Respect The Freak (Complete Respect Thread)

Introduction

Freak was sorta apart of that new generation of Spider-Man villains that no one (especially the writers) really gave a shit about: guys like Speedball, Overdrive, Menace, Red Vulture, Shathra, etc. Guys who were essentially forgotten about and basically given next to nothing to work with despite a fun concept behind them.

Freak was one of them, and basically functioned as a street tier Doomsday, if that makes any sense. A drug addict that accidently stumbled into the lab of Dr Connors and injected himself with anything he could find in a attempt to get high again, he mutated beyond human limits and became......whatever he became.

His main gimmick was that he was butt ugly and kept getting worse over time, as well as having the power to adapt to virtually anything via bio-organic transformation.

Adaptation

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Scan 1- Doctor Connors explains his adaptation powers: his unstable stem cells allow him to basically come back to life after any traumatic event to his body that causes it to be badly damaged and became immune to it afterwards. (Amazing Spider-Man #554)

Scan 2- The instance Connors referred to in the first scan was when he was taken out by a building explosion and it falling on him, which causes him to adapt further (Amazing Spider-Man #554)

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Scan 1/2/3- In his weakest form, he adapts to a bullet impact by forming a shell and adapting to the physical trauma, coming back later with bulletproof skin. (Amazing Spider-Man #553)

Can instantly create even more potent venom out of viruses injected into his body (namely in this case, converting Anti-Venom samples into a super potent toxin that trumped anything else on Earth) (Amazing Spider-Man #558)

Durability

Is given the Power Grid ranking of 7, making him virtually indestructible. (Spider-Man- Brand New Day Yearbook)

Tanks being smacked through a chimney by the weight of Red Vulture (Amazing Spider-Man #644)

Enhanced Senses

Can track someone anywhere just with a small scent to work with, like a dog (Amazing Spider-Man #553)

Speed

Dodges around Spider-Man's webbing mid stream (Amazing Spider-Man #553)

Strength

In his weaker form, he destroys a hot dog cart and completely murders a dude (Amazing Spider-Man #553)

Gallery

Scan 1/2- Manhandles Red Vulture and manages to tag him with a running leap (Amazing Spider-Man #644)

Overpowers Spider-Man with a big leap and shoves him to the ground with one arm (Amazing Spider-Man #554)

Sends Spider-Man flying with a glancing backhand, and has enough leg muscle to jump around building height lengths with ease (Amazing Spider-Man #554)

Smashes through multiple layers of steel from a big pile of cars (Amazing Spider-Man #558)

Throws a car over his head, as well as ripping Peter's webbing off his face (which is 50x as strong as solid steel) (Amazing Spider-Man #558)

Conclusion

Freak's not got a ton, but he's pretty much established as a guy who even Spider-Man struggles to put away, and he very quickly went from cop fodder to overpowering Spider-Man and being too strong for him to knock out in within like, two forms, which is kinda scary considering the cap for his adaptations really wasn't reached. As stated, he was kinda in that generation of villains that weren't treated right, and he's been deregulated to vague cameos, which is a shame considering he could have been pretty cool to have around in more stories.

He still beefy tho

Credit

Thanks to @toughbrick for the helpful suggestion

No tag list because @takenstew22 tags enough people already, I don't want to add to that

I get tagged to these things anyway cause I follow you smh.

Almost thought this was a respect thread about me smh 😔

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Nah I tag you again so you know your sins

Weebs don't get RT's

@professorrespect:

Man.......... 😭

I gotta do it to them

I need scans of this awesome origin

Good respect thread.

Thanks champ

You can view the new RT collection here in case you want to see more

Interesting.

Imagine if getting him high is what resets his abilities but just like Batman's no kill rule, Spider-Man finds trouble in committing to giving someone drugs or something.

seriously how many RT's you can make?

I mean that would be a interesting concept, but Freak's love of drugs ended when his own powers of adaptation caused him to be immune to the effects of them, presenting him from getting high, so big oof

224, based on this thread where I go over all of them

Ugh. They couldn't give Spider-Man a better-looking villain?

Spider-Man gets all of the ugly villains

Funny enough this freak shares the name of the Image comics villain from spawn.

Ah yes, I forgot about that, lol. Thanks for reading

@professorrespect: That is unfortunate. Is he worth using in the Battle Forums?

If you want! I usually do RT's on guys who I think are worth having a closer look at anyway, like all of these dudes

True, it's basically the function of the character

@professorrespect: Nice! I will check out your post.

Thanks, lol

@professorrespect: No problem. Also, what are the next respect threads that you will be doing?

Probably Cosmic Hulk (the robot Hulk that got reanimated into a actual functioning thing)

Cool. I look forward to that.

I remember buying the comic with his origin story when I was 12 or something, it really grossed me out lol.

@professorrespect: damn he is actually interesting

@professorrespect: Freak vs Darwin?

Good start for a 12 year old, I assume

Eh, I don't completely see it

Darwin rather easily.

I'm thinking of making a thread of him too. Is he stronger than Sabretooth?

@professorrespect: Once again on the obscure, nice.

Thanks brah, most of my RT's are like that lol