Insanity’s the name of the game, and today we have the most insane one of all! Proceed with caution:
Dadaman- When you mix an anti-art movement based on chaos and randomness with a robot and then give it the ability to mess with people’s heads, what do you get? Well, I don’t know either, and I doubt Dadaman knows, but he’s the end result sure as fish, red paint, and Christmas ornaments go together!
Capable of surviving massed conventional firepower, able to appear in the least likely and most watched locations, and capable of anything at all, Dadaman is a threat to sanity as much as the physical objects and people he encounters. While he exists to spread his own ‘artistic vision’, said art is not restricted to objects like sculpture and canvas. He clearly views art as everything, from emotion to events to actions to outright pandemonium.
Describing Dadaman’s methods and motives is largely pointless. If he thinks it’s a good idea, he will likely pursue it, no matter what ‘it’ turns out to be. Making a bomb which he will detonate in his own face? Why not? Releasing prisoners to go on a mad rampage of violence and mayhem? Sounds good! Raiding an art gallery to trash the joint? A regular morning stroll.
Dadaman can literally make you insane, and this power seems to have no upper limit. It’s like a contagion. How this occurs is unknown; it could be some kind of psionic engine in his frame, it could be a sonic ability (when it occurs he is often accompanied by gibbering and burbling, not unlike the Jabberwocky of Lewis Caroll fame), or it could just be straight up psychological, a brain’s reaction to his specific warping of reality around him through cosmetic effect. Whatever the means, it makes some go wonky, some go nuts, and some shut off, but it also seems to work out in similar fashion among affected crowds, making them all shut down or act wacky in the same manners.
Dadaman is hard to explain outside of his own title and the words ‘chaos’ and ‘lunacy’ and ‘insanity’ uttered ad nauseum, so I won’t bother trying. He’s clearly good with explosives (blasting his way into a solitary confinement wing of a prison is no easy task!), extremely good at evading detection, and very, very intelligent no matter how warped that intellect might be (as evidenced by knowing exactly where and what to target for maximum amusement and effect). He’s manic and never runs out of energy or tires, though he can be ‘put down’ briefly with enough force. He also exhibits quite a lot of strength compared to a normal person, not to mention speed, striking before his victims can react and making his messes in record time.
Dadaman is not a malicious threat. He doesn’t seem aware of the negative effects he can have on things. He is, nevertheless, a very real threat. He may even be the largest one around so far, since he actually has a ‘super power’, unlike most of his peers, and one with a very big area of effect. In one odd note, it seems Scapula is familiar with Dadaman, addressing him casually if angrily during Dadaman’s prison break even though he was already in prison before Dadaman’s rampage. This indicates either he’s immune to Dadaman’s insanity powers, or Dadaman approves of his methods and chaos enough already, either one a frightening prospect! It seems Dr. Jeraukov may have had the right idea in questioning Scapula about him, though of course Scapula isn’t the co-operative type. Still, Scapula now displays familiarity (somewhat) with both robots in the Scap-verse: Dadaman, and Darkevilhelldeath-Man.
