Simon Stagg

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Simon Stagg

Information
Real name:	Simon Stagg
Species:	Human
Hair:	White
Eyes:	Black
Relatives:	Sapphire Stagg (daughter)
Base:	Stagg Enterprises
Affiliations:	Java
Rogue of:	Justice League, Metamorpho
Abilities:	In Chemo's body, he is granted great durability, super-strength, and the ability to fire beams of flame
Weaponry:	Chemo
Voiced by:	Earl Boen

Simon Stagg is the man responsible for creating Metamorpho.

History Edit

Simon Stagg attempted to create the ultimate soldier—'Metamorpho'. Stagg used his Stagg Enterprises Chemical Division to create a formula capable of turning a human into a shape-shifting soldier. He intended to then sell this being to companies working in dangerous conditions, to lower their insurance costs and make money for himself.

The mutagen was delivered to Stagg from his laboratories by his bodyguard, Java. In transit, however, a test tube of the chemical fell out of the briefcase carrying the samples, and melted the axle of the train, causing a train wreck which Green Lantern failed to avert. Stagg blamed Java for the loss of the chemical smaple—which Batman picked up upon investigating the crash site—saying "If this project fails, Stagg Enterprises will go bankrupt! And it'll be your fault!" Rex Mason, an employee of Stagg's, then discovered the illegal mutagen project and threatened to blow the whistle on Stagg.

Visiting his daughter, Sapphire, later that evening, Stagg learned that she was engaged to Mason. Enraged by this, Stagg decided to test the chemical on Mason by tricking him into the laboratory as he was cleaning out his desk. The mutagen turned Mason into a shape shifting mutant, with a distinctly non-human appearance. Enraged by this, and confused by the changes to his body, Mason, dubbing himself Metamorpho, decided to carry up revenge against Stagg, until Stagg tricked him into believing that Sapphire was dating another man- John Stewart. Metamorpho, mad with anger, turned his sights on destroying Stewart while Stagg enjoyed the show, taping every minute of the conflict in order to prove to his clients what Metamorpho could do.

However, when Metamorpho learned that Sapphire wasn't cheating on him, he went back after Stagg. Upon arriving at Stagg Enterprises, Metamorpho confronted Stagg about why he was chosen to be transformed. After Metamorpho mentioned Sapphire, Stagg told him he would never let him touch his daughter again. Metamorpho was then frozen by Java. Back at Stagg Labs, Stagg attempted to create a new version of the formula, until Metamorpho—who had unfrozen and escaped—intervened. In the tussle, the system Stagg was linked to short-circuited, and Stagg's mind was transferred into the formula, which became a giant, semi-sentient slime creature. His mind trapped in the monster's form, Stagg's unconscious body was found by the Justice League.

Now mentally manipulating the beast, Stagg rampaged through Metropolis trying to find his daughter. After a battle with the Justice League, Stagg found Sapphire at her apartment and took her before battling the Justice League again as well as Metamorpho. Easily defeating them, Stagg then took his daughter and climbed the tallest building he could find. At the last moment, when Batman discovered that the way to stop Stagg was by forming a polypetyde that would dissolve the creature. Metamorpho demanded that the creature let Sapphire go, but taking on Stagg's face, the creature refused. Metamorpho morphed into the chemical and dived inside the creature's monstrous form. As a result, the creature was completely destroyed, while Metamorpho regenerated and came back to Sapphire.

It is assumed that Simon Stagg's mind returned to his body after the creature was destroyed. This is inferred by Stagg, in the hospital, sitting up and screaming right before the chemical monster was defeated by Metamorpho.