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07-26-2018, 03:46 PM | #1 |
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Master of Disguise, ok.... but how?
Chameleon, color changing, shape shifting, Predator technology, Alien science, x-men mutant? Ninja? Da heck does Zartan do it? |
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07-26-2018, 03:49 PM | #2 |
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I kinda think of him as Ethan Hunt from Mission: Impossible using a machine to make masks for him, although because he's a bad guy I'd liken him to Sean Ambrose from Mission Impossible 2.
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07-26-2018, 03:59 PM | #3 |
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Zartan is a shape-shifting, chameleon-like x-men mutant ninja who uses holographic/Predator technology and rubber masks.
I'd go with the cartoon on this one, but even there he's got weird sunlight allergy and could actually disappear into the background. So then I'd go with the toy, can change skin color at will and is master of disguise. No holograms mentioned in vintage ARAH. |
07-26-2018, 04:17 PM | #4 |
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Ha! Great thread title.
I think he's just a better version of the cartoon Baroness -- who was also a mistress of disguise. The sunlight thing is weird, but not that inexplicable.
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07-26-2018, 04:30 PM | #5 |
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My wife takes medication that makes her extremely susceptible to sun burns. Not that she's ever turned blue (as far as I know).
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07-26-2018, 05:36 PM | #6 |
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Alien technology stolen from SHIELD that he tested on his brother and sister, found that it worked and tried it himself.
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07-26-2018, 06:00 PM | #7 |
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Comic:
There are holoprojectors in the vehicles and smaller ones in his costume. Cartoon: He has invisibility power and doesn't like sunlight, "Stop iiiit! I hate the sunlight I hate it!" (Countdown for Zartan) but also uses disguises and is a great voice impersonator.
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07-26-2018, 06:45 PM | #8 |
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I always imagined him as a mutant.
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07-26-2018, 07:52 PM | #9 |
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Trained ninja, and European special ops or government agent. Probably Interpol. His parents were b or c rate theater stars of a bygone generation who settled down to run a small local theater. Possibly his parents had some ties to a government agency, working with them from time to time, typical civilians with security clearances to work as needed as consultants. Zartan (and his siblings)were really raised in that culture. I also imagined that Zartan chose the Bayou as his American home because of it’s French Influences and later relocated to the Everglades for anonymity. The first few Zartans to roll off the line had his birthplace as Nice, France.(double check the city but I know it was France) before it was changed to unknown. If you look into the 1964 film Fantomas, I have always felt that Zartans’s concept began with the film about the criminal mastermind with a thousand faces. It is also a French film.
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07-26-2018, 08:06 PM | #10 |
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Yeah that’s how he is in my book too,
Trained ninja, and European special ops or government agent. Probably Interpol. His parents were b or c rate theater stars of a bygone generation who settled down to run a small local theater. Possibly his parents had some ties to a government agency, working with them from time to time, typical civilians with security clearances to work as needed as consultants. Zartan (and his siblings)were really raised in that culture. I also imagined that Zartan chose the Bayou as his American home because of it’s French Influences and later relocated to the Everglades for anonymity. The first few Zartans to roll off the line had his birthplace as Nice, France.(double check the city but I know it was France) before it was changed to unknown. If you look into the 1964 film Fantomas, I have always felt that Zartans’s concept began with the film about the criminal mastermind with a thousand faces. It is also a French film.
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