Name: Ulysses Klaw   Occupation: Ex-scientist, professional criminal   Aliases: None   Legal Status: Citizen of the Netherlands with a criminal record   Place of Birth: Vlaardingen, Netherlands   Marital Status: Single   Identity: Publicly known   Known Relatives: None   Group membership: Former member of the Masters of Evil II   Known Allies: Doctor Doom, Solarr, Molecule Man II, Venom, The Controller, Ultron   Known Enemies: The Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Black Panther   Base of Operations: Mobile   Extent of Education: College graduate

Statistics and Description

Physical Description

Height: 5' 11"   Weight: 175 lbs.   Eyes: Red   Hair: None   Other features: Klaw wears a prosthetic device composed of molybdenum steel which contains a minature version of his sound converter machine. the artificial hand is attached to his sound/mass body by as yet unknown means. Klaw activates the circuitry of the device by pseudo-cybernetic commands.

Powers, Abilities and Limitations

Intelligence: Normal   Strength: Superhuman Class 5   Speed: Superhuman   Durability: Superhuman   Stamina: Superhuman   Reflexes: Normal   Agility: Normal   Fighting Skills: Minor hand-to-hand combat skill.   Special Skills and Abilities: In as yet some unknown way, Klaw's body is a stable form possessing mass and sentience. The form is not bound by conventional human limitations: he does not need food nor sleep, nor can he be harmed by penetration wounds, disease, shock of impact, oxygen deprivation, ect. Klaw's body can in fact be vivisected into many pieces without killing him and these pieces can be fused back together by simply touching them to one another.   Superhuman physical powers: Klaw can transform ambient sound for a variety of uses through his prosthetic sound converter attached on his right arm. He can project waves of intense sound, high volume sound ( maximum loudness of 170 decibels), capable of deafening anyone within .6 mile radius. He can convert sound into controlled blast of concussive force with a maximum force equivalent to 3,000 pounds of TNT. He can also create 3-dimensional, mobile sound/mass constructs possessing such complex forms as those of animals. He shapes and animates these constructs by mental command and they only remain in existence for as long as he wills them. Not possessed of the sentient life force that his own sonic form is, the constructs are not nearly as invulnerable.   Superhuman mental powers: Klaw can maintain his state of existing without a physical body. Hence Klaw cannot be physically destroyed. Since his body is quasi-solid, he can be touched by physical objects. Although it would cause no permanent damage, a sufficiently powerful blow may not only stagger him but may cause temporary unconsciousness.( This occurs when the impact creates a counter frequency that is disharmonious to that of his body).   Special Limitations: Klaw's major vulnerability is his susceptability to Vibranium, the substance that triggered his original transformation. Because Vibranium absorbs all forms of energy including sound, the nearness of a certain quantity of Vibranium can cause the mass of his energy form to become unstable and collapse. Usually when this occurs, Klaw's body is absorbed by his own prosthetic sound converter.   Source of superhuman powers: Exposure to Vibranium in a sonic converter, changed his body into "living sound".

Where did Klaw meet Venom???

Klaw, along with the Controller aided Venom in the graphic novel The Vault, where the Rhino and Armadillo decided they did not want to be part of the massive prison break attempt at the Vault and attacked the leader of the escape attempt from behind.....which was Venom!!

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