Born and raised in Turlock on a hearty diet of soil, Earthworm Jim was merely your everyday common garden earthworm. Crawling around, grossing out little girls, eating dirt and avoiding crows.
His mundane life style changed forever when an ultra high tech indestructible super space cyber suit fell into Earth's orbit landing inches away from him. Taking cover from a dive bombing crow Jim wriggled into its neck ring, igniting a light speed metamorphosis from atomic space particles inside the suit.
With his new found abilities and incredible strength it didn't take long to realise that the suit brought him closer to worse trials than worrying about lawnmowers and early rising crows.
The super suit was originally made for the evil Queen Slug for-a-Butt by Professor Monkey-for-a-head. Psy-Crow the intergalactic bounty hunter was delivering the suit to the queen. In a freak encounter with a renegade, he lost the suit somewhere above Earth and he wasn't very happy once he found out what had happened to it.
Running brazenly into danger shouting "Groovy!" and "Eat Dirt!" Jim is not disheartened that almost everyone in the universe wants to see his head on a plaque for some reason or another. With a natural penchant for adventure, action and blind dumb luck he has been a courageous survivor.
The suit itself possesses bio-mechanical abilities (some still unknown to Jim and often triggered by accident) and gives him unprecedented strength. He's not afraid to use his plasma blaster, heavy artillery, or even hamsters in a tricky situation.