Is Mr. Mxyzptlk Always the Same Guy?

[@dcauwatchtower]

Help support the channel and nab yourself some sweet collectibles on BigBadToyStore using our link! ➡ bit.ly/49yCAJr

[@jonathancandelario9976]

@@BruceWayne-ri4wrOrrr he’s playing into the anime angle of the series?

[@langpascal-e2h]

@@jonathancandelario9976 Q for Star Trek is his cousin for another dimension!

[@nicolasmontes7207]

You guys probably should look into "Zyx" from the Legion of Super Heroes cartoon show

[@thedotgiver2820]

.

[@thedotgiver2820]

.

[@SuperFroakie82]

I do want to humor the idea that every instance of him seemingly being contradictory is just him making shit up, trying something new, seems within his abilities

[@dcauwatchtower]

Same

[@Compucles]

So was he just going easy on Supergirl the first time they met by giving her a few extra advantages to beat him? Did he even want to marry her at all?

[@SuperFroakie82]

@@Compucles i think that'd be very funny so yes

[@odd-dev]

​@@SuperFroakie82 Bro got bored and decided to try something new cuz why not

[@matthewschwartz6607]

He’s a Break The 4th Wall character.

[@Magmaster13]

He had to make himself super sexy to get through the CW barrier.

[@joeyfromschool]

love the idea that the arrowverse literally will not let extradimensional beings in unless they make themselves hot.

[@MrSkerpentine]

You have no idea how much he wants to kill child Barack Obama

[@ShinySephiroth1]

@@joeyfromschool I guess that explains all iterations of their Bizarro 😆 🤣

[@sion8]

No, that's canon.

[@Maniacman2030]

Current CW... hot? Y'all are joking, right? CW ain't had a hot actor since Smallville. The people they've brought in now are middling AT BEST.

[@LittleMissGhostess]

“No matter what reality he calls home, THAT’S HIM!”

[@dcauwatchtower]

Perfect

[@crystalfajman3732]

You gotta wonder if Mxyzptlk is really Q in disguise!😅

[@SetoShadowVT]

@@crystalfajman3732 It wouldn't surprise me if Mxy was responsible for the Q Continuum in the first place lol

[@stephanberger3476]

Wherever he lays his hat, that's his home.

[@gabeheartz13saravia97]

@@dcauwatchtower RIP Gilbert Gottfried 1955-2022

[@DementedDuskull]

I just like the comic where Calendar Man gets Mxy's powers and starts seeing things fifth dimensionally and that all of reality is organized into little boxes.

[@dcauwatchtower]

A couple other people have mentioned that one too--I wish I'd known about it for this video! 😅

[@Mandrake55]

I remember a Silver Age book where Superman goes to the Fifth Dimension, and harasses Myxy for awhile. He keeps messing up Myxy's attempts to make him say "Namrepus," until the end when Myxy succeeds and... nothing happens. At the end, Superman says he'll go back on his own and whispers something, dissappearing. Back in HIS world. He muses that Myxy never realized that his name ISN'T "Superman," but "Kal-El," so he had to say "Lelak!"

[@seasaltsky]

wait so could he also say tneK KralC (Clark Kent) to go back or does he have to use Kal-El

[@SirsasthNigam.]

just Supe getting chance to bully Mxyzptlk

[@spiruandy]

But what if you want to send Lana Lang back?

[@helixsol7171]

"If I was Green Lantern, my suit would GREEN!"

[@Cpt_Kaos]

I think so to But worse booster's gold suit has a yellowish gold The weakness of Green Lantern so how the hell did they mix that up

[@Zane_Is_Insane]

"NOW WOULDN'T IT!?"

[@lastbreath3266]

If I was a Green Lantern I would turn into a green sans

[@Clarrisa123Martin]

​@@lastbreath3266(megalovania starts playing)

[@molecularminds1207]

BUSTER GOLD GO HOME

[@The_Phantasm]

The voice for Mxyzptlk that reads the comic dialogue in the video is really spot on.

[@DomFiryuu]

To me it sounded like Suction Cup Man 😂

[@nanoswagger]

@@DomFiryuutotally forgot piemations existed lmao

[@joshngarcia]

Seriously, is it AI generated? Was there an actual read? That’s gotta be his voice.

[@zexa252]

​@@joshngarcia Check the video description

[@Super_BiOman]

Sounds like the guy from Cyberchase, that stupid PBS kids show I haven't seen since I was like 7 or smthn

[@steelydyl]

Obviously the voice I think of for Mxy is Gilbert Gottfried and ya know what props to Timothy Banfield for a pretty stellar Gottfried/Mxy impression. Now I've gotta go find that McGurk!

[@GabePuratekuta]

THAT'S HIM!

[@jameskreidler9443]

It was funny to hear his voice. 😥

[@durianthesleepy]

Pretty sure he's the Gilbert Gottfried of Earth 634.

[@QUARTERMASTEREMI6]

Yeah… RIP Gilbert Gottfried… 😔

[@animezilla4486]

​@@QUARTERMASTEREMI6he will be missed this the guy that was the voice of Iago

[@DudeDude319]

Who’s to say that Mr. Mxyzptlk hasn’t just made up some of the rules to keep things interesting? Like, someone might add some additional rules to a game they play if they get bored of playing it normally.

[@DroppedMyMarbles]

To whoever edited this one, I want you to know for certain that the "that's him" bit killed me every time. 10/10.

[@LavenderJack540]

EVERY TIME.

[@YSL8704]

"THAT'S HIM!!!!!" Has become the newest most memorable Gilbert Godfrey quote I have ever heard💀.

