Superhero Class. [24] In the final battle, the Flash looks around to see if Ralph and Sue were among those resurrected by the White Entity, only to be told by Green Lantern they were not coming back.[25]. He was once a criminal who acquired superpowers after a botched heist, where his partners abandoned him and he was exposed to chemicals. Autoplay is paused. Despite his prominence in the superhero community, he maintains a public identity alongside his wife Sue Dibny. Info. He was doomed from the beginning. The Elongated Man responded by telling her that the Green Arrow's hat covers a bald spot. Plastic Man (real name Patrick "Eel" O'Brien) is a fictional comic book superhero who was originally published by Quality comics, and later acquired by DC comics. Forum Posts. [18], During week 42, Dibny is in Dr. Lured by the dream of making it big with fortune, he became a henchman for Kite Man. (Ralph would tease Wally mercilessly about not being as fast or as good as his uncle Barry, the real Flash). Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. The story goes that DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz wanted a new hero introduced as a partner to The Flash and hit upon the idea of a stretching hero like Plastic Man. Plastic Man is a complete shapeshifter with a semi-liquid body, he can assume any shape he wants and even turn into machinery with rotating parts (like a car). Who is this bizarre, stretchable plastic man (who is not Plastic Man, DC Comics' other elastic hero) with the unusual superhero name? Plastic Man vs Mr. Recently the Ralph Dibny of Earth-51, where secret identities are no longer needed by superheroes, has been seen in Countdown to Final Crisis. Round 1: Spider Man vs Batman. Like Us On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/needlemouseproductions/?notif_t=page_fan Plastic Man (real name Patrick Edward "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional superhero first appearing in Police Comics #1, originally published by Quality Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. Often considered one of the most brilliant detectives in the DC Universe (compared with Batman only differing in the actual course of their logic). [16] Dibny journeys with the helm through the afterlives of several cultures, where he is cautioned about the use of magic. Eventually, his wife became a member as well. Publication history. His other great nerdy love is British TV series like The Crown, Downton Abbey, and Killing Eve. A running joke in "I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League" involves the possibility of Sue's pregnancy. Round 4: Rhino vs … Ralph was also considered one of the DC Universe's greatest detectives. That being said, poor elongated man. [volume & issue needed], At the end of Week 52, it is revealed that Dibny's magical, wish-granting gun (a souvenir from "the Anselmo Case", a reference to The Life Story of the Flash) worked——Ralph's last wish was to be reunited with his wife, even in death——and that Ralph and Sue are now reunited as ghost detectives, investigating a school where a paranormal phenomenon has just occurred.[1]. Curious about their powers of contortion, Ralph discovered that they all drank Gingold, a soft drink containing gingo, a rare fruit from the Yucatán to which most people are severely allergi… The limits and applications of this ability vary from user to user, and it may sometimes grant them additional properties akin to other elastic substances. Who would win Plastic Man you might think he’s useless, but the guy’s a dangerous person. Round 2 Miles vs Robin and Nightwing. O'Brian attemp… He can contort his body into various positions and sizes impossible for ordinary humans, such as being entirely flat so that he can slip under a door, or using his fingers to pick conventional locks. This results in a rubbery "nose twitch". Watch later. Labs particle accelerator's explosion. Ralph and Sue appeared as members of the Justice League offshoot the Super Buddies in the miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League and its sequel story arc "I Can't Believe It's Not The Justice League" published in JLA: Classified #4-9. In Kingdom Come, when Superman comes out of retirement and re-establishes the Justice League, Batman recruits Ralph Dibny to become part of his faction. The Mask also appeared in a movie and an animated television series. During the Black Adam: The Dark Ages miniseries, Faust is shown to escape with the help of Black Adam and a resurrected Isis, who is under Faust's mental control. If he is slaughtered with a rail gun or cut in half by an energy blast he will just reform as if nothing happened. Originally a criminal nicknamed "Eel" O'Brian, an accident in a chemical factory gave him his ability and he reformed to fight against crime. He managed to make it outside but collapsed, unconsci… [7] Sometimes they would travel the world or meet other DC superheroes like Batman, Green Lantern, the Atom and Zatanna. An evil future version of Elongated Man called Elongated Maniac appears in The Flash #53. When Ralph was 10 years old, his father walked out on him and his mother, which caused Ralph to start making jokes whenever he felt afraid and to cheer up his mom. Elongated Man has appeared in live action on The CW television series The Flash played by Hartley Sawyer. Plastic Manaka Edward “The Eel” O’Brian was once a small time gangster known for his ability to slip away from capture. Elongated Man is a superhero with the ability to stretch his body great lengths, and one of the world's greatest detectives. In December 2018, new development of a Plastic Man film was announced, with Amanda Idoko instead writing the screenplay and Robert Shaye executive producing. [2] Julius Schwartz has noted that the Elongated Man was only created because he had not realized that Plastic Man was available due to character rights having been obtained by DC in 1956 (along with other Quality Comics properties). Deadman. 