.

As for Batman beating up the mentally ill and the deformed . . . yeah, no. While the views on mental illness have become more nuanced over time, there's nothing about Batman that implies that he's picking on mentally ill people or deformed people. In the real world, it's understood that mental illness and deformities are something people can suffer, but the person is still responsible for their own actions outside of very few instances. If any of the Batman villains do legitimately suffer from mental illness, it isn't the illness that makes them a criminal. Most people suffering from mental illness don't become criminals, they get diagnosis, get treatment, undergo therapy, take medication, and take steps to treat their issues.

What Batman's villains do is what a lot of bad people do: use some circumstance in their life as an excuse to be worse people. Killer Croc isn't a criminal because he looks different from normal people, he uses that as an excuse to indulge in his worst behavior. Batman isn't going around punching mentally ill people, he's going around fighting criminals who use their bad circumstances (real or imagined) as an excuse to commit crime.

Most of Batman's villains aren't even technically insane or suffering from a mental illness. They most often simply plead to that to get incarcerated at Arkham Asylum rather than a maximum security prison.

Though I'd say the Arkham Asylum concept does need to be updated slightly. I'd go with the idea of Jeremiah Arkham being a wealthy and famous psychologist who wants to study what he calls "Super Crime". He's developing a theory that anyone who puts on a costume to commit crimes is suffering from some new mental illness, and he wants to study the phenomena, possibly treat it. So he worked out a deal with the city where he turned his old family asylum into a modern facility that allows super criminals to be incarcerated, examined, cared for and possibly treated. I'd go with the idea that the Asylum IS actually good at keeping Gotham's criminals contained, as even normal maximum security prisons can barely hold most of these villains for a week before they get out. It's just that the more persistent criminals still manage to find a way to escape.

The key would be to actually have some villains stay caught for long stretches of time (though having Amanda Waller use them for the Suicide Squad is always a good way to have them let loose), as well as have some villains that are eventually cured and rehabilitated. Give some of the truly sympathetic ones like Two-Face or the Ventriloquist a happy ending. Make the happy endings and reform stories part of WHY Batman keeps sending the criminals there. In some cases, it's just the safest place to contain them. In others, it allows them to legitimately turn over a new leaf and move on with their lives.

Too many writers have focused on being dark and edgy that they forget that superheroes, especially Marvel and DC, are focused on good people making a positive difference in the world.
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Killer Croc! Rainbow Creature! The Riddler!)

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If anything, the Joker really should go to an actual prison over an asylum. He clearly know what he's doing is wrong and that he hurting people, but he's just an huge asshole. He doesn't qualify as criminaly insane in any way.
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Killer Croc! Rainbow Creature! The Riddler!)

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Arcae wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:31 pm If anything, the Joker really should go to an actual prison over an asylum. He clearly know what he's doing is wrong and that he hurting people, but he's just an huge asshole. He doesn't qualify as criminaly insane in any way.
Alex Ross and Jim Kreuger's JUSTICE series had Batman say more or less that. He doesn't think the Joker is insane or anything, he simply acts crazy so as to be given more lenient sentences and to not be held accountable for his actions. While some versions of the Joker do play up him being mentally ill and try to make him sympathetic, others paint him as someone who just enjoys spreading pain and misery while also making himself wealthy.

I mean, think about it: we've probably all encountered someone in real life who is a gadfly. They enjoy making other people miserable, of having some power over them, of getting a reaction from folks. The kind of people who pull mean pranks on people and then defend it with "It's just a prank, why you so mad?". They love the attention, they love laughing at others, and they love making others miserable. The Joker is basically that dialed up to 11, but with some added theatricality, willingness to actually kill people, and so on.
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Re: Jab’s Builds (Killer Croc! Rainbow Creature! The Riddler!)

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Okay, here we go. Deep breath. I got this.

