TheWildeOne: DC Comics

Super villain Concept
Intro
Hello and welcome to episode 3 of TheWildeOne's character concepts! In this episode, I take a look into the psyche of the villain and try to give my own spin on one of my own so as to try and contribute something to DC Comics.
The Series: DC Comics
Okay, not series, but technically an entire franchise. I really don't think I need to say much except that DC Comics is one of the largest comic book franchises in the world and has given us many beloved superheroes in the process of becoming that franchise: Superman, Wonderwoman, Batman, Aquaman, The Flash, Plastic Man, The Green Lantern. I don't think I need to say any more, but I will anyway. Along with great superheroes, there have also come great villains: Joker, Grodd, Grundy, Star Sapphire, Lex Luthor, Sinestro, and many more. A lot of these villains also have a certain air of complexity to them too, as their character arcs have stretched over many years and have had room for development. But, I thought that maybe I could give my own spin on a villain and hopefully make him into a complex character if I expand upon him further, and his story starts here. (I am ashamed to say that I do not read comics very much and know next to nothing about characters from the DC universe or about concepts in the universe. This will kind of be a shot in the dark, but it's just my idea.)
The Idea: Sully Reel
Sorry for skipping The Problem, but I had none with DC, except maybe JLA: Act of God. (a big crap on the world of good writing if you ask me)
When I thought of a villain, I liked the idea of the insane becoming all powerful and destructive. The idea of the insane super villain is greatly explored in Batman, but I wanted a new spin on it where the insane is all powerful, pathetic, and unpredictable. So over time I got the idea for a villain, or should I say a poor unfortunate soul, who is complex, paradoxical, and nonsensical, just like his true nature. So, I invented Sully Reel, an insane white-collar worker who can transform into a giant, amorphous snake-like blob of anything, and I mean anything, but can only transform into it when outside his special straightjacket. I will explain more later, but for now, segue into The Design.
The Design
The design for Sully Reel is somewhat simple at first, before you get to his true form. The idea is that Sully has to stay confined in a special straightjacket that suppresses his true form and makes him take on his normal appearance as his normal human form. So, Sully is basically a tall, slim man in about his 30's. He has short, blonde hair which is usually cut short and has a scruffy looking beard due to him never shaving and being in his straightjacket. He is a well-built man, but then you get to his true form. When he is not touching his straightjacket, he immediately transforms into a giant, amorphous blob-like creature that morphs into anything. The primary blob color he has is yellow, but his body produces and acts in any way possible. He could secrete acid and bubble gum, he could drop a washing machine or a feather from himself, he could punch you or give you money, he could be aggressive, sad, or joyous, he could fly off, and he could destroy buildings and kill people. This form makes it hard to actually draw Sully due to how he shape shifts into random stuff all the time, but it does make for a challenge and gives room for creativity to people who may draw the character. But no character should be driven by design alone. On to the story!
The Place in the Story (universe?)
Sully Reel was a normal, average American. He paid his taxes, he worked his job well, had an apartment, everything someone could need to survive as a normal adult. But, on the inside, he was a torn man. He was in a constant state of paranoia; he was scared of the idea of wars fought on the television, crimes out on the streets, conmen at every corner. He was also confused with life itself. He didn't know how life should be led with all of its uncertainties. He heard of philosophies and religions, but it was all uncertain as to what life was about that it just seemed all so random and chaotic to Sully that he was plagued by the constant ideas. Sully also feared so much of the world and saw it as such a mess. There was the thought of the earth ending any day due to villains threatening it at every hour and he constantly voiced his fear of all of this uncertainty and chaos in the world and universe. Sully was also confused by the constant paradoxes in life. Writers got famous because of writing about war, but if not for that war, they would never be famous or have their life matter at all. Crime would be put away, but always escape and never be fully punished all due to a lawyer pleading insanity for his client. Nothing made sense to Sully. He saw life as one big paradox that was just filled with fear, uncertainty, and contradictions, but he could never find a way to end his paranoia. Sully Reel wanted an escape from all of the chaos, uncertainty, and contradictions, but it would take a miracle to take his mind off of these things, and solace finally came.
