Malcolm Lynch (Earth-51618)

"“They call me the Lone Wanderer for a reason. I chose to be alone, there's nothing left for me in this world. I just can't bring myself to leave it.”"

- Malcolm Lynch to Logan

Malcolm Lynch is a former architect who now travels the world with James Howlett and co trying to bring down The Essex Corporation.

Early Life
Malcolm was born to Joseph and Mary Lynch, he had a twin brother named Callum and from an early age they were inseparable. Malcolm and Callum would do everything together and would daily promise each other that they would always be together. This all changed when Joseph Lynch was taken to prison for murdering his wife Mary in front of his two boys.

The boys were then separated by the government and placed into two separate foster families. Malcolm was placed into a family that contained two other children one older sister and one younger brother. Malcolm however never felt at home besides caring for his adoptive family as everyday he vowed to be reunited with his brother.

Meeting his Wife
One of the perks of being with his foster family is that they were able to afford to send him to the University of California, Berkley. There Malcolm gained a degree in Art and Architecture (top of his class) and secured a job at Gensler a private architecture company in San Fransisco. Over a couple of years and few months, Malcolm had risen from the bottom to nearly the top and was one of Arthur Gensler Jr.'s right hand men. Gensler would send Malcolm on trips to firms in China, Spain, Russia and Morocco.

It was in Morocco that Malcolm met his wife to be at the Gensler firm. Emily Wick was a fellow Gensler employee who had been stationed in Morocco for 3 years and was approximately half way through her stay. Malcolm had been sent to Morocco on an off the books trip to sabotage life's work a building dedicate too her deceased grandfather. Malcolm and Emily hit it off and became lovers with Malcolm constantly delaying his deadline as he needed “more time”.

Emily fell pregnant and gave birth 9 months later to a boy they named Jonah after Emily's grandfather. A year after that Gensler sent another employee to find Malcolm and kill him in order for him to not release the work Gensler had him do privately online. Malcolm heard about the plan from one of his closer colleagues who resigned days after. Malcolm prepared to release all of Gensler's files and hidden documents online and then move to Switzerland with his now wife and son.

Death of his wife
When the Ellis Crane (the man Gensler sent to kill Malcolm) arrived in Morocco, Emily met him and lured him to Malcolm's office where she left them alone. Crane immediately tried to strangle Malcolm with a garrote wire to strangle him. Malcolm managed to overpower Crane and severely wound him in his stomach. Malcolm got in a car that was scheduled to drop himself, Emily and Jonah at the airport for a one-way trip to Zürich.

Crane who had survived crashed into the car before riddling it with bullets. Malcolm crawled out of the car seemingly unharmed before noticing he was bleeding from his side. Malcolm saw Crane who had collapsed and turned to see both the driver and Emily dead but in Emily's hands was a very much alive Jonah. Malcolm pulled Emily out of the wreckage and weeped over her dead body whilst cradling both Emily and Jonah. Malcolm then put them down gently and walked over to Crane who had nearly bled out snd began to beat him as other car drivers watched in horror. Punch after Punch Malcolm nearly broke Crane's jaw before the ambulance arrived taking himself, Emily, the driver, Crane and Jonah to hospital.

Malcolm was stitched up and stayed with Jonah in hospital for a few days accompanied by Malcolm's adoptive family. A few weeks after recovering Malcolm had the paperwork for his adoptive parents to adopt his son and take them along with him when they moved to New Zealand.

Assault on Gensler
Malcolm met with an arms dealer in New York who referred to himself as The Tinkerer and was able to secure a few assault rifles and grenades as well as body armour. During his visit in New York, Malcolm witnessed a web-slinging mutant stop a bank robbery.

Back in San Fransisco, Malcolm used a jeep to ram the ground floor of Gensler before making his way to the top floor wounding all who try to stop him. Malcolm arrived at the top floor and held Arthur Gensler at gunpoint whilst asking questions. Gensler revealed that a private company had come paid a 7 figure fee to the company too kill Emily Wick. When Malcolm asked for a name Gensler replied with “Essex”.

Trivia

 * After the death of Malcolm's wife and son he became a heavy alcoholic.
 * Malcolm learnt how to use his Weatherby Vanguard and Colt Python from watching tv and his son play video games.
 * Due to travelling around the world as an Architect, Malcolm can speak Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian and his native English fluently.
 * Malcolm is an avid hunter and he enjoyed painting.
 * Malcolm engineered a formula that allowed Wolverine to fully use his healing factor.
 * Malcolm created web-shooters just in case Peter Parker's abilities were to be taken away.
 * Malcolm has a round of Adamantium bullets that he hides just in case. The only person to know this is Peter Parker.
 * Malcolm treats Peter Parker as his adoptive son.
 * Malcolm keeps in frequent touch with his son and adoptive family.