'The Flash': Who Are Baron Katana and the Samuroids?
In the newest promo for The Flash's fourth season, fans got their best look yet at a rather unique [...]
American Samuroids
The Samuroids made a return appearance decades later, in Mark Waid and Jerry Ordway's Brave and The Bold #13.
In the story, titled "American Samuroids", Penguin obtained a large quantity of Samuroids from an abandoned warehouse. He brought them to T.O. Morrow, who realized he had designed them for a Warlord decades before. Once Morrow upgraded the Samuroids with artificial intelligence, Penguin sent them to kill Bruce Wayne.
The plans were quickly foiled by Batman and Jay Garrick/The Flash, who counteracted the Samuroid's AI.
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Batman and Flash would go up against the Samuroids yet again, in an appearance that fans of DC Comics' current run are sure to recognize.
The Samuroids made a brief cameo appearance in Batman Vol. 3 #21 - also known as the first chapter of "The Button."
While we won't go too into the plot of the event, the Samuroids can briefly be seen early on in the comic, while Bruce calls up Barry for help. Barry exclaims that he's busy dealing with "some kind of Samuroid invasion", and gives himself a minute to fight off the remaining robots and meet Bruce in the Batcave.
While their appearance is quickly overshadowed by the return of another Flash villain, 'The Button' does help bring the unique Samuroids into a new era of DC storytelling. Fans will just have to wait and see how The CW's Barry Allen fights off the robots - and their leader - when The Flash returns in October.
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