User blog:Тостер/Mallus is from comics!

So, many people wondered whether Mallus, main antagonist of Season 3 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow is someone from the comics. As many people after seeing the season finale I thought that we should seek for someone named "Malice" to know for sure, but there are no similar characters in the DC Comics with such a nickname either.

Turns out we should have dug deeper with the Mallus moniker. Currently article states that it was most likely derived from the Latin word "Malus" ("evil", "bad") and so on, but there is also another word which some people pointed out might have inspired the name - Malleus, which means "Hammer".

Now, stop. Hammer time! There is actually Malleus in DC Comics, although he was never in primary DC universes. Which never stopped "DC's Legends" from using some characters as The Pilgrim was derived from a Wildstorm character. Anyhow, although this Malleus character was never a demon and rather a very powerful meta-human geneticist, he certainly has more then a passing resemblance to Mallus, including:
 * Having no known real name and very shady origin story, including a rather vague original time period;
 * Assembling a team of supervillains, giving them supernatural powers, but having a "fail-safe switch" in case of betrayal which obliterated them;
 * Finally, his appearance as a metahuman looks like this:

You may dispute that writers based their main antagonist on an obscure character like that, but keep in mind that these guys previously used Malaq, a member of League of Assassins who only appeared once in comics and made main antagonist out of Damien Darhk, whose appearances and role in comics were also rather small.