Plastic man was someone I never took seriously until I actually learned more about him. A reformed criminal with one of the most busted powers in all of DC and he chooses to be lighthearted and brighten people’s days when saving them. The absolute poster boy for the idea that people can change for the better.
Batman's contingency file for Plastic Man in the DC Universe Online game (or whatever it's called) had him remark that they're all extremely lucky that Plastic Man decided to be a goofball hero instead of a dedicated villain.
Superman and the flash are the same, batman doesn't say it because everyone already knows Plastic man however is underestimated by heroes and villains alike so batman included that
Just remember: in the Injustice cartoon, Plastic Man destroyed the cyborg Amazo (a villain who copies JL superpowers without any explanation, including Superman's super-strength/super-durability) by pulling the Ant Man vs. Thanos gambit Marvel was too afraid to consider.
@@shawn47240 Antman shirks himself small enough that he gets inside Thanos's body thru his nose while he is breathing. Antman Enlarges himself afterwards and proceeds to burst out of Thanos's body, blowing him apart in the process. (He can also take stuff with him, like explosives and do the same with them inside Thanos) Marvels writers have thought this up constantly but never went thru because it would make Antman too powerful. DC writers on otherhand actively let Plastic man do this regularly and is the reason why he is sooo OP.
still one of my favorite plastic man moments is from injustice comics. Where he tries to open a door, someone tells him that he won't be able to because he doesn't have the key, and plastic man just puts his hand into the door, opens it, pulls out his hand and shows middle finger shaped like a key to the camera and says "Hey look. I found the key."
Oh, yeah that was in the movie too. Actually made me laugh. Also in the same comic book run he casually walks into a room with some of the strongest heroes (and Sinestro) to ask for his son and talks shit without a care in the world.
@@serspritztomb Probably because you get one shot and thats it, you fail it's over, and he can't be sure what exactly it would take to remove him, because if it doesn't work he won't get a second chance. Like lets say batman actually managed to chuck him into a star, if by some chance he lives batman isn't going to get to do that again, freezing him is only a temporary measure as is melting him.
In Injustice when Superman realized he'd inadvertently thrown Plastic Mans son in jail he immediately went on high alert. Even at the height of his power with all his allies and the Regime to back him up he wasn't sure that he could handle Plastic Man
Plastic man is like the less intelligent between him and Reed Richards but more dangerous superhero than Reed due to him actually using his true power to defend himself.
Plasticman literally went straight to Superman's headquarters, trashtalked all of them, and superman had to talk down the rest of the team from doing something stupid. (honestly superman probably knew he couldn't keep plasticman's son captive for long, but had to maintain appearances)
Plastic Man will always remind me of Luffy since I discovered One Piece first, but I really find it weird how stretchy powers are always made to be just super good lol
He reminds me of the Tintin looking guy in My Hero Academia. Their superpowers aren't the strongest compared to their peers. But it's their creativity that makes them much more powerful than what it should be on paper.
I hate one piss, Plastic Man is Infinitley better in every way and can solo the entire one piss verse with negative effort. I do really wish shit piss didn't exist and the new series is worse than Velma and Supergirl and Batwoman and She Hulk combined.
Plastic Man has always been one of my favorite DC characters ever. His goofball personality and insane powers is a really nice combination that never makes him feel stale. I can only imagine how awesome a Plastic Man film starring Bruce Campbell would be.
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That recruitment photo has always KILLED me, because Hitman is right fucking there and he KNOWS he's not gonna make it. But he left knowing what WW looked like naked and straight up said so on his exit. His JLA crossover two-parter is even better though, and somehow heart-rending. Like, Tommy has THE BEST in-universe view of Superman.
Plastic Man is actually one of the most powerful heroes in the DC multiverse. And just like any other character like him, he is VERY underrated. Although the reason why Plastic Man is so underrated can be also attributed to the fact he is considered a funny or comedic character; his comic debut was, fittingly enough, in Police Comics #1, the very first superhero comic book in history to incorporate humor to its main plot. So because of this, Plastic Man is usually seen by writers as a joke only to be used for ridiculous or hilarious stories, which is very unfair.
In the main story, batman has no permenant solution for dealing with plastic man should he turn evil. His current solution is "lets just hope he doesnt turn evil"
It’s the thing that made me hate the Batman who laughs on first sight. The rest of the league I could sort of believe but him killing plasticman was just narrative cheating.
I'd say Plasticman purely because he has more options in a fight. Sandman can make himself more dense, but he's ultimately still a solid mass of sand. Plasticman can become a pure liquid if he wants, so he has way more shapeshifting options in a fight
Sandman might be able to win since he's connected to the Hyperflow and was able to one shot multiple hosts of Celestials and beat a Power Cosmic enhanced Doom. That's easily Outerversal levels of power there but Plastic Man does have his own Outerversal feats like beating Amazo and Darksied. He's still only the 5th best stretching character in D.C.
