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--sss--Why, Mittens? Me--hkk--try so hard, and me not even good enough to be pretend Superman. This strange world... These strange people... They am so beautiful. Me love them so much, but me never understand them. And them never understand me. Why am me always square peg in round world? Why am me not worthy of love? Me not need that, Mittens. Me am no actor. Me am no Superman.
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~ Bizarro to Mittens.
Bizarro is a major character in the DC Universe, serving as a major antagonist in the Superman franchise. He is an imperfect clone of Superman who desires to become a hero like his counterpart, although, due to perceiving everything as the opposite of what it really is, his "heroic" actions usually end up doing more harm than good.
Over the years, there have been multiple different incarnations of Bizarro, most being either imperfect clones of Superman or hailing from a different, alternate reality called "Bizarro World". No matter the incarnation, Bizarro is usually portrayed as a tragic villain who often legitimately wishes to do good, and as such has taken the role of both hero and anti-hero at times.
He has appeared as a villain in numerous storylines, serving as the titular secondary antagonist of Bizarro's World, the secondary antagonist of Emperor Joker, and one of the main protagonists of Red Hood and the Outlaws. He is one of Superman's oldest foes, and an enemy of other heroes such as Supergirl, Superboy, Batman, The Terrifics and the Justice League. Bizarro and the Bizarro World have become somewhat well-known in popular culture, and the term Bizarro is used as to describe anything that utilizes twisted logic or that is the opposite of something else.
In JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, he was voiced by Michael Donovan.
In LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, he was voiced by Nolan North.
In DC Super Friends, he was voiced by Marc Thompson.
Videogames
In Superman: The Man of Steel, he was voiced by Sean O'Kane.
In the Superman Returns game, he was voiced by John DiMaggio.
In DC Universe Online, he was voiced by Joe Mandia.
In LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, he was voiced by Travis Willingham. In LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham and LEGO DC Super-Villains, he was voiced by Nolan North.
In Justice League: Cosmic Chaos, he was voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
Biography[]
Earth-One[]
The original Bizarro (also known as Bizarro-Superboy) was created when Kal-El/Superboy was exposed to a "duplicate ray" created by Professor Dalton. However, this version of the character was eventually destroyed by Superboy.
Later, a new version of Bizarro was created by Lex Luthor. In accordance with the science fiction concepts of Superman stories of the era, Bizarro relocated to "the Bizarro world," a cubical planet called Htrae which operated under "Bizarro logic" (it was a crime to do anything good or right) and which Bizarro populated with inverted versions of Superman's supporting cast and other DC heroes.
In Superman #140, Bizarro leads a backward battalion of imperfect Superman doppelgängers in a war against Earth to reclaim his misplaced first-born son.
In World's Finest #156, when Bizarro-Superman and Bizarro-Batman visit Earth to act as helpful fill-ins for the absent heroes, they become the unwitting pawns of the ever-crafty Joker.
New Earth[]
The 1986 event Crisis on Infinite Earths rewrote DC's continuity, eliminating Htrae. Since then, three versions of Bizarro have appeared.
Lex Luthor came up with the idea of creating his own Superman through cloning. He hired Dr. Teng, an expert in cloning, but because Superman was an alien and the process was designed for cloning humans, the clone morphed into a monstrous brute. Luthor attempted to make a superman clone again, but once again it morphed into Bizarro.
A second version of Bizarro created by Dr. Sydney Happersen retaining some of Superman's memories, constructed his own "Bizarro Metropolis" out of trash and kidnapped Lois Lane.
The third one, longer lasting Bizarro, was an idea of the Batman villain the Joker, brought to life by the cosmic trickster Mister Mxyzptlk. Each iteration of Bizarro was more tragically misunderstood than malign, but his overwhelming power and limited intellect always made him dangerous.
In Action Comics #855–857, a psychologically wounded and existentially lonely Bizarro experimented upon by Lex Luthor flees Earth. He then creates his own square planet in space and populates it with warped copies of Superman's friends and family.
New 52[]
Three different versions of Bizarro were later introduced in the Post-Flashpoint continuity.
