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Tara Tolensky (mother; deceased);
Paige Guthrie (ex-girlfriend),
Danielle Guthrie (daughter);
Maria Patilio (wife),
Noel Toynbee (son);
Eugene Patilio (nephew)
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History
Yeah... Just keep underestimating me, sh*thead... You know, I can just let Victor handle you, chicken... But really I'm bored, so I'd rather just deal with you instead, in the most satisfying way I've always done to silly softies like you... Snapping their necks with my tongue, without breaking a sweat...
- — Toad
- — Toad
Early Years
Mortimer "Morty" Toynbee (born late 1986) was originally a mysterious but charming and comedic English mutant who possessed superhuman levels of leaping capabilities, in addition to noticeably enhanced acrobatic speed, agility, dexterity, reflexes, coordination, balance, and a prehensile thirteen foot long tongue with the ability to release an acidic mucus that hardens almost instantly. Because of his unusual mutant powers and abilities, he was eventually dubbed by his closest allies and greatest enemies by the appropriate moniker of the Toad.
Despite his background history remaining mostly a running mystery to the general public but him and his closest teammates besides being a janitor in a fast food chain before his mutation, and subsequently experienced extreme prejudice in his neighborhood for resembling an humanoid amphibian during his worst of mutations. Morty eventually ran away from the cruelness of his hometown and inadvertently built up a name of infamy for himself to the public as one of the youngest founding members of the mutant supremacist Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants, having joined the group around the early 2000s when he was still in his late adolescence. In the following several years of his life as a truehearted follower of Magneto who often got along with his teammates due to his jester-esque personality, Toad dedicated his service committing acts of terrorism against the abusive clutches from the rogue side of humanity, especially when the heroic X-Men's existence was finally known to the community, the two groups repeatedly came into conflict with one another. Though he was defeated and arrested multiple times, Toad managed to always escape custody along with his teammates.
Ultimate War
After a few years of being an extreme mutant terrorist, Morty eventually earned Magneto's full trust and later became one of his so-called "loyalists" along with several others, which also earned him a higher rank as one of his strongest forces within the Brotherhood. However, their loyalty would be put to the test after a new member was accepted by Magneto to join the Brotherhood, revealing to be the "mutant" scientist Nathan Essex, who was otherwise known as Mister Sinister.
Despite his controversies regarding if he was really a mutant or if he was actually just a mutate and a few of Magneto's loyalists believing that accepting Sinister would be a terrible and horrendous choice for the Brotherhood's future, Essex would later efficiently prove himself to be a worthy member of the mutant supremacy, with Magneto even believing that he was worthier and more useful than most of his loyalists, offending them in the process, including Morty himself. In an attempt to convince Toad of Essex's "true" intentions for the Brotherhood, the latter successfully developed a serum that was able to reverse the mutation on Morty's skin which turned it into green in the first place, reverting it back to normal.
Due to Mister Sinister's eventual betrayal against Magneto, the Brotherhood inevitably broke into two factions, Magneto's and Sinister's side. Alongside Juggernaut, Mystique, Sabretooth, Blob and the remaining members of Magneto's side, Magneto and his original faction later allied themselves with the Ultimates and the rest of the heroes to end Sinister's reign of chaos. But despite their victory in helping the defeat of Sinister, the Brotherhood never manage to reform its state on Genosha, causing for them to have a momentary hiatus and split apart throughout the rest of different parts of the world, remaining to be hidden from the authorities, who began their search on mutant terrorists after the events of the great superhuman war.
Momentary Internment
Weeks since the end of Ultimate War, Morty was one of the unfortunate participants who were captured by the authorities, especially with Toad's infamous status as a dangerous terrorist, despite his efforts to actually end the war alongside Magneto's faction, rather than to win it with the far more diabolical Movement Alliance. Due to his previous and recent crimes as a member of the Brotherhood of Supremacy, Morty was imprisoned at the Raft along with some of his fellow teammates, as a legal response in paying for the mutant terrorists' countless crimes.
During the later days of the Superhuman Registration Act that would subsequently cause the chaotic conflict known as Civil War, Morty and his fellow teammates were eventually broken out of the maximum facility by his own leader, Magneto himself, who confided in the assistance of his closest loyalists. Toad and the reformed Brotherhood came to help out their fellow helpless mutant fugitives and save them from the abusive and strict forces of the pro-registration led by Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. under the directorship of Maria Hill. However, instead of deciding to fight with Magneto against the authorities, Toad was insisted and obligated to help the others get them into safety by getting them to the recently-abandoned island of Genosha and give them momentary settlement in the meantime.
