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Mirror Master

DC Comics supervillain, specifically of the Flash From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mirror Master
This article is about the character. For the album, see Mirror Master (album).

Mirror Master is the name of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is a recurring foe of the Flash with considerable technical expertise and skills involving the use of mirrors.[1] Three individuals have donned the guise of Mirror Master, and have been members of the Rogues. In 2009, Mirror Master was ranked as IGN's 79th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.[2]

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Mirror Master
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The Sam Scudder incarnation of Mirror Master as depicted in The Flash #136 (May 1963). Art by Carmine Infantino.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceScudder:
The Flash #105 (March 1959)
McCulloch:
Animal Man #8 (February 1989)
Created byScudder:
John Broome
Carmine Infantino
McCulloch:
Grant Morrison
Chas Truog
In-story information
Alter ego- Samuel Joseph Scudder
- George "Digger" Harkness
- Evan McCulloch
SpeciesMetahuman
Team affiliationsRogues
Secret Society of Super Villains
Injustice Gang
Suicide Squad
Legion of Doom
Abilities
  • Various powers over mirrors, including the ability to travel through them and trap others within them
  • Glass transmutation
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Both incarnations of Mirror Master have made several appearances in DC-related media, with Sam Scudder being portrayed in live-action by David Cassidy in the 1990 The Flash series and by Grey Damon in the 2014 The Flash series, while Efrat Dor portrayed a gender-swapped version of Evan McCulloch, named Eva McCulloch, in the 2014 series.

Publication history

The Sam Scudder version of Mirror Master first appeared in The Flash #105, and was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino.[3]

The Evan McCulloch version of Mirror Master first appeared in Animal Man #8, and was created by Grant Morrison and Chas Truog.

Fictional character biography

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Sam Scudder

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Mirror Master (Scudder) in his first appearance. Cover of The Flash vol. 1, #105 (Feb.-March 1959 DC Comics), art by Carmine Infantino, pencils, and Joe Giella, inks

Samuel Joseph Scudder is a simple convict, but 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,[4] and is a frequent foe of the Flash.

During the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, Scudder is killed by Krona's trap.[5] He remains dead for years before being resurrected in The New 52 continuity reboot.[6]

Evan McCulloch

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The Evan McCulloch incarnation of Mirror Master as depicted in Who's Who in the DC Universe #13 (October 1991). Art by Alan Weiss.

Scottish mercenary Evan McCulloch was left as a baby on the doorstep of an orphanage run by a Mrs. McCulloch, with nothing but his first name and a photograph of his parents. He grows up fairly normal and around age 8, McCulloch is sexually assaulted by an older boy. Evan, in self-defense, drowns the boy in a creek, and eventually leaves the orphanage at age 16.[7]

He settles in Glasgow, taking up a life that leads to crime and eventually takes up employment as an assassin. He becomes one of the most renowned mercenaries in the United Kingdom. One day, he has two hits scheduled, and due to an eye injury is unable to make out his second target. After firing his shot, he recognizes the target as his father.

At his father's funeral, McCulloch sees his mother. He tries to work up the courage to see her, but visits her too late, discovering that she has committed suicide. Stricken with grief at the loss of both parents, McCulloch decides to turn himself in but is instead picked up by a consortium of U.S. government and big business interests, who offer him the costume and weapons of the original Mirror Master in exchange for his services.

He moves to Keystone City and comes into conflict with Wally West, the third Flash. He discovers a "Mirror Dimension" which enables him to travel through any reflective surface.[8] In Underworld Unleashed, the Rogues accept Mirror Master as Scudder's successor. After being betrayed by Neron, Mirror Master and four of the other Rogues die and go to Hell, only to return after a confrontation between Neron and the Flash.[9]

In "One Year Later", Mirror Master appears as a member of the new Suicide Squad.[10] Inertia persuades Mirror Master and the Rogues to kill Bart Allen, but they are enraged after learning that they murdered a child.[11]

In The Flash #12 (2024), Mirror Master and the Rogues work with the Arc Angles, a group of interdimensional entities who are poisoning the Speed Force. After the Arc Angles betray Mirror Master, he works with Barry Allen and Wally West to battle them, during which he is killed and erased from history.[12][13]

Powers and abilities

Mirror Master uses mirrors that produce fantastic effects such as hypnotism, invisibility, holograms, physical transformations, communications and travel into other dimensions (other parallel universes or planes of existence).

Evan McCulloch uses a laser pistol.

