Screwball

Real Name: Unknown

Other Appearances: Flaming Carrot #17, 19, 24, 26, 27, Flaming Carrot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Crossover #1 - 4, Bob Burden's Original Mysterymen Comics #3.

Identity/Class: Extra-terrestrial - Monitor

Occupation: Superhero

Affiliations: the Men from Unknown Worlds, Flaming Carrot, Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: Unknown

Aliases: the Happy Hero

First Appearance: Flaming Carrot (#16)

Powers/Abilities: Able to fly using his "Missile-Toed Feet".

History: Screwball is an alien, the proverbial strange visitor from a funny planet. He is a Monitor, a sort of organic machine, who came to our world and absorbed our culture by reading the entire contents of a Library in a single day. A member of the Men from Unknown Worlds, he is a hero on other planets too, and not just our own. Because of his constant and unflinching good mood and pleasant nature, he is adored by the public. But being an alien, he is still somewhat bizarre by Earth standards, keeping a pet shoelace, sleeping in a burrow, and watching up to five televisions at a time.

Comments: None

The Strangler

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Magically enhanced human

Occupation: Studio wrestler

Affiliations: Flaming Carrot, Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: Unknown

Aliases: None known

Base of Operations: New York City

First Appearance: Flaming Carrot Annual #1

Powers/Abilities: Invulnerability and great strength in his hands, granted by a magical bunt cake. While under the cake's influence, he is violently allergic to metal.

History: The Strangler was a Viet Nam vet, once a member of a search-and-destroy unit which was rewarded for each kill with a scoop of vanilla ice cream (hence his motto "I kill for ice cream") Having left the forces he made his living as a studio wrestler in New York, until one day the postal service delivered an enchanted bunt cake to him, sender unknown. The cake granted him superhuman powers, which he used to become the Strangler, sculking through the city at night looking for criminals to kill. One of his closest friends was the Hummer, a fellow hero who went off the rails and the Strangler was forced to kill.

Comments: None

The Spleen

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Human, cursed by magic

Occupation: Unknown

Affiliations: Flaming Carrot, Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: The Love Child of Love Canal

First Appearance: Bob Burden's Original Mysterymen #1

Powers/Abilities: The Spleen can break wind which is so toxic that those in the path of the gas pass out.

History: (comic version) "Nicknamed "The Love Child of Love Canal," the Spleen (the son of hippies) was involved in a chemical accident and mutated into a kind of genetic hippie. He is a kleptomaniac with the ability to spew acids and glues.

(movie version) As a child the Spleen was rude to an old Gypsy woman, trying to pass off his own flatulence as hers. So she cursed him, making his emissions extremely potent, to the extent where they can knock people out.

Comments: Thanks to "Jack ^_^" for information about the comic version of the Spleen.

The Hummer

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Normal human armed with high tech weapon

Occupation: Unknown

Affiliations: Flaming Carrot, Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: Unknown

Aliases: None known

Base of Operations: New York City

First Appearance: Bob Burden's Original Mysterymen #1

Powers/Abilities: Using his hummer device, the Hummer could discharge vibrations that could disable people, shake machinery apart, or even knock bullets off their course.

History: The Hummer was a New York superhero who was best friends with the Strangler. With a special "humming" device mounted on his fist, he was always up for adventure, accompanying his fellow Mysterymen on many missions.But the Hummer was a hero who enjoyed partying - he went on drinking binges, he loved practical jokes and pulling insane stunts, and he burned the candle at both ends. When he discovered that low level usage of his device could give him a high, he soon became an addict, eventually driving himself insane. It eventually came down to his old friend the Strangler to bring his rampage to an end permanently.

Comments: None

Disc Man

Real Name: Lance Fortnight

Identity/Class: Normal human armed with high tech or mystic discs

Occupation: Yuppie

Affiliations: Flaming Carrot, Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: None known

Aliases: None known

First Appearance: Bob Burden's Original Mysterymen #2

Powers/Abilities: Disc Man's discs seem to be able to fly. By standing on a couple, he can travel through the air. He can also launch them at opponents with lethal force.

History: Lance Fortnight was a yuppie who was converting a downtown loft into the home of his dreams, when he discovered seven mysterious discs inside a wall. The discs proved to be "living", somehow wrecking his life and transforming him into a grim avenger of the night.

