Ah, Plastic Man, the most terrifying hero in DC comics. Completely indestructible, able to subconsciously control every atom of his body, impossible to predict, impossible to contain, able to get into anywhere, or in some cases, anyone, that he wants. Killed the Flash from the inside out, nearly killed Wonder Woman and Superman, defeated an intergalactic entity that could counter any opponent simply by being to dumb to have a counter. All held back only because he prefers being funny over being feared.
@@jonathanathor117 he’s goofy, not nice. He works with the league because Batman convinced him to become a hero after Batman accidentally gave him his powers. He looks up to most of the league, but doesn’t really like any of them. As Batman says “We’re just lucky he’s on our side.”
@@thenecromancer5007 Not really. Unless you have martian manhunter. I think acetone (nail polish remover) can work apparently. I don't understand why batman didn't try that instead of liquid nitrogen.
@@jonathanathor117 acetone can work, but it’s not a permanent solution. It separates his molecules, but he can still control them and reform. Liquid nitrogen freezes his molecules in place, so he can control them, but he can’t actually move.
That makes sense. As far as Batman knows Plasticman has no actual weakness, fears, or any means to kill him, especially after Batman watched Plas willingly pop himself as an attack, and then slowly put himself back together piece by piece.
Batman's only plan is 'if Plastic Man goes bad, freeze him, keep him stored somewhere he hopefully won't thaw out, pray it works because if it doesn't there's no stopping him'
You should real injustice year two. Superman says the only member of the JLA be thought could actually kill him was plastic man. The guy is indestructible unless you freeze him and he can basically go into your body through your nose and make you have a stroke
@@PhantoRoyce even if you freeze him, he'll just reform once he thaws out. You'd have to keep him permanently frozen. Which sounds simple, but maintaining a system that could perpetually keep him at subzero temperatures would require lots of maintenance over the years.
In the JLA comics, Batman specifically recruited Plas into the JLA to stop Martian Manhunter if he went rogue. Manhunter's just as powerful as Superman, plus he can shapeshift and read minds. Plas can keep up with Manhunter when it comes to shapeshifting, and his polymer brain is immune to telepathy. That's how powerful Plas truly is.
@@jcraft2805 human with powers, he was a former smalltime crook (I think he worked for kiteman at one point) who got them in an accident but decided that if he had powers he might as-well do good with them. He was never actually evil he just needed the money and didn’t have much in the job prospects.
A comic of Plastic Man that quickly became one of my favorites after hearing about it on some other videos about him was when he was tracking a gang and they found out about it and had a meeting to figure out something to do. But the thing is that everything in the meeting room was red and yellow (Including several gang members clothes) so they got extremely paranoid and thought that Plastic Man was in the room. Then they turned on each other and made so much noise trying to break everything that the police were called and they were all caught. The twist at the end is that Plastic Man's alarm didn't go off so he slept in and missed his stakeout that day so they ruined themselves over nothing
@@kalieffoster4607 Spend endless rivers of it, buoyed up by a populace almost entirely reliant on different Wayne businesses for basic goods and necessities? Batmans power is Money, Willpower, Money, Incredible Detective Skills, and MONEY!
@@Illegiblescream batman is more than generous with his money, and earned it all through his buisness,and inheritance yes, but he also improved WayneCorp, and he constantly helps charities in gotham, yes money is one of his powers, but even without money he is a force to be reckoned with
@@lolzmanxd3368 Without his billion dollars of equipment he'd just be the Worlds Greatest Detective. Without all that money he wouldn't be able to afford healing and recovery after a fight, the massive amount of equipment and countermeasures he uses to win against metahuman threats, or constantly going to high profile justice league level conflicts. Without WayneCorp behind him he'd be Rorschach.
The thing I like about him is he doesn't have a stick up his ass and he isn't flawless, he feels the desire to abuse his powers and he does a little bit, that feels pretty human, and even though he could be dangerous he's making the conscious decision to be a goofball.
I love how they acknowledge that plastic man's abilities are so diverse that it theoretically makes him the most dangerous person on the planet. Batman himself admitted that he really didn't have a contingency plan to stop plas if he went rogue, the only thing he could come up with is freezing and even then it was only a temporary containment since if he ever melted out he would be unstoppable, pretty much by his own words he says the only reason plastic Man isn't an all-powerful super villain is just his overall personality and more concern with comedic relief than anything.
In Frank Millers Dark Knight series someone did manage to contain him, probably Batman since he knew exactly how to gt him out, in a silly-putty egg held in some sort of compression device at the top of a tower in Arkham. Which gives us my favorite PM quote, "This has got to be real because there's no way I'd imagine something as boring as you." re: Ralph Dibney who helps Batman calm PM down once released.
What is it with red and yellow clad comic relief characters who have seemingly simple powers that they got from a chemical accident that makes DC turn them into borderline-immortal gods.
The only reason he is such a low threat is because he jokes around, he used to be an assassin and an agent. He could kill a lot of people and no one would be able to stop him for a long time
I do get why he has to be a joke. But after reading the originals by jack cole. I do crave a throwback series where part of the joke was plasticman essentially being the most ridiculous looking straight man in fiction.
@@TheKyrix82 indeed though in theory I can think of one man who could kill an immortal like o’brian and vandel savage. Matter eater lad of the legion of superheroes.
Well, he’s also not very ambitious or imaginative. Sure, he gets a lot of mileage out of shapeshifting but he doesn’t have the drive to figure out a lot of what he COULD do.
Plastic man does not stretch like it seems. He is a shapeshifter, with perfect control of ever aspect of his body. He is strong enough to hit at the A-list justice league roster and is mostly immune to telepathy. I am half sure that he acts goofier, he is a bit of a goof, to obscure just how dangerous he could really be.
