Lobo (DC Comics) Character Review
Lobo is a fictional Character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The Lobo character was created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, and first appeared in Omega Men (June 1983). Lobo is an alien, and works as an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter.
Lobo was Introduced as a hardened, although rarely used, hardboiled villain in the 1980s, and remained in limbo until his revival as an anti-hero biker in the early 1990s. More about Lobo (DC Comics) Character Review - keep on reading !!
Fictional Character Biography
Lobo, who originally was a Velorpian in the Omega Men series, is a Czarnian
with exceptional strength and fortitude. He enjoys nothing better than
mindless violence and intoxication, and killing is an end in itself; his
name roughly translates as "he who devours your entrails and thoroughly
enjoys it." He is arrogant and self-centered, focusing almost solely on
his own pleasures. Although, he proudly lives up to the letter of his
promises, but always no more or no less than what he promised. Lobo is
the last of his kind, having committed complete genocide by killing all
the other Czarnians for fun (as originally written, Psions had
exterminated his race, but after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, this was retconned). As detailed in Lobo #0, Lobo unleashed a violent plague of flying scorpions upon his home world, killing most of its citizens. In Superman: The Animated Series,
Lobo nonchalantly tells Superman the fate of his race: "I'm the last
Czarnian. I fragged the rest of the planet for my high school science
project. Gave myself an A."
Lobo's friends include Dawg, a bulldog that he often claims is not his when it gets into trouble; Jonas Glim, a fellow bounty hunter; Ramona, a bail bondswoman/hairdresser; and Guy Gardner,
who's friendship was cemented when Lobo came by Guy's bar Warriors
where he gave Guy one of his Space Hogs and the skull of the Tormock
leader Bronkk.
Dawg is stomped to death by Lobo in Lobo #58 in which he again claims to Superman
that the dog is not his, this for the final time. Somehow, Dawg later
appears alongside Lobo when Lobo goes to Earth to fight Green Lantern
and Atrocitus. His enemies include the do-gooder superhero parody Goldstar, Loo, Vril Dox, Bludhound, Etrigan the Demon, and General Glory. Lobo generally tries to kill anyone he's hired to capture, including his fourth-grade teacher named Miss Tribb, his children, Santa Claus, and Gawd.
Simon Bisley's
dark humor fits well within the pages of his artwork by having
countless mutilations of background characters occurring in each panel.
Physically, Lobo resembles a chalk-white human male with blood-red pupilless
eyes with blackened eyelids. Like many comic book characters, Lobo's
body is highly muscular. He was originally portrayed with neatly trimmed
purple-grey hair, this was soon redesigned as a long, straggly,
gray-black mane, and more recently into dreadlocks. Similarly, the orange-and-purple leotard he wore in his first few appearances was replaced by black leather biker
gear, and later replaced with both the robes of his office as a
putative Archbishop of the Church of the Triple-Fish God and
pirate-themed gear. His arsenal includes numerous guns and a titanium
chain with a hook on his right arm. Extra weapons may include "frag
grenades" and giant carving blades.
Lobo has a strict personal code of honor in that he will never violate the letter of an agreement- saying in Superman: TAS
that "The Main Man's word is his bond,"- although he may gleefully
disregard its spirit. He is surprisingly protective of space dolphins, some of which he feeds from his home. A few have been killed in separate incidents, which he avenges with his usual violence.
Lobo frequents Al diner where he frequently flirts with Al's only
waitress, Darlene. Though Lobo protects these two from frequent danger,
he doesn't seem to understand the distress caused by his tendency to
destroy the diner. Al and Darlene later prosper due to Lobo's appetite
for destruction; he destroys the city, except for the diner, leaving
hordes of construction workers only one place to eat lunch. He also ends
up destroying a diner Al gives to him as part of a birthday
celebration.
The last revelation of Lobo and the diner appears to be in the pages
of Lobo One Million, where his last adventure is depicted. By the time
of the action, he's already morbidly obese and working as a carnival
attraction, scaring tourists into leaving their money behind. Then, a
sexy client appears to offer him a last job: finding a legendary
evildoer named Malo Perverso. At the prospect of a last well-paid job
and a chance to score with the client, Lobo quickly agrees, and again
invades the diner to use their Tesseract teleporter to reach his gear.
It is revealed then the "client" is none other than Darlene, who wanted
to see him back in his prime rather than see him sink even deeper into
sloth.
After reaching his gear, Lobo invades the HQ of the JLWB (Justice
League of Wannabes) and crushes all opposition in order to hack their
files on Malo Perverso. There, he is attacked by Perverso himself, who
then reveals himself to be Clayman, the team's shapeshifter, who admits
he impersonated Perverso to get rid of Lobo. Clayman also squeals that
the real Perverso went into a black hole. Lobo, still eager to find his
bounty, goes into the black hole. Ironically, due to Lobo's interference
in a planetary conflict in the same issue, Al later gets a package
through the Tesseract for Lobo - which promptly blows the diner up, yet
again.
At one point, Lobo has trouble with a clone of himself that had
survived previous misadventures. A battle between the two makes it
unclear which of them survived. Some fans conclude that the original
Lobo was the victor, since later in the series, Lobo removes a miniature
radio which he had surgically implanted in his head some time before
the clone fight, and only organic matter can be cloned.
