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Encyclopedia > Lobo (DC Comics)
Lobo


Cover to 52 - Week 17, by J.G. Jones. Image File history File links Acap. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... Lobo #1 (Dec. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (401x668, 540 KB)Cover to 52 #17, by J.G. Jones. ... 52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics, which debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. ... J. G. Jones is an American Comic Book artist. ...

Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Omega Men # 3 (June 1983)
Created by Roger Slifer (writer)
Keith Giffen (artist)
Characteristics
Homeworld Czarnia
Team
affiliations
L.E.G.I.O.N.
Young Justice
Notable aliases The Main Man, The 'Bo, Master Frag, Mister Machete, Scourge o' the Cosmos, The Ultimate Bastich
Abilities Superhuman strength, stamina, and durability,
Superhuman sense of smell,
Regenerative healing factor,
Immortality,
Genius level intellect,
Able to track anyone or anything across galaxies.

Lobo is a fictional comic book antihero published by DC Comics . He first appears in Omega Men #3 (June 1983), and was created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... The Omega Men are a team of alien comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe. ... Roger Slifer comic book writer, best-known for a run on Omega Men in the 1980s. ... Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American artist, writer, and penciller of comic books. ... Czarnia was home of DC Comics character Lobo after he wiped out the entire planets race. ... L.E.G.I.O.N. was a DC Comics science fiction comic book. ... Young Justice was a DC Comics superhero team consisting of teenaged heroes. ... A healing factor is a term used to describe the ability of some characters in fiction to recover from bodily injuries or disease at a superhuman rate. ... FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... In literature and film, an anti-hero is a central or supporting character that has some of the personality flaws and ultimate fortune traditionally assigned to villains but nonetheless also have enough heroic qualities or intentions to gain the sympathy of readers or viewers. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... The Omega Men are a team of alien comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe. ... Roger Slifer comic book writer, best-known for a run on Omega Men in the 1980s. ... Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American artist, writer, and penciller of comic books. ...


Lobo is an alien from the planet Czarnia who works as an interstellar mercenary. Although introduced as a hardened, rarely used noir villain in the 1980s, he languished in limbo until his revival as an antihero parody in the early 1990s. The character enjoyed a short run as one of DC’s most popular characters throughout the 1990s. Czarnia was home of DC Comics character Lobo after he wiped out the entire planets race. ... For other uses, see Mercenary (disambiguation). ... Noir could refer to: Noir is the French language word for black. Film noir is a genre of movie. ... In literature and film, an anti-hero is a central or supporting character that has some of the personality flaws and ultimate fortune traditionally assigned to villains but nonetheless also have enough heroic qualities or intentions to gain the sympathy of readers or viewers. ...

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Publication history

Lobo was originally a regular character in Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer’s Green Lantern spin-off Omega Men. At that time, he was a Velorpian whose entire race had been exterminated by Psions; his origin was later retconned. After a well-received appearance in Justice League International, Lobo became a regular character in L.E.G.I.O.N. and its successor series R.E.B.E.L.S. In 1990, he appeared in his own miniseries, Lobo: The Last Czarnian, by writer Alan Grant and artist Simon Bisley, which changed his origin story: he became the last Czarnian after violently killing every other member of the species. Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American artist, writer, and penciller of comic books. ... Roger Slifer comic book writer, best-known for a run on Omega Men in the 1980s. ... For the DJ, see DJ Green Lantern. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... The Omega Men are a team of alien comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe. ... Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to the act of changing previously established details of a fictional setting, often without providing an explanation for the changes within the context of that setting. ... Built in the 1987 company-wide crossover limited series, Legends, this new Justice League was given a less America-centric mandate than before, and was dubbed the Justice League International (or JLI for short). ... L.E.G.I.O.N. was a DC Comics science fiction comic book. ... R.E.B.E.L.S. 94, R.E.B.E.L.S. 95 and finally R.E.B.E.L.S. 96 is a comic-book series published by DC Comics from 1994 to 1996 and created by Tennessee Peyer. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... For others of the same name, see Alan Grant. ... Simon Bisley (born March 4, 1962) is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. ...