To this day Batman admits that he really has no means of stopping plastic should he go rogue other than freezing him which would only be temporary, sending him through a black hole or alternate dimension which doesn't guarantee his destruction only that he's not in our universe, and somehow using his own powers against him. Plas is pretty much the secret weapon because if he ever took it seriously he'd be unstoppable
You can really tell just how much the showrunners ADORED the Gold and Silver Age versions of Batman. Their passion for it oozes from every second of The Brave and the Bold. 💖
The show made me a fan of Adam strange, captain marvel,enemy ace, and the haunted tank. I still wish for season 4’s cold openings. Batman and Robin with the crimson avenger and wing in a green hornet homage Two-face meeting Jonah hex The Steve ditko heroes united Green arrow to stop looking like a dweeb and finally grow his beard.
it didn’t have the dreary and serious stories of all the other batman shows but it included the personality of a lot of batman characters and that’s why i love it
@@tl1326 there was chill of the night. But I’m also glad it didn’t go in the other direction too much. Focusing more on thrills and fun, instead of comedy and self aware irony (both of which became a glob of wasabi in an otherwise good roastbeef sub to me in recent years) Like Flash Gordon the beauty of the series comes from its sincerity.
Plastic man is an animator's paradise. He is restrained by no physical boundaries, you can twist him, shape him, stretch him any way you want. You can really get creative with him. The visual gags go on and on, almost endlessly.
@llmkursk8254 while I dont have much experience as a 3d animator I would think animating a character like plastic man is actually easier than animating something that has to remain rigid and unchanging through a movement like running. This might be why during the early days of animation rubberhose type characters were much more common. Even Disney required 3 years or so of training to realistically portray a human (just compare the animation "the goddess of spring" to snow white).
Yeah, also their Hell. You have any idea how hard it is to draw and animate all that?! We have trouble with just hands, and have whole lessons on how to draw the folds on clothes. Plastic Man is _hard_ to draw
just drawing things stretching and making them into animation is stupid tough. i think you have to draw like double the frames to make stretching smooth
9:17 I love how Batman is legitimately considering ejecting plastic man from the Bat-Wing. To be fair plastic man would definitely survive the fall purely based on his elasticity, even if he didn’t turn into a glider
The thing is, he is not elastic at all, he controls his body in molecular level, what he is doing is creating and destroying body which seems to be elastic to us.
Wrong, in fighter jets either pilot and copilot control their own ejection seats or both activate at the same time when armed. Batman is considering ejecting himself to not hear him
@@npc6817 ... But do you really think Batman wouldn't have that button just for that purpose? Getting rid of someone that annoys him, or just pain goes rogue?
@@npc6817 With that same logic, he's too serious not to do it, because of hero stuff and plot convenience... And basic cartoon humor, because it's a cartoon.
"Mortal" is a strong word in this context. Plastic Man doesn't age, has been noted to have an *extremely* long theoretical life (there was a point where he got sent back in time and made it back to the present by the power of "just waiting until time passed enough"), can't be injured, and is also immune to mental attacks. Batman's theorized that he might be able to survive a black hole, because speaking purely theoretically, nothing one does should be able to kill him. You might be able to kill him by, I dunno, ripping his soul out of his body? But at that point you start running into questions about the definition of mortality in a world with tangible souls.
@@TheShinyFeraligatr yeah to actually kill him you need to go into the realms of asking The Spectre for help which is a bit far considering your asking The Spectre 1 for help and 2 to kill plastic man
Come to think of it, if every single atom in his body is under his direct control then that could possibly make him immortal even if he isn't able rebuild his body from the ground up.
you'd think he was a gag character, and yet you've got people like Brainiac and Batman who see him as more of a threat than someone like superman He's similar to the flash in the fact he's OPAF but limited by his personality/morals
@@polocatfan He couldn't since he has to touch his opponents to turn them into carrots and both Beerus and Whis have Ultra Instinct (and are trillions of times faster than him) so yeah And besides, Beerus is immune to gag abilities
The man can mold his body into any shape he wants, his body isn’t constructed from regular organic material so he’s immune to disease, and poisons (if I remember right) if he’s blown apart he can just reassemble himself. It’s like trying to fight a living pile of play-doh, it’s weird and goofy but theirs no real stopping it unless you bottle it.
My favorite thing about Plas is that he's a better stretcher than Mr. Fantastic OR The Elongated Man for one reason. He's ALSO a shapeshifter. This means he can do the one major thing those two can't: Make holes in his own body.
@@ericdunn360 Yes, but Plas didn't appear in much of anything in a major capacity, outside of comics, until The Brave and the Bold in 2008, which is almost 30 years between big cartoon features.
i think its cause the robot bases threat of their personality and powers combined, plastic man is pretty much just a good guy with over the top superpowers he wouldnt do anything bad so thats why its so low.
Yeah. Unfortunately it seems that bigger projects like major movies are being saved for only the biggest names of DC, leaving hidden gems like Plastic Man and other lovable characters as cameos in smaller stuff
* can turn into a bird - flight * can turn into a working car - superspeed (to some degree) * can turn into bigger shapes to give himself more leverage - superstrength *can turn into literally anyone and change to a matching color for clothing - the ultimate stealth ability * again, can turn into LITERALLY anything - the ultimate shapeshifter * can even tear himself apart and come back unscathed - not just healing factor or imortality, hes literally invincible
I don't know the deep lore of this guy. But from what I know, I love how he still has little moments of temptation when it comes to money and jewels. His quick and cunning nature from his former life, not entirely gone.
It really does help keep him grounded. All too often we get the "Bad guy turned good", but it never seems to be something they struggle with. With Eel, we see a man who genuinely wants to do the right thing, but old habits die hard.
I just realized the part where he was fighting the robots and used a cape actually makes sense, the bots would fire at center mass so making a wider target moves their shot.
@@changvasejarik62 I got Franklin and Reed mixed and was really confused considering Franklin’s basically omnipotent levels of power. That would be a cool fight between the stretchy bois though.
Dana Snyder is a wonderful actor, and I love him to death in everything, but Tom Kenny is the best Plastic Man voice in anything Plas has been in. Part of it may simply come down to the way JLA writes Plas, but Tom Kenny feels more able to balance the comedy with the seriousness when needed, whereas Dana Snyder seems to be on the goofy side way too much way too often. (His actor in the Injustice animated movie, Oliver Hudson, has the balance in the right place, but I feel he just doesn't quite have the same charm that Kenny's performance has, but he's actually pretty close)
I have minimal exposure to Michael Bell as Plastic Man in the old DC cartoon stuff, or the small number of actors who have played him in other appearances, so I can't really comment on how they stack up to Kenny, Snyder, and Hudson. But, if you ask me my rankings of those 3, it's Tom Kenny in 1st, followed by Oliver Hudson, with Dana Snyder behind him.