Comments: None

Jumo The Magnificent

Real Name: Glen Gilke

Identity/Class: Mutated human

Occupation: Unknown

Affiliations: Flaming Carrot, Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: Unknown

Aliases: Blue Belly

First Appearance: Unknown

Powers/Abilities: Jumo is invulnerable to everything except wicker furniture and leafy vegetables. His stomach constantly glows with a blue beam of light.

History: During a meal Glen Gilke swallowed something he presumed was a Swedish meatball. Unfortunately for him, it was actually a marinated meteor, which mutated his stomach and intestinal tract. He was granted superhuman powers, but left with a permanently glowing gut.

Comments: None

The Bowler

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Unknown

Occupation: Unknown

Affiliations: Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: Carmine the Bowler (father, mostly deceased)

Aliases: None known

First Appearance: Mystery Men (Universal Studios, 1999)

Powers/Abilities: The Bowler is incredibly accurate with the crystal bowling ball that contains her father's skull. She is made even more accurate by the fact that her father is perfectly capable of directing the ball when he feels like it, causing it to fly through the air and alter course like a guided missile. The ball is pretty well indestructible. Carmine seems to communicate with his daughter telepathically.

History: (movie version) With a superhero for a father, you know a child is going to have issues. The Bowler is the daughter of the late, great Carmine the Bowler, a hero who used a bowling ball with deadly accuracy in the fight against crime. But he was murdered by Tony P. of the Disco Boys, Carmine's ghost pestered his daughter to take up the mantle and avenge his death. She had his skull encased in a crystal bowling ball, and joined the Mystery Men. Eventually she succeeded in catching up with Tony P., and her father did the rest. Now, according to their deal, she can go back to grad school.

Comments: Played by Janeane Garofalo.

"The Bowler evolved from a 51-year-old-divorcee who got her powers via a super suit won from her third husband in a divorce settlement." - from the Mystery Men DVD.

Blue Raja

Real Name: Jeffrey

Identity/Class: Normal human with extreme skill

Occupation: Sales assistant in a high class bridal shop, cutlery section

Affiliations: Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: Violet (mother)

Aliases: Master of Silverware

First Appearance: Mystery Men (Universal Studios, 1999)

Powers/Abilities: The Blue Raja can throw cutlery with incredible accuracy. He won't use knives though (at least the movie version won't. The comic one seems to be prepared to kill, unlike the cinematic incarnation).

History: (comic version) "The Blue Rajah is a former US prisoner of war who spent his years of imprisonment learning to use cutlery of all types as weapons of war. He became especially skilled with forks and knives, but if necessary he could also kill with an egg spoon."

(movie version) Still living with his mother, the effete superhero The Blue Raja puts on an English accent and fights crime with forks and spoons.

Comments: Played by Hank Azaria

The Sphinx

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Unknown

Occupation: Works at a Mexican eaterie, bussing tables

Affiliations: Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: None known

Aliases: None known

First Appearance: Mystery Men (Universal Studios, 1999)

Powers/Abilities: Able to slice guns in half with the power of his mind. Able to spout platitudes better than Confuscious or Yoda.

History: A mysterious crime-fighter from down south, the Sphinx and his never ending fortune cookie advice helped forge the Mystery Men (in the movie at least) into an efficient team of heroes. A tactician, he often advises the other in battle.

Comments: Played by Wes Studi.

"The Sphinx was a combination detective and wrestler back in the 1960s. He concealed his true identity behind a cryptic metal helmet and 'moonlights' as a bus boy in Champion City's top taco stand. The filmmakers outfitted him to resemble a classic Mexican Wrestler" - from the Mystery Men DVD

Invisible Boy

Real Name: Unknown

Identity/Class: Mutant human

Occupation: Student

Affiliations: Mystery Men

Enemies: Casanova Frankenstein

Known Relatives: Unnamed father

Aliases: None known

First Appearance: Mystery Men (Universal Studios, 1999)

Powers/Abilities: Able to turn invisible, but only when no one is looking at him and when he is naked.

History: Years of being ignored allowed the youth known as Invisible Boy to develop the power of invisibility. When the Mystery Men needed to strengthen their line-up, he was one of the first recruits.

Comments: Played by Kel Mitchell

"Invisible Boy started out as a joke that (Bob) Burden told at a party. The intoxicated writer-artist joked about a character who was only invisible when no one was looking. Producer Mike Richardson brought up the concept at an early Mystery Men production meeting and he suggested that Burden explain Invisible Boy to the studio executives present. But Burden, now sober, had completely forgotten his own joke!" - from the Mystery Men DVD.