Rasputin Melonpool
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| Rasputin Melonpool |
| First Appearance: April 2, 2001 |
| YOB: 1976) |
| Height: 3'1'' |
| Weight: 93 lbs. |
| Race: Melotian |
Rasputin Melonpool is an alternate version of Mayberry Melonpool from a timeline similar to Star Trek's Mirror Universe. Unlike Mayberry, Rasputin is a decisive and competent Captain, but he is also morally corrupt and power-hungry. After two failed attempts to conquer Mayberry's timeline, Rasputin is now stranded there. Prolonged exposure to this timeline has caused him to become obsessed with emulating Star Trek villain Khan Noonien Singh. His current goal, aside from general villainy, is to get revenge on Mayberry, who Rasputin sees as the Kirk to his Khan.
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Backstory
In the Time Travel Saga, Mayberry, Ralphie, Old Ralphie, and Roberta II accidentally caused Moses to drop the ten commandments before he could read them. This small mistake created an Earth without the basic foundation of moral values, the Mirror Universe. The television broadcasts from that Earth also corrupted that timeline's version of Melotia, which resulted in Mayberry's counterpart becoming the twisted Rasputin Melonpool.
At some unknown point in the history of the Mirror Universe, Rasputin enslaved Mirror Ralph, Mirror Sam, Mirror Sammy, Mirror Quack, and Mirror Roberta. Rasputin forced Mirror Ralph to build him a spaceship, the Steel Vulture, which he used to conquer Mirror Earth. Once Rasputin obtained full control of the planet, he had all traces of Star Trek destroyed, allowing him greater mental clarity than ever. When Rasputin discovered an abandoned Zinoboppian inter-dimensional portal generator on another planet, he decided one Earth was not enough to satiate him.
History
Mirror Melonpool (The Enemy Within)
This was Rasputin's first attempt to conquer Mayberry's Earth. After arriving on the Steel Duck and threatening Ralph and Mayberry, his true identity was discovered and Ralph created an inter-dimensional portal gun to send Rasputin back to his proper timeline. Mirror Ralph told Rasputin that the portal generator had been damaged after his last trip, delaying Rasputin's next invasion.
Mirror Melonpool II (Mirror Mirror)
After the portal generator had finally been fixed, Rasputin devised a new, more aggressive attack plan. Before his invasion could begin, Ralph arrived and offered to help take over his own universe, which Rasputin agreed to. However, while both of them were distracted by Mirror Roberta, Mirror Ralph grabbed Rasputin from behind and tied him up. As punishment for his crimes against Mirror Earth, Mirror Ralph banished Rasputin to Comic Limbo.
Mr. Opus' Holland (The Space Seed)
Rasputin found a weak spot in the border that separates Comic Limbo from the internet. He used the large beak of Opus to create a hole in the border and escape onto the Steel Duck. Once there, he swapped outfits with Mayberry and sent his doppleganger to take his place in Comic Limbo. Rasputin was successfully able to impersonate Mayberry until Opus escaped from Comic Limbo and exposed him. The Steel Duck crew teleported Rasputin to the the Asteroid, where he joined forces with Fauntleroy Zinobop and Mecha-Sammy.
The Wrath of Fauntleroy (The Wrath of Khan)
Rasputin helped Fauntleroy escape from the Asteroid and capture the Steel Duck crew with their new ship, the ZSC-2. He attempted to get Fauntleroy's original body back from Ralph, but when Ralph disappeared, Fauntleroy insisted on swapping the minds of Mayberry and Rasputin to make sure his improvised cerebral swapper was safe. After eight hours of being stuck in Mayberry's body, Rasputin became impatient with Fauntleroy and sent Mecha-Sammy to find and retrieve Mayberry. While waiting for Mecha-Sammy to return, Rasputin was attacked by a fused Mayberry and Ralphie, and they swapped minds with Rasputin and Fauntleroy. The now fused villains tried to attack each other, and eventually the Fauntleroy part of their body was knocked unconscious. Mimicking Khan's final attack on the Starship Enterprise in the second Star Trek movie, Rasputin set off a Fuse-O-Matic bomb. The bomb mangled the ZSC-2 and scrambled Rasputin and Fauntleroy into a genetic blob.
Rasputin has not been seen since.
Trivia
- Rasputin is the most prominent character in the comic who was not created by regular writer and artist Steve Troop. He was created by Paul Southworth, during a week of guest comics that Southworth did in 2001.