@@master-of-mind5881 oh what I mean is that there's 4 other characters I think that can use stretching powers that are more powerful than Plastic Man. In D.C.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki Wait sorry to reply to an old comment, but I'm really intrigued by the "hyperflow" and sandman defeating Celestials, but I can't find anything about it online... Which series is that from??
When he was shattered for 3000 years, the JL simply gathered all of his particles and put them back together. This is where Batman said that, Plastic Man is hiding an insane level of power and generally, he was completely fine, since being crazy got boring after 1000 years. He's incredibly inconsistent overall, sometimes he can tear or be ripped apart, sometimes just hitting him works. Sometimes he can fight fire monsters, sometimes he melts. I like to think he can stop himself from melting when he focuses hard enough. I love Plas and the idea he's incredibly powerful, but because he's indestructible and goofy he just messes around with everyone. He still wouldn't beat Superman, because it's like a B or C list character against the focal point of the DC universe, but he'd probably have the best shot at actually being a threat to him (minus frost breath lol).
Couldn't really anyone beat Superman with kryptonite if the writers really wanted them too? Like yeah Superman is op, but kryptonite basically exists as the "break in case of story emergency" box.
Plastic Man's always been one of my favorite DC heroes, possibly my MOST favorite! Creative and versatile powers that tests comic artists in new ways, funny personality while still having depth, great hairstyle and glasses, AND he's a decent father!
He has complete control over his molecular structure, down to the individual molecule. He is actually immune to intense heat and cold, or at least insanely resistant. But his weakness is, is a little different. Its the drastic change in temp that fucks with him. So rapidly being frozen for example its the rapid speed of the freeze that turns him into a frozen solid state. Eventually, his molecules will adjust to the new phase state and he will be able to thaw and move around normally. So sure if you dropped him into Antarctica he would freeze maybe for a day or two but eventually his body would adjust and he would be fine and move normally. Same with if you dropped him into a volcano, he would melt down for sure but eventually he would adjust and reform.
He's the anti prep guy, in that he's stupidly hard to beat with out prep and needs almost none. Also, remember he was the secret anti Martian weapon, being immune to telepathy.
Man that's a fairly different origin story than I remember for Plastic Man. The one I remember was after his heist gone wrong, Plastic Man wakes up in a monastery called "Rest Haven" (which Plastic Man mishears at first, giving us the lovely line of "Heaven? The coldest day for the place *I'm* going to is 100 degrees!") and is cared for by the monks that live there. Due to the kindness of the Rest Haven monks, Plastic Man resolves to make the most of the second chance he's been given and becomes a super hero. Of course comics being what they are I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was just some other continuity than the one in the video.
IDK, I kind of prefer the golden-age origin from Police Comics where Eel gets rehabilitated by a kindly monk after his incident who sees great potential in him. It just has a nice second chance element to it. Woozy also starts out as a bad guy who saves an elderly man and therefor gets the power to be impervious from pain or harm and only starts helping out Eel because he played to his conscience
Batman: "These files are my contingency plans for every vigilante in case they turned into criminals." Robin: "Wait, Plastic Man's folder is empty. What if he turns bad one day?" Batman: "God would have definitively abandoned us..."
@@akkristor to be fair, Batman says that about a _lot_ of JLA members. He once admitted that his contingiency for Superman would be useless if Clark ever really went bad, since Superman could literally wipe all 8 billion people off the face of the Earth without even really trying.
@@RabblesTheBinx That’s modern Superman, whose powers were amped to a billion times what they used to be. Normal SuperMan is just a particularly strong Alien.
@@LFanimes333 you do understand that modern Superman is _way_ weaker than pre-Crisis (aka Silver Age) Superman, right? Also, that statement was during the early New 52, and that version was even weaker than Golden Age Superman. Silver Age Superman's feats are absolutely insane. The motherfucker sneezed away a galaxy. Like, seriously, your comment makes me think you've never actually read older Superman comics.
It was introduced in the Marvel Ultimate universe that Reed Richards become even smarter when he got powers, as his brain became significantly (without limit?) more pliable. Plastic Man would theoretically be the same.
