Mikhail Mxyzptlk
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| Mikhail Mxyzptlk | |
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| Family | Unknown |
| Occupation | Student (Smallville High School) |
| Powers and Abilities | Verbal mind control |
| Played By | Trent Ford |
| Status | Alive |
| Appeared In | Jinx |
Mikhail Mxyzptlk is a teenaged metahuman from the Balkans who has the ability to influence others' actions with vocal commands. He came from a line of people who lived near the Balkans and can "control the hand of luck". The way he was chose as an exchange student was through an organization set up through LuthorCorp.
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[edit] Powers and Abilities
Mikhail has the ability to control people actions through vocal commands. The controlled person is affected even if they can't hear his command, as his commands travels over high-frequency waves that can't be picked up by the human ear. This gives Mikhail considerable range; he was able to make Clark Kent trip by saying the word "trip", even though Clark was on the football field and Mikhail was sitting in the football stands.
[edit] Vulnerabilities
Mikhail's powers can be jammed by a frequency jammer designed to emit on the same frequency used by his powers. This frequency jammer can be produced using radio technology, or it can be produced naturally by a swarm of locusts.
[edit] Season 4
A young foreign-exchange student, Mikhail was sponsored by LuthorCorp. Mikhail and started an underground gambling ring at Smallville High School. He used his powers to control all the gamblers involving in his ring. His powers could even control Clark Kent, enough to strangle him and force him to play in the game and lose. Chloe Sullivan managed to find a way to stop him using a frequency jammer to scramble his powers. This prevented Mikhail from using his powers permanently.
After Mikhail was arrested, Lex Luthor gained custody of him and took him to a mysterious Level 33.1 beneath the Metropolis LuthorCorp Plaza building where, as Luthor said, Mikhail's powers would return to him.
[edit] Quest
Mikhail was able to escape from Level 33.1 at some point. He worked together with Molly Griggs to try to stop 33.1. His powers were more powerful than ever. Oliver Queen found them and tried to recruit them but Mikhail resisted, assuming that Lex and Oliver were both trying to lock them up in 33.1. Oliver knocked out Mikhail in enough time for Molly to escape.
[edit] In the Comics
In the comics, Mxyzptlk was one of Superman's few enemies that doesn't need kryptonite to defeat him. Mister Mxyzptlk was an imp from the fifth dimension. Not being bound by our physical laws, he could do things that seemed to be magical, but saying or writing his name backwards returned him to his own universe. In the comics, he sacrificed his life for Superman when a villain named Ruin tried to kill the hero with kryptonite weaponry.
[edit] Quotes
- Clark: I'm watching the sports editor's tape of the game, trying to figure out what happened, but... It's like I had no control, like my mind was sending one message, but--
- Chloe: But your body was getting another.
- Clark: Yeah.
- Chloe: It's Mikhail.
- Clark: The foreign exchange kid? Mix-uh
- Chloe: Mxyzptlk. Say that three times fast. He's our new resident puppet master. This is kind of embarrassing, but he made me kiss him.
- Clark: (looks lightly doubtful) Made you.
- Chloe: Yeah. It was just like how you explained your trip. It was like someone else was controlling me.
- Chloe: (reading the computer) It's some legend from the Piatore region in the Balkans. That's near where Mikhail's from.
- Clark: It says the region has been terrorized for centuries by a bloodline of people who have-- who can control the hand of luck.
- Chloe: It's not exactly luck if they're controlling people. What does it say about the backwards name?
- Clark: The family changed their name a century ago and fled the area to escape the stigma after the village mysteriously burned to the ground.
- Chloe: Looks like Mikhail's still running from his heritage. (she comes back to the computer) It doesn't exactly say how to stop the kissing bandit, does it? (noticing something on the screen.) Oh, here. According to the legend, the only thing that stopped them was a plague of locusts.
- Chloe: (handing the file to Clark) Well, when locusts swarm, they emit an energy wave to avoid crashing into each other. Maybe Mikhail's commands operate on a similar frequency, you know, like a radio signal.
- Clark: Or a dog whistle. The sound travels, but the human ear doesn't pick it up.
- Chloe: Yeah. Now, what's interesting is that once locusts' signals are jammed, they can't fly anymore without running into each other. It's permanent.
- Clark: Well, maybe all we have to do is find something that will jam Mikhail's frequency for good.
[edit] Notes
- Mikhail pronounces his name as Mix-ill-pit-ill-lick.
