ALIASES & NICKNAMES: Menken
RACE/SPECIES: Homo Sapien
OCCUPATION: Oscorp board member; former Personal Assistant to Norman Osborn.
SPECIALITIES: Business, Secretarial, Cover-ups, Media Communication.
BIRTHPLACE: Manhattan, New York City.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Oakland Gardens, Queens, New York City.
Menken was from almost the beginning the prime personal assistant to Norman Osborn as Oscorp began to flourish, and used his business skills to his advantage in helping Oscorp succeed to its full potential. After Norman’s disappearance in 2012, Menken became an Oscorp board member to review its progress and help push it in the correct direction, considering troubles with the Green Goblin and the murder of several board members. He was disgusted by how Harry Osborn first handled Oscorp in mid-late 2012 and so was pleased when the youth’s drug addiction landed him in rehab - Menken personally recommended it, and so Oscorp could continue to run with direction from the board. With Norman Osborn’s return in 2016, Menken provided a key line for co-operation at this time, and swore his continued loyalty, though secretly was far more interested in the progress of Oscorp than in his faithfulness to how Norman ran the company. 2 June 2017, Menken was among those shocked by the reveal that Norman was in fact the Green Goblin, but was again primarily concerned with the state of Oscorp - Harry Osborn was back in control.
NINE TRAITS: Deceptive, Immaculate, Meticulous; Ambitious, Cunning, Serious; Efficient, Critical, Opportunistic.
SKILLS: Communication; Organisation; Presentation; Finances; Time Management; Bargaining.
CURRENT PROJECT: Shadowing the control of Oscorp.
INTERESTS: Money; Oscorp; Technology; Norman Osborn; Antiques; Villainy.
SECRET: Menken detests Harry Osborn, not only because he is a youth, but one who is not serious and could impact on Oscorp’s success.
MOTIVATIONS: To make Oscorp consistently successful.
FLAWS & WEAKNESSES: Misopedia; Bigoted; Allergic to mould.
Norman Osborn is his former boss, and he respected him highly until 2012’s chaotic start with the lack of co-operation. Following Osborn’s disappearance, Menken sought to have more power than his employer, and so became a board member to specifically avoid any further similar troubles.
Menken’s hatred of Harry Osborn began when the boy was young and occasionally visited his father at the Tower and Labs, as Menken as a personal assistant was constantly paranoid that the youth would end up disrupting or else breaking valuable equipment or work. When Harry became Oscorp’s CEO in 2012, Menken persuaded him to take a back seat while he was still studying and recovering from the supposed death of his father, and so was able to control Oscorp as a board member. With Harry back as CEO of Oscorp, Menken wishes to find a better means of removing the Osborn heir.
Dr. Smythe, Head of Security, is a close associate to Menken, as his father before him also controlled security for some time. Menken believes that Smythe can be relied upon to act accordingly, as both have similar attitudes to Harry Osborn.
Dr. Octavius is a previously respected Oscorp employee, but following his crime spree Menken sees him as untrustworthy and a potential liability, though he is curious in his motivations and methods of villainy for his own personal gains. He believes that, in other hands, Octavius’ arms could truly be a solution to many surgeries and accidents, and perhaps even beneficial to the fire department.
Felicia Hardy took on his old job as Norman’s personal assistant, so Menken believes that she is trustworthy to some extent, but is not sure whether her loyalties will lie with the ‘true Oscorp employees’ or their rebellious CEO.
Menken does not take much notice of the underlying genius of Max Dillon, although he appreciates his plans and work on the generator, as the man has never proven himself to be someone to truly notice. The same goes for Ben Reilly, one of the newer lab assistants, who has made little impression on Menken, Melati Kusuma, Dr. Connors' previous lab assistant, and Veronica Gomez, a new intern.
Dr. Ashley Kafka is a close associate of Menken, and is often relied on when Oscorp employees find themselves losing their grip on sanity, or need to be otherwise detained, which is why Dr. Curt Connors was sent to Ravencroft to be ‘treated’ for his Lizard personality, and similarly why Dr. Smythe was detained at Ravencroft following his loss of sanity and incarceration for attempting to remove the Cross-Species Epidemic through unethical means.
Menken had been impressed twenty years ago by the work of Dr. Curt Connors and his research partner Richard Parker in the mid- to late-1990s, and found them both very efficient scientists with ethics he could admire. Following Parker’s disappearance, he found Connors one to watch, but his experiment that turned him into the Lizard instantly disgusted the board member. Menken still believes that Peter Parker might hold critical information from his father to allow the continued research for the Cross-Species project, and as Menken worked with Smythe in destroying Connors’ research, he wishes to find the information and similarly remove it.
Menken would mostly follow the plot of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, so knowledge in the movie would be appreciated here. He would work with Ravencroft behind the scenes to incarcerate Max Dillon after his transformation into Electro, attempt to remove Harry Osborn from Oscorp, and aid Dr. Smythe in progressing Oscorp.
A good writing example for Menken might include some background knowledge or a reaction to the news of Norman Osborn’s imprisonment over the reveal of his Green Goblin identity. A probationary roleplay may be arranged to have Menken interact with Dr. Smythe or Harry Osborn.
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