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Paintball is a DC Comics supervillain. He first appeared in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #2 and was created by Geoff Johns and Leo Moder.

Paul Deisinger is an art teacher who was transformed into a paint-themed criminal and became a minion of Dragon King.[1]

Linda Park (also known as Linda Park-West) is a fictional character in the DC Universe. She is best known as the girlfriend and later wife of Wally West. Linda Park first appeared in The Flash (vol. 2) #28 and was created by William Messner-Loebs.[2]

She is a Korean-American television reporter for Keystone City and regularly deals with the Flash, whom she does not like. During their initial meeting she constantly hounds the Flash about the recent thousands of dollars of property damage caused by his battle with the Porcupine Man. Despite this, Linda and Wally became friends on her first job for Keystone City's KFMB Channel 4, when they team up to investigate the Celestial Enlightenment Ranch, a spiritual-retreat scam. After Wally helps Linda deal with her apparent possession by the spirit of an 800-year-old Irish bard named Seamus O’Relkig, they become close and soon begin dating. The Flash's love for Linda has brought him back many times from the Speed Force. After many obstacles—such as Wally nearly being killed by the Black Flash and Linda being abducted and all memory of her erased by Abra Kadabra (the last requiring the aid of an alternate version of Wally to return home and convince Kadabra to reverse the spell)—they marry.[3] She eventually became one of the hosts of the television program The Scene, which is similar to the (real life) program The View. Her co-hosts included Vicki Vale, Tawny Young, and Lia Briggs. Two episodes were shown in which they interviewed Wonder Woman on her career, which was shown in that title comic.[4][5] Shortly after the Wests moved into a new apartment after their old house was destroyed by Magenta, Linda left her journalism career, her relationship with Wally having made her unable to reconcile the public's right to know against the superheroes’ chance to resolve a situation before people started to panic, instead studying medicine with the intent of becoming a pediatrician. Linda soon became pregnant with twins, but during the early months of her pregnancy she was attacked by Zoom, which caused her to miscarry the twins.[2] After Zoom was defeated, Wally asked the Spectre (whose host at the time was Wally's longtime friend Hal Jordan) to remove knowledge of the Flash's identity from everyone's memories, but Jordan's increasing lack of control of the Spectre meant that even Wally and Linda forgot who the Flash was.[2] After she remembered, Linda left to rethink her life. She returned to Wally after taking some time away. A later battle between Zoom and the Flash spontaneously restored her pregnancy when Zoom and the Flash travelled back in time to their original battle, Zoom unintentionally taking the brunt of the sonic boom generated by his past self and thus protecting Linda from the worst of the attack, and she gave birth to the twins upon Wally's return to the future.[2][6] In Infinite Crisis #4, a battle with Superboy-Prime caused Wally to disappear. He appeared in front of Linda, telling her he is disappearing. Holding the twins, Linda kissed Wally as they disappeared. It was later revealed by Bart Allen, returned by the Speed Force, that Linda is still alive, albeit in an alternate reality living in its version of Keystone City where time flows apparently faster (as shown by Bart reappearing in IC #5, where from his point of view, four years had passed). There, she is raising her twins with her husband. Recently, seven members of the Pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes were discovered in the 21st Century by the Justice League of America. The seven Legionaries were sent back in time on a secret mission, in which they were to use seven lightning rods, which would be struck by lightning, killing one member and resurrecting another. The Legion was successful in their mission, and surprisingly all seven Legionaries survived. However, there was an unexpected bonus. Wally, Linda, and the twins managed to 'ride' the lightning bolt and return to their homeworld, alive and well. In All Flash #1, the names of the West twins are revealed to be Iris and Jai. In The Flash (vol. 2) #231, it is revealed that, from three months into their "exile", the West family had been living on an alien planet that had previously been saved by the Flash. Linda has extended her medical knowledge with the advanced science of the aliens, thereby gaining the skills necessary to stabilize the speed-related powers of their children. In "The Flash: Rebirth" miniseries, Linda has apparently returned to her journalist career, as she reports on the festivities in honor of the return of Barry Allen. Linda and her children are part of the small resistance cell operating out of the 'Hall of Justice' during the events of the Final Crisis.[7]

Dr. Jarrett Parker is a DC Comics character created in The Flash Vol. 2 #10, created by Mike Baron and Mike Collins.

