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Mist is the name of several DC Comics supervillains who are archenemies of the original and 1990s Starman. The first Mist is a man named Kyle, and the second Mist is his daughter Nash.

Kyle made his live-action debut on the first season of The Flash, portrayed by Anthony Carrigan.

Publication history

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The Kyle incarnation of Mist first appeared in Adventure Comics #67 (October 1941), and was created by Gardner Fox.[1]

The Nash version of the Mist first appeared in Starman (vol. 2) #0 (October 1994), and was created by writer James Robinson and Tony Harris.

Fictional character biography

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Kyle

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The Mist
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceAdventure Comics #67 (October 1941)
Created byGardner Fox
In-story information
Alter egoKyle
SpeciesMetahuman
Team affiliationsInjustice Society
Secret Society of Super Villains
Notable aliasesJohnathon Smythe
Nimbus
Andy "Murph" Murphy
AbilitiesAble to transform into a living vapor, becoming tangible and intangible at will

The first Mist's real name was Kyle. He fought in World War I as a Captain in the Canadian Army, winning the Victoria Cross. He was also a scientist and created a device that turned his body into a gaseous form; he became a supervillain, first fighting the Golden Age Sandman under the name "Johnathon Smythe", before changing his name to the Mist.[2] In 1941, he undertook a crime wave in Opal City and was stopped by Ted Knight, the Golden Age Starman; he vowed revenge on Starman and became his nemesis.[3]

He was a member of the Ultra-Humanite's incarnation of the Secret Society of Super Villains, and appeared during the late 1980s Starman series (chronicling the adventures of Will Payton), then using the name Nimbus.

The Mist had two children named Nash and Kyle Jr.

In the early 1990s, after Ted Knight had retired (following the events of Zero Hour), the Mist planned his final revenge on Starman and sent his son, Kyle Jr., to kill Knight's son David, as well as nearly killing his second son, Jack, demolishing his home and kidnapping the elder Knight. In exchange for his father, Jack battled Kyle Jr., resulting in Kyle Jr.'s death, which drove the Mist insane. He was like this for some time until making a deal with the demon-lord Neron, restoring his sanity and curing his senility. This allowed him to advise his daughter, Nash, on joining Simon Culp's scheme to destroy Opal City and conversely kill Culp himself when he threatened her, on the grounds he "hated dwarfs". Ultimately, he revealed he was tired and had decided to end his life, planting a nuclear bomb in Opal City set to detonate at the moment of his death and then taking poison. However, he failed to destroy the city, as a terminally ill Ted Knight used an advanced version of his Cosmic Rod to lift the entire building miles into the air; the two enemies made peace with each other just before the Mist's heart stopped, killing them both.[4]

Nash

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Nash was not initially the villain that her father or brother were, but rather a meek, stuttering girl. During her father's campaign of revenge against Ted Knight, she was in a position to kill Jack Knight, but let him go after he reasoned that she personally had no reason to kill him. After Jack killed her brother Kyle, she underwent a major personality shift and became the second Mist, exposing herself to the same process that had given her father his powers. During her first major crime wave, Nash drugged Jack and raped him, becoming pregnant. She later gave birth to a son, Kyle Theo, named after her father and Jack. She passed on a second opportunity to kill Jack, deciding to better herself as a villain while Jack worked to become a better hero. She spent much time in Europe, where she killed the second Amazing Man, Crimson Fox and Blue Devil.

She was then one of the many villains who took part in the plan to destroy Opal City during the "Grand Guignol" story arc. After this failed, her father made his own attempt to destroy the city. Since his plan would kill Nash and her son, she attempted to stop him. Her father then shot her. In her dying moments, she gave her son over to Jack to raise.[4]

Kyle Knight

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The son of Nash and Jack Knight, Kyle Knight inherited his mother's mist powers and embraced his father's heroic background.[5]

In the pages of "The New Golden Age", Kyle was mentioned to currently be 5 years old by Stargirl when Huntress had mentioned that he operated as Mist in her possible future.[6]

Powers and abilities

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Both Mists are able to transform into a living vapor and become tangible and intangible at will.

