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** [[Plastic Man]], originally of Quality Comics, has the classic jokester personality. Ironically, he started as a serious guy with somewhat silly powers who evolved into a fairly ridiculous character who came up with progressively more bizarre shapes to assume (although even at the end of his first appearance, he commented, "Fighting crime sure is fun!")

*** Offspring, Plastic Man's son in ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', is a completely dour and serious individual who is ''sick'' of the "silly stretcher" stereotype and can't stand his father.

** The Elongated Man was an [[Expy]] created to sub for Plastic Man, because his creator wasn't aware that DC owned the character. Both of these found their way into the [[Justice League]] Unlimited cartoon, leading Green Lantern to remark "We [[Super Hero Speciation|don't need two stretchy guys]] down there."

** The Elongated Man was an [[Expy]] created to sub for Plastic Man, because his creator wasn't aware that DC owned the character. Both of these found their way into the [[Justice League]] Unlimited cartoon, leading Green Lantern to remark "We [[Super-Hero Speciation|don't need two stretchy guys]] down there."

*** In the comics, on the rare occasions where Elongated Man and Plastic Man meet up, a bit of friction between them becomes apparent; Plastic Man's powers are straight up ''better'', pretty much making him a shape shifter, but Elongated Man can simply... become longer, not change shape. On the other hand, Elongated Man is a brilliant detective said to be [[Batman]]'s equal.

** Among the various superheroic personas adopted by Jimmy Olsen during the Silver Age was "Elastic Lad". This eventually led to an issue of DC Comics Presents where the three stretching heroes were teamed up with Superman to fight a one-shot villain who also had stretching powers.

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