Madcap Write-ups!

[mako]

Yeah, plural. I'm going to put TWO here. The first is my write-up of the original, 616 version. After it gets it's shelf-life, I'll post a write-up for my concept of an Ultimate version.

Edit: Couple spelling corrections.

Original Madcap

Name: Madcap
Real Name: Unknown
Height: Estimated 5'9"
Weight: Estimated 165 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Skin: White
Species: Mutagenic

Stones: 55w 1r

INT: 2
STR: 2
AGI: 3
SPD: 2
DUR: 3

Health: 3
Energy: 9

Social Skills: 2
-Insanity
-Streetwise

Close Combat: 2
[Agility Bonus or Weapon Modifier]
-Erratic Style

Ranged Combat: 2
-Thrown Objects

Acrobatics: 3
[Agility Bonus]
-Random Prancing
-Erratic motion

Dancing: 3
-Random dancing

General Knowledge: 2
-Insanity Perspective

Telepathy: 5
-Can't Read Minds
-Must Make Eye Contact
-Project Thoughts/Control Others (In sense of making them act like he does)

Modifiers

Instant Healing Factor: 3

Reconstitute Self/Takes only one Panel

Insanity (Mental Defense +6)

Special Effect (Not immune to, but enjoys being victim of
Ghost Rider's Penance Stare. 4w)

Wealth: -1

Equipment

Bubble Gun (+1 to Telepathy by attracting attention) 1r
Bizarre Costume (+2 to Telepathy by attracting attention)

2r

Challenges

Entire family/friends killed in origin - 3w(Haunted Past)
Believes life is meaningless - 2w(Psychological)
Incapable of feeling pain - 3w(Lost Sense)
Believes there is no logic in the universe/no such thing
as cause/effect - 2w(Psychological)

History: Madcap was a devoutly religious young man, who went on a church sponsored field trip with his community, including his family and friends. However, an A.I.M. driven truck with an experimental chemical crashed with the bus involved, killing all but Madcap, and saturating him with the chemical. When he awoke in the hospital and heard of the deaths of the others, his own survival seemed unfair to him. He ran into traffic to try to kill himself, but his newfound healing factor denied him this. He snapped, declaring life meaningless, and the universe without rhyme or reason. He seeks to convert others to this way of thinking, his behavior and gimmicks used to attract attention. His other power is he can temporarily negate a person's inhibitions and make them as heedless of their own lives and those of others in their actions, essentially making them act as insane as he does. He claims this is the work of his bubble gun, which is little more than a distracting prop. He no longer understands the consequences of his actions, and no longer feels pain, except by one means....Ghost Rider's Penance Stare, a power which forces others to feel all the pain, physical and emotional, that the target caused, to be felt by them. Madcap is the one being thus far known to actually ENJOY the effect of the Penance Stare, and has before hounded Ghost Rider to expose him to it again.

Madcap gets Instant Healing Factor and Reconstitute Self instantly due to his healing factor, which heals him from ANY-thing. Decapitation, immolation, anything you do to him, he snaps back from. This is his only real advantage generally, and technically one could circumvent it by just hand-cuffing him to something with no way to reach anything to cut a hand off with. I did not give him Extended Life/Immortality for two reasons. One, despite it saying this happened as a young man, he's apparently aged. Two, someone like Galactus could theoretically kill him by just rearranging his molecules into something else, making him unable to recover.

[mako]

Well, since no one seemed to care for the first write-up, I'll just put the latter one up and see if I get flamed or whatever. Before you read this, there is NO actual Ultimate Madcap, or reference or cameo of one. This is PURELY my idea for what one might be like. And there's no apparent Ultimate Ghost Rider either, but I left the defense to the Penance Stare just in case.

EDIT: After ages of sitting idle, I've vamped up this CAD.

Ultimate Madcap (My idea for one)

Name: Madcap
Real Name: James "Jimmy" Madison
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 177lbs.
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Sky Blue
Skin: White, of perpetually healthy tone
Species: Mutagenic

INT: 5
STR: 4
AGI: 5
SPD: 4
DUR: 4

Health: 4
Energy: 12

Social Skills: 4
-Warped/Random Sense of Humor
-Academia
-Streetwise
-Insanity

Close Combat: 3
[Agility or Weapon Modifier]
-Erratic Actions
-Caeporia Dance/Fight
-Dangerous/Deadly Objects (Chainsaws/Axes/etc.)

Ranged Combat: 2
[Weapon Modifier]
-Thrown Objects
-Dangerous/Deadly Objects (Chainsaws/Axes/etc.)

Acrobatics: 4
[Agility Bonus]
-Random Prancing
-Complicated Dances

Dancing: 3
[Agility Bonus]
-Random Dancing
-Caeporia

General Knowledge: 4
[Intelligence Bonus]
-College Education
-Insanity Perspective

Escape Artist (Personalized Action): 4
[Agility Bonus]
-Escape Handcuffs
-Escape Straight Jacket

Telepathy: 6
-Can't Read Minds
-Must Make Eye Contact
-Protect Thoughts/Control Others

Modifiers

Insanity (Mental Defense +6)

Special Defense (Ghost Rider's Penance Stare 4w)

Immortality
(Recovers from any "death" instantly)

Instant Healing Factor

Duplicate Self (Special: Only by "splitting", akin to a flat-worm. Cannot trigger by himself/needs outside means. Dupes do not have Reconstitute Self or Immortality, and Accelerated Healing Factor.)