Plastic man is aware of how powerful he is, which is why he reacted the way he did. He knew the robot was wrongly judging his abilities, but it just hurt his feelings a little.
@@invicibla2353 Can he? ...Yes. Would he? Probably not. He'd probably be having too much fun goofing around. Like, if Goku *somehow* convinced Plas to not hold back... He'd kill Goku with ease. He's completely immortal, the only way to slow him down is with extreme cold, and if he so much as *touches* you, he can stick to you like glue, slither up your body, and get inside you like he did to The Flash in Injustice. So, yes. He could. But, in the end... He wouldn't.
2:25 I like how Plas only cares when its Batman telling him he's outranked. After everything he's been through he kinda lives for Batsy's approval and I think he follow's the guy's example in a lot of ways. it's also probably why he's so care free, because he doesn't wanna end up a brooding inapproachable loner like Bruce.
Even beyond Fantastic, honestly. The closest stretcher to Fantastic in DC is The Elongated Man. Plas can do what they can't, and that is make holes in his body. He's a full on shape shifter. Hell, him making himself bigger adds proportional mass to make him stronger as well. He can turn into a fully functional blimp and car! Plastic Man is AWESOME.
Ah, Plastic Man~ He was always my favorite partner for Batman to team up with in Brave and the Bold. Not only is he really funny and has a fun personality, but I think his backstory is incredibly interesting; as someone who was once an evil henchmen, now trying to redeem himself with his new powers, but struggling with his own greed even as he's trying to be a superhero and save the day. It's both funny to watch (mainly because of the comedic presentation of his greed), and also a really engaging flaw to overcome. The only thing I don't particularly like about him is his costume, because it kind of reminds me of an old timey bathingsuit for some reason. Other than that, he's definitely my favorite. ❤ I also think I prefer Tom Kenny's voice for him over Dana Snyder.
I love that the internet is in love with plastic man now after all all time. I think one of the reasons is that he is doing good not because he feels like he should, like as I some sort of moral obligation, but because he likes it and has fun being good-despite his past. I think that's why Superman genuinely seems to not be bothered by him, and indulges him here in the photo, because-he doesn't take himself seriously and just is doing what he needs to do. He could be a TREMEMDOUS threat, but as the person he became-being evil just ain't in the cards for him now.
@@AndresHernandez-yk5im they only treat them that way cause they haven't seen their true potential. Plastic man acted immature and didn't seem to take things seriously, but he has saved multiple members of the justice league many times. And booster gold?... He's admittedly a moron and pretty lazy. But when batman saw what he does to time anomalies and how good he is at that, he admits that booster is a better man than he's given credit for
Well as Batman once put, he usually spends time being comic relief, given he has total control over his body and can virtually be anything he wants. So it made sense they treated him like so, they know his potential and power and yet most of the time he’s off doing nonsense. Though I feel Bats gives him more credit than others given their history (depending on the universe).
The guy could shrug off a punch from precrisis superman. Plus Much like black Adam being a stickler for pronunciation, neurotic quirks in men with demigod levels of power is proof the universe is working.
@@normalhuman9878 not really, plastic man is tough but the second he meets the spectre he learns what true godly power is. I only count a character as god level if one of three conditions is met. 1. Near OMNISCIENCE or OMNIPOTENCE. 2. Biblical divine right to match demigod power. 3. Pre-2019 Dr. Manhattan or molecule man level of power. (Aka meta-divine right)
My favourite Plas moment in the comics was during the Dark Knights Metal finale when he turned into everything. Shark with a bulldozing chainsaw that chews things, it was crazy. Also apparently he had connections to the 10th metal. Also, his clothes aren't clothes. It's also him, that's why it stretches with him.
It's worth noting that injustice superman recognizes plastic man as a real threat while wonder woman and the others thought he was just a loud mouth buffoon. He then rescued almost everyone out of superman's prison at the same time. I am talking 100 plus super villains, green lanterns, and heroes who didn't go along with superman and he got them out all at once.
Threat level 4.6? This robot clearly knows nothing about Plastic man, he has to be at least at 70 and that's just because of his altitude, if he becomes serious he could be very dangerous
The threat level in that episode is scaled from most to least, I believe. The more dangerous someone is, the smaller the number. Meaning Plastic Man is actually way up there in the threat level.
Batman brave and the bold is where a lot of my respect for the lesser known heroes comes from. They explained what made each recurring hero tick perfectly.
I love Plastic Man because he's the peak of the genre of hero that is absurdly powerful, but has approximately 3 and a half brain cells to work with. If he was a little more creative, homeboy would be an absolute *terror* of a crime fighter, but he has a good heart and moral compass when he needs it.
Halfway through this video, I realized where I’d heard his voice before. Dana Snyder also voices Master Shake in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and honestly he’s perfect for Plastic man.
I like how if you gave a serious person Plas's abilities they'd probably be one of the most powerful beings there is, but he's too goofy to ever be a dictator. I mean he can shape shift with next to no limits and depending on who you ask can reform even after breaking.
My favorite part is when plastic man returned all the gold he stole from the vault and when he asked Batman if he wanted to count them, Batman just said, “I trust you.” Granted this prompted him to put the diamond he had still had back into the bag
damn you can really tell how much love the animators put into plasticman's morphing abilities those smear frames are gorgeous I love how you can pause at any moment he stretches and find a cursed frame of some kind that's almost profile picture worthy.
Ah, Plastic Man, the most terrifying hero in DC comics. Completely indestructible, able to subconsciously control every atom of his body, impossible to predict, impossible to contain, able to get into anywhere, or in some cases, anyone, that he wants. Killed the Flash from the inside out, nearly killed Wonder Woman and Superman, defeated an intergalactic entity that could counter any opponent simply by being to dumb to have a counter. All held back only because he prefers being funny over being feared.
You make the man sound like an SCP. I mean he can fit right in but...he's nice.
@@jonathanathor117 he’s goofy, not nice. He works with the league because Batman convinced him to become a hero after Batman accidentally gave him his powers. He looks up to most of the league, but doesn’t really like any of them.
As Batman says “We’re just lucky he’s on our side.”
Does he have any real counter?
@@thenecromancer5007 Not really. Unless you have martian manhunter. I think acetone (nail polish remover) can work apparently. I don't understand why batman didn't try that instead of liquid nitrogen.