Grant's humor and Bisley's art helped to make this four-issue series a hit, leading to many subsequent miniseries and specials. These include Lobocop (a RoboCop parody); Blazing Chain of Love (in which he is sent on a job to a harem); Paramilitary Christmas Special (in which he is contracted by the Easter Bunny to assassinate Santa Claus); Infanticide (where he kills his daughter and all of his other bastard offspring that she has gathered to try to kill him); Convention Special (a send-up of comic book conventions); and Unamerican Gladiators (in which Lobo takes part in a deadly televised game show). Lobo also starred in his own title for 64 issues, from 1993 to 1999. RoboCop is a 1987 science-fiction, action movie and satire of business-driven capitalism, directed by Paul Verhoeven. ... For other uses, see Harem (disambiguation). ... This article is about the holiday figure. ... A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Quiz show redirects here. ...


The 1990s version of Lobo was apparently intended to be an over-the-top parody of Marvel Comics antihero Wolverine. Ironically, in issue #41 of Deadpool, another Marvel series, Lobo himself was parodied in the likeness of Dirty Wolff, a large blue skinned man who drove a demonic motorcycle. Wolff's face was obscured by a muzzle over the course of the issue, at the end of which he was killed in an explosion. In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... This article is about the comic book company. ... For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Dead pool (disambiguation). ...


"I have no idea why Lobo took off," Giffen once said in an interview. "I came up with him as an indictment of the Punisher, Wolverine, hero prototype and somehow he caught on as the high violence poster boy. Go figure."[1] (This quote refers to how Giffen wrote Lobo in the 1990s. Roger Slifer, as the writer of Omega Men #3, created Lobo's original incarnation.) This article is about the Marvel Comics character. ... For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ...


Over the years, Lobo has guest-starred regularly in other series, even in cross-company interactions with such non-DC characters as The Mask, Judge Dredd, and the Authority. During the Marvel vs. DC crossover series, he fought Wolverine and lost due to popular vote by real-life fans. The Mask originated as comic book series by publisher Dark Horse Comics. ... For the 1995 film, see Judge Dredd (film). ... The Authority is a superhero comic book published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm imprint. ... DC vs Marvel Comics or Marvel Comics vs DC is a 4-issue limited series published by DC Comics and Marvel in 1996. ... For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ...


In the Lobo series and miniseries, everything is excessive, from the main character's perversions, mindless violence, and vocabulary to the grungy color palette and grotesque graphics. He commonly refers to "do-gooder" superheroes as "The Big Cheese". Everything in the series is laughable (in the sense of being ridiculous, if not always amusing), even his profanities ("Frag", "Feetal's Gizz", and "Bastich"), which are used to replace vocabulary unwanted by a family-friendly DC and to satirize similar expressions in other comics. A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Frag is a computer and video game term, used in first-person shooter (FPS) deathmatch. ...


Lobo has made a few appearances in the animated series of the 1990s/2000s-era DC animated universe. At one point, an animated series and video game starring the character were to be released, but both were canceled. An image of many of the DCAU heroes. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ...


Fictional character biography

Lobo is a Czarnian (originally a Velorpian in the Omega Men series) with exceptional strength and fortitude. He enjoys nothing better than mindless violence and intoxication. Killing is an end in itself: His name is Khundian for "he who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it". He is also arrogant and self-centered, focusing almost solely on his own pleasures, although he proudly lives up to his word--but exactly his word: 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). Lobo cannot stay dead, as both Heaven and Hell threw him out in the series Lobo's Back. Czarnia was home of DC Comics character Lobo after he wiped out the entire planets race. ... In the DC Universe, the Khunds are a fictional alien race notable for extreme violence. ... Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12-part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Heaven (disambiguation). ... This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. ...


As detailed in Lobo #0, Lobo unleashes a violent plague upon his homeworld, killing most of its citizens.


In Superman: The Animated Series, Lobo nonchalantly tells Superman the fate of his race: "I blew up my home planet as a High School science project. Gave myself an "A.""


Lobo's friends include Dawg, a bulldog that he often claims isn't his when it gets into trouble; and Ramona, a bail bondswoman/hairdresser. Dawg is stomped to death by Lobo in Lobo #58 in which he claims to Superman that the dog is not his (for the final time). For other uses, see Bulldog (disambiguation). ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ...

The first appearance of Lobo.

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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (509x772, 86 KB) Summary http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (509x772, 86 KB) Summary http://www. ... Goldstar is a name that has been used by three characters in the DC Comics universe. ... Vril Dox II of the planet Colu is a DC Comics character. ... Bludhound is a DC Comics character. ... The Demon is a DC Comics superhero series created by prolific comic book writer-artist Jack Kirby. ... General Glory is the name of two DC Comics characters. ... A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ... Simon Bisley (born March 4, 1962) is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. ...