Plastic man is one of those characters that is just fun af to watch, and read about.. you want him to win.. or atleast you want to see him come out on top because it's 100% gonna be great.. he reminds me of deadpool, and Reed Richard's mixed to one character.. eventually I believe they will give him some sort of instant teleportation or somthing 😂 so he can be god level insane.. and I'm sooo down to read it.
i feel like a very cool way of explaining his powers would be that he’s just 100% stemcells. so like a tumor he’s insanely resilient and whenever he stretches he physically just grows extra flesh, and can also choose which dna is being expressed for each cell, turning his skin into bones ect… it’s gruesome but really cool i think. would love to see an origin story looking at the body horror side of things like with the hulk
I just wanna know what acid is Gotham making that changes not one, BUT TWO people genetically. Joker vía permanent clown look + insanity and O’Brian becoming Plastic Man. What are they putting in that green juice?!
I want to see a fight between Plastic Man and Captain Planet. I don’t think Captain Planet would stand a chance, but I think it would be hilarious for Captain Planet to start preaching about plastic pollution.
Bruce works in plausible scenarios, this holds him back because I can think of a few ways the neutralize him. Phantom zone Keeping him compressed in artificial gravity. Send him to Venus while he’s frozen. Ray palmer’s belt Using dr alchemy’s equipment to reset his chemical structure back to a normal human being Basilisk eye.
Not only would he survive being thrown into the sun but he would become immensely powerful , if each of 5he smallest molecular particle of him is still him he would be broken down to atoms and merge with the sun becoming the sun in the great pressure of it core. This is why the sun wears sunglasses in the Mario games , it's him.
this is the second time i've heard about a neiche character being near omega level, but i still think molecule man is JUST that bit more op. being able to control not molecules, but the ATOMIC STRUCTURE of ANYTHING is pretty broken. the only difference is his mental state is in complete tatters from essentially being able to control the multiverse (even galactus notices him as his second biggest threat behind franklin richards), but a fight between these two would go so hard
Didn’t Batman once make a statement to the Justice League that all of them are lucky that Plastic Man uses his powers jokingly because he technically has the power to kill every single one of them if he wanted to?
Speaking of, my favorite versions of plastic man was during the amalgam comics universe where he fused with marvel's sandman & the earth 32 one where he merged with blue beetle
Plastic Man's always been a favourite hero of mine, but I only realised how strong he was from the Dark Nights: Metal series, where he almost single handedly turns the tide of the final battle against the Dark Multiverse
Im halfway trough and I have to say this is some great video, i didn’t know much about Plastik man I find him in some way weard but he really somehow uplifts my mood How you tell about him on this evening in a work week really makes my day so really thank you for this good video
Injustice will forever hold the position of the best Plastic Man moment. When Cyborg tells him the cell door in front of him is impossible to open, he sticks his hand in and unlocks it within seconds, pulls his hand out and sticks up his middle finger in the shape of a key while saying "Look at that! I found the key!"
In the DC super hero game based of Mutants and Masterminds Plastic Man is hands down one of the toughest characters. If I had to play a member of the justice league in that game I would pick him over any other character including Superman.
Anyone else remember watching Plas on Saturday mornings in the 70s? Everyone has videos on the old Spider-Man, FF, Thor from the 60s or Superfriends and Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends in the 70s & 80s, X-Men and Batman in the 90s and other superhero toons but nobody seems to remember Plastic Man having his own solo show.
Nice video! I also should mention that plastic man was shown in MAD magazine. In this version he is much less gory and more goofy. I do have the comic too!
Plastic man in the physical sense is the strongest, but in the injustice universe he’s the guy who basically is a rebuttle for everything superman does, he’s a reformed criminal. A hero who turned his life around showing everyone that second or third chances should be given to criminals.
It's also worth mentioning: Even at his worst, Flashpoint Plastic Man _still_ had his limits. At one point in the comic, Heatwave was willing to slaughter dozens, maybe _hundreds_ of people in Detroit (Cyborg's home city), just to inflict as much suffering on Cyborg as possible. But Plastic Man stepped in, and said that slaughtering innocent bystanders just to get some "payback" on one guy was where he drew the line. That's when the fight between him and Heatwave started, and when Heatwave melted him.
Also if I had to say what I considered one of the "best" powers without going overboard...Oil manipulation. INCREDIBLY versatile and somewhat original.
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon Petroleum is one of the most used products in the world. It's in cars, plastics, and many other things. Even if you can only manipulate crude oil derivatives like gasoline and liquid diesel you still have highly flammable and versatile liquid to use.
One of my favorite DC heroes and characters alongside Booster Gold, Constantine, The Question and also loved the series they made that he got a family team The Terrifics.
Ya know, Plas is pretty fearless and actually has a ton of willpower and creativity. That scene in Injustice when he had like 40 Green Lantern rings could have gotten a lot more interesting if he decided to use them.
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Don’t let this video distract you from the fact that Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes, that’s four tens of cake
And that's terrible.
You saw nothing.
