Madcap is left trying to find Malus, but he would lead his search through unusual methods, and likely unsuccessful ones. It is unclear which of Malus' discoveries led to this.
Karl Malus led to Madcap accidentally touching one of Malus' inventions and, for the first time in a while, Madcap could be hurt and feel pain. She explained that Madcap wasn't dead because he was "just a drawing." Karl MalusĪ further encounter with Dr. After hurling him around and testing his regenerative abilities, she decided to give up, but when Madcap demanded her to give him the book, she ripped apart the page (with Madcap on it) into small pieces, dropped it into a garbage can and burned it. In that state, she grabbed him and took him somewhere he couldn't control anybody. Jen ran into a fake castle, where she tried to fight Madcap, who subdued her again. While she was under his mind control, she started to fight against a fake whale, until she recovered again. After recovering her senses, She-Hulk confronted Madcap, only to be subdued again. Before she could do anything, Madcap took over her mind. When children were put in danger, She-Hulk appeared to save them. In a park, he found her eating ice cream and started attracting people with jokes and tricks, and even making them join in with him. While She-Hulk was walking around London, the crazy Madcap decided that he was funnier than her, and that both She-Hulk and him should have owned her comic book, but he didn't know how would it end, and confronted her. Madcap then moved away, dancing and singing about the fun of further adventures. Madcap found child super heroes Power Pack and tried to convince them to live adventures with him, but his adventures became dangerous and Power Pack left him. Madcap was sent to a psychiatric hospital, but used his powers and became the host of The Mystery Hour of Madcap in New York TV.
Daredevil tried to help Madcap, but could not prevent Madcap from burning to his apparent death - although soon Madcap reappeared to plague desperate Bill, demanding a TV show called Mystery Hour of Madcap. A docudrama on Madcap staged by Bill led the Rose's men to Madcap with nefarious intentions. Madcap accidentally thwarted a heist, which put him in the sights of heist organizer the Rose and in the sights of amateur TV producer Dollar Bill. However, when Madcap began to threaten lives, Nomad was forced to knock him out and overcome him. Nomad befriended Madcap, trying to understand his origins, motivations and powers. ĭuring one of his first trips, he met newbie adventurer Nomad, who was at that moment Captain America's partner. He had no compunction about putting people in danger: as he could not be hurt, he could not understand that other people could be hurt. He called himself the Madcap and wandered through New York City driving people crazy.
He bought a bubble gun in a general store and stole a harlequin costume. He soon discovered his other power, which allowed him to drive people crazy. įinally, this man decided that things happen without a reason, and that nothing has a purpose. He correctly suspected that the accident had given him this immunity to damage, but could not understand why he was to obtain power from an accident who had killed forty people, including his family and friends. To his surprise, he was unharmed and felt no pain at all. He ran away from the hospital and threw himself to a car trying to commit suicide. He would recover consciousness in a hospital, but then discovered that he was the sole survivor and his faith in a rational universe collapsed. Coincidentally, this man laid unconscious for hours on a pool of X07, which would eventually evaporate. The accident killed all of the people in the bus, except for the man who would become Madcap.
were trying to destroy a chemical developed by themselves, Chemical X07, which apparently included enzymes to incite a rapid healing in human bodies. This man, his parents and his sister Katy went to the trip in a bus, with some other forty people. The man who would become Madcap was a religious man belonging to a group that organised a trip.