Captain Ultra

**Griffin "Griff" Gogol** was an ordinary plumber who participated in Project: Resurgence as a test subject. The project's goal was to recreate the Super Soldier Serum that created Captain America. Griffin, alongside two other test subjects, were injected with a formula that closely replicates Erskine's serum, though the subjects were not as powerful as Steve Rogers was. Now empowered with enhanced and perfected physiology and mentality due to the formula, Griffin decided to become **Captain Ultra**, the world's most multi-talented super hero.

## History

Griffin Gogol was an ordinary plumber who participated in Project: Resurgence, which aims to recreate the Super Soldier Serum developed by Abraham Erskine. The project was carried out in secret by A.I.M. and Griffin was one of the three test-subjects to survive the experiments, the other two being Oscar Kincaid, Jr. and Drew Daniels. Griffin became Captain Ultra, the world's most multi-talented super hero. While Captain Ultra has enhanced strength, stamina, and mentality that is comparable to Steve Rogers, his crippling fear of fire resulting from his subconscious fear of success became a handicap to greater success as a superhero.

Captain Ultra became a member of the newly-reformed S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2027, and briefly joined the Defenders after seeing an advert on television. He also sought out psychiatric help at the Samson Medical Center for the Super-Humanly Gifted and Emotionally Disturbed at Poughkeepsie in an effort to cure his pyrophobia.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Artificially Enhanced Physiology**: The replica of the Super Soldier Serum injected into his bloodstream enhanced all of Griffin's bodily functions, such as his strength, speed, senses, durability, agility, stamina, reflexes, and healing. The replica Super-Soldier Serum also healed all of his ailments, physical and genetic imperfections instantly, giving him a perfect body better than that of a man in his physical prime. It also prevents him from getting intoxicated by alcohol, meaning he cannot get drunk. The Super Soldier Serum replica permanently transformed him from an ordinary plumber into the "perfect" specimen of human development and conditioning.

* **Enhanced Intelligence**: Griffin's mental performance has been greatly enhanced to operate in the most efficient and rapid manner possible. Some manifestations of this are his exceptionally perfect charisma, eloquence, leadership skills, deductive/analytical skills, and tactical genius.

* **Enhanced Strength**: Griffin's physical strength is enhanced to superhuman levels. His strength allows him to physically overpower elite-trained humans, extraterrestrial troops, and robot sentries. Captain Ultra can bend metal bars with visible effort, slam through solid walls and reinforced glass, and pry open steel doors.

* **Enhanced Durability**: Captain Ultra's bones and muscles are denser and much harder than average humans, which makes him incredibly durable. Though he is not bulletproof, he can survive extreme blunt force trauma, such as being hit with solid objects.

* **Enhanced Agility**: Gogol's agility is far greater than that of an Olympic-gold medalist. He can coordinate his body with perfect balance, equilibrium, flexibility, and dexterity.