Adrian Toomes

### Affiliation

Current: "Sinister Six"Prior affliations: Bestman & Toomes Electronics, US Military

### Occupation

Criminal, ThiefPrior occupations: electrical engineer, inventor, businessman

## Personality

Family comes first. That is a philosophy that is strived by Adrian Toomes. His upbringing instilled in him a strong sense of familial connections and gratitude for the family members in his life. As such, Adrian displays a warmth and loyalty to his family in maintaining their well-being and safety. Additionally, being sharp-eyed and keen of mind, he is able to note problems before hand and has been described of being able to have a birds' eye view of the problem. However, age has worn down on him and to most people, he is cankterous and condescending. On the other hand, he is very amicable toward children and toward his intellectual colleagues, especiall those slighted by the cutthroat world of business.

That being said, Toomes is also a man of powerful and almost damaging determination. When his mind is set on a goal, he will go to reach it, a stubbornness that has magnified in spite of or perhaps especially because of his old age. An intelligent man who has been working on many years in his craft, his pride became endangered with the next generation and demanded a magnum opus so people may remember Adrian Toomes and his efforts were not in vain. Additionally, he can also be rather selfish and has a tendency to look down on charity, perhaps as a result of his upbringing and adult life. Though family and certain colleagues remain the exception. Overall, Toomes is a man demanding to soar and more stubborn than ever in his old age.

## Powers & Abilities

***Genius Intelligence***- The Vulture is a very intelligent and skilled electric engineer and inventor. Having earned his Masters' degree at a relatively young age, he became very skilled and involved in several governmental projects as an electrical engineer. Additionally, his insistence on working means he is still very capable on creating, operating and repairing the equipment with his hands and thus remains a very prominent mechanic within the field of inventing for his products.

***Flight training***- The Vulture is an experienced pilot. While never part of the military, he has had extensive experience in designing and flying military aircraft. He attributes this to having been taught by his brother at Adrian's own insistence, noting that first-hand experience would be required to optimize his inventing and engineering process when it came to aircraft.

## Tools & Equipment

***- Electromagnetic Flight Harness Ver 1.1:*** The Vulture's ultimate creaton, the Electromagnetic Flight Harness is a special suit that enables him to defy the force of gravity, flying like a bird. With the harness, he is able to fly with a natural winged flight limit of 95 miles per hour and attain a maximum height of 11,000 feet, all virtually soundless. The flight capabilities come from gravitonium being influenced by an electromagnetic field, allowing him to defy gravity and then propelling himself in the air, hence the name. When wearing his electromagnetic harness, the Vulture possesses superhuman strength, vitality and athletic prowess. The harness increases his physical strength to the absolute human maximum enabling him to lift roughly 700 pounds and the feathers are as sharp as swords and can be used as projectile weapons. He also wears special "talon" boots that function to land well and to kick opponents if need be. The hardness is also insulated to protect Toomes from the temperature and speed along with having a parachute in an emergency. The somewhat bird-shaped helmet serves as his oxygen supply, based off of Air Force pilot helmets.

He has recently updated the harness to reinforce and protect the electromagnetic field generator to prevent it from being affected by disruptive devices.

***- Backup Respirator equipment:*** A secondary respirator in case he is ever in need of it and the primary one fails though he has not ever had to use it before.

## History

### Before Wings

Adrian Toomes was born the second son to Mr. and Mrs. Toomes in 1925. Little is known about them though it's revealed Mr. Toomes was a pilot in World War I and would settle down with Mrs. Toomes, having their first child in 1919. Marcus Toomes, the older brother of Adrian Toomes, would become the primary caretaker of the family after an accident would rob the family of Mr. Toomes life in the Great Depression during a factory accident and they would lose their mother years later from a fatal illness. Marcus Toomes realized the intellectual capabilities of his brother and wanting him to succeed, would work extensively to assist in providing Adrian with the best education possible, especially with praise Adrian was given. Adrian felt utterly indebted to his brother and would work as hard as possible to assist him. Marcus Toomes would join the Air Force around the start of World War II and would end up an accomplished pilot. His brother's successes would drive Adrian to the field of aeronautics specifically and was the first to welcome his brother him with open arms. As such, after Adrian would recieve his Masters' degree, he would working as an electric engineer while also assisting in the design of military aircraft for many years.

