Template:Infobox comics character Wolfgang "Woozy" Winks is a character appearing in comic books published by Quality Comics, and later DC Comics. He is the comic relief sidekick to the superhero Plastic Man, and first appeared in Police Comics #13 (November 1942).[1] Winks has appeared as an on-again, off-again sidekick to Plastic Man ever since and has been called the "apotheosis" of a kind of stock character of theatrical buffoons that has existed since medieval times.[2] In Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman, Winks is named one of the "most unique" Template:Sic sidekicks in comics, and the authors note that his portly shape and bumbling idiocy allowed for more comedy in Plastic Man stories.[3]
Fictional character biography
Woozy Winks is a former criminal and Plastic Man's inept sidekick. His personality and appearance are based on Lou Costello and Hugh Herbert respectively.
Although a comical and inept figure, Woozy has occasionally assisted Plastic Man with his skills in investigation and combat.
In an alternate origin presented in Plastic Man Special, Winks is a competent agent who becomes dimwitted following exposure to Plastic Man's blood.[4]
In other media
- Woozy Winks appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Stephen Root.[5]
- Woozy Winks appears in a photograph depicted in the DC Nation Shorts: Plastic Man episode "Untouchable".
References
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- ↑ JLA #51 (1997). DC Comics.
- ↑ Template:Cite web A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.