Peter Merkel Jr.

The son of the original Ragdoll, Peter Merkel Jr. underwent extreme voluntary surgery to achieve boneless contortionist flexibility, embracing a grotesque physical legacy to become a dangerously unpredictable villain operating among DC's criminal underworld.

Born into a legacy of twisted contortion, Peter Merkel Jr. slithered onto the DC scene in 2005's Villains United #1, courtesy of writer Gail Simone and artist Dale Eaglesham — a Modern Age debut that immediately planted him in some delightfully disreputable company. His catalog appearances span Villains United, Secret Six, and even The Batman Strikes, where he shares pages with the likes of Catman, Floyd Lawton, and Green Lantern. With Gail Simone's sharp, darkly comedic sensibility shaping his world, Peter Merkel Jr. is the kind of memorably off-kilter DC figure that fans of morally complex villainy won't soon forget.