[@IMarvinTPA]

That's him! You fool!

[@LavenderJack540]

Well, you know what they say. THAT'S HIM!

[@GeorgeInglis]

I like the idea that Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow is the definitive ending for Mxyzptlk since in that story, he references how he was a trickster for two thousand years and now he’s moving on to being pure evil, which to me makes sense only taking place after every other version of Mxy. Maybe the My Adventures with Superman version is one that’s nearing the end of the Mxy timeline as he’s starting to pivot from being a trickster to being evil

[@pancakes8670]

Also makes sense because Mxy straight up dies in that conic. Superman finally kills him.

[@GeorgeInglis]

@@pancakes8670 he dies in other versions, but like the video says, usually by a laser through the chest and I feel like being torn between two dimensions would be more fatal to a 5th dimensional imp than a laser

[@RodrigoGarcia-ze5em]

Although it's an interesting idea there's a story that contradicts this, DC Comics presents 97 "Superman and the Phantom Zone Criminals: The Final Chapter", it was the last canonical earth one story featuring Mxy ("whatever happened to the man of tomorrow" takes place in earth 423, which is similar to earth one but with differences), in said story Mxy shows his evil side by destroying Bizarro World and Argo City (he even makes fun of the fact that by that time supergirl was dead by saying that he remembers superman used to have relatives in Argo). The story ends with Mxy taking the freed phantom zone criminals as prisioners (absorbing them) and torturing them, before leaving he tells to the earth one superman that this is the last time he will see him, implying Mxy knows the effects of the Crisis will cause the earth one superman to cease to exist. My personal theory is that Mxy is simply bipolar.

[@BinaryJoe]

I agree with this 100%.

[@danixove2358]

I believe the fact that he dies (or seems to) in that particular story doesn't mean he dies in the 5th dimension, as confusing as this may sound. The reasoning being that the 5th dimension is made of ideas and those can't be killed

[@j.albuquerque9274]

I found funny how in World's Funniest every Superman Mxy and Bat-Mite met already knew who Mxy was but none of the Batman knew who Bat-Mite was except for the Silver Age version. Tells a lot about how different Batman is from Superman.

[@2014wolfy]

And yet even Peace Maker in his TV show knew who Bat-Mite was, which implies Batfleck knows Bat-Mite @__@

[@ryancarrell3186]

@@2014wolfy I would kill to see that interaction... but Batfleck would probably kill too, so maybe not.

[@2014wolfy]

@@ryancarrell3186 😂

[@j.albuquerque9274]

@@2014wolfy Because Gunn doesn't give a fuck. And I totally respect that, it's even said Batman doesn't kill.

[@jalapenoofjustice4682]

Bat-Mite is a fake fan

[@skarletxkabal]

Every time someone does fan art of Mxyzptlk, it’s actually him.

[@plantainsame2049]

Oh no I don't know if there is but it's entirely possible But We all live the rules of the internet , particularly the one between 33 and 35 Ahhhh!!!

[@Mr.Tw1sty]

​@@plantainsame2049 he does get around after all

[@iggybros5139]

Oh…oh no

[@SCUM_1]

making art of him being a pedophile so hes permanently marked as a sex offender

[@Scout819]

@@plantainsame2049 If it exists....

[@strozombie.01]

*Mr. Myxzptlk* never appeared in the *New 52* continuity. He appears in *Rebirth* complaining about this. He's the very reason the souls of the New 52 Superman & Lois fuse with their post-crisis counterparts.

[@MasterZebulin]

*Kltpzxym.* Wait, n-!! **(pop)**

[@blockyround2160]

Man, even he hated the new 52 continuity... can't fault him for it.

[@silverdays2909]

Wasn't he in Action Comics Grant Morrison?

[@Henrex2000]

He got caught by Dr Manhattan?

[@driveasandwich6734]

​@@silverdays2909 No, that was another Imp

[@SleepyDullahan]

I like to think Mxy spent most of his time leading up to My Adventures watching anime and just decided to go on a demon lord run for a bit of a change of pace.

[@X-SPONGED]

Bro really said "aight, I had enough fun goofing around. Time to do the main plot now"

[@Mad_Heretek]

It really does seem like he watched Dragon Ball through, and thought “You know what? This seems fun! Next time I go to mess with Superman, I’m gonna do this!”

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

He went and head and decided he'd be the Isrkai antagonist

[@dr.vikyll7466]

I like that he matches the show's anime inspiration

[@danatedawg1018]

He just saw the universe was anime inspired and joined in that way

[@joeker5208]

My answer. He’s not the same guy. He’s actually three guys, and we’re all just waiting for Paul Dini’s “Three Mxies”

[@El_gato-interestelar123]

Hahaha, Some Day

[@CybersteelEx]

only the mobius chair knows

[@thedemon0843]

Well there does seem to be separate comics, animated, and live action multiverses for DC within the omniverse, so maybe?

[@davidbettcher8843]

Heh heh

[@ked49]

@@thedemon0843finally, someone else mentions this.

[@AlonzoTompkins]

The idea that the SUPERFRIENDS version murdering the tribunal is hilarious.

[@citizen_grub4171]

This sounds like a job for SolidJJ!

[@guts60]

Mr. Mxyzptlk in other media: _a weird looking leprechaun that’s usually bald_ Mr. Mxyzptlk in My Adventures With Superman: _adorable twink genie with cat-like expressions_

[@X-SPONGED]

He had to blend in with the artstyle. Why he picked that design though, is beyond me. Man's gotta try something new once in awhile, I guess...