Reconstitute Self/One Panel

Photographic Memory

Reflexive Dodge: 3

Wealth: -1

Equipment (2r)

Bubble Gun (+1 to Telepathy by attracting attention)
Bizarre Outfit (+1 to Telepathy by attracting attention)

Challenges

Mutant, Human appearance (Any metahuman is a mutant in Ultimates)
Family killed in car wreck origin
Incapable of feeling pain
Believes life is meaningless
Believes no logic/reason in universe

History: In the Ultimates universe, Madcap was an honest, hard-working family man, having successfully graduated from college with all around high achievement, and a bright future for himself, his wife, and his newborn daughter. However, on a fateful trip to visit family, a reckless motorcycle driver (Possibly an Ultimates Danny Ketch?) zipped out in front of a truck hauling an experimental chemical effort to remake the Super Soldier Serum at a stoplight, ignoring the red light. The truck crashed into the family's car and a school bus, killing James' family, tearing off James' arm, and causing a horrendous fire in the wreck, as one of the chemical barrels leaked into the mess. Only James was both soaked in the chemical, and alive for it to matter on. When the rescue crews arrived, they pulled an unknown but apparently unharmed young man out of the wreck, unsure if he was in the bus, car, or truck. Shortly after this, the chemicals caught fire and went up in flames.

This young man was once James Madison, but the healing factor now granted to him, unlike the original 616 Madcap's, actually reversed his aging to his ultimate physical prime of just emerging from puberty. When he awoke, the memories of his former life, the emotional pain of losing it all, the healing factor's work on his brain making ALL of his memories flood back to mind in perfect detail, and the conflicting reality telling him he was someone else, caused intense mental stress which he couldn't cope with, causing his insanity, and fragmenting his memories and self-identity. Despite the potentcy of his newfound power to heal himself, it could not salvage his mental health by paradox. Heal it, and his emotional pain would ruin him. Don't, and the insanity and shattered memories remained.

The former family man then fled the hospital he woke in, and went on a short and nonsensical stealing spree, stealing one toy bubble gun from a backyard, part of a jester costume from the Broadway theater, and some teenager's clothing from a department store, along with sewing materials and bubble liquid.

It wasn't long after this he reappeared, wearing the leather boots, mismatched yellow and purple gloves, and mirror-matched pants tights from the theater, a red T-Shirt and ball cap from the store, with a big red M sewn on the front using the stolen sewing gear, and wielding the bubble gun from the backyard. In this guise, he pranced around New York, performing random and ludicrious acts of silliness with a healthy dose of being suicidal. He also preached his beliefs of life being meaningless, that reason and logic were only words, and cause and effect was a see-saw with an elephant sitting on the effect end. (He said the other end had his tacos on it.) In short, he no longer cared what others thought of him, as long as he could make others care that the world was chaotic, pure and simple.

The media has dubbed him Madcap, based on the cap he wears branded with an M on it, and his madness-inducing antics and abilities. However, Madcap has before said the M stands for other things. (This list includes silly and non-serious answers, including: Macaroni, Merigolds, March, Moo, Marco {As in the game Marco Polo}, Mush, and 37.) However, by the time he actually gave any sort of serious answer to what the M means (This answer being "Meta-Psyche", which, actually, was just a way of him saying the M is only there to psyche people into thinking there's a reason for it), the name Madcap was too popular for people to stop using.

He does also retain the mind-bending gaze of the 616 counterpart, but it works a bit differently, by completely stripping the victim's mind of inhibitions and awareness of how dangerous anything is temporarily, combined with placing an overall feeling of happiness and joy, as opposed to simply making them act like he does. However, the end result is generally the same - the victim behaves in complete disregard of their own wellfare or that of others, and their happy feelings combined with this have them do things they wouldn't normally do, such as sing and dance, play with toys, etc. Unlike 616 Madcap's version, this power doesn't always result in suicidal behavior, and can be used as an aide in coaxing someone to reveal deep dark secrets.

This Madcap's healing factor is, in fact, superior to the 616 version, as it keeps him constantly at physical prime and peak ability entirely. It also, like the old Madcap, negates sensastions of pain. Because of this, this Madcap is physically more able than the old version, and due to the constant repair in his brain for memories, incapable of forgetting anything. Although that doesn't mean he can recall it all, since his memories are still scattered across his mind, but he can recall parts of it when he needs to.

Like the old Madcap, he can and does mutilate his own body, only to heal back to normal, but he has used this trait for self-gain, using his enhanced strength to yank his hand through handcuffs, intentionally breaking the bones in his hand, only for his hand to heal to normal as it comes free. This means basic handcuffs are pretty much useless in restraining him.

A very unsettling twist to his power, turning the cliche beheading method of killing an immortal on it's head, is when he's beheaded, instead of dying, he recovers as TWO beings. His head alone can regenerate into a whole new Madcap, while his body regenerates a new head. The head-spawned clones have a weaker form of the healing factor, and are not immortal, but the original body remains as invincible as ever, and can generate an infinite number of clones. Madcap is too unbalanced to use this trait to his advantage, so it's usually others trying to kill him that trigger it.