Editing The Toxic Avenger (1984 film) (section)

==Plot==
Melvin Ferd Junko III is a 98-pound [[janitor]] at a health club in the fictional town of Tromaville, [[New Jersey]], where the customers Bozo, Slug, Wanda and Julie regularly harass and bully him. They trick Melvin into wearing a pink [[Tutu (clothing)|tutu]] and hugging a sheep. He is ridiculed and chased around the health club and out a second-story window. He falls into a drum of toxic waste, which transforms him into a hideously deformed [[mutant]] with [[superhuman]] size and strength.

A group of drug dealers, led by Cigar Face, are trying to bribe a police officer. When he refuses to accept the money, Cigar Face and his gang prepare to [[castrate]] him. Melvin appears and kills the criminals, and leaves a mop on their faces as a calling card. Cigar Face escapes, promising to take revenge. When Melvin returns home, his mother is terrified of him and will not let him in the house, so he builds a makeshift home in the local junkyard.

A gang of three men hold up a Mexican restaurant and attack a blind woman, named Sara. They kill her guide dog and attempt to rape her, but are stopped by Melvin. Melvin takes Sara back to her home, where they get to know one another and become romantically involved.

Melvin continues to fight crime, including drug dealers and pimps for [[Child prostitution|underage prostitutes]]. As Melvin gives aid to the people in the city and is celebrated as a hero, Mayor Belgoody, the leader of Tromaville's extensive crime ring, fears having the truth exposed due to some criminals dying or others surrendering to the police. He wants Melvin gone. A group of men, led by Cigar Face, surround Melvin with guns. Just before they fire on him, he leaps up to a fire escape so they shoot each other instead.

Melvin takes revenge on the four bullies who caused his transformation. He first attacks Wanda in the health club's sauna and burns her backside on the heater. He returns to the club later, pursues Julie into the basement, and raises a pair of scissors to do something offscreen. Melvin confronts Bozo and Slug after they steal a car due to Julie's absence. They attempt to run Melvin down, but he leaps onto the roof and throws Slug out of the moving car. Melvin then gets in and pulls off the steering wheel, causing Bozo to drive off the side of a cliff. The car explodes, killing Bozo.

When Melvin kills a seemingly innocent old woman in a dry cleaning store (in fact a leader of a [[human trafficking]] ring), Belgoody calls in the [[United States National Guard]]. Melvin is horrified at what he has become. He and Sara move away from the city and into the nearby woods.

They are eventually discovered, and the Mayor and the National Guard come to kill him. However, the people of Tromaville step in, and Melvin's mother identifies the mutant as her son. The Mayor's evil ways are revealed, and Melvin rips out Belgoody's organs to see if he has "any guts." Hailed as a hero, Melvin continues to combat crime in Tromaville.