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Rag Doll (Peter Merkel Jr.)

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Scandal confronts and almost kills him, Rag Doll reveals to her he stole the card hoping to use it to revive Parademon, saying that Scandal's choice to use it for Knockout (Scandal's "one heart") was misled and selfish. He then uses the card to transport himself to Hell and set an ambush as his teammates were sure to follow. He explains that due to his emerging protectiveness of Black Alice, he had fled partly because of his fear of finally gaining a measure of sanity. He discovered after arriving that, due to being born without a soul, he was prophesied to rule in Hell, commanding a legion of demons and being given a fiancé (revealed to be Knockout) by Blaze herself. After the Six decide to fight (half of them being forced to owing to Deadshot shooting Rag Doll in the head) for Knockout rather than becoming lords of the Underworld at Merkel's side, Blaze herself intervenes. After Rag Doll decides that Scandal's love is more important than his friendship with Parademon (who as it turns out enjoys Hell due to his similar upbringing on Apokolips), the team departs with Knockout in tow.
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when given the choice to surrender they immediately fall to infighting. Rag Doll is the only one to understand that they have to stand together because they deserve each other. Deciding to go down fighting, they all ingest Venom, which Bane as a recovered user still carries. After a short but brutal battle in which they injure or knock out multiple heroes, the entire Secret Six is taken down with brutal force.
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It was later revealed that the Get Out Of Hell Free card that the Six had obtained (which Scandal claimed to have lost, when in reality she was keeping it to resurrect Knockout), had been stolen from Scandal's safe, and Scandal correctly deduced the only one capable of stealing it was Rag Doll. When
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powers to fight Scandal, but promptly gives up, turning back to normal in tears. She explains that she knows Rag Doll does not like her like that (especially with the knowledge that she is unaware of his lack of reproductive organs), but acted out simply from the strain and guilt of having given her
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and Bane, are hired to retrieve a card that supposedly gets its owner out of Hell "free". They are attacked by many supervillains who want the card, most acting under orders from Junior, a mysterious mob boss who controls the West Coast. In a confrontation, it is revealed that Junior is actually Rag
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Rag Doll has also mentioned that his father was "not a kind man", and was disappointed in the fact that only his brother inherited the family gift. His surgeries to transform himself were done to please his disapproving father. However, during their brief confrontation, the elder Rag Doll chastised
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Following Bane's decisions to retake Gotham, starting by eliminating several of Batman's closest allies, they are betrayed by the Penguin who was forcibly recruited due to his knowledge of Gotham's inner workings. A small army of superheroes arrive at the warehouse the Six are operating out of, and
189:. It was revealed he is the son of the original Rag Doll and was born a normal baby. To please his father, he underwent surgery to implant lubricated cybernetic joints that let him emulate his father's physique. The surgery left him badly disfigured and requiring regular doses of an 263:
Catman, Bane, and Rag Doll (who is disguised as Robin) go to Gotham City after the death of Batman and kill members of a crime ring that goes after rich peoples' children, but Nightwing shows up at the last house and sends them all away.
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had been separated from Apokolips remains unclear. It considered itself the Rag Doll's guard-dog, threatening to hurt or kill anyone who even inconvenienced the Rag Doll, despite his protests. The Parademon died, however, detonating ten
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father cancer by mistake. Rag Doll attempts to offer her comfort, and when Deadshot takes it as an attempt to flirt with her, Rag Doll actually stands up straight (literally and figuratively) for the first time, defending Alice.
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to try to find Catman, he is very shocked to discover that Alice does indeed consider Rag Doll to be her boyfriend, and attacks Scandal in the mistaken belief that she wants him, despite Scandal's lesbianism. Alice summons
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Through a series of surgeries, Rag Doll had his biological joints replaced with artificial ones. These joints allow him to bend, compress, and contort in ways even master contortionists cannot. Rag Doll requires a special
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body is less socially awkward. Despite lacking genitals, he also apparently planned on having sex with a nurse who gave him her phone number, and it was suggested that he derived physical pleasure from being beaten by
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Rag Doll spends his share of the Six's loot on constructing a monkey house and purchases 'cute little monkey outfits' that resemble the costumes of the Secret Six for the small pack of monkeys that live in his room.
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to lubricate his skin – otherwise his bones will cut through his brittle flesh. He also had surgically removed his genitals, which he considered a "bother".
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Doll's sister Alex, who (after implied sexual abuse from their father) mutilated herself horrifically to "bring the ugly out where I can look at it".
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and kept her bound and gagged in his pocket. Before Rag Doll could leave the island with his taped-up "souvenir", Bumblebee was taken from him by
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to keep his artificial joints from tearing through his skin. He often wields a knife and is an adequate hand-to-hand fighter.
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Rag Doll later accompanies the rest of the Secret Six when they go to Oolong Island in order to defeat the
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off the roof of Vandal Savage's stronghold, claiming there is only room for one freak on the team.
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After Bane declares himself the new leader of the Six and fires Scandal, the sixth member becomes
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his son, saying that his son's surgeries were inferior to his own natural talents.
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He briefly battled his father, the original Rag Doll (who was representing the
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He also says he has a sister he once French-kissed but talking to Parademon's
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to cover the Secret Six's escape during a battle with the Society.
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rebooted timeline, Peter Merkel Jr. first appears as an inmate of
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later uses his powers to cause Rag Doll to attack his teammates.
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miniseries, as a member of a small group calling themselves the "
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event, Rag Doll works as a contortionist in the freak show in
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As a member of the Secret Six, he had formed a bond with
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The new Rag Doll also had a strange relationship with a
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episode "Icons Only" as an entertainer at Las Vegas.
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Publisher
DC Comics
First appearance
Villains United
Gail Simone
Dale Eaglesham
Secret Six
supervillain
anti-hero
DC Comics
universe
Villains United
Gail Simone
Dale Eaglesham
Secret Six
Rag Doll
Villains United
Secret Six
Secret Society of Super Villains
emollient
Parademon
Parademon
Mother Boxes
Society
Parademon
Mad Hatter
Harley Quinn
Justice League
Ice

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