![]() That tells you a little about the fairness of life. I was born in the year the Titanic sank.Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.On Nelson Algren, Talking to Myself Bk.At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance.Conversation with Lessing in 1969, quoted in "Doris Lessing comes to town" (15 October 1969) by Roger Ebert.Terkel: Yes, but these days they're mostly in business, or politics. Doris Lessing: We simply have no idea of Chicago … We never think of you as being on a lake, or of the city being beautiful.On seeing a 1956 performance by Billie Holiday, Talking to Myself Bk.In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self.Pain Immunity: As his accident destroyed all his nerves, he can't feel pain as well as any other physical sensation.Insanity Inducement: Another result of the chemicals, the gaze of Madcap drives anyone who crosses it insane for a short period of time.Self-regeneration: Due to his exposure to the chemical that disfigured him, Madcap received a high-level power of regeneration, making him able to recover from any injuries, no matter how grave they are (he survived bullets, neck breaking, decapitation and dismemberment).Calling himself Madcap, he decided to wander New York City and randomly cause people to go crazy in order to demonstrate to them the meaninglessness of existence. Lacking anything better to do, he bought a toy soap bubble-making gun from a dime store and stole a harlequin outfit from a costume shop. He also soon discovered that he could cause whoever looked him in the eye long enough to act crazily. He finally came to the conclusion that things happen without cause and effect and that there is no purpose in anything. He could not understand why he should benefit from an accident that killed 40 people including his friends and family. Rightly suspecting that the bus accident had somehow endowed him with his immunity to pain and injury, he was driven further into madness. To his surprise, he not only was incapable of feeling the pain of being hit by the car, but he also got up from where he was thrown, his injuries having healed in moments. Fleeing the hospital, he threw himself in the path of an oncoming car in a suicide attempt. After he gained consciousness in a hospital, his faith in a rational universe was shattered when he learned he was sole survivor of the accident. While everyone else was killed in the crash and subsequent explosion, the man who would become Madcap was thrown clear and lay for several hours unconscious in the rapidly evaporating pool of the chemical. This chemical, called Compound X07, apparently contained enzymes that promoted rapid healing in the human body. While he was on a church-sponsored field trip with his parents, sister, and about 40 others, the bus he was riding in was struck by a tanker truck containing an unknown chemical compound concocted by the criminal organization Advanced Idea Mechanics ( A.I.M.). The young man who would become Madcap was a devoutly religious person who belonged to a church group of an unspecified denomination. ![]() He is also one of the two main arch-enemies of Deadpool (alongside T-Ray). ![]() Madcap is a minor antagonist from the Marvel Comics who has taken on many superheroes such as Captain America, Ghost Rider and more. ![]()
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