As an actor, and a pretty famous one, William Basil Baker threw the greatest parties and did his best to always be up-to-date on the latest trends and fashion. When META came around he was one of the first to try it and offer it to his party guests. After nearly a year of using META, Basil (as his friends called him) threw a wild after-party having just finished wrapping as the lead character in an upcoming Stephen King horror film. Everything was coming to Basil and it seemed his star was going to be at the top for a while. He was already considered to be on par with the late actors Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Sean Connery.

It was at this party, however, that things went south very quickly. Having started the party already taking a dose of META, as he wandered from one room to the next throughout the night, mixing with party goers, he would occasionally take another hit with one of his guests. It would be his ninth hit that would be the last straw and trigger the mutation. And it happened in front of all of his party guests.

Now, he has lost his position in Hollywood due to them discovering his drug addiction. Despite his now being able to mimic or shape-shift into anyone or anything, he is relegated to bit parts and stunt work or doing animal movies.

Angered at this, he has taken up criminal work in order to supplement the lifestyle he had grown used to. Basil, going by the identity of Golem, will disguise himself whenever in public, unless his criminal employers need him to be threatening.

Despite the fact he was a much better actor than he is a criminal, Golem has managed to slip through the fingers of the authorities as proving it was him has become difficult due to his shape-shifting.

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META-mutation:

A new drug that is quickly becoming the latest addiction is called META. Rumors state that a meta-mutant has figured a way to enhance the addictive properties while creating a drug with only positive results. The drug can temporarily enhance your body by making you stronger, seems to remove tiredness, and grants better memory recall. However, only now are the side effects beginning to show as prolonged use seems to mutate the user, and not in a positive way. For Basil, this proved to be true as his body takes on the properties of sand, even changing his looks and increasing his height and genetic make-up.

The drug mutated Basil's body fortifying his cellular structure and added, from some as yet unknown source, over 800 pounds of body mass.

Body Conversion-Sand/Clay:

Golem's body is an amorphous blob of animated sand. He possesses the ability to mold the sand/clay into a shape that appears to be completely human, and from that form convert his body (or parts of it) back into sand/clay at will. Golem possesses the superhuman ability to convert his body into sand/clay by mental command. The sand/clay functions identically to, and appears to be, normal flesh. However, he can convert all or parts of his body into animated sand/clay at will. His brain has attained subliminal awareness of all granulated particles of his body. Through conscious effort, he can affect the degree of molecular cohesion between the numerous adjoining surfaces of his particles and thus cause locomotion of discrete volumes, down to the individual grains. There appears to be no limit to how long Golem can remain in his sand/clay-state. If he has been rendered unconscious while in his sand/clay-state, he will remain in that state, although the relaxing of his control over his particles would cause him to become an amorphous pile of sand. Golem's mind continued to function in astral form even when he had turned his head into sand and even when the particles of sand that composed his brain were widely scattered. The limit to how far the particles of his brain can be dispersed before he was unable to reassemble is not yet known.

_____Density Control: His radically META-mutagenically altered body composition and increased density enables him to compact or loosen the particles of sand that make up his form. Consequently, Golem can become as hard as sandstone, or disperse his body so that he becomes invulnerable to physical attacks. A favorite tactic of Golem is making himself slightly dispersed when an opponent punches him, and then making himself rock-solid again, entrapping his opponent's appendage.

_____Reformation: Golem maintains mental control of the particles of which his body is composed so that he could reform his scattered grains unless a substantial portion of his body mass has been isolated.

_____Sand/Clay Conversion: He can convert common grains of sand around him into constituents of his body to replenish portions he might lose track of during battle. In this manner, he can increase his overall size and volume (to some as yet unknown limit), or that of his limbs.

_____Durability: Meta: Able to withstand extreme temperatures and pressures, and virtually all toxins, corrosives, punctures, and concussions without sustaining injury. Able to regenerate injured or missing brain cells, tissues, limbs, or organs.

_____Strength: Superhuman: When Golem's mass is increased so is his strength. The bigger he gets, the more dangerous he becomes. Because of having a body composed of animated sand, Golem possesses phenomenal superhuman strength, able to lift up to 85 tons under optimal conditions.

Sand Blasts: He can project his sand particles outward at high speeds and, when in the shape of a bulky object, with the impact of a large sandbag.

Science: Golem has an above-average knowledge of science, being self-taught.

Self-Sustenance: Golem no longer requires the need for food, air, or rest.

Wall-Crawling: He is somehow capable of using his sand to allow him to walk up walls.

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Heat: Temperatures of 3,400 degrees Fahrenheit can cause his highly impure silicate composition to fuse into amorphous silicate (glass).

Mental Disorder: It is believed he suffers from "delusional paranoia".

Water: Golem's weakness that makes him most vulnerable is water. Water can soften his clay and sand granules therefore, Golem cannot control them and has to wait for them to dry.

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Inner Affects Outer: Dr. Artemis Samson believes that a meta-mutant transformation takes a form reflective of their inner self, that Golem's new form is a physical expression of his inner desire to be anything he wants, just not himself. As Golem is not a meta-mutant, he is the result of one using META to mutate others. Golem is paranoid and uses his acting skills to keep others from getting to know the real him, as he feels letting people in means losing himself.

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Driver: Basil does not have a driver's license.

Final Work: The last film Basil starred in before his overdose was the critically acclaimed, and Academy Award Winning, Metamorphosis.

Gamma Radiation Emission: Due to his body forming from an overdose of META, a gamma irradiated drug, Golem's body emits low level gamma radiation whenever he alters his shape. It appears the moving and shifting of his particles is powered by low-level gamma radiation.

Immunity: Golem is immune to those with the power of geokinesis, such as Citadelle and The Earth Shifter, claiming it is because he is "a force of nature."