Other versions

  • An alternate universe variant of Mirror Master appears in Tangent: Superman's Reign #1. This version's body is composed of a glass-like substance and can create portals to other universes.
  • An unidentified Mirror Master makes a cameo appearance in Justice League International #65 (June 1994) as a member of the "League-Busters".
  • A character based on Mirror Master called Mirror Man appears in "Gotham Underground" and Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge as a member of the New Rogues until he is killed by Mirror Master.[14]
  • An alternate timeline variant of Evan McCulloch / Mirror Master appears in the Flashpoint tie-in Flashpoint: Citizen Cold. After being imprisoned in the Mirrorverse and presumed dead, he recruits Weather Wizard, Tar Pit, and Fallout to form the Rogues before breaking out to pursue revenge against Citizen Cold, only to be killed by him.[15]
  • A heroic, futuristic incarnation of Mirror Master called Mirror Monarch appears in The Flash (vol. 3) as a member of a metahuman police force called the Renegades from the 25th century who was killed by an ancestor of his teammate the Top.[16][17]

In other media

Television

Live-action

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Mirror Master as seen in The Flash (1990).
  • The Sam Scudder incarnation of Mirror Master appears in The Flash (1990) episode "Done with Mirrors", portrayed by David Cassidy. This version is a criminal who utilizes holograms projected by reflective disks.
  • Characters based on Mirror Master appear in The Flash (2014):
    • The Sam Scudder incarnation of Mirror Master appears in the third and seventh seasons, portrayed by Grey Damon.[18][19] This version was originally a member of Leonard Snart's gang three years prior to the series before gaining mirror-based abilities amidst the explosion of S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator. This also trapped him in a mirror, where he remained until escaping in the present and freeing his partner Rosalind Dillon from Iron Heights Penitentiary so they can go on a crime spree together, though the two are defeated by the Flash and Jesse Quick. As of the episode "All's Well That Ends Wells", Scudder and Dillon joined Black Hole until Eva McCulloch (see below) shatters him, revealing he was the first mirror duplicate she created. Additionally, a possible future version of Scudder appears in the episode "The Once and Future Flash".
    • A genderbent incarnation of Evan McCulloch named Eva McCulloch (portrayed by Efrat Dor) appears in the sixth and seventh seasons.[20] She is a quantum engineer, co-founder of McCulloch Technologies, and wife of its CEO Joseph Carver who was also blasted into a mirror and became a mirror duplicate like Scudder when S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator exploded, though she was trapped for six years. After learning Carver stole her technology and used it to create Black Hole, McCulloch developed and honed her newfound mirror-based abilities to get revenge. During her sixth year in the mirrorverse, McCulloch traps several key figures with her and uses mirror duplicates of them to procure technology and eventually escape the mirrorverse. Upon doing so, she kills Carver and retakes her company. After attacking Black Hole's remnants, shattering Scudder's mirror duplicate, discovering her true nature, and the Flash leaking it to the public, McCulloch goes berserk, takes the name "Mirror Monarch", and attempts to replace everyone in Central City with mirror duplicates until the Flash and Iris West-Allen convince her to stand down. Due to her duplicates having grown too powerful, the three destroy them before McCulloch releases her prisoners and returns to the mirrorverse to start anew.

Animation

Film

Video games

Miscellaneous

  • An unidentified Mirror Master appears in Super Friends #23.[25]
  • The Sam Scudder incarnation of Mirror Master is referenced in the Ookla the Mok song "Stranger in the Mirror".[26]
  • The DCAU incarnation of Mirror Master appears in issue #12 of the Justice League Unlimited tie-in comic book.[27]
  • The Sam Scudder incarnation of Mirror Master appears in issue #16 of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold tie-in comic book.[28]
  • The Evan McCulloch incarnation of Mirror Master appears in the Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel comic. First appearing as the leader of a U.S. government-backed strike team, they are hired to kidnap Jonathan and Martha Kent in an attempt to make the increasingly hostile Superman stand down and stop meddling in government affairs or else they will kill the Kents. In response, the Justice League launch a manhunt for Mirror Master, eventually locating him and rescuing the Kents. Years later, Plastic Man breaks Mirror Master, among other supervillains, out of prison to help Batman's Insurgency cripple Superman's Regime. Mirror Master leads the Rogues in doing so until Bizarro kills Heat Wave and Weather Wizard, after which the surviving Rogues and the Flash hold an informal memorial service for them.

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