Sully was awake one night having paranoia yet again for fear of robbers when he heard a strange voice telling him to drive his car. Sully got up not knowing where this strange voice came from, but he felt controlled to go out and drive his car; Where? He didn't know. So Sully drove his car, and the voice in his head directed him in the right direction until Sully came to an open field. The voice told him to get out of the car and go to the middle of the field. When Sully reached the middle of the field, the voice spoke up and asked as to why Sully was so troubled. Sully said he was plagued by how uncertain and chaotic the world is. He was scared of death, the meaning of life, other humans, and virtually this whole world where the world could end at any hour. He said that for the longest time he wanted an escape from this contradictory world with all of its fallacies and chaos, but knew this was impossible, and that now, it's gotten so bad that he hears voices in his head. The voice assured him that this was no hallucination and that it could help him with his problem. The voice said that so many people have problems with money, food, personal wants and goods, and dying that they never see the problem with living. The voice thought that Sully was special and wanted a new escape. He didn't want a philosophy, he wanted to be reborn into something new that would suffice. The voice said that Sully was right in that life is not worth living in such a world of chaos, but it said that it could offer Sully an escape. The voice said that it could take Sully somewhere where he could be at peace, where his worries would be taken away and he would find the "enlightenment" he was looking for. Sully felt like he had nothing to lose, so he decided to go along with this, believing that the voice would go away eventually, but it was not what was expected.
Sully saw something open before him, and it was a terrifying hole of colors and random objects swirling around with such bravado and chaotic grace that did not make sense, but Sully was so entranced that he entered. When in the hole, nothing made sense. Literally, nothing made sense in the place Sully was in. He was floating around in a space where such colors and shapes changed before him as random objects flew across him: corn dogs, cars, doomsday devices, farm animals. This world made no sense to him whatsoever and was so chaotic and random that it intrigued him very much. Even his body contorted and twisted into various shapes he went through this glorious place, and he felt no pain. No pain from twisting, no pain from his old universe, nothing but happiness. He questioned as to why he felt this way here when he was only twisting around in pure nonsense. The voice returned and said that this was because Sully was one with chaos and nonsense. The contradictory, chaotic, and silly world that Sully lived in was only a snippet of what true nonsense and chaos was. The voice said that Sully should seek solace in true nonsense instead of wanting to avoid it, that he should try to become true chaos and finally be free from having to deal with the problems of himself back home. Although, the voice said that becoming chaos was not enough, that Sully would need to alter his body and mind to become true nonsense; he had to think it all too. Sully thought that this may have finally been what he was looking for: solace in unreality, but he did not know how to do all of this. The voice then told Sully that it was really lonely in the universe it was in, and the voice also said that it can tap into the surreal nature of this universe they were in, and if Sully so choose, the voice could combine itself with Sully and really transform him into what he wanted all this time. Sully felt as though this choice would never come again, and the idea was so glorious that he couldn't turn it down. So Sully agreed to the alliance between the two, and the voice entered Sully.
      All at once, in an epileptic, surreal moment, all things surrounding Sully in the universe he was in got sucked into him. The voice then said as all of this was happening that there was a catch to all of this: the voice was the universe itself. It turns out that this universe had taken on a conscience and wanted companionship from being stuck as it for so long, but now that it was combining with someone, the universe they were in would collapse and they would have to pick a new one to inhabit. Sully heard this but did not care. He was so overwhelmed with the feeling he was getting, of pure ecstasy at finding meaning, that he did not listen to the words of the voice. The voice worried about the collapsing universe around the two and quickly transported the two of them out of it and back to earth in a hurry, not picking carefully what universe to choose.
       Once back on earth, Sully was not himself before. He was a man with a purpose now, but with that purpose, he brought other things: chaos, destruction, and randomness. Sully was now one with the universe that he just exited, and his form was almost indescribable. He was a large blob of various things coming out of his body, all random, and did not seem to have much of a personality. The blob could have a mouth at first, then none, and then it could be happy, sad, angry, or any other emotion. The actions also made no sense for it. It could punch the ground, shoot bullets out of itself, run fast at first by growing legs, lurch forward a long distance, or do anything. Nothing about the creature made sense in how it acted, if one could call it a creature, since a creature would have some logic to it. But with Sully now, logic did not apply, and he liked it. Sully then had no control over his motor skill at this point and could not control where to go, but from where he was, in the Atlantic Ocean, he began to move. Sully began to move towards the New England shore, taking zig zags and lurches over the water, leaving a trail of garbage from his body and random junk, but eventually got over to the shore, where his unintentional terror began.
      Sully swathed over the land with junk flying and spitting garbage and artillery weapons across the land at people as he tore through the landscape leaving destruction in his path. Sully, though, never did this out of spite. He was just happy on the inside of his mind, and if some people had to get hurt or die from his little random acts, then he didn't care. Even if he did care, he couldn't do a thing about it; his mind was in such a state of schizophrenic chaos that he could control any function of his body.
