Curt Connors

Doctor Curtis "Curt" Connors is a scientist, the husband of Martha Connors, father to Bill Connors, and formerly the bioterrorist known as Lizard. Inspired to create a world of equals due to his lack of an arm, Connors worked with the endorsement of the United States Army, aiming to cure mankind of the disabilities and diseases they were plagued by. Their research eventually yielded successful results when Parker bred several genetically enhanced spiders with the ability to self-heal, but Parker would soon disappear before Connors or anyone at Oscorp could gain the knowledge of how he had achieved it. With the news of Parker's death, Connors would become embittered and rageful that his dreams had been shattered, never reaching out to Parker's surviving family as a result.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Dr. Curtis " Curt" Connors was born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida. Later in his life, he worked with the endorsement of the United States Army to regrow severed limbs. However, during the creation, his right arm was amputated.
==== Becoming Lizard ====
Eventually, Connors and his family moved to New York where Curt became a professor at Empire State University. Experimenting on himself with a serum he developed, Connors transformed into a mutant Lizard, a dangerously manic alter-ego. During the final confrontation against Spider-Man, the wall crawler managed to create a Lizard Formula to cure Connors to be with his family.
==== Assisting Spider-Man ====
A few months after being cured from his Lizard persona, he was called from Spider-Man to help stop the newly formed, Sinister Six. He returned to his family after the six ran away.
== Personality ==
One of ESU leading scientific minds, Curt Connors was a bright and ambitious scientist who attempted to engineer a revolutionary regeneration serum to help re-grow limbs and human tissue with a desire to help change mankind for the better. However, when pressured to come up with results, he elects to become the first human test subject. While initially it works; however, it quickly changes, and he mutates into a powerful man-lizard creature.
As Lizard, Connors is much more callous and ruthless than his normal form. Although he displays an animalistic cunning and viciousness, he still displays Connors' intelligence, albeit somewhat twisted, to create a new breed of beings to inherit the world. Connors has shown to be stoic to those around him sometimes, rarely speaking unless directly spoken to.
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Former Powers ===
* Artificially Enhanced Physiology: Connors transformed himself into a giant mutant lizard after experimenting with cross-species genetics; he harnessed the DNA of a lizard and transferred its capabilities to himself, granting him enhanced reptilian physical attributes.
** Superhuman Strength: Connors has remarkable superhuman strength, able to lift weight that no human ever could. He is able to tear through steel and metals effortlessly, and overpower multiple men with ease.
** Superhuman Durability: Connors' skin, bone, and muscle tissue are denser and tougher than ordinary humans.
** Superhuman Speed: Connors has the ability to travel at great speeds.
** Superhuman Agility: In his Lizard form, Connors possess a level of agility superior to humans.
** Superhuman Stamina: Connors can do intense physical activity for long periods of time without being fatigued.
** Superhuman Reflexes: Connors can coordinate his body with unnatural equilibrium, dexterity, and flexibility and his reflexes is capable of reacting much better than ordinary human beings.
** Enhanced Senses: Connors has superhuman senses. He is able to see farther than ordinary, and can smell humans' scent from great distances.
** Regenerative Healing Factor: Connors can heal much quicker than even Spider-Man. He could heal from multiple gunshot wounds within a few seconds,
** Wall Crawling: Connors uses his sharp claws to penetrate walls and crawl on them.
=== Abilities ===
* Genius-Level Intellect: Connors has a genius-level intelligence. 
* Master Scientist: Connors is a master scientist on his universe as a herpetologist. Even as the monstrous Lizard, he still retains a warped intelligence.
* Expert Combatant: Despite having no formal combat training, in his Lizard form, due to his powers that combined with his natural savagery, Connors caused himself to become a fierce hand-to-hand combatant.
* Master Acrobat: Connors' acrobatic feats are enhanced as Lizard.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
* Martha Connors - Wife
* Bill Connors - Son
=== Allies ===
* Empire State University‏‎
* Spider-Man - Curer
* Bruce Banner - Colleague
=== Enemies ===
* Daily Bugle
** J. Jonah Jameson
*Sinister Six
**Otto Octavius
**Adrian Toomes
**Flint Marko
**Quentin Beck
**Max Dillon
**Sergei Kravinoff
== Trivia ==
* In the comics, Curt Connors was a military surgeon who had his right arm amputated due to an injury. In an attempt to get his arm back, Connors tried to use a serum of lizard DNA to gain regeneration powers, but due to a failure, he was turned into a reptilian monster known as the Lizard.
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