Sam Scudder
Sam Scudder is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Samuel Joseph Scudder was a male human who was born in the modern age on Earth.
He came upon the existence of Mirror World but never explored it as he deemed it too dangerous but ultimately looked to access that dimension in a bid to escape jail. Tipping the prison barber, he used a mirror at set angles to transport himself into the mirror dimension. Once there, he explored the landscape and came upon the native inhabitants who were a primitive race of telepathic women called the Orinocas who initially wanted to kill him. However, they came to be fascinated by his use of mirrors as they had seen no such object in their world before and asked him to build such items for their use. Scudder complied and in exchange the Orinocas provided for all his needs which included remaking his Mirror Master costume. Despite having everything, Scudder came to be bored of this existence as he could commit no crimes as the people of Orinocas City provided for all his needs. In desperation, he decided to trick the Flash into coming to the Mirror World so that he could take Scudder back to Earth. Using a mirror image, he had the Flash follow his duplicate into the mirror dimension where the Scarlet Speedster managed to evade the Orinocas to capture Scudder whereupon he vibrated their molecules at superspeed to return them to the Earth. At the Central City Army Reserve, the Mirror Master sprung his trap on the Flash where he used a device to convert his foe into a mirror state and intended to shatter him. However, the hero vibrated his molecules to change his states back to a 3 dimensional form whereupon he knocked out Scudder thus leading to the Mirror Master's arrest. (The Flash v1 #126)
He later continued his search of a legendary mirror that he had heard of and pursued for many years. On this occasion, he was successful in finding his prize and had to smuggle it back to the United States. The unique relic led to him performing hundreds of experiments on it when he discovered a beautiful blonde haired figure within it. He came to learn that the figure was a woman named Narcissa where he learnt that she was an Atlantean trapped within Mirror-Limbo. She was a scientist from before the sinking of Atlantis who long ago heeded the warnings about the destruction of the city. Narcissa decided to save herself using her Unified-Field Flux Generators to flee into a strange dimension within a mirror that was ancient even in her age. She had intended to emerge once the destruction had passed but so great was the cataclysm that her equipment designed to free her from the mirror was also destroyed thus leading to her being trapped for eons. At first, Scudder saw it as a challenge to free her but he eventually fell in love with the Atlantean woman and looked to be with her in the real world. However, his equipment could not undo the feat achieved by Atlantean super-science. The lovers were thus separated until Scudder hatched on a plan to use his old enemy the Flash to free Narcissa by taking her place in Mirror-Limbo. As the Mirror Master, he struck at the new club named Reflections in order to draw the hero's attention and conducted numerous other crimes with the intention of the Flash to chase him through mirrors. This was to have him rush into the legendary mirror and thus take Narcissa's place but the hero felt that this was a trap where he shattered it instead but was unaware of the woman trapped inside. A despondent Mirror Master looked at the shattered pieces of the mirror where he wept for the loss of his love who was gone forever. (The Flash v1 #306)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
At some point, he began to date Cold's sister the Golden Glider where she was part of the Rogues. A year and a half ago, their group were involved in a heist that was thwarted by the Flash but Scudder managed to rescue his team mates. At their lair, he blamed the Trickster Axel Walker for failing as lookout on the job. In anger, the gang of crooks began to fight amongst themselves but Captain Cold came to them after being approached by a benefactor who offered to use a genome recoder on them to give them superpowers. During the process, an explosion occurred that bonded the Rogues with their equipment leading to Mirror Master being trapped in Mirror World whilst Golden Glider was left in a coma. (The Flash Annual v4 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He considered himself a thief and that he needed to practice his profession. This went to the extent that he felt troubled over not committing any crimes and theft over a period of time. (The Flash v1 #126)
Such was his confidence in himself that he felt he was extraordinary due to his knowledge of mirrors and that ending up in jail was a fate for ordinary criminals. (The Flash v1 #126)
Powers and abilities
Another device he used as a machine that could convert a person into a living mirror allowing him to shatter them into a thousand pieces. (The Flash v1 #126)
He came upon an amazing discovery namely that there was another world that he called Mirror World located inside mirrors with this being a kind of fourth dimension accessible only through a mirror surface. (The Flash v1 #126)
Though seemingly uninhabited, Mirror World was once shown to had been inhabited by a primitive race of all women warriors called the Orinocas. (The Flash v1 #126)
For a time, he came to possess superhuman powers after his mirror gun was merged with himself by using a genome recoder. (The Flash Annual v4 #1)
Notes
- The Sam Scudder Mirror Master was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino where he made his first appearance in The Flash v1 #105 (March, 1959).
Alternate Versions
- In Future State: Suicide Squad v1 #1 (2021), an alternate version of Sam Scudder was shown in the possible timeline of Future State. He was shown to had joined an incarnation of Task Force X's Suicide Squad where he was on a team headed by Peacemaker. They travelled to Earth-3 on a mission to find and retrieve Amanda Waller who was looking to seal that world from the rest of the Multiverse. The Suicide Squad then came into conflict with Waller's Justice Squad where Mirror Master was killed during the mission.
In other media
Television
- In The Flash, the Sam Scudder Mirror Master appeared in the 1990 live-action television series where he was portrayed by actor David Cassidy.
Films
- In Justice League: Doom, the Sam Scudder Mirror Master appeared in the setting of the animated film where he was once again voiced by actor Alexis Denisof.
Appearances
- The Flash v1: (1959)
- The Flash v4:
- The Flash Annual v4:
- The Flash v5:
- Future State: Suicide Squad v1: (2021)
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