Scissormen

SCISSORMEN

Class: Memetic constructs

Known Representatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Orqwith, Kansas City

First Appearance: (mentioned) Doom Patrol II #19 (February, 1989), (seen) Doom Patrol II #20 (March, 1989)

Powers: The Scissormen could transport people to Orqwith by cutting them with their scissors. A person thus transported would become a mindless Hollow Child of Orqwith. They had access to a reflecting glass that shot devastating beams of light.

History: (Doom Patrol II #21, 22 (fb)) - A group of philosophers wrote a book about Orquith, a city of wonder that intersected with Earth's reality and would gradually supplant it. Orqwith was inhabited by Scissormen, a group of religious zealots that worshipped the God of the Crossroads. The book was filled with memetic constructs that eventually gained a life of their own. Orqwith began overrunning Earth, and Orqwith brought the Scissormen.

(Doom Patrol II #20-22) - The Scissormen ran amok in Kansas City and other locations on Earth. When they turned Joshua Clay into a Hollow Child the Doom Patrol intervened. The Patrol found that Orqwith could be unmade if forced to confront its' own reality, so they asked the question "Why is there something instead of nothing?" With this Orqwith and the Scissormen were erased from existence.

Comments: Created by Grant Morrison and Richard Case.

The Scissormen were inspired by the scissor man in the Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann poem "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb."

The Scissormen received a profile in Who's Who in the DC Universe #15 under the Doom Patrol Rogues Gallery entry.

The Scissormen had a flashback cameo in Doom Patrol V #6 and Teen Titans III #32.