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Taboo

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Tally Man

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Teen Lantern

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Eobard Thawne

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Malcolm Thawne

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Robern Thawne

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Robern Thawne is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character, created by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins, first appeared in The Flash vol. 3 #8 (March 2011). He is the younger brother of Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash. In the future, the Thawne siblings never got along as children which gets worse as adults; Robern was a police officer who tried to interrupt Eobard's reckless research before the Reverse-Flash erased his own brother from existence.[1]

Thoth

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First appearanceInfinity Inc. #43 (1987)
TeamsOgdoad
Doctor Fate
Ibis the Invincible
AbilitiesImmotallity, immense magical abilities, godly wisdom which grants him increased intelligence; Power is somewhat dependent on worship although he retains a formidable, god-like level of power in a weakened state.
AliasesZehuti

Thoth, also known by the name Zehuti, is a fictional deity in DC Comics, an interpretation of Thoth from Egyptian mythology. In the DC Universe, Thoth serves as an Egyptian figure who has empowered numerous characters, including Black Adam (and the Black Marvel Family) with his powers of wisdom, the both iterations of Ibis the Invincible with the Ibistick, and the Khalid Nassour incarnation of Doctor Fate.

In the Doctor Fate series debuting during the DCYou/New 52 era, the ancient deity is credited as the creator of the Amulet of Thoth (formerly the Amulet of Anubis) and Helmet of Fate (now named the Helmet of Thoth and the Mask of Thoth) that trapped his servant, Nabu, within it for unknown reasons. He is first mentioned numerous times by several characters during the "Blood Price" storyline, with Khalid Nassour being chosen to bear his helm. Later, Khalid summons him to help defeat Anubis, after which he gives Khalid the Staff of Power.[2]

Thunderer

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Thunderer is the name of different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics

Alien version

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The Thunderer is a small alien demagogue who came from another dimension and wanted to take over the Earth before being opposed by Metamorpho and Element Girl. He manages to trap the two in a sub-atomic universe before they escape and two elders of Thunderer's species arrive to punish him.[3]

Thunderer II

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A Thunderer appears as a member of the Futurist Militia.[4]

Earth 7 version

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In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. In the pages of "The Multiversity", Thunderer is the Mowanjum Community's weather god from Earth-7 who lost his Earth to the Gentry.[5]

Thunderer would later appear as a member of the Justice League Incarnate.[6]

Thunderer in other media

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The Earth-7 incarnation of Thunderer makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One.

Time Trapper

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The Time Trapper is a supervillain appearing in DC Comics, primarily as an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Created by Edmond Hamilton and John Forte, he first appeared in Adventure Comics #317 (February 1964).

Within the context of the stories, the Time Trapper is a powerful, time-manipulating entity who resides at the end of time. Because of his ever-changing nature, he has had several identities, including a Controller, his assistant Glorith, Cosmic Boy, the young girl Lori Morning, and Superboy-Prime.

Time Trapper in other media

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TNT

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Tokamak

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First appearanceThe Fury of Firestorm #15 (August 1983)
Created byGerry Conway and Pat Broderick
AliasesHenry Hewitt, Victor Hewitt
Further reading

Tokamak is a supervillain in the DC Universe.

The character, created by Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick, first appeared in The Fury of Firestorm #15 (August 1983) as Henry Hewitt and became Tokamak in The Fury of Firestorm #18 (November 1983).

Within the context of the stories, Tokamak is the identity taken by Henry Hewitt, the chief executive officer of the Hewitt Corporation and high level director in the 2000 Committee, after subjecting himself to a recreation of the accident that created Firestorm.[10] Much later, to cure a terminal disease, he creates a clone of himself which he merges with. He creates the identity of Victor Hewitt to inherit his own company and sets out to create nuclear meltdowns across the globe to empower himself. He is stopped by Firestorm, Firehawk and Pozhar. He is killed when Firestorm separates him from his clone.[11]

Tokamak has the ability to trap objects in energy rings and either compress them or break down their structural integrity.

Tokamak in other media

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  • Henry Hewitt appears in The Flash episode "The Fury of Firestorm", portrayed by Demore Barnes.[12] This version is a scientist with anger issues and a criminal past who was affected by Eobard Thawne's particle accelerator and gained a connection to the Firestorm matrix. As a result, the Flash and his allies at S.T.A.R. Labs select Hewitt to become Martin Stein's new partner. However, when the fusion fails, Hewitt gains uncontrollable nuclear powers and uses them to fight the Flash, only to be defeated by Stein and Jefferson "Jax" Jackson, both of whom successfully became Firestorm, and imprisoned in S.T.A.R. Labs' metahuman holding cells.

