Mirror Master
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Facts
- first appearance: Flash #105 (March 1959)
- real name: - Samuel Joseph Scudder, - Digger Harkness , - Evan McCulloch
- debut:(Scudder), Flash #105 (March 1959),(McCulloch), Animal Man #8, (February 1989)
- creators: (Scudder), John Broome,Carmine Infantino,(McCulloch), Grant Morrison,Chas Truog
- alliances:Rogues,Secret Society of Super Villains,Injustice Gang
- powers:Various powers over mirrors, including the ability to travel through them and trap others within them.
Mirror Master is a supervillain in the DC Universe. He is a recurring foe of the Flash with large technical knowledge and skills involving the use of mirrors. Four individuals have donned the guise of Mirror Master.
Sam Scudder
Sam Scudder is a simple convict, but he has the goal to learn how to get inside the reflection of a mirror. Stumbling into a hall of mirrors, he experiments and discovers a way to get in his own reflection. He uses this power to become the criminal Mirror Master. He battles the Flash several times. Later, Captain Boomerang briefly assumes Scudder's identity, becoming the second Mirror Master. He uses this as an alternate identity with which to commit crimes, thus not alerting his teammates in Suicide Squad to his extracurricular activities.
Evan McCulloch
As a baby, Scottish mercenary Evan McCulloch was left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by a Mrs. McCulloch, with nothing but his first name and a photograph of his parents. He grew up as a fairly normal child, until one night he got in a fight with a rapist bully and killed him. He was never caught, and, at age 16, Evan left the orphanage, again with nothing but his parents' photograph.
He settled in Glasgow, where he took up a life of drinking and partying that eventually led to crime. Robbery and extortion eventually led to murder, and Evan began to hire himself out as an assassin. He was an excellent killer, and quickly became one of the most renowned mercenaries in the United Kingdom.
One day, he had two hits scheduled. His eye was injured in the course of the first, leaving him with impaired vision. Evan couldn't shake the feeling that the second target seemed familiar, but only after he pulled the trigger did he recognize the man as his father from the photograph. At the funeral, Evan saw his mother.
Over the next few days, he tried to work up the courage to see her, but by the time he had, she had committed suicide. Stricken with grief, Evan was about to turn himself over to the authorities when a shady consortium of U.S. government and big business interests offered him the costume and weapons of the original Mirror Master in exchange for his services.
His first assignment was to scare Animal Man into abandoning his animal-rights stance, a mission he failed thanks to the furious kickings of the hero's wife. After he was fired and replaced by another assassin for refusing to actually kill Animal Man's wife and children (and for his pay being withheld), McCulloch helped Animal Man to track and fight the same men who gave McCulloch his weapons, but his heroism was short lived. He continues to work as a criminal and a supervillain-for-hire. On occasion, he has also worked out of costume as a mercenary in Britain (as seen in the Vertigo series Mobfire).
He later moved to Keystone City, and came into conflict with the third Flash. He discovered a "Mirror Dimension" which enables him to travel through any reflective surface. During the events of Underworld Unleashed, the Rogues had accepted him as Scudder's successor. After being betrayed by the devil Neron, McCulloch and four of the other Rogues died and went to Hell, but returned later due to a confrontation between Neron and the Flash. For a brief time, McCulloch then joined Lex Luthor's Injustice Gang and fought the Justice League of America.
He worked with Blacksmith in her takeover of Keystone and Central City. When her plan failed, he became a member of Captain Cold's gang. He also battles an addiction to cocaine, which has gotten him a beating from Cold. He seemed to have sobered up since the death of Captain Boomerang.
McCulloch subsequently joined Alexander Luthor's Secret Society after the Rogue War. He, Captain Boomerang and Captain Cold battled the Outsiders before Infinite Crisis. In Infinite Crisis #7, they fought in the final battle being defeated by Martian Manhunter.
One Year Later, Evan is a member of the new Suicide Squad in Checkmate #6. He is again using cocaine. He was last seen with a tracking device on his neck, taking incriminating photos of Sasha Bordeaux and Michael Holt together. He is currently seen in Salvation Run.
