Profiles in Courage: Evillo

The last time I talked about the Legion of Super-Heroes--which, surprising everyone, was actually more than two days ago--I took a harsh look a story where the Legionnaires bring Superboy and Supergirl to the future, kick them out of the Legion, and eventually shove little pieces of Kryptonite in their brains to keep them from remembering it at all.

Predictably, by the next issue, they end up going back in time to Smallville to beg for Superboy's help, because, well, as hard as it may be to beieve, there are certain problems that can't be solved by Matter-Eating and Splitting In Two. And in this case, those problems are represented by a man so dastardlyo, so hatefulo, so undeniably deadlyo that he could only be called...

Evillo!

Yes, while he was certainly the most deadly threat to menace the Legion in the pages of Adventure Comics #351, Evillo never quite caught on like, say, the Fatal Five, or even the Time-Trapper. And why?

Because he is quite possibly the single most ineffective super-villain ever.

Take, for instance, the fact that he runs a gang called The Devil's Dozen, which is a lot more impressive before you find out that there are only four members. And to make matters worse, Evillo uses the dark-force blasts from his horns (which he spontaneously grows after tricking Lightning Lad into shooting him with a pistol that... makes him grow horns, I guess) to completely obliterate one of his henchmen after a minor misunderstanding involving Bouncing Boy.

But here's the thing: At this point, most evil masterminds would simply scrap the idea of the Devil's Dozen and just go with "Satan's Quartet"--or, I suppose, "The Unholy Trio" at this point--but damn it, Evillo's the kind of guy who's going to see this thing through to the bitter end, and so concocts a plan to kidnap Legionnaires and subject them to a gas made of particles of Pure Evil in order to bring them over to his side.

So, Evillo, how's that working out for you?



Huh. Getting punched out by a one-armed child with no super-powers. Yeah, I guess that qualifies as "not so good."

Amazingly, Evillo's reign of terror isn't completely halted right there, but considering that he shrieks like a schoolgirl in that last panel, there's no amount of side-trips to the Fifth Dimension and battles between the Substitute Heroes and the Legion of Super-Pets--which I assure you is totally rad--that can delay the inevitable.



Prince Evillo of Tartarus
At Least He Tried

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