@@jonathanathor117 acetone can work, but it’s not a permanent solution. It separates his molecules, but he can still control them and reform. Liquid nitrogen freezes his molecules in place, so he can control them, but he can’t actually move.
Plastic Man is in that same category of hero as Swamp Thing aka Batman's contingency plan for Plas going rogue is "Pray to god that it never happens".
That makes sense. As far as Batman knows Plasticman has no actual weakness, fears, or any means to kill him, especially after Batman watched Plas willingly pop himself as an attack, and then slowly put himself back together piece by piece.
Well he has a plan to stop but not kill plas and that's freezing the fucker likeing completely freezing and even then it's only temporary
Batman's only plan is 'if Plastic Man goes bad, freeze him, keep him stored somewhere he hopefully won't thaw out, pray it works because if it doesn't there's no stopping him'
@@asrieldreemurr9968 yep
@@JeremyFinch42 for the most part yeah, but he does seem to have a bad case of fuckin hate the cold
...I still love the fact that Plastic Man was actually a CIA agent and assassin... That goofball could probably kill a lot of people, if he wanted to.
Don’t think he was ever an assassin. He did join the police force after reforming to a hero.
In brave and bold he was a kite man goon but his powers are described as one of the most powerful in the justice league
He was more of a thief than a killer.
You should real injustice year two. Superman says the only member of the JLA be thought could actually kill him was plastic man. The guy is indestructible unless you freeze him and he can basically go into your body through your nose and make you have a stroke
@@PhantoRoyce even if you freeze him, he'll just reform once he thaws out. You'd have to keep him permanently frozen. Which sounds simple, but maintaining a system that could perpetually keep him at subzero temperatures would require lots of maintenance over the years.
"We're Lucky that he's on our side and that's he's more concerned with being comic relief than anything else".
-Batman
@Percilott Batman does say it when talking about his contingency plans for each member of justice league.
@Percilott *INVINCIBLE*
Read DCeased, when he becomes a zombie he is a unstoppable blob
@@somerandomguyontheinternett *BLOOD SPLATTERS*
@Percilott if the shows called invincible then why can I see it???
In the JLA comics, Batman specifically recruited Plas into the JLA to stop Martian Manhunter if he went rogue. Manhunter's just as powerful as Superman, plus he can shapeshift and read minds. Plas can keep up with Manhunter when it comes to shapeshifting, and his polymer brain is immune to telepathy. That's how powerful Plas truly is.
Is Plas part-human? Or fully human with powers?
Plus Plas is immune to fire while Manhunter's kryptonite is fire.
@@c0n22 In the nightmare scenario where Plas was fighting J’onn head on, the Manhunter no longer feared fire.
@@jcraft2805 Plas has been literally scattered across the planet, atom by atom, and reassembled. It’s safe to say he isn’t human anymore.
@@jcraft2805 human with powers, he was a former smalltime crook (I think he worked for kiteman at one point) who got them in an accident but decided that if he had powers he might as-well do good with them. He was never actually evil he just needed the money and didn’t have much in the job prospects.
A comic of Plastic Man that quickly became one of my favorites after hearing about it on some other videos about him was when he was tracking a gang and they found out about it and had a meeting to figure out something to do. But the thing is that everything in the meeting room was red and yellow (Including several gang members clothes) so they got extremely paranoid and thought that Plastic Man was in the room. Then they turned on each other and made so much noise trying to break everything that the police were called and they were all caught. The twist at the end is that Plastic Man's alarm didn't go off so he slept in and missed his stakeout that day so they ruined themselves over nothing
@AMAR ALAJMI I don't know the issue of the comic but they did adapt it into an animated short called Plastic Man Untouchable
Meet the Spy.
@@TheDangerNoodle Yeah, that was a Spy level paranoia.
That is the most plastic man thing ive ever read. He's so broken in terms of power but is too goofy to realise
That is the funniest shit I've ever heard, and your saying that this is OFFICIAL?
the fact that Plas can regenerate even after breaking apart like a balloon terrifies me even more
He was scattered in the ocean as dust sized particles for a while at one point and still regenerated.
He can’t die.
He's like if you combined the powers of Mrs. Incredible and Deadpool, but with the personality of Daffy Duck
@@guardian6788 He's flexible enough for Elastigirl 😏
@@dragonfell5078 except she ain't flexible enough for plas 😏
"Every molecule in his body is under his direct control, we're lucky he's on our side" -Batman in Agamemdo contingency
“And that he’s more concerned with being comic relief than anything else.”
I love how Brainiac considers plas to be a bigger threat to him than Superman
Probably because he is.
I mean the guy is indestructible
He very definitely is
Plastic man could very easily dispatch almost all the justice league members
Well what is superman going to pull out of nowhere to surprise braniac with?
The irony of a billionaire in a custom jet lecturing someone about money is astounding.
He knows how to handle it, best person to talk about it
@@kalieffoster4607 Spend endless rivers of it, buoyed up by a populace almost entirely reliant on different Wayne businesses for basic goods and necessities? Batmans power is Money, Willpower, Money, Incredible Detective Skills, and MONEY!
@@Illegiblescream batman is more than generous with his money, and earned it all through his buisness,and inheritance yes, but he also improved WayneCorp, and he constantly helps charities in gotham, yes money is one of his powers, but even without money he is a force to be reckoned with
@@lolzmanxd3368 Without his billion dollars of equipment he'd just be the Worlds Greatest Detective. Without all that money he wouldn't be able to afford healing and recovery after a fight, the massive amount of equipment and countermeasures he uses to win against metahuman threats, or constantly going to high profile justice league level conflicts.
Without WayneCorp behind him he'd be Rorschach.
Nah he's lecturing about stealing, no need to be mad about it
Plasticman is incredibly overpowered good thing he has a good heart
The thing I like about him is he doesn't have a stick up his ass and he isn't flawless, he feels the desire to abuse his powers and he does a little bit, that feels pretty human, and even though he could be dangerous he's making the conscious decision to be a goofball.
@@Nyghtking Facts that's why we love em
@@Nyghtking That, and he's a reformed criminal.
Fun fact: Batman’s secret plan for if he goes wrong? Hope it doesn’t happen.
