Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man

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Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
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Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, from The Doom Patrol #89, art by Bob Brown.
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance The Doom Patrol #89 (August 1964)
Created by Arnold Drake (writer)
Bruno Premiani (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoSven Larsen
Species Metahuman
Team affiliationsFront Men
Notable aliasesAVM-Man
Abilities

Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is a foe of the original Doom Patrol. [1]

Contents

The character made his first live adaptation on the first season of the Doom Patrol television series on DC Universe played by Alec Mapa. His name is based on the antiquated concept of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms from Linnaean taxonomy.

Publication history

Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man first appeared in The Doom Patrol #89 (August 1964) and was created by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani. [2]

Fictional character biography

Sven Larsen is a Swedish scientist and a former student of Dr. Niles Caulder, but they had a falling out after Larsen accused Caulder of stealing his idea for the anti-decay ray. Larsen gains his superpowers after falling into a vat of amino acids. This gave him the right arm and leg of a plant, the left arm and leg of diamonds, and a half-torso of a Tyrannosaurus with half of his human head shown to be fused with part of the Tyrannosaurus' neck. He uses his powers to get revenge on Caulder and his Doom Patrol. [3] The Doom Patrol defeat Larsen and are able to remove his powers. He later regains them and fights the Doom Patrol again. [4]

Larsen returns to face the second incarnation of the Doom Patrol in The Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #15 (December 1988) and #16 (Winter 1988), in partnership with General Immortus. He is defeated after Celsius encases him in ice.

In a 2009 interview with Keith Giffen about his Doom Patrol comic, Giffen reveals that Larsen should be a villain in it. [5]

In the twelfth issue of the series, Larsen is now a member of the Front Men, a team of super-powered guards working for Mister Somebody Enterprises. His team is working to discredit the Doom Patrol, having been coached in various ways on how to make the heroes look bad for the cameras. Unknown to the Front Men, Mister Somebody has rigged their uniforms to deliver fatal blows in ways that make it seem as if the Doom Patrol killed them intentionally. [6]

In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is re-introduced as part of an experimental security measure that Niles Caulder unleashes on intruders when his underground complex is breached. [7]

In the "Watchmen" sequel "Doomsday Clock", Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is listed as a member of India's sanctioned superhero team called the Doomed in light of "The Superman Theory" that started a metahuman arms race. He gained a reputation there where he ate their foes. [8] He was with the Doomed when they alongside the Outsiders and the People's Heroes tried to bring Superman in for what happened in Russia. [9]

Powers and abilities

The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man can change any part of his body into animal, vegetable, or mineral forms, as well as combining several more at once. [10] In most appearances, he possesses extensive knowledge of biology.

In other media

Television

Miscellaneous

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References

  1. ↑ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. pp. 5–6. ISBN   0-8160-1356-X.
  2. ↑ Wells, John (2015). American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-64. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 180. ISBN   978-1605490458.
  3. ↑ Morris, Jon (2017). The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History. Quirk Books. p. 138. ISBN   978-1594749322.
  4. ↑ The Doom Patrol #95 (May 1965). DC Comics.
  5. ↑ "Giffen New Chief Of 'Doom Patrol'". ComicBookResources.com. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  6. ↑ The Doom Patrol (vol. 5) #12 (September 2010)
  7. ↑ The Ravagers #11. DC Comics.
  8. ↑ Doomsday Clock #5 (May 2018). DC Comics.
  9. ↑ Doomsday Clock #12. (December 2019). DC Comics.
  10. ↑ The Doom Patrol #89 (August 1964)


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