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Angel O'Day
Main article: Angel and the Ape

Ogre

Ogre is a DC Comics character who appeared in Batman #535 (October 1996), created by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones.[1] Ogre is a genetically altered man, whose brother is a genetically experimented Ape created by Doctor Winston Belmont. The man, Michael Adams, was increased in strength and the Ape in intelligence. The project created by Belmont was Project Mirakle, a top secret government project at Atsugi, where there were tested spy planes, as well as experiments on humans in the late 1950s. These experiments were made to create the perfect human agent but when funding was excavated so were the subjects. Michael Adams, as 23rd human experiment, managed to escape after 22 previous deaths. The Ogre tracked and murdered the scientists who collaborated with the project, only to be tracked by Batman himself. In the end, the Ape died and the Ogre wandered amidst the city alone in a story analogous to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Ogre in other media
  • A variation of Ogre appears in Gotham, portrayed by Milo Ventimiglia. This version is Jason Skolimski (also known as Jason Lennon), the son of Jacob Skolimski, a butler who worked for rich woman Constance van Groot; and an unnamed mother who left the family, leaving Jason to believe that Groot is his mother. However, she rejected him and in his rage he killed her, taking her money and repairing his disfigured face with plastic surgery from a nurse, Julie Kemble, who became his first murder victim. Over the next decade, he became a serial killer targeting young and attractive successful women, kidnapping and keeping them for weeks or months and later murdering and dumping them in various places of Gotham, leaving behind a hand-made drawing of a broken heart. The GCPD keeps very quiet about the case, not even telling the press about his killings, and usually lets the cases slip by because whenever Skolimski finds out his murders are being investigated, he goes after the loved ones of the detectives handling them. For those reasons, he is called the "Ogre" and "Don Juan Killer" (according to Harvey Bullock), and the Ogre is said to be a handsome, rich, and educated man in his profile. Through the episodes "Beasts of Prey", "Under the Knife" and "The Anvil or the Hammer", Gordon and Bullock try to stop him from committing further crimes. During that time, Skolimski encounters Gordon's ex, Barbara Kean, and subsequently bounds her in a torture room, where he forces her to commit a murder. Gordon and Bullock find him in Barbara's parents' mansion, shoot him and save Barbara, albeit in shaken psychological state.

Chief O'Hara
First appearanceWorld's Finest Comics #159 (August 1966)
Created byEdmond Hamilton and Curt Swan
Further reading

Chief Miles Clancy O'Hara is a member of the Gotham City Police Department in the DC Universe based on the character of the same name from the television series Batman, portrayed by Stafford Repp.

The character, as adapted by Edmond Hamilton and Curt Swan, first appeared in the DC Universe in World's Finest Comics #159 (August 1966).

Within the context of the stories, Chief O'Hara is the chief of police during the early days of Batman's career. O'Hara was the first victim of the Hangman serial killer.[2]

Alternate versions of Chief O'Hara

Chief O'Hara in other media

OMAC

Buddy Blank
Main article: OMAC (Buddy_Blank)

Present day cyborgs
Main article: OMAC (comics)

Onyx

Onyx (Onyx Adams) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She appeared in Detective Comics #546 (January 1985), created by Joey Cavalieri and Jerome K. Moore.[3]

A former member of the League of Assassins, Onyx forsook that life and joined the same ashram monastery that the Green Arrow once belonged to. When the order's master was killed, she sought the Green Arrow to take down his killer. Onyx came to Star City seeking that same killer again.[4][5]

She later became an ally to Batman during the Batman: War Games story arc when she joined the Hill Gang (led by Gotham City undercover agent and Batman's ally Orpheus), but she assumed the leadership following the latter's murder by Black Mask.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Following this story arc, she was not seen again until it was revealed that she worked as one of the Oracle's contacts for the Birds of Prey.[18]

She became a trainer for Cassandra Cain in Bludhaven.

The New 52 Onyx appeared as an enemy to Green Arrow and member of the Outsiders, with most of her origins identical to pre-Flashpoint.[19]

Onyx in other media
  • Onyx Adams appears in the Arrow episode "Next of Kin", portrayed by Chastity Dotson. This version is a former member of the League of Assassins from 1743 who used a Lazarus Pit to survive into the present and become a black ops agent in Syria before several members of her team betrayed her. She forms a new team to kill the defectors, but is ultimately defeated by John Diggle and his allies and arrested by the police.
  • Onyx makes a non-speaking appearance in Batman: Bad Blood. This version is a member of Leviathan who expresses romantic feelings for her superior Heretic despite being frustrated by his lack of emotions. In hopes of fixing this, she and Heretic kidnap Damian Wayne in an attempt to absorb his memories, only for Talia al Ghul to kill the Heretic. Onyx subsequently seeks vengeance on Talia, ultimately attacking her on a hovercraft and causing the vessel to crash and explode.
  • A teenage Onyx Adams appears in Young Justice, voiced by Logan Browning. This version was raised by her maternal grandfather Amazing-Man, but ran away from home due to fear of not being able to live up to his moral standards (which she later regrets) and was recruited by Sensei to join the League of Shadows. In the present, she is unknowingly tricked by the League into defecting from them and cause confusion for the Team. After joining forces with Artemis Crock and Cheshire to rescue Orphan, Onyx stays on Infinity Island for rehabilitation.[20]