0. This feature became sporadic during the late '60s and throughout the '70s. Well, Ralph resumed his normal form. The Elongated Man was created by writer John Broome and penciler Carmine Infantino, with significant input from editor Julius Schwartz, who wanted a new supporting character for the Flash. Ralph Dibny was one of the earliest Silver Age DC heroes to reveal his secret identity to the public, and also one of the first to marry his love interest. The Mask, also known in the comics as Big Head, is a character from the same title comic book series by Dark Horse Comics. In addition to his stretching abilities, the Elongated Man is professionally trained as a detective and is highly skilled in deductive reasoning. The lightness of season 4 is palpable, and the addition of Elongated Man to the main cast as a recurring character gives The Flash an added spark of Silver Age comic book shenanigans. He appears in Commander Cold's flashbacks to an encounter where he faces off against Commander Cold after killing hostages. The Flash 4x04 Barry Allen and Elongated Man argue and fight. In 2013, rumors began to spread that David Tennant would play Plastic Man in the 2017 Justice League film as a comical character, something that The Flash's role in the film is. “Pleasure’s all mine,” Plas said as he and Ralph peeled off and resumed their forms. [21], In Blackest Night #0, Ralph and Sue Dibny's graves are shown during Black Hand's chant. It’ll be a battle against the character that best matches them. He can also use it for disguise by changing the shape of his face, although this is painful and difficult for him. Later Dibny is seen hawking a "male enhancement" drink "Gingold" in a TV infomercial. Ralph Dibny played a central role in the events of Identity Crisis, with the main arc of the series revolving around the DC Universe's response to the murder of Sue Dibny. Flash is not all powerful, he has been defeated by less powerful foes numerious times. Copy link. 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This is a forum where combatants fight to the absolute PEAK of their power potential. Ralph's skeleton is used by Faust to create the illusion that Adam's attempt at resurrecting Isis had failed. Later, the Elongated Man and Sue joined Justice League Europe alongside the late Barry's successor as the Flash, Wally West. Some years ago, the criminal known as Eel O'Brian, along with his gang of underlings, broke into and attempted to rob Cole Chemical, but the police arrived on the scene. https://theflash.fandom.com/wiki/Elongated_Man_(Hartley_Sawyer) John can be found on Twitter @BackoftheHead if you want to see photos of the food he eats. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. [8] In his first appearance, the Flash suspects the Elongated Man is behind several crimes, but the Elongated Man helps capture the criminals, who reveal they used a helicopter to frame him.[9]. However, Infantino and inker Murphy Anderson stated that he never used him as a reference for anything. [3][4][5], In his 2000 autobiography, The Amazing World of Carmine Infantino, the artist wrote, "I really liked Elongated Man because it was comical and I enjoyed drawing comedy. As a lover of film and film theory, John wrote humorous movie reviews on his blog, Back of the Head, which got him noticed by Screen Rant. At the end of the issue (in the promotional profile image of the Black Lantern Corps) his hand is easily identifiable as popping out of its grave. YouTube. He confronts Cassandra Sandsmark,[11] and she tells Dibny that she is in a cult that believes that Superboy can be resurrected. His physiology is more like that of an ordinary human than Plastic Man and, as a result, he does not share Plastic Man's nigh-invulnerability. Plastic Man is a super-hero whose unique completely malleable body chemistry allows him to stretch to great lengths and contort himself into any position imaginable. [14], During Week 13, Ralph goes to the ceremony. This is a forum where combatants fight to the absolute PEAK of their power potential. [13] In Week 12, Ralph finds Wonder Girl and she tells him they stole the clothes and ring to make a Sue dummy. He learned that all of the body-benders he spoke with drank a popular soda called "Gingold". The Superhero Database Classification number, or SHDB Class, is a number that represents the overall 'power' of a character. [12], During Week 11, after scaring some cult members and chasing them off, he gets a report that someone broke into a storage container in Opal City and stole Sue's clothes. [volume & issue needed], During Week 27, the Spectre promises to resurrect Sue in exchange for Dibny's taking vengeance on Jean Loring, but Dibny is unable to do so. Similar to the mistrust TV Barry showed Dibny, the comic book Flash at first suspected Dibny of being behind several crimes in Central City, until they teamed up to catch the actual criminals. He is a talented amateur chemist as well. Reviews: 0. The Flash got a dose of Silver Age shenanigans by introducing Ralph Dibny, Barry's new foil. The Elongated Man appears in JLA/Avengers #3, replacing Plastic Man after the merging of the DC and Marvel Universes. With his wife Sue, Ralph was a happily married superhero and one half of a husband and wife detective duo. Nevertheless, DC's second stretchable super sleuth was created by writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino, debuting in The Flash #112. I liked being able to test the limits of the comic book form and this strip allowed me to do that."