Wonder Woman villain: how would you fix him/her: Mouse Man

[AmiMizuno]

I mean other than controlling rodents what else can you do with him?

[Nyssane]

He doesn't need to be fixed. Some villains are meant to be campy and goofy. And he's certainly less offensive than, say, Egg Fu.

[Mutant God]

A Nazi soldier apart of a small project that uses the occult to shrink men down into becoming a tiny army but when WW took it down before it was finish the unname soldier was the only one shrunken down and was forgotten by everyone else. Currently he plots to get his revenge on Diana for ruining his life by spying on her and her allies and delivering intel to her enemies.

[WonderScott]

I'd give him size control abilities, a wererat form, telepathic control over vermin, and a couple of pet Apokorats as his allies.

Go for the monstrous motif that's symbolic to Wonder villains.

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[CRaymond]

Hmmm...

Not everyone Diana faces should be physically superhuman, but instead be positioned to be difficult to resolve through diplomacy and kindness.

Mouse Man should be an underbelly criminal, trading in information, using rodents as spies.

Part of the reason I placed PalmerTech Laboratories in Gateway was so that Giganta could work there, and Mouse Man could steal some tech, thereby giving him size-changing powers too.

[Michael Watkins]

I already did one in another thread. my version would be a brilliant but socially awkward young man with a barely concealed hatred of women yet an obsession over a fellow grad student. pursuing the field of cybernetics, he would have found some way to remote view through the eyes of rats; who he had (quite illegally) surgically altered. he would use these rats to spy on the classmate and, gradually, ruin her life (as her friends & romantic interest are scared off). I imagine that Wonder Woman gets involved after the young woman exhausts her other resources (it's kind of hard to explain to police that some unseen force is spying on you and messing with your belongings). fast forward past the escalation, him confronting his victim, and encountering Wonder Woman. by accident or his own fault, "Mouse Man" finds himself unable to return to his physical form. so he would spend some time trapped in the minds of several rats. by the next appearance, he would have (in desperation) uploaded his mind into an action figure sized robot/custom miniature of himself; used in the initial phases of his experiment. he also had an extensive toy collection. the humiliation makes him even more deluded than usual. so covers himself up in that mouse costume. so the goal of my "fix" was to pin down the science. he didn't create a shrinking serum and a way to control mice. he used technology to project his mind and control smaller minds. i thought it was fitting that he basically trapped/isolated himself; after what he did to his earlier victim.

[Michael Watkins]

A Nazi soldier apart of a small project that uses the occult to shrink men down into becoming a tiny army but when WW took it down before it was finish the unname soldier was the only one shrunken down and was forgotten by everyone else. Currently he plots to get his revenge on Diana for ruining his life by spying on her and her allies and delivering intel to her enemies.

?wouldn't he be...geriatric? or is this a Magneto situation?

[Mutant God]

?wouldn't he be...geriatric? or is this a Magneto situation?

Maybe the magic slowed down the aging process or maybe all the exercise running around and climbing up things made him a very strong and flexible old man.

[MajorHoy]

Not being a veterinarian, I'm not sure of the exact procedures involved in fixing/neutering a "Mouse Man".

(Other than the cruder "Lorena Bobbitt" method.)

[Lex Luthor]

He doesn't need to be fixed. Some villains are meant to be campy and goofy. And he's certainly less offensive than, say, Egg Fu.

I second this. Keep him as he is.

[AmiMizuno]

So if he is supposed to be goofy how can be written without making him overly goofy? I mean even many goofy villains have their great moments.

[Alan2099]

Make him the evil version of Marvel's Squirrel Girl. Kinda silly looking and not entirly taken seriously, but a major threat whenever he shows up.

[AmiMizuno]

Make him the evil version of Marvel's Squirrel Girl. Kinda silly looking and not entirly taken seriously, but a major threat whenever he shows up.

True, so how do you see his costume design being like?

[The Overlord]

Make him the evil version of Marvel's Squirrel Girl. Kinda silly looking and not entirly taken seriously, but a major threat whenever he shows up.

How would he be a major threat to Wonder Woman, without WW jobbing to him? Squirrel Girl is a comedic character, really there is no way for her to beat Dr. Doom or Thanos, but the writers do it for a gag. That doesn't work for a villain the way it does a hero, you couldn't have Mouse Man defeat the clearly superior Wonder Woman, without fans thinking it demeans WW.

Squirrel Girl works because she is a silly hero, the audience roots for her despite her goofiness, Mouse Man is a silly villain, the audience just wants him to be humiliated as a joke.