Joey Toledo

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Joey Toledo was a drug dealer working for the 100. During a fight with Black Lightning, he is killed by Talia al Ghul and the League of Assassins after they become involved.[14]

In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called "DC Rebirth", which restored its continuity to a form much as it was before "The New 52". Toledo appears as a sleazy small-time entrepreneur before being killed by Tobias Whale's right-hand woman Miss Pequod.[15]

Joey Toledo in other media

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Joey Toledo appears in the first season of Black Lightning, portrayed by Eric Mendenhall. This version is Tobias Whale's right-hand man and co-enforcer.

Trajectory

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First appearance52 #9 (August 2006)
Created byGeoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid
AbilitiesSuperspeed
AliasesEliza Harmon
Further reading

Trajectory is a fictional superheroine in DC Comics. Originally from Manchester, Alabama, Eliza Harmon was selected to participate in Lex Luthor's Everyman Project and join Infinity, Inc. with the Flash and Kid Flash as inspiration.[16] While she successfully became a speedster, she was unable to decelerate without the use of a drug called "Sharp".[17] Natasha Irons would later help Trajectory maintain her place on Infinity Inc. until Luthor stripped the latter of her powers, leading to Trajectory being killed by Blockbuster.[18]

Trajectory in other media

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  • Eliza Harmon / Trajectory appears in a self-titled episode of The Flash, portrayed by Allison Paige.[19] This version is a scientist at Mercury Labs who helped Caitlin Snow develop the Velocity-9 formula and reverse-engineered it to use for herself. Manifesting an alternate personality called "Trajectory" to justify her actions, she wreaks havoc in Central City until the Flash defeats her. Nonetheless, she takes another dose of Velocity-9 and ultimately disintegrates.
  • A teenage Trajectory appears in Young Justice, voiced by Zehra Fazal.[20] This version is a member of Lex Luthor's Infinity Inc., which is later reworked into the Infinitors.

Tremor

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Tremor is a name shared by multiple characters in the DC Universe.

David Hsu

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David Hsu was a supervillain and enemy of The Fly (Jason Troy), first appearing in The Fly #13 (August 1992).

Tremor II

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Tremor II was a supervillain and member of the Superior Five, first appearing in Villains United #4 (October 2005).

Roshanna Chatterji

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Roshanna Chatterji was a superhero and member of The Movement, first appearing in Secret Six (vol. 3) #25 (November 2010). She is asexual.

Tsunami

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Tsunami is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics..

Miya Shimada

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First appearanceAll-Star Squadron #33 (May 1984)
Created byRoy Thomas and Rick Hoberg
AbilitiesSuperhuman strength; able to swim at superhuman speed, ability to create and control tidal waves
AliasesMiya Shimada
Further reading

The character, created by Roy Thomas and Rick Hoberg, first appeared in All-Star Squadron #33 (May 1984).

Within the context of the stories, Tsunami is a Nisei who grew up in Santa Barbara, California, prior to World War II. Due to the racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans, she suffered in the period leading up to the entry of America into the war and joins the cause of the Imperial Japanese government. Over time, she becomes disillusioned by the dishonorable conduct of those she is working with and eventually changes sides. In stories set in contemporary settings, she has a daughter named Debbie who she raised with her husband Neptune Perkins.

Tsunami II

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The second Tsunami is a supervillain who was created by Robby Reed's Master form from the cell sample of an unidentified human. She can create tidal waves and was partnered with fellow creation Distortionex.[21]

Dan Turpin

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Turtle

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Tusk

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Tusk is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is a metahuman crime lord who sports his namesakes and skin similar to that of an elephant.[22]

Tusk in other media

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Tusk appears in Batman: Bad Blood, voiced by John DiMaggio.[23] This version works for Talia al Ghul.

Typhoon

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Typhoon is the name of different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Typhoon I

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The first Typhoon was an agent of O.G.R.E. and lover of the criminal Huntress. The pair fought Aquaman and Mera who discovered the couple were working for the organization under threat of death. Mera persuaded Typhoon and Huntress to turn on their masters, which helped lead to O.G.R.E.'s defeat. The character has not been seen since.[24]

David Drake

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First appearanceThe Flash #294 (February 1981)
Created byGerry Conway, Jim Starlin
AbilitiesWeather manipulation
Further reading

Typhoon, created by Gerry Conway and Jim Starlin, first appeared in Flash #294 (February 1981).

