Red Goblin: Thanksgiving Riot

An eerie mutant named Red Goblin created in a U.S. government lab causes panic and terror during Thanksgiving 2019 when he attacks the Macy's holiday parade, requiring the army to intervene!

Ted Caesar was a respected scientist working for the secret army science research center in Washington called Oscorp. Dr. Caesar was assigned with the odious task of generating a phenotype-synthesized human mutant hybrid who could control and release heat energy and could be fitted on a jet-glider of some kind to become a soaring menace on the battlefield! Dr. Caesar was very wary of creating such a solider monster, but he felt compelled by his government and the need for a new kind of super-soldier who could help U.S. forces deal with modern urban terrorism in areas such as the Middle East where the U.S. government was trying to create serious political and military fortifications. Dr. Caesar wanted to see if he could create an energy-enhancing serum that would spike endergonic biochemical reactions in the human body sufficient to transform a 'volunteer' American soldier into a heat-controlling super-soldier menace. Dr. Caesar found the right volunteer --- an ambitious U.S. soldier named Toby Richards who desperately wanted to be 'more human than human' to serve his country and the American military!

After one year of development and tedious underground research at Oscorp, Dr. Caesar managed to create the right 'chemistry magic' to transform American soldier/volunteer Toby Richards into the heat-releasing mutant menace-soldier and named him the Red Goblin! Toby was gone and was now completely the Red Goblin. He was fleshy and muscular in appearance and had a red glow in appearance. He was deformed in appearance because of the high-intensity heat energy flowing through his flesh and bones. He resembled something like a humanoid dragon-lizard with elongated skull and fierce eyes. The engineers at Oscorp designed a special jet-glider for Red Goblin which he'd use to soar around, perhaps throwing miniature explosives at enemy forces. Dr. Caesar was congratulated by the U.S. President himself (Donald Trump) who decided to grant Oscorp an incredible new financial grant to continue its military research. However, Dr. Caesar remained wary that what he'd actually achieved was the generation of a true American abomination!

In the first year of military service, Red Goblin was posted to various stations in the Middle East where American forces were attempting to use martial strength to create democratic stability. Red Goblin helped the U.S. army deal with various anti-American units and terrorist cells in places such as Iran, Syria, and Iraq and helped create more martial stability in traffic bridges between Muslim nations antagonistic to America and Muslim nations engaged in secured peaceful trade with America, such as Saudi Arabia. Red Goblin soared around on his jet-glider and threw explosives and released heat energy to completely unnerve his enemies; and sometimes, he'd use his ultra heat energy to literally burn up the guns wielded by anti-American terrorists, requiring them to immediately drop their weapons at the feet of U.S. security forces! Red Goblin was so strange in appearance, that Al Jazeera (Muslim-TV) journalists claimed America now had a Godzilla of martial heat in their dominion!

However, things turned sour. Red Goblin started developing rebellious feelings of independence and began resenting being a laboratory genesis of the U.S. government. He didn't want to spend his life simply serving American forces and being a martial servant of democracy or capitalism! Red Goblin wanted to lash out and break free and decided to escape his U.S. military fortress shelter in D.C. and was considered missing and hunted as Thanksgiving 2019 approached! The Washington Post got the leaked information that Red Goblin was no longer, temporarily at least, a perfect boon for the U.S. military, and civilians started wondering what the martial abomination would no now that he was completely free! Red Goblin decided to hop on his jet-glider and terrorize the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He didn't kill anyone but the explosives he released created pure terrorism. The army managed to capture him and then moved him to a maximum-security cell so his 'father' (Dr. Ted Caesar) could interview him!

RED GOBLIN: What do you want to ask me, doc?

DR. CAESAR: Toby, don't you remember your original optimism?

RED GOBLIN: Look, I had to break free and become independent!

DR. CAESAR: You're still Toby Richards.

RED GOBLIN: No, I'm the Red Goblin, and you know it.

DR. CAESAR: Why did you wreak havoc on Thanksgiving? 

RED GOBLIN: Thanksgiving, like American consumerism, has become a frill.

DR. CAESAR: Life during the holidays is not a frill, Toby.

RED GOBLIN: Please, Dr. Caesar; call me Red Goblin!

DR. CAESAR: Well, then, Red Goblin, what's your thinking?

RED GOBLIN: I want to create hell and anarchy on Earth.

DR. CAESAR: Why?
RED GOBLIN: I don't want to be a mere puppet of civilization.
DR. CAESAR: What does that mean?

RED GOBLIN: I want to make a real impact outside the bounds of governance.

DR. CAESAR: Beyond governance there's only terrorism, leviathan, and dragons!
RED GOBLIN: Well, consider me a leviathan then or something, Dr. Caesar.

DR. CAESAR: Please call me Ted.

RED GOBLIN: Alright, Ted; I'm now a messenger of frailty.

DR. CAESAR: What does that mean?

RED GOBLIN: You see America as a haven for democratic vision.

DR. CAESAR: What do you see America as, Red Goblin?

RED GOBLIN: I see America as a forum for great revolutionary fantasies!
DR. CAESAR: Fantasy!
RED GOBLIN: Yes; without the right kind of escapist fantasy, there's no liberty.
DR. CAESAR: There're ways to embrace the yearning for liberty without resorting to anarchy.

RED GOBLIN: Like what?

DR. CAESAR: For example, you might consider watching and cheering World Cup soccer on TV.

RED GOBLIN: World Cup soccer?

DR. CAESAR: Yes; cheering on soccer-stars like Messi and Ronaldo make you feel imaginative! 
RED GOBLIN: Why, are you recruiting me for some kind of media advocacy, doc?
DR. CAESAR: Consider the modern social value of celebrating social media activities.

RED GOBLIN: What's so special about televised international soccer, Dr. Caesar?

DR. CAESAR: For one thing, it's better than indulging in destructive fantasies.

RED GOBLIN: Alright; get me soccer cable-TV in my cell, and I'll tell reporters about Ronaldo!

DR. CAESAR: That's a deal, Red Goblin; in times of hysteria, we can forge festivity.

RED GOBLIN: You have a unique way of thinking folklorically, doc.