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Michael "Mike" Ian Van Patrick is a fictional comic book character created by Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli. Although the character himself is deceased, and in fact died in the issue he first appeared in, the character is said to have been cloned after his death, with his clones continuing to play roles within the ongoing ''Avengers: The Initiative'' series. Described by Slott as an archetypal "all-American boy", the character is introduced in the pages of ''Avengers: The Initiative'' #1 as the great-grandson of Dr. Abraham Erskine, the inventor of the super soldier serum within Marvel Comics' shared universe the Marvel Universe, before being subsequently killed at the end of that first issue. The first clone replaced Michael, and was sent back to his parent's home to prevent them from learning of his death. The next three clones, named Michael, Van, and Patrick, originally worked as the Scarlet Spiders, as part of the Black Ops group within The Initiative. They were revealed to be clones in ''Avengers: The Initiative'' #7. He was cloned once more, in the ''Killed in Action'' story arc when plans were made to fill some of the vacant positions in the Initiative teams with MVP clones. The original Michael Van Patrick's only appearance outside the pages of ''Avengers: The Initiative'' was a brief cameo in an alternate reality ''What If'' comic. All that is known about the original character has been revealed throughout the ongoing series, with Van Patrick's (and the first sets of clones) origins being shown in the 2007 ''Avengers: The Initiative Annual''. However, the Scarlet Spiders (Michael and Patrick) became the first clones to appear outside ''The Initiative'' when they appeared in ''New Warriors'' vol. 4 #14 (September 2008), with the first MVP clone appearing in the following issue of the New Warriors series. ==Fictional character biography== Michael Van Patrick's origins are traced back to the developer of the Super-Soldier serum, that changed a frail Steve Rogers into Timely Comics's〔The 1995 ''Marvel Milestone Edition: Captain America'' archival reprint has no cover date or number, and its postal indicia says "Originally published ... as Captain America #000". Timely's first comic ''Marvel Comics'' #1, likewise had no number on its cover, and was released with two different cover dates.〕 (Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor's) Captain America, scientist "Dr. Josef Reinstein,"〔''Captain America Comics'' #1 (March 1941)〕〔''Captain America'' #109 (Jan. 1969)〕 later retroactively changed to a code name for the scientist Abraham Erskine.〔''Captain America'' #255 (March 1981)〕 On his death, Dr. Erskine left papers, which covered years of research and findings that the government had not seen fit to classify, to his grandson, Brian Van Patrick, who studied his grandfather's work, particularly regarding his work on growing, preparing and serving the most wholesome and nutritional foods, and an exceptionally challenging experimental program of isometric exercises he developed. Brian Van Patrick used the research during the early life and development of his son, Michael, helping him achieve his optimum potential.〔 The events of the 2006–2007 Marvel Comics crossover, Civil War, required all United States superpowered individuals to register with the American government. Some of these individuals were sent to The Initiative's training camp, Camp Hammond. Given Michael Van Patrick's descent from the creator of the super soldier serum, many people came to suspect his athletic abilities to be superpower-related with a subsequent scandal resulting in Michael losing his scholarship and Justice, an Initiative superhero, recruiting Michael for the Initiative program to train him into a superhero. Michael Van Patrick joined the program, under the codename MVP, along with a selection of old and new characters to make up the cast of the ''Avengers: The Initiative''. During the first day's training at Camp Hammond, MVP demonstrated extraordinary speed and agility as he broke the camp's obstacle course record for users without superspeed on his first attempt.〔 During a combat simulator exercise, one of the Initiative trainees, Armory goes out of control and fires blindly on the other recruits, and MVP has to save a fellow recruit Cloud 9. While saving Cloud 9, MVP is shot in the head, killing him instantly.〔 Initiative scientist Dr. Baron Von Blitzschlag, a former Nazi and supervillain, performed the autopsy on Michael's body. The autopsy revealed that MVP's extraordinary physical abilities were unconnected to the super-soldier serum, and were instead achieved by purely natural means. Von Blitzschlag advocated cloning MVP, much to chief administrator Yellowjacket's disapproval. In ''Avengers: The Initiative'' #22, the members of New Warriors take possession of Michael's body; to return him home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Van Patrick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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