![]() Īfter his return to civilian life as a research technologist, Connors became obsessed with uncovering the secrets of reptilian limb regeneration. However his right arm was terribly injured in a wartime blast, resulting in its amputation. He performed emergency battlefield surgery on wounded GIs. ![]() He was a gifted surgeon who enlisted in the U.S. Fictional character biography Origin Ĭurtis "Curt" Connors was born in Coral Gables, Florida. The Lizard first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 1963), and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. ![]() In 2009, the Lizard was ranked IGN 's 62nd Greatest Comic Villain of All Time. In live-action, he was played by Dylan Baker in the films Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and by Rhys Ifans in the film The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). The character has appeared in numerous Spider-Man adaptations, including films, animated series, and video games. Because of this, he works tirelessly to find a permanent cure for his alternate personality, much to the worry of his wife, Martha Connors, and son, Billy. Many stories featuring the Lizard deal with the effects he has on Connors' life and psyche since the latter lives in constant fear that the Lizard will one day completely and irreversibly take over his body. Although Spider-Man was able to undo the transformation, the Lizard remained a part of Connors' subconscious and would resurface time and time again, often retaining Connors' intelligence and attempting to replace mankind with a race of reptilian creatures like himself. He developed a lizard DNA-based serum that would allow humans to do the same, and tested it on himself, hoping to regain his missing right arm instead, he transformed into a feral anthropomorphic lizard. In the original version of the story, Curt Connors was a geneticist researching the ability of certain reptiles to regrow missing limbs. Connors is sometimes an ally of Spider-Man just as himself, and not necessarily as his alter ego. While the character has retained this role throughout most of his subsequent appearances, he has also been portrayed as a tragic antihero and occasional ally of Spider-Man. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 1963) as an enemy of the superhero Spider-Man. Curtis " Curt" Connors) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. ![]()
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