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Damn. Bizzarro trying to commit suicide only to be too invulnerable to manage it is dark for such a goofy character.

Bizarro has always struck me as almost a metaphor for special needs. He's sweet and wants to do the right thing, but his simplistic understanding of the world can lead him to make mistakes. Others demonize those mistakes, interpreting him as a villain, but Superman always shows Bizarro kindness and compassion. As someone with a special needs younger brother, the character has always respnated with me a lot.

i love bizarro. he's not evil, just someone who doesn't quite grasp our reality despite attempting to emulate it as best as he could. he's trying, god damn it he's trying.

11:33 Bizarro's return always did kind of bug me, seeing as how he reached a pretty fair living end in STAS. From a citation I found in the Fandom wiki, Bruce Timm wrote on animesuperhero's message boards that the intent in JLU season 3 was that Bizarro's brain had been experimented on so that he'd be "more controllable," with the classic backwards talk as a side effect. The big scar he sported at this point was supposed to imply this.

Tim Daly's performance really helped bring the character nuance. I think George Newbern could definitely also have pulled off a great voice for the character if maybe Bizarro had more of a spotlight.

Bizarro will forever be sad, since he tries to be a hero but never achieves it, since he doesn't understand anything

I think the implication in the later appearances of Bizzaro, and why he was loyal to Luthor, is that Luthor performed some kind of brain surgery on him. This helped him understand the world around him better, but also caused the classic backwards speak that Bizzaro is generally known for. Note that this quirk didn't appear at all in the character UNTIL Luthor joined the Secret Society. There's also what appears to be a large scar on his forehead in a bunch of shots during the series (even a few you included in this video). That being said, it's entirely possible that this "scar" is just an animation error, because it randomly appears and disappears between scenes.

Actually Merry Shelly's monster, or Adam, was quite intelligent. And despite being a walking corpse that would make people gag at mere sight, because he had semi-transparent skin and yellowish hollow eyes, like a well preserved mummy, he quickly learned the world around him and learned by trial and error. Quickly, the monster was able to comprehend reading and even was able to do literary analysis of Paradise lost, where he would identify with the focus character of Satan.

I always like the detail that in the episode of JLU where Flash and Lex Luthor swap bodies, Bizarros the only member of the legion of doom who realises there's something off and raises his suspicions in a meeting by aksing Flash in Luthors body "am you bizarros mommy?", but none of the other villains take him seriously because he's bizarro.

Bizarro was never evil in my opinion. He was just misguided. I consider him to be an unofficial member of the Superman family. Someone who will help out in his own way when the situation is grim but for the most part, is left alone to do his own thing, just as long as no one is hurt. I hate the fact that the writers of JLU brought back Bizarro but had Lex and Grodd lobotimise him in order to make him their slave. If any villain in the dcau Superman rogues gallery deserve a happy ending it is Bizarro.

Superman TAS version of Bizzaro is honestly the most sad version for me. Like every version of him is sad, but his character in the series is especially sad. We see how Luthor created Bizzaro by cloning Clark and programming memories for him. Bizzaro basically was Superman just duplicated and we see how confused he is when seeing the real Superman. Then his mind slowly starts to deteriorate and his makeup comes off which confuses him even more. Imagine just living another day as yourself, then one day your body starts falling apart and you find out you’re not actually you, you’re a clone. Bizzaro even has a mental breakdown when Mercy calls him “Bizzaro” and not Superman which was so heartbreaking especially when he starts ranting “BIZZARO?! THAT NOT MY NAME!!” He never really struck me as a villain, just a damaged victim who was always easily manipulated. He wants to be a hero and to help people, but everything he does just hurts people because his mind is so damaged. It’s honestly sad how often he’s so easily manipulated by people who wish to use him, due to his lack of intelligence and understanding. Because of this one day he’ll consider Superman his friend, and the next day someone will easily trick him into thinking Superman is his enemy. He does have moments of self-awareness with the fact that he is flawed version of Superman, particularly when he sees Superman saving Lois. He realizes he’s not actually Superman which is one of the hardest things to watch with him saying “Me no am Superman, you am Superman. Superman save Lois.” But I was glad to see Lois acknowledge his selflessness and tell him “You are a hero” which puts a smile on his face. I’m just glad Clark seems to always treat him with kindness and understanding knowing it’s not his fault that he’s the way he is. He truly is perfectly Imperfect and deep down all he wants to do is help and be a hero, because once again he is Clark Kent just with a damaged mind.

