Real Name: Todd Tollansky
Origin: Bayville, New York
Affiliation: Brotherhood
Powers: Powerful leg muscles, long sticky tongue, spits a sticky substance at foes
Background: For Todd Tollansky, life has been very difficult, due to his less-than-normal appearance. He was Mystique's first recruit into the Brotherhood of Mutants, turning down an offer to become an X-Man. Toad is the consummate yes-man, constantly doing his best to be accepted by the rest of the Brotherhood, but usually manages to land flat on his face and be laughed at yet again.

After Blob, Avalanche, and Toad almost failed in their rescue of Quicksilver, Magneto, through the use of Gambit, placed his son at the head of the Brotherhood. Leadership changes only gave Toad a new person to suck up to.

However, when the Scarlet Witch joined the Brotherhood, Toad was immediately enraptured by the dark, brooding girl. So strong was his unrequited affection that when Wanda was captured by her father and had her memories altered by Mastermind, Toad, came to the rescue, going as far as to recruit arch-rival Nightcrawler to help him save the girl he loved. The two acrobatic mutants actually managed to spirit Wanda away from Magneto. When Wanda realized that Toad was more concerned about her than himself, she began to warm to him, though the two still have a long way to go before any kind of a relationship can be built.

Soon after the apparent death of Magneto, a typical argument between Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch on a subway lead to a large wreck. In an attempt to save their own skins, the Brotherhood also saved many on the train, and were soon considered heroes. The Brotherhood, under the guidance of Quicksilver, began staging accidents and rescuing people. Though they portrayed mutants as good people, the X-Men still suspected they were behind the accidents, especially Cyclops and Jean. At the same time, Principal Kelly began his run for mayor of Bayville, on an anti-mutant platform. The Brotherhood attempted to strongarm him, but the X-Men ran them off. Kelly wasn't impressed, and vowed to continue his platform, and walked away from the X-Men. Afterwords, the Brotherhood staged and solved another accident, pinning it on the X-Men through Scarlet Witch's clever use of her powers. With the X-Men in jail, Quicksilver decided to stage one more, gigantic accident, which the Brotherhood could not control, and the X-Men were released to stop the devastation. Though they tried their best, they still needed Avalanche's help to stop the accident from doing too much damage, after which he promised they were out of the hero business, permanently.
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