Curtis Connors (Earth-981)

Cross-Species Genetics Research
One of Oscorp's leading scientific minds, He is an expert in biology and is happily married to Margaret Connors. Connors also has a son Billy Connors. Dr. Connors lost his arm in a car accident, and every since then, he dedicated himself to finding a means of restoring lost limbs. Dr. Curtis Connors worked with Richard Parker to engineer a revolutionary regeneration serum to help re-grow limbs and human tissue from cross-species genetics. Richard would mysteriously perish, taking with him much of his scientific genius Connors was left unable to finish his work, effectively dooming his chances of regrowing his missing right arm. Over a decade later, Connors and Norman Osborn (Earth-981) continued on cross-species research Richard Parker started by first creating hybrid animals including multi-species spider hybrids. He also wrote a book about the possible medical breakthroughs from cross-species genetics. During this time he met Richard Parker's son Peter who was on a field trip at Oscorp. Unaware to Connors, Peter was bitten by one of the expiremental Spiders that escaped, gifting him extraordinary powers and become the crime fighter known as Spider-Man.

Connors is still working on the project at Oscorp however but without major breakthroughs unfortunately and his sponsors were on the verge of cutting his funding.Under time constraints, Connors is unable to complete the project, but after allowing Peter to work on the project with him at Oscorp, Peter supplies a missing algorithm, leading to the successful development of a serum based on lizard DNA.

Becoming the Lizard
Going against his wife's wishes, Curt decided to test out his latest project, a serum that can regrow missing limbs based on reptile genetics, on himself. Though agonizing, the serum worked and Connors's missing limb regenerated. Ecstatic, Connors immediately told his findings to his superior Dr. Van Adder, but failed to finish as her found out the serum was corrupting his genetics.

Dr. Van Adder decides to fast-track human testing. But Connors pleads with him to wait until they know the full side affects, but Adder didn't take it likely and fires him. Adder decides to test the serum at the city's largest veterans' hospital by tomorrow. Distrout, Connors grabs his things and left the lab, but while trying to catch a cab home, Connors decides to take his anger at a robber who was seen robbing a bank nearby, this almost got him killed if it wasn't for Spider-Man that saved his life. While being interviewed by police detectives of the incident, Peter shows up to return Connors his laptop that he borrowed, but Connors only tells him to go home as he orders a taxi driver to drive him home, but not before Connors notices his body mutating into a reptilian form. Not soon after, Connors is later fully transformed into the Lizard. As the Lizard, he can't talk, yet he was also acts purely on animalistic instincts. The Lizard is extremely aggressive, shown attacking with little or no provocation. He tracks the robber's scent to the NYPD precinct and sneaks in to try to kill him for attacking Connors earlier. Spider-Man fails to stop the lizard and escapes the scene and the robber was found dead. Seeking refuge in the sewers, he became an urban legend, dubbed "The Lizard" by the press.

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