Two sequences that always stuck out to me "You save Lois. Me no am Superman. You am Superman." "You are a hero." "You think he survived?" "I hope so. He had a good heart." "Of course, he came from good stock."

I've always thought Bizzaro was super underrated and super underutilized in a narrative sense. I wish he was in more stuff with a bigger role. That comic run with Bizzaro, Jason Todd, and... the girl whose name I forget was something I wish I had the money to spend on.

Considering cloning was practically perfected by the time of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited as shown with Galatea Im shocked Lex didn’t give a Superman clone another go

Sometimes I feel like the Bizzaro version of what I could've been.

Have they ever had Bizzaro team up with Solomon Grundy? Because that's a great concept and is bound to be pretty funny, if chaoticly destructive.

Bizarro has always been one of my favorite Superman characters I hope he appears in a flim one day! 🤞🤞

People say superman is boring, but he's pretty unique compared to the neverending lineup of troubled antiheroes. At his best, he's a good man who tries very hard to believe in people. The RL bizarro is what happens when writers look at Superman and just go "oh yeah he's stronger than all the other heroes," and before you know it he's killing bystanders and doing Jesus metaphors.

I doubt it was intentional but I love the shade thrown at Homelander.

I like bizarro, he’s trying

IIRC after Lex took over the Legion of Doom, he gave every villain an upgrade (that also hid a sort of killswitch should they try to double cross Lex) Bizarro from that point on has a scar on his head, implying Lex messed with his brain. I like to think that it was a lobotomy but due to the backwards nature of Bizarro, he ended up getting smarter with less grey matter

I really wish the STAS had adapt Bizarro Lois and the other duplicates, since their presence not only gives Bizarro a happy ending but, when analyzed, Bizarro's had a better life than Superman at that point: He was married to Bizarro Lois and the two had a child while Clark and Lois weren't even married at that time; Bizarro lived on planet with his people while Superman, a kryptonian, live on Earth among humans; Unlike Superman, Bizarro didn't need a secret identity or to hide his powers from his people. In some ways, for someone who wanted to be accept like Superman, Bizarro end up getting the life that Superman always wanted.

The different interpretations of Bizzaro are great, either a alternate version of Superman, a twisted version of Superman or as a failed clone who's time was going to be cut short in different ways. I'm glad this Bizzaro was kinda given a redemption. Also in the brain swap of Lex and Flash in JLU, Bizzaro was the only one, outside of Grodd, to see that something was up with Luthor. I really like what they do with his character because he has a lot of utility.

i really hope the bizzaro we see in unlimited isnt the OG as poor lad went through alot he deserved a long break

Y'all remember when Bizarro made his own Bizarro-Earth? With Bizarro-versions of iconic DC characters?

There's a wound on Bizarro's forehead in JLU. I assumed they found him and operated on his mind, hence the reverse-speak and arbitrary hatred of Superman, who he was very friendly with before then.

Bizarro should have his own cartoon or movie

If I may suggest a video for the future, how about: General Zod: The Unseen Superman Villain (with the thumbnail saying "Unseen") By "unseen" I'm referring to the fact that he only appeared in the tie-in comics and in the show they had Jax-Ur as an (arguably less interesting) substitute due to rights issues, but he did appear in Superman Adventures. I'm not really a fan of Zod, I was just giving a suggestion for a video if you're interested.

Correction: the bestial version of Frankenstein is movie only. The monster of the book is erudite, eloquent, and some kind of genius autodidact.

Curiously, Bizarro was literally Superman in an alternate universe. In the Elseworld story "The Superman Monster", Lex Luthor finds the remains of baby Kal-El on a crashed ship in the 19th century, using his DNA to create a monstruos supermsn cslled Bizarro. There was a very furious tribute to the novel Frankenstein

Cool to see you start expanding beyond the batman part of the DC universe.

Perfect evolution, it makes sense to start seeing Superman and other DCAU villains in your videos. Can't wait to see more.

I kind of grew up on the Justice Friends Bizarro which painted him in a more negative light being from the Bizarro Universe. I really like this Bizarro instead, a more traigc child-like superman

Great video.👏🏻 I think that Tim Daly's voice work as Bizarro also helped make him a more sympathetic character on STAS. I'd definitely like to see you dive into some of the other Superman villains. I'm definitely looking forward to your video on Inque - one of the best Batman Beyond villains.