[@sugarplum3338]

He decided to cook with his best design.

[@greenstarlover1]

Seems he binged a bunch of animes in order to fit in. Don't blame him though. Dude be preparing.

[@EvilAutisms]

I love him

[@Lanoman123]

Femboy Twink Mxy is *clearly* the best design

[@normal6483]

According to Young Justice (1998), he used to be a good-hearted college student before Superboy (Kon-el), Impulse (Bart Allen), and Robin (Tim Drake) all accidentally convinced him to become a supervillain in his future. Nice job breaking it, young heroes!

[@keirgomcginlay2044]

I mean, he was a college student who was okay with the world ending, and becomming a mischeveous trickster prevented armageddon so...

[@chickenelafsworld7105]

I mean, if I remember correctly, he would go down the supervillain path with or without YJ. They did, however, try to make him decide *not* to become a trickster, if only briefly, which ended the world, so they had to convince him of the wonders of comedy to fix their timeline. They didn’t accidentally convince him to be a supervillain, they did it on purpose, for the sake of the world.

[@windwalker5765]

A thought on the 90-day limit: He's banished from _that particular continuity_ for 90 days. He's free to pop up in a _different_ one right away.

[@dcauwatchtower]

Yeah but they're all 3rd dimension, and Mxy as well as Earth scientists in various comics have said many times that's how long it takes before the dimensions come into realignment.

[@abx_yenway]

Isn't there more than one third dimension? What even is a dimension anymore?

[@adora_was_taken]

@@abx_yenway i mean, aren't there infinite 2 dimensional planes?

[@ianslee4765]

@@adora_was_taken no- theres a singular one.

[@TheRenegade...]

​​​@@ianslee4765If I define a 2 dimensional plane, I can define another a centimeter above it. I can even define a plane rotated by 90° that intersects with both planes. You can define an infinite number of 2D planes in 3D space using infinitely many distances along infinitely many normal vectors

[@brainfreeze10]

IS THAT HIM?

[@dominicfox101]

DOES HE KNOW?

[@notakirakarakaza2118]

I THINK THAT'S HIM!

[@ryanhitchcock2518]

holy crap

[@S_123-r4s]

HE DOESNT KNOW??

[@Motolmang]

HAT'S THIM!

[@thegreatandterrible4508]

Don't think I missed the "dropped the Daily Planet glove on Green Lantern" joke. I see you.

[@thegreatandterrible4508]

Globe. I can't edit it or I will lose my heart!

[@sydneymads5220]

Slandering my boy lol

[@GayBastich]

I thought that was green lantern…

[@SlashCraftJack]

​​​@@GayBastichthe joke is that Booster Gold was mistakenly called "Green Lantern" by multiple people in JL: Unlimited - he was continuing the joke at 26:00

[@ShinySephiroth1]

@SlashCraftJack That's what I get for listening to a major part of the video and and not watching it. Nice joke!

[@firetoacat]

I had assumed that when Mxy prepared to enter the My Adventures universe, he looked at different anime and manga to figure out what would be the oddest look for him to use, went with Dragon Ball, then rolled with it. Because outside of a few things he's been in, he has always looked odd or crazy. So him looking the way he did in My Adventures just fits.

[@henke37]

The name issue has a simple solution: it's a translation thing. After all, it has been established that all 5th dimension beings have names that can't be represented in our world, so we get an automatic translation into something we can work with. This is the same deal as with transliteration of foreign alphabets, sometimes there are different competing systems. On that note, who is in charge of doing this translation? Is it the same being each time?

[@johnnytt5233]

Mxyzptlk is quite possibly my favourite Superman villain, easily top 3, such a fun silly interesting concept of having Superman fighting a magic imp that ends up having such wild far reaching consequences, I LOVE how he works, and his characterization is always so fun to me!

[@ProjektTaku]

Also interesting to note he's essentially Superman's Superman. A being from another planet with powers far beyond his comprehension, and unlike his traditional powerful enemies who he can still brawl with, Supes has only his wits to help him and will use his strength in tandem to trick Mxy.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

My theory is that Whatever Happened is the end of his timeline. He seems to get worse after being punished, doesn’t he? So, his worst self could be at the end of it all. After the My Adventures stuff, he’s already pretty bad. That leads into his genocide of his people. Then, he has supreme access. With supreme access, he goes on a temper tantrum. As an imp, he’s not accessing the multiverse as it is. He can access it from any point. Whatever Happened isn’t a version of a revived Earth-1 from later that the modern Mxy goes into, he’s a Mxy from the modern era that’s able to enter the Pre-Crisis Earth-1. Pre-Crisis Earth-1, being the center of the multiverse at the time, allows him to fundamentally alter the structure of the multiverse from the core. He’s Doomday Clocking this. So, he drives Superman to kill and retire. This becomes a fundamental core part of the multiverse now. He just wasn’t planning to drive Superman to kill *him* like that. Because of that, he never gets to reap the rewards. Problem with his entire plan is that he doesn’t realize it’s all a predestined action. The universes he’s been interacting with for centuries wouldn’t exist if his future, now present, self didn’t do this. They’d be different. He’s a predestination paradox of fate that only works because he’s from the fifth dimension.

