Chocos




 * "You're a junkie. A Chocos junkie!"
 * --Batman

Official Name: Chocos™ Other Names: Oreos™ Model: Inapplicable Versions: Regular or Double-Stuff

Origin
Chocos is the name ascribed to a popular brand of sandwich cookie. A single cookie (referred to as a Choco) consists of two circular chocolate-flavored wafers pressed together with a refined sugary "cream" filling.

Lead Designer: Lead designer unknown Additional Designers: Additional designers unknown Place of Creation: Place of creation unknown Place of Destruction: Martian Manhunter's mouth First Appearance: (as Chocos) Martian Manhunter (Volume 2) #24 Final Appearance: Unknown

History
Previous Owners: Martian Manhunter Current Owner: Current owner unknown. History: During the time when the Justice League first acquired an international charter, the Martian Manhunter developed a fondness for Chocos cookie snacks. Whenever he wasn't on monitor duty, or coordinating League functions, he was usually found munching on a bag of Chocos. At some indeterminate point in time, fellow JLI teammates Booster Gold and Blue Beetle decided to play a trick on J'onn. They stole his remaining supply of Chocos, and purchased the entire stock from every retail outlet throughout the city. Upon discovering that he was bereft of Chocos, J'onn threw a tantrum. His shape-shifting abilities raged out of control, and he began tearing up the city streets in desperate need of Chocos. As the withdrawal symptoms continued, J'onn's intellect lessened, until he was little more than a brutish, enraged, "hulk" with little semblance of humanity.

Blue Beetle and Booster Gold attempted to bring the Manhunter under some semblance of control, and they lured him towards the warehouse where they had stockpiled all of the pre-purchased Chocos. J'onn consumed copious amounts of cookies until he returned to normal. With the danger passed, J'onn returned to the JLI embassy for a special meeting with Maxwell Lord and the other League members. Teammate Batman discovered that the Chocos produced a chemical reaction in Martian physiology, similar to that created from addictive narcotics. The intervention proved successful, and J'onn recognized that he had a problem.

With full control over his anatomical structure, J'onn used his shape-shifting powers to morph around the cells that had contributed to his addiction. He literally exorcised the Chocos addiction from his body, whereupon it briefly took upon a slight semblance of sentience. The living "addiction" attacked several other League members including Guy Gardner, Ice and Max Lord, until J'onn destroyed it with a blast of his Martian vision. With the personified craving excised from his system for good, J'onn returned to normal – free of his addiction to Chocos.

Characteristics
Dimensions: Approximately 1.0" in diameter (per Choco) Weight: Less than an ounce (per Choco)

Powers

 * Chocos produce a physical addiction in Martian anatomy, however the validity of this characteristic has not been satisfactorily provided, and may even be untrue.

Trivia

 * Chocos were originally called Oreos, the real-world name brand for the Nabisco cookiee product. The name was retroactively changed to "Chocos" in Martian Manhunter (Volume 2) #24, likely due to copyright issues from the Nabisco Corporation.


 * The symptoms of J'onn's withdrawal included shape-shifting into a larger, more muscle-bound version of himself. Combined with a temporarily reduced intellect, this version of the Manhunter was reminiscent of the Marvel Comics character, the Incredible Hulk.

Recommended Readings

 * Justice League International (various issues)
 * Martian Manhunter (Volume 2) #24

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