Other versions

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Earth-Two

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June 1962 saw Earth-Two's public re-emergence of Vandal Savage. He briefly terrorized a handful of important U.S. cities and was able to attack and incapacitate various members of the retired JSA.[7] This brazen attack on major American cities and on the persons of a handful of retired JSAers resulted in the re-emergence and the re-formation of the Justice Society of America. This did not have an immediate effect on the super-scientists and criminals who operated openly in the 1940s and covertly in the 1950s, but over time this curious breed of villain did begin to re-emerge.

September 1965 found the Mist working with a gang of hoodlums along the Atlantic Coast in Park City. With his secret formulas and gadgetry he was controlling Mrs. Dinah Drake Lance, using the Drake Flower Shoppe as the means to gain access to the wealthy citizenry, and using his hypnotic influence to have the rich rob themselves and hand over their wealth to the Mist's henchmen. Though Park City did have a protector in the guise of the Black Canary, this heroine was only seen infrequently and the Mist seemed not to have been perturbed by this. Though he was using Mrs. Lance, he never discovered her dual identity as the Black Canary. By September, his crime spree was advancing nicely and was baffling the local police. Finally, a local private investigator – Mr. Larry Lance (husband to Dinah Drake Lance) figured out the connection between those robbed and his wife's flower shop. At about this time, the Lance family was visited by their friend Ted Knight; he accidentally intercepted a hypnotic sound wave sent by the Mist. Together, the three heroes went about hunting down the gang and its leader. During this crime spree, the Mist discovered how to use his inviso-solution, sound waves and a recording of motor noises from the Park City Observatory to block star-energy from reaching Starman's Cosmic Rod, in effect making it powerless; however, Starman had with him a newer, quasar-powered Rod, which proved impervious to the deactivation. In the end, the Mist and his men were defeated and handed over to the police.[8]

Earth 2

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In the pages of Earth 2: Society, Kyle Nimbus is the CEO of Nimbus Solutions who can make himself intangible at will where he has to be tangible to attack. In his plans, he used mind-control chemicals on Hourman's Miraclo in order for him to serve Nimbus. With help from Red Arrow and Ted Grant, Dick Grayson as Batman defeated Kyle Nimbus.[9]

Huntress' Future

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In a possible future seen in "The New Golden Age", the Kyle Knight version of Mist joined the Justice Society of America under Huntress, before being killed alongside the rest of his team by Per Degaton who aged Mist to death.[10]

When Per Degaton was defeated by the present day JSA, Kyle and his future were resurrected and erased from the timestream.[11]

In other media

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  • The Kyle incarnation of Mist appears in The Flash, portrayed by Anthony Carrigan.[12] Introduced in the episode "Things You Can't Outrun", this version is a mob hitman named Kyle Nimbus who was betrayed by and testified against his employers. After being charged, he was put on death row. However, as he was in the midst of being executed via gas chamber, S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator exploded, giving him the ability to transform into the gas that was being used to execute him.
  • An original incarnation of Mist based on Kyle and Nash, Andrea "Andie" Murphy, appears in Young Justice, voiced by Daniela Bobadilla.[13] This version is a reluctant teenage criminal and associate of Livewire and Shade who reluctantly participates in a metahuman trafficking operation before she is subdued by Nightwing, given residence at the Metahuman Youth Center, and eventually joins the Team.
  • The Kyle incarnation of Mist appears in My Adventures with Superman, voiced by Lucas Grabeel.[14] This version is a member of Intergang and the brother of leading member Silver Banshee whose abilities are derived from Kryptonian technology.

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Mist is the alias of a family of supervillains in DC Comics, most notably the original , a Golden Age criminal scientist who became the archenemy of during by inventing an "Invisio-Solution" that granted and eventually transformed his body into a living mist-like gas for undetectable crimes. The character was created by and Jack , and first appeared in #67 (October 1941). The original Mist, whose real name remains unrevealed, debuted as a brilliant chemist rejected by the U.S. government when he offered his invisibility formula during wartime, fueling his descent into villainy as he used the serum to evade capture and orchestrate schemes like gas attacks in Opal City. Over decades, he clashed repeatedly with Ted Knight, employing hypnosis, criminal ingenuity, and his gaseous form to terrorize heroes, and briefly allied with the Secret Society of Super-Villains in later years. By the 1990s, senility had weakened him, but his legacy endured through his children, whom he raised in secrecy to perpetuate his vendetta against the Starman lineage. His eldest son, Kyle (last name unrevealed; also known as the second Mist), embodied his father's ruthless training as a marksman, tactician, and hand-to-hand combatant, assassinating Starman VI (David Knight) with a sniper shot and leading a crime spree in Opal City that nearly claimed Jack Knight (Starman VII). Kyle donned his father's black suit and shades, kidnapped the elder Ted Knight to fulfill a final revenge plot involving a nuclear threat, but perished in a fiery confrontation with Jack, incinerated by the Cosmic Rod. The Mist's daughter, Nash, briefly assumed the mantle as well, continuing the family's sadistic feud, though the original's influence defined the character's core as a symbol of enduring generational evil in the Starman saga.