Physically, Lobo resembles a chalk-white human male with blood-red pupilless eyes surrounded by black mascara-like patches. Like many comic book characters, Lobo's body is highly muscular. Although he was originally portrayed as having neatly trimmed purple-grey hair, this was soon redesigned to be a long, straggly, grey-black mane, and more recently into dreadlocks. Similarly, the orange-and-purple leotard he wore in his first few appearances has long since been replaced by black leather biker gear, which more recently has been replaced with both the robes of his office--as putative Archbishop of the Church of the Triple-Fish God--and seemingly pirate-inspired gear. His arsenal includes numerous guns, and a chain with a hook on his right arm. Extra weapons may include "frag grenades" and giant carving blades. The human eye The pupil is the central transparent area (showing as black). ... A mascara tube and a wand applicator Mascara is a cosmetic used to darken, thicken and define eyelashes. ... Rastaman with long locks Dreadlocks, sometimes called simply locks or dreads, are matted ropes of hair which will form by themselves if the hair is allowed to grow naturally without the use of brushes, combs, razors or scissors for a long period of time. ... For other uses, see Motorcycle (disambiguation). ...


In addition to his ever-present lust for violence, Lobo also has a strict personal code of honor — he will never violate the letter of an agreement, although he may gleefully disregard its spirit. Also, he is extremely 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.


L.E.G.I.O.N.

Main article: 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. Lobo has trouble with a clone that had survived previous misadventures. A battle between the two makes it unclear who had survived. L.E.G.I.O.N. was a DC Comics science fiction comic book. ... Vril Dox II of the planet Colu is a DC Comics character. ...


Lobo frequents the business of Al, a rotund diner operator, where he frequently flirts with Al's only waitress, Darlene. Though Lobo protects these two from any harm, the danger of which is frequent, 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 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 around Lobo, either by his hand or at the hands of enemies he faces. He fights Aquaman when a traveling space dolphin visiting Earth is killed by Japanese fishermen. He relents in his violence when he learns Aquaman also loves dolphins; he feels he cannot hurt a fellow dolphin lover. Aquaman is a fictional character, superhero in DC Comics. ...


Lobo has teamed up with Guy Gardner more than once, helping him to destroy various alien threats to Earth. Lobo often visits Warrior's, Guy's bar, where he enjoys free drinks. Guy Gardner is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. ...


After Jenny Quantum finds a comic book detailing Lobo's murder of Santa Claus (the plot of Lobo's Paramilitary Christmas Special), she experiences a fit of rage and confusion. She breaks the barrier between her dimension and the dimension Lobo inhabits in the comic book, and he finds himself in a fight with the Authority. Jenny Quantum (also known as Jenny Quarx) is a fictional comic book superhero in the Wildstorm Universe published by DC Comics. ... A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ... For The Authority in the trilogy His Dark Materials, see The Authority (His Dark Materials). ...


52

Main article: 52 (comics)

After an extended hiatus, Lobo reappears during the year-long maxi-series known as 52 where he encounters a group of heroes (consisting of Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Starfire), who find themselves stranded in space after the events of Infinite Crisis. To everyone's surprise he does not kill them. Lobo professes to have found religion, becoming the spiritual leader of the whole of sector 3500, left in shambles by a still unknown assailant. He is the current caretaker of the Emerald Eye of Ekron. After helping the lost heroes to defeat Lady Styx, he brings the Emerald Eye to the triple-headed fish god, who agrees to release Lobo from his vow of non-violence in exchange. When told that the Emerald Eye is the only thing that can kill the fish god, Lobo blasts him with it. 52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics, which debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. ... Adam Strange is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. ... Animal Man (Buddy Baker) is a fictional DC Comics superhero. ... Starfire is the name of three superheroes who have appeared in comic books published by DC Comics. ... Infinite Crisis was a seven-issue limited series of comic books published by DC Comics, beginning in October of 2005. ... The Emerald Empress is a fictional DC Comics supervillain, an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes and a member of the Fatal Five. ... Lady Styx is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. ...


One Year Later

Lobo is set to appear in a Crossover miniseries with Batman in August 2007. The two-part series will be titled "Deadly Serious". In addition, Lobo is set to fight the Teen Titans and Blue Beetle in their respective titles in order to capture Blue Beetle for the Reach. CrossOver (before version 6. ... Teen Titans redirects here. ... Jaime Reyes is a fictional comic book superhero from DC Comics, a Hispanic teenager who became the third person to take up the identity of the superhero Blue Beetle. ...


