Madcap
Madcap
Real Name: Unrevealed
Occupation: Prankster, absurdist philosopher, host of the "Madcap Mystery Hour" on Manhattan public access cable television, mercenary
First Appearance: Captain America #307
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 145 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
Strength Level: Madcap possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height and build who engages in manic regular exercise.
Powers: Madcap possesses two separate superhuman powers. The first is his ability to rapidly heal his own wounds of the flesh, bone and tissue. The full extent of the capacity is not known. Madcap has been observed to mend broken bones rapidly, expel bullets lodged in him and recover from a variety of lacerations and puncture wounds. It is not known whether he can regenerate severed body parts, because he usually reattaches severed parts of his body simply by holding them to the correct portion of his body. It is believed he can regenerate brain cells, since he survived a bullet wound to the center of the forehead with no apparent permanent damage. Madcap has even returned to life after being declared legally dead by regenerating damage to his heart muscle, and seemingly to his brain since brain cells deteriorate rapidly after death. Apparently, he cannot heal the damage done to most of his body's nerve endings that results in his inability to perceive pain. The extent of his tactile sensations is also unknown.
Madcap's second superhuman power is the ability to psionically stimulate the inhibition centers in other human beings' brains. By stimulating them, he can cause other people to act in a generally euphoric, uninhibited, outlandish manner. He cannot control the type of behavior his subjects will exhibit; that is dictated by the subjects' own psyches. Apparently a person must establish eye contact with Madcap in order for him to affect his or her brain. It is not known precisely how long a person will be prone to aberrant behavior from a single stimulation of one second's duration. This also may be determined by the individual's psyche and normal inhibition level. Madcap's victims have been observed to act crazily for fifteen minutes to a half hour after a single stimulation. If Madcap were to repeatedly stimulate someone before the effect of the first stimulation wore off, he could keep them acting crazily indefinitely.
Weapons: A toy soap bubble gun, called a "fun-gun"; Madcap uses the gun to mislead people into thinking that it causes the effects he induces psionically in his victims minds.
Important Nomad related issues:
Captain America #307 (Stole original costume, used powers to create riot in Manhattan first clashed with Nomad III)
Captain America #309 (Confided origin to Nomad III, captured by Nomad III at Coney Island)
Heroes For Hire #10 (Masqueraded as Nomad III, employed by Silver Sable as member of special Wild Pack team, revealed true self, battled Deadpool and Heroes For Hire)
