{"id":4901,"date":"2023-06-30T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:22:56","slug":"minor-super-villain-312-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4901","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 312: PLUTO"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Red Raven Comics 001; Captain America Comics 001-003, 1940-1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As originally presented, this is the literal Roman god of the underworld come down (up?) to Earth to stir up trouble as Rudolph Hendler, dictator of Prussland (mild aside – recently saw a fascist complaining about Nazis being vilified like it was a new thing, but we’ve always known that you suck, bro).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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 Jupiter and the other Roman gods aren’t so hot on this plan and send Mercury down to Earth to combat cousin Pluto. A simple tale. The very mild complication comes from Marvel’s fondness for retcons and rcontextualizations. After the Enernals were introduced in the 70s, a number of characters from the 40s and 50s were retroactively said to actually be the Eternal Makkari, including Mercury here.<\/p>\n

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He was also said to be Hurricane, the near-identical hero who faced Pluto in his next couple of appearances. But if Mercury\/ Hurricane was not actually a member of some godly pantheon, who was Pluto?<\/p>\n

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In an unsurprising twist, Pluto was revealed to be Kro, a villainous member of the Deviant race who features in the same 70s series as Makkari. I don’t know a lot about Kro but I guess that it’s in-character for him to (in order) start a version of WWII, run a murder-for-hire gang, unleash a plague in the Amazon and attempt to take over a place called Groton City via the medium of repeated subway accidents.<\/p>\n

The really important thing is that his first couple of appearances were drawn by Jack Kirby so he looks like a perfect evil creep. Of course there might be an argument that he no longer qualifies as a minor super-villain because the Pluto identity has been rolled into the larger Kro identity but where’s the fun in that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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