William Foster (Earth-61615)

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 * Image = Bill_Foster_Earth-61615.jpg
 * ImageSize = 250px
 * RealName = William Barrett Foster
 * CurrentAlias = Bill Foster
 * Aliases = Goliath, Black Goliath, Dr. Foster, Giant-Man, Rockwell Dodsworth, High-Pockets
 * Identity = Public
 * AlienRace = Humans
 * Alignment = Good
 * Affiliation = Avengers (honorary member and recurring associate), formerly Hank Pym and Tony Stark, Stark Industries (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D.: Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. (formerly), Reserves (formerly)
 * Relatives = Unnamed parents, Unnamed sister, Tom Foster (nephew)
 * Alignment = Good
 * Universe = Earth-61615
 * BaseOfOperations = New York City, New York; formerly Los Angeles, California
 * Gender = Male
 * Eyes = Brown
 * Hair = Black
 * Citizenship = American
 * MaritalStatus = Single
 * Occupation = Adventurer, biochemist, inventor, research scientist, adventurer; former soldier
 * Height = 6'0"
 * Height2 = (Variable)
 * Weight = 235 lbs
 * Weight2 = (Variable)
 * Education = Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Caltech, D.Sc.
 * Origin = Human mutated by Pym Particles
 * PlaceOfBirth = East Nowhere, Nebraska
 * First                  = Modern Comics: Ant-Man Vol 1 22
 * Quote                   = No more doubts, no more lies... I'm facing all of this into one, big action, tonight! But you know what? This won't be as just one more in a never-ending string of being a costumed giant. It'll be as my own man!
 * Speaker                 = Bill Foster
 * HistoryText =

Early Years
William Barrett Foster was born in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles, California and spent his childhood there. Growing up, he was able to escape the ghetto due to his natural intelligence and encouragement of those around him. He attended the California Technical Institute and then enlisted in the military for a few years. Dr. Foster found work as a biochemist in the Plans and Research Division for Stark Industries' Baltimore factory. He was hired to be the lab assistant of Dr. Hank Pym, the first founder of the Giant-Man, and sometimes Pym's fiancée (at the time) Janet van Dyne, the heroine known as the Wasp, when an unstable growing serum trapped Pym at a height of ten feet, a condition that he endured for a couple of days. Dr. Foster finally helped him find a cure to change his size back to normal.

Later on, the two would continuously work, until they eventually both started going their separate ways, where Hank was granted into working at a classified, secret agency organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D., while Bill was granted an offer into working at a subsidiary S.H.I.E.L.D. branch known as Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., program that serves to keep all objects of mysterious origin or unexplained power that the United States authorities have accumulated over the years, in which every precaution was made to keep the objects safe. Having memorized the formula to "Pym Particles" in his long-time work with Pym, he synthesized it in the hopes of eliminating its harmful side effects. Eventually, when he tested it on himself, he found that it had indeed given him the ability to grow in size like his former employer and that he had successfully duplicated Pym's powers.

Now having to gain the same powers and abilities his former employer and old friend had, Bill decided to keep all the blueprints and formulas related to the Pym Particles in secret, as Pym and Foster had agreed upon before their separation as partners in Pym's laboratory. Despite their secret pact in keeping the particles, Bill revealed his recently-gained shrinking and growing powers and abilities for good, to his good friend and the superior of both Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. and S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, although Foster didn't exactly tell him where or how he got those superhuman abilities, since neither did Foster nor Pym trusted Fury at the time.

Superhuman Forces of America
Eventually, this revelation also led to Fury's suspicion to where Foster exactly gained his powers, believing that simply mutation or even experimentation-gone-wrong isn't the true answer to it. As a result of this notion, Fury recruited Bill into Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.'s classified mission by having him joined its secret tactical superhuman armed forces known as the Reserves, in order to have his chance into having his own office and laboratory investigated while he was away during a special mission.

During Foster's mission along with the rest of the Reserves, he was given and provided a enhanced tactical suit by the organization, causing for him to become the very second individual to take on the mantle of the Goliath, though some of his would ridiculed his into the Black Goliath, to which Bill would find surprisingly hilarious, instead of having the joke extremely offend him.

Bill granted his superior's mission, however, in order to make sure every single secret that he have kept would stay hidden, he planted his entire office, his laboratory, and his secret vault with his non-passable security system. But little did Bill knew, Fury, with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most skilled engineers and hackers, he manages to surpass all those security undetected, proving how much powerful S.H.I.E.L.D. could always be. However, despite their success on, they weren't able to bypass the series of codes to his highly-secured, secret vault.

Reunion with the Pyms
To be added.

The Ghost of the Past
To be added.