Powers and abilities

Lobo possesses a variety of superhuman attributes, though it isn't known if his powers are common for his race or if his circumstances are unique.


Lobo possesses superhuman strength of undefined limits. His strength, much like his other powers, varies greatly depending upon different artistic interpretations of 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 par with 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. Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ...


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 he 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.[1] 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, however, was removed by Vril Dox, during Lobo's time with L.E.G.I.O.N. A healing factor is a term used to describe the ability of some characters in fiction to recover from bodily injuries or disease at a superhuman rate. ... Vril Dox II of the planet Colu is a DC Comics character. ...


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.


Lobo is a formidable combatant with expertise in multiple forms of armed and unarmed combat. His favorite weapon is a large chain he keeps wrapped around his right wrist with a large gutting hook connected at the end, which he typically uses in hand to hand combat. At times, he also uses high-grade explosives and advanced firearms.


Despite his violent and loutish nature, Lobo has a genius level intellect. Lobo can create complex virulent agents and the necessary antidotes to them such as the one he let loose on Czarnia, resulting in the deaths of the entire population in the span of one week.


Other versions

Bimbo

In his mini-series "Lobo's Back", Lobo is killed and reincarnated--first as a woman, then as a squirrel. Lobo calls herself "Bimbo" when he is reincarnated as a woman.


Li'l Lobo

In 2000, a magical accident transforms Lobo into a teenager. In this state, he joins Young Justice and eventually accompanies them to Apokolips, where he is killed in combat. However, the aforementioned magical accident has restored his ability to grow clones from a single drop of blood, and millions of Lobos rush into battle against Apokoliptian soldiers, whom the Lobos quickly defeat. The Lobos then turn on each other, until only one is left; in the process, the surviving Lobo regrows to adulthood. His time as a member of Young Justice becomes a distant memory. An additional teenage Lobo remained, however, having hidden from the fight; he rejoins Young Justice and chooses to rename himself Slo-bo. Eventually, this clone begins to degrade, becoming blind, and degenerating to the brink of death. Before he can die, however, Darkseid teleports him to the headquarters of Young Justice One Million in the 853rd Century, turning him into a statue (but fully conscious and aware) in the process. “Young Men” redirects here. ... Young Justice was a DC Comics superhero team consisting of teenaged heroes. ... In the DC Comics fictional shared Universe, Apokolips was the planet ruled by Darkseid, established in Jack Kirbys Fourth World series. ... Darkseid is a fictional comic book supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. ... DC One Million was a crossover event published by DC Comics in 1998. ...


Ultimate Bastich

In the two-part Lobo vs The Mask crossover, Lobo is hired for the sum of one billion credits by a council of survivors of several devastated planets to track down the individual responsible. His trail leads to Earth, where Lobo encounters the current wearer of an ancient mask. The resulting battle destroys Manhattan and leaves Lobo as nothing but a severed head, waiting for his body to re-grow. Big Head, convincing Lobo he wants the previous mask wearer, agrees to a team-up to hunt the "Ultimate Bastich" down. Big Head leads Lobo on a chase to nowhere, killing even more and blowing up a solar system in the process. Fed up with Big Head, Lobo uses a special "guilt grenade" to force the wearer to remove the mask so that he can use it himself. Lobo promptly kills an entire intergalactic bar full of aliens, and is sucked into a wormhole on his ride through space. Landing in parts unknown, Lobo/Mask heads to a single planet where, crashing the 400th annual Feel Good Games, he insults a king, and proceeds to kill numerous people. A crayon drawing left on his bike with the words "YOU SMELL" incurs his wrath, and he destroys numerous planets hunting down the one who drew the insulting picture. Waking up one day, Lobo finds himself back on Earth, and realizes the mask used him. Tossing it away, he proceeds to leave only to pass himself arriving on Earth- as it turns out, the wormhole sent him back in time roughly one month. He had been hired to hunt himself, and the alley where he dumped the mask was the same alley where the pickpocket would find it in part 1. However, Lobo breaks the time loop, literally turning himself in as he shaves the other Lobo's head and paints him green for the reward money. Meanwhile, Big Head, realizing that Lobo has broken the loop, decides to have fun of its own on Earth.


