User blog comment:Frost the Wolf/Ask my characters!!/@comment-5842470-20130510213605/@comment-5142578-20130517000639

Mimic: Well, like Static, I was also captured by Dr. Nega and experimented on. That's what I get for being the world's greatest theif, I guess. After an attempt on experimentation, I was given the ability to shapeshift, which I later used to escape by disguising myself as one of the robots and just walking out the door.

(this answer is subject to change... I haven't really determined if this is the case)