Subject B-0[]
Subject B-0
Wanting a Superman of his own to command, Lex Luthor mapped Superman's genome and eventually found limited success in Subject B-0, a clone that would possess the full range of powers of the last son of Krypton. When Earth was conquered by the Crime Syndicate of Earth 3, Luthor was forced to unleash his latest experimental subject far too early in its development phase, approximately five years before the clone would be a perfect Superman duplicate. This rather incoherent creature called itself Bizarro and remained loyal to Luthor until its death at the hands of Earth 3's Alexander Luthor.
Bizarro (E29)[]
The second version of Bizarro introduced in The New 52 continuity was an alternate version of Superman from Earth 29/"Bizarro World". He is a member of the Unjustice League of Unamerica, the husband of Loiz and the father of Boyzarro. However, unlike Superman, Bizarro has an abusive relationship with his family, always fighting with Loiz and making Boyzarro distance himself from him.
After the Dark Crisis, Earth 29 was probably destroyed, leaving Bizarro aimless in the universe. He then began to use his new powers to be able to possess Superman's body and transform Earth-0/Prime Earth into the new Bizarro world. Although he briefly succeeded, Superman eventually defeated him and saved the world.
Bizarro II[]
Bizarro II
Since Luthor refused to give up on his Bizarro project, the vigilante Red Hood (Jason Todd) soon chanced upon another Superman clone; one being held in the criminal Black Mask's captivity. During a fight with Black Mask, Red Hood teamed with this new Bizarro, as well as with the Amazon powerhouse Artemis. The three unlikely allies would stay together and form Red Hood's newest team of Outlaws. When an encounter with Lex Luthor left Bizarro with a genius-level intellect for a limited amount of time, Bizarro created an invisible floating headquarters for the Outlaws, one the size of a Gotham City block. Although his intelligence eventually faded, Bizarro's loyalties did not. When the team was separated by circumstance for a time, Bizarro found his way back to Red Hood. Bizarro then proved how much of a hero he truly was, choosing to remain in Hell in order to save the world from a demon horde during the aftermath of the team's battle with the evil Trigon. However, Bizarro eventually left Hell and joined the new Suicide Squad.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Earth 29 Bizarro using his new powers
Inverse-Kryptonian Physiology: As an inverse counterpart of Superman, Bizarro can absorb the energy spectrum of a red sun to fuel all of his abilities. While retaining most of a Kryptonian's natural abilities, Bizarro also can shoots beams of pure cold and instead of freezing breath, he breathes fire. However, his physiology has also severe psychological and physical side-effects. In Bizarro #3, It was revealed that his brain is not located in his head, in place of his brain is a maze. His torso is mainly and almost entirely his heart. He has 2 brains each contained within his fists.
Super-strength: Bizarro possesses tremendous superhuman strength; as he was strong enough to fight Superman on equal grounds.
Super speed: Due to his Kryptonian physiology, Bizarro is capable of moving at hyper-sonic speeds.
Flight: Bizarro can fly fast enough to keep up with the likes of Superman.
Invulnerability: Like Superman, Bizarro's body is virtually indestructible and essentially invulnerable to all human weapons.
Flame breath: Bizarro is able to exhale fiery blasts from his mouth.
Arctic vision: Bizarro is able to shoot purple bluish freezing beams from his eyes.
Magic: As ordinary Kryptonians can be affected by magic, Bizarro from Earth 29 can use mystic energy for a variety of purposes. He can generate and control magical forces at will.
Bizarro has been a consistent enemy of Superman since his first appearance. Faithful adaptations of Bizarro appeared in the animated series Super Friends and series in the subsequent DC Universe. Also, doppelgängers of Superman with some attributes of Bizarro appeared in live action adaptations.
Television[]
A clone of Superman similar to Bizarro appears in the Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode "Vatman", portrayed by Dean Cain. This version was created and raised by Lex Luthor to challenge Superman, but he eventually dies in the hero's arms.
Bizarro appears in the DC Nation Shorts segment "Tales of Metropolis", voiced by David Kaye.
Bizarro appears in DC Super Friends, voiced by Marc Thompson.
Bizarro appears in the Justice League Action episode "Boo-ray for Bizarro", voiced by Travis Willingham.
Bizarro Supergirl appears in the DC Super Hero Girls reboot series episode "#TheGoodTheBadAndTheBizarre", voiced by Nicole Sullivan.
Super Friends[]
Bizarro in DC Super Friends
Bizarro appears in Challenge of the Superfriends, voiced by William Callaway. This version is an alternate version of Superman who joined the Legion of Doom. Bizarro later appears in the fifth incarnation of the Super Friends series, voiced again by William Callaway. Bizarro, now known as Bizarro #1, appears in The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians episode "The Bizarro Super Powers Team", voiced by Danny Dark.
