Time Traveling Mark Twain

Mark Twain is the author of the Great American Novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a time traveler, and one of Dick and Johnson's great villains. He may be just a fake identity created by Paul Lynde, or Paul Lynde from another timeline.

Twain first appeared as Dick and Johnson's nemesis during their investigation of Christofuhrer Walken's new Nazi-Dino DNA based drug in Chicago. He appeared to be working under or alongside Christofuhrer Walken as he claimed to be in charge of the drug's distribution and both villains later fought side by side when confronted by Dick, Johnson, and their allies. He appeared again, attacking Dick and Johnson's home directly using technology from the future. However, during the fight, he revealed himself to be Paul Lynde, and Lynde claimed that he had always been Time Traveling Mark Twain, having used a different persona for no reason other than whimsy. Under the guise of Takethat Wiki, Lynde had also acted as Dick and Johnson's accountant for a time, implicating the two in cases of corruption and possible money laundering. Whether Twain and Lynde are then identical, Twain is a version of Lynde from the future or other timeline, or Lynde simply lied to confuse his nemeses remains unclear.

Despite being an elderly man, Twain is a formidable fighter, exhibiting expert skills in a unique form of 19th century bare-knuckle boxing that is even a match for Dick and Johnson's Tim McGraw style. His greatest power, though, is the ability to travel back and forth through time at will by falling asleep, which, as a senior citizen, he can do instantly in virtually any situation. He showed that he can use this to heal from grievous injuries instantly by traveling back in time to a point before being injured, and he was able to bring multiple versions of himself from different timelines into the same point in time to fight beside him. He was only stopped by Johnson after being fed an insomnia inducing drug that disabled his sleep based time manipulation. This appeared to force all Twains back to their time.

During Dick and Johnson's first encounter with Twain, he states that he initially began traveling through time after falling asleep under a tree. He subsequently went to the past taking control of the legendary Camelot court and used its resources to prepare further conquests. Whether this inspired his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, or whether he chose the destination inspired by his own novel is not mentioned. In the recent past, Twain has also worked as an actor, having portrayed Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders in advertising, and himself as Samuel Clemens in Star Trek: The Next Generation 's two part episode Time's Arrow.

It was revealed that he was given his time traveling technology by evil mastermind Stick Man.