Jarrett Parker was a therapist who practiced in Huntington, New York and a colleague of Dr. Owen Slade.[9]

One of his patients was Chunk. After swallowing a matter transmitter and becoming a human singularity, Chunk became frustrated with Parker and sent him to another dimension. Here, Parker helped establish a community with others who suffered the same fate, including Karin Preus and Eric Gunderson. Parker's counsel remained ineffective on Chunk, and Chunk's frustration with this caused him to be absorbed into yet another dimension.

Peek-a-Boo (Lashawn Baez) is a DC Comics supervillain who first appeared in The Flash (vol. 2) #180, created by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins.[10]

Lashawn Baez was a graduate student at Central City Medical School, but put her studies aside to help her father Tomas when he got ill, requiring a kidney transplant. Lashawn tried to donate hers, but the procedure activated her latent metagene, granting her teleportation powers while in the same unable to donate her own organ because of her powers whenever she was touched.

As Peek-a-Boo, she snuck into Central City Hospital to steal a kidney, but accidentally destroyed a lab due to her powers being unstable and dangerous. The doctor grabbed her arm, which caused an implosion where she disappeared, nearly killing the surprised surgeon. The Flash and Cyborg intervened and defeated her with a wall of white sound generated by Cyborg's arm, coupled with disorientation from being teleported hundreds of times a second when the Flash deliberately triggered her powers. The Flash later returned the kidney to the hospital and Lashawn was convinced and sent to Iron Heights.[10]

When Gorilla Grodd attacked Iron Heights, Peek-a-Boo was able to escape along with many other Rogues. She went to hospital to check on her father. Tomas Baez' doctors had been able to find a new kidney in time, but his ailing body rejected it and her father died. When the Flash came to the hospital, Lashawn, in grief and embittered by her incarceration, revealed to him that she wanted to be a hero like him whom she had idolised, but now considered him as an enemy. However, she later saved the life of the Flash's wife Linda Park when she was injured in a fight between them. Lashawn then turned herself in to the police believing she had nothing left to live for and remained in custody.[11]

Neptune Perkins is a superhero in the DC Universe.

The character, created by Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert, first appeared in Flash Comics #66 (August 1945).[12] That and a follow-up story in 1947 were the character's only appearances, until Roy Thomas revived him for an All-Star Squadron story in 1984 and later selected him as one of the focal characters of Young All-Stars in 1987.[13] In addition, Thomas expanded the character's backstory and origin so that it incorporated large chunks of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

Within the context of the stories, Neptune Perkins is a mutant born with attributes that lend themselves to living at sea. During World War II he works with the All-Star Squadron. After the war he weds Miya Shimada, though this relationship becomes strained in part by his being unaware that he is not the father of their daughter, Debbie. In more recent years, he has acted as a governmental contact for Aquaman and Young Justice after being elected to the United States Senate and was even a member of Old Justice. He is killed in Infinite Crisis #3 when the Shark and King Shark together attack and partially devour him during an undersea battle.

Phantasm is the name of different characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Molly Pitcher is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

In her panel seen within the pages of "The New Golden Age" #1, Molly Preacher is a school girl and the best friend of Betsy Rose. After seeing Miss America in action when their school was saved, they took on the costumed identities of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher to help her against a saboteur named Moth. On Molly's part, she received a pitcher that was associated with Betsy Ross from Miss America that can enable her to create weapons, create tools, and emit flash floods. Molly Pitcher and Betsy Ross were her sidekicks until the day when World War II ended where they mysteriously vanished.[15] By the final issue of "Flashpoint Beyond", Molly Pitcher was among the thirteen missing Golden Age superheroes in the Time Masters' capsules. When those capsules have failed, they were all pulled back to their own time with history rebuilding around them.[16]

