Faithful adaptations of Bizarro appeared in the animated series Super Friends and series in the subsequent DC Universe.

The second, longer lasting Bizarro, was an idea of the Batman villain the Joker, brought to life by the cosmic trickster Mister Mxyzptlk.īizarro has been a consistent enemy of Superman since his first appearance. Since then, two Bizarro characters have appeared, one of them a flawed clone created by Lex Luthor.

The 1986 event Crisis on Infinite Earths rewrote DC’s continuity, eliminating Htrae. The original Bizarro was created when Superman was exposed to a 'duplicate ray.' 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.

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. It has been suggested by both comic book fans and anthropologists 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. Due to his imperfections, Bizarro is frequently a foe of Superman, but sometimes finds himself in the role of hero (in this case, an anti-hero). Reverse versions of Kryptonian powers: freeze vision, fire breathĭue to a somewhat disjointed continuity, several versions of Bizarro have appeared in DC comic books, all of them inversions of Superman with gray or chalk-white skin, a twisted sense of logic which typically manifests as a superficial 'opposite' of anything Superman would do or say and a resultant speech pattern ('Me am going to kill you' would mean 'I will save you' in Bizarro speech).

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