It feels like the thing Bizarro is missing is a teacher. He was given these false memories of Superman but not of Clark Kent. He knows how to be a savior but he doesn't really know how the world works. Let's be honest, if we were Superman and we saw a giant rock coming to collide with something that normally holds people we would stop it too, we wouldn't knos that they were delomishing a building. That small clip in the video of Bizarro rolling a boulder down the hill to smash his rock people could be him trying to sate that desire to help since that's all he knows. He could also just be extremely bored, the guy's stuck sith his pet and nothing else.

I always felt sorry for Bizzaro. I often wonder if he got his due after the JLU finale.

I thought that the suit degrading was due to the imperfect Bizarro dust being spread onto it as his "perfect" skin broke off. ...now I can't think of it as other than a flab of skin. Lovely.

Mary Shelly's original monster learned to be quite civilized, for example knew how to read and spoke sophisticatedly.

Can't say I ever thought much of Bizarro, at least as depicted in DCAU. He didn't strike me as having much to make him compelling to watch; being that his lessons were already heavily being covered by other sources.

Bizarro in JLU is shown that he has a weird line on his forehead that he didnt had it before, that kinda looks like a scar, and it brings me the theory that he got captured eventualy and Lex did something to his brain to make him more obidiant and speak oposite.

Here's another bit of info...Bizarro was originally created by Otto Binder who was the original Captain Marvel's main writer. He was hired by DC after DC successfully shut down Fawcett's superhero line. The character's charm feels like he would have been at home in Captain Marvel's world. The Superman line benefitted from Binder's imagination and whimsical approach.

For the skin costume thing of both warping at the same time, I took it as his body warping the sunlight it was absorbing, and as such messing up what was immediately in contact with him at the time, his clothes.

Let's not forget another famous character that was inspired by supes, Goku.

Actually had an idea regarding him He eventually tries to duplicate the people of Earth using some weird method and bring them to Bizarro World, but pretty much every duplicate is rational (though whenever they can do "backwards" things without hurting themselves, they do it- like selling "cold dogs" and "hot cream", or using kilometers in Bizarro America and the imperial system on the rest of the planet) After Bizarro's duplicate ends up becoming a handsome yet non-superpowered genius universally liked by the entire planet, Bizarro goes mad and attempts to pull a *Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow* by blowing the planet up himself, but the only person he ends up killing in the process is himself

I would love to see Bizarro in My Adventures With Superman!!!

I think it would be neat for you to cover the batman 2004 D.A.V.E. and superman 1988 xelandra they're both interesting characters with a lot of potential. DAVE is very strong and smart. Xelandra can clone herself and shoot a silk thing.

One of my favorite version of Bizzaro is the one that shows up in Superman & Lois, where he was introduced with WEEN music! That and his interpretation is great, he's not dumb, he literally speaks backwards, and the Bizzaro Universe still has the weird silly stuff like all spheres being cubes and all dogs being cats, but still has some genuine interesting drama associated with him.

I’m loving your dissections of Superman villains! Despite being one of the big three (along with Batman and Spider-Man) Superman’s lore and rouges are not discussed nearly as much.

Both Bizarro and Plastic man wear uniforms that are actually just their body

the true versions of bizzaro i wouldnt even call villians, antagonists yes, but as you said, he has the heart of superman, just not the brain of him

12:00 I think the scar on Bizarro's forehead implied that Luthor tampered with his will.

Kinda reminds me of my auntie's dog when I was a child. A giant 60+ kg pile of meat that was unintentionally dangerous, I remember that once when I was playing with him he just grabbed mey arm in his teeth and thrown me across the floor, which of course caused 6yo me to cry in pain and shock. But the thing was the dog shown no signs of anger, it was just playing around for him. And yeah my parrents never let me get close to it again throughout the rest of my childhood xd

The angular lines on comic Bizarro's face are meant to imitate a broken mirror, since Bizarro is a "broken" version of Superman.

Bizarro’s finding of a blind girl reminds me of when The Thing finds Alicia

I definitely would like to see more stas videos. While not on the same level as btas, it’s still one of my favorite adaptations of the character. Would love to see a video covering Lex.

1:34 wait THERE IT IS!!!! The pointing meme before the spider-man version

Lex Luthor laughing with Superman is scary.

