Ratsputin

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Real Name

Ratsputin

Status

Alignment

Bad

Identity

Secret Identity

Citizenship

Roaman

Occupation

Royal Seer

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Eyes

Red

Hair

White

Origin

Universe

New Earth

Created by

Karl Kesel, Tom Grummett

First appearance

Last appearance

Superboy Vol 4 #50
(April, 1998)

Superboy Vol 4 #53
(July, 1998)

HistoryEdit

Ratsputin was a humanoid rat-man and one of the many genetically evolved experiments conducted by Project Moreau in the 1940s. He resided on an uncharted island called the Wild Lands and was official court seer to the king, Great Caesar of the capital city of Roam.

Ratsputin was the only Furry who was allowed access to the sacred Articles of Faith. The Articles of Faith were in fact just old copies of the Daily Planet newspaper. From these pages however, Ratsputin knew that there was a world outside the Wild Lands - one dominated by humans, not Furries.

When the amnesiac Superboy arrived in the Wild Lands, Ratsputin disbelieved claims that he was actually the prophesied "Mighty One" spoken of in the Articles. Ratsputin was in fact correct in this assessment, as the Mighty One was actually Superman, not Superboy. Regardless, Ratsputin was instructed to put Superboy through a battery of tests to verify whether he was the Mighty One or not. He first had Superboy run a gauntlet through the "Fortress of Solitude" (a bunker outfitted with autmatic weaponry). He then had him test his strength in the trial of the "Daily Planet". Afterward, he forced Superboy to survive being dropped into the "Doomsday" volcano. Superboy passed all of Ratsputin's tests, but the seer still believed that he was a false hero.

Ratsputin was also in league with a bat-woman named Nosferata. Nosferata coveted the throne of Roam and Ratsputin's true loyalties lied with her and not the king. After Superboy had left the Wild Lands, Ratsputin turned against Great Caesar, murdering him by stabbing him in the heart with a dagger.

TriviaEdit

• Ratsputin's name is a pun of the real Russian man Rasputin. Rasputin was known to be extrememly eerie and somehow got very far into the Russian government in the late 1800s.

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• Character Gallery: Ratsputin (New Earth)

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