Rudy Jones
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| Rudy Jones | |
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| Family | Unknown |
| Occupation | Member of Tess Mercer's team |
| Powers and Abilities | Power absorption |
| Played By | Brendan Fletcher |
| Status | Incarcerated |
| Appeared In | Injustice |
Rudy Jones aka Parasite is a member of Tess Mercer's Meteor Team and has the ability to steal other people's powers at will.
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[edit] Powers and Abilities
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Parasite has the ability to steal the powers of other people through physical contact. When Livewire failed Tess Mercer when she and Neutron failed to stop Doomsday, Tess had Parasite steal her powers. When he drained the powers of Clark Kent, his Kryptonian powers were a little too much for Parasite and once he had successfully got them, he was thrown backwards because of the power he had absorbed. He remarked that he thought Clark's power was only super-speed. He also absorbs their weaknesses as shown when he is weakened by the kryptonite ring that Oliver was wearing. He also has the ability to return the powers he stole to the owner as he did with Clark when he was getting killed by the kryptonite.
The current power he's known to possess is electricity from Livewire after he returns Clark's powers.
[edit] Season Eight
He is with Plastique when he comes to help Livewire and Neutron but Doomsday was gone and killed Neutron. On Tess Mercer's orders, he steals Livewire's powers and leaves along with Plastique for Tess to deal with Livewire. They meet with Eva Greer in the form of Chloe Sullivan and she questions Tess' loyalty to them. Later he steals Clark Kent's powers and learns the truth from Plastique about Tess. They torture Tess and then Oliver Queen as The Green Arrow weakens him with the kryptonite ring. He returns Clark's powers to stop the pain and then is taken away along with Plastique.
[edit] Notes
- When Rudy stole someone's abilites, an image of a transparent purple figure would exit his body, enter his victim's, then leave and go back into his body, robbing the person of their powers. This figure resembled how Parasite appeared in the comics.
- Unlike his comic book counterpart, Rudy appears to be able to permanently rob someone of their powers as well as give it back to them.
- Rudy's name was never referred on screen, but his name was seen on Isis Foundation computer screen.
[edit] In the Comics
Originally a menial slacker, Rudy Jones was transformed into the Parasite while working as a janitor at a Pittsburgh S.T.A.R. Labs facility. Unknown to anyone at the scene, the Lord of Apokolips, Darkseid, remembered the Pre-Crisis Parasite and manipulated Jones to become the modern version. He made Rudy think that a waste container might have held something valuable. He opened it and was exposed to strange radiation that changed his body into the bald, green-skinned villain.Jones now had the ability to absorb the life energy of other people, leaving smoldering skeletons. This power was necessary for his survival as his own body is in a constant state of hunger for energy that it can't sustain on its own. During this time, Martin Stein, one half of the Firestorm matrix (Ronnie Raymond being the other half) learned he was dying and decided to destroy all the nuclear weapons in the world. This did not sit well with Earth's governments, particularly the United States, who sent the Suicide Squad to Times Square, where Firestorm was holding a press conference. Things quickly got out of control as the Squad and the Justice League, both intent on subduing Firestorm, fought one another, and the Parasite (who was brought on the mission against the protestations of both Amanda Waller and Colonel Rick Flag Jr.) is released. He goes on a rampage and apparently kills Multiplex, only being brought under control by the cooperation of both teams. Later, he attacked the new Firestorm, who easily subdued him and left him near death.
Parasite in Superman The Animated Series appears in the episode Feeding Time.In Justice League he appears in the episode Secret Society with Gorilla Grodd,Giganta,The Shade,Killer Frost, Siniestro and Clayface.In Justice League Unlimited he is a member of Legion of Doom was a supervillain organization put together by Gorilla Grodd to counter the expanded Justice League.A future version of Parasite appears as one of the enemies of the JLU as a member of the Iniquity Collective on a Justice League Unlimited/Batman Beyond crossover episode Epilogue. During the battle, he is defeated and knocked out by Warhawk. It is not confirmed if it is either the same Parasite as the previous series because of his new, more grotesque appearance akin to his body seen in his later comic appearances or a new Parasite, although the latter is more likely, due to the Rudy Jones Parasite's apparent demise before the events of Batman Beyond.
