Ambush Bug
Ambush Bug is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Ambush Bug
Irwin Schwab was abandoned by his parents and raised by an Admiral solid-state television set. His upbringing resulted in an awkward, insane, and possibly brain-damaged man. On the planet Schwab, Brum-El received a chain letter that threatened planetary destruction if he broke the chain. he threw away the letter, not heeding the past example of Jor-El, who doomed his planet Krypton in the same way. Schwab was destroyed, but Brum-El sent out a rocket ship into space to save his wardrobe. The ship was bitten by a radioactive space spider, imbuing the clothes with extraordinary powers. the ship crashed into Irwin Schwab's apartment, and he discovered the last undamaged suit, which gave him teleportation powers. He became the Ambush Bug, and was determined to make his mark. (Action Comics v1 #563)
Ambush Bug decided to be a bad guy, and knew he better start doing bad things. He utilized mechanical insects to teleport to Metropolis during a parade, pushing DA Syms off a building, killing him. Ambush Bug mugged for the camera before Doom Patrol member Negative Woman, whose powers were out of control, started destroying the parade. Superman responded, as did the Doom Patrol, and Ambush Bug tried to incite them to fight before teleporting away. Superman was suspicious of a Doom Patrol he never met, but Robotman vouched for his new teammates, and they asked him for help containing Negative Woman. Ambush Bug kept interfering, attacking them before teleporting away. He admired Negative Woman's path of destruction, and said he was in love. Superman realized he was using mechanical insects to teleport, and destroyed all of them. Ambush Bug dared Robotman to hit him, and failing to teleport away, he was knocked out. Ambush Bug waited in his jail cell until one of his remaining insects flew outside his window to free him. (DC Comics Presents v1 #52)
Ambush Bug was among the number of heroes teleported to the Monitor’s satellite by Alexander Luthor, Jr., who explained his plan to make sure reality survived the Crisis. Ambush Bug ignored Luthor and bounced around the room. (Swamp Thing v2 #46)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Ambush Bug is an avid comics reader, however he just reads the captions and balloons and skips over the pictures. (Amazing Heroes v1 #68)
Powers and abilities
Despite all of this, Ambush Bug is simply a skinny man in the costume and can be defeated with surprising ease by more ridiculous characters. Serious foes, like Batman or Superman, have great difficulty dealing with him, but other lunatics can deal with him easily.
Notes
- Ambush Bug was created by Keith Giffen where he made his first appearance in DC Comics Presents v1 #52 (December, 1982).
Alternate Versions
- In Kingdom Come v1 #2 (1996), an alternate version of Ambush Bug appeared in the Kingdom Come reality that was designated as Earth-22 in the Multiverse.
- In Tangent Comics: Wonder Woman v1 #1 (1998), an alternate version of Ambush Bug appeared in the Tangent Comics reality that was designated as Earth-9 in the Multiverse.
- In Ambush Bug: Year None v1 #5 (2009), an alternate version of Ambush Bug appeared in a reality that was designated as the Earth-3 in the restored Multiverse.
- In Flashpoint: The Canterbury Cricket v1 #1 (2011), an alternate version of the name appeared in the Flashpoint timeline that existed in a world in the Multiverse. The Ambush Bugs were a superpowered team of resistance fighters that attempted to repel the Amazons from taking over England. Its members included the Canterbury Cricket, Blue Beetle, Cockroach, Firefly, and Queen Bee. All of them except the Canterbury Cricket were killed by the Amazons.
In other media
Television
Video games
- In DC Universe Online, Ambush Bug appeared in the setting of the MMORPG video game. Before Brainiac's attack on Earth, Ambush Bug discovered a location known as 'The Vault' which contained numerous prizes- some useful and powerful, others worthless. When Brainiac's Exobytes were released on the Earth by the Future Lex Luthor, Ambush Bug quickly began to spread the news of this Vault to the new super heroes and villains whenever he could contact them- awarding them tickets to enter the Vault at least once every week. He can be found in numerous places, having no purpose in most locations as an NPC once he contacts players about the Vault. He can be found in both the JLA Watchtower and the Hall of Doom, he may randomly spawn in the beginning mission of the game to deliver a single line of dialogue before teleporting away, and he appears hidden somewhere in every Duo mission in the game. Finding him in each Duo awards hero players the "Debugging Duos" feat, while doing the same as a villain unlocks the "Quit Bugging Me" feat. He also appears in Doomed Metropolis in The Death of Superman episode, where he directs players to collect a number of comic books for a reward.
- In Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Ambush Bug appeared in the setting of the Lego video game. He was attacked by mutant bugs on Nok but the player defeated them. Later he took ownership of a few of them and lost them so the player found them for him. He was later seen trying to guard mutant bugs on Odym from Giganta and failed.
Appearances
- DC Comics Presents v1: (1982)
- Action Comics v1:
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