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(sister; estranged),
Walter Carpenter
(brother; deceased),
Beth Carpenter
(sister-in-law),
Marvin Flumm
(maternal nephew),
Karima Shapandar
(creation, "daughter"),
Julia Carpenter
(creation, "daughter")
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History
Long have I waited for this day. The day Hydra is reborn once more... I have once dreamt and long for this possibility, but now, it's closer to reality than ever before... I can be Hydra's Supreme...
- — Otto Vermis
- — Otto Vermis
Early Years
Otto Vermis was born around the late 1970s to a wealthy and publicly-authoritative family who came from a lineage of secret Hydra loyalists, particularly the ones who worshiped the deity-like Inhuman Hive along with following the well-preserved scientific principles and philosophical teachings of a being known as the High Evolutionary, though they were also flexible enough to abide by the modern change that was revolutionized by the Red Skull during World War II. Exclusively raised, taught, and strictly trained in a family living under the guidance of its oath and ideologies, Vermis eventually became the area commander of a splinter faction of Hydra secretly operating in various locations across Europe after it has resurfaced thanks to the grand salvation that was brought by Arnim Zola's act of organizational infiltrations mostly in western civilization. In the following decades, Otto and his small yet efficient faction have heavily participated in Hydra's orchestrate crises and worldwide; establishing a clandestine network of operatives engaged in political engineering and scientific research, mainly in western Europe.
Hail Hydra
Initially remembered as a nobody and a "valueless, disposable sheep" within the ranks of Hydra by his relatives, Otto was able to prove them wrong by slowly building himself a respectable name as the scientist who ran and sanctioned a training program which involved "recruiting" orphaned young children whose families in Europe were kept under Hydra's watchlist, including Jessica Drew, into being their future agents of Hydra through the several effective brainwashing methods invented by Hydra since it survived World War II. Unfortunately, when Drew had reached her early adult years, she had fully regained most of her memories and reformed thanks to the help of the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man who helped and encourage her to fight back and build her own path as the superhero vigilante Spider-Woman.
However, other than this morbid achievement, the intellectually-gifted Vermis was also known for his obsession in genetics, especially cloning as he believes that his creations, his subservient "children of God," would take over Hydra in due time once it falls at the hands of their enemies. Because of his reputable and improving progress experimenting both on Hydra agents and his clones who were powered with various varieties of the Super-Soldier Serum, Otto himself believed he would become Hydra Supreme just like what the Red Skull once was, though he was merely living a saddening delusion at the time knowing the fact that he was far from becoming a head of Hydra other than the very base that he was designated to rule from the beginning, at least not until he gets the opportunity to change his limiting fate by the 2010s, during the Hydra Uprising when he had to deal with the European Defense Initiative, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s European counterpart.
Fatal Desperation
Otto reluctantly worked with Mister Sinister in hopes of restoring Hydra's genetic army, an effective yet risky partnership that would unfortunately lead to the former's own demise
Despite their decades worth of preparation in the shadows, Hydra nevertheless received fatal irreversible blows from the events of Hydra Uprising and the subsequent the rise of the Ultimates during the Movement Alliance, thus leaving the society itself vulnerable. Since their fragmentation in 2016 until the mid-2020s, the secret council of the serpents, Hydra's remaining leaders which Otto was part of, barely survived their devastating defeat after having allied themselves with corrupt and powerful figures, with one notable individual being the diabolical Mister Sinister, Nathaniel Essex himself, who shared the same hateful and prejudicial sentiments against the consistent rise of superhuman effect and influence across the globe. As their allies, began to fund the moment they supported their new cause, Otto used the shares his faction had received to effectively jumpstart his experimentations on superhumans while collaborating with Sinister in the process, forming their science division, under the indirect assistance of other scientists such as Miles Warren and Cecilia Reyes.
Through the possession of advanced technology, the team made use of both Hydra and Sinister's collection of tissue samples over the years, they were able to produce different varieties of sentient clones whom Otto raised them under Hydra's modernized indoctrination, as if they were his own children yet also trained them to form a battalion of super soldiers, with Otto hoping it would garner him enough power and authority to become Hydra's Supreme leader since the Red Skull's disappearance. The eldest among his creations were Karima Shapandar, who was a clone of the late mutant Hard-Drive. On the other hand, Otto was also astonished by the youngest mutated female clone he had created, whose DNA was derived from his former protégé Spider-Woman although her powers were more akin to Spider-Man as the clone could generate organic webbing, unlike the hero. Otto generously handed the young girl onto his brother's small family and was named Julia, though he merely accepted Walter's request since his true intentions were included in one of his new experiments of comparing the effects of nature and nurture.
Despite their multiple successes, Otto still did not fully trust Sinister and only recruited him because he was desperate for the helping hand of the geneticist, rendering him to hide him the secret of the godly being that he and his family had praised in the past, the hyperintelligent High Evolutionary. Otto had meticulously done almost every task necessary to keep Sinister from knowing its existence, but the latter failed to realize his partner was smarter and didn't last a day until Essex had discover the Evolutionary's puzzle device, which Otto had failed to hide. Otto even offered his help in solving the puzzle to make himself look convincing of his cluelessness, only to receive a fatal rifle shot to the chest when Sinister revealed all along on how Otto truly saw him since the beginning of their partnership. Otto begged that he would keep on helping Essex if he spared him, but Essex no longer wanted to risk any betrayal in his ulterior motive and proceeded to feed Otto to their failed clones, with one resembling an abhorrently disfigured and monstrous-looking Spider-Woman. A frightened Otto was restlessly mauled in agony by his own experiments until there was nothing left for him but blood and a few bones. In Otto Vermis' death, Sinister effectively took authority and possession on most of their creations, though some of them were able to rebel against him thanks to their given sentience. Those who challenged Sinister either ended up getting killed or escaped their facilities and went in hiding as they cope with the internal conflict of existential crisis now that they're out in the open of the real world.
Powers and Abilities
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Abilities
- Gifted Intelligence
- Gifted Geneticist
- Gifted Inventor
- Expert Manipulator
- Expert Combatant
- Weapons Proficiency
Strength level
Class 8
Weaknesses
- Mental Instability
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Various conventional equipment
- Recreated versions of the Super-Soldier Serum
- Unstable Inhuman Serum
- Various Tesseract-powered equipment
Transportation:
- Hydra Terror-Carrier
- Several Hydra jets
Weapons:
- Various conventional firearms
- Various invented firearms
Notes
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- ↑ Modern Comics: Spider-Woman Vol 1 1
Trivia
- His scar over his left eye was formed after trying to fight a fully trained Jessica Drew, who vengefully scratched him with a venom blast-powered claws in order to escape from him and the rest of Hydra's clutches. The two would later reunite during Ultimate War, wherein Otto experienced another defeat from a grown-up Jessica, now a S.H.I.E.L.D. and going by the codename of Spider-Woman.
See Also
- Appearances of Otto Vermis (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Otto Vermis (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Otto Vermis (Earth-61615)
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