Rag Doll (comics)

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The Rag Doll ( Peter Merkel ) is a fictional supervillain in the DC Universe.

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Rag Doll was first introduced as an enemy to Golden Age Flash in a story published in Flash Comics # 36 (December 1942) where he was created by Gardner Fox. In the Starman series, James Robinson revives the character, giving him a darker reprocess. His son, Peter Merkel, Jr., recently used his father's name as a member of the Six Secrets.

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Fictional character biography

Golden Age

Peter Merkel , a native of the United States Midwestern, was born with a unique condition: "Triple-jointedness". Like the more common "double curvature", Merkel's condition is characterized by widespread ligaments and tendons, albeit at a much broader level. Son of a side barrack eater, Merkel found work at a small local carnival as a sweaty and eccentric dancer. In the early 1940s, the carnival fell on difficult times and Merkel found himself unemployed. Wandering the streets, Merkel is desperate for having money. Seeing the big boxes of toys loaded into the department store, Merkel found the idea of â€‹â€‹hiding herself in one of the big rag dolls and then robbing the shop after it closed. Going unconsciously between the toys, Merkel takes the idea a step further: He will rob while still hidden in the Rag Doll suit. In the early days of these costumed criminals, the idea looked new and Merkel decided that no one would believe that Cain Dolls could commit a crime.

In time, the Rag Doll legend grew far and wide. Little criminals start looking for Cloth Dolls, to take advantage of their criminal success. In 1943, The Rag Doll moved its operations to Keystone City. There he ordered his men to send him as a gift to a young heir named Geralda Cummins. The young girl throws a heavily heralded party for the socialite circle and the Kain Dolls which aims to take advantage of the situation. To coordinate the event, Cummins has selected Joan Williams who recently started the party business and festivals. It was decided that every rich guest would donate $ 10,000 in defense bonds to serve as a reward in a treasure hunt. Whoever broke the first hunt, won the prize. Joan does not know, the doll that Geralda received as a reward was listening and planning a far different result.

The following night, the guests gathered to hear the first reading of the instructions. When the guests left, Doll Cloth signaled his thugs to follow them to the museum while he stayed to interrogate Joan Williams. However, his tactics were delayed, by the arrival of newcomer Williams, The Flash. While the Rag Doll remains in hiding, Williams and Flash leave for the museum to provide further clues. On their arrival, they are driven by Rag Doll thugs. While Flash made short work of his men, Rag Doll himself drugged Joan with chloroform and stole the remaining clues. With this, he can find the treasure itself.

With henchmen wrapped, Flash returns to find Joan amnesia from chloroform and with no memory of the location of the bond. Taking the first clue, Flash then starts solving the puzzle at super speed and tapping Doll Rag on the 4th hint, in the local aquarium. The Rag Doll gets a jump on Garrick with a quick blow to the skull and throws the hero into an aquarium containing a giant octopus. He then sprints back to the Cummins estate to break the treasure hunt with the fifth hint. Meanwhile, Flash comes to and after the struggle with the octopus, cruelly pursues the criminal. He arrives just in time to see Doll Fabric pulling a defense bond out of their hideout at the Cummins grand piano. Quickly, and literally, binding criminals in ties, Flash returns gifts and hauls weird criminals to Keystone Town Jail.

Silver Age

Flash is reported to have had several other encounters with Rag Doll for years but nothing was recorded. In the mid-1970s, Dolls of Kain became pawns in a rather peculiar series of robberies. After meeting with Thinkers, the Fabric Dolls become brainwashed to commit crimes based on dolls. When Flash intercepts the criminal "accident", "accident" overwrites the old speedster, damaging his confidence. The Thinker's plan is to destroy Flash's self-esteem up to the point that the hero would be too ineffective to stop his big plans. But the thinker failed, with a surprise visit from Flash Age Silver, Barry Allen, who quickly captured the former carnival worker. Allen also noticed a strange aura around Garrick and Merkel's heads, showing that each was manipulated in several ways. At Merkel's interrogation, Rag Doll swears that he has no memory of any crime, assuring Allen that there is a greater power in the workplace. Quickly replacing Merkel with an original cloth doll, he convinces Garrick and the Keystone police that strange transmogrification takes place and Merkel dies. He then left, only to go back and hide in the evidence room when the Thug himself made a visit to confirm the death of his agent. Caught red-handed, Thinkers quickly arrested by two Flashes and both Rag and Dolls were returned to prison.