The character has participated in several money-making schemes, such
as being a priest and being a pop-rock idol. Most of these schemes tend
to end with the violent deaths of nearly everyone involved. He has many
friends among the bounty hunter world, though many tend to die when they
are around Lobo, either by his hand or at the hands of enemies he
faces.
L.E.G.I.O.N - Lobo acts as an independent bounty hunter until tricked by Vril Dox into nominally joining his interstellar police force, L.E.G.I.O.N.
However, he continues solo activity, which seems to often bring him to
Earth and in conflict with its heroes. Or, as in one case, base
indifference. He remains loyal to Vril Dox after L.E.G.I.O.N. leadership is usurped
by Dox's son, until an altercation between Lobo and Dox prompts Dox to
release Lobo from his service. After this, Lobo becomes a full-time
bounty hunter again.
Powers and Abilities (Lobo)
Lobo possesses extraordinary strength of undefined limits. His
strength, much like his other powers, varies greatly depending upon
different artistic interpretations by various comic book writers. In
some instances, he is depicted as being barely stronger than a human
while, in others, he demonstrates physical strength on a similar level
to Superman.
Lobo also possesses superhuman durability, which varies greatly as
well. Lobo is depicted, in some situations, as being injured by
conventional bullets while, in other situations, he has the physical
resiliency to stand toe to toe with Superman, survive unprotected in
deep space, and withstand powerful explosive blasts without sustaining
injury. He has displayed particular susceptibility to gaseous chemicals.
In one instance, Lobo was declared immortal; after he died and went to
hell, he proved too much for the demons, and when he was then sent to
heaven, he wreaked so much havoc that he was permanently banished from
the afterlife.
In all comic books, Lobo is portrayed as a ruthless bounty hunter. He
only has one rule: once he takes a contract, he finishes it no matter
what, even if it means risking his own life.
If Lobo sustains injury, his accelerated healing factor
enables him to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with superhuman
speed and efficiency, and little apparent pain. Lobo also is
functionally immortal. He is immune to the effects of aging and disease
and has been banned from entering either heaven or hell. As such, even
though he can sustain sufficient injury to be out of commission for
quite some time, he will apparently heal from any injury, given
sufficient time. For instance, Lobo can regenerate out of a pool of his
own blood, apparently recycling the cells.
At one time, Lobo could grow a copy of himself, possessing all of his
skills and powers, out of every drop of his blood that was spilled.
This power was removed by Vril Dox during Lobo's time with L.E.G.I.O.N., but Lobo regained it in the series Young Justice, in which he was de-aged by Klarion the Witch Boy
and slaughtered while on a mission to Apokolips. His blood reformed
into thousands of Lobo clones who waged war on the planet and then
proceeded to murder each other until only one Lobo (the current one) was
left. One of his other clones, Slo-Bo, survived, but later began to
fall apart until being dealt with by Darkseid. In 52, he again regenerated from a pool of blood, but no clones were created so he no longer appears to retain this ability.
Lobo possesses an amazingly developed sense of smell, which allows
him to track objects between solar systems, as well as a separate
tracking ability enabling him to track an individual across galactic
distances.
He is a formidable combatant with expertise in multiple forms of
armed and unarmed combat. His favorite weapon is a large titanium alloy
chain with a large gutting hook connected at the end that he keeps
wrapped around his right wrist. At times, he also uses high-grade
explosives and advanced firearms.
Despite his violent and loutish nature, Lobo seems to have a
genius-level intellect in matters of destruction and violence. He can
create complex virulent agents and the corresponding antidotes; in one
version of his backstory, he released such a plague on Czarnia as a
science project, resulting in the deaths of the entire population in the
span of one week.
His vehicle, some sort of space-faring motorcycle (the "Space Hog"),
often accompanies him. It is his own design and, despite its size, it is
capable of extended and speedy travel throughout space. Further, it
protects those in its immediate vicinity from the hazards of space and
somehow permits the ability to breathe and speak. He was also able to
scavenge parts from a destroyed time hopper and attach them to his own
bike, producing a working time machine. Lobo is fluent in many alien
languages (according to Lobo, 17,897) and extremely knowledgeable in the locations and cultures of worlds without external references.
It is not fully known the extent to which his powers are common for his race or unique to him. In the miniseries The Last Czarnian
and elsewhere, it is stated that the cloning and healing abilities are
traits possessed by all Czarnians, as is the apparent ability to survive
in the vacuum of space.
In Other Media (Video Games)
- In 1996, Ocean Software was developing a Lobo game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It was a fighting game, featuring many characters from Lobo's comic stories. A 6-page preview of the game was featured in the video game magazine Nintendo Power, Volume 84 (May 1996). As previewed, the game still had some bugs and lacked sound. The game was canceled before its release. A prototype of the finished Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version has been found and a ROM image of it was released on September 15, 2009 by a Spanish Sega community.
- Lobo appears in Injustice: Gods Among Us, with David Sobolov reprising his role. During Doomsday's single-player ending where he had converted Earth to resemble prehistoric Krypton, Doomsday ventures into space hoping to find a worthy adversary in Lobo after hearing about him. Lobo later became the game's first DLC character. In Lobo's ending, Lobo became one of the richest men in the universe where he assassinates those who ran afoul of the High Counselor and then planned to kill the New Gods of New Genesis when bounties became scarce.
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