A collar on "Tommy Terror".
Inhibitor collars are special control collars designed to prevent the wearer from accessing their superhuman abilities, and also to apply electric shocks powerful enough to render a person unconscious. The collars must be pre-programed for an individual's specific abilities.[1]
For subjects with multiple powers, the collars are capable of selectively repressing or allowing individual abilities, and can be remotely switched between settings.[2]
The collar Brain used on Captain Marvel was also able to prevent all movement from the neck down.[3] It is unclear if this is a feature of all inhibitor collars.
It is also possible to attach explosive charges that can be detonated from a distance on the collars.[2]
The collars work by interacting with the spine and brain, necessitating they be worn around the neck.[4]
Instances of use[]
Inhibitor collars appear to be standard anti-meta-human law-enforcement devices, and are widely available to many parties:
- All convicts at Belle Reve Penitentiary are made to wear these collars, which are programmed to counter the convicts' specific abilities.[1]
- The Brain used similar inhibitor collars to control animals in northern India[3] and Bwunda. He also used them against the Team when they attempted to investigate his Bwundan operation.[5][6]
- Agent King Faraday used a collar on Parasite upon his arrest.[7]
- In Impulse's original timeline forty years in the future, devices akin to inhibitor collars have been affixed to the necks of Impulse and Neutron. The device attached to Neutron vanished when Impulse cured him in the past.[8]
- Black Manta's agents used inhibitor collars during their invasion of Mount Justice,[9] and the abduction of Miss Martian.[2]
- Count Vertigo used one on Superboy when he podded him under the Markovburg Children's Hospital.[10]
- The police used one on Brick when he was arrested.[11][12]
- The Meta-Human Youth Center offers collars to its residents as an optional method to control their powers. Wendy Jones initially declined one but, after losing control of her powers, decided to wear one for several months.[13][14]
- The Team used collars against Onslaught while thwarting the latter's attempt to abduct meta-humans from the Meta-Human Youth Center.[15]
- Police officers arresting Killer Frost put a collar on her, following her defeat by Infinity, Inc.[16]
- Baron Bedlam and Simon Ecks wore inhibitor collars while held at the Markovian National Penitentiary.[17]
- Inhibitor collars are kept in the Watchtower's stores in packs of five. Kid Flash took a pack for his mission with the Legion of Super-Heroes. He tried to use two on Lor-Zod and Ma'alefa'ak, but Zod destroyed them, and it was Kid Flash and the two Legionnaires who were collared.[18]
Sightings[]
- Season 1
- 11. "Terrors"
- 13. "Alpha Male"
- 23. "Insecurity"
- 24. "Performance"
- Season 2
- 06. "Bloodlines"
- 09. "Darkest"
- 13. "The Fix"
- 16. "Complications"
- Season 3
- 02. "Royal We"
- 03. "Eminent Threat"
- 04. "Private Security"
- 08. "Triptych"
- 15. "Leverage"
- 16. "Illusion of Control"
- 17. "First Impression"
- 18. "Early Warning"
- 19. "Elder Wisdom"
- 24. "Into the Breach"
- 25. "Overwhelmed"
- 26. "Nevermore"
- Season 4
- 22. "Rescue and Search"
- 24. "Zenith and Abyss"
- 25. "Over and Out"
- 26. "Death and Rebirth"
- Companion comics
- 13. "...And the Penalty"
- 18. "Monkey Business"
- 19. "Gorilla Warfare"
- YJT 01. "Cherry Gig"