@@Skullhawk13 cool
I love how they acknowledge that plastic man's abilities are so diverse that it theoretically makes him the most dangerous person on the planet. Batman himself admitted that he really didn't have a contingency plan to stop plas if he went rogue, the only thing he could come up with is freezing and even then it was only a temporary containment since if he ever melted out he would be unstoppable, pretty much by his own words he says the only reason plastic Man isn't an all-powerful super villain is just his overall personality and more concern with comedic relief than anything.
Attraction to riches too.
In Frank Millers Dark Knight series someone did manage to contain him, probably Batman since he knew exactly how to gt him out, in a silly-putty egg held in some sort of compression device at the top of a tower in Arkham. Which gives us my favorite PM quote, "This has got to be real because there's no way I'd imagine something as boring as you." re: Ralph Dibney who helps Batman calm PM down once released.
What is it with red and yellow clad comic relief characters who have seemingly simple powers that they got from a chemical accident that makes DC turn them into borderline-immortal gods.
@@somerandomguy844 if i had a nickel for every time that happened, i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Could you just throw him to space to contain him or the sun to destroy him?
The only reason he is such a low threat is because he jokes around, he used to be an assassin and an agent. He could kill a lot of people and no one would be able to stop him for a long time
I do get why he has to be a joke. But after reading the originals by jack cole. I do crave a throwback series where part of the joke was plasticman essentially being the most ridiculous looking straight man in fiction.
By 'a long time', you mean EVER. He's an actual immortal
@@TheKyrix82 indeed though in theory I can think of one man who could kill an immortal like o’brian and vandel savage.
Matter eater lad of the legion of superheroes.
@@changvasejarik62 Potentially
Well, he’s also not very ambitious or imaginative. Sure, he gets a lot of mileage out of shapeshifting but he doesn’t have the drive to figure out a lot of what he COULD do.
Plastic man does not stretch like it seems. He is a shapeshifter, with perfect control of ever aspect of his body. He is strong enough to hit at the A-list justice league roster and is mostly immune to telepathy.
I am half sure that he acts goofier, he is a bit of a goof, to obscure just how dangerous he could really be.
He just likes acting goofy
It isn't to hide anything he knows his worth
His best iteration in my eyes was in the Injustice comics
so he's a himbo?
Yes
To this day Batman admits that he really has no means of stopping plastic should he go rogue other than freezing him which would only be temporary, sending him through a black hole or alternate dimension which doesn't guarantee his destruction only that he's not in our universe, and somehow using his own powers against him.
Plas is pretty much the secret weapon because if he ever took it seriously he'd be unstoppable
If i had his powers I'd act like a cartoon character too ngl
Giraffes are technically the quietest animal because they don’t have vocal cords
Good to know
Good things plastic man isn't a giraffe
there are plenty of animals without vocal chords and plenty evolved to be very quiet
Hold up. They don't?
@@doctorjay8673 up until very recently it was thought that they didn’t but they actually do and make a very low grumbling sound that we can’t hear
Batman: The Brave and The Bold was such a great show. Gave amazing attention and characterization to the lesser known heroes and villains.
You can really tell just how much the showrunners ADORED the Gold and Silver Age versions of Batman. Their passion for it oozes from every second of The Brave and the Bold. 💖
The show made me a fan of Adam strange, captain marvel,enemy ace, and the haunted tank. I still wish for season 4’s cold openings.
Batman and Robin with the crimson avenger and wing in a green hornet homage
Two-face meeting Jonah hex
The Steve ditko heroes united
Green arrow to stop looking like a dweeb and finally grow his beard.
It made kid me believe that the faceless hunter was a badass
it didn’t have the dreary and serious stories of all the other batman shows
but it included the personality of a lot of batman characters and that’s why i love it
@@tl1326 there was chill of the night. But I’m also glad it didn’t go in the other direction too much. Focusing more on thrills and fun, instead of comedy and self aware irony (both of which became a glob of wasabi in an otherwise good roastbeef sub to me in recent years)
Like Flash Gordon the beauty of the series comes from its sincerity.
Plastic man is an animator's paradise. He is restrained by no physical boundaries, you can twist him, shape him, stretch him any way you want. You can really get creative with him. The visual gags go on and on, almost endlessly.
Sounds like hell. Imagine animating anything and everything… *shudder*
@llmkursk8254 while I dont have much experience as a 3d animator I would think animating a character like plastic man is actually easier than animating something that has to remain rigid and unchanging through a movement like running. This might be why during the early days of animation rubberhose type characters were much more common. Even Disney required 3 years or so of training to realistically portray a human (just compare the animation "the goddess of spring" to snow white).
Yeah, also their Hell. You have any idea how hard it is to draw and animate all that?! We have trouble with just hands, and have whole lessons on how to draw the folds on clothes. Plastic Man is _hard_ to draw
You can already do that with any character. You just have to sacrifice some realism to get that toon physics going.
just drawing things stretching and making them into animation is stupid tough. i think you have to draw like double the frames to make stretching smooth
9:17 I love how Batman is legitimately considering ejecting plastic man from the Bat-Wing. To be fair plastic man would definitely survive the fall purely based on his elasticity, even if he didn’t turn into a glider
The thing is, he is not elastic at all, he controls his body in molecular level, what he is doing is creating and destroying body which seems to be elastic to us.
Wrong, in fighter jets either pilot and copilot control their own ejection seats or both activate at the same time when armed. Batman is considering ejecting himself to not hear him
@@npc6817 ... But do you really think Batman wouldn't have that button just for that purpose? Getting rid of someone that annoys him, or just pain goes rogue?
@@thegamingguy6275 nah, he's too serious to do that
@@npc6817 With that same logic, he's too serious not to do it, because of hero stuff and plot convenience... And basic cartoon humor, because it's a cartoon.
Give this man a movie
Seriously
@@guardian6788 Its real cool Plastic Man movie, his powerful and funny character...
DC’s Deadpool
@@Robby4Multiversus DC Looney Tunes more like it.
@@Robby4Multiversus Exactly lol pretty much.
I notice rubber or elastic based fighters are apparently very dangerous people to face off against. Like plastic man or Luffy
Man look at the new one piece chapters if you didn’t
@@anubismaat2813 yea he's turning into a gag character similar to old cartoons like popeye but in a world with common sense
@@denos1699
It’s just him turning shit to rubber but it’s insane he got joy boy Df
Metamorpho can turn to gas and turn into rock spikes hes like plasticman, Jack Power, clayface and sandman.
