Mr. Nobody (comics)
| Mr. Nobody | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | (as Mr. Mordern) Doom Patrol #86 (March 1964) (as Mr. Nobody) Doom Patrol, Vol. 2, #26 (September 1989) |
| Created by | Arnold Drake, Grant Morrison |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Mr. Morden |
| Team affiliations | Mister Somebody Enterprises Brotherhood of Dada Brotherhood of Evil |
| Notable aliases | Mr Somebody, Thayer Jost |
| Abilities | Can drain the sanity from others. |
Mr. Nobody is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. While he appeared in his original identity of Mr. Morden in Doom Patrol vol. 1 #86 (March 1964), his first appearance as Mr. Nobody was in Doom Patrol vol. 2, # 26 (September 1989).
Mr. Nobody's real name is Morden, first name unknown. He appeared in one issue of the original series (Doom Patrol #86) as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil. In this appearance he steals Rog, a robot designed by the Chief for lunar exploration.
When Grant Morrison reintroduced Morden in Doom Patrol vol. 2 #26, he provided a back story to explain Morden's absence. Former Brotherhood of Evil teammates the Brain and Monsieur Mallah had promised to kill Morden if he appears again, so he hid for many years in Paraguay. Still longing to be a part of society again, he undergoes experiments by an ex-Nazi scientist that grant him the ability to drain the sanity from human beings. However, he himself is driven insane, and forms the Brotherhood of Dada instead. He now looks like a two-dimensional artistic representation of a shadow and has an empty space on his chest in the shape of a heart.
Mr. Nobody recruits several bizarrely-powered individuals to form the first Brotherhood of Dada: Sleepwalk, who has vast strength only when sleepwalking; Frenzy, a large, garishly-dressed dyslexic Jamaican man who can transform into a whirling cyclone; Fog, who can absorb humans into his being when in his gaseous form; and the Quiz, a Japanese woman with "every super-power you've never thought of." The Brotherhood steals a psychoactive painting and uses it to absorb the city of Paris, France, along with several members of the Doom Patrol. They also unwittingly unleash "the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse" from the painting. They are forced to help the Doom Patrol stop it, and DP member Crazy Jane harnesses the power of the painting to transform the Horseman into a hobby-horse, releasing her teammates and the city of Paris and trapping Mr. Nobody and his Brotherhood within the painting.
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