The Prankster was launched to the brand new DC Universe in at the moment’s problem of Nightwing, and now that you simply all have had slightly time to digest the difficulty, we figured it was value asking: Who’s behind that masks?

The model of the character we see on this problem has little or no in frequent with the suited, mustachioed Superman villain of the previous. Actually, we have got some ideas on his costume and look beneath.

In any occasion, we’ll low cost folks like Nightwing’s new roommate and random background bar patrons, as a result of whereas they’re theoretically potential, they appear fairly unlikely within the face of respectable candidates proper in entrance of us.

There are a variety of choices that stick out, so listed here are some ideas:

The Mayor of Chicago

He is obtained a go well with, a smirk…and no title. Might we be seeing a model of the unique Prankster in the best way the Mayor comports himself in public, after which one other “face” that he solely breaks on on particular events like we noticed in at the moment’s problem? We’ll discover out quickly sufficient, if a future episode refers to him by Oswald Loomis’s title.

And, actually, what higher disguire to your extremely well-known face than a complete change of race and hair? If I have been an older black man attempting to cover my id as a grasp cyber terrorist, I would in all probability attempt to be a blonde-haired white man, too.

It definitely would not appear unlikely, given the truth that the mayor appears much less averse to the Prankster’s pc crimes than most mayors could be…however however, how would The Prankster have despatched within the tip, if it have been the Mayor (who did not look like within the bar), how would he have recognized Nightwing’s location to show him in? (Reply: He is a hacker, and that dude within the background taking cellphone pics was in all probability one thing he might entry.)

Johnny Spade

The stilted approach of talking definitely appears to level you that approach, would not it? Each of the characters have a clean approach about them, a skinny body and select to speak right down to the folks round them.

Spade can be carrying a hat for your entire time we see him, which means that we do not have a lot to go on, when it comes to whether or not he may be hiding an unruly mess of blonde hair below that skullcap.

Mali/Lisa

That full-body costume and full-face masks might be hiding one thing greater than it appears. The “armored” look might, in actual fact, be forcing Mali’s breasts out of view (she’s not as massively-endowed as many comedian ebook girls, so that is truly a believable chance).

She’s additionally obtained the floppy blonde hair–long sufficient to be Prankster’s, however not fairly lengthy sufficient to disqualify her. And what sort of prank wouldn’t it be to steer everybody on for all that point that she’s a person, solely to not be? Hell, perhaps the opposite voice in her head IS a person.

If it is her, although, she will need to have been faking her complete psychotic break within the bar, as a result of it positive looks like the individual within the Prankster costume has it collectively higher than she did…

Cluemaster

Here is one that might blow some minds and explode some comics message boards, no? Take a look at the design on the jacket, and the floppy hair. As quickly as I noticed that hair, I remembered the previous Tom Grummett’s Robin-era Cluemaster.

You will need to Google the character to get a way for the hair; the jacket appeared the important thing piece of proof right here, so I chosen a graphic that went with it.

And why would that actually throw issues into chaos? Nicely, it was through the Tom Grummett period that the thought of Cluemaster’s daughter grew to become an necessary one. First a reasonably annoying woman who had a crush on Robin and gave the impression to be mainly created to face between him and the “one, real love” of his early comics, Stephanie Brown ultimately morphed right into a hero in her personal proper, rebelling in opposition to her father’s villainous methods. After her time as Spoiler…properly, you already know.

And she or he’ been sorely missed by a small, however vocal, group of followers. Are you able to think about what sort of mayhem would erupt in these quarters if it turned out her dad was being reintroduced right into a bat-title…however rebranded as one other character and presumably absent his daughter?