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The Termite
The Termite is hired by Obadiah Stane for industrial sabotage and is confronted by Iron Man.
Name:
The Termite
Publisher:
Real name:
Unknown
Aliases:
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Male
Powers:
- Chemical Secretion
- Earth Manipulation
- Gadgets
First issue:
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Origin
![Here comes the Termite!!](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/0/5586/834494-t1.jpg)
The Termite would keep burrowing until he found a subterranean cavern. He felt it was the perfect refuge to sculpt works of art with his mutant abilities. The Termite was an artist, a sculptor that was working on a statue when his mutant powers manifested. He discovered that he can dissolve anything he touches including stone and metals. He wanted to create the grandest statue the world has ever seen and took assignments from Obadiah Stane to finance his dream. The Termite would appear at an outside art exhibit in the Sierra Nevada foothills where he was displaying one of his statues. However the visitors were just ridiculing his statue until Iron Man appeared. Rhodes was hot tempered and was going rampant as he tried to take down the Termite. Stark would appear and shoot the Termite with a mutant neutralizing weapon created by Forge. The Termite passed out from the blast and was taken into police custody. Still imprisoned years later, the Termite asked the other inmates to change the channel when Tony Stark was appointed US Secretary of Defense.