Adam Worth



Mister  is a highly intelligent and dangerous scientist who was a classmate of Helen Magnus and back in their Oxford days. He also became the basis for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and was one of the few humans who are aware of the location of Hollow Earth.

Biography
Worth studied at Oxford at the same time that The Five were studying and came together. Like The Five, Worth was a genius ahead of his time, but his experiments were more dangerous and twisted, as noted by Nigel Griffin. One such experiment involved forced cell regeneration that resulted in a test mouse growing a second head and dying painfully.
 * In Oxford with The Five

Worth attempted to join The Five during the early source blood experiments, having spied on them for several weeks. While he was unaware of the true nature of their experiments, he said that they could use a person like him on their team but was refused. While The Five did acknowledge that he had the potential, they felt the group was large enough and they (Magnus in particular) were concerned by his abhorrent behavior and experiments.

Magnus later discovered that his experiments were verging on biochemical warfare when she caught him writing an equation for a deadly poison. Brushing it off as a simple equation, he pleaded with Magnus to join The Five. She refused again, stating that they were on different scientific paths.

Worth would approach Magnus and Dr. James Watson some years after their time in Oxford to ask for their help with his daughter, Imogene Worth, who was suffering from a terrible disease. The pair eventually discovered that the girl was suffering from leukemia and that there was little that could be done. Worth pleaded with Magnus to use her "blood experiments," but Magnus refused; the source blood had never been used on a child before, making the effects unknown.
 * Loss and madness

Nevertheless, Watson and Magnus worked tirelessly to save Worth's daughter but the disease won out in the end and she died in her father's arms in the night. The trauma of this triggered a psychotic break in Worth. A secondary Hyde personality developed within him, born from his rage over his daughter's death and his perception that Magnus murdered his daughter.

For the next decade, the two personalities amassed a small empire through the combination of their intelligence and ruthlessness. The government eventually became aware of his activities when he stole a large quantity of cyanide and they came to believe that he would use it as a weapon.

The government were forced to enlist the aid of The Five to hunt down and kill Worth. Magnus shot him after tracking him to a cliff at an undisclosed location, where he fell over the edge. Eventually it was revealed that John Druitt saved Worth in order to force him to reveal the location of his safe houses - Druitt wanted to utilize them for when he went on the run himself and once he had their locations disposed of Worth in the canyon.

Druitt failed to realize that Worth drifted along the waterway onto the site of a civilization of Abnormals that even Magnus was unaware of, who used their highly advanced technology to revive him.

Mental Condition
Worth suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder and, according to Will's observations, he is a textbook sufferer of the mental condition. It is implied that he showed signs of the condition in Oxford in the form of mood swings, short temper and according to Watson burning down a lab, an incident he claimed was an accident.

His condition escalated when his daughter Imogene died of leukemia. Prior to this, he had tried desperately to cure her on his own, but was unable. He then sought out Magnus and Watson at the London Sanctuary to ask for their aid. Both went to the hospital to see if they could be of service but quickly discovered that the girl was a severe case beyond their help.

Telling them there was little that could be done, Worth tried to inquire about the "blood experiments," but Magnus refused saying it was too dangerous to perform on a child. The pair did everything they could, but ultimately the illness claimed the child.

After that Worth's psyche fractured into two distinct personalities, the originally benign intellectual Worth and a violent darker personality born from his rage over the loss of his daughter. The dark personality would eventually come to dominate after bullying Worth into submission under the pretense of protecting him. This dark personality came to despise Magnus, who it viewed as having murdered Imogene and attempting to murder Worth when she had shot him to stop him from waging war on London with deadly poisons.