The Riddler is, in my book, the most fascinating of all of Batman's enemies, because his method of attempting to "beat" Batman is unique to himself (okay, and a few rip-offs like Cluemaster and King Tut in his one comics appearance), in that he's attempting to genuinely outsmart Batman instead of overpower him or just kill him. It's a fascinating approach that I think showcases whether a writer is a fan of the silver age or not, in that you can't just write down "some guys with guns appear and then Batman punches them all" on a page, you actually have to think of a riddle so complex that there's no way Batman could ever solve it, and then figure out how Batman solves it. It's the same approach you'd have to use to create all those brilliant deathtraps that Batman villains used to use, and showcases just how clever Batman is, and not just some Space Mutiny-esque character named "Sneak Punchkicker." It's just as effective a weapon against Batman, since if you can outsmart him once, it proves he's fallible, and the entire myth shatters, allowing lower-case "c" crime to return to Gotham City.

However, the Riddler is also fascinating because, despite how awful "Hush" was, Paul Dini's "rehabilitation" of the Riddler managed to present an entirely new threat to Batman, in that if the Riddler could, in fact, solve a crime before Batman could, it would have the same destructive power to his myth as committing the crime. Except this time, Batman can't just punch out the Riddler and haul him off to jail, the police tend to frown on you doing that to their consultants. It's presumably why nobody ever just jacked Shawn Spencer in his smug face on Psych, despite how much he deserved it.

(I could do a whole tirade on why the whole "a riddle everyone knows the answer to" twist from Hush is idiotic, and how a character who's proven time and time again to simply want to prove he's smarter than everyone would stand on the rooftops shouting "BRUCE WAYNE IS BATMAN" before moving on to figuring out, say, the location of Paradise Island or the secret identity of Mad Dog, but ... well, I think I just did.)
Ares wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:25 pm I wish writers would remember that not every villain needs to be some grim, dire threat to the hero. The Riddler is someone who is all about matching wits with his opponent and enriching himself through crime. He doesn't really want to hurt anyone, he's just a crook with a gimmick. He'd fit right in with the Flashes Rogues save that he's a bit of an intellectual snob and they're more like blue collar criminals.

Not every villain needs to be Ra's Al Ghul, Bane or the Joker in one of his more hateful episodes. The Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler work because they're just criminals breaking the law. That they usually aren't usually trying to hurt anyone personally doesn't detract from the fact that they're breaking the law and stealing things that don't belong to them. Some villains are deadly menaces, some are just crooks, some are just annoyances. It helps to have a spectrum of villainy so that not everything feels like some life or death struggle. It's entirely possible for the Riddler or Penguin to order someone killed, but it's not their main goal. And frankly, the sentences for manslaughter and murder are much harsher on people than for burglary or robbery.
Also, this. The absolute worst thing you can do with a lot of Batman's villains is have them decide to rack up a body count. Having Killer Croc suddenly start to eat people, Riddler score body counts in the double digits, Mad Hatter take glee in people hurting themselves, it's all really unnecessary and detracts from the point of the characters.
Ares wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:25 pm As for Batman beating up the mentally ill and the deformed . . . yeah, no. While the views on mental illness have become more nuanced over time, there's nothing about Batman that implies that he's picking on mentally ill people or deformed people. In the real world, it's understood that mental illness and deformities are something people can suffer, but the person is still responsible for their own actions outside of very few instances. If any of the Batman villains do legitimately suffer from mental illness, it isn't the illness that makes them a criminal. Most people suffering from mental illness don't become criminals, they get diagnosis, get treatment, undergo therapy, take medication, and take steps to treat their issues.

What Batman's villains do is what a lot of bad people do: use some circumstance in their life as an excuse to be worse people. Killer Croc isn't a criminal because he looks different from normal people, he uses that as an excuse to indulge in his worst behavior. Batman isn't going around punching mentally ill people, he's going around fighting criminals who use their bad circumstances (real or imagined) as an excuse to commit crime.


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Re: Jab’s Builds (Killer Croc! Rainbow Creature! The Riddler!)