A less talked about take on bizarro, Justice league action had its flaws but I loved the idea of him trying to impress and join the league. Along with him basically acting like the kryptonite man for Amazo.

One notable hero that isn’t truly human, is kamen rider, from 1971, Kamen Rider is one of the biggest representatives of the Tokusatsu genre, he’s also notable for the fact that he helped to popularize the muffler scarf as a cape replacement.

I would have loved to see Bizarro grow into his own person and possibly be a seperate hero we could have Bizzaro join the Justice League as a new member

5:12 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster was nothing like the movie interpretation. Her version of the monster was intelligent and cunning. And while in the movie, the monster would come to like humanity, the book's version hated humanity for never accepting him in their society. Sorry for the long comment, but I felt I should clear this up a little. Great video!

Adding to the chorus of support for more STAS villains. I was a bit surprised to realize you hadn’t done much with them before this. I think your style would be a great fit.

I always like these types of characters who do want to help but just don't quite understand how to or don't know how to regulate their strength. The Iron Giant reminds me of this too and I'm sure it's just a trend to take characters inspired by Frankenstein's Monster and make them more heroic so the audiences feels even more sorry for them. Bizarro was one of my favourite antagonists from STAS. It's a bit of a shame he was seemingly changed into just a broken puppet in JLU. I did always wish we got to see Bizarro and Grundy interact in the JL series due to some of the parallel's with them being misunderstood brutes who the heroes actually feel sorry for. They don't really have a place in the world so perhaps they could have became friends.

6:08 wait a sec. A story of a rich supervillain who was dealing with his body decomposing. Who used anouther Villain as an experiment. And said unlucky Villain dies tragiclly ? That's Mr.Freeze plot from Batman Beyond.

Great video. Two things to note. Im surprised the original scientist didnt try to duplicate poisons if his ray made duplicates that were opposites. Two, my theory on why Bizarro's clothes degraded was because his bioelectric aura was acting incorrectly and degrading his clothes. (The bioelectric aura was the bullshit comic book reason to explain why superman's clothing doesn't instantly get blasted off in battle. His aura extends a few millimeters awayvfrom his skin, extending his invulnerability to his clothes.

Cartoons seem to have the best relatable characters in fiction. There's a reason so many like comics. I never watched these, but jus the concepts you're describing bring me to the brink of tearing up.

Question of the day: If Superman's kisses could erase memories in Superman 2, would kissing Bizarro make you remember things you forgot?

Bizarro is very tragic. It breaks my heart to watch stories with him. I prefer when it's just "an evil superman" , with very little nuance like Nuclear Man from Superman 4.

Here's a fun thought experiment... So, a lot of Bizarro-style characters have appeared (multiple versions sometimes), including an entire universe of Bizarros in the comics. If you were going to write a story about a non-Superman Bizarro, who would it be and what would be the conflict? I know there are a couple Bizarro Lanterns already, but that's the exact route I'd go and try to really explore the concept. Instead of courage and willpower, Bizarro GL's power would be derived from his COWARDICE with his ring able to create anything he is scared of. He would try to help the League fight evil or even just help ordinary citizens, but his own constructs would terrify him. He then tries to create a new construct to fight the first, only to compound his problem. He will be frightened away to start the cycle over somewhere else. But the real GL would eventually teach him to face his fears, and his newfound courage will deactivate the ring. At which point the League immediately takes the ring away and sends him to much needed therapy.

Comprehensive and useful video.

Bizarro am here to SAAAAVE the day!

Bizzaro, when you think about it, he's really quite a tragic character. He wants to do good, but is manipulated at every turn into doing harm on people he actually wants to protect.

Best version of Bizarro is still in Red Sun. Where Bizarro sees an errant nuclear missile launch, and has the presence of mind to blind Superman so that he can sacrifice himself to stop the strike.

good video

We think Bizarro’s voiced by Tim Daly and George Newbern sounded like Kylo Ren from the Star Wars franchise who played by Adam Driver with masked and then unmasked voices.

I’d love more superman villain videos

I wonder if Identity Crisis is also referencing Flowers for Algernon? Something about Bizarro's mental slide always fascinated & horrified me.

Bizarro Krypto needs more attention

Bizarro was a science fiction exploration of science gone awry and reminiscent of Frankenstein as the outsider alien. Very early in concepts of cloning, very relevant in "evil twin" themes in comics and television. Would had amazed if DC wrote a Lobo vs Bizarro story.

