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Name: Zachary Smith, Jr.
Identity: Secret
Membership Status: Inactive (deceased)
Other Aliases: None
Other Affiliations: None
Relatives: Zachary Smith (father, deceased), Dwayne Taylor (adoptive father, deceased)

Powers:  Microbe is a germ empath.  He can communicate with germs to uncover information about other people.  He can also command germs to do perform certain tasks for him.

 

 
History:  Zachary Smith, Jr. worked in a lab with his father under the employ of Dwayne Taylor.  Zachary Smith was working on developing a flesh eating bacteria that only consumed cancer cells.  He thought he had achieved success, but later found out that his son was unconsciously controlling the germs in the lab.  Zachary Smith was ruined and ran off to Scotland where he was convinced he could produce the same results without his son.  Unfortunately he was consumed by the flesh eating virus, thus leaving Zachary Smith, Jr. an orphan.  Dwayne Taylor adopted Zachary and he later joined the New Warriors under the name Microbe.  He was part of the cast of the New Warriors reality show during an encounter with villain Nitro in Stamford, CT.  Nitro used his superhuman power and exploded in a blast that killed 612 people, including Microbe and two of his teammates, Namorita and Night Thrasher.

 

Important Appearances:

New Warriors vol. 3, #1 - First Appearance
Civil War #1 - Killed by Nitro

 
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