- [Brian]  You ever been mugged
and wished you could rip your
arm off to use as a weapon
'cause there's nothing else lying around
that is similar to an arm?
Meet Arm Fall Off Boy, who
could do just that for himself.
Spoilers lie ahead, although
I don't think anyone's gettin'
Arm Fall Off Boy spoiler.
Anyways, in all honesty
there isn't much more to this character
than the fact that his arms,
or any limb for that matter,
which kind of defeats the
purpose of his name, but anyways,
they come off and act
as clubs for smackin'.
He could rip off his arms, or his legs,
and smack you with it!
But when doing so, it's not
like he has two arms and a club.
He has one arm to swing his other arm,
and no other line of defense.
- You left yourself open, Dad.
- [Brian]  So his powers,
as useless as they might be,
are very straightforward.
But his backstory is a
bit more of a mystery.
He makes his first
appearance in the DC Universe
in December of 1989
in Secret Origins Issue
Number 46 in Volume Two.
We don't learn much about this
odd hero in the beginning.
Not until Legionnaires Issue Number 12
do we get any information
about AFOB's origin,
that's a funny acronym,
where Matter-Eater Lad,
another weird name,
says that the detachable limbs
came from his carelessness
while holding an anti-gravity
metal called Element 152,
a fictional metal that
was combined by Mon El
with gold, silver, and iron.
And since then has been
theorized by scientists
to be an incredibly radioactive metal.
So maybe there is
something to this theory.
However it seemed as
though Matter-Eater Lad
was making a joke, and being sarcastic,
so all of that doesn't actually matter.
- Whoa, what a dick!
- [Brian]  Once Zero Hour rebooted,
Arm Fall Off Boy comes back,
but under a different moniker, Splitter.
A little edgier, I guess, but whatever.
His real name is revealed
to be Floyd Belkin.
He tries out for the
Legionnaires' program,
but fails when he stresses out,
panics and literally falls apart.
He literally, all of his limbs fell apart.
(snapping)
- My arms!
- [Brian]  So along with his tryouts
for the Legion of Super-Heroes
and his apparent infatuation
with Phantom Girl,
we find out that Splitter becomes a member
of The Heroes of Lallor,
a group of youthful heroes
from a different planet
ravaged by dictatorship.
Splitter pops back into the Legion scene
with Beast Boy and Gas Girl
in Legions 49 in June of 1997
to help the Legion,
only to be told they
need to return to Lallor
where they are needed.
Poor guy just can't get into the club.
He just wants to help, but
his arms keep fallin' off.
Arm Fall Off Boy has a thin
past with pretty flat powers,
but the short lived hero
never had much of a chance
to do something special.
So where would you like to see
Arm Fall Off Boy's
powers be utilized best?
Let us know in the comments
what you would do with arm fall off power,
and what extra powers
you'd give to Splitter!
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