Alter ego John Monroe Publisher DC Comics | Team affiliations Suicide Squad | |
Abilities Great agility
Hand-to-Hand Combat First appearance The Fury of Firestorm #35 (August 1985) Created by Gerry Conway, Rafael Kayanan Similar Naiad, Plastique, Fury, Parasite, Slipknot | ||
Weasel is the name of 2 DC Comics supervillains.
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Publication history
The first Weasel appeared in The Fury of Firestorm #35 and was created by Gerry Conway and Rafael Kayanan.
John Monroe
John Monroe was a lonely student at Stanford University in the late 1960s. His contemporaries rarely noticed him. If they did, they would refer to him in derogatory terms using words like "Weasel" to describe him. This made him bitter, driving him to become a murderer decades later. Around this time, Jack became a teacher at Vandemeer University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A number of his fellow students from Stanford University held prominent positions. To rationalize killing three of them, he considered them threats to getting tenure at Vandemeer. Taking on the costumed identity of Weasel, he stalked the campus grounds and brutally murdered Arnold Lintel, Linda Walters, and a night guard named Chuck Gherkin. When Martin Stein (one half of Firestorm) shows up for a job opening as a physics professor, he made two attempts on Martin Stein's life. In the second attempt, he would've killed Martin had he not provoked the transformation of Firestorm. After a fight, Firestorm unmasked Weasel and sent him to jail.
Weasel was later recruited into the Suicide Squad for their ill-fated mission to rescue Hawk. During the mission, he managed to cause the apparent death of Thinker. Upon wearing the Thinker helmet, Rick Flag Jr. was told by the Thinker helmet to kill Weasel which Rick Flag Jr. did. Weasel's death was not mourned.
During the Blackest Night storyline, Weasel's dead body was among those entombed in the Hall of Justice. When the Black Power Rings flew in, Weasel's body was among the dead bodies that were reanimated by the Black Power Rings and inducted into the Black Lantern Corps.
In The New 52 (a reboot of the DC Comics universe) during the Forever Evil storyline, Weasel was depicted in a more animalistic state. He was lurking in Central Park when Steve Trevor and Killer Frost were looking for Cheetah (who was in possession of Wonder Woman's lasso). Weasel ambushed Steve Trevor and Killer Frost where he was frozen by a reluctant Killer Frost. Killer Frost told Steve Trevor that Weasel is considered a joke compared to Black Bison and Multiplex. Before Steve Trevor and Killer Frost press on, Killer Frost apologizes to Weasel.
Second Weasel
The second Weasel is an enemy of Damian Wayne.
Powers and abilities
The first Weasel has great agility and is an expert at hand-to-hand combat. His costume also has sharp claws.
The second Weasel has canine-like teeth.