Post by Mach V on Jul 24, 2008 10:07:47 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Canon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): Marvel
Characters civilian name: Patrick Mulligan
Code names/Aliases: Toxin
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Superhero (Anti-Hero)
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Gender: Male
Age: Thirties
Apparent Age: Thirties
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height and weight: 6' 2" / 215 lbs (98 kg)
Appearance:
Much like his 'Father' Carnage and his 'Grandfather' Venom, Toxin can change between human and symbiote 'form', and like Carnage, can alter his appearance to look like anyone he chooses.
However, whilst both Venom and Carnage are only one color, with white patches around the eyes, Toxin appears with the upper half of his body (torso and arms) red, and his waist and legs black. He does possess the slack, gaping, razor-lined jaw of the other symbiotes as well as the white patches around the eyes.
Picture [if available]:
Symbiote 'Form'
Human 'Form'
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Super Powers:
Toxin possesses the "unique" special abilities of his two symbiote predecessors; He can stick to walls, can change his identity to that of a completely different person and also has unlimited webbing, which takes on a shape of a steel chain in his case. Toxin can also blend in with its surroundings and become undetectably camouflaged, and he can form solid weapons from his limbs like his father. Toxin also seems to have some sort of quick-healing ability like his predecessors, as his wounds from his first battle with Razor Fist healed remarkably quickly. Unlike the others, Toxin can track anyone, not just other symbiotes, as long as he has something to begin from, within the entire city of New York and possibly further.
Superhuman Strength: He is superhumanly strong and much stronger than Carnage and Venom together.
Superhuman Speed: He can move or run at speeds greater than Spider Man or Carnage.
Superhuman Stamina: He can exert himself for at least 24 hours until fatigue impairs him.
Superhuman Agility: His agility is superior to Carnage or Spider Man.
Superhuman Reflexes: His reflexes is superior to Carnage or Spider Man.
Superhuman Durability: He is much more resistant to injury than Venom or Carnage but still has the traditional symbiotes weaknesses.
Regenerative Healing Factor: He can heal at speeds and more efficiently than a normal human.
Learned Abilities:
Patrick Mulligan was a trained and qualified police officer in the NYPD, and has the relative knowledge and experience associated with such an occupation. This helps in his hero work.
Equipment:
None
Weaknesses (Must Have):
The Toxin symbiote does not believe itself capable of surviving without another host, and must remain bonded with Patrick.
Also, whilst it is more resistant to thermal and sonic attacks than its 'Parents', the Toxin symbiote is still vulnerable to sonic and thermal attacks.
Background:
Like all Symbiotes, Carnage became pregnant, but felt only hatred and fear for his new "son" because of its potential to become stronger that its predecessors. Venom sensed Carnage's "pregnancy", so he tracked him down and talked about the spawn.
Carnage didn't want to talk about it and fought Venom. Carnage was ready to kill his powerful child as soon as it was born. When he did give birth, however, he was too weak to actually kill it. He tried to blow it up, and bury it, but to no avail.
He would eventually implant his symbiote spawn within an NYPD officer - Patrick Mulligan - hoping to destroy the symbiote later when he regained his strength.
Prior to the events above, Patrick Mulligan was a cop who lived with his family - a wife and a son.
After Carnage attached his "child" to Patrick and left, Carnage attempted to kill Toxin again, but was prevented from doing so by Venom, who wanted to train Toxin and make him his ally. Venom fought Carnage, and named the new symbiote Toxin, after himself.
After Carnage attacked his wife and child to get at Toxin, Patrick left them, realizing what a danger he would be to them if he stayed.
Venom, now realizing that Toxin's host is a cop and will likely become a good guy, Allied himself with his son, Carnage to kill Toxin, but in the final battle between the three symbiotes, Toxin defeated them both and his "parents" fled.
Spider-Man stumbled into the final confrontation between the symbiote trinity, and helped Toxin. After they fended off Venom and Carnage, Toxin had a conversation with Spider-Man, filling him in on what had happened to him. Spider-Man gave him a kind of superhero heart-to-heart, and passed on his Uncle Ben's message: "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility."
Toxin resigned himself to a life of battling his base symbiote urges to indulge in violence and destruction, while trying to harness his power for good.
In 2005, after Spider-Man joined the Avengers, Marvel started a six-issue Toxin limited series, which charts Toxin's battles with various supervillains who had escaped from the Raft as a result of the events beginning The New Avengers series, as well as his constant battle to keep the Toxin symbiote under control, as unlike Venom and Carnage, the host and symbiote minds stayed separate in Toxin, and they even had conversations and arguments with each other.
