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| Kablamus (Joe Blow) | |
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Male |
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Edge City (possibly) |
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Villain |
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Joe Blow was known as Kablamus is a villain from The Mask: The Animated Series who was so obsessed with balloons that he ended up becoming an unbreakable balloon himself, gaining the ability of inflate himself like a balloon without dying, and his voice sounds like Sterling Holloway.
History[]
A scared Joe Blow gets inflated like a balloon
Joe Blow was a green-haired, ordinary man who was experimenting to create an everlasting balloon that would never pop or deflate. Unfortunately, the balloon overinflated and caused him to fall into a large vat of the chemicals in his factory. As a result, he gained the power to inflate himself up like a balloon and explode without dying (as it turns out, the chemicals he fell into made his skin as flexible as rubber, which now made him unbreakable) and then returning to normal size. After discovering his new superpower, he understood that the purpose of all balloons is popping, because that makes them fun, so he decided to become "Kablamus, the exploding man".
His costume consists of a blue leotard, orange pants, black gloves, boots, and a belt with grenades. When he inflates, he sounds exactly like a balloon inflating. He has a special pouch in his costume where he puts different grenades that explode with him. Every time he inflates, he's getting bigger and bigger, so when he used the Plutonium primer, he could inflate himself to the size of a skyscraper. Kablamus also can use his power to inflate only parts of his body, like his feet, in order to jump very high, and also could keep himself inflated for a while in order to floating up in the skies.
Kablamus with his costume, holding a tear gas grenade
Stanley as The Mask had a hard time in his first encounter with him due to following a reverse psychology written by Dr. Neuman disrupting his powers. Also, Kablamus was successful at reading Dr. Neuman's book and even invaded his office. Trying to get vengeance on all the kids who never bought his balloons, he planned to blow the entire Edge City with a Plutonium Primer grenade, inflating himself so bigger as a skyscraper. The Mask managed to defeat him by replacing his Plutonium Primer grenade with a Popcorn Primer grenade. He, then inflates, giving the Mask the opportunity to install a valve, which deflates him.
Kablamus returned, angry at the city for not making him Fluff Parade Grand Marshall. He makes deadly balloons and hypnotizes the Mask to help him, but the effects wore off and the Mask ignited him and his deadly balloons resulting in him exploding never to be seen again.
Despite this he makes a cameo appearance in the episode "Broadway Malady" auditioning for a musical with villain Sir Andrew Bedwetter and then joins him in prison.