Before they got there, they were attacked by a trio of paranormal bounty hunters hired by the Clinic. From there, the group decided to flee the Clinic.Īfter they acquired transportation, Dave suggested that everybody hole up in his trailer park. Dave worked against extreme pain and knocked Hackbarth unconscious. Hackbarth used his paranormal ability to induce a severe muscle spasm in Dave to get past him.ĭave rallied the rest of their therapy group to go after Randy, but when they confronted Hackbarth he used his ability to control the physiologies of others against all of them. When he went to talk to Randy about it, he found Randy being carried by Clinic chief of security Harlan Hackbarth. On the RunĪfter a month at the Clinic, Dave was awoken by Randy's antibody and shown that the Clinic had been spying on them. He found that regular exercise reduced the pain of new muscles. Still, she was one of a number of reasons Dave stuck with the Clinic and began to accept his situation. They decided to give their treatment a try, and were assigned to Therapy Group C, where they met a number of other paranormals.ĭave developed an instant crush on Stephanie Harrington, one of the members of his group, but because she was married and he was insecure, Dave refrained from telling her for many years. The next day, the two drove to the Clinic, where they met with a doctor, who gave them a tour of the Clinic. Dave escaped from the hospital and showed up at Randy's door. Randy's shadowy double (or antibody as it came to be called) sought Dave out and showed him what Randy read. Randy was also experiencing some strange paranormal phenomenon, and when he encountered an ad for the Clinic for Paranormal Research, he wondered if it might not be the solution to both problems. When he next awoke, Dave explained what happened to Randy, who promised to help him. Randy O'Brien.ĭave woke up while he was being treated and began throwing people around until Randy was able to sedate him.

He was taken to Winnebago County General Hospital, where he was treated in the emergency room by Dr. He also lost most of the hair on the top of his head and grew a foot taller.ĭave eventually attempted suicide, by consuming two bottles of painkillers, but Sue found him unconscious and phone the hospital. Over the next week, without any exercising and while experiencing extreme pain, David put on over two hundred pounds of muscle. He called a female co-worker named Sue to help, but because he didn't want to be taken to a hospital, the help was limited to buying large amounts of groceries. On September 20, 1986, Dave woke up after a night of drinking with co-workers, suffering from extreme localized muscle spasms. It was suggested that his mother died in part because she waited too long to go to the hospital. His brother Mark committed suicide in 1983, his father died of cancer in 1984, and his mother died of illness in 1985. He graduated high school in 1970, and, as of 1986, was working for the Waupaca Cheese Factory.ĭave was raised a Lutheran, but lost his faith completely after the death of the rest of his family. Fictional character biography Early life and the Clinicĭave Landers was born on Septemin Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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