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for me one of the BAtman Animated series best episodes was "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy" where batman has to outwit a trap master and the kingpin who hired him to retrieve batmans cape and cowl. the end twist was amazing
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catsi563 wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:44 pm for me one of the BAtman Animated series best episodes was "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy" where batman has to outwit a trap master and the kingpin who hired him to retrieve batmans cape and cowl. the end twist was amazing
If it wasn't for "Almost Got 'Im" and one or two other episodes, that episode would probably be the best stand-alone episode of the entire series.
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Amygdala

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AMYGDALA (Aaron Helzinger)
Created By:
Alan Grant & Norm Breyfogle
First Appearance: Batman- Shadow of the Bat #3 (Aug. 1992)
Role: Jobber Villain, Strongman
Group Affiliations: None
PL 7 (60)
STRENGTH
7 STAMINA 6 AGILITY 0
FIGHTING 7 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE -2 AWARENESS -2 PRESENCE -2

Skills:
Athletics 2 (+9)
Intimidation 8 (+6)

Advantages:
All-Out Attack, Fast Grab, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Hold, Power Attack, Startle

Offense:
Unarmed +7 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +0

Defenses:
Dodge +5 (DC 15), Parry +7 (DC 17), Toughness +6, Fortitude +7, Will +3

Complications:
Temper- Amygdala is medically unable to regulate his anger. Without an implant in his brain, he will fly off the handle at any moment.
Responsibility (Childlike)- Amygdala has the mind of a child, and is easily led by others.

Total: Abilities: 38 / Skills: 10--5 / Advantages: 6 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 11 (60)

-Yeah, okay. So Batman once fought a Red Hulk of his own. Named for the part of the brain that controls emotional associations, Amygdala had his removed in an attempt to cure him of his homicidal rage ("apparently by a doctor who did not understand the difference between the amygdala and the hypothalamus" notes the Batman Wiki). But instead he became worse than ever. Easily led thanks to a childlike nature, he is often made a pawn of other villains. Cruel Arkham administrator Jeremiah Arkham sent him up against Batman, then an inmate, but Batman felt bad about fighting someone who was legitimately mentally handicapped, so put Amygdala down as painlessly as possible. He then had to fight a variety of other baddies. He showed up as one of the speedbump goons in Knightfall, too.

-Amygdala then showed up in a few more background scenes in the '90s, but was mostly discarded as a nobody. He is cured thanks to an implant and shows up in Nightwing as one of Dick Grayson's neighbors, where he was given a sympathetic turn. He avoided confrontations, and even got to live in Dick's new building when the other one was condemned, and got a job as a warden in Bludhaven's prison. He survived the bombing of Dick's apartment by Blockbuster, but was heavily traumatized. He shows up in the background of Alexander Luthor's "Secret Society", apparently having gone back to crime just to survive (translation: "Hey, that red guy's a villain, right? Nobody's writing him right now, I think."). He's been ignored ever since.

-Amygdala is a complete simpleton, and actually a pretty easy villain to defeat- he's strong enough to bend steel girders and knock guys across the room with one punch, but Batman's main struggle is "not hurting him too much" by defeating him. They even do that "hit a pressure point" thing to beat him, which only ever happens to jobbers. So he's PL 7-ish- a powerhouse who does a lot of damage, but is very inaccurate and would struggle to tag someone like Batman, who as +15 or so to parry.
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Re: Amygdala

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I know it's not the point of the scene, but I just want to take a moment to point out the brilliance of the fact that Ventriloquist is speaking to Amygdala while his puppet is drinking. I swear, you can barely see the sock's lips move.
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Johnny Warlock

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JOHNNY WARLOCK (John Warren)
Created By:
Bill Willingham & Rick Mays
First Appearance: Robin #121 (Feb. 2004)
Role: Wizard-Thief
Group Affiliations: None

-Johnny Warren was just a regular goon working for a mobster in Gotham, but in a fight with Robin, his hand got blown off. He fused with an "artifact" which made him an instant sorcerer. Naming himself "Johnny Warlock", he took over the gang. When his boss's daughter is killed, he resurrects her using his powers (sacrificing her father in the process), turning her into Warlock's Daughter. He tasks her with killing Robin, but Robin tricks Johnny into thinking that Robin is actually way more powerful. He's later only a background nobody.
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Warlock's Daughter

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WARLOCK'S DAUGHTER (Darla Aquista, aka Laura Fell)
Created By:
Bill Willingham & Rick Mays
First Appearance: Robin #121 (Feb. 2004)
Role: Innocent Villainess (aka The Stormer)
Group Affiliations: The Shadowpact

