Plastic Man
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Real Identity: Patrick "Eel" O'Brien
Affiliations: Justice League
Appearances: Revelation, Usual Suspects, Auld Acquaintance, Happy New Year, The Hunt, Endgame, Princes All, Teg Ydaer!, Ego and Superego
Appearances (Comics): Players Chapter Three, Players Chapter Four, Players Chapter Five, Players Chapter Six, and Yesterday's Children: Memory Six
Powers/Skills: Elasticity, Durability, and Shape Shifting
Voiced By: Not Applicable
Patrick O'Brien was born in 1973. He later earned the nickname "Eel" and acquired a substantial criminal record as a heist artist. At some point he gained the power of elasticity and decided to use it to do good. He took the name of Plastic Man in 2003. On October 1st Team Year Zero, Plastic Man saved a truck driver who was knocked aside by a tendril of a Plant Creature. On November 25th, Plastic Man was nominated to join the Justice League. On December 30th, he was inducted into the League and assigned the designation 19. In Team Year Five, on December 1st Team Year Five, Plastic Man helped investigate the field in Metropolis. He drilled down and determined the field was not a dome but spherical. He remained near the sphere to maintain contact with Batgirl but was horrified to watch as Match emerged near her. Plastic Man realized the energy beam from the alien ship was shrinking the city and looked on as Batgirl and Match's battle came to an end as a LexCorp van arrived. Once the field was taken down, Plastic Man walked over and conferred with Batgirl, Black Lightning, and Jim Harper.
On January 1st, Team Year Six, Plastic Man participated on Krolotean raids. On May 27th, he guarded the Warworld's Crystal Key chamber with Green Arrow and Zatanna. On June 20th, Plastic Man was assigned to Gamma Squad with the Flash in the strikes against the Magnetic Field Disrupters. He attended Wally West's funeral. He morphed into a chair for Freddy Freeman to sit on. On July 27th, 19:57 EDT, Team Year Eight, Plastic Man remotely attended the emergency Justice League meeting on the Watchtower. After Batman and Green Arrow resigned in protest of the increasing restrictions placed by the United Nations, Plastic Man was one of the other heroes who also resigned. He then joined Batman's covert team and was assigned the hacked designation Z-03. On February 24th, 19:00 EST, Team Year Nine, Plastic Man was among the heroes calling in from the Batcave for the meeting on the Watchtower between the League, the Team, the Outsiders, and Batman and Nightwing's covert teams. As part of Black Lightning accepting the nomination to lead the League next, both covert teams were folded into the various teams and Plastic Man became a Leaguer again.
On or around September 9th Team Year Ten, a dedication ceremony was held on Justice Island in New York City to commemorate future construction of a new Hall of Justice. Plastic Man turned into a pair of scissors for the ribbon cutting portion of the ceremony.