Lizard (Marvel)



The Lizard is a monstrous reptilian supervillain from the Marvel comic book series of Spider-Man. Originally, he was one of Peter Parker's college professors, Dr. Curt Connors. Connors became the Lizard after injecting himself with reconstructed lizard DNA to regrow his arm, which was lost in war. The arm grew back, but Connors was also mutated into a savage man-lizard, with bulletproof scaly skin, wall-crawling abilities, and superhuman strength, agility, and durability. He is also uncontrollable and unstable due to the Lizard transformation.

In his Lizard persona, he wants to create an army of super-lizards and take over the world by destroying all mammals- including humans. He is one of Spider-man's few villains that can physically overpower him. Lizard also has the power to telepathically control any reptile within a two mile radius of him.

Later, the Lizard gained the ability to emit phonemes that would bring out the 'primitive' part of a victim's brain and make them go into a animal-like state of mind; cowering, running, and acting like hunted prey.

The Lizard killed Dr. Conners's son, Billy, and that finally made Conners snap. His Lizard persona is now in complete control, and continues in his quest for the extinction of humans.

Trivia

 * The Lizard was rumored to be the villain in the now-canceled Spider-man 4, and is going to be in the Spider-man movie reboot.