Total Reality A version of virtual reality purposefully designed to be highly addictive. Requires a specialized headset and program disks. "Blue Sky" is a common Total Reality video. Slang: Frequently called TR. Slang: A user with a bad psychotic reaction goes on a "TR trip." Slang: "Eyewashing" is the term for getting clean from Total Reality. Quote: "It accesses them to a total reality dreamscape without the auto interrupters of virtual reality." Quote: "When they are on loop, they don't eat, they don't sleep period unless someone breaks the program, they usually die." Punisher 2099 #2, #3, #15
Toxins, Hellrock
There are highly concentrated environmental pollutants and radiation found on the island known as Hellrock.
Those exposed to the air of the island will either die or mutate into a deformed creature known as a Mutroid within an hour of exposure.
The tyrannical leader of Hellrock Island, with the very 1990s name of Dethstryk (yes, with a y), has created a highly concentrated injectable form of the toxins.
Ravage 2099 #3. #4, #27
Toxins, Dr Menkell's
A concoction of concentrated environmental toxins injected into patients by Doctor Rudolf Menkell (sometimes spelled Menkel).
He feels environmental toxin exposure is the root cause of a condition he calls Identity Fragmentation Syndrome.
He uses the toxins in unethical, and downright illegal, experiments on patients admitted to his clinic.
Slang: Doctor Menkel calls exposure to a large dose of toxins "toxic shock."
Quote: "The toxins trigger all kind of physical, temporal, and dimensional instability — including physical regression to earlier forms of man."
Ravage 2099 #16, #17
Tryptophan Mist: An odorless, colorless, non-toxic gas made from concentrated tryptophan, which is the amino acid that supposedly makes people sleepy after eating Thanksgiving dinner. The mist is commonly used to treat insomnia. 2099 Unlimited #9
Venom, Red Crab
An aromatic and extremely addictive hallucinogenic drug refined from the venom of a particular species of marine crab, which has become extinct due to overharvesting for its venom.
People taking the drug develop deep red discoloration of their eyes, both the sclera and irises.
Prolonged use of the drug mutates the user on a genetic level which grants them and their descendants improved resistance to Necrotoxins.
Doom 2099's plan is to expose the current residents of Latveria to this venom, allowing them to develop resistance to the Necrotoxins that they will be exposed to in his future.
Doom 2099 #42
Venom, Spider-Man 2099's Spider-Man 2099 can inject venom into people through his fangs when he bites them. The venom causes pain, paralysis, weakness, and disorientation. It is fast-acting, but short in duration. Spider-Man 2099 #13
White Heat An inhaled synthetic neurotransmitter that has strong mutagenic properties; the longer someone is on the drug, and the higher the dose, the greater the chance of mutation. The mutations tend to be superhuman abilities, usually physical changes. White Heat is used by the street gangs of Transverse City, particularly in the Little Calcutta area. Slang: Users of the drug refer to the act of taking the drug as "heating up." Slang: Reaching the level where mutation starts is known as "hitting the threshold." Quote: "Gives users a powerful feeling of superiority, which, if they use heavily enough, ends up being justified." Quote: "In megadoses, it kicks metabolism into overdrive, boosts IQs, the whole superhuman nine yards. It's like a more potent version of the Captain America super-soldier serum from the twencen, except turned into an addictive street drug." Ghost Rider 2099 #10, #11, #15, #16