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1. They were going to remake my movie! And put some other guy in the lead role! That's why I became a bad guy. Unless it was that I was turned into a shape-shifting amorphous monster after taking a dip in a pool of radioactive protoplasm I found while treasure-hunting. I never can remember which. Who am I?
2. I was corrupted by the powers given to me by a mighty wizard. I served as a champion of my people for a while, but then decided I should be in charge. For my troubles, I was exiled to the farthest star, and flying all the way back to Earth has made me pretty cranky. Or, perhaps, I might have been tempted by the wizard's evil daughter into becoming a bad guy, after which I spent a couple of millennia cooling my heels as a mummy. Who am I?
3. I hate my rival hero! Sometimes I hate him because he's the only one in the world I can't bribe or buy off, and sometimes because I'd like to date his girl, but mostly I hate him because when he was a teenager, he blew up my secret lab and made me lose my hair! Who am I?
4. I'm a mutant, and either I'm the daughter of a noted underworld boss, or I'm a street-level car thief. In one version of my origin story, I tried to free my lover from a situation he had no desire to be free of, leading to his suicide and my villainy. In another, I was run over by a truck after a fight with my friend, and I blamed her forever, even after I was put back together again. Who am I?
5. In my many lives as villain, hero, anti-hero and love interest, I've been motivated by the thrill of the heist, by reacting to violence against me, my sister, or a street prostitute, and by a fanatical devotion to animal welfare. Who am I?
6. I had a very traumatic childhood, that's for certain! It might have been on a ship, where I was repeatedly sexually abused and the well-known hero who would become my enemy didn't come to help me. It might have been in the Arkham Asylum, where the doctors didn't understand that I was infinitely more comfortable in the water than in the terrible beds, and where I saw my later nemesis on television. Who am I?
7. In the 1980s, I was an African-American soldier who was manipulated by Lex Luthor into thinking Superman was responsible for the Vietnam War, where my brother lost all his limbs. In the 1990s, I was a white supremacist who turned to villain-hood to answer for crimes I imagined had been committed against me by African-Americans. Both versions of my character have used the same technology, a device that teleports weapons to me. Who am I?
8. I got my superpowers from betrayal: either my lover and partner in thievery tried to poison me to keep me quiet about our heist, or my lover and professor injected me with toxins as a twisted experiment. Either way, I was pretty annoyed once I recovered, and found that I was resistant to all poisons and drugs. I decided to avenge myself, and the earth, against men and their depredations. Who am I?
9. According to one of my creators, I was originally meant to be a supernatural entity discovered by a movie crew, but by the time I made it to the page, I was a young man locked in my dysfunctional father's house. As a child I nervously imagined an evil entity was lurking. Later, when I suffered an unfortunate lab accident, I took on the identity of that monster. Who am I?
10. I've got a split personality! The first villain to bear my name was a Russian and a foe of "Captain America, Commie Smasher" back in 1954, when all a US comics reader needed for a villain's story was that he was a communist. My more recent incarnation is driven by a sense of inferiority - my mother said I wasn't smart enough to learn to do the job I wanted, so I took a more menial job instead. On this job, a shocking accident gave me superpowers. Who am I?
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