Dr. Herman Manglar

Dr. Herman Manglar (voiced by William Callaway and later Ron Feinberg) was a geneticist sentenced to imprisonment in the Glades Penitentiary for engineering monstrous creatures in his laboratory. Sharing a cell with Blackthorne Shore, Dr. Manglar was able to escape when the sentient computer, Cypheroid, engineered Blackthorne’s liberation. Unfortunately, while fleeing through the swamp waters, Dr. Manglar took a misstep and met his horrific demise in a pool of illegally dumped toxic sludge. Later, Blackthorne retrieved his decayed remains and enlisted the morbid touch of D’Compose and reanimate Dr. Manglar in the twisted, monstrous body of Nightcrawler (originally named Toxoid). Working from chemicals by the mutated minions of Blackthorne’s phony “Brother Druid” cult, Nightcrawler’s first assignment was to apply his scientific skills to protect D’Compose from the sun’s burning rays. Although Nightcrawler claimed to succeed in his task, and was indeed unaffected by sunlight on later occasions, he and Blackthorne were arrested by Earth Corps before D’Compose tested the formula, only to discover it was painfully ineffective. Blackthorne managed to buy a pardon for himself and Nightcrawler, but when D’Compose attacked their hearing seeking retribution for the formula’s failure, they realized that they will need a new Inhumanoid ally for their protection. Once the two villains secured the beastly Gagoyle from its nesting grounds and tamed it to some degree, Nightcrawler turned on Blackthorne, hurling him into Gagoyle’s feeding pit to coerce a a promise of subservience to him. Blackthorne fled during a clash with the Redwoods. Nightcrawler subsequently took Gagoyle to strong-arm a surrender from D’Compose, but Metlar refused to comply and Gagoyle was destroyed in their fight. Blackthorne soon made his return with the powerful Inhumanoid Sslither, who’s threat pressed Nightcrawler into forging an alliance with Earth Corps. Thereafter struck by an electrical bolt from Sslither, Nightcrawler fled the battle. Three months later, Nightcrawler teamed up with Blackthorne and the Inhumanoids as they set aside their differences in order to sabotage the presidential election. Nightcrawler was seen tainting a lake with hazardous waste that consumed the boat, and nearly the life of one of the opposing candidates.