Stagg Enterprises

Stagg Enterprises is a business that features in DC Comics.

History

Origin

Stagg Enterprises

Post-Flashpoint

Stagg Industries was noted to had acquired Terrifitech when Michael Holt was out in the Multiverse with Stagg stated to had been done this legally. (The Terrifics v1 #1)

Simon Stagg used Holt's technology in an attempt to open a doorway to the Dark Multiverse by using Metamorpho but once the breach was opened he was unable to close it until Mr. Terrific arrived on the scene. (The Terrifics v1 #1)

Overview

Creations of the company included:

• Bio-Facsimile Mechanism : (The Terrifics Annual v1 #1)

Members

• Simon Stagg :
• Java :
• Kurt Vornak :
• Niti Autade : (The Terrifics Annual v1 #1)

Notes

• Stagg Enterprises was created by Bob Haney and Ramona Fradon where it made its first appearance in Brave and the Bold v1 #58 (March, 1965).

Alternate Versions

• In Batman: Arkham Knight v1 #8 (2015), an alternate version of Stagg Industries was shown set in the Arkhamverse. It was shown that its owner Simon Stagg was using the company's resources to help in the rebuilding of Gotham City in the wake of the Arkham City incident. Among their secret research was Project: Meta that involved using a living test subject that was bonded with a piece of Clayface and empowered with radiation from a relic in Egypt thus creating the Metamorph.

In other media

Television

• In Justice League, Stagg Industries appeared in the setting of the animated television series starting in the episode "Metamorphosis". Simon Stagg was involved in a research project to create a chemically altered worker named Metamorpho able to survive in hazardous environments and thrive in them. Stagg intended to market this creation to companies facing problems with workers in dangerous environmental conditions but they refused to accept his pitch unless they saw a demonstration of the projects success. Java was tasked with bringing in the mutagen compound samples as the project was vital otherwise the company would become bankrupt.
• In Beware the Batman, Stagg Industries appeared in the setting of the animated television series starting in the episode "Toxic". It was a company headed by Simon Stagg who looked to create an elemental soldier for battle that could survive in any condition with this being part of Project Metamorpho that had found ways to weaponise genetic tissue. Stagg-branded Metamorpho's were able to manipulate these elements and turn them against the attacker.
• In the Arrowverse, Stagg Industries made multiple appearances in the shared continuity setting:
  • In Arrow, Stagg Industries was referenced in the live-action television series in the episode "Legacies".
  • In The Flash, Stagg Industries appeared in the live-action television series in the episode "Fastest Man Alive". Its CEO was Simon Stagg who managed the technology company that became fascinated in the emergence of superpowered Metahumans.
• In Young Justice, Stagg Industries appeared in the animated television series starting in the episode "Triptych". It was a company headed by its CEO Simon Stagg who was the majority shareholder and whose operations began to grow in the wake of the rise of Metahumans on the planet. Through its front company Branchwater Security, it created a meta-crime covert operations unit that was engaged in corporate espionage and warfare with it possessing three links in its supply chain that were acquisition, coercion and utilization. This saw agents such as Sportsmaster being tasked with freeing supervillains who were then injected with mind-controlling nanobots from the Mad Hatter whereupon they were outfitted to engage in operations on behalf of Branchwater. These activities were discovered by the forces of Batman Incorporated who shutdown the activities of Branchwater whereupon Oracle exposed the activities of Stagg to the public lead got Simon Stagg's arrest.

Video games

• In DC Universe Online, Stagg Industries appeared in the setting of the MMORPG video game. It was shown to operate gas stations in Gotham known as Stagg Stops with products of the company shown included Stagg Stop Maps and the Staggberry Phone.
• In Batman: Arkham City, Stagg Enterprises appeared in the setting of the video game set in the Arkhamverse. It was a pharmaceutical company that was headed by its CEO Simon Stagg. They were the developments of Nimbus Generators that were part of Cloudburst that had been designed to quickly spread cures for diseases in heavily infected areas through inhalation.

Appearances

• Brave and the Bold v1:
• Outsiders v1:
• Metamorpho v1:
• The Terrifics v1:
• The Terrifics Annual v1:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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