10 Things DC Fans Need To Know About Plastic Man

5. Injustice's Plastic Man

The introduction of Plastic Man to the Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel series saw the character as a legitimate threat to the Superman regime (despite his generally relaxed demeanor).

Mostly this concern was due to Plastic Man’s ability to easily impersonate others, as well as his overall talent to go undetected by Superman and his allies. Batman himself is even fooled by Plastic Man’s disguises when he goes looking for him during the Injustice 2 comic book series.

Even still, Plastic Man doesn’t really have much of an incentive to rebel against Superman… at least not until his son, Luke, is imprisoned by Superman for insurgent activities. Motivated to do right by his son, Plastic Man manages to not only incapacitate the Flash to obtain information disguised as him but later infiltrate Superman’s underwater prison fortress.

There, he’s able to return imprisoned Green Lanterns their power rings, who proceed to cause complete and utter chaos as a distraction for him, so that he can rescue Luke. In the end, the prison is rendered entirely uninhabitable, after Plastic Man frees all the prisoners via a teleportation vortex.

A true example, really, of the lesson “you should never judge a book by its cover.”