The Sentinels Uprising
In the late aftermath of the Phoenix Prophecy, followed the last known man-made assault that would have almost decimated the last hope of mutantkind's ultimate survival. During the first weeks of the newly-elected President of the United States, Larry Trask (son of the late Bolivar Trask), and the morally-corrupt senator Mojo Adams, had publicly announced the secretly corrupt and two-faced administration's first weapon-based project of the restored Trask Industries since its dismantlement in 1985: the Sentinel: Mark X Program, also known as the Nimrod Sentinels. According to the anti-mutant organization themselves and the anti-mutant president, the new program solemnly promised a definitive containment of the growing mutant threat, generalizing both those the "heroic mutants" and real threats such as the waning numbers of existence of mutant terrorists.
As a result of these actions caused mainly because of a powerful figure's undying hatred and aggression towards the mutant kind, the marginalized race was once again have to face the next largest threat on their own as both the heroic and evil forces of the mutant race were forced to assemble and at the same time, hide within the remote island of Magneto's Citadel, Genosha, along with other remote locations, in the meantime. Morty and the surviving members of the Brotherhood, reforming into the smaller group once known as the Morlocks, were willingly present in the assistance of rescuing lost and helpless mutants and human supporters across the United States and several parts across Western Europe, with the help of telepath Emma Frost who was amplified through the use of the Cerebra, and their access of fast transportation through Blink's portals.
Unfortunately, during Morty and his small team's mobile rescue mission in California, an apparently destroyed Sentinel was able to attach a chip-sized tracker into most of the team before it was fully deactivated, including himself. As they would immediately return back to the island of Genosha, Morty was too late to find out that the trackers secretly attached to them gave way for another wave of Nimrod Sentinels the ultimate advantage to infiltrate the island full of mutant refugees and wreak havoc on their peaceful haven. When they realize that there was no escape for some of them, Morty didn't hesitate to call his beloved wife, Maria Patilio, as the the two had bid farewell to each other, despite Patilio still feeling heartbroken and in denial that it was too late for Morty to make it out alive.
As he and his teammates witnessed the destructive arrival of the mutant killing machines within and outside the Citadel in horror, Toad along with teammates Lorelei, Callisto, Tactile, and Fixer, had courageously offered the remainder of their lives in order to give most the mutant refugees enough time to successfully escape the island through several Blackbird aircrafts by fighting the Sentinels, despite being outnumbered and unmatched by the latter. Three days since the Sentinels' assault on Genosha have passed, which subsequently led into the gradual destruction of the island's civilization, Callisto was later revealed to have been the only known survivor of the attack from the Morlocks, sadly confirming Morty's demise along with the rest of their teammates. Nevertheless, Toad and his team died as heroes to mutantkind.
Toad's good friend and mentee, Blink, wanted to rescue Toad and his team on Genosha only to be pushed away by her teammates the last minute, reluctantly encouraged not to get near the Sentinels as the newly-upgraded Nimrods could've her replicate her powers on contact and kill her. Morty Toynbee is survived by his daughter Danielle, whom he unexpectedly made with his ex-girlfriend Paige Guthrie around 2021 but ended up meeting and caring for in the later years of his life, alongside Morty's younger son with his wife Maria, named Noel, who was born in early 2025. Because of Larry Trask's actions caused because of weaponizing the hatred and aggression towards mutants through the Nimrod Sentinel Program, Toad's fellow brethren and sistren whom he had rescued were forced to band together and hide from the Sentinels until eventually, victory was achieved against Trask's tyrannical and oppressive administration in that same week by putting an end to the unjustified persecution of mutants and restoring their egalitarian and peaceful coexistence with humanity.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Homo Superior Physiology: Toad is a mutant who has displayed and possesses almost all the natural traits and abilities of a toad or frog, most notably his superhuman jumping or leaping abilities and sticky, acidic saliva among two of as his primary mutations. More of his toad-like mutant powers include the following:
- Superhuman Leaping
- Flexible Bone Structure
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Superhuman Durability
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Ultraviolet/Infrared Vision
- Prehensile Tongue
- Flaming Tongue (secondary mutation)
- Pheromone Secretion
- Adhesive Saliva
- Wallcrawling
- Acidic Saliva Generation
- Flammable Bile Projection (secondary mutation)
- Paralytic Resin
- Superhuman Respiratory System
- Amphibian Control
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Abilities
- Experienced Combatant
- Expert Machinist
Strength level
Class 13+
Weaknesses
- Near-Sightedness
- Light Sensitivity
- Reliance to Light-Filtering Goggles
- Lack of Self-Confidence (formerly)
- Cowardice (formerly)
- Cowardice (formerly)
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Light-Filtering Goggles
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: X-Men Vol 2 29
Trivia
- Morty's wife, Maria Patilio, is the aunt of Eugene Patilio, who was known a crimefighting vigilante by the codenames of Leap-Frog and Frog-Man. Ever since meeting the Patilio Family, Morty found it amusing that one of his nephews was a frog-teamed superhero, as he and Eugene had even fought once out of misunderstanding that Morty was still a mutant terrorist.
See Also
- Appearances of Mortimer Toynbee (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Mortimer Toynbee (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Mortimer Toynbee (Earth-61615)
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Links and References
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