Publication History

Golden Age Debut

The Mist was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Jack Burnley, debuting as the primary antagonist of Starman (Ted Knight) in Adventure Comics #67 (October 1941). The villain, named Kyle, is portrayed as a brilliant chemist and World War I veteran who served as a captain in the Canadian Army, earning medals for bravery before turning to scientific pursuits after the war. Resentful after the U.S. government rejected his "invisio-solution"—a gas formula that rendered people and objects invisible in ordinary light, and enabled the user to transform into a mist-like state—Kyle vowed revenge and repurposed the invention for criminal ends. In his debut tale, "The Menace of the Invisible Raiders!", Kyle deploys a gang of invisible henchmen to steal American military secrets amid wartime tensions, baffling authorities until Starman intervenes. The hero tracks the raiders to a Kentucky cave hideout, where he confronts Kyle directly; using the energy blasts and flight capabilities of his newly invented Cosmic Rod, Starman disperses the villain's gaseous form and captures him, resulting in Kyle's imprisonment. Kyle escaped confinement and resurfaced in Adventure Comics #77 (August 1942), in the story "Finders, Keepers!", launching a scheme to scatter valuable items on streets that hypnotized finders into unwitting accomplices for subsequent robberies. Starman thwarts this plot through detective work and direct combat, once more employing the Cosmic Rod to subdue the intangible Mist and return him to custody. These 1940s encounters solidified the Mist as Starman's most persistent Golden Age adversary, with his schemes centering on invisibility-aided thefts, sabotage, and personal vendettas against governmental authority.

Modern Era Appearances

The original Mist resurfaced in the , joining the of Super-Villains in Secret Society of Super-Villains #1 (June–July 1973), and was later revived in the 1990s Starman series. The Mist's son, Kyle (the second Mist), debuted in Starman vol. 2 #28 (April 1997), created by writer James Robinson and artist Peter Snejbjerg, as a trained assassin targeting the Knight family, including the murder of David Knight (Starman VI). Nash Nimbus, daughter of the original Mist and sister to the second Mist, was introduced in Starman vol. 2 #0 (October 1994), created by writer James Robinson and artist Tony Harris, marking the character's revival in post-Crisis DC continuity as she sought vengeance against the Knight family. Throughout the Starman series (1994–2001), Nash played a central antagonistic role (as the third Mist), escalating the long-standing family feud between the Mists and the Starman lineage through schemes targeting Opal City and its heroes, including her assault on Jack Knight and manipulations involving the Shade. The narrative arc culminated in Starman vol. 2 #72 (2001), where the original Mist murdered his daughter Nash before dying himself in a failed attempt to destroy Opal City with a nuclear device, effectively concluding their immediate threat while tying into the series' exploration of legacy and generational conflict. In recent publications, Kyle Knight—the young son of Nash and Jack Knight, previously depicted as an infant in the Starman finale—reemerges as a powered individual inheriting the Mist mantle in The New Golden Age (2022) and Justice Society of America vol. 4 #8 (2023), joining the Justice Society amid questions about his allegiances given his villainous heritage. These modern appearances integrate the Mist into broader DC events, reinforcing Opal City's narrative as a hub of supernatural and heroic legacies post-Infinite Crisis, with the character's arcs influencing ongoing explorations of family vendettas and multigenerational heroism in titles like Justice Society of America.

