Masters of Disaster (comics)

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Masters of Disaster
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Batman and the Outsiders #9 (April 1984)
Created by Mike Barr (writer)
Jim Aparo (artist)
In-story information
Member(s)Coldsnap
Heatstroke
New Wave
Shakedown
Windfall

The Masters of Disaster are a team of supervillains appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. They are presented as a group of mercenaries who prefer to work for money and metahumans with superhuman abilities corresponding to a force of nature: earth, wind, fire, and water. [1]

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The Masters of Disaster appeared in the second season of the live-action television series Black Lightning .

Fictional history

Throughout their appearances in Adventures of the Outsiders #34, Batman and the Outsiders Annual #2, and the Outsiders series, the Masters of Disasters fight and are defeated by Batman's Outsiders on multiple occasions and Looker on one occasion. [2] [3] [4]

Eventually, Masters member Windfall develops sympathetic feelings for the Outsiders and secretly works to keep them alive until her teammates discover her treachery before capturing and cloning her. [5] They subsequently send the clone to infiltrate the Outsiders, but Batman discovers the ruse before the clone is killed in battle while the original Windfall defects to the Outsiders. [6]

As of Outsiders (vol. 2) #9, the remaining Masters were incarcerated in a prison nicknamed the "Slab" before joining forces with a wrongfully arrested Geo-Force to escape. [7] However, New Wave disagrees with this, leading to her killing Shakedown amidst his attempt to calm her down. [8] The Masters subsequently recruit Dust Devil and Mudslide before fighting the Outsiders once more. [9]

Following the events of "The New 52" and during the "Forever Evil" tie-in Suicide Squad , Heatstroke and New Wave attack a prison transport carrying Coldsnap and Shakedown, only to be intercepted by jet-pack wearing S.W.A.T. officers. [10] Coldsnap and Heatstroke are later recruited into the Suicide Squad to assist Katana in fighting the Kobra organization. [11]

Members

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References

  1. ↑ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. p. 396. ISBN   0-8160-1356-X.
  2. ↑ Adventures of the Outsiders #34 (June 1986). DC Comics.
  3. ↑ Batman and the Outsiders Annual #2. DC Comics.
  4. ↑ Batman and the Outsiders #32. DC Comics.
  5. ↑ Outsiders #14. DC Comics.
  6. ↑ Outsiders #19. DC Comics.
  7. ↑ Outsiders (vol. 2) #9. DC Comics.
  8. ↑ JSA #31. DC Comics.
  9. ↑ Outsiders (vol. 4) #27–28. DC Comics.
  10. ↑ Suicide Squad (vol. 4) #30. DC Comics.
  11. ↑ Suicide Squad Most Wanted: Deadshot and Katana #2. DC Comics.

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