Rigid Man

"Tone the bone! Rockabye baby!"

"You can't fight what's Rock Hard!"

- Rigid Man

Clay Halliday was born to an Albanian father and an absent mother as a young child in 1976. In these formative years, doctors would describe him as "indescribable" and "huh?". He spent his early years being educated in the ways of an ancient farmer martial art called Agri-vation, before leaving home in 1980 to go study abroad and further his learnings. On his blessed conquest, he was bitten by a ROCK star and gained something TRULY indescribable. This would alter his bloodstream, his physical being, nay, his life forever - and change the course of history.

After getting a rabies shot to deal with that, he returned to the United States and took a solemn job as a museum night watchman. He was fired twice but managed to demonstrate his security prowess the third time around by killing a coincidentally corrupt museum board member. He was rehired and one night decided to go touch a mysterious glowing stone. The near-lethal levels of radioactivity, when coupled with his unique physiology, gave him extreme strength and the ability to transform his skin into a rock-like substance, resulting in nigh-invulnerability. After growing tired of murders and robberies, Clay decided to use his unique abilities for good, and did so by first preventing a mugging of a female girl known only as The Girl.

This was the beginning of the end for the newly dubbed "Rigid Man" as he was shot forty times in the torso by a masked youth while preventing the robbery of a sperm bank - his second crime. The mortally wounded superhero made his way to the docks where he soliloquized into a recording app with his final breaths, before dying and dropping his phone into the ocean, accidentally ensuring that nobody would hear his plaintive monologue and he would be forgotten by time.

Despite his brief tenure, he is considered by many fans to be the honorary leader of the Flickr Fighters.