Not only that but the current comics continuity has revealed that all of the Mr. M’s are the same entity. He exists across all the different universes (including ours presumably OoooooWeeeeOooooo!)
Mxy was on an early Smallville in an especially lame form, back when they were just trying to make things “different”, he wasn’t from the 5th dimension, but some obscure eastern european country.
I’ve noticed that live-action Mxy is never played by a balding, middle-aged little person. It’s always an actor of average height and average looks like Howie Mandel. Although I suppose Mxy can appear as anything he likes. This would be a perfect role for someone like Verne Troyer, who is 2’8".
i.e. exactly like Captain Marvel, junior.
Obviously, the animated versions get around this. (He’s voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.)
I love the paint job on the Burger King.
No, Superman 3 killed it. 4 just danced on its grave.
I will never get “MCGURK! Hey, McGurk! Where are you?” out of my head.
I’ve long had a theory that every movie franchise dies when it has two bad movies in a row. As long as the movies are good, they do well at the box office, and so moviemakers want to make more. Eventually you get the first bad one, but the audience doesn’t know that at first, and still comes for opening weekend, and so the first bad one still does well at the box office, and so the moviemakers still want to make another one. But then, audiences will be wary of the next one, and will wait for reviews and such: If it’s another good one, word will eventually get out, and you’re back to having a successful franchise, but if it’s a second bad one, that won’t happen, and so the movie won’t make much, and so the moviemakers will lose interest.
I don’t remember Mxyzptlk being in the animated Justice League. (Bizarro made quite a few appearances, including being in whatever they called the “Legion of Doom” in the final season.) He did appear at least three times in Super Friends (in one, he thought he had made a formula that would keep him in this universe, so he said his name backwards to prove it worked, only for it to have been the wrong formula; in another, a typewriter he was using to write movie scripts that became true kept typing his name backward over and over again; in a third, they recorded him saying his name forward, played the tape backward, and somehow that worked).
Does anyone here remember the original Bizarro story, which was in a Superboy comic way back when? In this episode, Bizarro was created de novo (that is, with nothing depending on any earlier story), and was destroyed at the end (dying as a self-sacrificial hero, saving a little girl’s life), with all remaining questions and loose ends resolved, so there was no possibility of any sequel. The entire action takes place over just two days and one night.
Any later Bizarro stories were all re-boots of the character, and none of them really were the same character. If the origin story you remember involves Luthor, or Lois Lane, or any characters on the planet Htrae, or any blind person regaining their sight, that wasn’t the original story.
Not the same show. Justice League was a half-hour animated series that ran in the early 2000s; Justice League Action is a recent 15-minute animated series.