Gorgon (DC Comics)

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.
Gorgon
Publication information
Extremists
AbilitiesPossesses superhumanly strong tentacles

Gorgon is a fictional character, a

Extremists.[1] He is based on the Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Octopus
, and like him has several super-strong tentacles, though they are organic rather than mechanical.

Gorgon

The first Gorgon was a supervillain on the world of Angor, an otherdimensional duplicate of Earth. The Extremists wiped out Angor in a nuclear explosion, leaving only themselves and a few heroes who fled to Earth. The Extremists pursued them and it was revealed that all but one of them had died and the surviving one,

Watchtower.[1]

Gorgon Robot

The second Gorgon was a robotic duplicate of the first Gorgon, one of many robots created by the inventor Mitch Wacky on the other dimensional world of

Kooey Kooey Kooey, and still later as pawns of Twilight in a battle with Supergirl. A statue of Gorgon was kept in the Villains Gallery on the Justice League
's moon base.

Countdown

In the new

Earth-8
. In #2 his origin is revealed; Dr. Mortimer was working on genetic alteration to give a person the ability to deal with threats by changing into a monster form and creating an entirely different personality. When he was caught in an explosion at his lab, Mortimer was changed, becoming the Gorgon creature, with a different personality for every tentacle on his head. When one of his personalities killed his girlfriend, a distraught Mortimer was recruited by Lord Havok.

Powers and abilities

Gorgon has a set of mechanical tentacles on his head that can grapple with superhuman strength. Each of the tentacles' ends has a mouth of sharp teeth.

In other media

  • Gorgon appears in
    Hawkgirl
    .

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 213309017
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