Paige was a science intern with a nurse for a mother and a garbageman for a father. She snuck her boyfriend, Tom Thatcher, into her lab one night to show him an experimental form of "hypermecury" that she had helped design for the military. Despite Paige's precautions, Tom was exposed to hypermercury and became Kid Mercury, a Spiderman/Flash parody. He started working as a superhero, and Paige destroyed almost all of the hypermercury to prevent unworthy people from gaining his powers.