Doctor Mindbubble
Doctor Mindbubble is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Horace Littleton
Overview
Personality and attributes
After injecting himself with the Super-Soldier Serum, he came to take the name Doctor Mindbubble who was the psychedelic super-soldier. (Captain America v7 #15)
It was said that he was always mocked by S.H.I.E.L.D. who called him a dreamer. He though came to warn of the dangers of S.H.I.E.L.D. and was seen as something of a visionary to some. Horace had also foretold the overreaching expansion of Weapon Plus. In response, he suggested the creation of the Weapon Minus program that he deemed to be a necessary measure to ensure balance. In this case, he was far ahead of his time with Littleton looking for a more humane way to assassinate enemies. It was this approach that led to him being laughed at by the higher ups in S.H.I.E.L.D. Horace was labelled a psychedelic weirdo and a self-deluded psychopathic Timothy Leary who spouted nonsense with his funding eventually cut. (Captain America v7 #15)
After his transformation into Doctor Mindbubble, he was deemed to be the establishments worst nightmare come true.(Captain America v7 #15)
Powers and abilities
He had perfected an L.S.D. laced Super-Soldier Serum hybrid but with his funding cut he lacked any test subjects. (Captain America v7 #15)
Notes
- Doctor Mindbubble was created by Rick Remender and Nic Klein where he made his first appearance in Captain America v7 #15 (January, 2014).
- In an interview on CBR, Remender commented, "He's actually a character from a book I developed back in 2002 called, 'The Inexplicables'. When I really got my head around who this guy was, how his powers work, and what he was doing it became clear that he was a real super villain. So I never really worked him up into any of my creator owned stuff because I never really did much in terms of super hero stuff other than 'The End League'. So he just kind of fell away, and as I was building some of the Weapon Plus stuff in 'Uncanny X-Force' I realized I had some ideas for the Weapon Minus program that would be devised as a counter measure to them. So Doctor Mindbubble fell into my 'X-Force' plans, and when I didn't do my third year of 'X-Force' a lot of those ideas [Laughs] found a way into my other books. That said, I went to great lengths to take everything that I had that made the character work and focus it on a 'Captain America' story. It worked perfectly because Doctor Mindbubble is a product of the Weapon Minus Program using the Super Soldier Serum and LSD. Because of that mix, he's constantly tripping... So Doctor Mindbubble became their counter measure, but he was also a man of the era he was created in. He was a beatnik turned hippie. He was basically Timothy Leary as a super soldier. His methodology was to try and be the nice assassin. He was the psychedelic super soldier and he had plans on how he was going to change the world and what he was going to do. Those didn't gibe so well with S.H.I.E.L.D. and he was taken down at great expense and was caged in The Hub, which is the S.H.I.E.L.D. base in the side of the Grand Canyon... Whereas Nuke was the super soldier for Vietnam, Doctor Mindbubble is the super soldier for the era just preceding that, but he was more than just that. He really was a countermeasure to the super soldier program and everything that Weapon Plus was doing... When you see the final Nic Klein design of Doctor Mindbubble you'll see that he's an amalgam of many things. He's got the old '60s Converse on, he's got a Willy Wonka style suit and top hat, and he's got a pipe jutting out of his forehead that releases the mind bubbles that are constantly percolating in his brain. So visually he's a psychedelic Willy Wonka blended with the designs of the thugs in 'A Clockwork Orange'."
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- Captain America v7: (2014)
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