Hybrid (DC)
The Hybrid are a team that features in DC Comics.
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History
The Hybrid were a team of supervillains that were created by Mento. Their origins were traced to Dayton after he had become mentally unbalanced following the death of his love Elasti-Girl and the Doom Patrol. Suffering from a mental illness, the crippled Dayton saw himself falling into the same role as Niles Caulder and wanted to make his own version of the Doom Patrol. Thus, he used his riches to engineer incidents whereby individuals were transformed and given superpowers that he chose to become a team known as the Hybrid. (New Teen Titans v2 #24)
Gathering people who had suffered bizarre accidents, Mento experimented on them with the artificial compound Promethium where he was responsible for turning many of them into superhuman freaks. Under Mento's influence, the Hybrid was set to fight the New Teen Titans in order to kill Mento's adopted son the Changeling, a fellow surviving Patroller whom Mento blamed for the death of the original team. Eventually dissuaded after several conflicts, they left Mento to fight alone. After his defeat at the hands of Raven, the Hybrid took him with them as they harbored at his estate. (New Teen Titans v2 #24)
The Hybrid was briefly seen much later, where they are shown still living on the Dayton estate. Harpi mopes about having to isolate themselves from normal society. (New Teen Titans v2 #87)
Several of their members were noted to had been taken to Roulette's underground Metahuman fighting arena known as the House. (JSA v1 #28)
Overview
In appearance, the Hybrid were a team of superpowered individuals all of whom went through unusual events that gave them their abilities. Some regarded them as freaks with Dayton commenting that this was a similar experience to the Doom Patrol. (New Teen Titans v2 #24)
Members
- Pteradon :
- Gorgon :
- Harpi :
- Behemoth :
- Scirocco :
- Prometheus : Curt Calhoun was the shop foreman of the metallurgy lab at Kord Omniversal Research and Development Inc. and a former henchman of Doctor Alchemy. Curt Calhoun was covered in a molten alloy of titanium and vanadium laced with Promethium when he pushed his employer Ted Kord out of the way of an industrial accident. Taken to the hospital, Calhoun's ambulance was intercepted by members of the Hybrid. While the Blue Beetle was fighting them, Mento transformed the molten metal, covering Calhoun with a permanent metallic shell. As an easy-going Texan, Prometheus did not wish to fight the Titans, but did so under Mento's duress. Aside from the invulnerability that his "skin" provided him, he possessed great super-strength and was capable of raising the temperature of his armored form to several hundred degrees Celsius, which was easily capable of melting most other metals.
- Touch-N-Go :
Notes
- The Hybrid were created by Marv Wolfman and Eduardo Barreto where they made their first appearance in New Teen Titans v2 #24 (October, 1986).
Appearances
- New Teen Titans v2: (1986)
- JSA v1:
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