The
"Awesome" Android is an artificial being created
by the Mad Thinker utilizing
research gathered by Dr. Reed
Richards. The earliest of the Thinker's attempts at
creating pseudo-living superhuman servants, the Android
is a cross between a robot and a true android, possessing
certain mechanical parts in its pseudo-organic body. The
Thinker created the Android soon after reaching the Baxter
Building headquarters of the Fantastic
Four for the first time and seizing Reed Richards'
notes about replicating DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the
molecules of life. By splicing the DNA molecules of an
ape to "unstable molecules'' (a configuration of
unknown atomic nuclei and electrons responsive to certain
energized matter around it), the Thinker created a 15
foot pseudo-organic body into which he implanted a powerful
micro-computer brain and a solar-charged power source.
The configuration of the Android was the Thinker's own
design. Programmed for combat, the Android has unstable
molecular tissue and skin which enables it to mimic certain
properties of the beings with which it establishes physical
or sensory contact. It can, for instance, mimic the Thing's
rocky epidermis; Iceman's
ice-coating, Rom's steely armament, and Captain
America's phenomenal physique. The Android can also
expel 180 mile per hour winds from its mouth, form its
fists into granite-like blocks, and expand in size about
10% through unknown means. It is relatively slow-moving
and incapable of speech. The Mad Thinker has since built
many other androids and robots that have served him more
effectively. The Thinker had abandoned the Android who
has taken refuge in a barn in Ohio.
The Awesome Android was revived by the Super-Adaptoid
when it created a group of robots called Heavy Metal to
distract the superhuman team called the Avengers.
The Android was seemingly destroyed by the Avenger, the
Sub-Mariner, who ripped
off its head and allowed the Android to sink into the
ocean.
First Appearance: FANTASTIC FOUR #15
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