Bloodsport (comics)

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Bloodsport

Panel from Adventures of Superman #507 of Bloodsport aka Alex Trent.

Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Adventures of Superman #507
Created by

Characteristics
Alter ego	Alex Trent
Affiliations	Hi-Tech (comics), Aryan Brotherhood
Notable aliases	Superman
Abilities	Access to high tech weaponry in a warehouse by using a teleportation device.

Bloodsport is the name of three DC Comics supervillains, the first two were enemies of Superman.

1 Robert DuBois
2 Alex Trent
3 Unknown
4 Other media

[edit] Robert DuBois

Robert DuBois had a mental breakdown and became obsessed about the Vietnam War, after learning that his brother had gone to fight in his place and become a quadruple amputee. An agent of Lex Luthor persuaded DuBois that Superman was the enemy and supplied DuBois with a teleporter and weapons including bullets made from kryptonite. DuBois adopted the name Bloodsport, rampaged through Metropolis, and injured Superman with the kryptonite bullets before collapsing when confronted by his brother.

[edit] Alex Trent

Alex Trent was a fanatical racist, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist group that Perry White and Franklin Stern encountered when they were younger. He adopted the name Bloodsport, ironically used previously by an African American. He also had a similar teleporter grafted into his body, which he could likewise use to summon weapons. He was captured by Superman after Ron Troupe destroyed the warehouse he was teleporting the weapons from.

Some time later, in an effort to provide an outlet for rising tensions at Stryker's Island Prison, a boxing match between the two Bloodsports was organised. Trent, however, was able to activate his teleporter, and bring in weaponry. In the resultant confusion, DuBois was killed while trying to escape. Trent was later burned in his prison cell by the Brotherhood for showing weakness in front of DuBois.

The teleporter technology has since been used by the anti-corporate vigilante Demolitia.

[edit] Unknown

A new Bloodsport has recently appeared in Superman comics, but little has been revealed about him thus far.

[edit] Other media

In Justice League Unlimited, Bloodsport appeared at Roulette's Meta-Brawl and was fighting Electrocutioner. He later appeared as a member of the Legion of Doom, but was killed off-screen during JLU's series finale.