Psycho-Pirate is a minor antagonist of the Cartoon Network series Batman: The Brave and the Bold. He is a supervillain that likes to manipulate people’s negative emotions or thought, so he can feed off from theirs in order to grow stronger.
He was voiced by Armin Shimerman, who also voiced Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet & Clank remake and its 2016 film adaptation.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He kidnaps three young heroes, who are Katana, Black Lightning and Metamorpho, and puts them in a dream machine to make experience their worst nightmare while he sadistically feeds off their suffering in order to grow stronger, which Batman claims that it’s too deranged even for him, but he doesn’t care.
- He sets the machine that removing while being in their dream will kill them, and he also reveals once he gets enough strength, he will kill them. It forces Batman to enter in the dream machine.
- In Katana’s dream, he feeds off her guilt of having her master killed by Takeo and encourages her to kill the latter, whom Psycho-Pirate take form.
- In Black Lightning’s dream, Psycho-Pirate feeds off his anger of his everyday minor annoyance and his personal issue of the children television show Yorrick the Unicorn.
- In Metamorpho’s dream, Psycho-Pirate feeds off his anger of his hidden resentment for being an outcast and is the real target, with the first two being the distraction.
- After the Outsiders overcome their personal issues with Batman’s help, Psycho-Pirate vaporizers those young heroes into nothing, and this made Batman angry that he wants to beat Psycho-Pirate to death that allows until the former realizes that they are are still in a dream.
- Psycho-Pirates arrogantly believes that Batman can’t do anything after he gotten stronger from feeding off negative thought. Batman manages to defeat Psycho-Pirate by beating him up with happy thoughts and each time Batman punches him, he gets weaker until the dream machine overloaded and incapacitated the villain while freeing the heroes. He is sentenced to Arkham for his crime.
- Psycho-Pirate broadcasts a giant screen television to make everyone in Gotham experience negative emotions such terror, rage, despair, and greed, and it caused chaos toward the city.
- It also affected Billy Batson, A.K.A. Captain Marvel, and Tawky Tawny, with the latter nearly killing the former until he transformed.
- While Batman and Captain Marvel team-up to track him, it proved difficult that they had to focus on the civilians that could get killed then finding Psycho-Pirate, Captain Marvel brings more of his family, Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr. to keep the civilians under control, while Batman tracks him down.
- When Batman manages to track Psycho-Pirate, the latter used his Medusa Mask to make former feel fear, but it failed due to Batman being able to conquer his fear.
- After Psycho-Pirates was defeated, Batman asks Captain Marvel to use the Medusa Mask to reverse the brainwashing effect by telling people to use positive emotions.
- Despite the series being lighthearted and campy, Psycho-Pirate is still taken seriously and compared to other villains most disturbing.
- Despite the Heinous Standards like Silver Cyclone's plan involving kill all life on earth or Darkseid's goal of conquering planets, Psycho-Pirate still stood out for his crimes are unique that involves kidnapping young heroes to make them experience their worse nightmare and brainwashing people of Gotham.
Trivia[]
- He is the only version of Psycho-Pirate to qualify as Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Psycho-Pirate on the Villains Wiki
- Psycho-Pirate on the DC Database Wiki
- Psycho-Pirate on the Batman: The Brave and the Bold Wiki
- Psycho-Pirate on the Hate Sink Wiki
