Mister Immortal
Mister Immortal is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Craig Hollis
The cosmic entity Deathurge first appeared to Craig shortly after his birth and the death of his mother, who made Deathurge promise that he would look after Craig. Craig would dub Deathurge, "D'urge", and the two became the best of friends. His father believed Deathurge to be an imaginary friend, even after Craig's numerous forays into apparently dangerous behavior, such as playing in traffic, which were urged on by Deathurge, which Craig would explain to his father by saying, "Just playin' with D'urge, daddy." On Craig's 8th birthday, Deathurge goaded Craig into setting his house on fire, and then hiding under it as it burned, an event that killed his father. Deathurge stopped visiting Craig afterwards, and Craig was moved into a new home. His foster father, Mr. O'Doughan, was an abusive man, though Craig became close to his foster sister, Terri, the two eventually falling in love as adults. This ended with Terri's suicide, prompting the return of Deathurge. The grief-stricken Craig begged Deathurge to take him as well as Terri, but Deathurge refused and departed again. Craig attempted the first of a number of suicide attempts by jumping off a building, only to discover with this and subsequent attempts using other methods, that he could not die. (G.L.A. v1 #1)
After operating together for a time, the Great Lakes Avengers came into contact with Hawkeye and Mockingbird, who were investigating their unofficial Avengers franchise. The official Avengers decided to stay on to help train the GLA, and Hawkeye even tried to get them official recognition by the two main branches. (West Coast Avengers v2 #46)
When Flatman got the Avengers' legal representative Connie Ferrari to reinstate the Great Lake Avengers as a permanent and official addition to the Avengers, Doorman and Big Bertha were the only members who answered his call to bring the team together. Unknown to them Craig's phone was now in possession of a local girl named Pansy. Unwilling to "assume things," Pansy showed up at the rendezvous point, an abandoned Stark Assembly and Manufacturing plant the Avengers had set up as the GLA new headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and waited for the Great Lakes Avengers. Once they arrived, Pansy cleared up the confusion caused by her presence and showed the team around the facilities. (Great Lake Avengers v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
While most mutants' powers manifest at adolescence, Mr. Immortal's ability did not become apparent until he first attempted suicide. He regained consciousness minutes after, only to find that he was alive and fully healed. Deathurge once explained to him that he is a mutant, but not Homo sapiens superior, the more familiar subspecies of mutant who has simply taken the next step in evolution, but rather he is the final step in human evolution: a man who has evolved past death itself, and is therefore Homo sapiens supreme. He also explained that he will be around until the end of the universe and the one to whom its final secret will be revealed. (G.L.A. v1 #4)
Upon revival, he was often extremely enraged, due to the pain of death. During Dinah Soar's tenure as his teammate, she could utter a vocalization, inaudible to humans, that could bring him out of this state, which Flatman speculated is hypersonic in nature. (West Coast Avengers v2 #49)
Notes
- Mister Immortal was created by John Byrne where he made his first appearance in West Coast Avengers v2 #46 (July, 1989).
In other media
Television
- In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Mister Immortal appeared in the setting of the live-action television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the episode "Just Jen" where he was portrayed by actor David Pasquesi. Craig Hollis is a man with an accelerated healing factor that prevents him from dying, leading him to go by the name Mister Immortal. Craig Hollis met and married Baroness Lily Cromwell. In 1981, he bought several shares of Apple. After a while, he separated from his wife, but kept some of her money. Hollis had many marriages to Cheryll, Amy, Taylor, and Sebastian. Each time after he got bored, he would fake his own death, leaving them to fend for themselves, thinking that he was dead. He used fake aliases each time and manipulated them, even leaving his own kid behind. When his identity and superpowers were exposed on Intelligencia's website, Mister Immortal sought the legal services of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway to prevent his ex-spouses from depleting his finances. He met with Mallory Book, his attorney and Nikki Ramos. He told them the deal and how he had the power to regenerate after death. Book and Ramos heard of Hollis' problems and judged him, leading Hollis to remind them that lawyers were not supposed to be judgy. They started talking loudly, so Hollis became nervous and got up from the chair. He took his hat and sprinted out, crashing through the window and falling onto a Higman Security car. He then used his powers to regenerate and got up, much to the surprise of nearby people.
Appearances
- West Coast Avengers v2: (1989)
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