Ultimate War
During the events of Ultimate War Foster donned the identity of Goliath, once again since their last heist against the super-villain, Ghost, along with a new specialized outfit that he recently developed and upgraded, with the help of the Pyms. During the growing threats of the invading Movement Alliance, Goliath and the rest of the Reserves joined and helped the European Defense Initiative into fending off the continuous forces throughout the entirety of Europe against the forces of the Movement from ever entering the most-populated countries and cities of the continent, doing their very best to keep the cities safe by letting the wreak and havoc settle far away from the populated landscape, as far as possible.

Civil War
When the U.S. Government finally passed the Superhuman Registration Act that required all super humans to disclose their true identity, Foster worked with Captain America and his Secret Avengers. It was their goal to liberate those that had been taken into custody for refusing to register. When the Secret Avengers and the rest of the Anti-Registration Group received new identities, Goliath subsequently took the alias of Rockwell Dodsworth.

In an intense battle against Iron Man, Reed Richards, and other supporters of the Registration Act, Foster was almost killed by Ragnarok, a cyborg clone of Thor, the Asgardian God of Thunder. Although Bill was able to dodge the powerful blasts of the raging deity by the very second, Ragnarok's unstoppable blast was able to accidentally kill a few more heroes and villains, mostly from the anti-Registration Group, in the process during the battle, leaving both sides in shock and terror, including Bill himself.

Only a day after since the tragedy had occurred, a massive funeral was held for all those heroes and villains who have perished during the incident, with heroes, villains, and even civilians from both sides in attendance. The death of those individuals drastically affected the balance of forces in the war, leading several previously pro-Registration or neutral figures to change sides, most notably the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, the Black Panther, Storm, and Spider-Man, as well as many others, questioning Iron Man's cause.

However, while he stricken with guilt and regret, Bill eventually voluntarily surrenders himself up to the authorities, believing that he truly deserved it, deserved to pay the ultimate price since he was the only one during the battle who was able to save those individuals from getting killed by Ragnarok, and yet he failed into doing so. According to Bill, not surrendering towards the authorities, due to his actions, would only worsen the situation even more if he doesn't comply towards them sooner.

Paying the Price
This act of Foster also manages to backfire the balance of both factions once more, such as his actions leading the Young Avengers breaking into two separate factions, with Iron Lad's faction finally joining the "pro-regs," while Patriot's faction remained with Captain America and the "anti-regs."

However, after hearing that the pro-Registration was using Bill's act of surrender as an advantage in trapping the anti-registration Group, Bill heroically used his full power, one last time, against the pro-Registration forces and the authorities, in order to stop the authorities from ever apprehending and capturing the rest of the anti-Registration Group and help them escape their secret headquarters. After sacrificing his own heroic career for the survival of the entire anti-Registration Group until the very end of the war, Bill was eventually imprisoned at the Raft for the next of his twenty years of life, for his lawless but not immoral actions.

While being imprisoned for helping the Secret Avengers by the last second, Bill had no regrets for any of it whatsoever, now that the anti-Registration Group were successful into influencing the pro-Registration Act into signing a mutual peaceful treaty after having able to finally defeating and apprehending the true mastermind of the Superhuman Civil War, Helmut Zemo, ending the conflict and eventually, the Superhuman Registration Act, after the events of the Secret Invasion, once and for all.

Size Manipulation: Due to his infusion with Pym Particles, Goliath possesses the ability to increase his size, to a maximum safe limit of approximately 25 feet in height. Persons infused with the particles who are able to increase their sizes do so by means of acquirement of mass from an unknown, presumably extra-dimensional, source and expand their own molecular structures at the same time; as they are so expanding their molecular structures, they add this mass to them. William Foster himself generally attained a stature of 15 feet for the majority of his crime-fighting activities. At 15 feet, which is 2.5 times his normal height of 6 feet, Foster's weight increased by a factor of 15.625, the cube of the factor of 2.5, from his normal weight of 200 pounds to a weight at 15 feet of 3125 pounds. It is not known precisely how such persons, including William Foster himself, determine the specific sizes, larger than their normal ones, they wish to become. In William Foster's own case, it presumably involved biofeedback, an acute awareness of his bodily conditions. For some such Pym Particle infuses as William Foster, there appear to be no limits on how long they can remain in their expanded forms. The longest period of time Foster himself ever attempted was three weeks.
 * Powers =
 * Size Enhancement
 * Enhanced Durability
 * Size Reduction
 * Size Addition
 * Super-Human Strength Based On Increased Size
 * Mutated by Pym Particles


 * Abilities =
 * Genius-Level Intelligence
 * Trained Combatant
 * Trilingual


 * Strength               = Class 15+ (Variable)
 * Weaknesses               =
 * After-Effects Of Size Changes


 * Equipment =
 * Ant-Man's Suit
 * Cybernetic Helmet
 * Toolbot
 * Avengers Identicard
 * Yellowjacket Suit
 * Cowl Communicator
 * Wasp Goggles
 * Transportation =
 * Ants
 * Rover Airship
 * Quinjet
 * Weapons =
 * The Stinger}}