Editing Toad (Marvel Comics) (section)

{{Short description|Fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics}}
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{{Infobox comics character
| character_name = Toad
| image          = Toad (Mortimer Toynbee ).png
| caption        = Toad as he appeared on the cover of ''X-Force'' #5 (December 1991).<br />Art by [[Rob Liefeld]].
| real_name      = Mortimer Toynbee 
| species        = [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|Human mutant]]
| publisher      = [[Marvel Comics]]
| debut          = ''[[Uncanny X-Men|The X-Men]]'' #4 (March 1964)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Misiroglu |first1=Gina Renée |last2=Eury |first2=Michael |title=The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood |date=2006 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=9780780809772 |url=https://archive.org/details/supervillainbook0000gina/page/366/mode/2up |language=en}}</ref>
| creators       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Stan Lee]]
* [[Jack Kirby]]
}}
| alliances      = [[Brotherhood of Mutants]]<br />[[X-Men: The 198|The 198]]<br />[[Defenders (comics)|Defenders]]<br />The Misfits<br />[[X-Mansion#Post X-Men: Schism|Jean Grey School]]<br/>[[Lethal Legion]]
| aliases        = The Terrible Toad-King, [[Stranger (comics)|Stranger]]
| powers         =
* Expert kickboxer, mechanic, and machinist
* Superhuman leg and prehensile tongue strength and endurance
* Superhuman agility, balance, endurance, and leaping ability and leaping distance
* Moderate superhuman [[healing factor|regeneration]]
* Elongated prehensile tongue
* Psychoactive venom secretion
* Paralyzing mucus secretion
* Adhesive spit
* Ability to stick to walls and other surfaces and climb walls
* Superhuman lung strength; can expel strong gusts of air from his lungs and stay underwater for longer periods of time than a normal human
* Can communicate on a basic level with [[amphibians]]
}}
'''Toad''' ('''Mortimer Toynbee''') is a fictional character appearing in [[American comic book]]s published by [[Marvel Comics]]. Created by writer [[Stan Lee]] and artist/co-writer [[Jack Kirby]], he first appeared in ''[[Uncanny X-Men|The X-Men]]'' #4 (March 1964).

Toad is most often depicted as an enemy of the [[X-Men]] and was originally a [[hunchbacked]] [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|mutant]] with superhuman leaping ability. He was [[Magneto (Marvel Comics)|Magneto]]'s [[wikt:toady|sniveling servant (or "toady")]] in the 1960s line-up of the [[Brotherhood of Mutants|Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]]. He later became the leader of his faction of the Brotherhood, which focused more on criminal activities than mutant liberation.

Since his inception, the character has appeared in numerous media adaptations, such as [[television series]], [[film]]s, and [[video games]]. [[Ray Park]] played a significantly different version of Toad in 2000's [[X-Men (film)|''X-Men'' film]], with aspects of his portrayal being incorporated into the [[comic book]] version. A younger Toad appeared in the film ''[[X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', played by [[Evan Jonigkeit]], and an alternative version of the same character appears in ''[[Deadpool & Wolverine]]'', played by Daniel Ramos.