Oh! What happens to Joey’s real body when he’s out making things that shouldn’t move, move. In light of this revelation, Joey did what any other living person would do in his situation: transfer his mind out of his boring human shell to anything and everything, one of which included a fire hydrant.Īfter switching from one random thing to another, he soon found himself trapped inside a hot tar pit. This molten mass was originally a human named Joey Monteleone (a criminal, of course) who realized he had a special ability: inhabiting inanimate objects and making them… animate. So why does DC want you to forget about him? Because Tar Pit’s story about how he became a pit of tar is. He’s literally what his name suggests-a giant agglomeration of molten asphalt-meaning he can not only burn you, but hurl flaming chunks of tar at you. Heck, the strip club’s bartender is also in Power Posse (Booster Gold), so is the ticket taker (Oberon) and the bouncer (Metamorpho). That’s why DC’s writers included Tiffany (at least she’s a stripper sociopath). And what would a strip-club-themed group be without a stripper? A lame one. We have a dominatrix (Mistress Mary) whose “identity” is complete with her submissive counterpart, an unfortunate pairing, due to the fact that the one who’s ostensibly doing the submitting is her brother (Ice). Power Posse is based out of a strip club, and most of its members look as though they fit right in, all except the gigantic monstrous G’nort. unless the word “Power” is meant to signify “power heels.” Then there’s Power Posse, a group with a ridiculous theme that only makes its name all the more ambivalent. Others consist of criminals who started their own little group because they all shared a common goal, a similar method of killing or, more importantly, have a common enemy. Many supervillain “clubs” in DC are the crème a la crème of villainy (or maybe we should say the worst of the worst?). Here are some of the many, many super-villains DC doesn't want you to know about. Power Posse is a great example of this, seeing as the “announcer language” in the issues they appeared in even poked fun at them.Īt the end of JLA Classified #8 (where Power Posse appears), the book reads “Concluded next issue (thank god!).” In the opening to issue #9, they include the words “Lo! There shall come an ending… and none too soon!” And at the end of said issue, we get this little gem: “And they all lived Bwa-ha-happily ever after.” Others on this list are just so profoundly stupid that they had to have been a joke. special villains.Īs you’ll notice, many of the characters on this list are “older,” like pre-1990s, or they only appeared in one-shots (for perfectly good reason). The best of these “ultra criminals” have gone head to head with heroes frequently, so much so that they’ve not only created a unique identity for themselves, but even molded their opponent.īut due to the sheer numbers of comics DC has made over the decades, their writers have, in turn, generated a great deal of baddies, so many that there are bound to be some. Ever since DC started shelling out comics in 1934 (as National Allied Publications), we’ve seen a plethora of super-villains who’ve either fallen to the wayside or managed to stay on board long enough to make a lasting impression.