Who Is Bizarro? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Bizarro is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of El-Kal, with over 811 comic issue appearances. Bizarro is an imperfect duplicate of Superman. Everything Bizarro does is deliberately backwards or the opposite of normal.

Who is Bizarro?

Origin The original Bizarro from the pre-Crisis continuity was a result of a Professor Dalton demonstrating his duplicate ray to Superboy , Superman when he was teen. The duplicate ray created an imperfect duplicate of Superboy. Superboy regarded the imperfect duplicate of himself as bizarre. The creature misheard him and thought he said 'Bizarro' and took on the name Bizarro. The creature possessed chalky, white skin along with a childlike behavior. Melissa a blind girl was the only one who found beauty in Bizarro. However, the citizens of Smallville shunned Bizarro, Superboy was forced to kill the doppelganger with the remains of the duplicate machine though Bizarro collided into the machine destroying himself. The remains of Bizarro allowed Melissa to see for the first time.

Key facts

Bizarro is of other origin and first appeared in "The Boy of Steel versus the Thing of Steel". The character is published by DC Comics. With 811 recorded issue appearances, Bizarro ranks among the most featured characters in comics.