Search This Blog

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

iZombie - iZombie

Founded by Gavin Price and his husband Scott in the aftermath of Xitalu's attack on Eugene, Oregon, iZombie was a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping support those undead and supernatural beings returning to the land of the living. 

Among the services they provided was counseling, which was led by Horacio, a former Monster Hunter turned therapist.


Members: 

  • Gavin Price
  • Scott
  • Ashok Patel
  • Vincent Tan
  • Horacio

Rao - Young Justice: Phantoms

Named after the Kryptonian sun god, Rao was a red sun orbited by the planet Krypton in Space Sector 2813, the Rao star system. 

During the lifetime of Jor-El, the chief scientist noticed that the sun was becoming far more volatile in recent years. Predicting that Rao would go supernova, the High Council dismissed his warnings as nothing more than alarmist ravings. 

Yet El’s fears came true, and in 1978, the sun exploded, destroying Krypton and its people, save for El’s infant son, Kal, who escaped via a rocket. 

The only other known survivors of the Kryptonian race were those imprisoned within the Phantom Zone.

The Mad Hatter’s Henchpeople - Batman: Arkham Unhinged

Made up of unwitting inmates from the various gangs of Arkham City, The Mad Hatter exploited his abilities of mind control and hypnotic suggestion to form his own crew within the prison. Each member was fitted with a White Rabbit mask and was forced to partake in regular, mandatory tea parties, fulfilling Tetch’s intense assurances that he is the living incarnation of The Mad Hatter from Lewis Carrol’s novels. 

Fearing retribution from the likes of The Joker, Two-Face, and Penguin for poaching their goons, Mad Hatter hoped to induct a secret weapon into their ranks, The Batman. 

Taking the vigilante unawares, Tetch attempted to control his mind, making him his second in command. However, this plan backfired spectacularly, with Batman knocking The Hatter out, trashing his base of operations - a rundown apartment in Park Row - and destroying his favourite hat. 

With his hench people bested, he had no choice but to start again from scratch, turning to his former friends and allies in The Wonderland Gang to help him take his revenge on Batman.

Now free from the Hatter’s control, many of his former goons angrily stalked the streets in search of Tetch, hoping to take their revenge on their captor. 

Jenna Duffy - Batman: Arkham Unhinged

Originally from Keystone City, Jenna Duffy was a skilled carpenter and engineer living in Gotham City. Falling on hard times, she began working for costumed villains, creating secret lairs and death traps. 

Meeting Jervis Tetch, he saw a kindred spirit in Jenna, inviting her to join his Wonderland Gang as his “Carpenter.” Tetch took immense pleasure in the fact that he now had both a Walrus and a Carpenter, pairing them together to commit crimes. 

However, Duffy soon grew bored and quit, leaving the Gang behind. Hoping to go legit she created her own business, J.D. Carpentry, and for a time she was successful. But her criminal past made her a target for Hugo Strange. 

Despite Batman’s help to start over in Keystone City, her former teammates betrayed her, ratting Duffy out and ensuring that she was caught at the bus station. 

Arrested and sentenced to Arkham City, Mad Hatter quickly hunted her down. Held prisoner in his Hat Shop, she and four other women were drugged by Tetch, who proceeded to dress them up like Alice in Wonderland characters, with matching micro-processors built into their headbands. While she was fully conscious of her surroundings, she was unable to fight back, lamenting that if she had her nail gun, she would make her captor pay. 

When Batman entered the Hat Shop in search of the kidnapped Vicki Vale and Pamela Isley, he was gassed by a variant of Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin, altering his perception, and making Tetch’s victims appear to be the characters they were dressed as, turning her into The Carpenter once more. 

After a brief fight, Batman was able to destroy the Hatter’s master transmitter, deactivating the micro-processors and freeing her from Tetch’s control. 

With no chance of escape from Arkham City, Jenna chose instead to focus on the positives; that there were hundreds of buildings that would need repairing. Her first official client was Poison Ivy, who wanted her to repair her flower shop, Baudelaire, after the premises were damaged during Isley’s kidnapping.

Skitch Benson - Batman: Arkham Unhinged

A former male model turned costumed criminal, Skitch Benson was a massive fan of the literary works of Lewis Carrol. 

Meeting likeminded Carrol fanatics, he assumed the alias of The Unicorn, becoming a permanent member of Jervis Tetch’s Wonderland Gang. 

Lewis Yarnell - Batman: Arkham Unhinged

A bodyguard for hire, Lewis Yarnell joined The Mad Hatter’s Wonderland Gang as The Lion, a costumed criminal who used sharpened claws in battle to tear his enemies to shreds. Whenever on heists, he was paired with the Unicorn, Skitch Benson, becoming the living embodiment of the characters from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. 

Because of his ties to Tetch, he imprisoned in Arkham City.

