Multi-Man
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Challengers of the Unknown #14 (June-July, 1960) |
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| Alter ego | Duncan Pramble |
| Team affiliations | Injustice League Justice League League of Challenger-Haters Suicide Squad |
| Notable aliases | Mister Voodoo |
| Abilities | Everytime he dies he is resurrected with a new superhuman ability. |
Multi-Man (alter ego Duncan Pramble) is a fictional character that has been both a superhero and a supervillain in DC Comics comic books.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Originally an enemy of the Challengers of the Unknown, Pramble consumes a substance known as "Liquid Light" found in an ancient temple. The effect of this substance is that whenever he dies, he resurrects with a different, random superpower, often becoming "energy beings" or monsters. The side effect of this is that his head grows disproportionately large (with pointed ears and large eyes) and his body becomes small and weak.
He later joins the Injustice League, and in turn Justice League Antarctica, where he reveals that his many deaths and resurrections have left him with a form of Bipolar disorder. While involved with the League, he confronts a killer squad of penguins, befriends the Green Lantern G'Nort and volunteers to become a bodyguard for the injured Maxwell Lord.
[edit] Death and redemption
He drifts away from the League and becomes a supermarket bagger. During the 1991 Challengers Of The Unknown mini-series, he is prompted by the seeming 'personification of all evil' to destroy Challenger Mountain with a bomb. This bomb, combined with the energies of the evil entity, causes the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians and two of the Challengers themselves. Duncan later makes up for this. While the Challengers and their new reporter ally, Moffet, are confronting the entity, he sneaks onto the battlefield. He takes a neutron bomb from Moffet's hands and dives into the creature's mouths. Both are seemingly destroyed. The entire incident is reported as a small article in the newspaper, written by Lois Lane, focusing on his death and little else.
In JLA #34 (October 1999), Multi-Man appears alive in the Belle Reve Prison riot where he and others manage to defeat Green Lantern after his ring is stolen. This is his second riot in a short period of time. He is involved with the Outsiders when they had been sent to prison on a false murder charge.
He was also a part of The Joker's "Last Laugh" crossover in which the Joker killed him hundeds of times until he possesses the power required to free the villains.
In Suicide Squad vol. 2 #1 Multi-Man, now taller and fitter, is 'volunteered' for the Squad by his former Injustice League ally, Major Disaster. On their first mission he is shot dead during a battle against a mad scientist and his biologically-created servants. Some of his Injustice League friends also die in this battle.
