View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Safari Grandma Join Date May 2014 Posts 436. Mac Flex Mentallo vs Reality Warpers Gauntlet Flex runs the following gauntlet of reality warpers: 1. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other It succeeded, and he became strong enough to bend reality through sheer strength. any Comic Vine content.
In a general sense, Flex can affect reality by flexing his muscles, in a reverse form of When Flex uses his power, his "Hero Halo", a shimmering projection of the words "Hero of the Beach", appears above his head. Kazaam (with a kid making wishes in an impervious forcefield) … Mac "Flex Mentallo" is a fantastic, metatextual, hyper-imaginative work that's been long out of print and is well worth picking up if only for the artwork, but Morrison's writing is top notch as well. send you an email once approved. A fascinating look into the superhero genre from the outside in. Thread: Flex Mentallo vs Reality Warpers Gauntlet. Strangely enough, he hinted, all their adventures revolved around the color green. Harry was "on to something big", as Norman put it, involving Flex eventually remembered the 32 disappearances; their number, he said, was 5, the number of sides of the Pentagon: "3+2=5 and that is their number. As she said this, the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. Man of Muscle Mystery Sophicles. As The Man of Muscle Mystery, Flex Mentallo's powers are apparently vast but ill-defined. Flex Mentallo was created by the writer Grant Morrison. Flex Mentallo was originally a nobody. Hero of the Beach Mr. Elbows-on-the-Table He is a classic superhero who has been imprisoned by the Bureau of Normalcy for some time. The Doom Patrol soon invaded the Pentagon in an attempt to rescue Flex and Dorothy; in the confusion, Flex freed Wallace, who died within minutes. Mr. Elbows-on-the-TableAmerica's Merriest Crimefighter Flex was able to resist the attack of Wally and helped him to overcame his cynism and bring the superheroes to real life.The miniseries touch concepts as metafiction, fourth wall ideas and concept seen usually in Grant Morrison's books.Flex appears on the DC streaming show, Doom Patrol. You can search for Flex Mentallo
He was then approached by a reporter named Norman Grindstone, who was investigating the disappearance of detective Harry Christmas.
This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll Flex is in part a parody of Charles Atlas' long-running "The Insult that made a Man out of Mac" advertisements seen in American comics from the past. Flex Mentallo was once an average man until one day someone kicked sand in his face at a beach. Powers Muscle Mystery: This is the bizarre source from which Mentallo derives his incredible abilities. Man of Muscle Mystery Flex Mentallo is a superhero who employs the use of his strange power of "Muscle Mystery". Flex went on to star in a four-issue miniseries in its own continuity. It is the number of anguish". America's Merriest Crimefighter The Avatar was eventually destroyed by The Candlemaker, an entity that had been imprisoned within Dorothy's mind. His first appearance was in Doom Patrol #35. Flex Mentallo has stated that he knows techniques with enough Muscle Power to see into the future, read people's minds, and even see into other dimensions. In 1956, while judging a swimsuit competition, Flex fell in love with and later married a woman named Dolores Watson. Flex Mentallo is a comic book character created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Richard Case in 1990, during their run on Doom Patrol. Show Printable Version; Email this Page… 07-06-2020, 09:14 PM #1. Comic Vine users. He works closely with the Doom Patrol. By flexing his muscles he is able to do an astounding number of things, including summoning his 'Hero of the Beach' halo. suddenly stood in her place. Mentallo appears in his first live-action adaptation on the DC has reprinted Flex's initial appearances, including the Charles Atlas parody, in the third and fourth collections of the Morrison When Flex was still a "mac" instead of a "man", he was bullied a lot while on the beach. History. They kidnapped Flex and young psychic While given a tour of the Ant Farm by the demented Major Honey, Flex learned that he was created by a psychic named Wallace Sage inside a comic book Sage created with green ink when he was a child called "My Greenest Adventure". Sick of being the weakling, he sent in a form that would teach him the powers of muscle mystery. any Comic Vine content. Thread Tools. Flex discovered than the superheroes of another universe, The Legion of Legions (composed by several homages to Marvel and DC characters) had became fictional to survive the attack of an unstoppable force known as the Absolute and had seek refuge in the unconscious mind of Wally Sage, who was also the villain who wanted to show the world than Flex wasn't as virtuous as he claimed. For a time he was part of a group which included such esoteric members as the Atomic Pile, who was half-man, half-salad, and the Fact, who had little cards with facts on them.Life went on until Flex discovered a conspiracy in the In his own limited series, Flex Mentallo had to discover a conspiracy where his own fictional reality is colliding against the real world where he now resides, meanwhile Wally Sage, now depicted as a successful rock star akin to Kurt Cobain, remembers his past confusing about what is real and what is fiction in the middle of a suicidal crisis.Flex starts searching for his old teammate, the Fact, with the helped police officer Lieutenant Harry.
Sage, along with Dorothy, was kidnapped as a means to summon the Telephone Avatar, a being that has enslaved the dead and haunted the telephone system for 50 years.
This lead to him resolving to become stronger, so he read a book that taught him how to use the strange power known as Muscle Mystery. This did indeed grant him incredible muscle power, and he was granted superpowers through the sheer power of his muscles. He is busted out by the Doom Patrol and teams up with them to find their leader, Niles Caulder.Flex Mentallo has the powers of Muscle Mystery. You can search for After regaining his memory, he was reunited with Dolores, who returned his costume but then withered away; her parting words were "I love you. Hero of the Beach