Dirk Anger
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|image=[[Image:One Crazy MammaJamma.jpg|250px]]
|caption=Art by Stuart Immomen
|character_name=Dirk Anger
|real_name=Dirk Anger
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|debut=''[[Nextwave]] #1'' January 2006
|creators=[[Warren Ellis]]<br>[[Stuart Immonen]]
|alliances=[[H.A.T.E.]]
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|powers= Chemically retarded aging process and eventually gains immortality and powers of the gods
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[[General Officer|General]] '''Dirk Anger''' is a satiric Marvel Comics character appearing in the book ''[[Nextwave]]''. He was created by [[Warren Ellis]] and [[Stuart Immonen]].
Anger is a thinly veiled, over-the-top parody of [[Nick Fury]]. Ellis originally intended to use Fury[http://www.comicon.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/36/t/004065.html], but when that character was unavailable, he created Dirk Anger.
Despite the appearance of Nextwave characters in other Marvel titles, in 2006 Editor-in-Chief [[Joe Quesada]] stated that Nextwave's setting was in a universe separate from the main Marvel continuity.<ref>Wade Gum (2006-07-01). "Heros Con: Joe Quesada Panel", http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/000765389.cfm</ref> However, recent issues of [[Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe]], as well as Civil War: Battle Damage Report, consistently place Nextwave's activities in mainstream continuity.
==Fictional character biography==
Dirk Anger is the Director of the Highest Anti Terrorist Effort ([[H.A.T.E.]]), and apparently oversees all operations aboard the Aeromarine (a reference to the [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] [[Helicarrier]] - but while the Helicarrier is essentially a flying [[aircraft carrier]], the Aeromarine appears to consist of several [[submarine]]s, bolted together, with rocket engines). Anger is fully aware that The [[Beyond Corporation©]], which funds H.A.T.E., is the newest version of [[covert cell|terrorist cell]] S.I.L.E.N.T. However, he simply doesn't care.
Anger is over ninety years old, but has, through chemical means ("H.A.T.E. has the best drugs"), an extended lifespan. It has been hinted that Anger has been married at least once, and that he has met [[Winston Churchill]] and bested him in a [[hula hoop]] contest.
Anger has a multitude of psychological issues, including [[misogyny]], [[bulimia nervosa|bulimia]], [[alcoholism]], [[tobacco smoking|nicotine addiction]], [[clinical depression|depression]], [[sadomasochism|sadism]], and a fixation on a flowery house dress that may have belonged to his mother (in a scene reminiscent of [[Norman Bates]]). It is implied that his mother is in fact [[Andrea Dworkin]], although this was made during an off-the-cuff comment. At one point, he was fed chopped-up baby [[chicken|chick]]s through an [[intravenous therapy|intravenous tube]]; it is unknown whether this is a regular treatment. He has also revealed (in ''Nextwave'' #6) that his wife, upon turning forty, refused to give in any longer to a [[sexual fetishism|fetish]] of his involving a wig, a chicken, and a bathful of acid; she then apparently took all his money, painted everything pink, had him adopt 'a million screaming little snot-factory children', and went under the belief that her [[uterus|womb]] would fall out should he touch her.
Dirk has been seen playing a bizarre form of Russian Roulette with a pistol larger than a semi-truck. The barrel curves back around to point at Dirk's seat atop the gun.
Dirk Anger accidentally (and finally) committed suicide during his pursuit of the Nextwave squad. However, the Beyond Corporation© had installed a "Zombie Switch" in his brain, preventing him from dying, yet leaving him craving human brains. He apparently was completely destroyed when he ordered his aeromarine to ram Nextwave's ship into Beyond's floating city, claiming to the aeromarine crew that he "reinvented suicide as a group activity. Go me."
==Trivia==
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* The [[Nextwave#Theme song|Nextwave theme song]] refers to him as "one crazy mamajama" and says that he wears "pretty pink pyjamas".
* Dirk Anger won the title of the Favorite Comics Villain in the Eagle Awards 2007.
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