Fictional Biography

The original Mist

The original Mist, a chemist whose first name is Kyle (last name unrevealed) and who later used the alias Nimbus, was a Canadian-born scientist whose life was defined by rejection, vengeance, and a multi-generational feud with the Knight family. Born in the late 1890s, he enlisted in the Canadian Army during World War I, rising to the rank of captain and earning the Victoria Cross for leading a heroic charge against enemy lines. After the war, he pursued advanced studies in chemistry, developing the "Invisio-Solution"—a serum capable of rendering people and objects invisible—which he offered to the U.S. government during World War II as a potential military asset. The invention was dismissed due to its instability and ethical concerns, igniting his deep-seated resentment toward American authorities and scientific peers like Ted Knight, whose cosmic energy research overshadowed his own work. This professional jealousy and wartime grudge propelled the Mist into villainy in the early 1940s. He refined his serum to enable personal transformation into a gaseous, intangible form, allowing him to orchestrate invisible raids on industrial targets in Opal City. His debut scheme involved sabotaging steel factories to cripple wartime production, but it was foiled by Starman (Ted Knight), who used his cosmic rod to detect and disperse the invisible assailants. Defeated and imprisoned shortly thereafter, the Mist escaped using his serum and engaged in further crimes, including hypnotic gas attacks and alliances with groups like the Injustice Society and the Secret Society of Super-Villains, suffering repeated captures by Starman and other heroes over the ensuing decades. His fixation on the Knights grew into an all-consuming obsession, viewing Ted as the embodiment of the systemic rejection that derailed his life. Imprisoned for much of the mid-20th century, the Mist was released in the 1980s amid Opal City's changing criminal landscape. Now elderly and confined to a wheelchair, he channeled his hatred by grooming his adult children—son Kyle Nimbus (the second Mist) and daughter Nash Nimbus—into extensions of his vendetta, training them in criminal tactics and urging assaults on the Knight lineage to avenge perceived slights. He dispatched his son to assassinate David Knight, Ted's elder son and brief successor as Starman, though this plot backfired when Jack Knight, David's brother, killed Kyle in self-defense, further isolating the patriarch. In the 1990s, the aging Mist sold his soul to the demon Neron in exchange for restored health and sanity. In his twilight years, his motivations crystallized around destroying the ' legacy and, by extension, the city they protected, driven by decades of unfulfilled ambition and familial loss. Weary of life, in a climactic 2000 confrontation he rigged City's Government and Postal Building with a nuclear warhead set to detonate upon his death. confronted his old foe one last time, using a Rod to transport himself, the Mist, and the building into orbit to save the city. There, the rivals shared a moment of —the Mist expressing regret for his life's path—before the explosion killed both.

Nash Nimbus

Nash Nimbus, the third incarnation of the Mist (also known as Mist III), was the daughter of the original Mist and was raised in isolation following her mother's death, where her father trained her to perpetuate the family's longstanding vendetta against the family. After years of assisting her father and brother Kyle Nimbus (the second Mist) in their criminal schemes, Nash's transformation into the new Mist was catalyzed by her brother's death at the hands of Jack Knight, prompting her to fully embrace the villainous legacy amid her father's senility. Exposed to her father's experimental gas machine, which granted her mist transformation abilities, Nash developed profound mental instability, shifting from a meek, demeanor to one marked by sadism and calculated vengeance driven by inherited . In her villainous career during the , Nash debuted as the in Starman vol. 2 #0 (October 1994), orchestrating a crime wave in Opal City and forming alliances with figures like to target Jack Knight and undermine the city's heroes. Her most notorious act involved kidnapping and drugging Jack Knight, subjecting him to in a deliberate bid to conceive a child as an extension of the family grudge, resulting in the birth of their son, whom she named Kyle after her late brother. This assault, depicted in Starman vol. 2 #10 (1995), exemplified her psychological torment and obsession with perpetuating the Nimbus lineage's curse against the Knights, further straining her already fractured familial bonds. Nash's antagonism extended to infiltrating the , posing as Ice Maiden, where she murdered members including Blue Devil, Amazing Man II, and , actions that intensified her confrontations with Opal City's protectors. Her complex relationships were defined by unwavering loyalty to her father, despite his manipulations, and a protective yet vengeful bond with her brother, whose death fueled her instability; interactions with heroes like Jack were marked by taunting rather than direct combat. Ultimately, during a climactic family confrontation in Starman vol. 2 #72 (December 2000), Nash's fate was sealed when her father shot her, reclaiming the Mist mantle in a tragic culmination of their shared madness and the vendetta's destructive toll.

