Who Is Martin Soap? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Martin Soap is a Marvel comic book character, with over 41 comic issue appearances. An extremely unlucky NYPD detective assigned to head the Punisher Task Force.

Who is Martin Soap?

Origin Soap mistreated as a child Detective Martin Soap was never loved by his alcoholic mother and after a nurse dropped Soap on his head after she gave birth to him his mother gave him up for adoption abandoning Soap when he was a child. He grew up in an orphanage where he was treated cruelly by the other children and the adults alike. When couples would come looking for children to adopt they would laugh at Soap along with the other children viewing him as to pathetic. When Soap was ten years old he ran away from the orphanage he was staying out and was picked up by a drunken police officer who only pulled over to vomit and saw Soap by coincidence. The detective then gave Soap a ride back to the orphanage. After meeting a police officer whom was kind to him (albeit an alcoholic one) he decided he would like to be a police officer. During his education he met a high school bully who also wanted to be a police officer; a boy whom he stated had a talent for exploiting weakness. This finally convinced him to pursue this career path, because he dreaded the thought that all police officers would be like this boy.

Key facts

Martin Soap is of human origin and first appeared in "Badaboom, Badabing". The character is published by Marvel. With 41 recorded issue appearances, Martin Soap ranks among the most featured characters in comics.