Unlike his "grandfather" Venom, Toxin does not refer to himself as "we". Throughout the course of the mini-series, he battled King Cobra, The The Answer, Wrecker, Piledriver, and Razorfist.
Toxin found Cobra in a hotel room. When Cobra tried to wrap himself around Toxin, Toxin grew, stretching Cobra beyond his limit.
Toxin found Razorfist starting a cult of children in the sewers of New York City, using them as his slaves. Patrick searched for and found Razorfist, but because of an argument with Toxin, Toxin refused to help until Patrick admitted that he needed Toxin, even going so far as to turn Patrick into a small, middle-aged man. Once Patrick admitted it, however, Toxin emerged and battled Razorfist briefly, before escaping.
At one point, trying to live with Toxin becomes too much for Patrick, and he attempts to commit suicide as advised by the Answer, by throwing himself in front of a train.
Toxin interferes at the last moment, saving Pat and claiming that deep down, Pat didn't really want to die. When Pat presses the issue, however, it becomes clear that, unlike the Venom and Carnage symbiotes, Toxin is not sure it could survive on its own and find a new host.
Wrecker and Piledriver decided to pull an art heist. Toxin stopped them, but not before they demolished the museum.
Toxin has shown very childlike behavior, such as throwing a tantrum and breaking Patrick's laptop. He then stole a stack of laptops to replace the one he broke, however, Spider-Man ran into him as he was running away with them, and stopped the theft.
Toxin ran into Razorfist again, now training an army of small children, dubbed the "Piranha Tots" to kill their family members. He finally defeated him by removing his razor fists, and left with only stumps, was unable to harm Toxin.
It was in this limited series that Razor Fist murders Patrick Mulligan's father, but Pat/Toxin begins to show true signs of a hero.
He tracks Razor Fist down, but instead of slaughtering him as both the symbiote and Razor Fist himself urge, he controls himself and turns Razor Fist over to the police.
At the end of the limited series, we see Pat reconcile with his estranged wife Gina, by 'introducing' her to the Toxin symbiote as way of explaining why he walked out on his family.
To add to this story Toxin begins to fight side by side with Spider-man. However he begins to crave eating people's brains like Venom. He leaves Gina and New York without an explantion.
Personality:
Unlike the other symbiotes, Toxin does not try to take over the mind of his human host. Instead, the symbiote actually thinks and voices its opinions to the human host (as evidenced in Toxin's Cut to the Chase storyline). The symbiote usually speaks when the host is in his "human form". In addition, he seems to have a stronger resistance to sonics and intense heat compared to Carnage, though this does not mean that Toxin is more resistant to violent urges: it can get carried away with violence and fighting crime, even if it's a petty crime. When he's not angry or fighting, Toxin is slim and smooth-lined, although still well muscled, closely resembling Spider-Man in his Symbiote costume. When he becomes upset or aggressive, he grows into his much bigger and stronger form, with vicious fangs and long curving claws.
The Symbiote 'Toxin' is young and relatively inexperienced as symbiotes go, and can act in an immature and unusual fashion from time to time. Most of the time, however it has a fairly decent personality, but finds it almost impossible to fight its own baser urges - such as eating human brains or hearts.
Fortunately it has Patrick for that. Pat is an upstanding guy with a strong sense of morality. As he said to Spiderman whilst talking about resisting his symbiote's base urges - "If i cross that line, throw me in Rikers and throw away the key." .
Other:
None.
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Brief Sample Roleplay
See MACH V, Penance and Sigma - I'll add one here soon too XD
Like anybody, Pat hated computers. He loved them too, but that was a different story.
You know how when they work, they really work? You can spend hours surfing the Internet, gaming your heart out, hell they even make work easier.
But when they don't work. . . Man do they know just how to rub you up the wrong way! Something so unbelievably simple, with 'Idiot Proof' on the box, turns into a disaster in minutes!
Today it can't see the printer! I can! It's right there next to the damn shredder on the end of the desk!
Error code this, situation report that. . . That's not what anybody wants, they just want it to work!
Pat was so enraged he almost missed the black and red tendrils of thick goop emerging from his chest and reaching for the printer. . .
"Woah! Not again! Calm down Toxin, breathe easy!" Pat almost laughed as he spoke, seemingly to himself.
"I don't breathe, and I'm not going to relax! Let me get rid of the damn thing!" The symbiote complained loudly as Pat began wrestling with the strands of tendril, seemingly to no avail.
