{"id":1728,"date":"2022-10-08T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:36:44","slug":"minor-super-villain-176-z-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 176: Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Captain Marvel Adventures 001, 1941)<\/p>\n

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Z is (spoilers) an android built by Dr Sivana to destroy Captain Marvel. He’s a cool guy and a fun villain: slick, full of attitude, almost <\/i>powerful enough to do the job. Plus he doesn’t seem to know he’s a robot, which I find to be a fun feature in an android character – it allows for shocking reveals! Z should definitely be BROUGHT BACK<\/b>, if only as disposable muscle for Sivana. We wuz robbed of a smug android thug slouched over a chair cleaning his nails in the background of every Dr Sivana scene from 1941 on, I say!<\/p>\n

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The really<\/i> interesting thing about Z is the fact that he and Captain Marvel fight three times and each time, Captain Marvel is explicitly trying to kill him. I came into my ongoing “read all comics” project a lot less familiar with the Fawcett end of things so I was pretty bought in to the modern conception of Captain Marvel as some sort of Pure Being of Childlike Innocence and thus it was a lot more jarring to come into the realization that in his early days he was just as likely to resort to deadly force as Batman or Superman, probably a bit less often than the former and more than the latter. Honestly interested to see just when each adopts a code against killing relative to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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