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Supervillain Origins: The Purple Man


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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origins of
the purple man as with most comic book
characters they’re often reimagining and
different versions to a character’s past
we’ve chosen to primarily follow the
storyline which unfolded in 1964 s
daredevil number 4 which was expanded
upon in 1985 s alpha flight number 41
2003’s alias number 24 and 2014’s
daredevil number 8 most comic book
metahumans have a name that describes
their power the purple man’s moniker
just describes his appearance though his
power is far more formidable than his
name would imply he can make almost
anyone do whatever he tells them to are
they
Oh slowly although the purple man has
fought many different heroes he has a
long association with daredevil dating
back to his debut in a 1964 issue of the
Man Without Fear in that issue a purple
haired man calmly walked into a bank and
asked the teller to load up his suitcase
with money the employee happily complied
it was only after the purple man had
left the bank that the teller realized
what he had done and alerted the police
the purple man was soon seized by
officers and didn’t resist at all Matt
Murdock who in costume was known as
daredevil was appointed as his attorney
I’m here because my employer does
extensive business in Hell’s Kitchen and
who knows it better than two local boys
who graduated from Columbia Law
laude and summa laude have assumed
apart is politics Murdoch and his
assistant Karen page visited the purple
man in jail whose real name was zebediah
killgrave
killgrave asserted that he had no need
for a lawyer as he was leaving jail now
the guard immediately led him out and he
left
taking Karen quite willingly along with
him Murdoch was confused about how does
it happened he seemed to be immune to
kilgrave’s ability to control people
perhaps because he was blind or perhaps
because of the heightened senses which
compensates for his blindness changing
into his daredevil outfit
Murdoch set off in pursuit of kilgrave
finding daredevil resistant to his
control abilities kilgrave commanded a
crowd of people to fight daredevil while
he is deep with Karen no one can resist
me at this rage satellite a not the
purple man then rounded up a gang of
muscle men to act as his unwitting
henchman and selected a luxurious
apartment building for his headquarters
now settled in he meditated on
Daredevils immunity he was control and
decided that it was his destiny to
conquer the superhero later on daredevil
found and confronted the purple man on
the rooftop of his high-rise
headquarters the purple man kept
daredevil at bay by commanding Karen to
stand on the ledge and threatening to
send her to her do
killgrave then took this opportunity to
reveal how he came by his special
abilities some months ago killgrave had
been an ordinary spy sent to steal
top-secret experimental nerve gas
scientists bent on turning me into a
freak
during his attempt a guard accidentally
released the gas on kilgrave the gas
turned him purple and somehow altered
his body chemistry so that he now had
the ability to make people do what he
told them to isn’t that a shitty thing
to do say it yes it is
daredevil had been recording all that
kilgrave said and now he had the
evidence with which he could convict the
villain of treason he then jumped off
the roof taking Karin with him when the
purple man followed him and tried to
rile the crowd against him daredevil
covered him with sheeting so that his
control power was muted the purple man’s
origin was later expanded upon in Marvel
max’s 2003 s alias kilgrave was an
especially disturbing foe for the heroin
known as jessica jones forcing her to be
his bodyguard and sexual slave for
months her skin by pulling sense of
fashion but that can be remedied
underneath it all the power just not me
in this run we also learned how his
powers really work
he doesn’t hypnotize people as many had
originally assumed instead his body
secretes psychoactive chemicals other
people absorb those chemicals through
smell or through their skin and this
enables him to control them in
subsequent years it became apparent that
the nerve gas had somehow affected
killgrave on a genetic level several
children that he fathered on
unsuspecting women showed up each with
this same ability although it varied by
degree one girl named Kara turned purple
when she was a teenager she
simultaneously found that when she
ordered someone to do something they
turned purple and did it Kara eventually
joined the mutant group Alpha Flight as
purple girl in 2014
kilgrave rounded up several of his
children hoping to use them as a new
force so that he could conquer the world
unfortunately he discovered that when
his children banded together they could
control him more than just rebellious
kids kilgrave was no match for his own
offspring with his ability to bend the
will of others to achieve virtually
anything the purple man is the ultimate
puppet master the nature of his power
makes him extremely dangerous and
difficult to stop his appearance is
therefore are not as numerous as some
other villains but he makes an
impression wherever he appears there’s a
fantastic says your own place around the
corner you like Chinese come on
come on are you a fan of the purple man
the most you’ll ever be able to do is
wiggle your finger when I’m next to you
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