Adaptoid (Earth-616)

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Super Adaptoid

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Real Name

Unknown

Current Alias

Super Adaptoid

Aliases

Super-Adaptoid, Cyborg Sinister, Supreme Adaptoid impersonated the Fixer, Alessandro Brannex

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Bad

Affiliation

Phalanx, member of the Phalanx's Selects, formerly AIM, Heavy Metal, New Enforcers

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Mobile

Characteristics

Height

Variable

Weight

Variable

Eyes

Silver

Hair

Bald

Unusual Features

Silver skin

Origin

Origin

Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) built the Adaptoid robot and incorporated a portion of a Cosmic Cube into it.

Creators

Stan Lee, Gene Colan, Jack Kirby

First appearance

Tales of Suspense #82
(October, 1966)

History

On its first mission, the Adaptoid tried to replace Captain America.^[1] Believing it had killed him, it went into hibernation in Westchester County. The presence of the X-Men and the Mimic revived it, but when the Mimic tried to copy the Adaptoid's powers, they both lost all their powers.^[2]

Subsequent battles against the Avengers^[3] and Iron Man^[4] went badly.

When the Adaptoid encountered Captain Marvel, it copied his Nega-Bands, thus gaining access to the Negative Zone.^[5] Although it lost that battle, it later lured Captain America to the Negative Zone. The Avengers and the Thing captured it and imprisoned it underneath Avengers Mansion.^[6]

The Masters of Evil (IV) captured the mansion and accidently released the Adaptoid.^[7] It changed its strategy and collected several other androids (Machine Man, Sentry 459, Dragon Man, Awesome Andy, and Tess One) to form the team Heavy Metal. They attacked the Avengers' Hydrobase, but the Adaptoid's ultimate goal was to find Kubik, another product of a Cosmic Cube, and copy its powers. Almost omnipotent, it battled Captain America but could not overcome his indomitable will. Kubik erased its new powers, removed its Cosmic Cube portion, and sent it back into hibernation.^[8]

The Machinesmith briefly revived it.^[9] Doctor Doom appropriated the Adaptoid and sent it after the Fantastic Four. At the time the Thing had lost his powers, so the Adaptoid couldn't copy them, but with his mechanical substitutes the Thing made short work of it.^[10]

The New Enforcers recruited the Adaptoid to battle Spider-Man.^[11]

After another crack at Captain America^[12], the Adaptoid battled the Heroes for Hire and took heavy damage.^[13]

Devlin D'Angelo, a crime boss, bought the Adaptoid and forced Bruce Banner to repair it, apparently unaware of Banner's propensity to become the Hulk. After facing the Hulk, the Adaptoid murdered D'Angelo.^[14]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Mimicry: The Adaptoid can copy the powers, appearance, and equipment of any superpowered being in close proximity to it. It then becomes a duplicate of that being, visually indistinguishable from it. Given the opportunity, it can copy up to eight different beings at one time, combining their attributes in a seemingly random fashion, but all these attributes turn green. The main picture, for instance, shows the Adaptoid with Captain America's shield, Thor's chest medallions, and Iron Man's ribbed armor.
  

Abilities

Only those he copies

Strength level

Variable

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: Variable
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Variable

Notes

• No special notes.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Appearances of Adaptoid (Earth-616)
• Character Gallery: Adaptoid (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Adaptoid (Earth-616)
• Quotations by Adaptoid (Earth-616)

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