Fictional character biography
Billy was born in Florida to Curt and Martha Connors, the former of whom is a biologist. The family move to New York City so that Curt can continue his research in limb regrowth. Curt's research leads him to transform himself into a reptilian creature called the Lizard, who attempts to kill Billy. Billy is rescued by Spider-Man, who returns Curt to normal with an antidote to the Lizard formula. [1]
Curt eventually chooses to leave his family, saddening Billy and Martha. [2] Curt later returns and turns Billy into another lizard creature dubbed Lizard Jr., but the two are captured and returned to normal by Spider-Man. [3] [4]
Sometime later, Martha and Billy contract cancer after being exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. Martha dies while Billy survives and is forced to live with his aunt. [5] [6] [7] During The Gauntlet and Grim Hunt storyline, Curt loses custody of Billy, who the Lizard kills in an attempt to suppress Curt's personality. [8] [4] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
In the Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy storyline, Ben Reilly resurrects Billy and Martha in clone bodies. [14] They are later infected with the Carrion virus, which threatens to degrade their bodies, and are transformed into lizard hybrids to save their lives. [15] [16] [6] [7] [10] [13]
While Billy and his family live peacefully in the sewers, getting occasional friendly visits from Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, he longs to return to the surface and attend a regular school. Despite this, his father angrily rebuffs his pleas and he, in turn, has started to rebel. [17]
During the Hunted storyline, Billy is captured and used as a hostage by Kraven the Hunter as part of Kraven's efforts to test his clone, the Last Son of Kraven, and provoke Spider-Man into becoming the "hunter" Kraven feels his enemy should be. When trapped in a cage with Curt, Spider-Man learns that Curt took Billy to Doctor Strange after his resurrection. Strange confirmed that the resurrected Billy is the original Billy's soul reborn in a cloned body rather than a separate individual. [18]
An amnesiac Billy later appears as a member of Squid Kid's Sinister Six as Lizard Boy. [19] He and Martha are later recruited into the Sewer Enclave by Miles Morales' clone Shift. [20]
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