Orca
Main article: Orca (DC Comics)

Elias Orr

Elias Orr is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He was created by Brian Azzarello and Jim Lee during the arc of Superman: For Tomorrow.[21]

Introduced in Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, Orr under Lex Luthor's employ assigned Toyman to stage an attack on Luthor's Hope, a genetically engineered superhuman.[22] Revealed in For Tomorrow, he's a black-ops specialist working in the field of cybernetics labeled Project M helped to create Equus[23][24] to battle Superman, as well as transforming Ron Evers, a friend of Vic Stone/Cyborg into a weapon.[25] While confronting the Teen Titans, Mr. Orr encountered Cyborg and a villainous futuristic version of him called Cyborg 2.0. They created a "Cyborg Revenge Squad" consisting of Shrapnel, Gizmo, Magenta, Girder, Thinker, and Cyborgirl. Mr. Orr and his Cyborg Revenge Squad were defeated and his Project destroyed.[26]

Elias Orr in other media

Elias Orr appears in Superman & Lois, portrayed by Christian Sloan. This version is a fixer for Intergang who is later accidentally killed by Peia Mannheim after she loses control of her powers.

Otis
First appearanceSuperman (1978 film)
Comics: Superman Returns: Prequel Comic #3 (August 2006, non-canon)
Forever Evil #2 (December 2013, canon)
Created byMario Puzo
David Newman
Leslie Newman
Robert Benton
Tom Mankiewicz
Further reading

Otis is Lex Luthor's bumbling henchman from the films Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), portrayed by Ned Beatty. Following this, Otis has been adapted in several adaptations, often taking on different positions and titles.

Films

In Superman, Otis assists Lex Luthor in his plot to steal two nuclear test missiles from the United States military and use them in a real estate scheme, only to be foiled by Superman and incarcerated in the same penitentiary as Luthor.

In Superman II, Otis attempts to join Luthor in escaping from prison, but is abandoned for weighing down Eve Teschmacher's hot air balloon.

Otis in comics

Otis appears in Forever Evil #2 (December 2013) as a LexCorp security guard who is killed by Bizarro.[27]

Alternate versions of Otis

Otis appears in Superman Family Adventures #5 and 7.

Television
  • A character based on Otis named Orville Gump appears in The World's Greatest Super Friends episode "Lex Luthor Strikes Back", voiced by William Callaway.
  • Dr. Otis Ford appears in the Smallville episode "Scare", portrayed by Malcolm Stewart. This version is a scientist employed by LuthorCorp to manage a defense contract project involving a gas that causes exposed people to hallucinate their worst nightmare.
  • Otis appears in the Young Justice episode "Satisfaction", voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. This version is the head of Lex Luthor's security force.
  • Otis Graves appears in the fourth season of Supergirl, portrayed by Robert Baker. This version is Mercy Graves' brother and a former Project Cadmus agent who provided Ben Lockwood with the means to become Agent Liberty. After being seemingly killed by Hellgrammite, Otis is converted by Lex Luthor into a Metallo before the former is eventually killed by Lockwood. Following the events of the crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths", Otis is revived as a human and found work with Lillian Luthor.
    • Additionally, an alternate timeline version of Otis appears in the episode "It's a Super Life".
  • Otis Grisham appears in the third season of Superman & Lois, portrayed by Ryan Booth. Introduced in a flashback depicted in the episode "Injustice", this version is an inmate at Stryker's Prison who leads the others in attacking the recently incarcerated Lex Luthor, who would later seek revenge by blackmailing the warden and guards. In the present, Otis and Luthor are released from prison and the former joins the latter in retrieving Bizarro. In "What Kills You Only Makes You Stronger", Otis assists Luthor and Gretchen Kelley in experimenting on Bizarro and abducting Sam Lane respectively.

Miscellaneous
  • Otis appears in a flashback in Superman Returns: Prequel Comic #3.[28]
  • Otis appears in the Young Justice tie-in comic book.
  • Otis Berg appears in Smallville Season 11 as Lex Luthor's personal assistant at LexCorp who is killed by the Monitor.

References
  1. Batman #535
  2. Batman: Dark Victory
  3. Detective Comics #546
  4. Detective Comics #557
  5. Detective Comics #567
  6. Detective Comics #795
  7. Batman: The 12-Cent Adventure #1
  8. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #182
  9. Detective Comics #798
  10. Nightwing (vol. 2) #97
  11. Batman #632
  12. Detective Comics #799
  13. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #184
  14. Nightwing (vol. 2) #98
  15. Batgirl (vol. 2) #57
  16. Batman #633
  17. Detective Comics #800
  18. Birds of Prey #114
  19. Green Arrow Vol 5 #28
  20. "Search Ask Greg: Gargoyles: Station Eight".
  21. Superman Vol. 2 #205
  22. Lex Luthor: Man of Steel Vol. 1 #2
  23. Superman Vol. 2 #210
  24. Superman Vol. 2 #214
  25. DC Special: Cyborg #1
  26. DC Special: Cyborg #6 (December 2008)
  27. Forever Evil #2. DC Comics.
  28. Superman Returns: Prequel Comic #3
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