Weasel (DC Comics)
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Weasel I
John Monroe was a lonely student at Stanford University in the late 1960s. His contemporaries rarely noticed him. If they did, they would refer to him in derogatory terms using words like "Weasel" to describe him. This made him bitter driving him to become a murderer decades later. Around this time, Jack became a teacher at Vandemeer University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A number of his fellow students from Stanford University held prominent positions. To rationalize killing three of them, he considered them threats to getting tenure at Vandemeer. Taking on the costumed identity of Weasel, he stalked the campus grounds and brutally murdered Arnold Lintel, Linda Walters, and a night guard named Chuck Gherkin. When Martin Stein (one half of FirestormFirestorm (comics)
Firestorm is the name of several comic book superheroes published by DC Comics. Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein, the first Firestorm, debuted in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #1 , and was created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom. Martin Stein, by himself as Firestorm, debuted in Firestorm the Nuclear...
) shows up for a job opening as a physics professor. He made two attempts on Martin Stein's life. In the second attempt, he would've killed Martin had he not provoked the transformation of Firestorm. After a fight, Firestorm unmasked Weasel and sent him to jail.
Weasel was later recruited into the Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad, also known as Task Force X , is a name for two fictional organizations in the DC Comics Universe. The first version debuted in The Brave and the Bold #25 , and the second in Legends #3...
for their ill-fated mission to rescue Hawk
Hank Hall
Hank Hall is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe who first appeared in Showcase #75 as Hawk of Hawk and Dove. He later became the supervillain Monarch in the crossover event limited series Armageddon 2001...
. During the mission, he managed to cause the apparent death of Thinker
Thinker (DC Comics)
The Thinker is the name of four supervillains in the DC Comics universe.-Clifford DeVoe:Clifford DeVoe was a failed lawyer who bitterly ended his career in 1933. Realizing that many of the criminals he had encountered had the skills but not the brains to rule Gotham City's underworld, he started a...
. Upon wearing the Thinker helmet, Rick Flag Jr.
Rick Flag
Rick Flag is the name of three fictional characters in the DC Comics universe. They are father, son, and grandson.The father, Richard Flag was in the original Suicide Squad, a World War II unit. After the war he was a member of Task Force X. The son, Rick Flag Jr...
was told by the Thinker helmet to kill Weasel which Rick Flag Jr. did. Weasel's death was not mourned.
During the Blackest Night storyline, Weasel's dead body was among those entombed in the Hall of Justice
Hall of Justice (comics)
The Hall of Justice is the fictional headquarters of the Super Friends, in the eponymous animated series. It has subsequently been incorporated into the DC Comics main shared universe, the DC Universe as the new headquarters of the Justice League....
. When the Black Power Rings flew in, Weasel's body was among the dead bodies that were reanimated by the Black Power Rings and inducted into the Black Lantern Corps
Black Lantern Corps
The Black Lantern Corps is a fictional organization of revenants appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The group is composed of deceased fictional characters that seek to eliminate all life from the DC Universe.-Publication history:...
.
Powers and abilities
The first Weasel has great agility and is an expert at hand-to-hand combat. His costume also has sharp claws.The second Weasel has canine-like teeth.
External links
- Weasel's Bio
- Weasel at DC Wiki
- Weasel at Comic Vine
- Weasel at DC Appendix