Double Down (comics)
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Double Down is DC Comics supervillain and one of the new rogues of the Flash. He first appeared in Flash: Iron Heights and was Created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver (2001).
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Jeremy Tell was a con artist and compulsive gambler. One night, after losing all his money in a game, Tell murdered the high winning gambler. A mystically "cursed deck of cards" the murdered man owned animated and flew at Tell, cleaving and bonding to his skin. They have replaced most of his flesh, and cover most of his body. Tell can, either mentally or mystically, control these cards, detaching them from his body and directing their movement. He can use a card's razor edges to cut through things, or to encase someone with his cards. He often uses puns related to gambling, in much the same manner a Silver Age gimmick villain would.
The extent of his control over the cards has not been explored, nor the limitation of the cards to cut through various materials.
When Murmur released his Frenzy virus at Iron Heights, Flash (Wally West) and Piper were sent to investigate the cause of the virus. During the prison's mass breakout, Tell, who was serving time for murder, assault and fraud, was freed and met Piper. Tell used a card to cover his mouth to prevent him from using his flute and used the rest to slice his clothes. Piper then shoved his flute up Tell's mouth and punched his gut, forcing him to blow on the instrument. The resulting sonic blast knocked him unconsciousness and he was taken back to solitary confinement.
After escaping Iron Heights, he and Girder were both hired by Penguin to help him establish a crime ring in Keystone City, but was stopped by Flash and Nightwing.
Double Down was cited in Wizard Magazine by long-time Flash writer Geoff Johns as the one Rogue he would have loved to devote more time to — "The one that got away," so to speak.
