BIOHAZARD I
Created By: Dwayne McDuffie, Gregory Wright & Jackson Guice
First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents #62 (1990)
Role: Self-Building Living Brain
PL 9 (128)
STRENGTH 8
STAMINA 10
AGILITY 0
FIGHTING 8
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS -2
PRESENCE -2
Skills:
Intimidation 10 (+8)
Stealth 6 (+3 Size)
Advantages:
Fast Grab, Startle
Powers:
Growth 3 (Str & Sta +3, +3 Mass, +1 Intimidation, -1 Dodge/Parry, -3 Stealth) -- (12 feet) (Feats: Innate) (Extras: Permanent +0) [7]
"Amorphous Body"
Immunity 20 (Bludgeoning Damage) (Flaws: Limited to Half-Effect) [10]
Morph 3 (Multiple Living Forms) [15]
"Consume Others"
Weaken Stamina 10 (Linked to Unarmed Damage) [10]
Variable 6 (Skills & Advantages) (Flaws: Limited to Those of Consumed Victims -2) [30]
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+8 Damage & +10 Weaken, DC 23 & 20)
Initiative +0
Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +10, Fortitude +10, Will +4
Complications:
Motivation (Finding Memories)- Biohazard has been left with incomplete memories of who or what it is. Being that it was created from John Kelly's discarded brain, it thinks that finding Kelly, and also Deathlok (not realizing that it's no longer Kelly) is the secret to completing the knowledge of what it is.
Total: Abilities: 32 / Skills: 16--8 / Advantages: 2 / Powers: 72 / Defenses: 14 (128)
-A creature with a bizarre origin story, the first Biohazard is actually the living brain of John Kelly, the second Deathlok! When Kelly tried to resist his commands, the computer inside his cyborg body electrocuted his brain. It was removed and experimented on by a random scientist, who threw it in the trash when it failed to self-replicate with nanotechnology. However, his experiments actually WORKED- but on a delay. The brain recovered itself and came to life, first absorbing whatever organic materials it came into contact with at the dump, but finally killing a stray cat, the dump's security guard, and other people, absorbing their memories and skills along the way, all in a mission to absorb Deathlok's brain, as it figured (through weak memories) that 'Lock was responsible for his situation.
-It eventually found the corpse of Hansen, the scientist who had experimented on him in the first place, and actually regrew his body within Biohazard himself! Spitting out the resurrected scientist, Biohazard went inert (in an empty skin) while Hansen confronted the new Deathlok (Michael Collins), at first to helpfully describe the origins of Biohazard... and then to suddenly attack, the Biohazard virus now active inside himself! He and Deathlok fought in Collins' family home, and he nearly killed Collins' wife, but him and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Angstrom in Mandroid Armor corralled him into an Adamantium container. However, at this point the ORIGINAL Biohazard body had awoken, coming out of "hibernation" and attacking the family of John Kelly- Deathlok and Angstrom came to the rescue. They were unable to hold the monster back, however, as it was immune to most attacks and was too big to be contained. Ultimately, Deathlok tricked Biohazard into lowering its guard, then ripped Kelly's brain out of the heap of organics that was its body, throwing THAT into the Adamantium Container- Biohazard dropped dead as a result, now having nothing animating it.
-This is an INSANE amount of convoluted writing I needed to do to describe a monster that was built up for a few issues and then got killed fairly easily. Jesus. Like, how did McDuffie & Wright come up with all this nonsense about a brain wanting to complete itself by absorbing the previous Deathlok, thus randomly involving the new one because its memories were F'd up- seriously.
-Biohazard is an extremely strong, hard-to-kill amorphous creature with a dangerous touch, but little in the way of skills or advantages... unless it absorbs some. It's deadly touch means it's all for the best that the first creature is dead.