Melvin is a 90-pound weekling (to rip off the tagline). He has no friends. Melvin is the kind of kid of clumsily waddles around day-to-day, unable to talk to women, other than his mother of course. He lives to clean the Tromaville Health Club. He mops up after the health-crazed loonies of Tromaville and ensures everything is in perfect working order. Do the customers appreciate this? No. Does his boss? No. He is a loser. Nobody cares. In fact, some would rather not look at his pathetic face anymore...

Local health hooligans are resting in a spa when Melvin accidentally mistakes the water hole for his mop bucket, inviting all kinds of lovely fecal matter into their whirl pool. Outraged, they explode on Melvin, making him quiver with fear. They decide to play a little trick on Melvin that will fix him for good. Julie, a sexy tromette, seduces Melvin in the girl's locker room, convincing him to wear a pink tu-tu. "If you wear your pink, I'll take off mine," she says. Melvin, the horny bastard he is, jumps at the opportunity. He struts to their meeting place in the main pool area, but the lights are off. He begins to kiss what he believes to be Julie but turns out to be a sheep. The lights come on, revealling hundreds of extras laughing at him. He tries to get away from it all, running upstairs and finally, leaping through the window. Little did he know that a truck carrying toxic waste decided to park right below him...

He lands into one of the bubbling green barrels rather than the pavement. The toxins warp his skin, making it inflate and puss and ooze and even catch on fire. Ouch. He runs maddly through the streets of Tromaville on fire, returning to his house, where he loses his hair, but more importantly, becomes THE TOXIC AVENGER! His mother, appalled by his appearance, will have nothing to do with him, so he movies out. By rearranging garbage, he makes his home in a toxic waste dumping site. He finds that he now has super-human strength and is capable of most anything!

To find out more, check out the name changes, woman changes, and where his adventures lead Toxie by checking out Toxic Avenger: The Novel, or his cinematic escapades in Toxic Avenger, Toxic Avenger Part II, Toxic Avenger Part III, & his ultimate battle, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV!