Virman Vundabar

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Virman Vundabar
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Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Mister Miracle #5 (December 1971)
Created by Jack Kirby
In-story information
Alter egoVirmin Vundabarr
Species New God
Place of origin Apokolips
Team affiliations Darkseid's Elite
Abilities
  • Immortality
  • Hand to hand combatant
  • Expert strategist
  • Ingenious scientist

Virman Vundabar is a fictional extraterrestrial supervillain published by DC Comics. [1]

Contents

Publication history

Virman Vundabar was created by Jack Kirby and first appeared in Mister Miracle #5 (December 1971). His physical appearance is modeled after Benito Mussolini. [2]

The name "Vundabar" is a corruption of the German word "wunderbar", which means "wonderful", and has also been spelled as "Vunderbarr". His first name "Virman" is a corruption of the word "vermin".

Fictional character biography

Vundabar is a New God from Apokolips and minion of Granny Goodness and Darkseid who models his appearance after Prussian culture. [3] [4] He has orchestrated many schemes to gain power, often collaborating with Darkseid's lieutenants Doctor Bedlam, Steppenwolf, and Kanto. [5]

In Death of the New Gods , Vundabar is killed by Darkseid before eventually being resurrected. [6]

In Terror Titans , Vundabar is killed by the Clock King, with his niece Malice joining the Female Furies.

In Tom King's Mister Miracle series, Vundabar appears as part of a hallucination Mister Miracle suffers after being exposed to the Anti-Life Equation. [7]

Powers and abilities

As a New God, Virman Vundabar is nigh-immortal and possesses superhuman physical abilities. He is also a skilled combatant, strategist, and scientist.

Other versions

An alternate universe variant of Virnam Vundabar appears in Kingdom Come .

In other media

Television

Video games

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References

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  2. ↑ Ro, Ronin. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2004)
  3. ↑ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019). DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing. p. 167. ISBN   978-1-4654-8578-6.
  4. ↑ Wallace, Dan (2008), "Virman Vundabar", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The DC Comics Encyclopedia, London: Dorling Kindersley, p. 325, ISBN   978-0-7566-4119-1
  5. ↑ Underworld Unleashed: Apokolips - Dark Uprising #1 (1995)
  6. ↑ Death of the New Gods #1 (October 2007)
  7. ↑ Mister Miracle (vol. 4) #1 (October 2017). DC Comics.
  8. 1 2 "Virman Vundabar Voices (DC Universe)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 17, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  9. ↑ Eisen, Andrew (October 2, 2013). "DC Characters and Objects - Scribblenauts Unmasked Guide". IGN. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
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