Baron Blitzkrieg

In DC Comics continuity Baron Reiter was a German army officer during World War II who was blinded and disfigured when a concentration camp prisoner threw a bottle in his face. German scientists experimented on Reiter, restoring his sight though not his appearance, and he was given superhuman attributes. Across continuities he reappears as a wartime antagonist and later as a leader of paramilitary/criminal organizations (notably Shadowspire) and a member of villain collectives.

Sources describe him as disfigured (with scarring resulting from his wartime injury) and wearing body armor that further enhances his durability. Visual details and costume design vary by continuity and adaptation, but depictions consistently emphasize his facial disfigurement and armored, militarized appearance.

Comic sources attribute to Baron Blitzkrieg enhanced strength, durability, and agility, the ability to fly, and optical energy/heat-vision beams. Accounts describe that his powers at first manifested separately and that he later trained to incorporate them together. He also employs body armor to augment his durability. Behaviorally he serves as an antagonist to major heroes, leads wartime and modern villain teams (e.g., a 1940s raid team and Shadowspire), conspires in experiments with organizations such as Vandal Savage's Symbolix, and has joined larger villain organizations (Secret Society of Super Villains). He has been killed in combat (by Superboy-Prime) and temporarily resurrected (as a Black Lantern).