A few weeks ago, a friend sent a private message to Scourge asking him to introduce the DC villain Calculator.
Calculator, whose real name is Noah Kutler, first appeared in the 1976 comic Detective Comics #463.
Initially, he is just an ordinary supervillain who fights with his high-tech uniform.
Later, DC expands on his story, he is reinvented, building a vast network of information, and becoming the villain counterpart of Barbara Gordon "The Oracle", the "brain" of the supervillains.
Character creation in American comics is often based on popular events or trends, as was the case with Noah Kutler. Noah Kutler's creation drew inspiration from the miniature calculators that were popular at the time.
He has a large numeric keypad on the front of his uniform and an LED display on his headdress. He can make a "hard light" structure appear from the headgear by typing on the keyboard, similar to Green Lantern's Green Lantern Ring.
Later, he abandoned his uniform and became the counterpart of the oracle in civilian clothes.
Let's talk about the DC villain calculator.
The early history of the calculator
When the Calculator first appeared, he traveled throughout the United States, battling various heroes. He will press the button on his uniform during battle, analyzing and recording his battle strategy when fighting the heroes, making sure that he is not defeated by the same hero in the next battle.
The Calculator fought and defeated heroes such as Atom, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Telescopic Man, Batman, and Airwaves, and was imprisoned nine times for this.
The reinvention of the calculator
During the big event Identity Crisis, the Calculator escapes from prison, and one of his friends overhears about Barbara "Oracle" Gordon while fighting the Black Canary and reveals it to the Calculator.
When the Calculator hears about the oracle, he decides to reinvent himself and cast himself as an oracle among supervillains.
The calculator gathered a group of his subordinates and built a vast information network.
The Calculator began to provide information to the supervillains about their criminal plans, weapon recommendations, logistical help, and more, and unlike the oracles who helped the heroes for free, the Calculator charged the supervillains $1,000 for each item.
The Calculation reveals to the villain Lightning that two young criminals are selling a crate containing Lex Luthor's armor, facilitating Lightning's deal with the two criminals. But during the transaction, the two criminals kill Lightning.
The Calculator also helped Captain Boomerang find his son, Owen Mercer.
After Sue Dibni is killed by the mystery man, Batman suspects that the Calculator is the real culprit, but the Calculator escapes Batman's capture.
The Calculator also had Captain Boomerang kill Jack Drake, resulting in the death of Captain Boomerang and Jack.
After Alexander Luthor formed the Supervillain Secret Society, the Calculator became a core member of the Society, and recruited Mr. Freeze and the Faders.
He has a close relationship with the Death Knell and Dr. Neurology in the club and often collaborates with them.
After the events of Infinite Crisis, Alexander Luthor is killed by the Joker and replaced by the Calculator as the leader of the Society.
Until the big event "The Final Crisis" broke out, Libra usurped the throne and gained the leadership of the club.
The calculator suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he has been relying on medication to control his condition.
While the calculator is obsessed with finding out the true identity of the oracle, failure causes him to have a nervous breakdown and forget to take his medication.
He began to have constant nightmares, always dreaming of the green mask that the oracle had incarnated in the cyber world.
Thanks to the help of the oracle's teammates, the calculator was unable to find out the true identity of the oracle. (Almost, he even fought Barbara Gordon)
In this story, there is a bug about the age of the calculator, which is much younger than his actual age.
Calculator with Teen Titans
Wendy Kutler is an ally of the Teen Titans, and along with her twin brother Marvin, she serves as a guard at the Teen Titans' base, the Titan Tower.
One day, Wonder Dog appears in Titan Tower, and Wendy and Marvin adopt Wonder Dog. Little did they know that the Wonder Dog was Lord Lekus's Cerberus, the son of the god of war Ares, a terrifying monster. That night, Wonder Dog revealed his true form and attacked Wendy and Marven, who was killed, and Wendy fell into a coma and was taken to the hospital.
Wendy and Marvin are actually the children of the Calculator, who returns to Gotham City and visits Wendy in the hospital. He decides to collect the pieces of the anti-life equation to save his daughter.
The calculator installed several surveillance cameras in Wendy's hospital room and began to collect information on the network to complete the anti-life equation.
One of the oracle's agents stops the Calculator on the network and is killed by the Calculator.
A fight broke out with the Calculator when several other agents of the Oracle tried to stop the Calculator (on the web). Taking advantage of the Calculator's distraction, the Oracle steals the Calculator's information, and the Calculator begins to track down the Oracle.
The calculator retrieved the information, only to be defeated by the oracle.
In the real world, the calculator brings the fragments of the anti-life equation to Wendy's hospital room, hoping to cure her. However, the oracle was waiting for him in the hospital room.
And Wendy recovers without the anti-life equation.
The police rushed to the hospital and arrested the counter for murder.
The Calculator blames the Teen Titans for the tragedy of their children, and in order to deal with the Teen Titans, the Calculators create a team of five horror five, consisting of five villains: Glimmer, Mammoth, White Tiger, Nano and Rumble.
The Terror Five attacked San Francisco in an attempt to melt down the city using the release of nuclear energy from Geiger. In order to save the city, Demon Kid, a member of the Teen Titans, flew into the sky with Geiger in a plane, Geiger exploded in the air, and Demon Boy sacrificed his life to save the city.
The Calculator also had the Terror Five kidnap the Eternal Boy, using the Eternal Boy to summon the soul of his son Marvin.
When he can't see Marvin, the Calculator kills the Eternal Boy.
To deal with the Teen Titans, the Calculator also created a batch of their own robot replicas and attacked the Teen Titans.
The Teen Titan defeats the Calculator's robot replica and finds the Calculator's lair.
The Calculator's giant robot ambushed the Teen Titan, and thanks to Robin's non-standard destruction of the Calculator's robot console, all the robots went down.
After learning that the Calculator had killed the Eternal Boy, Wondergirl is furious and wants to kill the Calculator, but Red Robin stops Wondergirl.
Wondergirl flies the Calculator out of the way, and happens to be transferred to Robin's side, who kills the Calculator, only to find out that he killed only a robot replica.
Calculator after flash point
After Flashpoint rebooted the DC Universe in 2011, the Calculator's setting changed.
After the reboot, Noah's wife and children are still alive and have a very good relationship with him. Noah runs an environmental company.
After the reboot, Barbara Gordon regained her health and became Batgirl again, and DC created a new "oracle" Gus Yale, who worked for the Birds of Prey.
Gus Yale, a young black man, was inspired by Barbara to take up the mantle and become the new oracle after Barbara re-emerged as a Batgirl.
Gus Yale entered Noah's company, and Noah became Gus Yale's mentor.
Noah's wife and children are kidnapped, and he asks for help from the Raptor Squad. The Raptor team rescued his wife and children.
Noah tells Gus Yale that he suffers from borderline personality disorder and that he has to exchange information from the Birds of Prey for medication in order to get medication. Barbara warns Noah when she learns of the situation.
As a result, Noah holds a grudge against Barbara and vows to take revenge on the Birds of Prey squad, becoming a supervillain calculator.
That's it for the basics of DC Villain Calculator.