David Drake was a research scientist at Concordance Research. Drake teamed with fellow scientist Martin Stein, who was secretly one half of the hero Firestorm, to develop a new bathysphere prototype.[25] Drake designed the housing of the vessel while Stein developed the small nuclear reactor that was to be the craft's power source. Concordance bought the rights to a boat called the Neptune Explorer, captained by a man named Anton Hammer, in order to use it to test the bathysphere, dubbed the Manta. Stein and Drake travelled to the South Pacific aboard the Neptune, but a tropical storm moved into the area in which they were to lower the Manta. Hammer insisted on carrying on the tests even though conditions were unfavorable. Drake acted as the pilot for the Manta while Stein remained aboard. When lowering the Manta, the Neptune Explorer began to shift and Hammer panicked, fearing the larger boat would capsize. Despite the protests of Stein, Hammer cut the Manta loose. Stein slipped away and transformed into Firestorm. Firestorm managed to stabilize the sphere and keep it from sinking, but a deranged Hammer shot Drake as he exited the sphere. While Firestorm subdued Hammer and his crew, the severely wounded Drake fell backwards into the submersible. The Manta capsized, and its reactor breached catastrophically. The intereaction of the ocean water and the experimental nuclear pile caused an explosion that destroyed the vehicle and triggered Drake's metagene. His skin turned blue and his hair red. He gained the ability to generate and control storms, wind and lightning.[26] A mentally unstable Drake battled Firestorm, destroying the Neptune Explorer in the process before fleeing. After saving the ship's crew, Firestorm pursued Typhoon, eventually intercepting him over Sydney, Australia. Firestorm disrupted Typhoon's powers by super-cooling the air around him, the shock returned Drake to normal. Firestorm left Drake in the care of a Sydney hospital, thinking his powers gone for good.[27]

Some time later, Drake was deemed cured and released.[28]

After a string of revenge motivated attacks including an attempt of the life of his own wife, Typhoon grew to a tremendous size at the center of a storm of his generation before Firestorm was able to stop him.[29] Drake was later found floating in the East River. Depowered and lacking identification, Drake spent a year in a New York hospital in a catatonic state as a John Doe.[30]

A storm in the area reawakened Drake and reactivated his powers. He kidnapped his children and took them to Pittsburgh, which was now Firestorm's home city. When his daughter told him he scared her sometimes, a guilt ridden Drake returned his children to their mother and stepfather. His ex-wife told him that she never wanted him around her or the children again.[31]

Drake next served as part of an army of super-villains led by Lex Luthor that attempted to conquer Earth-One, Earth-Two, and Earth-S during the events of "Crisis on Infinite Earths".[32]

After the dissolution of the Crisis, Drake retreated to the Caribbean and honed and increased his powers, obsessed with revenge on Firestorm for his defeat at the Nuclear Man's hands. After a matter of months he returned to Pittsburgh and razed much of the city in an attempt to draw Firestorm into a confrontation. Typhoon had gained the ability by this time to grow to a tremendous size, enabling him to encompass an area over multiple states. Firestorm defeated him by generating a sonic boom in the eye of the system Drake was generating, "popping" and depowering him. Drake was once again delivered into the hands of the authorities.[33]

Some time later, the Sunderland Corporation secured Typhoon's release to act as a superhuman agent, this was a precursor to their formation of the Captains of Industry. After helping him regain his sanity, Sunderland equipped Drake with a costume and sent him to defend Vandermeer Steel, from Firestorm. At this time, Firestorm was on a crusade to wipe out polluting corporations and his battle with Typhoon threatened to once again destroy Pittsburgh. Firehawk attempted to intervene, but was assaulted by Drake. The distraction she provided enabled Firestorm to encase Typhoon in amber, defeating him. Typhoon was once again imprisoned.[34]

Much later, Typhoon surfaced as part of project being conducted at the Slab, a prison for super-powered inmates. Typhoon and others at the facilities were being inhumanely experimented upon by unscrupulous scientists attempting to learn about the metagene. The illegal experiments upon Drake and the others were shut down by Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, who had infiltrated the prison in disguise.[35]

Typhoon was either released or escaped and began working as a superhuman mercenary. He next appeared when he was hired to attack a software company owned by Jesse Quick in her civilian identity.[36]

