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George Tarleton (Clone) (Earth-616)

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I am M.O.D.O.K. The M.O.D.O.K. that was always meant to be.

—M.O.D.O.K. Superior[source]

History

Original appearance

Original appearance

Birth and Early Activities[]

M.O.D.O.K. Superior began his life as a hidden cloned brain of the original M.O.D.O.K., George Tarleton. In the care of a group of Series-700 LMDs, this brain was transferred into a new M.O.D.O.K. body. Having a different personality and purpose from his predecessor, he named himself M.O.D.O.K. Superior.[4]

After obtaining a version of the electrical energy monster Zzzax from smugglers of old S.H.I.E.L.D. tech, M.O.D.O.K. improved the creature's "cognitive matrix" and took it out on a test run to see how much energy and how many minds it could absorb. However, the activation of this Zzzax also alerted military General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, who had once mentally controlled the creature in an attempt to neutralize the Hulk. M.O.D.O.K. Superior made an offer to reestablish an alliance that Ross had with the original M.O.D.O.K., but was rebuffed and forced to flee when Ross began mind-controlling Zzzax and ordered the creature to attack M.O.D.O.K. Superior.[11]

Fear Itself[]

While reformatting Zzzax to keep Ross from controlling it again, M.O.D.O.K. Superior spied on the Avengers and others from a refurbished base one mile under Manhattan.[12] He also encountered and connected with Zero/One, an artificial being his predecessor was partially responsible for creating thanks to the Scorched Earth program. Their combined forces fought against the Serpent's invasion.[13]

Age of Ultron Averted[]

With the other members of the Intelligencia

With the other members of the Intelligencia

M.O.D.O.K. Superior and the other members of the re-formed super-villain genius group, the Intelligencia, captured Spider-Woman while she was in Wakanda investigating an unidentified object that turned out to be one of the Spaceknights. The Intelligencia took Spider-Woman and the defunct Spaceknight to their base for examination. The Avengers soon arrived on the scene to save Spider-Woman. While M.O.D.O.K. Superior was being subdued by Thor, the Spaceknight reactivated and revealed itself to be Ultron. Ultron tried to escape the base, but was blocked by Hank Pym and ultimately defeated. M.O.D.O.K. Superior and the other members of the Intelligencia were presumably arrested after Ultron's deactivation.[14]

Defection from the A.I.M. Empire[]

Later, M.O.D.O.K. Superior and a group of rogue A.I.M. scientists allied with S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to bring down the current leader of A.I.M., Andrew Forson.[15] M.O.D.O.K. Superior promised to provide S.H.I.E.L.D. with information in exchange for amnesty. Maria Hill attempted to obtain all the information M.O.D.O.K. Superior had without helping him, but she was forced to confirm a contract with M.O.D.O.K. Superior, which granted him a lab and a team of scientists to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange of one of the most important pieces of information: which S.H.I.E.L.D. officer was a double agent working for Forson.[16]

After his successful defection, M.O.D.O.K. Superior was forcibly convinced by Doc Green to both apologize for his experiments with gamma radiation (including those on Rick Jones) and promise to never conduct research into gamma radiation again.[17]

Secret Avengers[]

Before joining S.H.I.E.L.D., M.O.D.O.K. Superior and his assistant, Snapper, launched an operation to betray Maria Hill and destroy the organization as soon as they became part of it, under the belief that bullies had to be dealt with, and S.H.I.E.L.D. was "all about [bullies]."[18] M.O.D.O.K. Superior and Snapper sent the android known as the Fury to the mysterious Tlön to see what would come back, and later placed it on the Misericordia, a S.H.I.E.L.D. satellite, to kill Agents Fury and Coulson.[19] He later hired a Latverian assassin to try and fail to kill Maria Hill, and instill in her the idea that someone was coming for her. However, M.O.D.O.K. Superior found himself having fallen in love with Maria Hill, and backed down from his plan.[18]

