Superman’s imperfect duplicate is coming to the Supergirl TV series.
We am not celebrating Bizarro.
He am not good.
Bizarro am bad character and this history am not interesting.
In fact, Bizarro is #1 worst villain of all and has starred in many boring stories.
Hey, what would the Bizarro World version ofDen of Geekbe anyway?Den of Suave Sophistication?
Anyway, Bizarro is coming to theSupergirlTV series in an episode appropriately titled, well, Bizarro.
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Lets take a look…
The Imperfect Duplicate of Superboy?
Surprisingly, Bizarro did not start his long and strange legend as a foe to Superman.
Like tug on the heartstrings in the Silver Age tragic.
Like, those tear stains will muck up CGC gradings years later tragic.
Its obvious that Bizarro was originally supposed to be a Frankenstein inspired creation to go up against Superboy.
This ray created a chalky, hideous duplicate of the Boy of Steel.
The creature was shunned by the residents of Smallville who did everything but whip out the torches and pitchforks.
The blind girl was cured thanks to the explosion so Bizarro went out a hero.
Boy, would that all change…andsoon.
But something about Bizarro had staying power, so inAction Comics#254-255 (1959), Bizarro returned.
The whole mess began when Lex Luthor duplicated the duplication ray (whoah!)
This Bizarro meant well but it was way more Lenny fromOf Mice and Menthan the Monster from Frankenstein.
Longing for a date (they didnt have Tinder in the Silver Age…Baezarro?
), Bizarro fell in love with Lois Lane.
In fact, it was Lois who managed to defeat Bizarro by creating a Bizarro duplicate of herself.
Soon, Bizarro variants and recreations would become a huge theme for the character moving forward.
Bizarro and Bizarro Lois left Earth but not for long.
Bizarro #1
InAction Comics(vol.
- #263-264, Bizarro and his Lois returned and this time, they werent alone.
He and Lois populated this square world (because awesome) with duplicates of themselves.
Now, you might ask wouldnt an imperfect duplicate of Bizarro just be Superman?
Not the case, because Silver Age logic does what Silver Age logic wants!
So now there was a world of Bizarros and Bizarro #1 and Bizarro Lois even had a baby!
There was also a Bizarro Supergirl and all sorts of duplication shenanigans happening.
An imperfect, chalk white, craggy Bizarro ape might be the coolest thing ever.
came from this age of Bizarro wackiness.
InAdventureComics#329 (1965), Bizarro tried to join the futuristic Legion.
Legion of Super Dicks is more like it), Bizarro created his own Legion of Super Bizarros.
In this issue, Bizarros powers became altered.
At this time, Bizarro also joined The Secret Society of Super Villains.
What Ever Happened to the Imperfect Duplicate of the Man of Tomorrow?
In the pages of Alan Moores final Superman story,Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Bizarro is driven mad by Mister Mxyzptlk.
Under the now violent imps power, Bizarro #1 destroys Bizarro World and commits suicide.
Byrne stripped all the humor away from Bizarro and presented a true force of nature.
This Bizarro had a rudimentary connection to Clark Kent and tried to live a semblance of Kents life.
The whole time, Bizarro was breaking down, leaving a chalky white substance behind.
In an homage to the original Superboy Bizarro story, Lucy Lanes blindness was cured by the Bizarro residue.
It was pretty cool how Byrne deconstructed the Bizarro concept to find a tale of pure tragedy and terror.
None of them were particularly memorable until the Emperor Joker storyline of 2000.
One of his insane creations was a childlike, brutish version of Superman.
When the Joker was defeated his version of Bizarro remained in the restored reality.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Batzarro.
He is the worlds worst detective and has a habit of verbally repeating his own first person narration.
), Bizarro heads of into deep space to find a world of its own.
It seems that this Bizarro had Bizarro Vision which allowed it to create duplicates of whatever he desired.
When the Crime Syndicate of Earth-3 invaded, Luthor unleashed one of his clones too early.
Road Trip!
After the brutal demise of Bizarro inForever Evil, it was time to bring back some backwards levity.
Heck, the pair even runs into the New 52 version of 1966Batmanfoe King Tut!
How are you not buying this right now?
I would watch the crap out of that.
All-Star Bizarro
Outside of DCs main continuity we have Grant Morrison and Frank QuitelysAll-Star Superman.
And you just know Morrison had a whole new special twist on the Bizarro legend, right?
Morrison and Quitely also introduced Zibarro, a being with normal human intellect.
What do you think Bizarro Grant Morrison would be like?
He probably writes for the Financial Times or something and has lots of hair.
And never smoked anything funny.
Other Media
Media has not been immune to Bizarros backwards charms.
A near visually perfect Bizarro appeared on several episodes ofThe Adventures of SuperboyTV series.
A very twisted version of Bizarro appeared in a number of episodes ofSmallvilleplayed by Clark Kent himself Tom Welling.
This also marked the first time the same actor played a version of Superman and a version of Bizarro.
I mean, that was just low hanging fruit and they missed it!
Seriously, what would you give to see Christopher Reeve play his version of Bizarro?
How did they miss that?
Cmon, they had Supermans evil double right freakin there and it wasnt Bizarro?
Come on, Rick Baker could have done the makeup!
One of the biggest missed opportunities in comic book film history, says I!
