Maximum Carnage
Character Bios and Information - Jack Arden

by Justin Anderson



Jack Arden:
 birth date- March 14, 1978
 height- 5' 11 1/2"
 hair- brown
 eyes- brown
 
 Jack Arden has had a sad life. At age eight, his house caught fire. While
he magaed to escape the blaze, his parents weren't so lucky. With nowhere
else to go, he moved in with his grandfather. Despite the lack of remains,
he was officially declared "DECEASED" before the seven year peroid had even
begun to expire. The final reason is credited to an inompetence of the acting
coroner at the time, who was convicted of drug sale charges shortly after.

 At age seventeen, his grandfather died, leaving him a lonely drifter in the
streets of a city he now called home- New York. He got by as a for-hire
drug deliverer for local dealers, handling jobs that didn't require identification,
and may have done small tasks for people doing far worse. He didn't care what 
kind of money it was..... it was money.

 At age twenty one, not long before his twenty second birthday, he was captured
in a public bus, driven by Carnage. He became part of an experiment in
immortality. He was also the same test subject to have the final version of
the drug used, leaving him, to all current accounts, immortal. Rapid tissue
regeneration and a non-aging body are the main side effects.

 After helping a newly-reformed Cletus Kasady inject himself with the same drug,
and aiding him in the removal of a wrist unit capable of stopping is heart,
Jack helped Cletus murder the scientist who had created the drug, to prevent
his plans for world domination. Together, the two also levelled the lab facilities
with a pack of high explosives.

 Shortly after, the two formed a small hero team. Jack was instrumental in
stopping Electro from draining the city's power(once again), as well as playing
a major role in stopping a mutated form of the scientist who had created the
drug. He also managed to defeat the Dark God, Domientius, a being who had
inhabited the Carnage symbiote.

 Jack is the leader of the team. He comes up with the ideas, and is the
loud mouth who often curses at his enemies. However, his kill rate is extremely
low in comparison to his partner. It was Jack's idea to join up with the
National Security Agency as unofficial agents.

 Jack has also never had a relationship. In his drifter peroid, he had a hard 
time living on his own, and saw a girlfriend as an extra burden. After escaping 
the labs, however, he began taking Triazomine, a drug generally used on 
sexual criminals to bring their desires to normal levels. In Jack(and other 
normal people), the drug blocks all sexual urges. He is also incapable of 
seeing girls as "pretty", as the drug takes his mind off these things. In effect,
when it coems to women, he is an emotionless robot.

 However, his immortality works against the drug, to a degree. It prevents
him from receiving any unwanted, long-term side effects, and prevents him
from developing a physical addiction. He must also take two pills a day to
keep the effects going. This habit also costs him $1000 a month. He continued
taking these pills even in the year-long retirement Maximum Carnage entered
into after returning from Sub-Nizzuran. Deep down, he takes these because he 
feels no one could ever fall for him. It is his own personal escape from the
subject.

 Jack is very proficient in the use of a large, pump-action shotgun, which he
has used since the beginning. It holds ten 12-guage shells in the magazine,
and has a reach on the left side which fits ten more shells for storage. Jack
is capable of firing and pumping the slide fast enough that there is no pause
between shots. Jack prefers to wear a 'costume' of sorts- black pants, a black
shirt, a long black synthetic coat, which resembles leather, but is bullet-
proof, and recently began wearing black gloves. He also wears a belt around his
waist, which has a loop to hold his shotgun(and is big enough to fit the sword
of Domientius at the same time, as he discovered). During their first adventures,
he wore old sneakers, but recently threw them out in favor of black Army boots
which zip up the sides, and have small pockets.

 Jack recently had his life given back to him, when his boss, General Robert
Peterson, looked over his records. Rather than simply being reinstated as
"LIVING", however, he was given a full life history, including schools records,
a high school diploma, and other papers. This was done to give him an actual
status, and because the General is a generous man towards those under his
wing. 


NOTE: Jack is 100% my creation


Notes: Basically set in the Marvel Universe, I will be using a lot of my
own continuity for this series, and generally focus on the main characters.
Appearances by Marvel's universe will be special occurences. Crossovers with
characters/titles from other companies will be treated as "single universe",
not as "2 universes crossing temporarily". I will also try to ignore major
Marvel comic story arcs. Cletus Kasady, Carnage, and other Marvel characters
are copyright Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. Other characters are either
my creation(copyright myself), or copyright their specific owners if non-
Marvel licensed characters. Characters used without permission/not for
profit. These are strictly fan stories. Permission to reprint extends to
placing this text, unaltered, elsewhere online. It may not be altered,
and especially NOT TO BE SOLD, unless Marvel wishes to license this series
from me.