Molly Pitcher and Betsy Ross are among the Lost Children on Orphan Island.[17] When she and Betsy Ross ask about Miss America and their families, Corky Baxter of the Time Masters confirms Quiz Kid's claim that they will be remembered by them when they are all back in their own times. When outside Childminder's castle, Molly Pitcher uses her pitcher to make weapons for those who don't have weapons or special abilities.[18] Molly Pitcher and Betsy Ross are among the Lost Children that are "nested" by the Child Collectors.[19] Thanks to a diversion by Corky Baxter, Boom proceeds to free Molly Pitcher and the other Lost Children to help fight Time Master (an older version of Corky Baxter) and Childminder. After Time Master and Childminder's defeat and Wing being sent back to his own time, Molly Pitcher is among the Lost Children brought to Stargirl's time by the Hourman android due to paradoxical reasons. She and Betsy wondered what to do with Childminder's egg.[20]

Plunder is the name of a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

In a twisted alternate reality, a counterpart of Central City Police Department member Jared Morillo worked as an assassin.[21]

Derek Powers, also called Blight, is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in the Batman Beyond (1999–2001) animated series, voiced by Sherman Howard. He served as the primary antagonist of the series' first season. Powers is the archenemy of the second Batman, Terry McGinnis.

Derek Powers is a corrupt businessman who gains control over Wayne Enterprises after merging it with his own company Powers Technologies (in doing so renaming it Wayne-Powers) when Bruce Wayne's health begins to decline. He is the one who inadvertently sets a young man named Terry on the path to becoming Batman. Powers had developed a lethal mutagenic nerve gas and intends to sell it as a weapon. One of his employees, Terry's father Warren McGinnis, ends up in possession of evidence concerning this plan. Powers quickly has him murdered before he can show it to the authorities, and takes it from Terry when he tries the same. With this knowledge, McGinnis becomes Batman for the first time to stop Powers' plans, causing him to be exposed to the gas in the process during a fight. Powers subjects himself to extreme levels of radiation exposure to save his life, which combined with the mutagenic properties of the nerve gas causes his entire body to become radioactive and translucent. He is able to hide his state and contain his radiation with special cosmetic skins that, over time, burns into shedded flakes. The cosmetic skins begin to disintegrate faster and faster as his radiation levels keep rising and his temper becomes more and more uncontrollable.

He first introduces himself as "Blight" in the episode "Meltdown".[22] Dr. Stephanie Lake, a scientist working for Powers, had the idea that, by using Powers' baseline DNA, she could create a new body unaffected by his radioactive condition, and then transfer his mind into that new body. To test the procedure, she located and persuaded Mr. Freeze to participate, because, much like Powers, his DNA had been permanently corrupted by a form of mutation. At first, the procedure appeared successful, but several days later his condition starts to resurface. Powers believes a biopsy of his organs will help them to figure out how to solve this problem with the procedure, and is satisfied when Lake takes the remark as a suggestion to kill Freeze. Freeze escapes, however, and later returns to Wayne-Powers, wearing a cybernetic suit he had "kept in cold storage", ultimately freezing Powers and Lake. Powers survives the attack by melting off his skin and the ice, and attacks Freeze before fighting Batman. When Batman (not recognizing Powers in his radioactive form) asks who the villain is, he identifies himself as "Blight", declaring his powers make him a walking plague. After a fierce struggle, Freeze eventually jettisons him away from the battle.

