Vernor Gliel began his life as the meddlesome neighbor that "Mr. Wilson", from Hank Ketchum's revoltingly published cartoon strip Dennis the Menace, was based on. Born Vernor Ketchum to parents Hank and Anonymous Ketchum, Vernor was based on a combination of his parents' genetic material and also on Quantum Leap's "Ziggy", the meddlesome neighbor from the comic strip Doonesbury. His youth was mostly spent basing things on other things, most successfully, a successful vaudeville career based upon hard work and bribery, which in itself, was based upon him using money to gain access to the hottest revues, the best-reviewed hot spots, and also the spot-hot reviews best in the vaudeville circuit. Soon, though, his career came crashing down upon him when the theater he was performing in came crashing down upon him in the terrorist attacks of 911 A.D. But a life built upon laughs is stronger than a pile of re-enforced concrete, and Gliel soon picked himself up by the bootstraps and floated to Hollywood, where he hibernated for over a thousand years waiting for the movie industry to take off.

And take off he did on a gust of wind called "The Fury," a longform improv technique he invented in which a series of sketches come together in a final orgy of ecstasy of pain and of torture. The violence he proposed in comedy caught on like molten steel hotcakes at a masochists' picnic. Gliel originally proposed that his technique would catch on like hotcakes of molten steel to a race of giants that enjoy the taste of hot metal, until it was pointed out to him that the giants would look upon the steel as sustenance and not as torture. The following year he won the Nobel peace prize for metaphors for the suggestion that his original metaphor was unwieldy.

Using his newfound fame, Gliel hired a ghost writer, an up-and-coming specter by the name of Vun Kleinlin, to write his memoir, an autobiography based on his recollections of an instructional book that he wanted to write about "The Fury" entitled Sign Language, a fictional account of Saussure's semiotics. Using the money from his book advance, Gliel hired a man to buy the book. That man was comedy-loving audiences from across the seven seas and eighteen continents. The book was a critical and monumental flop. But then something else happened. People read it for the first time and decided that loving it was the best thing they could ever do. To this day people still love each other and get married all the time.

In his waning years, Gliel became a staunch recluse, refusing to leave his house except for work, errands, and social events. It was at one of these social events that he stumbled upon our heroes, Wrestling Team. After apologizing to them, the three struck up a friendship, hardened by adversity, and they fast became friends and even faster, became better friends. The fastest thing of all though was the bullet train, which they took to Osaka for their very first performance with Gliel as their mentor. Japan would never be the same again, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Gliel taught Wrestling Team everything he knew including how to brush his teeth and how he could read, but they could not teach him how he had taught them to keep him alive, and in the end, his lessons went unheeded as he died. He will be mist.