Bizarro is arguably to Superman, what Man-Bat is to Batman.

When I saw the cover to the DC Comics Encyclopedia where it shows Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman up close against their enemies the Joker, Bizarro Superman, and Cheetah, at first I thought Bizarro was Solomon Grundy from the 2001 Justice League show in a Superman suit, based on how similar he looked to Grundy. I didn't even know Bizarro was in Justice League Unlimited at the time, let alone Superman the Animated Series. It was one of the rare moments my DC noob showed, thankfully in private. In fairness Grundy also spoke in broken English just like Bizarro Superman, so at least I couldn't be faulted on that.

I'd have loved a Bizzaro book somewhat akin to Planet Hulk, where Bizzaro ends up on an alien world and becomes its hero. I've never been a fan of the inverted Bizzaro-speak, the broken english/ speech makes sense from a narrative standpoint given that, when he's a flawed clone, his brain would be impaired. While I dislike the majority of the New 52, I did like the version of Bizzaro that came from the Forever Evil arc. I didn't expect to be a fan of the father-like affection that New 52 Luthor had for him. Red Son Superman is probably my favorite heroic representation of the flawed clone Bizzaro type. I HATED what they did to him in the animated adaptation.

Bizarros kind of an interesting hotspot of ableism it seems. And a good example of how the DCA does have its failures and clear problem regions too. The whole curing disabilities business is really kinda yucky. And later on, how his developmental issues serve more as the butt of the joke are somewhat troubling. Plus, the best solution Supes came up with being in essence segregation and isolation "away from normal people" does smell iffy - even if Bizzaros powers do somewhat justify it. Despite it being a very dangerous role due to said powers, Bizzaro sure coulda done with some form of assistant to both help ensure he isn't taken advantage of and that above all else, he could live his life fairly good. Heck, if segregation was really the only available option, Superman could have used his ship to go hang out and check up on Bizzaro every now and then to make sure all is well. Would have potentially avoided a lot of migraines going ahead if he maintained regular contact, making it harder to foul up the friendship (as Bizzaro saw it) thus making sure the happy times continued.

I will never forget the "BIZARRO'S HERE TO SAVE THE DAY!!!"

I feel the parasite and metallic are two villains that were closest this show had to being the sympathetic villains. Rudy Jones being a bit of a loser no one took seriously, and Metallo being betrayed by Luthor and is now more machine than man.

Plz do a STAS video on Metallo that would be epic!

The only episode I'd seen of bizaro was identity crisis I've since seen many clips of bizaro but because they didn't line up with my memory of the episode I had convinced myself that I was mistaken in believing that it was bizaro in the episode

Im a fan of the Outlaws webcomics' version where Bizarro is actively trying to say what he means but for some reason can't. Its a cute yet sad variant of their character

Could you cover Livewire? There's always something that clicked for me when it came to her blame shifting her condition onto him and she seemed to be quite competent as villain when it came to her plans. IDK maybe I'm in the minority for liking her as a character.

What always bugged me about this version was that he didn’t have his opposite powers. Doesn’t mean this version sucks but i like the imagery of him shooting icy blue beams out of his eyes or breathing superheated flames from his mouth. Still great version of Bizarro, love him.

"No! ME, AM SUPERMAN! ME AM HERO! ME SHOW YOU!"

Bizzaro was always a more "intriguing" type of antagonist in Superman's Rouge Gallery.

I loved playing Bizarro in Injustice much more likable than Injustice Superman

12:02 I noticed this even when I was little, but he does have a scar on his forehead and later episodes, which makes me to believe that Lex might’ve literally lobotomized or did something to him to be loyal?.

I definitely would enjoy more superman videos. Hopefully they do well I know he's not as popular as Batman stuff

5:17 Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein's Monster definitely wasn't bestial, but a well spoken romantic figure

Animated Bizarro's design seems perfectly tuned to inspire pity.

We see a shot of Bizarro’s World on Brainiac’s ship in the JL episode “Twilight”. I took this to mean that Brainiac had indeed visited Bizarro’s planet and thus destroyed it (along with Krypto😢) Side note. Like Kryptonite and Brainiac, Bizarro is yet another word that has graced our language via the pages of Superman comics.

More Superman videos please!