The Masters of Disaster are a team of supervillains appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. They are presented as a group of mercenaries who prefer to work for money and metahumans with superhuman abilities corresponding to a force of nature: earth, wind, fire, and water. The Masters of Disaster appeared in the second season of the live-action television series Black Lightning.

Fictional history

Throughout their appearances in Adventures of the Outsiders #34, Batman and the Outsiders Annual #2, and the Outsiders series, the Masters of Disasters fight and are defeated by Batman's Outsiders on multiple occasions and Looker on one occasion. Eventually, Masters member Windfall develops sympathetic feelings for the Outsiders and secretly works to keep them alive until her teammates discover her treachery before capturing and cloning her. They subsequently send the clone to infiltrate the Outsiders, but Batman discovers the ruse before the clone is killed in battle while the original Windfall defects to the Outsiders. As of Outsiders (vol. 2) #9, the remaining Masters were incarcerated in a prison nicknamed the "Slab" before joining forces with a wrongfully arrested Geo-Force to escape. However, New Wave disagrees with this, leading to her killing Shakedown amidst his attempt to calm her down. The Masters subsequently recruit Dust Devil and Mudslide before fighting the Outsiders once more. Following the events of "The New 52" and during the "Forever Evil" tie-in Suicide Squad, Heatstroke and New Wave attack a prison transport carrying Coldsnap and Shakedown, only to be intercepted by jet-pack wearing S.W.A.T. officers. Coldsnap and Heatstroke are later recruited into the Suicide Squad to assist Katana in fighting the Kobra organization.

Members

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