Charlie Weiderman
Charlie Weiderman is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Charlie Weiderman was a male human who had once been student at Midtown High School who came to be more bullied than Peter Parker. The boy was bullied by a group of students led by a teen named Rich, a football player on the school team. Even Peter took advantage of Charlie once to score some points with the in-crowd before guilt led him to make friends with his scorned classmate, but Charlie (beaten by his father at home and humiliated at school) only sought revenge. First, he ingested a homemade version of Captain America's super-soldier program formula, which only landed him in the hospital. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #515)
Later, he tried to pull a knife on his tormentors only for the coach to catch him. Peter covered it up by stating that the knife belonged to his Uncle Ben (Ben would later support Peter for defusing a potentially violent situation). When Charlie slashed his tormentors' tires, he fled to the Parker house for protection. Charlie declared innocence and was backed up by Peter's Uncle Ben. After the bullies left, Ben asked Charlie if he actually slashed their tires. When Charlie was afraid to tell the truth, Ben Parker told him never to see Peter again and stated he would've respected Charlie if he admitted to the action. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #516)
When Charlie encountered Sheila, a Midtown High cheerleader and girlfriend of Rich and was introduced to her, Rich humiliated Charlie again by ripping off his shorts. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #517)
After Peter Parker observed him through a classroom window, Charlie Weiderman re-entered his former classmate's life by seeking professional help for a military project involving a liquid vibranium 'skin' intended to make soldiers invulnerable. He explained that he had used his inheritance to fund the research but required a recommendation from Peter to secure a grant from Tony Stark. Upon meeting with Stark, Charlie deceptively claimed that Peter was his full partner, leading Stark to approve the funding based on Peter’s supposed involvement. Over the following weeks, Charlie worked in isolation and ignored Peter's attempts at contact until Peter received a status update call from Stark Industries and confronted him at his laboratory. There, Peter discovered that Charlie was employing extremely dangerous and volatile methods to rush the project's completion. Although Peter demanded he cease the experiments and come clean to Stark, Charlie ignored the warning and proceeded with the final stage of the procedure. This choice triggered a massive explosion that levelled the building and accidentally killed a watchman, ultimately leaving Charlie’s unconscious body encased in the experimental, indestructible metal. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #515) After awakening in a hospital ward, Charlie Weiderman discovered that the experimental liquid vibranium had permanently bonded to his nervous system, granting him immense strength and an indestructible golden shell. Driven by a lifetime of resentment and the psychological trauma of the laboratory accident, he escaped the medical facility and embarked on a vengeful crusade against those he believed had wronged him during his youth. He first tracked down and brutally assaulted his former high school bullies, including a man named Baron who had tormented him years prior. When Peter Parker intervened as Spider-Man to stop the rampage, Charlie revealed his newfound power by easily overpowering the wall-crawler, shrugging off every physical blow with his metallic hide. He blamed Peter for the loss of his funding and his current physical state, declaring that he was finally the 'winner' he was always meant to be. Throughout the encounter, Charlie exhibited a complete lack of remorse for the death of the security guard from the previous issue, focusing instead on his own perceived victimhood. The confrontation culminated in Charlie incinerating his childhood home and the neighborhood around it, effectively severing his ties to his old life before he departed to find May and Mary Jane, intending to destroy everything Peter held dear. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #516)
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Notes
- Charlie Weiderman was created by J. Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato where he made his first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #515 (December, 2004).
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (2004)
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