Professor Madison

Professor Madison
Character Information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Residence	Mojave Desert, Reality Z-25 31-H
Occupation	Inventor
Romantic Partner(s)	Rodney Rabbit (primary) See list
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	COMIC: Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine
Also seen in	See list
Copyright	Paul Hoppe (?)

Professor Madison was an American scientist from Reality Z-25 31-H, skilled both in genetic manipulation and in the construction of robots controlled by brainwaves. An old friend of Kelly, she served as a kind of ally to the “Terrific Two”, having notably crafted their superhero outfits for them. She had a similar relationship to Captain Evening, having notably built his iconic Skycicle.

Description

Physical appearance

Professor Madison was a woman with shoulder-length hair, usually wearing a skirt, shirt and labcoat as well as a pair of triangular glasses which most people found ridiculous. She was slightly taller than Kelly. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

Personality

Professor Madison was characterised principally by a steadfast cheerfulness bordering on bubbliness. Although a genius inventor, she was the epitome of the absent-minded scientist. She was criticised by her assistant Hank for often forgetting he existed, ultimately prompting Hank's turn to evil, and her extreme fondness for her old friend Kelly came with complete blindness to Kelly's many flaws, with Madison somehow suffering from the unassailable delusion that Kelly was “a warm, caring person”. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

Biography

Early life

At some point prior to moving to her laboratory in the middle of the desert, Professor Madison became acquainted with Kelly, being arguably the acerbic Kelly's only friend. She later moved to said hideout in the Mojave Desert, where she lived with the genetically-engineered, anthropomorphic rabbit Rodney (who became her life partner) as well as Hank Richards. She began developing various dagnerous devices she kept under tight security, such as a Deathray. (COMIC: Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine)

Reuniting with Kelly

Madison and Kelly reunite. (COMIC: Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine)

In 2011, following their abduction by aliens, Kelly and her employee Jenkins travelled to Madison's remote laboratory to ask for her help in destroying the unbreakable alien chains handcuffing them to one another, as well as to get her to analyse their newfound superpowers. Kelly was glad to help, quickly getting through the chains using the Rabbit, a remote-controlled giant robot she'd been developing. However, during the following night, her Deathray was stolen from its vault.

With Jenkins eager for him and Kelly to act as superheroes under the umbrella of “the Terrific Two”, as he'd been hoping, Madison enthusiastically agreed to let them investigate the theft, and created indestructible superhero costumes for the two of them (as Madison's power of bursting into flames, at least, had made her go through outfits at an alarming rate of late). It turned out that the theft had been carried out by a vengeful Hank Richards, jealous of the attention Madison accorded to Rodney, who had highjacked the Rabbit. Kelly ultimately destroyed the Rabbit, despite it showing signs of having developed sentience, after Richards had been put out of commission. Madison refused to dwell on the possibility that this had been anything other than an accident. (COMIC: Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine)

Discovering Armstrong

Madison wearing her portal-detecting device. (COMIC: Enter–the Legion of Light!)

Professor Madison and Rodney later came to stay at Captain Evening's home in New York City in order to help him, “Jenny Everywhere” and Merv the Griffin investigate Doctor Brain's recent usage of a transdimensional portal in a scheme to kill the Captain. Madison created a helmet-like device which could be used to detect and trace the formation of multidimensional portals. After the heroes hurried to the site of one such detected portal, and brought back a benevolent, but disassembled, living skeleton, Madison helped put him back together, checking against an anatomical chart. (COMIC: Enter–the Legion of Light!)

Testing a teleporter

Madison thanks Terry Tornado for agreeing to help with the testing of her teleporter. (COMIC: Terry Tornado and the Teleporter)

Some time later, Professor Madison invented a set of teleporting booths. Another superhero friend of hers, Terry Tornado, agreed to help test it out. Despite Madison's assurances that there would be no such problem, Terry insisted on stripping out of fear of a “The Fly scenario”. However, there was a completely different malfunction during the subsequent test, with Terry rematerialising not in the second booth but in the neighbours' refrigerator. (COMIC: Terry Tornado and the Teleporter)

Things subsequently quieted down for Rodney and Madison, sinking back into as much of a sense of “normalcy” as could ever possibly describe the life of an anthropomorphic rabbit and a mad scientist. However, Rodney reflected that this was not necessarily a bad thing. (COMIC: Rodney's Epilogue)

The Singularity War

Following a bout of heroism, Professor Madison has an unexpected fling with Mysto the Space-Wizard, with the amused approval of Rodney. (COMIC: Singularity War)

Some time later, Madison and Rodney were asked by Captain Evening to house-sit for him. While there, Madison received a call from Kelly. She and Jenkins were being hunted as anomalies by the Bureau of Singularity, and Kelly had managed to captured a damaged portal to the Bureau's interdimensional headquarters. Madison repaired it before phoning the Captain for help. However, being busy with a different adventure with the Odds, the Captain told her to activate his computer's Omega Protocol, summoning any available allies of the Captain's to the Fortress of Evening. Terry Tornado and Mysto the Space-Wizard responded to the call, and, with their help, they set off into the Portal. Before leaving, Madison downloaded half of her mind into an android duplicate of herself to guard the Fortress and the Portal itself.

Once at the Nexus of Realities, Madison was turned invisible by Mysto so that she could follow Jenkins on a discreet mission to find the office of the Director of Singularity. There, they witnessed the Director's obsession with keeping the Bureau's records in order. They revealed themselves to him and bluffed him into thinking they'd switched the labels on a number of tapes, and would only tell him which ones if he agreed to sign a contract guaranteeing that the Bureau would no longer interfere in Reality Z-25 31-H. With the day saved, all the heroes returned home. Most then left the Fortress, but not Mysto nor Madison, with the two spending the night together. In the morning, however, Madison was called away by Captain Evening, who needed her help at his current location. (COMIC: Singularity War)

Recurring elements of The Cosmic Beholder

The Odds The Blue Knight • Captain Evening • Centennia • Armstrong Fatbuckle • Merv the Griffin • Jenny Everywhere • Jenny Nowhere • Jung-La The Terrific Two & associates Kelly • Jenkins • Professor Madison • Robot Madison • Rodney Rabbit • The Mutant Villains Armagedda • Bureau of Singularity • Captain Perfect • Doctor Brain • The Devil • Hexia • Insecto • Jesse Brain • New Protectors (Kate Kerrigan) Other characters Alicia • Babs • The Big Bad Wolf • Glow Girl • The Human Tree • Mysto the Space-Wizard • Red Riding Hood • Terry Tornado Items Doctor Brain's Portal • Fortress of Evening • Magic Sword of the Legion of Light • Odd Mobile • Professor Madison's device • Skycicle