He was seen as the member of Rogues who joined the Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains.
In Final Crisis #1, he is seen teamed with Doctor Light. They are sent by Libra to recover Metron's chair. They are briefly challenged by Empress, Sparx and Mas Y Menos, but defeat them easily by combining Light's beams with Mirror Master's Mirrors.
However in "Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge" #1, Evan and the rest of the Rogues reject Libra's offer, wanting to stay out of the game.
Powers and abilities
Mirror Master's uses mirrors that produce fantastic effects such as hypnotism, invisibility, holograms, physical transformations, communications and travel into other dimensions.
Evan McCulloch uses a laser pistol.
Tangent Mirror Master body was made of a glass-like substance, and he was able to create portals to other worlds in the Multiverse.
Other versions
- Mirror Master (Evan McCulloch) has appeared in the Justice League Unlimited spin-off comic book. His appearances are in issues # 12
Tangent Mirror Master
A new Mirror Master featured in Tangent: Superman's Reign #1. This version's body was made of a glass-like substance, and he was able to create portals to other worlds in the Multiverse.
League Busters Mirror Master
A fourth Mirror Master briefly appeared as a member of the "League-Busters" in Justice League International v2, #65 (Jun 1994). He wore a purple outfit; this outfit has not been seen again.
Other media
Mirror Master appeared in an episode of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show entitled "Reflections in Crime". Interestingly enough the Flash doesn't appear in this episode. In the episode, Mirror Master sets about trapping the Superfriends in this particular episode inside mirrors, called the sixth dimension. The Superfriends in this episode were Superman, Batman, Robin, Firestorm, and Samurai. Lois Lane makes a cameo appearance in the episode.
An episode of the live action The Flash TV series featured Samuel "Sam' Scudder, a criminal nicknamed the Mirror Master, who used holograms projected by small mirrored disks to commit his heists. He was played by David Cassidy.
A Mirror Master cameo appears in the Justice League episode, "Eclipsed". An actor is hired to play Mirror Master as a part of Flash's Lightspeed energy bar commercial. In the commercial he speaks one line of dialog with a Scottish accent, suggesting he is Evan McColloch.
Mirror Master next appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode, "Flash and Substance", voiced by Alexis Denisof. He joins forces with Captain Boomerang, Captain Cold, and Trickster to attack Flash and later demolish the newly opened Flash Museum upon entering through Linda Park's compact mirror. The character seems to be a mix of Scudder and McColloch. He is clearly American and thusly not the Scottish follow-up Mirror Master, as well as being a simple criminal and not a hitman; however, his mirror powers are tilted more towards the enhanced, almost supernatural McCulloch skills, including a Mirror Dimension. In his battle with Flash, Batman, and Orion, Mirror Master ended up trapped in the broken shards of the mirror after Batman threw his Batarang at Linda Park's mirror. Forensics were shown collecting the pieces of the mirror.
Mirror Master appeared in the fifth season of The Batman voiced by and modeled after John Larroquette. This Mirror Master is referred to as Dr. Sam Scudder, a brilliant but mad optical physicist. In "A Mirror Darkly," he employed mirror versions of Batman, Flash, and Robin to steal components for his Mirror Portal Ray. He used it to trap Gotham's citizens in any reflective surface--mirrors, windows, even a silver serving tray. On a side note, he has a female assistant named Smoke. Mirror Master later returns in the episode "Lost Heroes" where he fights Flash and Green Arrow in a circus fun house only for Green Arrow to cut off his reflection by a slime-emitting arrow.
External links
- Hyperborea entry for Mirror Master I
- Hyperborea entry for Mirror Master II
- Alan Kistler's Profile On: THE FLASH - A detailed analysis of the history of the Flash by comic book historian Alan Kistler. Covers information all the way from Jay Garrick to Barry Allen to today, as well as discussions on the various villains and Rogues who fought the Flash. Various art scans.
- Crimson Lightning - An online index to the comic book adventures of the Flash.