That's despicable
Lex is the guy in the math problems
That’s as many as four tens!
Plastic man was someone I never took seriously until I actually learned more about him. A reformed criminal with one of the most busted powers in all of DC and he chooses to be lighthearted and brighten people’s days when saving them. The absolute poster boy for the idea that people can change for the better.
Fr, he's goated
He can turn into a rocket ship and go faster than the speed of light.
@@mikejackson2228 cap
Yes
@@mikejackson2228in WHAT way is he gonna propel himself at the speed of light though!?
lmao
Batman's contingency file for Plastic Man in the DC Universe Online game (or whatever it's called) had him remark that they're all extremely lucky that Plastic Man decided to be a goofball hero instead of a dedicated villain.
Superman and the flash are the same, batman doesn't say it because everyone already knows
Plastic man however is underestimated by heroes and villains alike so batman included that
@@DarthFedora i had a stroke reading that
@@vasheeri you must have those pretty often then
@@DarthFedoranah nah, he’s valid, like who presses the return button to separate their sentences, let alone in a yt comment section
@@The_sum_of_9_and_10 typed with a phone, still easy to read though
Just remember: in the Injustice cartoon, Plastic Man destroyed the cyborg Amazo (a villain who copies JL superpowers without any explanation, including Superman's super-strength/super-durability) by pulling the Ant Man vs. Thanos gambit Marvel was too afraid to consider.
Operation brown starfish
Why? What happens if I don’t remember? Life just goes on?
@@shawn47240You now have only a week left to live
@@shawn47240 You would have 7 more days to live. You should thank @subtleWhatssublte for reminding you!
@@shawn47240 Antman shirks himself small enough that he gets inside Thanos's body thru his nose while he is breathing.
Antman Enlarges himself afterwards and proceeds to burst out of Thanos's body, blowing him apart in the process.
(He can also take stuff with him, like explosives and do the same with them inside Thanos)
Marvels writers have thought this up constantly but never went thru because it would make Antman too powerful.
DC writers on otherhand actively let Plastic man do this regularly and is the reason why he is sooo OP.
still one of my favorite plastic man moments is from injustice comics. Where he tries to open a door, someone tells him that he won't be able to because he doesn't have the key, and plastic man just puts his hand into the door, opens it, pulls out his hand and shows middle finger shaped like a key to the camera and says "Hey look. I found the key."
you mean cyborg (sorry for being the nerd)
Oh, yeah that was in the movie too. Actually made me laugh. Also in the same comic book run he casually walks into a room with some of the strongest heroes (and Sinestro) to ask for his son and talks shit without a care in the world.
@hhgff778 not to mention to his face called superman a dictator
@@doomawsogaming And mentioning injustice superman his dead kid without worrying that superman would murder him lol
Stuff like that is why I still hope for plasticman vs reed richards.
Just a reminder that even batman is afraid of him
Can you blame him too? Especially after that Flashpoint shit😭
And that batman doesn’t have a sure fire way to kill him in his contingency plan
@@serspritztomb Probably because you get one shot and thats it, you fail it's over, and he can't be sure what exactly it would take to remove him, because if it doesn't work he won't get a second chance.
Like lets say batman actually managed to chuck him into a star, if by some chance he lives batman isn't going to get to do that again, freezing him is only a temporary measure as is melting him.
@@Nyghtkingthats true for most oh the super hero..like flash.
@@yuvalgabay1023 Not really, since batman is confident he could take out everyone except plastic man.
In Injustice when Superman realized he'd inadvertently thrown Plastic Mans son in jail he immediately went on high alert. Even at the height of his power with all his allies and the Regime to back him up he wasn't sure that he could handle Plastic Man
Plastic man is like the less intelligent between him and Reed Richards but more dangerous superhero than Reed due to him actually using his true power to defend himself.
Plasticman literally went straight to Superman's headquarters, trashtalked all of them, and superman had to talk down the rest of the team from doing something stupid. (honestly superman probably knew he couldn't keep plasticman's son captive for long, but had to maintain appearances)
Plastic Man will always remind me of Luffy since I discovered One Piece first, but I really find it weird how stretchy powers are always made to be just super good lol
I think it's a case of people would expect them to be weak so the juxtaposition makes it fun
He reminds me of the Tintin looking guy in My Hero Academia. Their superpowers aren't the strongest compared to their peers. But it's their creativity that makes them much more powerful than what it should be on paper.
Don't forget about Jake the dog
I am certain both of these characters were inspired by the early 1900s cartoon characters since they are in fact created from the mid to late 1900s.