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Yet mr fantastic is no where near this power. On the bright side he is actually intelligent.
“I have no idea how I’m doing this” that man is such a blessing
If Plastic Man was evil we would all be dead
He's like a cartoony superhero misplaced and put into a serious high stakes hero show
That's what I love about him
Batman The Brave and the Bold is hardly "serious high stakes".
Plastic Man is unironically one of the most powerful mortals in the DC universe.
"Mortal" is a strong word in this context. Plastic Man doesn't age, has been noted to have an *extremely* long theoretical life (there was a point where he got sent back in time and made it back to the present by the power of "just waiting until time passed enough"), can't be injured, and is also immune to mental attacks. Batman's theorized that he might be able to survive a black hole, because speaking purely theoretically, nothing one does should be able to kill him.
You might be able to kill him by, I dunno, ripping his soul out of his body? But at that point you start running into questions about the definition of mortality in a world with tangible souls.
He isn't a mortal anymore
@@TheShinyFeraligatr yeah to actually kill him you need to go into the realms of asking The Spectre for help which is a bit far considering your asking The Spectre 1 for help and 2 to kill plastic man
I know you mean "mortal" as a way of saying he isn't a god, but the dude is literally immortal lol
5:52: this proves that plastic man is the ultimate threat, even after being blown to pieces, he can reconstitute himself, he’s basically immortal
5:50 is closer
*literally
he can control all of his atoms.
So unless you can literally unmake him, good f*cking luck killing this guy.
Come to think of it, if every single atom in his body is under his direct control then that could possibly make him immortal even if he isn't able rebuild his body from the ground up.
you'd think he was a gag character, and yet you've got people like Brainiac and Batman who see him as more of a threat than someone like superman
He's similar to the flash in the fact he's OPAF but limited by his personality/morals
gag characters in serious settings are really powerful characters. that rabbit guy from dragon ball could probably defeat Beerus and Whis.
@@polocatfan He couldn't since he has to touch his opponents to turn them into carrots and both Beerus and Whis have Ultra Instinct (and are trillions of times faster than him) so yeah
And besides, Beerus is immune to gag abilities
The man can mold his body into any shape he wants, his body isn’t constructed from regular organic material so he’s immune to disease, and poisons (if I remember right) if he’s blown apart he can just reassemble himself. It’s like trying to fight a living pile of play-doh, it’s weird and goofy but theirs no real stopping it unless you bottle it.
@@Broomer52 even if you contained him he could just pressurize his insides until he could blow up with enough force to destroy whatever contained him
After all, if you didn’t limit yourself, games wouldn’t be as fun, now would they?
I like how they actually stretch different parts of his body. Mr fantastic just has stretchy limbs in the movies.
Mr fantastic can stretch any part of his bodu
That's is entirely wrong he stretched his entire body to send water shooting at Dr.Doom from a fire hydrant at the end of the movie
My favorite thing about Plas is that he's a better stretcher than Mr. Fantastic OR The Elongated Man for one reason. He's ALSO a shapeshifter. This means he can do the one major thing those two can't: Make holes in his own body.
"I'm a giraffe! That's like the quietest animal!"
That's gotta be my new favorite super hero quote
He's not wrong. Giraffes dont' have vocal chords, so...
@@MrJinglejanglejingleThey don't?
@@parkergreen2704 I believe they do not, last I checked. If some research came out and proved that wrong, I'm going to feel a bit silly.
@@MrJinglejanglejingleI thought I heard it someway.
I'm gonna be real here. The first time I saw plastic man was in Batman the brave and the bold, so I thought he only existed in the show.
He was a Golden Age character, and he was pretty obscure until The Brave and the Bold gave him a much needed spotlight.
He had his own cartoon show in the late 70s or early 80s.
@@ericdunn360 Yes, but Plas didn't appear in much of anything in a major capacity, outside of comics, until The Brave and the Bold in 2008, which is almost 30 years between big cartoon features.
Funny I remember him being in one episode of superfriends.
@@changvasejarik62 1 episode isn't really a major feature.
He's a goof but his power is actually kinda op.
4.6/100? Yeah that robot is definitely malfunctioning.
That's why you don't judge a book by it's cover. The only thing limiting Plastic Man is his imagination.
That is why Brainiac later labels him as a 87. He learned not to take him lightly.
i think its cause the robot bases threat of their personality and powers combined, plastic man is pretty much just a good guy with over the top superpowers he wouldnt do anything bad so thats why its so low.
If Plastic man was as serious as Batman he'd be considered more dangerous than the league combined.
@@dartzsantos5758 I thought it was just brainiac being overconfident
3:57
“ooh i like this one”
*terrorizes an entire civilization*
*doesn’t elaborate*
*leaves*
So they wrote a superman level indestructible character, but instead of his only weakness being some rocks it's his own personality. Amazing.
Tbh i wish we had more of him
Yeah. Unfortunately it seems that bigger projects like major movies are being saved for only the biggest names of DC, leaving hidden gems like Plastic Man and other lovable characters as cameos in smaller stuff
@@guardian6788 if they do give him a movie, I’d prefer animated. DC does well with those. Live action is more miss than hits, unfortunately
@@traolin5877 I 100% agree with that
* can turn into a bird - flight
* can turn into a working car - superspeed (to some degree)
* can turn into bigger shapes to give himself more leverage - superstrength
*can turn into literally anyone and change to a matching color for clothing - the ultimate stealth ability
* again, can turn into LITERALLY anything - the ultimate shapeshifter
* can even tear himself apart and come back unscathed - not just healing factor or imortality, hes literally invincible
* Completely immune to telepathic attack since he has no mind to read, yet somehow has consciousness. - I think therefore I am personified.
If he has control at the molecular level, couldn't he just transform into photons and move at lightspeed?
@@izzyj.1079 He turned into a working raygun and managed to kill the Flash. He probably moves at lightspeed already.
I don't know the deep lore of this guy. But from what I know, I love how he still has little moments of temptation when it comes to money and jewels. His quick and cunning nature from his former life, not entirely gone.
It really does help keep him grounded. All too often we get the "Bad guy turned good", but it never seems to be something they struggle with. With Eel, we see a man who genuinely wants to do the right thing, but old habits die hard.