Kyle Knight

Kyle Knight is the son of Jack Knight, the third Starman, and Nash Nimbus, the third incarnation of the Mist. His conception resulted from Nash's sexual assault on Jack as part of her vendetta against the Knight family, a continuation of the long-standing feud between the Mists and the Starmen that originated in the Golden Age. Nash intended to raise Kyle as a weapon against his father's legacy, but following her death during a confrontation with Jack and the Justice Society of America, custody was awarded to Jack, who became Kyle's primary guardian. Raised in Opal City alongside his half-sister, Kyle grew up immersed in the dual heritage of heroism and villainy, with Jack providing a stable environment while shielding him from the darker aspects of his mother's actions. As of the events depicted in The New Golden Age (2022–2023), Kyle is approximately five years old and already manifests the inherited from , though he remains unaware of the full extent of his family's antagonistic history. In current DC continuity, Kyle is positioned as a potential hero bridging his villainous maternal lineage and paternal heroic tradition, with mentions in Justice Society of America vol. 4 #8 (2023) indicating his future recruitment to the team under the Mist moniker. An alternate future timeline, later averted, saw him perish at the hands of Per Degaton during a catastrophic event. As of November 2025, Kyle has no major solo appearances and continues to develop as a young character with untapped heroic potential.

Powers and Abilities

Mist Transformation

The mist transformation is the signature superpower of the Mist lineage in DC Comics, originating with the original Mist, a brilliant chemist who developed a formula known as the Invisio-Solution to render people and objects invisible by altering their density into a gaseous state. Facing execution after attempting to sell the invention to foreign powers during World War I, the original Mist applied the formula to himself, escaping in mist form; the chemical alteration proved permanent, granting him the ability to vaporize at will. This self-developed serum-based power became the foundation for the family's antagonistic legacy against the Starman lineage. The capability allows the user to dissolve into an intangible, vaporous mist, enabling seamless infiltration through small openings, airborne flight by dispersing and reforming, and evasion of solid-matter attacks due to the lack of physical form. Users can reconstitute their solid body instantaneously and, in mist state, envelop targets to displace breathable air, potentially suffocating them or inducing hypnosis through vaporous contact. Nash Nimbus, daughter of the original Mist and sister to Kyle Nimbus, replicated her father's experiment to acquire the power after escaping prison, using it to launch vengeful assaults on Jack Knight, such as ambushing him in mist form during confrontations in Opal City. Her son, Kyle Theo Knight, genetically inherited the ability, applying it as a vigilante to redeem the family name through stealthy interventions in future timelines. Limitations include vulnerability to strong winds or airtight containment, which can disperse or trap the gaseous form, preventing reformation. In Kyle Nimbus's case, the power faded with age due to the chemical instability, leading to organ failure sustained only by the mist state. Later inheritors like Kyle Knight exhibit more unstable control, with the genetic transmission causing intermittent difficulties in maintaining the transformation compared to the original serum-induced version.

Supporting Skills

The original Mist was a brilliant renowned for developing the Invisio-Solution, a capable of rendering people and objects invisible by transforming them into a mist-like state. This invention stemmed from his expertise in , which he initially offered to the government during , only to face rejection that fueled his criminal turn. The original Mist's military background as a in the Canadian Army during the war provided him with strategic discipline, enabling meticulous tactical planning for heists and personal vendettas, such as orchestrating invisible raids on industrial targets to sabotage American war efforts. His daughter, Nash Nimbus, adapted these foundational skills through familial influence, receiving direct training from her father that emphasized close-quarters fighting and environmental exploitation in confrontations. Nash further honed psychological manipulation tactics, using and to unsettle opponents and orchestrate long-term schemes against the Knight family. Across iterations, the Mist characters maintained access to hidden laboratories for serum refinement and derivative experiments, alongside opportunistic alliances with minor villains, including in coordinated criminal enterprises. Notably, no reliance on advanced technology beyond chemical serums was evident, with resources centered on clandestine operations and improvised weaponry. Over time, subsequent Mists like Kyle Knight shifted emphasis from scientific innovation to inherited physical and strategic traits, diminishing the role of original chemical prowess in favor of innate adaptability.