[@Saiyanking72]

Annnnd now that’s my official headcanon to make it all make sense

[@PosthumanHeresy]

@@Saiyanking72 Yeah, I've been thinking about the similarities between The Killing Joke and Whatever Happened a lot lately, and there's one thing people forget about TKJ. It was never supposed to be post-Crisis canon. It sold so well that it was made into post-Crisis canon, but Batman has a framed picture of the Silver Age Batwoman and Batgirl. They never existed post-Crisis. Which means The Killing Joke is the final Earth-1 Batman story. Which means that it is a twin of Whatever Happened, the final Earth-1 Superman story. And suddenly the villains of each come into view as each other's mirrors. Mxy explicitly calls Superman out on thinking of him as some mere clown, just some harmless thing, when he is a god by the standards of the third dimensions. A being who wears the face of a clown but is so much worse than that torturing and slaughtering the hero's friends and destroying his legacy to break him? There's no way Moore does that twice for the World's Finest within a couple years without seeing what he's done. But then, consider the difference in scale. And importantly: Mxy finds The Joker interesting. So interesting that later on in publishing timeline, Mxy empowered him. It was supposed to be 1% but instead Joker got 99% and it was a whole thing. But that means that out of every single villain Mxy has watched, one caught his eye more than any other. One is more entertaining than any other. The Joker. Future Mxy didn't just seek to Doomsday Clock Superman into being inherently doomed, he did it with a stolen plan. Because, like The Joker, he's no mere clown. He is a force of nature, a being of chaos and mirth and cruelty and whimsy and _fandom_ like no other. The Joker is Batman's biggest fan, not Bat-Mite. Bat-Mite might love him, but he doesn't understand him. Mxy is Clark's Joker, he just has been in the Silver Age for much, much, much longer. When Mxy breaks, when he finally falls and goes from a mere jester of japes and giggles who does somewhat malicious acts for the lulz to a true malevolent force, what do you expect to be left? Something not dissimilar to the Clown Prince of Crime. Something that doesn't just want to hurt Clark, he wants to ontologically refute Clark's existence. Mxy becomes Toxic Fandom embodied.

[@Project_Worm]

As interesting as this is it kind of falls apart with his stays away for 90 days bit. He can't jump to any universe at any point, otherwise he could come back to the point right after he is forced to leave. He is somehow incapable of entering certain universes at certain points in time.

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

@@Project_Worm maybe 5th dimension time works differently depending on which 3rd dimension one is interacting with. For example we all know how dog and cat years are shorter than to our human years, despite we are all on the same 365 day cycling, and take snakes and turtle, I would presume their years are longer than us humans, since they can live centuries longer. So it could be theorized that the reason he doesn't immediately reenter after a certain 90 day whatever, might have to do with that, and also he might also get bored and just decided to go to another dimension completely forgeting about the previous (more or less) because of this, for example if you had two vinyl records playing in different parts of the house one taking an hour and another taking a minute, you're going to forget to check the hour one because you're busy checking the minutes one and making sure it keeps playing, so you only remember the hour long one, once and a while.

[@Project_Worm]

@@jackalenterprisesofohio I guess I can understand that. But the thing is, if he is the same being across all appearances (which seems to be the case), then he does often go back to the same universe to try again. So if he can go back at any point, then it doesn't matter if he's forgotten about messing with Superman A) for a hundred relative years, once he remembers "oh yeah, let's go mess with him again", if he could go back to any point, why does he always choose at least 90 days after his last appearance? He seems to at least on some level make the decision to stay away from the last time he was around.

[@benlevy9091]

I do really enjoy Howie Mandel and his werid almost genie like performance, and Gilbert Godfrey is just absolutely iconic. But my favorite is Trent Ford from smallville purely because of my headcanon that this is Mr Mxyzptlk, taking the form of a character in a teen drama and not doing as much crazy stuff because he knows how low the budget is

[@ShadowTheHedgehogYT]

Seeing the most underrated superhero KZbin channel finally get the recognition it deserves, is long overdue. Great stuff guys! :D

[@drewxdeficit]

I wrote Mxyzptlk in a video game that came out last year, and I can confirm that, at least in my version, he is the same one.

[@dcauwatchtower]

Whether you wanted him to be or not 😈

[@adonis7626]

The worst is that it’s true.

[@leomonaghan3933]

FYI - Bat-Mite also says something similar about being the ~only~ Bat-Mite across all media and appearances in an episode of Batman: the Brave and the Bold.

[@christophercrafte]

that's almost contradicted. When he gets BtBatb cancelled, he realized this erases him also, so he's in a meta sense bound to the show.

[@Elfenlied8675309]

My fav Mixy actor is definitely drunk Mixy. What's not to love about a man slurring every word he says and somehow still making it into the show.

[@soldier629]

Having grown up with Gilbert Gottfried, I'd have to pick him since his voice is just that iconic. It's a shame we couldn't see him play him in live action.

[@jadenbryant9283]

Would have been cool to see him reprise the role in the dceu.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

“YOU BLEW IT, YA JERKS!” -Rupert Thorne My new favorite clip

[@werecatheartless5797]

that "NOPE!" from Clark in My Adventures with Superman has gotta be the smartest reaction to seeing Mxy, you don't have to know him long to see he's nothing but trouble! X,D

[@bdpickett]

There's no Mxy like Gottfried's Mxy and there never will be. He understood the assignment and he executed it perfectly.

[@TetsuShima]

I like to think the Mxyzptlk we see in every DC work is the same being but under different appearances, being the evil one that appears and dies in the "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" imaginary tale his last chronological appearance

[@jadenbryant9283]

Or the whatever happened to the man of tomorrow mxy is just some random other imp who took mxys apperances which sounds stupid but there's like worse retcons in comics

[@Elfenlied8675309]

Mixy has died a few times. He sacrifices himself and his planet to trap evil Superboy-Prime on his world forever.

