"Madcap's story begins with him as a deeply religious young man headed to a picnic with his church community. On the way, their bus collides with a tanker truck full of Compound X07, an experimental nerve agent developed by A.I.M.. Everyone aboard the bus, including his parents and sister, dies. Only the young man survives. He is taken to a nearby hospital. When he awakes and discovers all other passengers on the bus had been killed the deeply religious man's mind shatters. His belief in a rational universe is swept away
Exiting the hospital, he attempts to commit suicide by throwing himself in front of moving traffic. He is of course injured but the wounds heal almost instantly. This pushes him further over the edge.
After purchasing a toy soap bubble pistol from a dime store and donning a garish clown costume, the newly-christened Madcap set out to convince others that life is entirely without reason."
His powers:
"The first is his fantastic rate of regeneration and recovery: he heals from any physical injury instantly, and even if he sustains enough damage to kill him (such as being flattened or having his neck snapped), or destroy him (such as being incinerated), he will immediatelyresurrect. Somehow linked to this is a total inability to perceive pain.
Madcap's second power is a specialized form of insanity-inducement that immediately affects those he makes eye contact with. It is for this reason that he wears his garish purple-and-yellow costume and uses a distracting bubble-gun -- to draw the attention of others towards him, so they can meet his gaze. People affected by his power act in a euphoric, outlandish, uninhibited manner and can end up killing themselves. Madcap cannot control how the person acts. This can lead to extreme peril if the affected person decides to, for example, tap dance up the on-ramp of an interstate. The duration of the state seems to be approximately 15-30 minutes, though Madcap risks making a person "pleasantly loony" permanently if he makes additional eye contact with them. Most of Madcap's adversaries at first mistakenly believe the cause of this madness to be the bubble-gun itself."
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all I do is fit a Pingpong ball painted black over Reeds head - can remove it without killing Reed
Thats where the magic of photoshop comes in MWHUHAHAHAHAH
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Dedi
Thank you
What I'd love for to see is Punisher wrestling the powercue off 8-ball and "potting" his head off with it
poetic justice
Hell I'm off to make 8-Ball and do the comicstrip of his untimely end at franks hands
I got a spare headless reed richards kicking about
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A supervillian with an eightball for a head and a rocket powered "power cue"- can't get that much weirder
Crappy crappy crappy
Belongs as a joke villain in The Tick than the Marvel universe in my opinion
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Dedi
What about the bird-guy in new X men? No powers, just butt-ugly!!
As for action figures, I think lady Deathstrike is a wierd figure, especially to someone who has never seen her in the books.
From Wiki:
"Madcap's story begins with him as a deeply religious young man headed to a picnic with his church community. On the way, their bus collides with a tanker truck full of Compound X07, an experimental nerve agent developed by A.I.M.. Everyone aboard the bus, including his parents and sister, dies. Only the young man survives. He is taken to a nearby hospital. When he awakes and discovers all other passengers on the bus had been killed the deeply religious man's mind shatters. His belief in a rational universe is swept away
Exiting the hospital, he attempts to commit suicide by throwing himself in front of moving traffic. He is of course injured but the wounds heal almost instantly. This pushes him further over the edge.
After purchasing a toy soap bubble pistol from a dime store and donning a garish clown costume, the newly-christened Madcap set out to convince others that life is entirely without reason."
His powers:
"The first is his fantastic rate of regeneration and recovery: he heals from any physical injury instantly, and even if he sustains enough damage to kill him (such as being flattened or having his neck snapped), or destroy him (such as being incinerated), he will immediatelyresurrect. Somehow linked to this is a total inability to perceive pain.
Madcap's second power is a specialized form of insanity-inducement that immediately affects those he makes eye contact with. It is for this reason that he wears his garish purple-and-yellow costume and uses a distracting bubble-gun -- to draw the attention of others towards him, so they can meet his gaze. People affected by his power act in a euphoric, outlandish, uninhibited manner and can end up killing themselves. Madcap cannot control how the person acts. This can lead to extreme peril if the affected person decides to, for example, tap dance up the on-ramp of an interstate. The duration of the state seems to be approximately 15-30 minutes, though Madcap risks making a person "pleasantly loony" permanently if he makes additional eye contact with them. Most of Madcap's adversaries at first mistakenly believe the cause of this madness to be the bubble-gun itself."
define weird?????