As the younger brother of an accomplished drug lord, you'd think Joey Monteleone would have an excellent idea on how to be a successful criminal. You'd be wrong.

After winding up imprisoned at Iron Heights for armed robbery, Joey takes up meditation and discovers he has a mutant ability. He's able to project himself into inanimate objects and animate them.

Shortly after discovering this ability, he projects himself into asphalt and winds up stuck. Noticing a pattern here? He's not the smartest villain in the villain pub. While his real body remains in a coma at Iron Heights, Joey names his new self Tar Pit and wreaks havoc. Or he attempts to at least.

Despite his increased strength, stamina, invulnerability, elasticity, heat generation, and chemical secretion he still lacks the brains to make it all worthwhile. One example of his super stupidity is when he battles the Flash while trying to steal the Stanley Cup. What exactly an asphalt monster would need with the Stanley Cup remains to be seen.

The Flash didn't even need to be there, Tar Pit stops himself all on his own. During the battle, Tar Pit rips open a hose which contains a tar dissolving solvent. That's a face palm moment right there. Can asphalt blush?

Needless to say he didn't make it off with the Cup.

Created by Geoff Johns and Scott Kohls, Tar Pit has been causing trouble for the Flash since his first appearance in The Flash #174. Fortunately for the Flash all that power isn't much without the brains to back it up.

The lesson here? Stay in school kids.