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The second Bizarro is a defective clone of Superman. After escaping, he joined Red Hood's Outlaws.
History
Origin
This unnamed clone was one of many created by Lex Luthor to recreate the original Bizarro, however after subjects B-04 and B-05 failed, Lex decided to discard all of them. Fortunately for the clone, Roman Sionis also known as the Black Mask heard about the planned disposal and so had the clone rescued. When Artemis came looking for the Bow of Ra, her and Red Hood incidentally stumbled upon the clone before they were knocked out by Roman.[2]
Red Hood, who was currently playing as a double agent working for Black Mask, would be shown the clone being born and would witness as the clone was freed from its tube and slowly became an imperfect duplicate. The clone would begin being conditioned to think he was Superman, however due to the clone's low intelligence it did not work and when Red Hood gave him a Superman plush Bizarro (who proceeded to name himself) briefly went berserk over thinking Red Hood was calling him Superman. Using the plush, Red Hood managed to calm him down, when Black Mask revealed that he knew who Red Hood was the whole time he used the Technovirus to control Bizarro. This would result in Artemis fighting Bizarro while Red Hood fought Black Mask, unfortunately for Black Mask, Bizarro's backwards mind and logic proved too much for him and drove him into a mental coma. Bizarro then joined Red Hood and Artemis to form the new Outlaws on their quest to find and retrieve the Bow of Ra.[3][4][5][6]
Adventures with the Outlaws
While with the team, Red Hood would begin trying to train Bizarro on how to fight without killing others something Bizarro would become quite good at. Red Hood and Artemis were aware from Black Mask's warnings that Bizarro's life may not last long but decided to keep him along either way. When going to Qurac to retrieve the Bow of Ra, the three would be separated when their plane crashed. Bizarro would land in a village where people asked for his help and he would attempt to help them and defend them from the soldiers who attacked them. When he figured out that the mountains were the problem he punched a hole into them until he made it to the other side where he reunited with his teammates. Bizarro would then assist Red Hood and Artemis in fighting Akila, however like with Superman, Bizarro appeared to be vulnerable to magic. When Akila appeared to be going nuclear from her overuse of the Bow of Ra, Bizarro flew her into the sky as she detonated which weakened Bizarro and sped up his already short life causing him to collapse to his teammates' horror.[6][7][8][9][10]
It was discovered that Bizarro was indeed dying by his teammates who attempted to keep him alive every way they could. When Solomon Grundy appeared in town, the two left to go fight him telling him not to follow. However, worried for his friends safety Bizarro went anyway and despite both Red Hood and Artemis scolding him for doing so, Bizarro knocks Grundy out before dying to his friends' sadness. Red Hood considered using the Lazarus Pit on Bizarro before being knocked out by Lex Luthor who becomes curious by Bizarro's corpse. Lex, tried to see if Bizarro was possibly the same as Subject B-0 but quickly came to his senses and realized the two couldn't be the same despite his hopes, he decided to revive Bizarro with Green Kryptonite and then hand him over to Red Hood and Artemis who to their shock discovered Bizarro had become intelligent.[11][12][13]
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Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Bizarro Physiology
- Superhuman Strength: Bizarro is extremely strong, possessing explosive, almost unlimited super-strength. However, the exact magnitude of Bizarro's strength has never been measured or fully examined. He was once able to move a mountain with no form of aid and send a man into the sun with a single punch.[14] What was perhaps his greatest display of brute force was when he single-handedly defeated the demon Trigon by ripping his heart out of his chest.[15]
- Superhuman Speed
- Time Travel: Bizarro is fast enough to completely overclock the Cosmic Treadmill, which can withstand speeds great enough to time travel.[16]
- Invulnerability: Bizarro is impervious to almost every known form of physical force including, bullets, bombs, missiles, lasers. Sufficient enough force however, can eventually put down Bizarro. He once survived the force of a nuke, although this put him in critical condition.[17]
- Regeneration: Bizarro has impressive recovery abilities, after being impaled by multiple spikes he was able to heal completely after a few moments.[14]
- Self-Sustenance: Unlike Superman, who relies upon solar radiation in order to tap into his super-powers, Bizarro requires no such external assistance. He does not need to eat or drink, and can function without the need of rest for an indeterminate amount of time.
- Flight: Bizarro can fly under his own willpower without the aid of external assistance.
- Flame-Breath: Bizarro can produce and spray super-heated plasma or lava-like fluid from his mouth through exhalation. He can also use this ability to ignite combustible materials within a specified radius.
- Enhanced Vision: In few occasions Bizarro demonstrated to possess vision-based abilities.[18]
- X-Ray Vision
- Infrared Vision
- Telescopic Vision
- Arctic Vision: Bizarro can emit and release a powerful concentrated amount of cold steam from his eyes, as well as shoot ice beams from them. These beams maintain subzero degrees of temperature enabling Bizarro to freeze solid objects and living organisms.
- Heat Vision: Bizarro has recently developed the ability to project concentrated beams of heat from his eyes just like a real kryptonian.[14]
- Cybernetic Enhancement: Bizarro's right arm, shoulder and part of his face have been replaced with Brainiac's technology.[19]
Abilities
- Genius Level Intellect (Formerly): After being saved by Lex Luthor Bizarro developed a brilliant mind far superior to that of a common human being. Unfortunately, however, his mind began to regress to the level of a common Bizarro, which he tried to prevent by administering kryptonite until Artemis persuaded him to stop.
Weaknesses
- Natural Lower Intellect: Due to his nature as an imperfect clone Bizarro has a very limited intellect.[3]
- Kryptonite Dependency (Formerly): For a period Bizarro boosted his intelligence by consuming kryptonite.
- Monstrous Appearance: Soon after being exposed to air Bizarro's body turned grotesquely pale and large.[3]
- Vulnerability to Blue Kryptonite: Bizarro is vulnerable to the effects of Blue Kryptonite, one of the few materials on Earth capable of killing him.[20]
Notes
- Bizarro was created by Otto Binder and George Papp, originally appearing in the 1958 issue Superboy #68. The version of Bizarro seen in Prime Earth continuity is the second Bizarro seen in the Prime Earth, which is created by Scott Lobdell, originally published in Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #2 as part of DC Rebirth.
- This version of Bizarro now talks in sophisticated English and is very intelligent but he knows that it will not last.[21]
- Every appearance of this Bizarro post-Death Metal is a completely reinvented, new iteration of the character and likely shares no historical background with his Rebirth version. He is now portrayed as more of a stereo-typical "evil" Bizarro that has aligned himself with the likes of Amanda Waller and Inferno.
Related
- 100 Appearances of Bizarro II (Prime Earth)
- 92 Images featuring Bizarro II (Prime Earth)
- 4 Quotations by or about Bizarro II (Prime Earth)
- Character Gallery: Bizarro II (Prime Earth)
Footnotes
- ↑ Batman/Superman (Volume 2) #7
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws #2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #3
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #4
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #5
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #6
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #7
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #8
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #9
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #10
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #11
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #12
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #13
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Red Hood: Outlaw Annual #3
- ↑ Red Hood: Outlaw #47
- ↑ Batman/Superman: World's Finest 2025 Annual #1
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #11
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #17
- ↑ Batman (Volume 3) #151
- ↑ Suicide Squad: Dream Team #4
- ↑ Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #14
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