[6]. These stretching powers grant the Elongated Man heightened agility enabling flexibility and coordination that is beyond the natural limits of the human body. In this era inadvertently created by the time-traveling machinations of the Flash, Plastic Man is a cold and calculating killer who is not to be crossed. Firehawk once told Ralph that the Green Arrow said the nose twitch was not a real thing but rather something he made up to get more press. Elastic Man is a fun addicting game, or more like a face stretching simulator, to play online and for free on Silvergames.com. He assists the other villains in leading a massive prison break.Heat Wave betrays O'Brian and apparently murders him, using his flame gun to melt him to death. The Flash has ramped up its comedic elements this season, zooming away from the angst, doom and gloom that pervaded throughout the prior season where a future version of Barry himself was the villainous speedster Savitar. Ralph died in the 52 series, but he and Sue were reborn as undead ghost detectives and later as Black Lanterns. Plastic Man was made as a joke. Sent by Giovanni "John" Zatara who, as a member of the Hell Resistance Movement, hopes to take advantage of the war, they ask Doctor Occult to aid him in his plan. [27] He is subsequently killed by the Monitor of New Earth, Bob.[28]. They infiltrate Lex Luthor's Mankind Liberation Front and once they discover that Luthor is brainwashing Captain Marvel, they attack and incarcerate the MLF members. Elongated Man (Randolph "Ralph" Dibny) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Tap to unmute. It was also one of my favorite strips, because it was as close to animation as I could do in a comic book. After teaming up with several other superheroes like Batman, Green Lantern, the Atom, Zatanna and the Justice League of America, he became a member of the team. After the 2011 New 52 reboot, the Elongated Man was revealed to be part of the Secret Six, but his resurgence (hopefully in all of his classic glory) in the current DC Rebirth continuity has yet to occur. Plastic Man used his abilities to make himself look exactly like the Flash. He would do anything to get attention, always a showoff and a prankster.He was fascinated by the \"india-rubber men\" that he saw at carnival side shows. Barry and Ralph would go on to be fast friends, often teaming up as two crime fighting detective superheroes. Patrick may seem a bit unintimidating but he’s actually a very deadly foe when it comes to it. He survives and returns to take revenge on Heat Wave when he has been r… User Lists: 0 #1 Edited By Scarecrow4. Sue was murdered in Identity Crisis, and a distraught Ralph sought to solve the mystery of his wife's murder, eventually learning the killer was Jean Loring, the wife of Ray Palmer, the Atom. The latter arc was produced before Identity Crisis, but published afterwards. A one-stop shop for all things video games. The Elongated Man gained his abilities by drinking a refined version of a soft drink named Gingold that contains the extract of a (fictional) fruit called gingo. As a teenager, Ralph Dibny was fascinated by contortionists, or people who displayed feats of agility and suppleness. Elongated Man and Plastic Man have a comparable set of powers in DC Comics, although the means through which they gained them is completely very different.Ralph Dibny, aka Elongated Man, has to drink a potion called Gingold to make his body incredibly flexible and … Ralph's physiology has greater physical limitations than Plastic Man; there is a limit to how far he can stretch his finite bodily mass, and he cannot open holes in his body as Plastic Man can. They then dissipate and leave him to make his decision. Woozy Winks is his bumbling best friend and sidekick. In this new timeline, Ralph Dibny is apparently a rogue member of the Secret Six, under the alias of Damon Wells a.k.a. Twelve metahumans were created by dark matter striking the passengers of a bus when Barry re-emerged, but not all of them would be rogues for the Flash to face. Originally a criminal nicknamed "Eel" O'Brian, an accident in a chemical factory gave him his ability and he reformed to fight against crime. Flash Fact: The Elongated Man was only created in 1960 because editor Julius Schwartz didn't realize that DC actually already owned the rights to Plastic Man. The only other hero in the DCU who uses Gingold is Stretch, a member of Hero Hotline who has been using the compound since the 1940s. Teaching himself chemistry, Dibny created a highly concentrated version of Gingold, which granted him super elasticity if he drank it every few days, turning him into the Elongated Man. Nursed back to health by altruistic monks, … She invites him to the ceremony. Flash is not all powerful, he has been defeated by less powerful foes numerious times. Despite being used as comic relief most of the time he’s on panel… Plastic Man is more powerful than you can possibly imagine. The Elongated Man was created by writer John Broome and penciler Carmine Infantino, with significant input from editor Julius Schwartz, who wanted a new supporting character for the Flash. Plastic Man (real name Patrick Edward "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional superhero first appearing in Police Comics #1, originally published by Quality Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. In fact, most people are extremely allergic to highly concentrated Gingold. Fantastic Two stretchy people against each other. Flashpoint introduced a wildly different version of Plastic Man with a devious twist. Plastic Man Scarecrow4. The Elongated Man received a solo backup feature in Detective Comics, where he was redefined as a detective who loves odd mysteries and travels the United States in a convertible with his wife, searching for them. After an abbreviated sixth season, The Flash is set to return for Season 7 in early 2021 on The CW. In this week's episode 'Elongated Journey Into Night', we learn that one of them turns out, after some initial doubt, to be not just a hero, but a classic DC Comics superhero character: Ralph Dibny, better known as the Elongated Man (Hartley Sawyer).
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