#brick bat

There are a lot of idioms in all languages that have to do with the names of animal species and at least one (or two depending on how you'd like to look at it) specifically with bats.

I think it is fair to say everyone heard the expression: "smb. is as blind as a bat. "

While working with Charles Dickins' novel «David Copperfield» (1849), I stumbled upon its contaminated version: "«...» is as blind as a brickbat."

In this case, we see a mix of "to be as blind as a bat" and "to be as hard as a brickbat".

To be fair there are a few definitions of «brickbat» starting from the ones explaining it as a piece of brick (sometimes specified as the one used as a weapon/missile), and ending with it being a term standing for insulting or very critical hurtful remarks (spoken attacks).

The word is fairly old and not too common nowadays.

But that's above the point, just a little prehistory, so to say.

Allow me to present to you the golden age DC villain called Brick Bat!

The man wore a lime green suit and a bat-cowl and threw bricks at people, and the bricks would then break up into poisonous clouds. He was a violent criminal robbing banks and the rich, and getting rid of unsuspecting innocent citizens.

He originally first appeared in Detective Comics or rather Police Comics (as of back then) #5 (Dec. 1941), in the part of this issue called #711, "The Brick Bat".

Now you know another fun, obscure non Batman related vintage forgotten villain!

P.S.: Do not ever confuse Brick Bat with Batbrick, because one of them is this old fellow, and the other is Bruce Wayne Batman's nickname (for example, Absolute universe's (or LEGO one's I guess). :)

The situation is a little similar to Batman/Man bat one.

Brick Bat

So, I've gotten bored enough and decided to assemble a Suicide Squad-style group of supervillains to cause chaos using only characters on the Public Domain Superheroes wiki (I didn't count entries from literature because, as it turns out, the literary ones have already been used for a knockoff of Suicide Squad called "Sinister Squad").

Ther were alot of villains, but it was easy to cut out quite a few (just cut out the ableist ones, the ones that were literally Nazis, the ones who were offensive stereotypes and the boring ones and you only really have a handful unfortunately). Turns out Suicide Squad relies alot on how weird the Silver Age got and nothing from the Silver Age is public domain so I only managed to get a few. Without further adeu, let us meet this crew zany Supervillains out to cause chaos together.

Brick Bat:

Thanks to a rather obscure pun, this supervillain decided to dress as a bat (you can sort of make out the Batman ears in this photo) and hit people with bricks; a very odd concept, but I admire his confidence in it. Besides, bricks are a good weapon and it's good he knows how to use them in case he has a mission in a brick factory or something.

Checker:

He's good at checkers and... fighting maybe? He also has a small gang according to the wiki- honestly my plan is just to let him die in a mission and give his costume to someone with magic, or a ska band, whoever bids the highest.

Clockmaker:

This man is really good at making clocks (he learned that in prison somehow) and apparently can use it for deadly stuff, I think the clocks kill people but the wiki just says he sent the clocks to 3 people and then mentions a killing spree without saying how he killed them... if he can't make a bomb out of a clock, he will once he's been exposed to these villains, even if just to get rid of Checker after he stares at him for too long.

Little Miss Murder:

Yeah, we managed to get a woman in here, I'm shocked. This woman runs a gang and has a few killer gadgets, including an umbrella rifle- basically I picked her because of that similarity to the Penguin, but she'd probably be good at running it all (better than Checkers) and can also kill people sneakily.

Super-Man:

What is something wrong? This is Super-man, from the 1933 short story "Reign of the Superman". In this story his powers are mainly mind control, superhuman intelligence (though he still needs to ask where the library is) and a bit of astral projection, but he only has these powers because of a drug. Basically, I pick him because I can control him maybe (that and I was tired of finding villains with great names who happened to be racist charicatures or Nazis).