Bizarro appeared in Superman: The Animated Series as a prototype for an army of Superman clones being manufactured by Lex Luthor. Luthor's bodyguard Mercy Graves jokingly called it Bizarro and the unintelligent creature attempted to be a hero, but was far to destructive to be of any real help. In Superman: The Animated Series, he was voiced by Tim Daly. In Justice League Unlimited, he was voiced by George Newbern.
Superboy[]
Bizarro also appeared in the TV series Superboy, portrayed by Barry Meyers. This Bizarro was created by a duplicator ray that hit Superboy. Initially an enemy, Bizarro's loneliness made him somewhat of a tragic character. He used the duplicator ray to make his own version of Lana Lang, Superboy's girlfriend. Bizarro Lana teaches him right from wrong. After that, Bizarro and Superboy become friends, even calling Superboy his brother.
Bizarro made his live-action debut in the TV series Smallville. This clone of Superman was actually perfect, and lived with Lana Lang for two weeks without her realizing it wasn't Clark Kent. Though he is never called Bizarro, the episode was named "Bizarro" and his powers increased in the presense of Kryptonite just like Bizarro. Using Blue Kryptonite, which would render normal Kryptonians powerless, Bizarro gained too much power and exploded. He was portrayed by Tom Welling.
Bizarro Supergirl appears in the Arrowverse series Supergirl, portrayed by Melissa Benoist and Hope Lauren. She was originally a "Jane Doe" genetically altered by Maxwell Lord to challenge Supergirl. In the fourth season, Bizarro was among one of the D.E.O.'s suspects when a new Supergirl clone appeared.
Bizarro from Inverse World also appeared in Superman and Lois in its second season. This version is a mysterious being that was imprisoned in the Shuster Mines who looks like Superman. He also has a psychic connection to Superman. In the season finale, he was turned into Doomsday by Lex Luthor. He was portrayed by Tyler Hoechlin, while Daniel Cudmore portrays his armored form and Paul Lazenby motion-captures his Doomsday form.
In some deleted scenes cut from Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, a variation of Nuclear Man (portrayed by Clive Mantle) became a creature similar to Bizarro before being destroyed.
Bizarro appears in JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, voiced by Michael Donovan.
Bizarro appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, voiced by Nolan North. This version was created by Lex Luthor using a duplicator ray.
An alternate version of Bizarro named "Superior Man" appears in the film Superman: Red Son, voiced by Travis Willingham. This version was created by Luthor to challenge the Soviet Superman.
Video games[]
Bizarro also appeared in several DC games as;
Superman 64.
Superman: The Man of Steel, voiced by Sean O'Kane.
A playable character in Superman Returns, voiced by John DiMaggio.
DC Universe Online, voiced by Joe Mandia.
A bonus character in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, voiced by Travis Willingham, and as a playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond, voiced by Nolan North.
A support card in Injustice: Gods Among Us and a "Premier Skin" for Superman in Injustice 2, voiced by Patrick Seitz.
A character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
An playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Nolan North.
Bizarro understand Superman am friend Bizarro must kill him.
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~ Bizarro in Justice League Unlimited.
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(Singing) Bizarro's here to save the day!
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~ Bizarro in Justice League Unlimited.
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Underconfidence be your overdoing!
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~ Bizarro in Injustice 2.
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Me not chaos. Me am Bizarro.
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~ Bizarro
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Bizarro am number one, not Superman!
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~ Bizarro
Trivia[]
Author Otto Binder has stated that Bizarro was inspired by Frankenstein's monster. The two characters are artificial humans who became evil because everyone was so scared of their frightening appearances.
It has been suggested that the Bizarro character, who is the opposite of Superman and all he stands for, was a metaphor for the Soviet Union at a time when Superman was seen as the embodiment of the United States in the 1950s. The Soviet reference was likely akin to the fact that the USSR was athetically prominent in events like the Olympics and had a military that made great contributions to winning the Second World War, but in civilian life many aspects of the Soviet economy were dysfunctional.
The character of Nuclear Man from Superman IV: The Quest for Peace bares several similarities to Bizarro, both of whom are clones of Superman created by Lex Luthor.
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