Sunday, August 07, 2005

Character Donation #67



The Duke of Oil.

A villain who starts with a bad pun, then only gets worse from there. Only Mike W. Barr, who never met a stupid villain he didn't create, could be the party responsible for the Duke of Oil.

In case you've been spared the experience, the Duke of Oil is a "a Texan oil magnate whose brain was transplanted into a robotic body following a terrible petroleum fire."

Built around a ban pun. Over the top regional/ethnic accent/theme. Cybernetic and poorly motivated.

Bye bye, Duke of Oil! Enjoy Marvel. Don't worry, we'll be sending along your Barr siblings soon enough.

Well. Not soon enough, I suppose.
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12 comments:

  1. Devon Sanders8/07/2005 9:25 PM

    Dammit, you'd better leave The Bad Samaritan alone!

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  2. Scipio8/07/2005 9:37 PM

    Actually, he's funny, and his name isn't an unreasonable codename for a rent-a-spy, so he's okay with me (but on the edge).

    I was ready to get rid of the Force of July, but apparently Kobra and the Suicide Squad took care of that for me already...!

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  3. Scipio8/07/2005 9:39 PM

    Heh. Judd would have just made another one, and the LAST thing we need is the "Grand Duke of Oil".

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  4. Scipio8/07/2005 9:40 PM

    My hope is that once we've donated 365 characters to Marvel, they'll let us have Dazzler.

    Love her! Fab-u-lous!

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  5. Devon Sanders8/07/2005 10:02 PM

    ...and She-Hulk.

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  6. Anonymous8/08/2005 1:23 AM

    Ah yes. Good 'ol Mr. Barr with his cringe inducingly named Masters of Disaster. Another set of donations ready to go!

    Although I thought Silent Majority was kind of clever in a Captain Carrot kind of way.

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  7. running42k8/08/2005 6:35 AM

    Isn't this villian the current president?

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  8. Scipio8/08/2005 6:54 AM

    Heavens, he's been donated to OUR universe!

    By the way, exactly WHAT is he doing to Katana? It seems to be, well, more than she can handle.

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  9. Anonymous8/08/2005 8:34 AM

    If you need a stable of villains to export to the Marvel slums, take a look at any of Chuck Dixon's Nightwing villains.

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  10. Scipio8/08/2005 9:19 AM

    Vincent, Sarah; I know very little about Nightwing's villains;
    but now I want to hear more!

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  11. Marionette8/08/2005 4:53 PM

    I don't know how you can say this character is un-DC when DC brought us such instant classics as Doctor Domino, a villain whose head was a giant domino piece.

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  12. Luke11/07/2011 11:44 AM

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