[@ProjektTaku]

@@jadenbryant9283 But the story only works if its actually Mxy. This once mild nuance finally realizes his full power and becomes terrifying, letting go of his silly short old man guise to show the monster that he is.

[@clauro6153]

​@@ProjektTakuAnother theory,, That was a more consistent and younger Mxy. If what Superman did don't just kill him but split him across everything . Since he no longer need to be consistent , time and rules don't need to be the same everywhere.

[@momentaryretrospect5967]

I like to imagine Mxy might just get bored and play a different role every once in a while.

[@valmid5069]

For Bronies, it’s Discord For Trekkies, there’s the Q In DC, there's Mister Mxyzptlk!

[@jadenbryant9283]

And for whovians it's the toymaker

[@Jw87563]

That's him!

[@turtleofpride4572]

Q will always delight and scare me.

[@venom_spy437]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice anyone? (And The Mask, and Impossible Man and that demon known simply as "HIM" and.....I think Bill Cipher kinda fits this list too)

[@andrewollmann304]

And Bat-Mite.

[@CaciqueVanGuard]

Casually calling Booster Gold the Green Lantern was a delightfully hilarious reference I was so unprepared for that I had to stop the video and compose myself before continuing

[@theradioactiveplayer3461]

"Where were you when they were handing out the vowels? Behind the door?" - Nanny Ogg, _Wyrd Sisters_

[@RafelChip]

Guh

[@TheKillerMoth]

26:00 I love how he just casually calls Boostergold Green Lantern

[@typemasters2871]

A potential timeline based on Mr Mxy’s perspective (including lore not included in this video): -Mr Mxy finds the book of Mxyztplkology as a kid -He uses the book to mess with a young Clark Kent -Mr Mxy’s father had to deal with his son once, informs Superboy (Clark) that to send Mr Mxy back then Mr Mxy needs to say his name backwards (implying that the name backwards rule is made up but it’s origins come from a rule his parent(s) made Mr Mxy follow when he was younger) -Mr Mxy grows up whilst mastering his magic abilities, even landed himself a role close to the king and fell in love with princess Ms. Gsptlsnz -The king unfortunately dies when another imp that was jealous of how close Mr Mxy has gotten to the king tried to kill Mr Mxy -Mr Mxy then begins interacting with the Superman more often (wouldn’t be a surprise if he messed with multiple supermen at once so that he doesn’t have to wait three months or so to mess with any superman) -During his interactions he learns of the benefits of lying, learned of Superman’s secret identity, and has children with Ms. Gsptlsnz (if they hadn’t already have a child prior) -Eventually the 5th dimension tribunal punishes Mr Mxy for his crimes against the 3rd dimension, during said punishment he loses and then regains his magical hat -After that it is possible that Mr Mxy killed the tribunal, becoming the soul ruler of the 5th dimension -Some time after finishing his punishment, Mr Mxy pivots from prankster to full villain -His life ends when his body gets torn in two

[@RodrigoGarcia-ze5em]

Although it's an interesting idea there's a story that contradicts this, DC Comics presents 97 "Superman and the Phantom Zone Criminals: The Final Chapter", it was the last canonical earth one story featuring Mxy ("whatever happened to the man of tomorrow" takes place in earth 423, which is similar to earth one but with differences), in said story Mxy shows his evil side by destroying Bizarro World and Argo City (he even makes fun of the fact that by that time supergirl was dead by saying that he remembers superman used to have relatives in Argo). The story ends with Mxy taking the freed phantom zone criminals as prisioners (absorbing them) and torturing them, before leaving he tells to the earth one superman that this is the last time he will see him, implying Mxy knows the effects of the Crisis will cause the earth one superman to cease to exist. My personal theory is that Mxy is simply bipolar.

[@typemasters2871]

@@RodrigoGarcia-ze5em I am no DC or Mr. Mxy expert so thank you for telling me about this story, the story could theoretically be placed around the time Mxy pivots from trickster to full on malicious villain if someone is trying to fit all Mr Mxy appearances into one timeline. As for Bipolar Mxy, anything is possible with his lore, he could have bipolar, he could be bipolar coded, it could be possible that what we view as bipolar is neurotypical behaviour for 5th dimension beings, or some other lore explanation that explains Mxy’s bipolar behaviour.

[@ianslee4765]

-lives in a world where his previous race or people were wiped out by some giant force that no longer exists. -starts off goofing around with time travel books. -gets caught but only put restrictions on him(the backwards name thing might be general rules) -they don't know he found a magical hat. -after messing with the third d he realizes it actually changes his slightly. -meets superman, but he is young and its an evil comic version. -superman shows the ability to enter their realm -thinks superman is the bad guy of legend -spends countless times "messing" with superman to provoke him in front of the council --backfires. the council tries him for crimes -an evil superman does show up and destroy things -he escapes due to the hat and now hates superman -only one of his kind left eventually we gotta make it so he's accidentally responsible for superman showing up/or reveal the council are actually the bad guys or both

[@dannyorwhatever]

As a KZbinr/Animator/Patron I would’ve happily donated my time to Animate Mxy at the end of this (like Eric’s pitch for Supergirl)! If you ever have such very specific animation needs again, feel free to hit me up. Despite the simplistic cartoons on my channel, I can actually animate on-model 😂

[@dcauwatchtower]

I'll keep you in mind!

