The season finale of Creature Commandos - titled "A Very Funny Monster" - is now streaming on Max and we finally learn Nina Mazursky's tragic origin story. It's revealed that, when she was born, her lungs were mostly outside her body. Fortunately, Nina's father was a scientist and created a machine which allowed his little girl to breathe. 

It's clunky and uncomfortable and Nina's mother chooses to leave, believing they'd have been better leaving the girl to die as a baby. Nina's dad comes up with a procedure to transform her DNA and allow his daughter to breathe normally, but it goes wrong and she instead turns into the monster we've seen in the series. 

Now only able to breathe underwater, Nina is mercilessly bullied in high school and eventually decides to run away and live in the sewers as her true self. Unfortunately, when she's spotted in Star City,...