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Real Name: MacDonald “Mac” Gargan
Occupation: Former private detective, now professional criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with a criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Member of the Masters of Evil Ill, former partner of Mr. Hyde
Known Powers:
Climbing: Gargan can climb any wall he can get a grip on with Excellent ability.
Body Armor: Gargan’s suit provides him with Excellent protection against physical damage and Remarkable protection against electrical attacks.
Cybernetic Tail: The Scorpion’s tail is made of Incredible strength material and can do Amazing Blunt damage. He can coil it like a spring to propel him up to 3 stories up or 2 areas away. He cannot grapple with it, but it is equipped with a plasma projector which can fire a bolt that does Remarkable Energy damage up to 10 areas away.
Talents:
Once a private detective, Gargan is out of practice and gains no benefits for using Detective/Espionage skills.
Contacts:
The Scorpion was a onetime partner of Mr. Hyde, but the two have not been together for several years. Gargan has a number of criminal contacts in the New York underworld.
Role-Playing Notes:
Gargan is not a particularly sophisticated criminal, preferring to pick an opponent and bludgeon him. He considers Spider-Man his main opponent and the two have fought on many occasions. Gargan also hates Jonah Jameson, the man who arranged for him to receive his powers. His plans often include gaining revenge against Jameson.
History:
MacDonald Gargan, a private investigator, was hired by Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson to follow Peter Parker in order to find out how Parker managed to photograph Spider-Man. While Gargan was on the case, a press release came to the attention of Jameson about a scientist named Dr. Farley Stillwell, who had developed a means of mutagenically endowing animals with various uncharacteristic features. At the time of the press release, Stillwell’s experiments had given a rat gills and a fish lungs. Jameson called in Gargan and arranged for them to meet with Stillwell. He offered Stillwell $10,000 to develop a way to give a person superhuman abilities that could defeat Spider-Man, and also offered $10,000 to Gargan to undergo whatever treatments would be involved. Stillwell needed the money to further his research, so he accepted Jameson’s offer. Gargan, intrigued, also accepted.
Stillwell put Gargan through a battery of chemical and radiological treatments to grant the detective superhuman powers. Equipped with a special costume and a cybernetically controlled mechanical tail designed by the Tinkerer, the Scorpion sought battle with Spider-Man. While they fought, Stillwell observed violent psychotic behavior in the test animals upon whom he performed his experiments. He concluded that Gargan would lose his ability to distinguish right from wrong. Stillwell tried to administer an experimental antidote to Gargan, but died in the attempt. Gargan went on a crime spree, but was defeated by SpiderMan. The Scorpion was again defeated by Spider-Man in another encounter months later.
After being paroled, the Scorpion was contacted by an unnamed spy ring who hired him to follow SHIELD agent Sharon Carter. He was beaten in combat by Captain America and taken into SHIELD custody, where the android assassin known as Mister Kline somehow acquired him and Mister Hyde. Kline made android duplicates of the Scorpion and Mister Hyde which it dispatched against Daredevil. Following Mister Kline’s defeat, the Scorpion and Hyde escaped imprisonment. Under the assumption that it was SHIELD that had held them all this time, the two launched a campaign of terror against SHIELD agents. They were finally stopped by Captain America and the Falcon.
Eventually escaping prison, the Scorpion decided to get revenge on J. Jonah Jameson, who was responsible for his transformation into the Scorpion and his subsequent humiliation. Twice he attacked Jameson but was beaten off first by the original Ms. Marvel and then by SpiderMan. During this time, the Scorpion, his sanity deteriorating, began to believe that he could not remove his costume. After his defeat at SpiderMan’s hands, he learned otherwise when police authorities removed it. Feigning mental incompetence to get more lenient treatment, he was placed in a mental institution rather than prison. Escaping, he once again tried to get revenge on Jameson, but was thwarted by Captain America and Spider-Man.
Scorpion was freed from prison by agents of Egghead, who wanted him as part of his new Masters of Evil. The Scorpion’s participation in the group was cut short by the Avengers, however, and he was returned to prison.
Most recently the Scorpion once again escaped and tried to get revenge upon J. Jonah Jameson by kidnapping his son John and bride-to-be Maria Madison. Spider-Man once more defended Jameson, rescued his loved ones, and defeated the Scorpion. The Scorpion is currently in police custody.