Over time, Powers discovers his condition is worsening, as the radiation burns off his skin more rapidly with each shedding, and his uncontrolled anger is slowly driving him insane. Unable to maintain his public image, he decides to withdraw from his corporate interests and focus on finding a cure, deciding to have his estranged son, Paxton Powers, run the company under his own direction. However, Paxton betrays his father during a televised business meeting by having his men to pretend to be fishermen, who voice anger at Paxton for dumping poison in their river and throw mutated fish in front of the shareholders. As his anger grows, Powers' artificial skin starts to flake off, exposing him to the world as Blight. Powers hides inside of an abandoned nuclear submarine, but is discovered by Batman at the request of Paxton so he can have Derek taken into custody for proper medical treatment. Once found, Paxton has Derek subdued using a device called a "Pinch Cell" that drains his father's radiation and by doing so nearly succeeds in killing him, until Batman intervenes upon realizing Paxton's true intentions. Upon freeing himself of the Pinch Cell, Powers goes berserk with massive radiation bursts that sink the submarine with him inside while Batman, Paxton and his minions escape. A later exchange between Batman and Paxton has Batman, unable to expose Paxton's machinations without jeopardizing his own secret identity, warning that Derek Powers might survived and would seek revenge.[23]

Pozhar (Пожар or "Fire") is a Russian superhero in the DC Universe. The character, created by John Ostrander and Joe Brozowski, first appeared in The Fury of Firestorm (vol. 2) #62 (August 1987).[28] Within the stories' context, Mikhail Arkadin is a nuclear technician who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and during the meltdown that occurred there, he gained the ability to convert matter into energy. He was subsequently recruited by Major Zastrow of the Red Shadow as one of the Soviet Union's official superheroes.[29][30] However, he was forced to wear a containment suit to prevent himself from destroying everything he touched.[30] The Russian government then maneuvered him into position to be one of its premier heroes, placing him into a battle against the original Firestorm who was then calling for complete nuclear disarmament.[30]

The battle raged for a time between the two heroes, until a nuclear weapon was dropped on the duo while they fought in the Nevada desert, fusing them into a new Firestorm, independent of either. Later, Raymond and Arkadin were separated and removed from the Firestorm Matrix so that Martin Stein alone could bear the powers and serve as the Fire Elemental.

The "In My Father's House" storyline in the most recent Firestorm series revealed that Mikhail is, in fact, once again in control of his former abilities. He was re-powered by a nuclear test gone wrong in Russia. He was going by the name of Firestorm for a time despite now knowing that Firestorm was made up of Martin and Jason Rusch at the time, but he has now changed his super identity back to Pozhar.[31][32]

In "The New 52" reboot of the DC Comics universe, Arkadin helped Professor Stein invent the Firestorm Protocols.[33][34]

In the "Watchmen" sequel "Doomsday Clock", Pozhar appears as a member of the People's Heroes. He appears on TV announcing that Russia was closing their borders to all foreigners, be they meta-human or not. During his interview on "The Superman Theory", Firestorm used a profanity to describe it and even used another profanity to insult Pozhar much to Martin's dismay.[35]

Preus is a fictional DC Comics supervillain who first appeared in Adventures of Superman #625 (April 2004) and was created by Joe Kelly and Talent Caldwell as part of their "Godfall" arc.[36]

For years, Sergeant Preus had proudly served the Citizen's Patrol Corps, a police force that kept the peace in Kandor under the Kryptonian banner of El, their "creator".[36] Due to the compression of time, more than a century had passed inside the bottle city (compared to only a handful of years outside it) during which Preus and his fellow Kandorians had come to worship "The Superman" as their "god in heaven" above. The Corpsman was also a devout xenophobe, who dispensed justice against "non-K" (Kryptonian) dissidents that threatened their way of life, especially a citizen named Kal-El, who forever tainted Paradise when he seemingly murdered several Kandorians.[37]

Preus swore a solemn oath to make the murderer pay, not realizing that Kal-El was actually the Superman that he and the others had worshiped for so long.[38] He was also unaware that the "victims" were constructs created by an alien telepath, Lyla, who had brainwashed Kal-El into believing that Kandor was a never-exploded Krypton.[39] Eventually shattering the illusion, Superman escaped Kandor and confronted Lyla back in Metropolis. Preus followed them, but exposure to Earth's air and yellow sun drastically affected him, giving him strange, new powers equal to Superman's while amplifying his already-unbalanced racist views.[40]