Alternate Versions

Earth-Two

In the pre-Crisis continuity of Earth-Two, the Mist is the original Golden Age supervillain, whose real name was not revealed in contemporary publications but later retconned to Kyle in main continuity. He debuted in 1941 as an archenemy of Starman (Ted Knight). Imprisoned following his initial defeats by Starman during World War II-era adventures, the Mist remained a figure of legacy menace tied to the Quality Comics-influenced heroic era. The character's 1960s revival occurred in The Brave and the Bold #61 (August–September 1965), where the Mist escapes prison by transforming his body into an intangible mist form, allowing him to slip through bars and security undetected. Launching a sophisticated crime spree in Park City (Earth-Two's Gotham analog), he infiltrates the floral shop owned by Dinah Drake (the ) and sprays her bouquets with a , compelling affluent customers to surrender their wealth under post-hypnotic suggestion. This scheme leverages his scientific expertise in gaseous dispersion and mind control, echoing his tactics of using mist-based illusions and chemicals for robbery and evasion. Starman and Black Canary form an impromptu alliance to counter the threat, with Starman deploying his Cosmic Rod to detect the Mist's gaseous trails and disrupt his hypnotic emissions, while Black Canary employs her martial prowess and Canary Cry to neutralize the villain's invisible henchmen. The Mist attempts a final assault by enveloping the heroes in a disorienting fog, but their coordinated strategy—combining gravitational manipulation and sonic disruption—shatters his equipment and forces him back to solid form for capture. This defeat underscores the enduring rivalries from the 1940s, as the Mist's return directly revives conflicts with Starman without introducing new alliances or personal motivations beyond criminal ambition. Distinct from later iterations on other Earths, the Earth-Two Mist embodies the solitary, coldly intellectual persona of his 1940s origins, lacking any familial expansions or emotional backstories. This version shares core similarities with the prime Earth version, particularly in mist transformation abilities and obsessive vendetta against Starman.

Earth 2

In the New 52 continuity's Earth 2, Kyle Nimbus serves as the CEO of Nimbus Solutions, a corporation that exploits an ongoing energy crisis in New Gotham by monopolizing power cells and controlling black-market resales of portable generators. This version of the character emerges as a contemporary businessman whose operations exacerbate societal instability on the fledgling colony world Telos, where Apokoliptian refugees and human survivors struggle to rebuild. Unlike more vengeful iterations, Nimbus embodies opportunistic corporate villainy, leveraging his position to profit from scarcity rather than pursuing personal grudges. Nimbus possesses intangibility powers that enable him to phase through solid objects, including weapons like batarangs, making him ideal for and evasion in high-stakes corporate dealings. These abilities, which allow transformation into a misty form, are adapted for modern threats such as infiltrating secure facilities or escaping confrontations. In Earth 2: Society #10 (2016), Batman—here Dick Grayson—launches an assault on a Nimbus Solutions to dismantle the company's exploitative practices, only to face interference from , a super-enhanced operative employed by Nimbus who subdues and permits Nimbus's escape. This encounter underscores Nimbus's role in broader plots contributing to , as his energy monopoly fuels and resource wars among the displaced heroes and civilians. The conflict escalates in Earth 2: Society #11 (2016), where an injured Batman summons allies Red Arrow and () to track and contain Nimbus amid escalating global tensions toward war. Nimbus clashes directly with the duo, using his phasing to dodge attacks and counter with physical assaults when solid, but his overconfidence proves fatal— absorbs the blows to create an opening, allowing Red Arrow to subdue him through precise . This defeat resolves the immediate threat, capturing Nimbus and disrupting his operations, while highlighting the divergences of Earth 2's narrative: a world where classic villains like the evolve into symbols of systemic rather than isolated menaces, clashing with JSA analogs in a fight for societal survival.