Lobo the Duck

Lobo the Duck is an incarnation of Lobo and Marvel Comics' Howard the Duck in the Amalgam Comics company crossovers. The big arm is derived from Lobo's alternative self, Bimbo, of Lobo's Back #2. He fights characters of DC and Marvel combinations such as the Kidnoids, and Ambush the Lunatik. His friends include Impossible Dawg and Doctor Strangefate. Lobo the Duck is a fictional character and Amalgam Comics superhero. ... This article is about the comic book company. ... This article is about the character and comic book series. ... Amalgam Comics was a metafictional American comic book publisher, and part of a collaboration between Marvel Comics and DC Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters to create new ones (e. ... Doctor Strangefate is an Amalgam Comics superhero who debuted in Doctor Strangefate #1, but his metafictional debut in Amalgam Comics continuity was Tales of Strangefate #1. ...


Other media

Television

Lobo as he appears on Superman: The Animated Series.
  • Lobo first appears on the small screen in Superman: The Animated Series. In the episode "The Main Man", Lobo (voiced by Brad Garrett) has been hired by an alien named the "Preserver" to capture Superman and add him to the Preserver's collection of rare and endangered species. Lobo headed straight for Earth and started firing his weapons in the middle of a police station until Superman arrives to confront him, earning the nickname "the Big Blue Babysitter" from Lobo for Superman's constant saving of bystanders from the crossfire. The two battle all over downtown Metropolis. Unable to gain an advantage, Lobo leaves Earth to "take five."
  • Superman follows Lobo into space, where Lobo lures Superman into a trap set by the Preserver. Superman is captured and placed in a specialized cage, so that the Preserver might preserve Superman as the last remnant of the Kryptonian race. However, the Preserver then decides to add Lobo to his collection as well, since Lobo was also technically the last of his own race, though due to his own actions rather than misfortune (Lobo nonchalantly tells Superman the fate of his race: "I blew up my home planet as a High School science project. Gave myself an "A.""). Superman and Lobo eventually join forces to escape the Preserver and another group of bounty hunters who had been pursuing Lobo to reclaim a prisoner. In return, Lobo promises to leave Earth alone.
  • Lobo also briefly appears in another Superman: The Animated Series episode in which Maxima falls in love with Superman.
  • Lobo eventually returns to Earth, however, in the Justice League episode "Hereafter." Believing that Superman has died, Lobo wants to join the Justice League, insisting that only he could take Superman's place. Lobo seems motivated more out of ego and a chance "to bust heads" than any actual desire to do good or help others. In spite of his obvious violent tendencies and his lack of any redeeming moral virtues, the League allow Lobo to help them for a short time while they deal with a large number of supervillains running amok in Metropolis in response to Superman's apparent death. Lobo battles and defeats the supervillain Kalibak, primarily by piling more & more cars on top of him until he says "Uncle". In the end, Superman returns to the ranks of the League, and Lobo, his membership rejected, is forced to leave. Lobo has not reappeared since the League rejected him. Brad Garrett reprises his voice role.
  • As in the comics, Lobo possesses exceptional strength and durability, as well as his usual over-the-top arsenal of weapons. However, he never displays any of the healing powers or advanced senses that he possesses in the comics, although he also never sustains injuries as severe as he does in the comics, likely due to differences in television standards and practices.
  • Lobo's gutting hook is never shown during any of the character's appearances. However, he does briefly utilize a steel chain in the second part of the Superman: The Animated Series episode "The Main Man".
  • In 1999, Batman: The Animated Series writer Boyd Kirkland developed a new Lobo series for Kids' WB with artist Steven Gordon. The series never went into production, as the network passed on it in a last-minute schedule announcement that year, to the surprise of the production team.
  • Lobo makes a cameo appearance in the Legion of Super Heroes episode "Legacy".

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Film

Andrew Bryniarski as "Lobo" in the AFI student film The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special.
  • In 2002, Scott Leberecht directed a film adaptation of The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special as part of the American Film Institute's director's studies program. Andrew Bryniarski stars as Lobo, with Tom Gibis as the Easter Bunny and Michael V. Allen as Santa Claus. The film was made with a budget of $2,400, although many professionals donated time and effort. It premiered at the AFI in May 2002. [2]

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Video Games

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Merchandise

  • Lobo has only had a few bits of merchandise released, most by DC Direct. The first was a 12" Vinyl figure sold at the WB Stores.The second was a plush Lobo doll. The third was a 6" scale action figure which came with a hook and chain, Dawg, his bike and a spare set of hands to hold the handlebars. The fourth, part of the Reactivated line, is the 6" scale action figure with a new head sculpt and paint job, with a new chain, no Dawg, no bike, and no extra hands.

References

  1. ^ 52 vol.1 #20
  • The Grand Comics Database
  • Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards

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