I hate one piss, Plastic Man is Infinitley better in every way and can solo the entire one piss verse with negative effort. I do really wish shit piss didn't exist and the new series is worse than Velma and Supergirl and Batwoman and She Hulk combined.
Plastic Man has always been one of my favorite DC characters ever. His goofball personality and insane powers is a really nice combination that never makes him feel stale.
I can only imagine how awesome a Plastic Man film starring Bruce Campbell would be.
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Nah Jim carrey as plastic man
@@SerbianSpark19same Jim Carey all day for plastic man it just fits too well
@@treek10kDONT be worried about him, ever met one of us before?
You know youre a dangerous person when even batman doesnt even has a contigency plan on you
Extreme temperatures are his contingency
@DarthFedora they are only a counter measure he can come back from being blown into atomic particles
@@DarthFedoraMore like a "temporary annoyance" that would make Plas extremely upset with Bats.
No "permanent" contingency plan.
@@Gilhelmi he doesn't make permanent contingencies because that entails killing, worst case scenario he has superman use the phantom zone projector
After the first screw up Plastic Man went on a training arc so cold wouldn't be as much as a bother. Like how Manhunter got over his fear of fire.
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Speaking of the Blackest Night, I love how Nekron brought back basically every known deceased character, no matter if they weren't even fighters, like Dick Grayson's parents or Alexandra DeWitt (Kyle Rayner's girlfriend, who ended up dismembered inside a refrigerator). Anyway, it's pretty amazing how Nekron turned really powerful characters (like Golden Age Superman, Harbinger, or Alexander Luthor Jr.) who, during the first Crisis, seemed almost like gods into just obedient putrid puppets. That shows what can be done with someone who is no longer alive.
In fact, the rings did not raise the dead.
They created copies of them with their memories and powers.
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@@treek10kthat's actually a nice transition
@@treek10kI think I’d rather just go to hell.
That recruitment photo has always KILLED me, because Hitman is right fucking there and he KNOWS he's not gonna make it. But he left knowing what WW looked like naked and straight up said so on his exit.
His JLA crossover two-parter is even better though, and somehow heart-rending. Like, Tommy has THE BEST in-universe view of Superman.
How can I read or find a summary of what you're describing? Sounds cool
Hitman and section 8 were incredible
@jamesanderson1139 It's included in the Hitman: Greatest Hits GN. Likely in the DC app too. Simply titled JLA/Hitman, on it's own.
Lucky bastard, but to be fair go onto Rule 34 and you'll see lots of naked Diana.
Just as Batman said; be glad he's more dedicated to being comic relief than taking things seriously.
plastic man is an eldritch beast with a human consciousness, goofy personality, and a semblance of morality.
Plastic Man is actually one of the most powerful heroes in the DC multiverse. And just like any other character like him, he is VERY underrated.
Although the reason why Plastic Man is so underrated can be also attributed to the fact he is considered a funny or comedic character; his comic debut was, fittingly enough, in Police Comics #1, the very first superhero comic book in history to incorporate humor to its main plot.
So because of this, Plastic Man is usually seen by writers as a joke only to be used for ridiculous or hilarious stories, which is very unfair.
In the main story, batman has no permenant solution for dealing with plastic man should he turn evil. His current solution is "lets just hope he doesnt turn evil"
It’s the thing that made me hate the Batman who laughs on first sight.
The rest of the league I could sort of believe but him killing plasticman was just narrative cheating.
Now that I think of it, he's basically Sandman with rubber. I wonder who'd win between the two
I'd say Plasticman purely because he has more options in a fight. Sandman can make himself more dense, but he's ultimately still a solid mass of sand. Plasticman can become a pure liquid if he wants, so he has way more shapeshifting options in a fight
Sandman might be able to win since he's connected to the Hyperflow and was able to one shot multiple hosts of Celestials and beat a Power Cosmic enhanced Doom. That's easily Outerversal levels of power there but Plastic Man does have his own Outerversal feats like beating Amazo and Darksied. He's still only the 5th best stretching character in D.C.
5th best stretcher in DC could you elaborate?
@@master-of-mind5881 oh what I mean is that there's 4 other characters I think that can use stretching powers that are more powerful than Plastic Man. In D.C.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki Wait sorry to reply to an old comment, but I'm really intrigued by the "hyperflow" and sandman defeating Celestials, but I can't find anything about it online... Which series is that from??
Plastic man is like the immortal snail, you don't want him near you, but you also don't want to lose him from sight
you know the most tragic part about plasticman trying to commit suicide is that he would be completely fine.
When he was shattered for 3000 years, the JL simply gathered all of his particles and put them back together. This is where Batman said that, Plastic Man is hiding an insane level of power and generally, he was completely fine, since being crazy got boring after 1000 years.
