We have two guys who've never hit the big screen, so Vic will have to choose based on paper. A Golden Age freak vs. a Silver Age weirdo, clashing here in the Indies/SF Heroes Bracket of the DC/Indy Conference.
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| Name: | Plastic Man | Name: | Magnus, Robot Fighter |
| Aternate Identity(ies): | Patrick "Eel" O'Brian; aka Ralph Johns, Edward O Brian, Plas | Aternate Identity(ies): | Magnus |
| Creator(s): | Jack Cole | Creator(s): | Russ Manning |
| Place of Birth: | Capitol City, USA | Place of Birth: | North Am, an apparent future version of the North American continent circa 4000 AD |
| How He Came to Be: | Eel is a crook that who is shot and falls into a vat of plastic chemicals during a robbery. His gang abandons him and he escapes to wander disorientedly. When he's taken in by a kindly monk, he is nursed backed to health. The monk throwing the cops off his scent vows him to turn over a new leaf, and shortly thereafter learns that he chemicals have leaked into his blood system, allowing him to stretch and contort his body in any and all manner of shapes. | How He Came to Be: | Magnus was raised by a good robot, who taught him how to fight back in an age of full depency on robots by man, and increasing totalitarianism by the metal ones. |
| Base of Operations: | Gotham City, NJ; formerly Capitol City, USA, Mammoth City, USA | Base of Operations: | North Am |
| Teams/Affiliations: | Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Bureau of Investigations, Justice League, All-Star Squadron, Freedom Fighters, Elastic Four | Teams/Affiliations: | Partnerships more than official teams. He serves as the inspiration for, rather than a member of, an adolescent team called the Outsiders. |
| Signature Lines: | "Just look at it this way -- it beats going to the dentist!" | Signature Lines: | "Stop, people! Don't make me hurt you! What chance have you against one who can smash robots?" |
| Arch-Enemy: | Dr. Dome | Arch-Enemy: | H8 |
| Sidekick(s): | Woozy Winks | Sidekick(s): | None |
| Paramour(s): | Angel McDunnagh (ex-wife) | Paramour | Leeja Clane (girlfriend, eventual wife) |
| Has Been Played By: | Taylor Marks | Has Been Played By: | Nobody! |
| Could Have Been Played By: | Jim Carey | Could Have Been Played By: | Richard Harrison |
| Song I Think Of: | "Rubber Band Man" | Song I Think Of: | "The Humans Are Dead" |
| Supernatural Powers: | Plastic Man is supremely malleable, able to change his shape at will and stretch to extreme lenths. He can be hard or soft, or so thin that you don't even realize you're stepping on his ass. All this can produce superhuman strength, reflexes, and invlunerabliity too. His regenerative abilities are such that he was shattered to bits in a Justice League time jump back 3000 years ago, and when they got back to our present, they found out he had almost put himself back together. His mind is also malleable, helping him develop immunity to telepathy. | Supernatural Powers: | Magnus has superhuman strength and durability. He's not Superman or Hulk or even Captain Britian or anything, but his modest super brawn stands out amidst a humanity that has grown weak and soft. |
| Non-Super Abilities: | He's a reformed thief, and so has the skills of both a thief and a detective, having continued to work undercover after his super-career started. | Non-Super Abilities: | He has extensive martial arts training. He can karate chop right through robot steel! |
| Stuff: | He's got a costume and goggles that stretch right along with him, yes they do. | Stuff: | Magnus' best stuff is the robot who raised him, A1, who has also trained him to resist the robot ascendency. He also has a bulit-in receiver that allows him to hear robot-to-robot transmissions. Pretty tricky. |
| Weaknesses: | He can adapt to extreme temperatures, but a sudden change can make him melt to a liquid state or become suddenly very brittle. | Weaknesses: | He's a mortal dude, flesh and blood in a world of cold steel. |
