History
During his research into what would ultimately become the super-soldier serum, Dr. Abraham Erskine outlined a special Brazilian revolutionary diet and isometric exercise regime that he theorized would create a super-soldier. However, because the diet and regime required a lifetime of adherence in order to produce the desired results, this research was rejected by the US government, and when Erskine was assassinated, it was passed down through his family, finally ending up in the hands of his grandson, Brian Van Patrick. When his sons Michael and Ian were born, Van Patrick decided to test out the diet and the exercise regime on his boys to see if his grandfather's theories were right. As it happened, the theories were right, and within twenty years, Michael and Ian Van Patrick became the greatest student athletes in the country, earning scholarships to the University of Kentucky. However, when reporters discovered that Ian and Michael were the great-grandsons of the man who created Captain America, they came under heavy scrutiny. Though the testing all showed that their abilities were due to training, Michael and Ian lost their scholarships, and nearly lost every award they'd ever received.
Initiative
Brian had discovered that people over at Camp Hammond were interested in his boys becoming heroes. Ian was more interested in going than Michael, but he was convinced. So they both pressured their dad into allowing them to go to Camp Hammond. He gave them his approval and they were off.
As apart of Team Red.
At Camp Hammond, he and Ian broke the course record for non-speedsters, impressing most of the other trainees and SHIELD members. They were immediately put on a Team Red. After lasting though more training, Michael, Ian, and a girl named Felicity were dubbed the Scarlet Spiders.
It was on Team Red where Michael began a romantic relationship with Felicity. Ian also found love and her name was Abigail Boylen. An incident occurred during a training exercise, where Armory's Tactigon went out of control. Team Red was sent in to contain the situation. Michael saw a beam from the Tactigon heading towards Abigail and he tried to protect her.
MVP’s failed attempt to save Abigail.
He was to late, by the time he had Abigail, she was already dead. Ian came over and pushed him out of the way. Ian blamed himself for Abigail's death and fell into a deep depression.
Two nights afterwards, Michael couldn't sleep because of the reoccurring nightmare of Abby's death. So he got out of bed and walked over to where she had died. It was here that he saw his brother's suicide note. Michael was worried and searched the camp for Ian. Then he saw a beam from the Tactigon shoot right past him. Michael ran to the armory and saw his brother fleeing. Michael tackled Ian and punched him in the face. Ian explained the situation and said how sorry he was. Suddenly the armory exploded and someone that looked liked the brothers emerged wearing the Tactigon.
The man fired a beam from the Tactigon at Michael and Ian. Michael pushed his brother and did a back flip to avoid the beam. Then he began to run towards the man. He narrowly missed being hit by another beam. Before he could get up, the man slammed the Tactigon onto Michael's head. Ian tore a pole out from the ground and threw it at the man. The pole impaled his chest, but he just stood there. Then the pole seemed to be absorbed into his body and his wound had healed.
Their fight had attracted the attention of other trainees and faculty. The man with the Tactigon turned his attention to the crowd at fired at them. Felicity was tending to Michael, when she saw her mentor being killed by the man. She tried to run after him, but Michael grabbed her ankle. She wouldn't be able to stop him, they needed a plan first. Felicity helped Michael to his feet and they regrouped with Ian.
The Scarlet Spiders were on their way to fight the man destroying Camp Hammond. They had formed a strategy to distract him, while the two others attacked. Michael sprayed webbing onto the man face and slammed him into the ground. Michael ripped a piece of concrete out of the ground and used it as a shield. While the man fired upon Michael, Ian and Felicity snuck up behind him and they began their assault. Ian tied up the Tactigon with webbing and Felicity attacked him at close range. The man was randomly firing the beam to try and hit them. To stop him, Felicity webbed his arm up to and held it back. Michael joined his team and did the same thing. They pulled together in an attempt to tear the Tactigon from his arm. When they did this the man fired a beam at the same time and it went through his head.
His body fell to the ground motionless. His death was an accident, as Team Red planned to only immobilize him. The entire camp was destroyed and everyone was dead. One aircraft survived the destruction and the Scarlet Spiders took it to find help. In the course of a few months later, Felicity had left the team and the cosmic being known as Proteus had taken the Earth as his own.[2]
Proteus Rises
The Scarlet Spiders' mission objective, given to them by the Avengers' leader Quasar, was to ensure that Proteus' allies were removed from the equation. This also included his own elite team, his Heralds. Over time the team, seemed to be succeeding in their task, but Proteus kept replenishing his troops with little effort. While Proteus was away dealing with the Avengers, the Scarlet Spiders set out on their own to capture two of Proteus' main bases. In order to achieve this quickly, the team foolishly split up, with the later being captured. Michael didn't know of his brother's fate, so he continued blindly into battle. He walked into a trap and was nearly beaten to death by two of the weaker Heralds of Proteus. The base was guarding an extraterrestrial life form that Proteus captured in its infancy to use to his advantage in the coming battles. One of the Heralds grabbed Michael by the throat and tossed him at the containment cell. He crashed through it and was engulfed by the symbiotic alien within. It bonded to him and they became Venom.