Holy shit Plastic man being voiced by the voice of master shake is legendary
He was also voiced by the spongebob voice guy as well, but I suppose Dana synder did just a good job as tom kenny
THAT'S who it was, I was wracking my brain wondering how I knew the voice.
@@SailorPupitar same here
isnt it also the builder from clash of clans
Gazpacho?
See plastic man is made fun of as kind of a joke but he’s genuinely one of the most powerful people in the dc universe
Because he would be way too overpowered if he wasn’t a joke
This man is Aquaman kryptonite. Use less plastic, save the turtles.
Corporate fishing nets are woven of plastic
the fact that even plastic man can catch up to batman in terms of infiltration is just damn cool
I just realized the part where he was fighting the robots and used a cape actually makes sense, the bots would fire at center mass so making a wider target moves their shot.
the fact that plastic man is one of the most powerful beings in the planet
Indeed, it’s why I REALLY want wiz and boomstick to pit him against reed richards already.
@@changvasejarik62 I got Franklin and Reed mixed and was really confused considering Franklin’s basically omnipotent levels of power.
That would be a cool fight between the stretchy bois though.
Dana Snyder is a wonderful actor, and I love him to death in everything, but Tom Kenny is the best Plastic Man voice in anything Plas has been in. Part of it may simply come down to the way JLA writes Plas, but Tom Kenny feels more able to balance the comedy with the seriousness when needed, whereas Dana Snyder seems to be on the goofy side way too much way too often. (His actor in the Injustice animated movie, Oliver Hudson, has the balance in the right place, but I feel he just doesn't quite have the same charm that Kenny's performance has, but he's actually pretty close)
I have minimal exposure to Michael Bell as Plastic Man in the old DC cartoon stuff, or the small number of actors who have played him in other appearances, so I can't really comment on how they stack up to Kenny, Snyder, and Hudson. But, if you ask me my rankings of those 3, it's Tom Kenny in 1st, followed by Oliver Hudson, with Dana Snyder behind him.
All I heard was Master Shake
Honestly, I prefer Snyder
@@zenologic7786Shake zula, the mic ruler, the old schooler.
4.6 out of 100 is just disrespectful he could kill just about anyone he wants to
I guess it’s based on actions rather than potential? Idk
Plas would be way op if he wasn’t a total goofball
But can he beat Goku? Yes, have some fun Goku fanboys :)
@@normalhuman9878 he was an assasin before he became a hero
Plastic man is aware of how powerful he is, which is why he reacted the way he did. He knew the robot was wrongly judging his abilities, but it just hurt his feelings a little.
@@invicibla2353 Can he? ...Yes. Would he? Probably not. He'd probably be having too much fun goofing around. Like, if Goku *somehow* convinced Plas to not hold back... He'd kill Goku with ease. He's completely immortal, the only way to slow him down is with extreme cold, and if he so much as *touches* you, he can stick to you like glue, slither up your body, and get inside you like he did to The Flash in Injustice.
So, yes. He could. But, in the end... He wouldn't.
6:24 the only person to ever smile at one of plastic man’s jokes
2:25
I like how Plas only cares when its Batman telling him he's outranked.
After everything he's been through he kinda lives for Batsy's approval and I think he follow's the guy's example in a lot of ways.
it's also probably why he's so care free, because he doesn't wanna end up a brooding inapproachable loner like Bruce.
The fact that Plastic Man is voiced by Master Shake in some of these is so perfect for his character.
10:48 As silly as Plas is normally, him telling Batman to "try and keep up" actually sounded awesome.
So he has Mr. Fantastics ability but in advanced and Deadpools comedy and almost-immortality. That's OP in sooo many levels.
"Mr. Fantastic's ability but in advanced" could just be summarized by rubber hose Toon character.
Even beyond Fantastic, honestly. The closest stretcher to Fantastic in DC is The Elongated Man. Plas can do what they can't, and that is make holes in his body. He's a full on shape shifter. Hell, him making himself bigger adds proportional mass to make him stronger as well. He can turn into a fully functional blimp and car! Plastic Man is AWESOME.
Hearing Tom Kenny immediately followed by the gentleman whose name i cannot remember but voiced Master Shake
Mm
The voice actor of Master Shake is Dana Snyder. He was also in Open Season 3.
@@bug9591 wasn't he the Alchemist in Venture Bros?
@@dinkules yes, and also Gazpacho in Chowder
It's called Mood whiplash
@@coolghoul8515 that explains why he sounded familiar.
7:00 Plastic Man's one weakness
Talk about blind by money
“Oh hey😄 I found the key🖕”cracked me up so bad😂😂😂😂😂
It's funny that Plastic Man and Batman get along so well in most stories.
Ah, Plastic Man~
He was always my favorite partner for Batman to team up with in Brave and the Bold.
Not only is he really funny and has a fun personality, but I think his backstory is incredibly interesting; as someone who was once an evil henchmen, now trying to redeem himself with his new powers, but struggling with his own greed even as he's trying to be a superhero and save the day. It's both funny to watch (mainly because of the comedic presentation of his greed), and also a really engaging flaw to overcome.
The only thing I don't particularly like about him is his costume, because it kind of reminds me of an old timey bathingsuit for some reason.
Other than that, he's definitely my favorite. ❤
I also think I prefer Tom Kenny's voice for him over Dana Snyder.
5:37 Kirby Mouthful Mode
I feel like if there was a movie about Plastic Man everyone would love it
There was going to be a Plastic man movie but no cared and it got canceled
It would probably be too similar to the mask.
Plastic man is actually really powerful when you think about it even Batman knows it but it’s unlikely he’d be a villain
But if he did become a villain…
@@normalhuman9878 F 💀
3:44 in that episode plastic man destroys Brainiac's ship alone
I love that the internet is in love with plastic man now after all all time. I think one of the reasons is that he is doing good not because he feels like he should, like as I some sort of moral obligation, but because he likes it and has fun being good-despite his past. I think that's why Superman genuinely seems to not be bothered by him, and indulges him here in the photo, because-he doesn't take himself seriously and just is doing what he needs to do. He could be a TREMEMDOUS threat, but as the person he became-being evil just ain't in the cards for him now.
Tom Kenny and Dana Snyder are both 100% the perfect voices for Plastic Man. I can think of nobody better.
Imagine if Plas wasnt immune to telepathy.
