Ted Sallis

## History

### Early Life (1983-1993)

Theodore “Ted” Sallis was born to Marshall and Whitney Sallis, Marshall was a man of native american descent, unbeknownst to Marshall, his family’s destiny was to defend the Nexus of All Realities to protect the world from collapsing in on itself. Growing up Ted was a genius child with an IQ of 160, he breezed through his school days and frequently found himself bored leading to an interest in comic books to keep him sane.

### Things Form & Fall Apart & Form Again (1997-2003)

In his college years, Ted formed a friendship with fellow ESU student Curt Connors and would work on a cure for all biochemical warfare weapons with him. Post college the two were recruited into Project: Sulfur a military program where their Serum they’ve dubbed “SO-2

Around this time he would be recruited into Project: Sulfur, a military program where he created Serum SO-2 which rendered the user immune to all biochemical weaponry. Sadly the serum would turn its user into hulking monsters when exposed to it for too long making it essentially unusable for the government. On the upside during his work on Project: Sulfur, Ted met and eventually wed fellow scientist Ellen Brandt.

After working on Sulfur, Ted and Ellen’s expertises were needed by the united nation’s S.H.I.E.L.D. to work on Project: Gladiator, to recreate the super soldier serum. After the Sulfur incident, Connors joined the military in the war on terror and lost his arm in battle, encouraging Ted to make the serum to restore his arm.

While working on Gladiator, Ted became convinced he was being spied on by someone and requested he be allowed to move from the Helicarrier to a secluded swamp in the Everglades with his wife Ellen. Sallis modified his SO-2 formula as the basis for a new Super-Soldier Serum. Unknown to Ted his wife Ellen was a scientist for Advanced Idea Mechanics who planned on double crossing Ted and allowing AIM to take the serum and create their own hero. Ted finished his serum about two months after moving to the everglades and was promptly ambushed by AIM agents led by Ellen. He successfully fled from this but his car crashed into the swamp. With his last ounce of strength, Ted injected himself with the serum. This combined with the magical energies of the swamp transformed Ted into the swamp creature known as Man-Thing.

## Powers & Abilities

### **Powers**

**Man-Thing Physiology:** Man-Thing is a being composed of vegetable matter formed by a mixture of mystical energy and swamp mutagens.

**Malleability:** He is also able to pass through many fences by oozing through the gaps in the chain links. He can also shape and elongate his limbs to grab people or create blade-like weapons from a bark-like material.

**Flight:** Man-Thing is capable of self propelled flight.

**Superhuman Strength:** he possesses a level of super-strength. He has been shown able to lift a 2,000 pound automobile. Supposedly his might is limitless as he's the living embodiment of the Earth's life-force.

**Chlorokinesis:** Man-Thing possessing the ability to control and manipulate plant life.

**Superhuman Durability:** Its porous form is resistant to most physical attacks because it is not entirely solid; a fist or a bullet will usually pass right through it.

**Empathy/Acidic Secretion:** As the Man-Thing, Ted's "brain" is no longer centrally located as when he was human: mutated analogs of his brain cells are unevenly distributed throughout the volume of his head and torso.

**Reality Displacement:** Through his access to the Nexus of Realities Ted has the ability to transplant settings from different dimensions unto the primary Marvel Universe. Even interchanging alt. reality counterpart appearances with the main iteration of core continuum characters with other versions of themselves.

**Size Enhancement:** When fueled by enough fear Man-Thing can grow to monolithic proportions.

**Dimensional Travel:** As the guardian of the Nexus of All Realities the Man-Thing is the virtual embodiment of the time and space effect centered on the Nexus area and can open portals to other realities.

**Teleportation:** By opening a portal to a different location he can teleport himself and others to that specific place. He can apparently open portals to places he hasn't been as long as he has seen an image of it.

**Regeneration/Reformation:** Man-Thing is capable of regenerating his body from plant and vegetable matter, especially that found in his swamp. He is able to remake his body even when believed to be near death and can form tendrils to seek out any matter with which to aid his regeneration.

**X'zelzi'ohr**: When Man-Thing was granted speech again he spoke the language of X'zelzi'ohr, the universal language. Everyone heard him in a way they were accustomed to, meaning he spoke "normal" to the likes of Satana and Moonstone, but was concise and to the point for Ghost, a drunken Englishman to Mr. Hyde, and a total thug to Boomerang.

**Biochemistry:** Ted Sallis was a noted biochemist.

### **Weaknesses**

The Man-Thing is dependent on the swamp environment for vitality; if removed for a significant length of time, he lapses in dormancy.