some villains are a little off balance
but this guy takes that to the extreme
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origins of
count vertigo this is not to be in such
a hurry to meet this man as with most
comic book characters they’re often
reimagining zand two different versions
to a character’s past we have chosen to
primarily follow the storyline which
unfolded in 1978 world’s finest comics
number 251 which was expanded upon in
2013 s green arrow number twenty three
point one please kill me whoever you
fear fear me more okay okay
they call him the count that’s all I
know don’t you just love a villain whose
name says it all
count Vertigo’s power is essentially the
ability to cause crippling dizziness and
disorientation in his pose this power
can even disrupt non-human things like
the guidance systems in a missile pretty
handy power to have actually vertigo
counts that to go to you The Count de
beauté in the 1978 Black Canary story
in her civilian identity of dina drake
Lance Black Canary was viewing the
premiere of her new fashion line when
suddenly a mysterious figure appeared
all at once everything went topsy-turvy
in the resulting chaos the mysterious
figure grabbed a diamond necklace and
fled that thief would turn out to be you
guessed it count vertigo
later Black Canary learned of another
jewel heist all of the stolen items were
part of the famous vertigo jewels a
collection of items owned by a royal
family who once ruled a small Balkan
country the Vertigo family all suffered
from a genetic flaw which affected their
inner ear and therefore their balance
when the country they ruled was taken
over by the Soviet Union the Vertigo
family was forced into exile where they
had to sell all of their precious gems
can you see where this is going
Black Canary quickly discovered that the
necklace stolen at the Fashion Show was
also part of the Vertigo collection and
that one other piece remained in private
hands the heroine rushed to warn the
owner of this jewel and found count
vertigo was already there
she deduced that the count was the heir
to the Vertigo throne and therefore
suffered from an inner ear malfunction
she also figured out that he was using
some sort of sonic device which both
corrected that malfunction and caused
disabling business in others fortunately
the Canaries own sonic scream was able
to destroy that device enabling her to
capture the villain
the count showed up in numerous other
stories throughout the years even
becoming a reluctant member of The
Suicide Squad for a while when DC
relaunched its universe in the new 52
project the count was given a new and
expanded backstory in this story the
counts real name is Werner Zittel as
before he was the heir to the throne of
a Balkan country now named vlatava as a
child he and his mother were forced to
flee when rebels stormed their palace
killing Werner’s father he and his
mother then ended up in Canada Warner’s
mother became a prostitute and a junkie
and subsequently blamed Werner for her
problems right count Warner vertigo so
if something happens to you
he becomes king of lot about now it all
makes sense eventually she was
approached by scientists who paid her in
order to take Warner to a special
hospital with them as you can probably
guess they performed experiments on
children there in Warner’s case they
implanted devices into his head which
gave him the ability to project a sonic
field which disrupts the inner ear
functions of others often to the point
of causing death
vertigo counts but to go to you peasant
as a teenager werner killed the doctor
who had given him his powers and
returned to vlatava where he reassumed
the throne with his newfound power and
control he located his mother and had
her captured bringing her to the
hospital where he was experimented upon
he confronted her and then ordered her
put to death with all this accomplished
count vertigo felt free to continue his
quest for even more power with his
unique abilities count vertigo makes an
especially dangerous bow after all it’s
hard for a hero to hit a target when
they’re too disoriented to get a solid
bead on the enemy
the visual elements that accompany the
vertigo effect also tend to look pretty
cute which of course is an added bonus
all in all the count doesn’t make it
easy for a hero to try to bring him down
the only way to neutralize the Vertigo
effect was to rely on my other senses to
see us through are you a fan of the
dizzyingly powerful count vertigo for
more comic book origins be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com vertigo it’s
Michigan lives
56 people died to perfect this high
believe me when I say that they did not
died
but this guy takes that to the extreme
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origins of
count vertigo this is not to be in such
a hurry to meet this man as with most
comic book characters they’re often
reimagining zand two different versions
to a character’s past we have chosen to
primarily follow the storyline which
unfolded in 1978 world’s finest comics
number 251 which was expanded upon in
2013 s green arrow number twenty three
point one please kill me whoever you
fear fear me more okay okay
they call him the count that’s all I
know don’t you just love a villain whose
name says it all
count Vertigo’s power is essentially the
ability to cause crippling dizziness and
disorientation in his pose this power
can even disrupt non-human things like
the guidance systems in a missile pretty
handy power to have actually vertigo
counts that to go to you The Count de
beauté in the 1978 Black Canary story
in her civilian identity of dina drake
Lance Black Canary was viewing the
premiere of her new fashion line when
suddenly a mysterious figure appeared
all at once everything went topsy-turvy
in the resulting chaos the mysterious
figure grabbed a diamond necklace and
fled that thief would turn out to be you
guessed it count vertigo
later Black Canary learned of another
jewel heist all of the stolen items were
part of the famous vertigo jewels a
collection of items owned by a royal
family who once ruled a small Balkan
country the Vertigo family all suffered
from a genetic flaw which affected their
inner ear and therefore their balance
when the country they ruled was taken
over by the Soviet Union the Vertigo
family was forced into exile where they
had to sell all of their precious gems
can you see where this is going
Black Canary quickly discovered that the
necklace stolen at the Fashion Show was
also part of the Vertigo collection and
that one other piece remained in private
hands the heroine rushed to warn the
owner of this jewel and found count
vertigo was already there
she deduced that the count was the heir
to the Vertigo throne and therefore
suffered from an inner ear malfunction
she also figured out that he was using
some sort of sonic device which both
corrected that malfunction and caused
disabling business in others fortunately
the Canaries own sonic scream was able
to destroy that device enabling her to
capture the villain
the count showed up in numerous other
stories throughout the years even
becoming a reluctant member of The
Suicide Squad for a while when DC
relaunched its universe in the new 52
project the count was given a new and
expanded backstory in this story the
counts real name is Werner Zittel as
before he was the heir to the throne of
a Balkan country now named vlatava as a
child he and his mother were forced to
flee when rebels stormed their palace
killing Werner’s father he and his
mother then ended up in Canada Warner’s
mother became a prostitute and a junkie
and subsequently blamed Werner for her
problems right count Warner vertigo so
if something happens to you
he becomes king of lot about now it all
makes sense eventually she was
approached by scientists who paid her in
order to take Warner to a special
hospital with them as you can probably
guess they performed experiments on
children there in Warner’s case they
implanted devices into his head which
gave him the ability to project a sonic
field which disrupts the inner ear
functions of others often to the point
of causing death
vertigo counts but to go to you peasant
as a teenager werner killed the doctor
who had given him his powers and
returned to vlatava where he reassumed
the throne with his newfound power and
control he located his mother and had
her captured bringing her to the
hospital where he was experimented upon
he confronted her and then ordered her
put to death with all this accomplished
count vertigo felt free to continue his
quest for even more power with his
unique abilities count vertigo makes an
especially dangerous bow after all it’s
hard for a hero to hit a target when
they’re too disoriented to get a solid
bead on the enemy
the visual elements that accompany the
vertigo effect also tend to look pretty
cute which of course is an added bonus
all in all the count doesn’t make it
easy for a hero to try to bring him down
the only way to neutralize the Vertigo
effect was to rely on my other senses to
see us through are you a fan of the
dizzyingly powerful count vertigo for
more comic book origins be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com vertigo it’s
Michigan lives
56 people died to perfect this high
believe me when I say that they did not
died
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