Plasmus

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Plasmus
Publisher DC Comics First appearance The New Teen Titans #14 (December 1981) Created by Marv Wolfman George Perez
Characteristics Alter ego Otto Von Furth Affiliations Brotherhood of Evil Suicide Squad Abilities Enhanced strength, speed and endurance, Burning touch can liquify solid matter, Superhuman durability, Super-regenerative capabilities

Plasmus is a fictional DC comics supervillain and an enemy of the Teen Titans

[edit] Character Biography

Otto Von Furth was a mine worker in East Berlin, Germany until an unexpected cave-in trapped him and four fellow miners for seven days. During those days, Otto's co-workers died leaving him as the only survivor. He and his fellow miners had been mining for radioactive radium and ended up exposed to it and when rescued, he was rushed to the hospital. Otto was later kidnapped by Ex-Nazi General Zahl who mutated him into a blob-like state. With his anger, Otto became Plasmus. His body changed into an unstable protoplasm and he was brought into the Brotherhood of Evil where he took the name Plasmus. He and the Brotherhood of Evil fought the Teen Titans on different occasion where he enjoys fighting and regretting not being the one to kill General Zahl. The rest of the Brotherhood of Evil reformed into the Society of Sin. He was later recruited into Lex Luthor's Suicide Squad where he died fighting Imperiex.

Plasmus accepted an invitation to join the Secret Society of Super Villains in the Countdown to Infinite Crisis series Villains United.

Plasmus has been resurrected following the events in Infinite Crisis.

[edit] Powers and abilities

With his radioactive and chemically-converted body, Plasmus' touch can bring a fiery death onto his opponents reverting them to a protoplasmic state. The touch has no cure and no one has withstood it. Plasmus can also loosen his cells so that bullets can't hurt him. He is also able to gather his body if it is scattered while in its less cohesive state.

[edit] Teen Titans animated series

In the Teen Titans animated series, Plasmus is a large purple monster with multiple green eyes. He does not possess his comic-book counterparts heat powers. He is actually human, but he only reverts to that form when unconscious. From the brief scene when he spoke, the human side of Plasmus fears his alternate nature and loses all control when it emerges. In the first episode, Divide and Conquer, he was kept unconscious in a stasis chamber of the prison until Cinderblock stole it so he could be used for Slade's purposes. He has since been not much more than a nuisance for the Titans.

In "Transformation", his devouring of raw sewage transformed him by giving him more green eyes and making him more powerful, now able to spit acid. Later, he is recruited by Terra and Slade and ordered to distract Cyborg and Beast Boy. In "Aftershock" (Part 2), he was fused with Cinderblock and Overload into an even worse creature known as Ternion. After the Titans defeated him, the three were diffused and became separate again. Plasmus again appeared to menace the Titans on their last day of freedom, in "The End Part 1", where he was defeated single-handedly by Raven. He then made a cameo, along with his fellow minions, as an ally of the Brotherhood of Evil. After that, he is seen in the episode "Calling All Titans," he was seen in a whale-like state being mounted by Trident. He was knocked unconscious during his final fight with the Titans, reverting him to his human form. He was presumably taken back to the prison's stasis chamber. As of Season Four, Plasmus, along with Cinderblock, has the most appearances (six total, including the story arcs) out of all Slade's other minions (Overload appeared only four times). Unlike his comic counterpart, Plasmus cannot melt his enemies into a protoplasmic state. He is played by Dee Bradley Baker.

Plasmus's original form (seen above), which had only two eyes and a more ooze-like consistency, was similar in appearance to Clayface from Batman: The Animated Series; a similarity which, considering the origins of the animated Clayface, is entirely appropriate.

Plasmus's human form's design is based on series producer David Slack. Because Plasmus's human form is barely clothed, Slack jokingly stated "I don't know how much it looks like me and I'm certainly not letting these guys see me in my underwear."

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