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Throughout the early years of Marvel comics, Toad (first introduced in 1964) is consistently treated like a pathetic joke by both the narrative and writers, and by the characters themselves.
Primarily this is driven by his appearance, which, as a result of his genetic mutation causes him to have a hunched back and nebulous facial deformity, which leads others to treat him like shit, including all of the heroic characters.
By 1975’s Avengers #138 Toad– whose last appearance had him abandoned and imprisoned in space in 1970– has recognized that the way people treat him is wrong, decided that he hates it, and taken action to pursue his goals for himself, rather than being someone’s yes-man.
In this time he has taught himself alien mechanics, built a rocket ship, and mastered alien illusion technology.
And… the Avengers still just laugh him off like he’s not even worth thinking about.
They don’t even send him to jail or anything. They just laugh at him.
Fucked up.
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