Who Is El Papagayo? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

El Papagayo is a DC Comics comic book character, with over 9 comic issue appearances. The second man to use the name El Papagayo was a South American criminal and enemy of Batman. He strongly resembles the 19th century El Papgayo but their connection, if any, is unknown.

Who is El Papagayo?

Although this is the "second" character to take the name El Papagayo within the time frame of the DC Universe , he actually pre-dates the Jonah Hex villain, first appearing way back in 1949 and left in obscurity before being revived years later in the modern era by writer Grant Morrison. El Papagayo, with no apparent connection to the first,held a small South American country at bay with his cartel early in Batman and Robin 's careers. El Papagayo was portrayed as a violent man who killed if his pet parrot Toto was not amused. The president of that country contacted Batman and Robin to train a Bat-Hombre to confront and defeat Papagayo. Unbeknownst to Batman, Robin and the president, the man who they trained to be Bat-Hombre, Luis Peraldo, was secretly working for El Papagayo. When Bat-Hombre clandestinely met with Papagayo, Toto scratched Bat-Hombre's costume. When Batman and Robin saw this, they were able to deduce that Bat-Hombre was working for Papagayo and imprisoned him . Rather than crush the president's dream, Batman temporarily took the mantle of Bat-Hombre to defeat El Papagayo.

Key facts

El Papagayo is of human origin and first appeared in "Ride, Bat-Hombre, Ride!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 9 recorded issue appearances, El Papagayo ranks among the most featured characters in comics.