-A charater I've never heard of, "Warlock's Daughter" is the daughter of Gotham mobster Henry Aquista, who was a feature of the Robin book. She was just a girl at Tim Drake's school, and developed a crush on Tim, even while his nerdy friend crushed on her. She disapproves of her dad's career, but mopes because Tim's in a relationship with Stephanie Brown at this point. When Darla is killed during a gang fight, her dad's enforcer, Johnny Warlock, resurrects her using Henry Aquista as a sacrifice. Now given innate magical powers, she owes a debt to Johnny, and so she is sent to kill Robin. She badly injures Superboy (disguised as Robin, but vulnerable to magic) and thinks Robin is dead, but Johnny attacks her for failing in the mission. Robin saves her, then she saves him with CPR after he drowns- he vows to leave her alone, and suggests she visit the "Shadowpact", a group of magic-themed heroes. She's part of that story for a bit, helping retrieve Blue Devil's trident from Hell.
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The Polka-Dot Man

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THE POLKA-DOT MAN (Abner Krill, aka Mister Polka-Dot)
Created By:
Bill Finger & Sheldon Moldoff
First Appearance: Detective Comics #300 (Feb. 1962)
Role: Jobber Villain
Group Affiliations: None
PL 8 (90)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 0

Skills:
Athletics 5 (+7)
Expertise (Criminal) 5 (+5)
Intimidation 5 (+5)
Perception 4 (+4)
Stealth 1 (+4)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 3

Powers:
"Polka-Dot Costume" (Flaws: Removable) [23]
"Gold Sun Dot" Dazzle Visuals 8 (Extras: Area- Visual Perception) (Diminished Range -1) (23) -- (28 points)
  • AE: "Red Flying Buzzsaw Dot" Blast 6 (Diminished Range -1) (11)
  • AE: "Yellow Flying Saucer Dot" Flight 4 (30 mph) (Flaws: Platform) (4)
  • AE: "White Bubble Dot" Flight 2 (8 mph) (4)
  • AE: "Fist Dots" Blast 4 (Extras: Multiattack) (Diminished Range -1) (11)
  • AE: "Black Hole Dot" Teleport 6 (12)
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Buzzsaw +8 (+6 Ranged Damage, DC 21)
Fist Dots +8 (+4 Ranged Damage, DC 19)
Sun Dot +8 Area (+8 Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +4

Complications:
Motivation (Greed)
Reputation (Loser)- There's a running gag where Robin once tracked him down using a leopard.

Total: Abilities: 44 / Skills: 20--10 / Advantages: 3 / Powers: 23 / Defenses: 10 (90)

-One of the straight-up goofiest villains of all time, this guys calls himself THE POLKA-DOT MAN. Abner Krill inexplicably decides to start a crime wave based on spots and dots in Gotham City, wearing a costume made of dots of various sizes and colors (thus, according to Wikipedia, NOT being actual polka-dots, which much be uniform, I guess). These spots may be removed from the costume and thrown for a variety of purposes, including the creation of a GETAWAY VEHICLE. Oh, Silver Age DC. So in any case, Mister Polka-Dot is defeated, and becomes a penniless, jobless bum. Desperate, he robs places using a baseball bat going by the more dignified "Polka-Dot Man", and is brutally beaten by Det. Harvey Bullock after injuring another cop with it. He sues the city for damages, resulting in poor Harvey being forced to see a psychiatrist. Krill goes on to become a sloppy alcoholic, barely even committing crimes any more. He reappears later under his original name as a group of villains given enhanced weapons by General Immortus & Professor Milo- they were betrayed by their teammate the Human Flame, and Mister Polka-Dot was among those killed, with a manhole cover crushing his head.

-The Polka-Dot Man somehow had an amazing costume covered in dots that he can remove and make grow into a variety of things. Hilariously, this includes a flying buzzsaw, a sun-shaped flare, a FLYING SAUCER, a bubble, and fist-shaped dots that hurt when thrown. Overally, he's a complete goof, being PL 6 defensively, PL 7 with his Dots, and PL 8 with a Dazzle. I have no idea where he gets his stuff, but I refuse to believe he's smart enough to have invented it himself.
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It's interesting how many of the goofy Suicide Squad 2 characters are actually Batman Rogues. I've noticed both Polka-Dot Man & Ratcatcher among them.
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