Mist (comics)

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The Mist is the name of two DC Comics supervillains, archenemies of the original and 1990s Starman.

[edit] Mist I

The first Mist's name was Kyle (last name unknown). He fought in World War I as a Captain in the Canadian Army, winning the Victoria Cross. He was also a scientist and created a device that turned his body into a gaseous form; he became a supervillain, first fighting the Golden Age Sandman under the name 'Johnathon Smythe', before changing his name to The Mist. In 1941 he undertook a crimewave in Opal City and was stopped by Ted Knight, the Golden Age Starman; he vowed revenge on Starman and became his archnemesis.

He was a member of the Ultra-Humanite's incarnation of the Secret Society of Super Villains, and appeared during the late 80s Starman series (chronicling the adventures of Will Payton), then using the name Nimbus.

The Mist had two children, Nash and Kyle.

In the early 90's after Ted Knight had retired (following the events of Zero Hour), the Mist planned his final revenge on Starman and sent Kyle to kill Knight's son David, as well as nearly killing his second son, Jack and demolishing his home and kidnapping the elder Knight. In exchange for his father, Jack battled Kyle, resulting in Kyle's death, which drove The Mist mad. He was like this for some time until making a deal with the demon Neron, restoring his sanity. Ultimately, he was tired and decided to end his life, planting a nuclear bomb in Opal City set to detonate at the moment of his death and then taking poison. However he failed to destroy the city as a terminally ill Ted Knight used an advanced version of his gravity rod to lift the entire building miles into the air; the two enemies made peace just before the Mist's heart stopped, killing them both.

[edit] Mist II

Nash was not initially the villain that her father or brother were, but a rather a meek, stuttering girl. During her father's campaign of revenge against Ted Knight she was in a position to kill Jack Knight, but let him go after he reasoned that she personally had no reason to kill him. However, after Jack killed her brother she underwent a major personality shift and became the second Mist, exposing herself to the same process that had transformed her father. During her first major crimewave she drugged Jack, having sex with him while he was unconscious, becoming pregnant; she would later give birth to a boy whom she name Kyle Theo, after both her father and Jack's. Again, she could have killed Jack but chose to spare him, deciding to better herself as a villain whilst Jack worked to become a better hero. She spent much time in Europe where she managed to kill the second Amazing Man, Crimson Fox and Blue Devil. She was then one of the many villains who took part in the plan to destroy Opal City during the Grand Guignol storyline; after this was foiled her father then made his own attempt to destroy the city, but as this would also kill her and her son she attempted to stop him. Her father shot and killed her, and in her dying moments she gave her son over to Jack.