First off, the guy's name is Metalhead. I think we can all agree that is stupid.
Second, Metalhead is called Metalhead because he wears a ski mask with nails sticking out of it. I gotta hand it to the guy, at least he's budget conscious. His whole outfit probably cost less than Slipknot's, and that is saying something.
Third, he has a spiky pony tail attached to his black ski mask that he whips people with. For some reason, that would seem cool in an old Shaw Bros kung fu movie, yet here it just seems lame.
Batman #486 features several scenes where Metalhead goes into sleazy underworld bars and whips people with his pony tail. That will teach them from playing Kylie Monogue on the jukebox when Metalhead is around.
Do none of the crooks in Gotham City carry handguns? Because you know who could easily beat Metalhead? The rarely seen villain Man With Gun.
Oh... ohgod... My first comics as a kid were Knightfall--the Batman story. And Jean-Paul Valley originally had a costume similar to this which Robin speculates is the reason Jean-Paul went crazy. Robin says he designed the costume similar to a villain they recently fought.
ReplyDeleteAfter all these years--all these comics, I know whom he was referring to. Everything suddenly seems soiled.
There was also a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character named Metalhead, and he was a robot schizoid turtle.
ReplyDeleteThat's the frothiest beer I've ever seen. In fact it can't be a beer, it's probably a pint of coke with a mento in it.
ReplyDeletemaybe it's a root beer float?
ReplyDeletei like one-off villians. i think my favorite is Mr. Mxyzptlk (oh, wait ... )
ReplyDeleteYou know what that ponytail is awesome for? Headbangin' at Megadeth concerts. Just don't get near that dude in the moshpit.
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He's lame, sure, but imagine the tie-in/crossover potential.
ReplyDelete"Metalhead Versus Motorhead: For All the Rocking!"
Lemmy would totally kick this guy's ass.
You know what would make Metalhead cooler? Umlauts. He needs umlauts over every vowel in his name.
But you have to admit, that first panel is awesome. It looks a bit like a Romita Jr./Williamson Daredevil panel.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a credit to Aparo that he made this look cool for one panel.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the barbed wire ponytail would even kill someone. It'd get stuck in your skin. It'd freak you out, but you'd have plenty of time to go for your gun.
Krod: that was essentially what I was going to say!
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, Metalhead in the context of Knightfall: I hate when learning things about the past makes things worse.
Wow, that is some well-deserved obscurity that you plucked that guy from. His head looks like a sea urchin. His origin was probably that he was psychologically traumatized by having to wear that orthodontic headgear in high school. Now he wages a one-man war against people who make fun of people wearing metal on their faces, and the dental profession.
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S MISTRESS METALHEAD WORM!!!
ReplyDeleteTASTE MY PONYTAIL OF PAIN!!! Your safety word is kumquat.
Whedon is probably looking at that panel thinking OMG that guy is so kewl.
It's ironic that he hates comedians--I'd have thought it took a sense of humor just to wear that costume.
ReplyDeleteI think Man With Gun would be overkill. Even the much-weaker Man With Scissors could render Metalhead helpless with one strike of his twin-bladed sharpicity.
ReplyDeleteThat head-whipping thing is really only cool when chicks do it, anyway--unless of course there's rocking involved.
Assuming that the ponytail is actually somehow dangerous/effective... Doesn't it seem like the person it'd be most dangerous to is Metalhead himself?
ReplyDeleteHe gets the costume on, and prepares to go out and terrorize a bar full of comedians. There's some movement in the corner of his eye. Perhaps a rat scurrying past. He turns to look. The ponytail whips around, slicing into his arm.
He sits down to bandage the wound. Distracted by the pain, he momentarily forgets about the ponytail itself... until he leans back in the chair and it digs into his flesh.
He jumps up, but the same action has caused the ponytail to lodge itself in the wood of the chair. He trips, and the chair falls on top of him, pushing the ponytail into his back once more.
He disentangles himself. Now he must seek additional medical attention, or at least someone who can reach the wounds on his back. Stumbling out the door, he is stopped when - *yank!* the swinging ponytail lodges itself in the doorframe...
This woman (probable codename: Metalbutt) apparently shops at the same store. But it looks a lot better on her.
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ReplyDeleteMetalhead has long since faded into the mists of comic book obscurity
ReplyDeleteYou clearly haven't been reading Thunderbolts then.
There's no concept bad enough that the House of Ideas won't appropriate it!
Metalhead's Marvel equivalent was The Grinder, a villain who fought Spider-Woman... once.
ReplyDeleteHe had a buzzsaw attached to the top of his head.
This was around, oh, 1979 or so? But it was so awful that I still remember it.
Anyway, nice to see you back, Dave.
Doug M.
Metalhead is also the name of two separate GI Joe villians, one of whom had a rocket pack that shot umm... rockets out of. Alas his head itself was not actually metal.
ReplyDelete"Do none of the crooks in Gotham City carry handguns? Because you know who could easily beat Metalhead? The rarely seen villain Man With Gun."
ReplyDeleteActually the Batman villian Man With Gun is seen quite often in the stories but usually in just flashbacks where he is referred to as "Joe Chill."
Metalhead was also one of the X-Men 2099. He was big and he was made of metal. Nothing like Colossus, no sir. His real name was Trevor von Beethoven, a much cooler name to go by than "Metalhead".
ReplyDeleteOh man, that character design looks like something from my grade 1 colouring book.
ReplyDeleteHeh. "Metalhead" sounds like what the Vision used to get from the Scarlet Witch.
ReplyDelete"You clearly haven't been reading Thunderbolts then"
ReplyDeleteDang it, I've been beat to the Penance gag.
Wasn't this the dude who started Bruce Wayne his long road to Total Mental Breakdown-ville?
Wasn't this the dude who started Bruce Wayne his long road to Total Mental Breakdown-ville?
ReplyDeleteIf it took him longer than about 30 seconds to beat this joker, while eating a sandwich (to steal from Dave's Signalman writeup), I can see why Bruce might start having a mental breakdown. I mean, I could seriously beat the crap out of Metalhead with just a rake, and I'm just a normal human with no powers. Even Tweedledum or Tweedledee would kick his ass.
Word verification: vvrxkc --the sound of a spiky ponytail meeting an electric cane. Closely followed by the sound of a body hitting the floor and convulsing repeatedly, like a sea bass in the bottom of a boat.
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