[@Mr.E_K_M]

"if you can guess my name" *EXPLODES*

[@Modtro64]

Honestly Gilbert Gottfried is like THE voice for Mr. Mxyzptlk. The character himself perfectly captures the whole "wise-guy who knows all and sees all and like to mess around in the narrative and can yoink himself from it anytime he wishes, or some joe-shmoe gets him to say his name backwards." type guy. It's like how Joker is usually seen with Mark Hamil's voice, or Kevin Conroy's Batman. Their performances really defined the characters for us and nostalgia or not. Their voices just "sound" right.

[@thefarlander2050]

To explain away how Mxy can be super evil like in MAWS and then apologetic in the Arrowverse, maybe they're him at different points in time. In MAWS, for example, Mxy's appearance in that show could be when he's still in his prime of being a chaotic god of the multiverse, despite the show itself coming out way after Supergirl finished.

[@jakejupiter5905]

all this time later and he still commits to calling Booster Gold Green Lantern. I love it.

[@markdarc0448]

One conclusion I make for this character is can there actually be anything that makes it not true? Even if mxy came out himself and said nope I was just kidding it’s not the same me in every appearance, then we could just say he was lying and keep the theory going. If there’s any inconsistencies we can just say oh that’s just mxy being mxy. He is literally immune to continuity errors of any kind. And I kinda love that

[@benjaminmoreland1755]

My headcannon is that some (but not all) of the contradictions can be explained by were seeing things in a different order than how they happened to Mxy.

[@dcauwatchtower]

I'm on board with that!

[@benjaminmoreland1755]

@@dcauwatchtower Holy Frick senpai noticed me!

[@benjaminmoreland1755]

Senpai noticed me again!

[@EvilTomba42]

Judging by the regular use of a Gilbert Godfrey impression, I believe we share a fondness for his portrayal. Loved the video! I'm subscribing.

[@maxstrike3022]

What do you mean? That's Mxy voicing himself; he just went back to his home dimension a couple years ago.

[@PixarNerdStudios]

I love Gilbert’s portrayal of Myxie so much. It’s the voice I hear when I read the character. Although I do really like the MAWS version.

[@sandyscrapwitch2064]

A random bit of coincidental trivia I've discovered is that in 'Whatever Happened,' Mr. Mxyztplk's true form, which was like an electric pink fifth-dimensional energy creature, kinda resembles Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt, which was also confirmed as a fifth-dimensional being.

[@dcauwatchtower]

Yep!

[@forestdodson3030]

I have to agree with most of everyone else. When I hear Mytz’s voice in the comics it is ALWAYS Gillby’s voice that I hear in my head. His voice is just so perfect for him! ( although I would love to see Danny Devito’s interpretation 😂)

[@aquagirl555]

i always figured it was a mix of 'just making stuff up for the lolz' and 'yeah some universes have rules that i must follow if i wanna hang around'

[@poppaspank]

Very good, very thorough. I think there was a final issue of DC Comics Presents around the same time as Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow that also suggested Mr. Mxysptlk was a "cute disguise" for a more terrible monster. And another Byrne issue implying he was also The Beyonder, the alien interferer who triggered Secret Wars II.

[@Elfenlied8675309]

Man all those references in the little armory scene with Mixy. Gut's sword, The skyhook from Bioshock Infinite, The scissors from Clocktower, The Wabbajack from Skyrim, Lament puzzle box from Hellraiser, Princess Monoke bow?, Nero's sword from Devil May Cry, The laser gun from Akira, The Noisy Cricket from Men in Black, Shuriken from Naruto, Cervante's Gunblade from Soul Caliber and the pepper grinder gun from American McGee's Alice. So much crammed into a little 3 second scene.

[@t.r2603]

Wait...so they somehow snagged the signature weapon from each of these characters? Well i guess we figured out why there isn't a ton of Louis Lanes running around. Guts alone probably divided infinity into half before they grabbed it from him (hows he gonna defeat griffith now?)

[@masterofinfinity479]

uhhhhhhhh, how do you know all that?

[@chilly456]

​@@masterofinfinity479 cause they looked at the weapons in the armory and knew what they were from? Like, those things have VERY distinct designs.

[@higginswalsan]

Even an infinite number of Loises (Lois? Loii?) couldn’t defeat Guts, bad scene

[@RodrigoGarcia-ze5em]

​@@t.r2603 they could easily be different versions of those characters, like evil (and weaker) versions of those characters.

[@redonslaught3019]

26:00 He drops the Daily Planet globe onto Green Lantern... Wait a minute... Nevermind that tracks... LOL

[@rozafrrozafr]

Yep as long as green lantern is disguised as Booster Gold.

[@redonslaught3019]

​@@rozafrrozafrgo watch the JLU episode "The Greatest Story Never Told" and you'll understand

[@redonslaught3019]

@@rozafrrozafr go watch the JLU episode "Greatest Story Never Told" and you'll understand the joke

[@wasserperson]

​@@rozafrrozafrYou're nearly there but not quite.

[@haydentcem]

The concept of multiverse singularity characters is both fun and frustrating to me. I like it in instances like Marvel’s Celestials but not when Mojo says that he’s the only one. Mojo doesn’t have the same excuse that Mxyzptlk or the Celestials do

[@plantainsame2049]

The time lords from doctor who I think I've been stated to be something like that.But of course that can't be true because we have Is unbound and parody doctors

[@markpostgate2551]

Of course sixth dimensional beings may look at 5th dimensional beings and think "pfft, that's what they think!"