If someone who's actually serious takes control of his powers, they'd be close to unstoppable
I hated how they treated him in Justice League Action
They at least treat Booster Gold just as bad
@@AndresHernandez-yk5im they only treat them that way cause they haven't seen their true potential. Plastic man acted immature and didn't seem to take things seriously, but he has saved multiple members of the justice league many times. And booster gold?... He's admittedly a moron and pretty lazy. But when batman saw what he does to time anomalies and how good he is at that, he admits that booster is a better man than he's given credit for
@@d.j.sterling6694 very true
Well as Batman once put, he usually spends time being comic relief, given he has total control over his body and can virtually be anything he wants. So it made sense they treated him like so, they know his potential and power and yet most of the time he’s off doing nonsense. Though I feel Bats gives him more credit than others given their history (depending on the universe).
@@d.j.sterling6694 booster only pretends to be a incompetent idiot.
Plastic Man my beloved
facts
"I'm a giraffe , thats like the quietest animal!" 9:32
Okay, I love him.
A breath of fresh air in this serious comic universe. He is a big silly socially awkward cutie!
Chewed up by tyrannosaurus rex, and he comes out worried about germs? he is actually OP.
The guy could shrug off a punch from precrisis superman.
Plus Much like black Adam being a stickler for pronunciation, neurotic quirks in men with demigod levels of power is proof the universe is working.
He got atomized once man. He might not win a fight but he can survive it
@@changvasejarik62 I think plastic man has surpassed demigod and gone straight to god level
@@normalhuman9878 not really, plastic man is tough but the second he meets the spectre he learns what true godly power is.
I only count a character as god level if one of three conditions is met.
1. Near OMNISCIENCE or OMNIPOTENCE.
2. Biblical divine right to match demigod power.
3. Pre-2019 Dr. Manhattan or molecule man level of power. (Aka meta-divine right)
Easily the best dc character
Man if Deadpool, Spidey and Plastic Man teamed up nobody would take them seriously in any capacity.
Seriously
I know this isn’t possible but I would have loved to see Jim Carrey play plastic man
I don't know, I think someone else needs to do it because Jim Carey relly dosent seem young enough. If we keep using him, the budget would get to big.
The fact that a Plastic Man movie starring Jim Carrey wasn't made in the nineties, when the man was at his peak, is such a crime.
Tom Kenny did the best Plastic Man, his voice had the right amount of cartoonish inflections and sincere undertones.
4:42 my guy said to the plas-cave😂💀
My favourite Plas moment in the comics was during the Dark Knights Metal finale when he turned into everything. Shark with a bulldozing chainsaw that chews things, it was crazy. Also apparently he had connections to the 10th metal.
Also, his clothes aren't clothes. It's also him, that's why it stretches with him.
It's worth noting that injustice superman recognizes plastic man as a real threat while wonder woman and the others thought he was just a loud mouth buffoon. He then rescued almost everyone out of superman's prison at the same time. I am talking 100 plus super villains, green lanterns, and heroes who didn't go along with superman and he got them out all at once.
It’s good that he’s reformed, it would be hell for the heroes to stop him
Just goes to show A. What a great, fun character Plastic Man is, and B. What a gem of a cartoon Batman: The Brave and the Bold was.
9:25 The moment I realized it's the same voice actor as master shake from aqua teen
Straight up 12 minutes of Plastic-Man being absolutely iconic.
Threat level 4.6? This robot clearly knows nothing about Plastic man, he has to be at least at 70 and that's just because of his altitude, if he becomes serious he could be very dangerous
The threat level in that episode is scaled from most to least, I believe. The more dangerous someone is, the smaller the number. Meaning Plastic Man is actually way up there in the threat level.
@@jor4114 oh, I see...
@@jor4114 oh that that means he's a 95.4 if 100 hundred was the max.
@@jor4114 that is wrong, later in that episode brainiac upgrades plastic man threat level to 87 and said he is going to be destroyed first
perhaps the most underrated DC character to date. We really need a Plastic Man tv show.
Every time I see plastic man I always think about how he’d just straight up be a better Green Lantern than any of the core
Batman brave and the bold is where a lot of my respect for the lesser known heroes comes from. They explained what made each recurring hero tick perfectly.
What's not to like about Plastic man?
All I can say is I salute the animators.
I love Plastic Man because he's the peak of the genre of hero that is absurdly powerful, but has approximately 3 and a half brain cells to work with. If he was a little more creative, homeboy would be an absolute *terror* of a crime fighter, but he has a good heart and moral compass when he needs it.
"Justice League Hunger Force assemble!"
Halfway through this video, I realized where I’d heard his voice before. Dana Snyder also voices Master Shake in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and honestly he’s perfect for Plastic man.
Tom Kenny voices Plastic Man
Sorry for my other reply, I’m concussed and misread your comment😭
@@rexy1337 no worries!
Batman feels like continually fighting with his intrusive thoughts around Plas lol
This guy is number one on my wish list for Multiversus.
I like how if you gave a serious person Plas's abilities they'd probably be one of the most powerful beings there is, but he's too goofy to ever be a dictator. I mean he can shape shift with next to no limits and depending on who you ask can reform even after breaking.
You know it's bad when batmans plan to deal with him is basically "temporarily contain him and hope for the best"
let's be honest, the Plas-mobile is pretty adorable
My favorite part is when plastic man returned all the gold he stole from the vault and when he asked Batman if he wanted to count them, Batman just said, “I trust you.” Granted this prompted him to put the diamond he had still had back into the bag
I'm pretty sure plastic man is just a child friendly deadpool when you break it down
Never stop putting songs at the start. You have a gift for making good choices
The character is naturally oriented towards visual gags and he still gets the best lines in every show that has him
The fact that Eel’s kid looks exactly like him is hilarious. He even has the goggles 😂😂😂
this character would've been a perfect va gig for robin williams
damn you can really tell how much love the animators put into plasticman's morphing abilities those smear frames are gorgeous I love how you can pause at any moment he stretches and find a cursed frame of some kind that's almost profile picture worthy.
He needs a movie cartoon animated short he needs something this character is a goldmine they just never touch
he’s so cute and dorky i love him 😭
Plastic man's only weakness is his desire for money
So basically he's like deadpool.
Actually really threatening, but too busy being "funny" to actually be useful half the time.
Batman thinking about ejecting made me laugh so hard
Edit: can we get the full clip?