However, Adrian would leave the military business behind after his brother would be shot down early on in Vietnam and would end up paraplegic on the field of combat. Adrian took his brother in and worked to ensure he was comfortable along with Marcus' son, Malachi Toomes, who's mother died in childbirth. He would then switch to more civilian affairs with opening a business in electrical engineering with an aquiantance of his he met multiple times, Gregory Bestman. He met once more as Gregory's son, John went to the same class as Malachi. Thus was born Bestman and Toomes Electronics, a regional powerhouse in the electrical engineering business, focusing on creating parts and dealing with patents, providing a comfortable life for them. Adrian would even meet his future wife in the growing business through his new personal secretary, Cheryl Toomes. Despite being more than a decade her senior, she was drawn to his determination and spirit and would end up marrying him. The two would start a family and live a relatively comfortable life from the 1970s through the 1980s. However, not everything was necessarily perfect.

While Adrian cared deeply for his children, he struggled as a parent for them as he was often toward with his business and his inventions. Additionally, the changing times meant that his children would grow up in a different world than he would. His oldest son, Franklin Toomes, would end up following somewhat in his father's footsteps regarding the engineering business, but would end up moving to Detroit as a result. His daughter Valeria meanwhile, would end up joining the military against his insistence. However, his twilight years would be haunted by two events. The death of his wife Cheryl and the decline of Bestman-Toomes Electronics. The death of his wife caused Adrian greater suffering and he buried himself in his work. Bestman-Toomes Electronics meanwhile would decline in the modern world with bigger and bigger companies growing.

### Taking Flight

It was here he would create his magnum opus. The electromagnetic flight harness. With this, he could revolutionize the field of flight after years of setbacks and stagnations. However, it was also here he discovered that Gregory Bestman betrayed him. Having been embezzling money for years, he tried to assault him, but without evidence, it cost Adrian contol over the company, especially learning that his shares would be sold to Oscorp.  Refusing to go out like this, he retreated to his home and put the finishing touches himself, using his military contracts and surplus equipment to create the suit. Using electromagentic properties to generate lift while using the wings to propel through the air with sharpened ends.

Bestman called him a vulture in their last fight, saying he only picked on the remains of brilliant ideas of better men. That he was a bald sneering man with delusions of flight. Adrian smirked as he put the finishing touches, even using a helmet that once belonged to his brother. He would get the last laugh. He would soar higher than ever and he would get his vengeance over on Bestman, even if this would bring him into conflict with none other than Spider-Man.

## Trivia

* His wife Cheryl died from a traffic accident around when his children were both teenagers. Notably, it also when the mild chasms between Toomes and his children widened considerably as a result. He considers this to be one of his larger failures and notes to be a more active presence in his childrens' life after he succeeds. Contrary, Toomes is actually closer to his nephew Malachi, who was already in middle school when Adrian became a father.

* Adrian's relation with Bestman had been formal and professional though the two never did wholly trust the other. In fact, tensions began developing between months prior to Toomes' discovery of the embezzlement during debates on dviding the company up between their heirs while also which shares go to who.

* By the time of the loss of his company, Adrian Toomes ended up living with his brother once more over on a farm in Staten Island. It was a joint purchase since Marcus purchased the area because the wide open fields were perfect for Adrian to test our his various aircraft in peace and quiet.

* Bestman & Toomes Electronics developed parts and equipment for larger operations and businesses with a focus on electromagnetics. Some of these parts would also end up going into the development of SHIELD projects later on down the line. These military contracts was what allowed him to get his hands on gravitonium in the first place.

* His argument between himself and Bestman was not the first time he was called "a vulture" or something akin to it like a buzzard. He would be referred to as such in his older years, namely when he lost most of his hair in the forties, which just magnifed his sunken eyes and his pronounced beak-like nose.

* Toomes' was also picked on for his last name, often being called a "vulture of the tombs." According to him, his family worked primarily in graveyards, likely dating back to when his ancestors first arrived on what would be the United States, hence where his surname likely came from.

* According to Toomes, the original purpose of the harness (before the conversion to the Vulture suit), was as a basis to be used for exoskeletons in heavy opeations and in the military. He hoped in doing so it will help allow his brother to potentially walk again.

* During his time in the military, he actually worked with Howard Stark for a period of time. While he was irritated at times at Howard's bombastic and showsmanship personality, he maintained a great deal of respect for him and noted that Howard's early work served as a baseline for the development of the harness later on.

* When asked what Toomes would've done with the company had he reclaimed it from Bestman or just never lost contol over it, Toomes confessed that Bestman's idea of selling the company it it of itself was not bad. He was well aware the company was in financial trouble, and that Bestman's embezzlement could not account for all the issues.

* In a follow up question of who he would've sold the company to, Toomes answered Stark Industries. He noted that he would've gotten a much better deal financially from it and would've synergized well with his work. His plan would've been for his company to become a subsidary rather than just folded in and provide Toomes a seat within the higher operations, enabling to reap the benefits of his work.

* His sudden impulsive actions regarding his inventions and a desire to leave a legacy likely stems from the revelations that he has been diagnosed with the early stages of cancer.