Mad Mod

Short description

Mad Mod (real name Neil Richards) is a brilliant, technologically-minded illusionist who holds a grudge against the Teen Titans for their being 'do-gooders'. he is an criminal, British, dramatic, anglophilic and genius

Basic Information

Mad Mod is a fashionable, theatrical hypnotist with a flair for the dramatic and a penchant for creating enormous illusions using technology and robots. Whilst he largely appears to be a young man, Mad Mod is actually much older, and uses a variety of techniques (such as holograms and the youth-stealing properties of his cane) to become young again. A proud Brit, Mad Mod is an extreme Anglophile whose style, interests and personality are formed around a caricatured idea of Britishness, including a love for British fashion, food and music, a distaste for American history and sensibilities, and countless pop culture references to Britain in general

Archetypes: 4th Wall Blurring

One of the most memorable parts of Mad Mod's villainous style is his ability to craft large, intricate illusions, often of a pop-art and/or hypnotic nature. In his introductory episode, Mad Mod builds the façade of a school full of impossible staircases, endless hallways and traps. Creating false realities is a large part of his modus operandi, and the scale he conducts these on is often very impressive.

British

Mad Mod is the epitome of all that is British. His design is inspired by 60s Mod culture, as reflected in his hairstyle and trim suits. He speaks with a pronounced Cockney accent, uses British colloquialisms (most memorably being his tendency to call others 'duckies'), and often wears British iconography, such as his Union Jack suit jacket.

Chaoslord

Mad Mod creates enormous, mind-bending illusions using robots, gadgets and other high-level technology to mess with his victims. A large part of these illusions focuses on confusing those within: playing with physics in an unnatural manner, and trapping people into being exposed to the incredible power of his hypno-screens. Mad Mod is shown to take quite the delight in confusing those in his traps, and engages in strange, chases with them just to break down their will. It is quite impressive that Mad Mod has no innate supernatural abilities, and is instead able to achieve this through technology (although his ability to steal youth from others puts a question mark under the nature of his powers).

Chronokinetic

Mad Mod has a heavy association with time: although appearing largely as a young man, he is actually well past middle age. Mad Mod is shown to have the ability to steal the youth of others and physically transform himself back into a young man with his ruby-topped cane, whilst making them older.

Distintive speech patterns

Mad Mod often uses quite British turns of phrase: calling other people 'love', 'my little ducky', 'dearie' and 'laddie', and saying things like, 'don't get your knickers in a twist' and 'you may as well chuck in the sponge.' 'ruddy hell' Mad Mod has a delightful Cockney accent,

Distinctive laughter

Mad Mod is prone to a good, evil laugh!

Dominating

Mad Mod is all about asserting his dominance over other people. Whether he is trapping heroes in chairs and attempting to force them to behave, or brainwashing a city to believe he is their king, Mad Mod is a very dominating figure indeed!

Egostical

Like many villains of his kind, Mad Mod has an ego which matches his theatrics. Not only does Mad Mod believe himself to be inherently 'better' than the heroes because he is 'older' and 'bigger', but he thinks he deserves to rule over America as their de facto British king.

Eye Imagery

Hypnosis is Mad Mod's weapon of choice, and he implements this through the use of hypno-screens, which require direct eye contact (and leave swirling spirals in the victims' eyes).

Intelligence

Mad Mod is an extraordinarily clever man, as showcased by his technical prowess, ability to create grand-scale illusions, and talents as a hypnotist and fashion designer.

Obsessive

This is a core personality trait of Mad Mod's: his dedication to destroying the heroes and British culture is nothing short of insane. For a man of his age to try to hold onto his long-lost youth in such a convoluted way... it's obsessive behaviour!

Power

Similarly to the 'Dominating' trope, Mad Mod is obsessed with accumulating power over other people, particularly the Teen Titans and other 'do-gooders or heroes'

Physique and appearance

Mad Mod wears a pair of distinctive blue-tinted sunglasses, is tall, thin and pale, often uses British iconography, such as his Union Jack suit jacket, has red hair, and has a haircut similar to 80s cuts from England, usually uses a cane with a diamond

Weakness

His cane is his main source of youth for Mad Mod, because with it, he steals the youth of other people to be able to be young again. If someone tries to destroy his cane, he will return to his normal physique, which is being an older and weaker man.

The goal of Mad Mod:

Dominate the world, turning it into a world where he dominates England, disappearing America, hypnotizing everyone with his "powers" of hypnosis, but to do that, he will have to hypnotize all the heroes that exist to make them his servants.

Things Mad Mod hates

The youth, he sees them as ignorant brats, well, Mad Mod feels superior to them and always wants to "correct" them, he also hates heroes, he always tries to hypnotize them with his technology, he hates America and the American people, Well, he thinks that since America stopped being dominated by England, it became an ignorant country, he hates any type of heroes, especially young ones, Mad Mod thinks that young heroes are stupid, uneducated and nosy brats

Mad Mod and his behavior with other villains

Mod will not fight or hypnotize other villains, only heroes, civilians, police, etc, Mad Mod will not hypnotize or fight with other villains, unless they do it first, Mad Mod will see other villains with hatred and he will feel superior to them, Mad Mod would hate to work for others and with other villains, because he will always try to highlight that he is better than them