Eventually, Typhoon was captured, along with Multiplex, by Cliff Carmichael, the longtime rival of Ronnie Raymond, who planned to use the pair to help him exact revenge on Firestorm. He cybernetically enhanced Typhoon to allow him to act as a power source for Multiplex's duplicates, but was once again defeated by Firestorm.[37]

During the recent events chronicled in Infinite Crisis, Typhoon was one of many superhuman criminals who joined the villainous Society organized by Alexander Luthor Jr. He was among an army of villains that attacked Sub Diego.[38]

Following the resolution of the Crisis, Typhoon battled the new Blue Beetle who was attempting to defend a coastal town in Mexico from the villain's rampage. Blue Beetle tricked Typhoon into igniting an offshore oil rig, leading Typhoon to revert to his David Drake form to escape the effects of the fire. Blue Beetle then captured Drake and presumably handed him over to authorities.[39]

Typhoon was last seen as a brainwashed member of Darkseid's Anti-Life forces during Final Crisis. He was among those sent to attack the Checkmate castle. He was presumably freed from Darkseid's influence at the resolution of the conflict.[40]

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. During the Forever Evil storyline, Typhoon appears as a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains.[41]

In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, Typhoon is revealed to have been a latent metahuman whose abilities were activated in a government-created accident.[42] In the present, he attacks the Penguin until being killed by the Comedian.[43]

Typhoon later turned up alive in "Dark Crisis" where he was seen as a member of Deathstroke's [44]

The accident that gave David Drake his abilities made him, in essence, the living eye of a storm. As Typhoon, Drake generates a whirlwind around the lower half of his body that enables him to fly or hover.[26] Typhoon can also project lightning from his fingertips, channeling the energy at times as powerful electric blasts.[27] Typhoon can also generate storms of tremendous strength that generate tornadoes and driving hail.[28] While the storms were originally localized to Drake's vicinity, over time he has gained the ability to generate entire storm systems that can stretch over multiple states.[33] Typhoon can also grow in size relevant to size of the storm system he is generating. At times, he has grown larger than a skyscraper when generating a storm system of sufficient strength.[29] Typhoon can change back and forth between his superhuman form and that of David Drake at will. He has shed his costume and returned to operating in the nude.[45]

References

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  1. ^ The Flash vol. 3 #8
  2. ^ Levitz, Paul (2016). Blood price. Sonny Liew, Lee Loughridge, Nick Napolitano, Steve Wands. Burbank, CA. ISBN 978-1-4012-6121-4. OCLC 933580456.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Metamorpho #14. DC Comics.
  4. ^ Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #2. DC Comics.
  5. ^ The Multiversity #1. Marvel Comics.
  6. ^ Superman Vol. 4 #14-16. DC Comics.
  7. ^ Eisen, Andrew (October 2, 2013). "DC Characters and Objects - Scribblenauts Unmasked Guide". IGN. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  8. ^ "Time Trapper Voice - JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time (Movie)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 28, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  9. ^ "The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold #7 - Shadows & Light (Issue)". Comic Vine. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
  10. ^ Gerry Conway (w), Pat Broderick (p). "Squeeze Play!" The Fury of Firestorm, no. 18 (November 1983).
  11. ^ Stuart Moore (w), Jamal Igle, Steve Sadowski, Freddie E. Williams II (p). "In My Father's House" Firestorm: The Nuclear Man, vol. 2, no. 28–32 (October 2006 – February 2007).
  12. ^ White, Brett (August 25, 2015). "Demore Barnes Cast as 'Flash's' Tokamak". ComicBookResources.com. Archived from the original on 2015-08-26. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
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  17. ^ 52 #17
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  22. ^ Batman and Robin Annual Vol. 2 #2. DC Comics.
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  25. ^ Flash #294 (February 1981)
  26. ^ a b Flash #295 (Mar. 1981)
  27. ^ a b Flash #296 (Apr. 1981)
  28. ^ a b Fury of Firestorm #8 (Jan. 1983)
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  30. ^ Firestorm the Nuclear Man #43 (Jan. 1986)
  31. ^ Firestorm the Nuclear Man #44 (Feb. 1986)
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  33. ^ a b Firestorm the Nuclear Man #61 (July 1987)
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  36. ^ Flash (Vol. 2) #170 (Mar. 2001)
  37. ^ Firestorm (Vol. 3) #11-13 (May-Jul. 2005)
  38. ^ Infinite Crisis #3 (Feb. 2006)
  39. ^ Blue Beetle (Vol. 3) #17 (Sep. 2007)
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