He's incredibly inconsistent overall, sometimes he can tear or be ripped apart, sometimes just hitting him works. Sometimes he can fight fire monsters, sometimes he melts. I like to think he can stop himself from melting when he focuses hard enough. I love Plas and the idea he's incredibly powerful, but because he's indestructible and goofy he just messes around with everyone. He still wouldn't beat Superman, because it's like a B or C list character against the focal point of the DC universe, but he'd probably have the best shot at actually being a threat to him (minus frost breath lol).
Couldn't really anyone beat Superman with kryptonite if the writers really wanted them too? Like yeah Superman is op, but kryptonite basically exists as the "break in case of story emergency" box.
@jacklyons427 also weak to magic, supes regularly gets stopped by magic powered heroes and villains.
He beats supes, even superman's said it. He could go inside superman and expand
he could legit turn one of his arms into kryptonite if he wanted to kill superman
Eh if plastic man can go inside him and stop his metabolism some how maybe but is whoever fires first
Plastic Man's always been one of my favorite DC heroes, possibly my MOST favorite! Creative and versatile powers that tests comic artists in new ways, funny personality while still having depth, great hairstyle and glasses, AND he's a decent father!
He has complete control over his molecular structure, down to the individual molecule. He is actually immune to intense heat and cold, or at least insanely resistant. But his weakness is, is a little different. Its the drastic change in temp that fucks with him. So rapidly being frozen for example its the rapid speed of the freeze that turns him into a frozen solid state. Eventually, his molecules will adjust to the new phase state and he will be able to thaw and move around normally. So sure if you dropped him into Antarctica he would freeze maybe for a day or two but eventually his body would adjust and he would be fine and move normally. Same with if you dropped him into a volcano, he would melt down for sure but eventually he would adjust and reform.
Jim Carrey or Bruce Campbell would be amazing in a live action version of Plastic Man
He's the anti prep guy, in that he's stupidly hard to beat with out prep and needs almost none.
Also, remember he was the secret anti Martian weapon, being immune to telepathy.
Fun Fact: The Wachowskis nearly made a live action Plastic Man movie with Keanu Reeves as Plastic Man.
Sounds amazing
Yeah the deceased plastic man was really maximum carnage level.
Wonderwoman already said how dangerous he has if people can't accept it oh well
Thank you for actually including his weaknesses like being tossed into a star.
pretty common weakness id say lol
Man that's a fairly different origin story than I remember for Plastic Man. The one I remember was after his heist gone wrong, Plastic Man wakes up in a monastery called "Rest Haven" (which Plastic Man mishears at first, giving us the lovely line of "Heaven? The coldest day for the place *I'm* going to is 100 degrees!") and is cared for by the monks that live there. Due to the kindness of the Rest Haven monks, Plastic Man resolves to make the most of the second chance he's been given and becomes a super hero.
Of course comics being what they are I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was just some other continuity than the one in the video.
IDK, I kind of prefer the golden-age origin from Police Comics where Eel gets rehabilitated by a kindly monk after his incident who sees great potential in him. It just has a nice second chance element to it. Woozy also starts out as a bad guy who saves an elderly man and therefor gets the power to be impervious from pain or harm and only starts helping out Eel because he played to his conscience
I do love Rest Haven, mostly for this lovely little line: "Heaven? The coldest day for the place I'm going to is 100 degrees!"
It’s a good redemption story, I also like that in the early stories he had a straight man personality to contrast his weird costume and powers.
Batman: "These files are my contingency plans for every vigilante in case they turned into criminals."
Robin: "Wait, Plastic Man's folder is empty. What if he turns bad one day?"
Batman: "God would have definitively abandoned us..."
"He could kill us all. For him, it'd be easy" - Batman, about Plas
@@akkristor to be fair, Batman says that about a _lot_ of JLA members. He once admitted that his contingiency for Superman would be useless if Clark ever really went bad, since Superman could literally wipe all 8 billion people off the face of the Earth without even really trying.
@@RabblesTheBinx
That’s modern Superman, whose powers were amped to a billion times what they used to be.
Normal SuperMan is just a particularly strong Alien.
@@LFanimes333 you do understand that modern Superman is _way_ weaker than pre-Crisis (aka Silver Age) Superman, right? Also, that statement was during the early New 52, and that version was even weaker than Golden Age Superman. Silver Age Superman's feats are absolutely insane. The motherfucker sneezed away a galaxy. Like, seriously, your comment makes me think you've never actually read older Superman comics.
@@RabblesTheBinx
I’m talking older as in OLDER bruh.
“Faster than a bullet train” older.
I love that his hair pops back into style when he decides to be a hero again
The whole Flashpoint Plastic Man story is so good, glad to see someone finally talk about it!!!
