Bizarro

Bizarro appears in some comic books and in the Superfriends cartoons as a part of the Legion of Doom.

Silver Age Origin

The first Bizarro was a duplicate of Superboy, created by a "duplicating machine". He destroyed himself to cure a blind girl.

The next Bizarro was created by a similar device recreated by Lex Luthor. The resulting Bizarro is defeated when Superman gives him a Bizarro-Lois to ease his loneliness. He also passed through a cosmic energy field which reversed many of his powers-- i.e., Bizarro now had "cold vision" and could only see through lead. Bizarro then used the ray to populate the planet Htrae (Earth spelled backwards) with Bizarro versions of various DC characters, as well as multiple Bizarro-Supermen and Bizarro-Loises.

Send in the Clones

The first Post-Crisis Bizarro was an imperfect clone of Superman created by Luthor; having only fragmentary genetic memory, he tried to live like Clark Kent before encountering the real Superman. Bizarro ended up sacrificing his life so that Lucy Lang could see again. There was also a second failed Bizarro that built a ramshackled "Bizarro World," to win the affection of his beloved "Lo-iz."

Jokerized

While previous Bizarro's were Lex Luthor's failed attempts to clone Superman, the current creature defies logical explanation.

Wielding Mr. Mxyzptlk's matter-manipulating powers, the Joker created a cube-shaped Bizarro-Earth with continents hewn in the image of Emperior Joker! Wrong was right on this backwards Earth terrorized by a villianous JLA whose roster included the demon Scorch, gun-toting Bounty, armored Ignition, and an all new Bizarro. In a mixed up Metropolis, Bizarro fought for lies, injustice, and the un-American way, and made his headquarters in the crumbling Graveyard of Solitude.

Imperfect Logic

With his super abilities often canceled out by Bizarro's opposing powers, Superman has to rely on other tactics to defeat his chalk-skinned doppleganger. For most versions of Bizarro, Kryptonite - which is deadly to Superman - only makes the creature stronger, and only "blue kryptonite" created by the duplicating ray can harm him. Superman is usually forced into outwitting Bizarro by turning the tables on his imperfect duplicate's upside-down way of thinking.

Grammar

Bizarro is known for his very distinct way of speaking. The logic of his speech is typically inverted both grammatically as well as in word selection. First, Verbs and adjectives are backwards. When Bizarro says the word "perfect" he almost invariably means "imperfect". "Slow" would actually mean "fast" or "quick", the meanings of "help"/"save" and "harm"/"kill" would be reversed, and so forth. He is known for using the wrong pronoun as the subject of a verb. Rather than saying "I hate you" Bizarro would say "Me like you". Also, Bizarro uses only the first person conjugation of his verbs. Rather than saying "I am great" he might say "Me is terrible". Bizarro also does not typically use contractions to negate verbs, and instead uses no before the verb. An example of this would be saying "Me no" rather than "I don't".

Because the nature of the various grammatical errors that make up the modern Bizarro's speech, and the unpredictable nature of which these errors will occur together, Bizarro's speech patterns are often difficult to follow, particularly when he is expressing more than one thought at a time.

Htrae

The Bizarro world is a cube shaped world named Htrae. If someone does something good it is considered to be bad and a crime.

Appearance

Bizarro looks like the opposite of Superman as well, his face generally being grey or chalky white, features often angular, and hair often disheveled. Bizarro's costume is also a variation on Superman's as the S on his chest will be backwards as if in a mirror, and recently his costume is often depicted as being more purple than blue. The Silver Age version was often depicted having a sign hanging around his neck that says "Bizarro #1". He created this sign to distinguish himself from the other (newer) Bizarro residents of Bizarro world.

Powers

Though able to match Superman's strength punch for punch, the rest of Bizarro's superpowers are, in other respects, the complete opposite of Superman's. Instead of heat vision, Bizarro's red-irised, yellow-tinged eyes emit freezing beams of ice and his x-ray vision can only see through lead. And where Superman can compress his breath into concentrated gusts of cold air, Bizarro belches forth gouts of flame. Bizarro can survive in the cold vacuum of space effortlessly.

Also reversed is Superman's weakness to various forms of kryptonite. Green kryptonite has little affect on Bizarro, or even increases his strength, depending on the era he was written in. Blue kryptonite is deadly to Bizarro instead. It saps his strength away just like green kryptonite's affect on Superman. Exposure to blue kryptonite for a long period of time will kill him.

The one main power that Bizarro has, which Superman does not possess, is the ability to create other duplicate Bizarro-creatures, such as Bizarro Flash, while under a blue sun.

Amalgam

in the Amalgam Universe Bizzaro is fused with Carnage to make Bizarnage. His worst enemy is Spider-Boy. Bizarnage is one of the only symbiotes seen in Amaglam. 

Me on T.V!

Smallville

A villain nicknamed Bizarro appears in Smallville, played by Tom Welling. However, this version differs significantly from comic book versions of the character, being neither unintelligent nor "backwards", and appearing as a perfect duplicate under most circumstances (though he wore a blue jacket and red T-shirt, in contrast to Clark's usual red jacket and blue T-shirt). This version of Bizarro was once a Kryptonian experiment (similar to Davis Bloome/Doomsday) turned into a Wraith

Tom Welling as Bizarro in 'Smallville'

who was trapped in the Phantom Zone until Clark accidentally released it. It was revealed that this wraith burned out its human host bodies within 24 hours, killing them, and that it needed a Kryptonian body in order to sustain its life. He is able to steal Clark's cells, and becomes a carbon copy of him. However, whereas the yellow sun of Earth powers Clark, it turns the phantom's skin into a jagged stone-like appearance. The phantom attempts to replace Clark and live his life, but is sent to Mars by the Martian Manhunter, who describes the creature as having been "made in a laboratory" on Krypton; nothing further of its origin is elaborated. He returns shortly after, and is able to fool Clark's friends into believing it's him. Clark returns, and finds that the phantom's true weakness is Blue Kryptonite. Lana is able to get the Blue Kryponite close enough to Bizarro to cause his strength to grow exponentially. Because his body could not contain that kind of power, he imploded, and was seemingly destroyed.