Daniel Ketch (Earth-1610)

Machine Man
Name	Daniel Ketch
Current Alias	Machine Man
Aliases	The Ghost
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Future Foundation Formerly Howling Commandos, S.H.I.E.L.D.
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Red Blue (formerly)
Hair	No Hair At All, Strawberry Blond (formerly)
Unusual Features	Robot body
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human Cyborg. Bio-mechanically bonded to, and made out of, the Gah lak Tus swarm's nanites.
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-1610
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	Irish, American
Occupation	Soldier
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Joshua Hale Fialkov, Carmine Di Giandomenico
First	Ultimate Comics Ultimates #27 (July, 2013) (As Danny Ketch) Cataclysm: Ultimates #3 (January, 2014) (As Machine Man)
First	Ultimate Comics Ultimates #27 (July, 2013) (As Danny Ketch) Cataclysm: Ultimates #3 (January, 2014) (As Machine Man)

 I love this job. 

—Daniel Ketch

History

Danny Ketch was a master spy and one of the many newest recruits of Fury's Howling Commandos in order to battle Reed Richards and his Dark Ultimates, who had violently started remolding the world. The Howling Commandos made their way to the Maker's base, the Aleph-One, where they assisted the Ultimates in the Dark Ultimates' defeat.

Original human form

During Galactus' invasion, the Howling Commandos found themselves fighting the Gah Lak Tus swarm, which was being controlled by M.O.D.O.K., but numerous of its members were merged into it.

What was left of the Commandos managed to infiltrate into M.O.D.O.K.'s floating city, which was composed of the swarm, the people infected by it and the rests from Reed Richard's City of Tomorrow. Falcon entered the systems, and discovered a new controller was needed to release the victims of the swarm from it, but the new controller had to be merged with the swarm. Ketch decided to become the controller and free the innocents and his teammates from the swarm. The floating city slowly fell apart, and as its former members fell from the sky, Stature and Falcon caught as many as they could. When M.O.D.O.K. tried to escape along with a rest of the swarm, Danny decided to sacrifice himself and explode the city in order to kill M.O.D.O.K..

Danny's consciousness survived after being transferred into the Gah Lak Tus nanites, and was recovered into a robotic body by the mysterious Agent Coulson, who named him "Machine Man". Afterwards, Machine Man joined the Future Foundation.

Attributes

Powers

• Cybernetic Enhancement: After the destruction of his original body Daniel's consciousness survived in the nanites of Gah Lak Tus.
  • Shapeshifting: Being made of nanites Daniel can modify the shape and length of his body.
  • Hive Mind: Daniel can control multiple versions of his body at once.
  • Flight: Danien can fly.

Notes

• His nickname of "The Ghost" is a reference to the identity of the Danny Ketch of Earth-616, Ghost Rider.

Trivia

• Machine Man has an IQ of 110.

See Also

• 14 appearance(s) of Daniel Ketch (Earth-1610)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Daniel Ketch (Earth-1610)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Daniel Ketch (Earth-1610)
• 12 image(s) of Daniel Ketch (Earth-1610)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Daniel Ketch (Earth-1610)