and given that redmond w. terwilliger had always been physically enfeebled he had been built like an understuffed scarecrow crafted in the image of an anorexic russell brand after a crash diet while living in ethiopia even as a teenager , when a young duke manfist had bullied him in gym class and set him on the path of super-villainy he had never really been able to move the hand around , a problem that was only getting worse .