Convinced that Kal-El had defiled the legacy of "The Superman", Preus swore to assume that responsibility himself and that all of the impure would die by his hand. His xenophobia led him to a group of white supremacists in the American desert, who he forced into worshiping him and his views. However, in time, the people of "God's Peake" (as the camp was called) came to worship Preus as their cult leader. His increasing prominence eventually led both the Martian Manhunter and Jimmy Olsen to investigate, only to have both of them captured by Preus and his men.[41]

This forced a confrontation with Superman, who, at the time, was dealing with the effects of Gog's synthetic yellow kryptonite, which had significantly aged and weakened Superman in a short period of time. So weakened, Superman was barely able to deal with Preus' legions alone and quickly found himself outclassed by the (at the time) much more vital Preus.[42]

A last-ditch gambit using kryptonite to try and weaken Preus failed, as Preus revealed a previously unknown resistance to kryptonite. He was finally defeated when Superman attacked and destroyed a key portion of Preus' armor, rendering him unconscious. Afterwards, Preus was injured from that attack and had to be hospitalized. His current whereabouts are unknown. He was last seen as a weakened Superman tried to fly him to S.T.A.R. Labs for treatment. Preus disappeared after Superman was engaged by an army of Gogs.[43]

Psiphon is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, introduced in The New 52.

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Psiphon is introduced to DC as a H.I.V.E. warrior who is paired up with the Dreadnought. He appears in Superboy (vol. 4) #20, where the team are dispatched to New York City to capture Doctor Psycho, who had escaped from a H.I.V.E. facility, and Superboy, whose psionic powers were of interest to the H.I.V.E. Despite proving to be formidable opponents, both Psiphon and the Dreadnought were defeated when Doctor Psycho and Superboy teamed up to take them down. Psiphon was knocked out by Superboy with just a flick of his finger.

Psych is the name of different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

The Puppeteer, originally known as the Puppet Master, is a DC Comics supervillain. Jordan Weir was a scientist who created a "hypno-ray" which he could use to force his victims to obey his commands. As the Puppet Master, he embarked on a crime spree, manipulating minor criminals into doing his dirty work.[48]

After being defeated by Green Lantern, he started a new life as a scientist for Dayton Industries. However, when the company developed the self-generating power source known as Promethium, the temptation was too much for him.[49] Through his robot puppets, the Puppeteer took control of Cyborg, Kid Flash, Starfire, and Wonder Girl and turned them against their teammates. Raven's soul-self was finally able to break their trance and the Titans united to battle the Puppeteer and his toy robotic army. When the villain was defeated, the H.I.V.E. attempted to destroy him for his failure, but the Puppeteer escaped.[50]

Purgatory is a supervillain in DC Comics.

Paul Christian is a man who lost his legs in a subway accident. Years later, he was almost injured during a battle with Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner). To make amends, Kyle used his power ring to give Paul new legs.[51] Following another accident, it affected Paul's willpower, causing him to lose his legs.[52]

During the Underworld Unleashed crossover event, Paul was desperate to get his legs back. He accepted the demon-lord Neron's offer to regain his legs and was given superpowers. As the green flame-emitting Purgatory, he was sent to kill Rayner. After failing to do so in two attempts, Purgatory was taken to Hell by Neron while he was still alive.[53]

The Puzzler is a name used by three supervillains in the DC Universe.[54]

Son of Pyg is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Janosz "Johnny" Valentine is the son of Professor Pyg. Batwoman was investigating the murders of three marines that he killed on behalf of a group of Argentinian criminals.[61]

Son of Pyg was revealed to be an operative of Leviathan who oversaw the initiation of Leviathan's recruits. He interrogates Stephanie Brown and Jolisa Windsor where he claims that one of them betrayed Saint Hadrian's Finishing School for Girls. When Son of Pyg threatens Jolisa, Stephanie frees herself and saves Jolisa. Both of them go on the run with Son of Pyg and the Leviathan girls in hot pursuit. As Stephanie as Batgirl gets Jolisa down to the courtyard, Son of Pyg catches up to them and gets knocked out by the gardener who turns out to be Batman in disguise.[62]