Mendel Stromm

*"We need to take the whole line back to formula."*
―Mendel Stromm[src]
**Dr. Mendel Stromm** was a scientist who worked for Oscorp Industries as the head scientist. While testing the human performance enhancers with his friend and superior, Norman Osborn, Oscorp's CEO, Stromm was unexpectedly killed by the Green Goblin, the second alter-ego of Osborn after the latter was exposed to the formula.

## Biography

### Working for Oscorp

In 2002, Dr. Mendel Stromm was a brilliant scientist and researcher employed by Oscorp to develop human performance enhancers and sell them to the United States military. Although he expressed doubts in the enhancers' effectiveness because the initial rat test subjects had developed side effects, with one rat having increased attributes and the other began demonstrating violent insanity. He worked alongside his employer, Norman Osborn, and helped him develop the formula.

### Attack on Oscorp Labs

#### Two Week Duration

When the leading council of Oscorp decided to fire Norman and cut down his research, Mendel was asked about the progress of the formula research, and he declared that the serum was in a highly unstable state and that the research would be needed to be started from scratch. General Slocum decided to give both Oscorp and Osborn two weeks to get the formula perfected or they would lose the contract to Quest Aerospace and Oscorp will be defunct.

### Death

That evening, Osborn decided to test the formula on himself to perfect the human condition, even though Stromm insisted that the formula was nor ready and the data didn't justify the tests. Howver, despite Mendel's doubts, he assisted Osborn in his attempt to use the still-unstable serum on himself. After Osborn was placed onto the chamber's table and being exposed to the formula, it enhanced his human physical attributes, but Stromm noticed Osborn's pulse rate increasing and the latter trembling. Stromm quickly drained the formula's gas and to his horror, saw Osborn wasn't showing any sign of pulse.

Dr. Stromm hurriedly went inside the chamber and tried to perform CPR to save Osborn. But at that moment, pulse rates were detected inside Osborn and he grabbed Stromm firmly by the throat. Unknown to Stromm, the formula had also developed an alter-ego inside Osborn, who became known as the Green Goblin. As the Goblin held Stromm by the throat, he muttered to him, "back to formula" before ruthlessly throwing him through the glass window of the chamber and into a shelf of chemicals. The resulting impact killed Mendel instantly.

## Personality

*"Dr. Osborn please. The performance enhancers aren't ready. The data doesn't justify these tests."*
―Mendel Stromm to Norman Osborn[src]
Mendel Stromm was a brilliant scientist and a geneticist of a genius-level intellect, which was a match to Norman Osborn's. Although, he was more cautious and less arrogant than Osborn as he knew the performance enhancers were not ready to be tested. He was a loyal partner and colleague, but a friend before everything, and accepts to interrupt the research for Norman's sake. This however, led to his demise when his loyalty to Osborn made go inside the chamber to save his employer using CPR, resulted the Green Goblin murdering him in cold blood.

## Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Mendel Stromm was a highly intelligent individual and was an expert in various fields of science. This was what made him the head of the science department at Oscorp. He was able to identify the effects from the performance enhancers when they were tested on two lab rats.

* **Master Scientist:** Dr, Stromm was a brilliant scientist and geneticist who was Osborn's equal. He was capable of designing exoskeleton suits and flying gliders. However, he was more cautious than Osborn when he knew that the human performance enhancers were still unstable and not ready to be tested on human subjects yet.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Oscorp Industries -
	+ Norman Osborn/Green Goblin - Employer and Killer †
	+ Henry Balkan - †
	+ Maximilian Fargas - †
* General Slocum - †

## Trivia

* Mendel Stromm is the first person to die in the Spider-Man Trilogy.