{"id":1654,"date":"2023-02-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:34:45","slug":"minor-super-villain-237-czar-the-unkillable-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 237: CZAR THE UNKILLABLE MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like Echo<\/a> or Hugo Strange’s Monster Men<\/a> before him, Czar the Unkillable Man is arguably less a super-villain than a tool created by<\/i> a super-villain, but where’s the fun in listing a buncha guys named Dr Samuels and Professor Tompkins or in this case Boris Nickaloff?<\/p>\n

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Nickaloff is a bit of a mystery – he creates Czar by sculpting a complete human body – inside and out – out of “plasm-clay” and then shocking it to life with a shot of adrenaline. Is this meant to be mad science? Magic? A modern day Pygmalion story? No clues are given. Probably science if the adrenaline is any hint, but I prefer to think it’s reality-bending mad art.<\/p>\n

Nickaloff gets Czar to rob some banks and kill a bunch of people, and it’s here that he maybe turn out to be a bit less of a tool than old Echo after all, as he sets about his rampages with  a bit more gusto than is required. He also kidnaps Shiera Sanders in a fit of man-monster horniness, which is both telling and gross.<\/p>\n

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Hawkman of course can’t let such wanton killing and reallocation of funds stand, and he eventually stumbles upon the Unkillable Man’s weakness: he still has to breathe. To be clear, he stumbles upon it because Nickaloff repeatedly states that it is Czar’s only weakness in a loud, clear voice, which favour Hawkman repays by killing the both of them via a set of bolas to the neck.<\/p>\n

(as seen above, Hawkman initially thinks that he is dealing with a vampire rather than a living statue and I must say that I love this kind of thing much much more than when the hero jumps to a wild conclusion that is correct. Keep up the dumbass guesses, Hawkman!)<\/p>\n

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As an addendum, an honour! Hawkman gets a vote of thanks from the banks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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