Mr. Mxyzptlk

Mr. Mxyzptlk (roughly pronounced Mix-yez-pit-lick, also nicknamed Mxy) is a supervillain who appears in DC Comics' Superman comics.

Cultural references

• In the 1987 cartoon series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, an entity inspired by Mr. Mxyzptlk appears in episode 60. Called by the much simpler name of Mr. Ogg, he is (supposedly) an inhabitant of Dimension Z. Like Mr. Mxyzptlk, he is capable of transforming things around him, with his pranks including shrinking Bebop and Rocksteady to the height of two inches, turning the Technodrome into a giant pumpkin on tracks and turning the Statue of Liberty into a cheap souveniar. Mr. Ogg's one weakness is a craving for porcelain, considering ancient antiques the best tasting. Mr. Ogg makes a wierd trilling sound whenever he uses his power. After he eats Shredder's collection of 1000-year-old Hu-Yoo dynasty vases, Krang tricks him into giving them a chemical that transforms crude oil into liquid hydrogen (which turns out to be a fake) and sets him upon the surface with tales of how the surface-dwellers---especially the Ninja Turtles---persecuted them and drove them underground.