It was introduced in the Marvel Ultimate universe that Reed Richards become even smarter when he got powers, as his brain became significantly (without limit?) more pliable.
Plastic Man would theoretically be the same.
With all the intellect yet he choose to be goofy
@@RiderOfPepperslife's a joke though the depravity and inhumanity and sheer randomness of it all
I’m still waiting death battle…
Plastic man is one of those characters that is just fun af to watch, and read about.. you want him to win.. or atleast you want to see him come out on top because it's 100% gonna be great.. he reminds me of deadpool, and Reed Richard's mixed to one character.. eventually I believe they will give him some sort of instant teleportation or somthing 😂 so he can be god level insane.. and I'm sooo down to read it.
i 100 percent agree with your take on omnipotence. power scalers really ruin a lot of heroes for me
i feel like a very cool way of explaining his powers would be that he’s just 100% stemcells. so like a tumor he’s insanely resilient and whenever he stretches he physically just grows extra flesh, and can also choose which dna is being expressed for each cell, turning his skin into bones ect… it’s gruesome but really cool i think. would love to see an origin story looking at the body horror side of things like with the hulk
If he was ever a guest character in Mortal Kombat!!! Imagine the creative Fatalities and Brutalities?!?!?
What people dont seem to realize is that any power can be world destroying if you truly understand it and the rules of the world.
I just wanna know what acid is Gotham making that changes not one, BUT TWO people genetically. Joker vía permanent clown look + insanity and O’Brian becoming Plastic Man. What are they putting in that green juice?!
The same thing they're putting in the water to turn the freakin' frogs gay.
The best superpower is obviously the power to give yourself and other people superpowers.
"And when everyone's super...*laughter*...no one will be."
-Syndrome 2004
I honestly love characters with incredible strength but they’re just so goofy that it nullifies their power, like Okuyasu from JoJo’s
Why are characters like this always immortal for no reason at all?
Just to screw with you
dude i’m so happy with the growth of your channel, keep up the great work
I want to see a fight between Plastic Man and Captain Planet. I don’t think Captain Planet would stand a chance, but I think it would be hilarious for Captain Planet to start preaching about plastic pollution.
Here comes Micro-plastic Man!
Remember, Batman doesn’t think he can permanently kill plastic man
Didnt he mention a nuke couldn't take him out too?
Bruce works in plausible scenarios, this holds him back because I can think of a few ways the neutralize him.
Phantom zone
Keeping him compressed in artificial gravity.
Send him to Venus while he’s frozen.
Ray palmer’s belt
Using dr alchemy’s equipment to reset his chemical structure back to a normal human being
Basilisk eye.
If Batman Is afraid of Plastic Man who know you’re dealing with a menace 💀
Not only would he survive being thrown into the sun but he would become immensely powerful , if each of 5he smallest molecular particle of him is still him he would be broken down to atoms and merge with the sun becoming the sun in the great pressure of it core. This is why the sun wears sunglasses in the Mario games , it's him.
Funny just a few hours ago i searched for a good plastic man video and couldnt find one
I really like the time he sticks his finger in a door then holds it up to the security camera and says that he has the key
I just love the panel where he flips off a camera i think? but as he does that he turns that finger into a key to unlock a door, that is hilarious
Plastic Man while meeting Big Barda by first time: "Mama warned me about really agressive women like you...I hope you are one of them!" 😎
this is the second time i've heard about a neiche character being near omega level, but i still think molecule man is JUST that bit more op. being able to control not molecules, but the ATOMIC STRUCTURE of ANYTHING is pretty broken. the only difference is his mental state is in complete tatters from essentially being able to control the multiverse (even galactus notices him as his second biggest threat behind franklin richards), but a fight between these two would go so hard
Two different universes. But yeah, totally OP.
If only Jim Carry was younger. He would be the perfect Plastic Man 😂
Didn’t Batman once make a statement to the Justice League that all of them are lucky that Plastic Man uses his powers jokingly because he technically has the power to kill every single one of them if he wanted to?
Such a heavy-hitter. Love a video talking about this wacky dork, I love Plas (and Woozy!)
Speaking of, my favorite versions of plastic man was during the amalgam comics universe where he fused with marvel's sandman & the earth 32 one where he merged with blue beetle
He also is mostly resistant to psionic powers and possibly mind control as a bonus
Plastic Man's always been a favourite hero of mine, but I only realised how strong he was from the Dark Nights: Metal series, where he almost single handedly turns the tide of the final battle against the Dark Multiverse
Im halfway trough and I have to say this is some great video, i didn’t know much about Plastik man
I find him in some way weard but he really somehow uplifts my mood
How you tell about him on this evening in a work week really makes my day so really thank you for this good video
Shape-shifting in general is the best power because of its potential. Stretching is just one aspect of Shape-shifting.