[@MatthewPrower]

ngl I kinda wanna do one random line in a comic where the multiversal constant happens to be one random bystander that remains the same no matter what world they’re on

[@redjirachi1]

@@plantainsame2049 I just assumed the Time Lords being some multiversal singularity was fanon to explain why there isn't a Doctor in Pete's World or something. And I just assumed that's because the Doctor of Pete's World either died in his version of Parting of the Ways since Rose doesn't exist in that timeljne or committed genocide again and gave up his name, again

[@plantainsame2049]

@redjirachi1 No, it's likely something from some of his own official story because Doctor who loves to contradict itself.It's favorite pastime Here's a fun fact there's a captain jack working for torchwood in Is Pete's world based off of a line from one Of roses audio dramas I believe But captain jack would be dead without rose My theory is that the ninth doctor successfully set off the delta wave Which triggered a regeneration but The shame made him give up his name and he took the name of the man.He got killed captain jack harteness He also used jack's vortex manipulator to get to earth Now with a new face and a new name He joins torchwood.He can't be the Doctor anymore first.The time war and now this he Is undeserving of that name He doesn't know where his tardis This is because he sent it away so that the daleks couldn't capture it

[@QueenStodge]

I like it when Mxy puts the hat on in My Adventures with Superman and it turns into a crown

[@Th3DankestMemer]

wait a minute, this guy wears a bowler hat too...

[@dcauwatchtower]

Keep watchin' ;)

[@mattwo7]

17:42 Considering Bat-Mite is obviously a secret identity and they both come from the same place, he really should have known better.

[@CassietheReal]

Honestly I really liked David Errigo Jr.'s voice for them in MAWS a lot. Gottfried's voice for him is goated obv but I love the energy Errigo's voice has.

[@jadenbryant9283]

Yeah errigo is second best to Gottfried

[@DarthSideous63]

The great Frank Welker voiced the Super Friends Mr. Mxyzptlk.

[@OfficialRJCervantes]

Take a shot every time when the "That's him" clip pops up.

[@donovanfaust3227]

Are you _trying_ to kill people with alcohol poisoning?

[@Dwarg91]

@@donovanfaust3227Nah, water poisoning.

[@indigoblack396]

Poor Green Lantern, he's been through so much

[@scotthallgv]

Gilbert without question. Hes got such a unique and distinct voice that sounds impish and playful but also can slide into the nefarious and maybe even a bit evil end of things without missing a beat. Gilbert was fantastic and brought a certain gravitas to the role and to many others he inhabited.

[@bigchez2855]

I gotta say, you wove the Gonzo bit throughout the video masterfully. On the note of the question of the day, the only answer I could give is Gilbert. His voice perfectly incapsulates Mxy by itself. I also feel like the best route to take Mxy in live action is a Who Framed Roger Rabbit style mix of live action and animation. It just feels like the type of way he'd present himself.

[@BadIdeaBoss]

This is a fantastic video, and it’s also responsible for me realizing that I apparently pronounce Mxyzptlk the way I do specifically because of Superfriends episodes that I have no memory of watching

[@ThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan]

That video was fantastic! Thanks for making it! It is super obvious that a lot of heart and passion went into it.

[@KrazyKaiser]

OMG that design document says "for the lolz" in it, I'm dying!!

[@lynnerose7891]

I missed it. 😢

[@nadroji6549]

I like how when anyone talks about MAWS Myx, they bring up the fact he looks like a DB character.

[@tkayube]

He looks more Tenchi Muyo to me

[@nadroji6549]

@@tkayube I can kinda see it, but the blue skin & white hair makes him look a lot like an Angel from DBS.

[@cyanidenightshade]

​@@nadroji6549tbh he looks more like a Kai to me

[@nadroji6549]

@@cyanidenightshade Yeah, he does w/ his small stature & robes. Since few don't have blue skin, people draw more comparisons to Angels.

[@cyanidenightshade]

@@nadroji6549 I just realized that angels don't have pointy ears like the Kai, so I think that's also moreso why I make the comparison subconsciously

[@d3duction1st23]

To answer the question of the day, its obviosuly Gilbert Gottfried. I hear his voice whenever I read him in a story. The current world's finest run is about have Mxy, Bat-Mite and other imps fight a 5th dimensionsal Doomsday or something its going to be a lot of fun!

[@theshenpartei]

Mr.Mxyzptlk,iago and digit will always be my favorite Gilbert Gottfried roles.

[@Peeves22]

I can't believe you found a gag that never gets old It made me smile every single time

[@madnessarcade7447]

In supergirl it’s implied at first it was forced but his redemption became genuine overtime

[@Kyle_Noronha]

I have watched his DCAU appearances the most. Gilbert was such an iconic voice actor it is hard to top that version. Plus I am a fan of his tiny purple suit.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Timothy Banfields doing a fantastic Gilbert Gottfried!( Easily my fave Mixie actor of all time! THATS HIM!)😊❤Glad you guys got him onboard for this video!

[@thepanelbiter9915]

I have to believe the “hat is the source of my power” is some sort of curse the lawmakers put on him. Like, if there were a timeline, after the hat rule is undone is when Mxy takes over the 5th Dimension circa Super Friends. I also have to assume for Mxy time isn’t linear, like Doctor Manhattan’s version of time.

[@kagato3]

Well the original Young Justice comic issue 3 confirmed that Mxy's timeline does not flow the same as the 3rd dimension as it has a very young version of himself that they have to convince to become a prankster.

[@Compucles]

@@kagato3 Well, of course it doesn't! Time is the 4th dimension, and Mxy is from a dimension beyond that. Naturally, time isn't linear unless they want it to be (although it may be the default mode as they perceive it), just as I choose whether or not I want to stack a bunch of 2D sheets of paper into a 3D pile.

