Mad Mod

You see, I'm older than you. So I'm bigger, badder ... and better.

―Mad Mod

Mad Mod
Background information
First episode	Mad Mod
Voice	Malcolm McDowell
Character information
Real name	Neil Richards
Other names	Moddie, King Moddie I
Species	Human
Affiliations	Brotherhood of Evil
Goal	To turn Jump City into his own "jolly old England"; to subdue and destroy (or at least control) the Teen Titans
Place of origin	England
Residence	Jump City
Relatives	N/A
Allies	N/A
Powers and abilities	Advanced technological skills, specializing in hypnosis and holographics
Weapons	Cane, a high-tech device capable of emitting light, triggering mechanisms in his other machines, and even absorb another's life force; His private robot army

This is the page concerning the character Mad Mod. For the Teen Titans episode, go to Mad Mod.

Mad Mod is a recurring villain and an enemy of the Teen Titans.

Character History

Mad Mod's true form.

In his first appearance, Mad Mod kidnapped the Titans and placed them in a psychedelic "school", where he attempted to "teach them to behave" through hypnosis. When his initial attempts failed, he led them on a chase through a veritable maze of corridors and stairways and had them attacked en masse by his killer robot busts. Finally, Robin realized that the Mad Mod they were chasing was a hologram and thus as fake as the rest of their surroundings; he thus abandoned his attempts to capture him by exploiting a flaw in the illusion created by one of Mod's weapons. This enabled him to confront the real Mad Mod - a sickly-looking old man using an advanced computer to control the entire school and the holograms of his younger self - in the illusionary school's control room; Robin had no trouble bringing him down.

Mad Mod as King Moddie the First.

In his next appearance, Mad Mod popped up right during the 4th of July celebrations in Jump City, using hypno-screens to control the populace and giant illusion props to remake the entire city in the image of old London and deploying an army of robots modeled after the Coldstream Guards. Mad Mod then became the ruler of the city, naming himself King Moddie the First. When the Titans tried to take him down, he kidnapped Robin and used his staff to drain his youth, reducing Robin to a decrepit and helpless old man while Mad Mod became his young self again. The other Titans were initially prevented from reaching Mad Mod and freeing Robin by Mad Mod's robot army and the fact that Mod anticipated their intentions even before they had even finished voting on them. Eventually, however, the Titans succeeded in knocking the cane out of Mad Mod's hand, which landed right in Robin's hands, who used it first to reverse its aging effects, then broke it, deactivating Mad Mod's illusions and ending his rule over the city.

Mad Mod made a cameo appearance (at old age) in "The Lost Episode" as one of the audience in the orchestra which Punk Rocket brought crashing down.

Later, Mad Mod somehow regained his youth and was initiated into the Brotherhood of Evil. He was one of the villanous competitors in Ding Dong Daddy's race for Robin's most secret possession, but he was foiled by Red X, who pasted his Big Ben Mobile and Control Freak's Control Mobile together, sending them spinning off the road. When the Brotherhood's base was later invaded by all of the Teen Titans, Mad Mod was defeated and joined the rest of the Brotherhood in flash-freeze treatment.

Character profile

Mad Mod speaks with a British accent and is utterly anglophilic and a special fan of British popular culture of the 60s and 70s, including the Beatles and Monty Python. Moddie, as he often calls himself, is bitter about his old age and thus envious of the Titan's youthful vitality.

Powers and abilities

Mad Mod has no superpowers of his own, but he is a master of technological trickery and employs robots and holographic projectors, which he controls with a ruby-handled cane. In one circumstance he was able to use such a cane to drain the youth from someone, making them old and himself young again. He also habitually employs optically induced hypnosis to submit his victims to his will.

Appearances

• Mad Mod (episode)
• Revolution
• Homecoming - Part 2(cameo)
• Revved Up
• Titans Together
• The Lost Episode(cameo)

Teen Titans Go!

Mad Mod made an appearance in the DC Kids and Cartoon Network comic 'Teen Titans Go!'. In one issue, Mad Mod uses his fashion designer mentality (which was absent in the animated series) to hypnotise the citizens of Jump City.