Even Batman acknowledges how dangerous plastic man is and can be pointing out how lucky they are he’s comic relief and on their side
Injustice will forever hold the position of the best Plastic Man moment. When Cyborg tells him the cell door in front of him is impossible to open, he sticks his hand in and unlocks it within seconds, pulls his hand out and sticks up his middle finger in the shape of a key while saying "Look at that! I found the key!"
Keep up the good work dude, love your vids
Not just stretchy powers, plastic man can literally control his entire being
In the DC super hero game based of Mutants and Masterminds Plastic Man is hands down one of the toughest characters. If I had to play a member of the justice league in that game I would pick him over any other character including Superman.
That heart joke made plastic man the best thing to ever happen ever
The zombie plastic man image is probably the most scary comic image ever drawn.
Anyone else remember watching Plas on Saturday mornings in the 70s? Everyone has videos on the old Spider-Man, FF, Thor from the 60s or Superfriends and Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends in the 70s & 80s, X-Men and Batman in the 90s and other superhero toons but nobody seems to remember Plastic Man having his own solo show.
Nice video! I also should mention that plastic man was shown in MAD magazine. In this version he is much less gory and more goofy. I do have the comic too!
Hey could you make a video about silver surver? He is extremely underrated and need to be seen.
Plastic man in the physical sense is the strongest, but in the injustice universe he’s the guy who basically is a rebuttle for everything superman does, he’s a reformed criminal. A hero who turned his life around showing everyone that second or third chances should be given to criminals.
It's also worth mentioning: Even at his worst, Flashpoint Plastic Man _still_ had his limits. At one point in the comic, Heatwave was willing to slaughter dozens, maybe _hundreds_ of people in Detroit (Cyborg's home city), just to inflict as much suffering on Cyborg as possible. But Plastic Man stepped in, and said that slaughtering innocent bystanders just to get some "payback" on one guy was where he drew the line. That's when the fight between him and Heatwave started, and when Heatwave melted him.
One of the best things about having rubber powers is that you can shout" GOMU GOMU NOOO.." without sounding like an autistic person
I’ve still got speed as the best but you’ve opened my eyes a lot
Great video!
Just a friendly goober that's secretly the last defence
I remember this guy from TheRussianBadger. He tweeted a picture of his Halloween costume and his M hairline really matched Plastic Man's!
I wish they write another Terrifics book, such a cool and light hearted team with our man Plast
looking back and knowing more about Plastic Man...
i feel genuinely horrified by the capability of his powers, good god
Also if I had to say what I considered one of the "best" powers without going overboard...Oil manipulation.
INCREDIBLY versatile and somewhat original.
Oil manipulation? How's that good?
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon Petroleum is one of the most used products in the world. It's in cars, plastics, and many other things. Even if you can only manipulate crude oil derivatives like gasoline and liquid diesel you still have highly flammable and versatile liquid to use.
Dude was like DC’s Carnage in that one universe
Him and swamp thing r my 2 favorite dc characters
If I ever got a superpower I’d want it to be shapeshifting. Whether plastic man-esque or otherwise.
One of my favorite DC heroes and characters alongside Booster Gold, Constantine, The Question and also loved the series they made that he got a family team The Terrifics.
ben schwarz has been quoted a couple of times to really want to play plastic-man. i personally like that idea! 😊
Plastic Man is one of those characters that get overlooked bc they're such goofballs but they 100% could be a menace if they so choose...
And the fact that Batman himself says Plastic Man is the most dangerous man.
Batman had a note about how important it was to keep Plastic Man occupied with Justice League activity because "If he wanted to, he could kill us all"
Fun fact about plastic it doesn't last forever for it's carbon lifespan is only a year until it starts to break down
Plastic Man is one of the few fictional characters where I'm EXTREMELY glad he's on the good side.
i always hate when someone compares him to luffy yeah they have stretchy power but his are so much more
Let’s go plastic man video thanks!!! 😊
I swear this guy is what I think venom or carnage would be like if they didn’t need a host.
Ya know, Plas is pretty fearless and actually has a ton of willpower and creativity. That scene in Injustice when he had like 40 Green Lantern rings could have gotten a lot more interesting if he decided to use them.
Plasticman = SCP-4885
I love plastic man. Him and the flash are my fav supers.
I didn’t know about Plastic Man’s villain arc dayum 😱
You should do one on metamorpho
I’d like to see you do a video on Captain Atom who is stupid powerful but consistently downplayed in shows and movies.
Where is Hula Hula?