MOB

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Alternate Reality (Earth-13492) virtual reality program character mirroring (Earth-95421) superhuman (see comment);

Occupation: Computer program character based on criminal Earth-95421 counterpart

Group Membership: Darketypes (Capital Eagle, Kannon, Paingame, Paranorm, Power Mite, Screwloose, Thunderthigh)

Affiliations: Possibly Mandelbrot

Enemies: Oneironauts (Astral Kid/Adam Mater, Buzzword/Oberlin Meese, Crucible/Nick Outlast, Heartlink/Prakriti Jones, Monomachy/Gerry Werre, Umbilicus/Marla Carnell);
    apparently Dr. Dietrich Mater

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Apparently Dietrich Mater's virtual reality (developed from Earth-95421

First Appearance: Metaphysique II#1 (April, 1995)

Powers/Abilities: Mob can instantly replicate himself into perhaps into dozens if not a hundred or more duplicates which can swiftly act under his control.

    He may be able to project duplicates a certain distance from each other, making them able to be projected as if they were moving at superhuman speed.

History:
(Metaphysique II#1) - Within Dietrich Mater's virtual reality world, Mob and the rest of the Darketypes attacked Fort Knox after arriving in their giant spider-like ship.

    Mob was annoyed when Paingame immediately indicated his intent to abandon the plan, but Screwloose asked why he even tried talking sense to her as she never listened anyway.

    As they looted large amounts of gold, Mob asked how long before the Oneironauts showed up, and Paranorm told him that it all depended on when they were given their cues. Mob subsequently released multiple replicas of himself, which overwhelmed and battered numerous guards, while Screwloose took out many others. Paranorm subsequently instructed Mob and Screw that they needed to depart.

(Metaphysique II#1 - BTS) - Dr. Mater -- aided his computer artificial intelligence, Mandelbrot -- subsequently appeared the guards, who had been driven into nightmares by Screwloose, and gave them their lucidity cues, the names of their optimal dreaming forms. As a result, they transformed into their heroic Oneironauts form, after which Mater them that this session's plot appeared to be an adolescent scenario, where a powerful group called the Darketypes had raided Fort Know and that their task was presumably to recover the gold. When one of them questioned that recovering the gold seemed like such a materialistic goal, Mater advised them that matter at any level was in part a projection of the mind.

    Mater continued that the gold may represent personal power and that the Darketypes might be shadow aspects of their personalities that were self-destructive and needed to be confronted. Finally reminding the Oneironauts that these lucidities didn't last forever, he urged them to continue the session immediately.

(Metaphysique II#1) - Capital Eagle subsequently told Mob that they had never hauled in capital like that before, and when Mob asked if his Washington connections would be open to his plans now, Eagle replied that they could probably buy all of Congress. Paranorm then silenced them, advising the team that he had sensed that the Oneironauts had entered their world and sending Screwloose to confront them.

    As Screwloose engaged the also super-swift Buzzword, the rest of the Oneironauts confronted the Darketypes. After Paranorm noted that their forces seemed evenly matched, Mob appreciated his point and replicated himself to vastly outnumber the Oneironauts. When one of Mob's counterparts downed Heartlink, Astral Kid suddenly grew to immense size and hurled off the numerous Mob duplicates. In response, however, Paranorm apparently merged with the many forms of Mob and the rest of the Darketypes to take the form of their ultimate fears, which proved to be Metaphysique.

    Mortified by the monstrous Metaphysique, all of the Oneironauts faded out of the virtual reality and subsequently awakened in the real world.

Earth-13492 A psychic superhero in the 1960s, Metaphysique vanished until returning to confront the dream experiment volunteers in Dietrich Mater’s virtual reality dreamworld, where they took the form of super-heroic Oneironauts. Metaphysique #1 (1992); (Malibu) Metaphysique #1 (1995)

Earth-95421 Mirrored comic book-like virtual reality dreamworld scenario of Dietrich Mater and Mandelbrot. The criminal Darketypes (Capital Eagle, Kannon, Mob, Paingame, Paranorm, Power Mite, Screwloose, Thunderthigh) were opposed by the Oneironauts (Astral Kid, Buzzword, Crucible, Heartlink, Monomachy, Umbilicus). Metaphysique #1 (1995)

Metaphysique started with two issues at Eclipse Comics, where the titular character was effectively a "horror host" introducing stories. The Malibu series shifts him to being the focal character (arguably not the protagonist) of the story. He was a psychic superhero in the 1960s (called by one character a "psychotic 60s sorcerer") who then vanished. Now in the modern day (i.e. the mid-90s) scientist Dietrich Mater is conducting dream experiments into psychic energies with a group of volunteers, who in this VR dreamworld take on the form of superheroes, only to be confronted by Metaphysique.

   This profile was completed 03/19/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Mob should be distinguished from:

• MOB PRINCESSES (Vita Jane "Headcutter" Bachetta, "Cruella" Cortese, "Babyface" Ann Repucci)  - hired and framed Piranha Jones--Terror INC#6
• CLAY ?? - mutant assassin, shot by Madrox, agent of Isolationist. Form duplicates of self--Madrox#2
• DRUFFs - Andromeda galaxy, planet Ryas, replicate when strike each other--Fantastic Four I#37
• ENIGMO - Deviant, Delta Force, Unlimited Class Wrestler, former gladiator. Alter body conformation, including separating and reforming parts of himself --Avengers I#370
• FLASHBACK (Gardner Munroe) - Beta Flight, Omega Flight, summon future counterparts of himself--Alpha Flight I#1
  
• KINGDOM (   ) - Omega Flight. Create duplicates under his control--Avengers V#9
• LEGION - Special Executive, summon future counterparts of himself--Daredevils#5
  
• PANSPERMIANs (notably Preak) - Negative Zone, replicate upon physical impact--Annihilation: Super-Skrull#2
  
• TUSK (   ) - Inhuman, Dark Riders--X-Factor I#65
• WHITLEY, ALISHA of Earth-199999 - Inhuman, created duplicates under her control--Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Season 2, Episode 20
  
• Shang-Chi, at least during Hickman’s Avengers run - seriously, WTF?
• or other characters who can replicate themselves. See this extensive list courtesy of the Marvel Database; it includes those who can only split into two and those that can create non-sentient duplicates, like Iceman. Thanks to HBK123 for providing the link and most of the characters in the list above.

First posted: 09/21/2026
Last updated: 03/19/2026

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