Rainbow Raider?!?

[ratcreature]

Who comes up with these kinds of "supervillains"?? Okay, so they're called "Rogues" in Flash comics, but still -- Rainbow Raider?!? (also notice Trickster's fearsome rubber chicken, which I suppose could be some kind of deadly weapon in disguise with Trickster, and yet, it looks very silly nevertheless)

And just when thought that this had to be a low for villain names, I get introduced to one called "Crazy Quilt". WTF?

In case you're wondering, where I came across these... um... colorful characters, I'm reading Underworld Unleashed.

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[greenygal.livejournal.com]

whereas the average Gotham costumed freak is scarier because they all really, really crazy.

Which as Trickster points out is one of the reasons Kadabra gets more respect, at least in-story. (And by "respect" I mean, when he walks into a room everyone else finds someplace else to be. Because who the hell knows what he's going to do next? Hmm. Wonder if anyone's ever written him in competition with the Joker...)

My question is not, actually, why do they do the costume stuff instead of being criminals, given that they're (mostly) sane. Mine is, jeez, why aren't they off conquering the world? Or possibly selling their inventions and getting appallingly rich? Wasting portable weather control on robbing banks? The opening of UU is not the best idea Waid's ever had, but he certainly called this much: they think too small. Way too small.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I know that if I could control weather or transform the elements I sure wouldn't do what they're wasting their time on.