[@kagato3]

@@Compucles time is not necessarily the 4th dimension. It is a dimension but it isn't always treated as the 4th. A 5th dimensional being could still be bound by our concept of time just have access to 2 other spatial dimensions.

[@SalinaMoonfall]

Yeah earlier on in the video I had that "oh s-" moment when I compared him to Q from Star Trek and recalled what we found out about him from the finale of Picard, that time ISN'T linear for him. It also explains why in My Adventures with Superman he has pretty much a super fan level of meta knowledge, cause he's gone through so many different universes already. Further when he pops up at the end after his "capture" one would assume that he instantly escaped the Loises, when the reality is he was probably held by them for a time before eventually escaping and decided to loop back on the timeline to visit My Adventures Lois cause "She was the fun one.".

[@ShinySephiroth1]

Oh! The other comments inspired another theory! Using the "What if Whatever Happened is closer to the *beginning* of Mxy's exploits and after getting beaten he calmed down" theory, when he split in half there it created two beings: Mxyzptlk and also Mxyztplk! This would explain why they are both the same person as well as keeping canon the time it was said they were two different people! This would make *both* correct!

[@dcauwatchtower]

Ooooo

[@Star_Wars_With_PercyMan]

This video was a welcome surprise! I like these longer format videos, even though I know how time consuming they can be for you guys!

[@yourguyry]

Spectacular video as per usual. As for the best Mxyzptlk actor, it's gotta be Gilbert Gottfried. StAS was my introduction to the character and that performance has always stuck with me.

[@legoking6165]

Yeah. Though, the nostalgic part of my brain will always remember Gilbert Gottfried as the voice of Digit from Cyberchase.

[@GordyAnson]

Wow, so much information and research. I’ve learned so much yet my biggest takeaway is: “THAT’S HIM!”

[@avationmusic]

I love the editing and jokes getting more unhinged as the video goes on😂

[@Jodipo]

Neat, any chance of tackling the DCAU connections with My Adventures with Superman? DCAU Superman does have a cameo in one episode.

[@Elfenlied8675309]

And DCAU Lois appears as a hologram in the halls of multiverse Lois Lanes.

[@seanobrienplays688]

Him being the same guy (even this one) makes me like him more! Bro just likes fucking with Superman, every version of Superman. (If I change my pfp at some point, just know I'm referring to MAWS Mxy when I said "even this one")

[@Maniacman2030]

Ugh, I despise MAWS. Of course that Woman had to go and make her character from HER OWN SHOW, her self-insert, the "Prime Lois".

[@adora_was_taken]

@@Maniacman2030 ok bud

[@schizzo8959]

@@Maniacman2030 Prime Lois Lane is the one from the mainline comics, as said in the show.

[@indie-mox7473]

Thank-you for Ending this Vid with One Last "That's Him!" That shit was Making me Laugh more each Time. xD Good Vid as Always too! One of my Favorite Myx Moments was when he fights Trigon in the Injustice Comics. Also, them getting Gilbert back for Justice League Action was a Real Treat. They went Hard on that Show's Cast for No Reason.

[@West-d8v]

Thank you for mentioning, the impossible man. I was waiting for you to include him since the moment you said the word -pop-

[@dcauwatchtower]

Was part of this video at first but we cut it for time! It's super interesting. Short coming soon about it!

[@NakedSnake1]

Absolutely Gilbert Gottfried grew up hearing him as a VA in so many movies and shows his voice is just so write for the role

[@ShiroMatrix]

DCAU’s been so influential on how I read DC comics that Gilbert Gottfried is the voice I imagine when I read his lines, particularly in Emperor Joker, so I would say he’s definitely my favorite of all the actors and personifies Mxyzptlk the best. Plus it was great how he broke down the pronunciation of it in his premiere STAS ep and is the pronunciation I stick by.

[@CapLives]

Great video. 1 Mxy being every Mxy is honestly one of my favorite retcons. My favorite Mxzy has to be Gilbert Gottfried. Loud, rambunctious, and funny. He really embodied Mxy with 1 voice

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

20:42 I’m just as confused as you when Superman said that.

[@MAJR172]

Pretty sure the Injustice comic's Mixy has GOT to be the only exception considering his... Murders...

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

26:60 I love how you called Booster Gold, Green Lantern! XD

[@sophiadebar382]

I’m kinda new to the whole dc scene, my first encounter with Mxyzptlk being My Adventures With Superman, but whenever I read comics with him in it, it’s always this weird amalgamation of Gilbert Gottfried and the voice actor from MAWS that I hear in my mind. I’m glad Gottfried’s voice is still something that permeates through the characters

[@ystin]

my fave mxy tidbit was revealed during the krisis of the krimson kryptonite story where we found out mxy is also the impossible man from the fantastic four 🤣

[@dcauwatchtower]

Short coming soon about that!

[@ADayForeverGreen]

What a great episode. Great job! Just wanted to say that I've really loved the direction the channel has taken over the last year. I think you've been putting out your very best work of late, and I hope you know that we've noticed.

[@sporf_sporf]

Mxy blew up the 5th dimension to stop himself from going back at one point. I think he bragged about it bat mite while they fought. I also love the comic where he talks to the reader about how he is more real than the reader because more people in the world know about him and will remember him while eventually no one will likely remember the reader. It's the coldest thing a fictional character could say.

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

*An important thing to remember about that "no killing" rule:* The 5th dimension is beyond time, so their perception of "kill" would be very different from ours. You have to think of things happening all-at-once. A temporary death doesn't count because even as it's happening, 5th dimensional beings are already aware it'll be reversed.