TOAD BOY
Real Name: Tarquin Berderaux
First Appearance: District X (Vol. 1) #2, August 2004
Powers: Toad Boy was born with a grotesque physiology that began to produce an addictive and hallucinogenic chemical in his body's secretions when he reached puberty. His mutant power was used as a source for a party drug called “Toad Juice”. It caused pleasant hallucinations in mutants, but can be fatal to baseline humans, causing rapid random mutations often resulting in violent deaths. Tarquin’s mother was both the first to discover his mutant powers and become addicted to their effects. Given that she did not show any extreme reactions to “Toad Juice”, she is either a mutant herself or has some immunity to its negative side effects on humans due to her genetic relationship to Toad Boy and her repeated and prolonged exposure to his secretions.
The full extent of Tarquin’s mutations was reversed by Mister M.
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His power made him a living drug source.
His “Toad Juice” was the reason why the Jewish mutant crime lords of District X’s Mutant Town (Filthy Frankie & Shaky Kaufman) we’re warring with one another: Control over a lucrative mutant drug source.
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