Quasi-Motivational-Destruct-Organism. That's the Mad Thinker's fault, by the by. The Thinker doesn't strike me as a guy to draw a lot of personal inspiration from Victor Hugo's masterpiece of futility, so I'm guessing it was a coincidence. Built by the Thinker, given 'life' (re: mobility) by the Silver Surfer, kicked around by the Vision. That's Quasimodo's career in a nutshell. Oh, and he fought Rom the Spaceknight that one time.
Basically, he's a big, hunch-backed blank slate. A slightly sympathetic, second-rate Ultron with an inferiority complex and a petty streak.
But he doesn't have to be. See, Quasimodo provides an interesting opportunity for antagonism. Unlike many villains, Quasimodo's motivations are-to say the least-ill-defined. He wants a human body (or he did), he wants to kill everything, he wants to control over the flow of information on Earth, but why? Why any of it?
My theory is that Quasimodo is simply acting out his original programming-he is, after all, a living computer. An organic artificial intelligence which is self-evolving, jump-starting its own development, and, as a consequence, changing the parameters of its mission as it develops. But changing into what? What seed is germinating in that Power-Cosmic infused husk? What sort of entity is this ugly caterpillar changing into?
No one knows, least of all Quasimodo himself. Maybe he doesn't even realize that he's the ambulatory version of one of Adam Warlock's crazy space-cocoons. But what if he did? What if he's realized that he is only the second stage in the evolution of a new form of life? Would he try and stop it, to remain Quasimodo, or would he encourage it, wanting to be anything other than Quasimodo?
Either way, it would invariably lead to conflict...
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