Moe Blum - Batman: Arkham Unhinged

A former enforcer and thug for the crime lord Roman Sionis, Moe Blum left Black Mask’s employ. Joining the Mad Hatter’s Wonderland Gang, he took on the alias of The Walrus. 

He was one of the many criminals to be arrested by Tyger Guards and thrown into Arkham City. 

The Mad Hatter's Black Hare Mask - Batman: Arkham Unhinged

Designed by Jervis Tetch during his incarceration in Arkham City, this Black Hare Mask was a specifically created to be worn by Batman. 

Like its White Rabbit counterpart, the mask was fitted with a highly advanced micro-processor, which allowed the Mad Hatter to take complete control of the wearer's mind and body, stripping away their free will, and turning them into mindless pawns. 

Tetch had hoped to take control of the Dark Knight and turn him into his champion, helping to defend him from the more powerful gangs in the super-max prison. However, the effectiveness of the mask depended on the willpower of the wearer, which led to disaster when the Hatter placed it on Batman’s head. 

Able to break through Tetch’s hypnotic suggestion without too much difficulty, he took out the Hatter’s goons and their ringleader. Removing the Hare, he left it behind, as a warning to stay out of his head. 

Congorilla - Young Justice: The Comic

Known as the Holy One, the great Congorilla is a gorilla deity worshipped by apes across the world. He would spend time living among troops, teaching them how to survive and thrive on their own, before leaving to join a new one. 

When Mallah betrayed his troop to Ultra-Humanite and the League of Shadows, Congorilla was the only one of the troop not to get captured. Rather than fight the humans, who had him outmatched, he would travel through the jungles of Bwunda, leading apes to a safe haven, far away from the dangers of Gorilla City. There Congorilla would watch over and protect the remaining troops. 

After a team of heroes defeated The Brain, Mallah and Ultra-Humanite, destroying Gorilla City in the process, the liberated members of the troop were reunited. Since they no longer needed him, Congorilla's time with the troop was done. He left to go and help others in need. 

The Gorilla, Grodd, took advantage of this fact, declaring that with the Holy One gone, he would usher in a new age under his rulership, branding it "the age of the new Grodd."

K'rii St'ferr - Young Justice: Phantoms

A radical member of the Y’ellonn Sorcerer-Priest, the late K'rii St'ferr (b. 1699 - d. ????) dedicated his life to the religious order and their teachings. While many of his peers refused to perform mixed-caste weddings because of the taboo nature surrounding mixed-caste unions, he would happily officiate these ceremonies. Having lived several centuries, he was not afraid of the repercussions he may face, since he was practising the true teachings of the Y'ellonn, that all Martians deserved equity, love and respect, no matter their creed or caste. 

K'rii St'ferr performed the Ma'ayava'ana and wedding ceremony for M'aatt M'orzz and J'ann M'orzz' (nee J'onzz). 

After living a long life, he eventually passed.

The Y’ellonn - Young Justice: Phantoms

 One of the four Martian castes that make up Martian society on their home planet of M’arzz, the Y’ellonn - or Yellow Martians - were not born. Instead, they were made up of Martians who chose to undergo a religious calling and join the Sorcerer Priesthood. Through an initiation ceremony, they would permanently dye their skin yellow, swearing to cast off the discriminations shown between the castes and treat their fellow Martians as equals, no matter their creed or rank. 

Due to their positions of power and status, as members of the Priesthood, they were some of the most respectable members of society, save only for B'lahden royalty. 

The Y'ellonn Sorcerer Priesthood - Young Justice: Phantoms

Made up of the Y’ellonn, the Sorcerer Priesthood is a religious faction on M’arzz dedicated to the planet’s pantheon of deities, expected to lead an apolitical, celibate, and solitary life of meditation and contemplation. 

Mastering their inherent magical abilities, their powers are used to provide entertainment and blessings at royal events – coronations – as well as for more sombre occasions. 

Sorcerer Priests and Priestesses would perform religious rites and ceremonies, including wedding ceremonies, the pre-wedding Ma'ayava'ana ceremony, and the blessings of the ceremonial wedding canopy. However, due to their expectations of remaining apolitical, it was considered taboo for them to perform these marriage ceremonies for mixed caste couples. While many of their order chose not to involve themselves with such practices, for fear of hatred, controversy and backlash, others – whether some of the older and wiser or the younger more radical members - were not afraid to make a stand and unite couples in love, since they, as Y’ellonn are meant to show dignity and respect to all their fellow Martians, without the caste-based prejudices they were born into.  


Members:

J'karaa - Young Justice: Phantoms


















A B'lahdenn - Red Martian - queen in M'arzz's - Mars - past,  J'karaa was deemed to be one of the finest rulers the planet had ever seen. 

M'aarell - Young Justice: Phantoms


















A former B'lahdenn - Red Martian - ruler of the planet M'arzz -Mars, - M'aarell was one of the greatest monarchs in Martian history.