Future Timelines

In a dystopian timeline depicted in Justice Society of America vol. 4 #1 (2023), an adult Kyle Knight emerges as the third , inheriting his mother Nash Nimbus's powers while embracing a heroic path that contrasts sharply with his family's villainous legacy. This version of Knight joins the (JSA), utilizing his mist transformation abilities to provide defensive support and obfuscation for the team during battles against temporal threats. The storyline portrays him as seeking redemption for the Nimbus lineage, employing his powers to shield allies and disrupt enemies in high-stakes conflicts. This future is disrupted when , the time-manipulating villain, alters the timeline to assassinate the JSA members, including , in a bid to erase the team's history across eras. Knight's brief tenure highlights his potential as a JSA asset, with his form enabling strategic advantages like creating impenetrable fog barriers for team maneuvers. The narrative underscores themes of legacy and redemption, as Knight actively works to atone for his predecessors' crimes against the Knight family and the JSA. The implications of this timeline explore Knight's capacity for heroism amid inherited villainy, positioning his powers as tools for protection rather than predation. As of November 2025, no further canonical developments have expanded on this future or introduced additional timelines involving Knight as Mist. Brief references in broader DC continuity, such as the 853rd-century event, nod to the Knight-Nimbus lineage persisting through descendants like Farris Knight, a Starman who inherits heroic traits, suggesting untapped potential for future expansions.

In Other Media

Live-Action Television

In the CW's The Flash (2014 TV series), the Mist is portrayed by Anthony Carrigan as Kyle Nimbus, a metahuman assassin introduced in season 1 (2014–2015). Nimbus, a former enforcer for the Darbinyan crime family in Central City, was betrayed by his employers and arrested by Detective Joe West, leading to a death sentence. On the night of his scheduled execution at Iron Heights Prison, the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion altered his DNA, granting him the ability to transform into a cloud of toxic, intangible mist. Nimbus embarks on a revenge quest against those responsible for his conviction and imprisonment, using his powers to assassinate the Darbinyan family, the judge, and targeting West next. Nimbus makes his debut in season 1, 3, "Things You Can't Outrun," where Cisco Ramon dubs him "The Mist" due to his gaseous form. He employs his intangibility to infiltrate secure locations and disperse poisonous gas, killing his targets by suffocation or toxicity without leaving physical traces. The Flash (Barry Allen confronts him at a construction site, initially struggling against the villain's evasion tactics, but defeats Nimbus by rapidly rotating his arms to generate a vortex, dispersing the mist and forcing Nimbus back to solid form through exhaustion. The team at S.T.A.R. Labs then imprisons him in the , a meta-human facility. Nimbus reappears in season 1, episode 16, "Rogue Air," as one of several metahumans freed from the by (Leonard Snart) to aid in a larger scheme involving the . During the ensuing chaos at an airfield, where the villains attempt to transport the metas via plane, Nimbus briefly threatens the group but is recaptured alongside most others after Barry intervenes to halt the escape. This marks his final on-screen role, with his fate left as ongoing imprisonment in the . Unlike the comic book incarnation of Kyle Nimbus, who serves as the longtime archenemy of Starman (Ted Knight) and whose family feud spans generations, the television version operates independently without any ties to the Starman legacy or Opal City, functioning as a one-off threat tied solely to Barry Allen's world.

Animated Series

In the animated series Young Justice, Mist is reimagined as Andrea "Andie" Murphy, a teenage metahuman with the ability to transform into a gaseous form for infiltration and combat. Voiced by Daniela Bobadilla, she debuts in season 3, episode 8, "Triptych" (2019), as a reluctant villain coerced by Simon Stagg into a meta-human trafficking operation linked to Stagg Industries. Alongside allies Shade and Livewire, Mist attempts to steal a Reach-related artifact from Zatanna's Shadowcrest, clashing with Nightwing's team in a sequence that underscores her shy demeanor and the exploitative dynamics of villainous ensembles. Defeated and rescued from Stagg's control, she undergoes redemption, joining the Team by season 4 as a supportive member, emphasizing themes of youthful heroism and group integration in early missions against threats like Manta Troopers. Mist appears in a different animated context in , season 1, episode 3, "My Interview with Superman" (2023), portrayed as the male Kyle Nimbus, a bumbling gaseous assassin and thief affiliated with . Voiced by , this version aids Rough House in breaking out of Stryker's Island using stolen alien tech, including a sonic helmet, before participating in a Metropolitan City Bank heist with a malfunctioning freezing cannon that endangers civilians. intervenes, capturing the group after destroying the rogue crystal causing the freeze, presenting Nimbus as a comedic foil in high-stakes action rather than a deeply tragic figure. These adaptations diverge notably from the comics: gender-swaps Mist to a female teenager focused on ensemble redemption arcs, while retains the male identity in a lighter, self-contained villain role without exploring the character's extensive family vendetta against the Knights.

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