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+ | Brushogun has the power to create living creatures from his own paintings. His body is made of ink, which he can release in its basic colors (red, yellow, blue) and mix them to form his paintings. He can also imbue them with abilities of his own design, making them formidable opponents, and his creations can regenerate damage in moments, even to the point of regrowing lost limbs. However, since they are all essentially made of ink, all his creations share a fatal vulnerability to water, which dissolves and destroys them.[[File:BrushogunTransmutation.jpg|thumb|Brushogun performing Japanese dark magic.]] |
==Known creations and their cultural influences== |
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Revision as of 15:27, 30 June 2010
Brushogun is a supervillain and an unvoluntary adversary to the Teen Titans. He features solely in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.
History
Broshogun, during his youth (left) and after his transformation (right).
It is said that Brushogun fell in love with his painting of a woman and used mystic dark arts to bring his creation to life. Unfortunately, it consumed him and he became the ink-filled villain, Brushogun. Whenever he put his hands on a flat surface, he could create ink minions with a variety of colors.
The Titans come into conflict with Brushogun when his creation Saico-Tek attacks Jump City and the Titans Tower. Determined to solve the mystery behind the attack, Robin and the other Titans travel to Tokyo, where they do meet more creations of Brushogun but are popularly assured - particularly by Commander Uehara Daizo of the Tokyo Troopers that Brushogun is merely an urban myth. However, shortly the Titans find themselves under attack from more of Brushogun's creations - among them another Saico-Tek, Nya-Nya, and Mecha-Boi - and are framed as enemies of the state, making them hunted fugitives.
Finally they manage to backtrack Brushogun to a closed manga publishing house, only to find out that Brushogun is a victim himself: He has long been imprisoned by Daizo and hooked up to a giant printing press to produce more villains for Daizo to fight, so he would be worshipped as a hero; the Tokyo Troopers are also Brushogun's creations. The first Saico-Tek and various helping hands lent to Robin were actually Brushogun's calls for help to prompt the Titans into finding and freeing him.
Revealing himself as the villain he really is, Daizo orders the living ink creations to attack the Titans, but these are soon overwhelmed by their inherent weakness to water; as a result Daizo chooses to merge with Brushogun, mutating into a giant ink monster. Robin defeats the monster by pulling Brushogun out of it, causing the ink creature to revert back to Daizo. Finally released, Brushogun dies in Robin's arms, fading into nothingness. After the well-fought battle, Starfire and Robin share their first love kiss.
Powers
Brushogun has the power to create living creatures from his own paintings. His body is made of ink, which he can release in its basic colors (red, yellow, blue) and mix them to form his paintings. He can also imbue them with abilities of his own design, making them formidable opponents, and his creations can regenerate damage in moments, even to the point of regrowing lost limbs. However, since they are all essentially made of ink, all his creations share a fatal vulnerability to water, which dissolves and destroys them.
Brushogun performing Japanese dark magic.
Known creations and their cultural influences
- Saico-Tek resembles a Power Ranger
- Deka-Mido, a giant green reptilian monster that resembles film monsters Godzilla (Japan) and Gorgo (Great Britain)
- The yellow sushi-obssessed robot that Cyborg fights is an homage to Boss Borot from Mazinger
- Nya-Nya, a pink cat-girl (a nod to Ana Puma from Dominion Tank Police)
- Mecha-Boi, a blue robot that resembles Astro-Boy (Tetsuwan Atom in Japanese)
- Raven's ghost-like opponent is based on No-Face from Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away
- The Tokyo Troopers, living ink creatures looking like human police troopers
- Brushogun himself seems to be based of the Marvel Comics characters "Carnage" and "Venom", at least in the appearance he gains when he is first mutated.
Trivia
- The name Brushogun obviously consists of the English word "brush" and the Japanese term "shogun", meaning "general".
- The way Brushogun was tied to chords in a black body with a machine is a reference to the Animatrix segment, Part 2 of The Second Renaissance, where it told how machines and robots imprisoned humankind in virtual reality and used them to power their vehicle, Zero One.