With his newfound abilities, Michael used the Venom symbiote to his advantage and easily defeated the two Heralds. Michael liked the way the symbiote made him feel and the power it brought to him. He entered the path on the way to his eventual downfall under the control of the Venom symbiote.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Symbiotic Costume: Michael possesses various superhuman attributes as a result of bonding with the Venom symbiote.
- Superhuman Strength: Van Patrick is superhumanly strong. He has demonstrated to being able to lift about 80 tons, this is not his true limit as his strength increases with his size and variable muscle mass.
- Superhuman Speed: Van Patrick can run and move at speeds superior to those of any normal human being.
- Superhuman Stamina: Van Patrick's musculature generates considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. He can physically exert himself at peak capacity for about 24 hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his bloodstream begins to impair him.
- Superhuman Agility: Van Patrick's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Van Patrick's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.
- Superhuman Durability: The tissue the symbiote is composed of renders Van Patrick's body much harder and more resistant to physical injury than the body of an ordinary human. Van Patrick can withstand high caliber bullets, great impact forces, powerful energy blasts, and falls from great heights without sustaining physical injury.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite this, however, it is possible to injure him. Van Patrick is able to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissues much faster and more extensively than an ordinary human. It isn't known, however, if he can fully regenerate severed limbs or missing internal organs. Van Patrick is also immune to the effects of all Earthly diseases and infections as long as he remains bonded with the symbiote.
- Wall Crawling: Van Patrick has the ability to cling to virtually any surface. He can rapidly crawl, walk, or run across even slickened surfaces.
- Webbing: Van Patrick can project a powerful, organic web-like substance. He typically uses this webbing to swing from building to building or as a means of immobilizing someone. The webbing is exceptionally strong, much more so for even the finest human athlete to break.
- Camouflage Capabilities: The symbiote possesses limited shape-shifting abilities in the sense that it can immediately change itself to appear as any type of clothing or garment that Van Patrick wishes.
- Constituent Matter Generation: Van Patrick can generate tentacle-like appendages from various parts of his body, which he often uses either in combat situations or to restrain someone.
- Poisonous Fangs: Van Patrick possesses a set of fangs that not only intimidates foes, but can deliver a powerful, venomous bite. This bite is capable of easily crippling humans as well as some super-humans.
Abilities
- Initiative Training: Michael received combat training as part of the Initiative. He excelled in the area of hand-to-hand combat.
Strength level
Venom is able to press lift up to 80 tons, this is not his true limit as his strength increases with his size and variable muscle mass.
Weaknesses
The Venom symbiote, like all others of its kind, is extremely vulnerable to heat and sonic based attacks. They can cause the symbiote physical pain and discomfort, where as "more powerful" attacks might be completely ineffective.
Paraphernalia
Equipment: Former Equipment: The Iron Spider Armor
Iron Spider Armor: Fabricated with advanced protein-scale nano-technology and exotic materials handling, LEP skin display, impact sensing armor integrated life support ant all-spectrum communications powered by a hybrid opto-electronic computer and using super conducting, high performance plastic throughout.
- Waldoes: The Iron Spider Armor possesses four mechanical spider-arms, or "waldoes," that can be used to see around corners (via cameras in the tips) and to manipulate objects indirectly.
- Liquid Metal Nano-Fiber: The armor is composed of a liquid metal nano-fiber and can more or less disappear when not needed. It responds to neuro-chemical impulses, as well as blend into a variety of backgrounds. He can give it the shapes and colors of different costumes for instance.
- Gliding: The armor incorporates mesh webbing that grants the suit mid-range gliding capabilities on wind currents, similar to the suit of Spider-Man 2099's.
- Bulletproof and Heatproof: The armor is both bulletproof and heatproof, thanks to it being composed of a heat-resistant Kevlar micro-fiber that can resist small-caliber bullets.
- Built-in Emergency Scanner: The armor possesses a built-in police, fire, and emergency scanner that allows the wearer to listen to police, fire, and/or emergency broadcasts through radio-waves.
- Audio/Visual Amplification: The armor possesses audio and visual amplification, enabling him to see in the infrared and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Carbon-Filtering System: The armor possesses a carbon-filtering system in the mouth area that enables the wearer to breathe in toxic environments by filtering out toxic particles in the air. It also grants the ability to breathe underwater.
- Short-Range GPS Microwave Communication System: The suit possesses a short-range GPS microwave communication system that enables Scarlet Spider to communicate with others over short distances.
- Costume Detachment: Part of the costume can detach it self from the wearer to cover an object too dangerous to touch, such as a radioactive asteroid.
- Adaptive Camouflage: Allows Scarlet Spider to appear to be wearing any costume, or to copy any nearby clothing.
- Web-Shooters: The twin devices worn on his wrists are able to shoot thin strands of a special "web fluid" at high pressure.
Transportation: Web-slinging
Weapons: The objects formed from the symbiote
Notes
Lost scholarship due to the fact his great-grandfather was the man who created the Super-Soldier Serum and the fact that MVP's powers might have been derived from said serum.
The original MVP[3] was created by Dan Slott, Stefano Caselli.
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Michael Van Patrick (Earth-826)
- Character Gallery: Michael Van Patrick (Earth-826)
- Quotations by Michael Van Patrick (Earth-826)
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