Mad Mod
Played By: Oncaro
Played By: Oncaro
Basic Statistics
Real Name: Neil Richards
Aliases: Mad Mod, Moddie
Age: Chronologically in his sixties, but has the youthful appearance and vitality of a man one third his age.
Gender: Male
Nationality: English
Race/Species: Human
Current status: Single
Talents/Skills/Powers: Mad Mod has no superpowers of his own, but he is a master of technological trickery and employs robots and holographic projectors, which he controls with a ruby-handled cane. In one circumstance, he was able to use such a cane to drain the youth from someone (Robin), making them old and himself young again. He also habitually employs optically induced hypnosis to submit his victims to his will. Through his hypnosis and holograms, it looked as if he could control both matter and the laws of physics.
It appears that due to odd effects with the Multiversal Merge, Mad Mod's staff has become more powerful: it can create energy blasts, and in addition to his regular illusion-casting, Moddie can make hard-light constructs to fight for him, in a way similar to a Lantern Ring. The exact limits of these new abilities are unknown, as Moddie has yet to fully test them out.
History: Mad Mod is a recurring villain for the Teen Titans in the Earth-Teen Titans reality. Neil Richards was originally a fashion designer who turned to villainy for unknown reasons; in fact, nearly everything about Mod's past is unknown even after repeat fights with the Titans. All that is known is that he was alive during the 1960s and '70s, and when he first appeared was very bitter over his old age; now, however, with the Multiversal Merge Moddie has regained his youthfulness.
When it comes to Moddie's origins, as stated not much is known. But it is known that he was a fashion designer, who loved the Mod style of British popular fashion that was prevalent in the 1950s and '60s. While it is unknown how he obtained his cane, it's likely that this was the scepter of the Queen of England that, in the New Earth continuity, Mad Mod was unable to steal. The Teen Titans Animated version of Moddie has been a recurring villain of the Titans, and often does his villainy for money or for "jollies", as well as tormenting the Titans of his reality due to their youthfulness while he remained an old man.