      Sully moved further through the land, and many law enforcements took notice to this attack and tried to stop him, but with all cop cars and road blocks put in his way, Sully just tore through them like they didn't matter. Soon, Sully was headed through Gotham City, and someone was starting to take notice. Batmen entered the scene to try and stop Sully, but to no avail as the actions of Sully were more random and chaotic than even the Joker. Batman could not stop Sully from moving, but he found that he could contain him. With somewhat relative ease, since at this point Sully had randomly grown docile and slow, the Gotham Police department managed to contain Sully in an almost indestructible cage and got him to a secluded area so that no civilians would get hurt. Batman performed some tests on Sully and found some human brainwave patterns in it that were faint, telling that there was a human in there, and that the aura he emitted (just go with it) was abnormal from a normal humans and came to the decision that Sully was extra dimensional and needed something to help the man inside. Figuring that this was an extra dimensional creature with randomized abilities, Batman decided to design, with the help of some other scientists in DC Comics, to create a sort of extra dimensional suppression device that would suppress the extra dimensional nature of Sully's now true form and return him to his human form.
      While this was being done, Sully was held in a biological lab being tested on about his nature. The matter he was now made of was a sort of extra dimensional matter that kept changing shape and morphing constantly. Even a blood sample turned to orange juice and a rock in seconds after taking it. Later, after some tests were done, the extra dimensional suppression device was done and attached to a straightjacket to put onto Sully so that he wouldn't hurt himself. When Batman confronted the blob, he had to wait some minutes for the blob to become docile to put on the straightjacket, but as soon as it became docile, the blob shot out of its cage and ran amok the facility it was in and broke out, heading for the Gotham City Slums.
      Batman found it especially hard to capture the creature this time given that it was in such an enclosed space in the slums that it was tearing buildings left and right and making rubble fall, blocking off any attempt of another capture. So, Batman managed to take control of a nearby wrecking ball that was demolishing some old tenements in the slum and managed to knock the creature into an abandoned tenement when it came around the corner and have it covered in rubble so that it could not escape. After the creature was subdued, Batman touched it with the straightjacket, and before his eyes, the creature transformed back into normal Sully Reel. After he was in the jacket, Batman pulled Sully out of the rubble and had him taken to the hospital.
      Days later, Sully finally woke up, partly in his straightjacket, looking at the doctors around him. They told him he was out cold for some days but had finally been making a recovery. But Sully did not care about this. After he listened to their talking, he immediately burst out in pain and sadness asking as to why he had to be made a human again. He cried out saying that when he was in his surreal state, everything made sense in the world; everything was random, chaotic, anarchic, and the unconscious state he was in was better than living in a society that is contradictory and illogical. The doctors had to restrain Sully as he was thrashing about, and Batman was just outside the hallway, listening to everything, and regretting another patient for Arkham.
      Sully Reel was committed to Arkham Asylum some days later and was put into a small cell, left to sit in his straightjacket. Sully did not stop though, as he cried and whined all day and every night, pleading for someone to take him out of his misery and free him from his jacket. Every day from now on this happened, and the longer Sully was in the jacket, the more mentally unstable he got. Now, Sully became a tortured husk of what humanity he use to have, becoming nothing but a groveling animal, begging to be released from the pain of being a man.
With the prologue out of the way, I hope you can see where I might be going with this. This story is of a tortured soul. Poor Sully Reel is left to sit in Arkham all day and night, but whereas other rogues and ruffians may just wait for an escape, as long as Sully is in his straightjacket, he is always a prisoner. He is continually tortured with being in it, that he will give anything to be out, even kill for it.
For later story arcs, I kind of had the idea that Sully would not be so much a grunt, but more of just someone to take advantage of. Given how chaotic Sully is in his true form it would be kind of weird for him to have a motive to actually want to work with someone for material goods. Sully would sort of just be used by others to destroy and cause uproars in cities, maybe for distraction, maybe just to have a "release the hounds" moment or something else. But this would not entirely be how things will be handled with Sully. I kind of had the idea that Sully could be given more control over his true form by the use of a device so that he could control his motor functions and not move around randomly. I also had an idea to bring back the voice of the universe Sully was in to possibly guide him around and do evil things to protect his right to insanity or to give him a bit of a split personality. I would say that given how insane Sully is and how his powers work, it would be very interesting to see how he could be incorporated into other stories in the DC universe and how he would develop as a character.
What does my character add?
I would say that Sully is different from other DC characters. Compared to Plasmus, a villain with similar abilities to Sully, Sully is a more complex blob of something. Sully is a man who craves for understanding but gets the nonsensical and chaotic, and is frankly enough happy with that. He longs for a world where he needs not to think but only act randomly and without judgment. This is what leads him into his descent into insanity as his constant wanting to return to this world over and over is what destroys him inside and out to the point of killing anyone who would interfere with his happiness. I think Sully would add an interesting spin on the blob-like character that I've seen before and possibly give some insight into the mind of a man who finds sense and logic in the illogical.
Outro
Thank you to you all for reading a concept o' mine. I don't understand the western thing I did there and should probably cut that out, but whatever. Tune in next time for the next episode. Thanks and take care!