In the early 1980s, Cloth Dolls were contacted by Ultra-Humanite, the old enemy of the Justice Society. Along with other old criminals as well as younger young recruits, Boneka Rag became a founding member of the second generation of the Secret Society of Super Villains. The Ultra-Humanite has created a machine that, for the sacrifice of ten heroes from the Justice Society and the Justice League to be held at the stasis, (five of each team), all the heroes on Earth will disappear. Each criminal is then assigned to dispose of his old nemesis and Rag Doll takes Flash. After giving a fake tip to Flash, Rag Doll ambushed a hero on a freighter ship in Keystone Harbor. After luring him into the hold, Flash knew too late that everything he found was a bomb, an explosion that dropped an unconscious hero at the foot of his opponent.

Limbo will not prove the prison for the Rag Doll for a long time. While trapped there, Ultra-Humanite made contact with himself in the past, when he occupied the body of Dolores Winters in 1942. Through advanced information contacts, Ultra-Humanite taught himself how to open a portal to Limbo in the 1940s. While doing so, Rag Doll and other members of the Secret Society fled to help the young Humanite defeat the All-Star Squadron. After a romp across the landscape of their youth, the older criminals proved unsuitable for a large number of heroes and were driven back to Limbo.

Modern Times

In the late 1980s, the Rag Doll was in its sixties. Her hyper-elastic ligaments begin to collapse and extend, causing tremendous pain. He is no longer able to influence the lifestyle of a small villain. He soon becomes senile, and starts babbling. As he does, the lost, the homeless and the disenfranchised, absorb his words and in time, become a cult of blind followers of every pleasure and desire. And, having lived in defeat and despair, what the Rag Doll wants is revenge.

He collects sects around him that take over the streets of Opal City. That summer, Opal was on fire and the streets were red with blood. Ted "Starman" Knight could not stop the madman, so members of the Justice Society of America, Green Lantern, Flash, Hourman, and Dr. Mid-Nite joined in the hunt. Finally, the heroes foiled the Rag Doll plan and caught the villain. Stuck, Rag Doll taunts the heroes, telling him that he will order his troops out of jail. He threatens the lives of the families of Jay, Alan, and Ted. While JSA listened to the Rag Doll discourse, the criminal grabbed his limbs to untie his ties and because the heroes seemed to fall asleep, pausing for the door. The tail was never officially recorded, but in the explosion of cosmic energy, the Cloth Doll was found to burst into painful death. Since then most have concluded that Starman, fearing the safety of his children, has killed criminals, a fact disputed by Flash and Green Lantern witnesses. The next afternoon, the Rag Doll body disappeared from the morgue.

Exactly how the Rag Doll survives is unknown. His body was taken by his followers. A few years later, Rag Doll was approached by Neron. Instead of the soul of Rag Doll, Neron gives youths criminals. He also instructed the Rag Doll to remain hidden until approached by a man named Simon Culp. Years later, Culp did come to the aid of Rag Doll. Caught in Shade form, Culp explains that he has a very lucrative plan to launch against Opal City and Shade. Rag Doll agreed to help.

Rag Doll helps the Culp gang conquer Mikaal Tomas as aliens attempt to make contact with Ted Knight ( Starman # 64). Rag Doll watched Culp spell spell on the Black Pirate, causing Opal City to be enclosed in shadow dome ( Starman # 63). Rag Doll and his gang then helped Culp to control the entire city. The criminals then paraded their prisoners, lured Jack Knight into confrontation. Jack held his own until, cut off from the stars, his cosmic stick failed. When Rag Doll and the criminals beat Jack, Shade fell to the ground as Culp emerged from the shadow.

