Ragdoll

The son of the original Ragdoll, this contortionist villain underwent extreme surgical procedures to achieve impossible flexibility, allowing him to bend and twist his body into grotesque positions. He joined the Secret Six as an eccentric, darkly comedic mercenary-for-hire.

Few characters in DC's Modern Age arrive as memorably as Ragdoll, who burst onto the scene in Gail Simone and Dale Eaglesham's Villains United #1 in 2005 — a debut that announced a genuinely singular presence in the DC Universe. With a catalog résumé built across Secret Six, Villains United, and Batgirl, this is a character who found a real home among comics' most delightfully dangerous company, sharing pages with the likes of Catman, Scandal Savage, and Barbara Gordon herself. Ragdoll is the kind of wild-card figure that Gail Simone writes with obvious relish — unpredictable, darkly comic, and utterly unlike anyone else on the roster. If you've never spent time with this corner of DC's villain-adjacent world, Ragdoll is one of the most compelling reasons to start.