Curtis Connors

Reptile (by Spider-Man)

Reptoid (by Spider-Man)

Cyber-Lizard (by Spider-Man)

Lizardman (by Spider-Man)

Dr. Curtis Connors is The Lizard

## Origins

Curtis was born on August 8, 1985 in the United Kingdom. He was gifted in biology and technology. As a child, he was friends with a boy named Joshua, who lived on a farm. One day, the boys messed with a tractor, and Connors lost his right arm in an accident with it. Still, he did not let this stop him, and he eventually moved to New York city and graduated top of his class in college. He then started working for Oscorp, working on two main projects: a bio-suit that could be useful for the United States military, and cross-genetics between humans and reptiles, which he believed would help him regrow his arm, as well as help others with missing limbs around the world, and possibly even cure paralysis by regrowing the spine. Since his boss, Norman Osborn, was paralyzed himself, he allowed Connors to study cross-genetics. He later married his colleague Martha, and the two had a son named Billy.

## Meeting Spider-Man

Dr. Connors met Spider-Man when Oscorp was attacked by his former employee, Herman Schultz. Spider-Man showed up to help, and Connors built him an electrically-insulated suit to fight him. Connors would then help Spider-Man with future problems, but eventually became a problem himself, when he tested his lizard formula on himself. He regrew his arm, but subsequently transformed into a humanoid lizard.

## The Lizard is born

The Lizard ended up becoming a separate personality from Connors, who had all of his intelligence, but believed that the transformation was the next step in human evolution. He stole the bio-suit Connors was working on and started robbing chemical plants, eventually drawing Spider-Man's attention. Lizard was able to defeat Spider-Man, so Spidey went back to Connors for help, only to discover that he was the Lizard. Spider-Man then fought Lizard again and managed to retrieve a sample of his blood, and used it to create an antidote, which he used on Connors in their third encounter. Connors was cured physically, but the Lizard was still in control of his mind. Regardless, he bid his time to secretly develop a mass-produced version of his Lizard formula. Luckily for him, Spider-Man was too busy with a new foe, The Hobgoblin, to notice him.

## Return of The Lizard

The Lizard eventually used his formula on himself again and went back into the bio-suit. He then went to the top of Oscorp and prepared to launch an improved version of his Lizard formula onto the city. Spider-Man quickly took notice, but was unable to stop him before the formula was released into the air, turning nearly everyone in New York into lizards. Luckily for Spider-Man, due to his DNA already being mutated, he was unaffected. Spider-Man was forced to team up with Doc Ock, one of the only other people who wasn't affected, to defeat the Lizard. Spider-Man and Ock developed a new cure, which they released into the air, curing the city and destroying the alternate Lizard personality. Connors was back, and was human again. He then apologized for everything, but Ock tried to kill him anyway. Spider-Man managed to stop him, but Connors became depressed for what he did.

## The Death of Connors and his legacy

Connors was killed by Norman Osborn a few months later. Osborn had created a modified version of the Lizard serum that did not transform him beyond making himself stronger and curing his paralysis, but it did make him insane. Using better versions of Doc Ock's arms and The Hobgoblin's gear, Osborn became The Green Goblin. He stabbed Connors so that he couldn't help Spider-Man cure him, as he had found out that he was helping him.

## Appearance

As Connors, Curtis had neck length brown hair, stubble, and brown eyes. He tended to wear labcoats and a pair of glasses. He also normally wore a prosthetic right arm.

As The Lizard, Connors became much bigger and bulkier, gained green scales all over his body, lost his hair, and had a large, crocodile-like snout. He also had sharp teeth, yellow eyes, and spikes protruding from his back.. He wore his torn-up labcoat, but wore a green bio-suit over top of it, with exposed his upper arms, tail, and face.

## Powers and Abilities

As a human, Connors' only ability was having a genius-level intellect.

As The Lizard, he kept his genius, but also gained the following abilities:

* Healing Factor
* Increased durability
* Superhuman strength
* Superhuman stamina
* Superhuman speed
* Superhuman agility
* Superhuman healing factor
* A tail, which gave him more attack opportunities
* Fangs
* Claws, which he can use as a weapon or to claw into walls

His bio-suit also enhanced his strength, speed, agility, and durability even further, along with giving him gauntlets that could release electric pulses.

His only weaknesses were his family and an antidote to his Lizard form.

## Trivia

* Like most characters in MR, Connors' birthday is on the same day his first comic appearance was released.
* Connors' commonly used nickname, Curt, is not used in MR, and Connors actually doesn't like being called Curt.
	+ This is because RealGechoman44 doesn't think the name works for his character.