Batroc the Leaper
Batroc (Georges Batroc) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Tales of Suspense #75, 1966. He is a mercenary and a master of the French form of kick boxing known as savate. Writer Mark Waid described the character as ahead of his time, elaborating "He was a Jean-Claude Van Damme, but he was in the 1960s."
Georges St-Pierre plays the character in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Publication history
Batroc, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appeared in Tales of Suspense #75 in March 1966. He has reappeared in various Marvel titles ever since.
His name is apparently a humorous bit of covert wordplay indulged by Stan Lee. "Batroc" is not at all a common French surname; however, the name sounds similar to Batrachian (pertaining to or frog-like). Thus, the French leaper is a "Frog", a mildly derisive term applied to the French.
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by Deas Vail
The Leaper
by: Deas VailI'm telling you son
It's been a long time coming
I don't want to take anything away from you
It'll just be a little while
If that's alright
How can I place every piece together
When I don't want to face
All the things I put you through
If you can't see me in this way
Then that's alright
So I'll leap from the edge
Knowing nothing of the fall
How much time do we have before the end
As the world rushes in
I'm compelled to look back home
And I'm finally conscious of how this began
The beginning of a lifetime
In the chains of the leaper's end
I cover my face
And I swear I won't go for another taste
It's the poison in my mouth
And I think I don't go back, I can't go wrong
So I'll leap from the edge
Knowing nothing of the fall
How much time do we have before the end
As the world rushes in
I'm compelled to look back home
And I'm finally conscious of how this began
The beginning of a lifetime
In the chains of the leaper's end
So I'll leap from the edge
Knowing nothing of the fall
How much time do we have before the end
As the world rushes in
I'm compelled to look back home
And I'm finally conscious of how this began
The beginning of a lifetime