This is one for Jonah: The Flash’s mighty enemy from Australia – Captain Boomerang! I link to him only because it’s been a while since I saw a guy bent on world domination while wearing “a boomerang-print miniskirt and an old air hostess hat”, though Colonel Gaddafy in his pillbox hat surrounded by Austin Powers-like Libyan totty comes close.

But it does raise the old question of what it is about superherodom that makes it so hard to create non-American long-underwear guys. Whatever the problems with Captain Boomerang’s coffee-tea-or-me get-up, he’s as nothing lameness-wise to Captain Euro:

Captain Euro has taken a difficult vow: “To use, wherever possible, intellect, culture and logic – not violence – to take control of difficult criminal situations.” Captain Euro is a diplomatic hero – the symbol of European unity and values… Euro combines his acquired language and technology skills with his international ‘savoir faire’ and his natural investigative curiosity, to protect Europe and carry Europe’s message of goodwill around the world.

His arch-superfoe is the enemy of European unity, Doctor D Vider, “a former financier”. Hmm.