Plastic Man's adventures were known for their quirky, offbeat structure and surreal slapstick humor.
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34 Facts About Plastic Man
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Plastic Man was mentioned in an episode of Justice League Unlimited but was never shown owing to ownership arguments and copyright complaints.
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Plastic Man escaped to the street only to discover that his gang had driven off without him.
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Plastic Man awoke to find himself in a bed in a mountain retreat, being tended to by a monk who had discovered him unconscious that morning.
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Plastic Man immediately determined to use his new abilities on the side of law and order, donning a red, black and yellow rubber costume and capturing criminals as Plastic Man.
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Plastic Man concealed his true identity with a pair of white goggles and by re-molding his face.
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Plastic Man soon acquired comic-relief sidekick Woozy Winks, who was originally enchanted so that nature itself would protect him from harm.
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Plastic Man was made a prominent member of the Justice League during Grant Morrison's run on the title.
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Plastic Man notably engages in combat with the goddess Circe, proving immune to her magical ability to turn humans into animals.
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Plastic Man has been instrumental in defeating several foes by himself, such as a Jokerized version of Dr Polaris and the 'Burning Martian' persona of J'onn J'onzz .
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Plastic Man has played substantial roles in nearly every major team-up and crossover featuring the League of this era: with the Titans, Young Justice, the Justice Society of America, the Avengers and even the Looney Tunes .
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Fact that Plastic Man was initially in the superhero business for the money has had an effect on his character development, notably in the storyline "Divided We Fall" by Mark Waid where he, along with other Justice League members, was separated into two people, his normal "civilian" identity and his superhero persona, by the manipulative wish-granting Id.
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Plastic Man admits to Batman that he doesn't know if he ran away from being a father because he was enjoying his new life as a hero, or because he was afraid of becoming a parent for his son.
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Plastic Man admitted he had lost his nerve and quit the JLA, hoping to live a regular life.
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Plastic Man's son is shown in costume, and identified as Offspring, in the 2006 weekly series 52 in Week 35 when he is injured while rescuing a number of the depowered Everyman heroes.
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Plastic Man's DNA is taken by Sivana and used to augment an amnesiac Connor Hawke, in a bid to turn the young hero into a brainwashed slave with a strong healing factor.
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Plastic Man appeared for a brief period in the 2009 Justice League of America vol.
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Vixen states that Plastic Man was being taken care of at STAR Labs, and that he would be unable to return to the League.
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Plastic Man later appeared in Justice League: Generation Lost, helping a large coalition of heroes on an unsuccessful mission to trace Maxwell Lord.
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Plastic Man had been seemingly cured of his condition, and was shown retaining his normal shape without issue or pain.
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Plastic Man is denied a spot on the team for being too unpredictable.
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Mister Terrific, Plastic Man, and Metamorpho learn from Phantom Girl that she was stuck in an intangible form since she was a child.
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Plastic Man was later recruited by Obscura to help investigate a multi-dimensional conspiracy.
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Malleable physiology: Plastic Man's powers are derived from an accident in which his body was bathed in an unknown industrial chemical mixture that entered into his bloodstream through a gunshot wound.
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Plastic Man is considered to be a lateral thinker and much smarter than he lets on.
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Plastic Man was incapacitated in the JLA story arc "Tower of Babel" when mercenaries froze and shattered his body.
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In some versions, Plastic Man is vulnerable to chemicals such as acetone, which melts and destabilizes his putty-like form, although he will eventually regenerate when the chemicals are gone.
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In Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Frank Miller's miniseries, Plastic Man was betrayed and locked in Arkham Asylum for years with his body forced into a perpetual egg-like shape by a pressurizing machine.
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Plastic Man, written and illustrated by Kyle Baker, harkens back to the Jack Cole version of Plastic Man featuring Eel O'Brian tended to by a monk in a mountain retreat following the events of his normal origin story.
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Plastic Man is scientist Gunther Ganz, whose consciousness has been transferred to a "living polymer".
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Plastic Man is replaced by DC Comics' Elongated Man after the merging of worlds.
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Plastic Man is mentioned by Sal Paradyse in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier.
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Plastic Man is seen among the gathered super-heroes at Congress after Lara Lane-Kent delivers a speech to them, mingling among the heroes and politicians in the continuity where Lois didn't die.
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In December 2018, a new development of a Plastic Man film was announced, with Amanda Idoko writing the screenplay and Robert Shaye to be executive producer.
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