First Appearance: Extreme Factor Five
Location: Rose City, U.S.A.
Oatmeal is a mutant that lives in the bowels of Rose City.
Creation and concept #
Oatmeal is based on the different people Illya King met while working with the homeless.
Publication History #
Comics and Comic Books #
In the Extreme Factor Five webcomic, Totally Naked Man notices that he has no hot water. Attributing the lost of heat to mutants, Totally Naked Man goes to Rose City investigate. When he arrives, Zetaman is there with news about the comic character, Rightguy. Zetaman gives Totally Naked Man a flashlight. They are interrupted by The Roach who slashes Zetaman’s tires. Totally Naked Man decides to investigate the Shanghai Tunnels instead of helping. There, Totally Naked Man stumbles upon the mutant team, the Extreme Factor Five. The team wants to destroy the U.S. Postal service as a statement of mutant supremacy. The group is confronted by another mutant, Oatmeal. The Extreme Factor Five and Oatmeal were mutated by a brewery accident. Oatmeal came to the sewers to quietly live his life. Totally Naked Man and Oatmeal fight while the Extreme Factor Five leave. The fight spills over to outside. Zetaman stops the fight. Totally Naked Man is left wondering why his water heater does not work.
A gravity powered villain named Heavy Thumb wants to destroy Rose City. Totally Naked Man receives help from a group of mutated worms called The Beneficial Nematodes. The Nematodes do not offer any offensive, but each worm has a skill set that helps humanity. When Heavy Thumb returns to destroy Union Station, Totally Naked Man stalls the villain while the Nematodes learn a new skill, driving. The Nematodes hit Heavy Thumb with a car, there by stopping him. Totally Naked Man rehouses the Beneficial Nematodes underground with Oatmeal the Troll. The Nematodes skills makes Oatmeal’s life better.
Character Overview #
Personality #
Oatmeal is grumpy. He just wants to be left alone. He is friends with Zetaman. Zetaman helped Oatmeal build a residence within Rose City’s underground tunnels.
