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Rogues gallery is a police collection of pictures of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. For example, "The detective went through the entire rogues gallery but couldn't find a match with the suspect." [Mid-1800s]
In 1850 Allan Pinkerton founded The Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Pinkerton devised the “Rouges’ Gallery”—a compilation of descriptions, methods of operation, hiding places, and names of criminals and their associates.
Inspector Thomas Byrnes of the late 19th century New York Police Department popularized the term with his collection of photographs of known criminals, which was used for witness identification. Byrnes published some of these photos with details of the criminals in Professional Criminals of America (1886). Inspector Thomas Byrnes Inspector Thomas F. Byrnes (1842-1910) was born in Dublin, Ireland and emigrated to New York as a child. ...
The criminal gang Rogues gallery from Lahti, Finland alludes to this with the name. Location within Finland Lahti (Lahtis in Swedish) is a Finnish city of 100,049 inhabitants (2006), bordering the Vesijärvi lake. ...
Rogues Gallery was also the name of an old-time radio program that aired in the 1940s. Before television, radio was the dominant home entertainment medium. ...
An album was released in 2006 as a tie-in with the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl under the name of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys. Unusually it did not consist of "Songs from and inspired by the film" but was a project collecting recordings of old sea shanties by modern artists. The project was overseen by Hal Wilner.
In comic books Rogues gallery is also a term in comics referring to a specific hero or superhero's recurring and most notable enemies, as opposed to nameless thugs and goons. Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ...
For other uses, see Hero (disambiguation). ...
Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ...
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Contenders for being in a comic hero's rogues gallery usually require some degree of obsession or at least a general overarching method and theme to their villainy, particularly mirroring the hero (a colorful costume, quirky personality, unusual weaponry, superpowers, etc.). Rogues do not necessarily have superpowers, but are usually at a power level roughly equal or near that of the title hero. Power level may mean a number of different things: In physics and engineering, it may refer to the energy output or availability of a number of different devices, from electrical generators to engines of various sorts. ...
Well-known comic book rogues galleries Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...
Alex Ross Jokers Reckoning. ...
Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture. ...
The comic strip Dick Tracy has introduced numerous characters: // Dick Tracy - The title character of the strip. ...
This article is about the DC Comics character. ...
Prominent members of the Monster Society of Evil, which at various times included many of Captain Marvel and the Marvel Familys enemies. ...
The Flash. ...
This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of The Flash. ...
Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ...
Cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #500, featuring Spider-Mans wife, Mary Jane Watson-Parker, and many of his antagonists. ...
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. ...
Several of Supermans foes Superman has a large rogues gallery of supervillain enemies, including his most well-known enemy, Lex Luthor, who has been envisioned over the years in various forms as either a rogue scientific genius with a personal vendetta against Superman, or a powerful but corrupt CEO...
Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. ...
This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of Wonder Woman. ...
The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ...
This is a list of X-Men villains. ...
For the DJ, see DJ Green Lantern. ...
This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of the Green Lantern. ...
See also Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypal supervillains and his arch-enemies The Fantastic Four (in background). ...
A supervillainess is a female supervillain. ...
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They LAUGHED at my theories at the institute! Fools! Ill destroy them all! Caucasian, male, aging, crooked teeth, messy hair, lab coat, spectacles/goggles, dramatic posing — one popular stereotype of mad scientist. ...
Further Reading - Ohmart, Ben. It's That Time Again. (2002) (Albany: BearManor Media) ISBN 0-9714570-2-6
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