When Culp wants to cut the Knight's throat, Adam Strange and Black Condor attack. Their distraction allowed Knight to fight freely. The three heroes released the prisoners of Culp, and fled. Culp and his gang remained in Shade custody, and retreated to prepare for the last rite ( Starman # 67). While Culp prepares, he sends Mist, Solomon Grundy, Rag Doll, and Crusher to find the escaping hero

Ted faced the Doctor Phosphorus in the streets of Opal and, no longer need to be careful of his health, against the foot-to-toe thugs. Ted defeated his radioactive enemy, and when he was about to deliver a killing blow, he was ambushed by Rag Doll.

Phosphorus quickly recovered and the two criminals approached Knight. They revealed that they had been approached by a man named Neron last year, who had offered them to wait for Culp's arrival and help the dwarf in his plans. When they move to kill, Ted uses his cosmic wand to tear the sidewalk from under Phosphor and bring it to earth, killing the villain. With that, the wand was out. Ted turned to face the Rag Doll, challenging the criminals to kill him, dodging him from death due to Phosphorus radiation poisoning. Rag Doll then turned and left.

Rag Doll was later recruited to join the new version of Community Injustice. He helped save the Icicle from detention, leading to a confrontation with JSA. In the ensuing battle, the Institute of Injustice used a weird disc to move the older JSAers. Their mission is over, Community Injustice disappears.

He then briefly rejoined the Reformed Secret Society version. During the attack on Secret Six, he fights against his son (who has taken over the name and identity of the Rag Doll). Their battle is shortened by other attacking villains.

Soon afterward, Merkel died while on a mission with the reformed Injustice Society ( JSA Classified # 5-7). The team sought to take the Cosmic Key (which would restore Johnny Sorrow), but they were betrayed by The Society.

In the midst of the battle, it appears as if that Rag Dolls and Ghost Gentleman betray their colleagues and escape with Key. However, Tigress witnessed the return of Johnny Sorrow who suddenly appeared to kill the Rag Doll, though Gentleman Ghost was prepared for it when he handed over the sadness to his very important mask. Sadness and rest Community injustice passes to a safe place in Crooked House, former residence of Prometheus. It was then revealed that Gentleman Ghost, Wizard and Icicle expect the Rag Doll to light it, so they set it to death.

Colby Zag

Jack Knight has also faced mentally ignorant fraudsters named Colby Zag . made by James Robinson. ( Starman 80-Page Giant # 1)

During the time when the original Cloth Doll is believed to be dead, Zag meets band player Mr Tyrell via the internet. Tyrell has bribed his former bandmates to remain silent about his involvement in drug-related deaths. Eventually, his bandmates started squeezing more money out of him, so Tyrell plans to kill them. He helps Zag adopt Rag Doll personality and behavior and send him to kill extortionist. Zag manages to kill four out of five people, but is stopped by Jack Knight's intervention.

Peter Merkel, Jr.

Other children

In addition to his son, Peter Merkel told Icicle he has many children. This seems to be supported by Peter Merkel Junior who mentions having three jointed brothers and the last appearance of his daughter Alex aka Junior . Together with his children, Rag Doll also has a cult following; who all seem to commit suicide while exploding their homes.

What's New 52

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC continuity. In this new timeline, Peter Merkel has been imprisoned in Arkham Asylum. Merkel first emerged as one of the many inmates who tried to escape in the riot. Merkel then took part in the Arkham War.

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Strength and ability

Rag Doll was an expert contortionist and, in later years, successfully hypnotized through the oratory he gave. His body is quite absorbing to withstand the power of concussion that is capable of making most human individuals unconscious. He is an adequate sniper and usually relies on the element of surprise. He is a skillful thief, and adds to his ability with his ability to hide in unexpected places where humans usually can not put themselves.

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In other media

Television

Rag Doll appeared on Ragdolls to Riches episode of The Batman Ragdolls to Riches, voiced by Jeff Bennett. Being able to bend itself into every imaginable position and survive completely destroyed, Rag Doll is a formidable opponent for Batman and Catwoman. His fighting styles include swinging his arms and legs lazily to his opponent, and also bending in different positions when attacking or dodging. In "Penguin Team," Ragdoll is one of the villains who helped Penguin in his crime crime. When Penguin formed his team of criminals, Ragdoll suggested they call themselves "Villains United".

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