As soon as Maria Hill's suspicions were confirmed, she tried to confront M.O.D.O.K. Superior, but he had disappeared from the Helicarrier. The mad scientist had returned to Venezuela, where he had once sought the help from a shaman to inquire him about his new-found feelings.[20] Meanwhile, Snapper had carried on with M.O.D.O.K. Superior's plan, and kidnapped Maria Hill. Back to Venezuela, M.O.D.O.K. Superior confronted the Secret Avengers Phil Coulson and Hawkeye, who had been following his trail,[21] and revealed them his plan, expressing his new desire to save the world. Following their return to the Helicarrier, M.O.D.O.K. Superior and the Secret Avengers started planning their next course of action. Upon clarifying he did not know Snapper's location, M.O.D.O.K. Superior received a call from his former assistant, who wanted to gloat about his triumph. Snapper subsequently revealed his whereabouts: the Venezuelan rainforest, from where he planned to unleash the monsters from Tlön on Earth.[19]

Among the Secret Avengers

Among the Secret Avengers

After M.O.D.O.K. Superior and the Secret Avengers arrived to rescue Hill, Snapper tagged him with a transmission conductor, as well as Maria Hill and other people, turning him into the medium of a communal mindscape that used emotional negativity to create a gate for Tlön's rise.[22] This was part of the plan, which continued with Spider-Woman using her pheromones to emotionally subdue Snapper. The rest of the Secret Avengers tagged themselves with transmission conductors to infiltrate the mindscape and try to imagine the best possible universe, hoping the force of their positive thoughts could reach Hill and outweigh the negativity of Tlön. When everything was coming apart at the seams, the final part of M.O.D.O.K. Superior's plan to defeat Snapper was put in motion, and the sentient bomb Vladimir was dropped on the portal to Tlön. Vladimir opened a black hole that, in contact with the Tlön gate, created a singularity, reverting everything back to normal.[23] With the day saved, M.O.D.O.K. Superior took a leave of absence and went on a vacation at a house in Ohio, where he was visited by Maria Hill.[24]

Agents of M.O.D.O.K.[]

Gathering of mercenaries

Gathering of mercenaries

M.O.D.O.K. Superior eventually came out of retirement because it had become boring to him. Remaining with his change of heart, he created the Mercenary Organization Dedicated Only to Killing, which only took out evil-doers. While confronting one of his recruits, Gwen Poole, deeming her a lying and unworthy member, M.O.D.O.K. Superior wound up shot into orbit once Gwen's ghost friend, Cecil, hacked his Doomsday Chair's thrusters.[25]

M.O.D.O.K. Superior later returned to Earth to seek revenge on his former employees, but when he confronted them, he was scared off by their combined might.[26]

As B.R.O.D.O.K.

As B.R.O.D.O.K.

Kissing Season[]

Hoping to reform himself, M.O.D.O.K. Superior moved to Los Angeles, created an attractive and muscular male body called B.R.O.D.O.K. (Bio-Robotic Organism Designed Overwhelmingly for Kissing) and added love to his programming. Seeing himself rejected by the West Coast women, B.R.O.D.O.K. decided to exact revenge on the city as a whole, creating an offshoot of A.I.M. called Advanced Image Mechanics that turned the women who turned him down into giant monsters. He also made Tigra a giantess while brainwashing her into causing damage to the city, attracting the attention of the reformed West Coast Avengers.[1]

Encounter with Force Works[]

As UltiM.O.D.O.K.

As UltiM.O.D.O.K.

During the robot revolution, M.O.D.O.K. Superior awakened the giant robot Ultimo from its slumber below Lingares. After failing to contain it, M.O.D.O.K. Superior created an army of Deathloks out of local countrymen, but they rebelled against him due to embracing the values of the ongoing A.I. uprising.[5] When Force Works arrived at Lingares to investigate and crossed paths with both the Deathloks and Ultimo,[27] M.O.D.O.K. Superior approached them to help[28] and outfitted War Machine with an invention of his, the Subatomic Outgoing Broad-Isotope Gun, with which Rhodes managed to blow off the robot's head. M.O.D.O.K. Superior took the chance to take control of Ultimo's beheaded body, rechristening himself as UltiM.O.D.O.K. When she confronted the villain, Force Works operative Quake opened a rift in the ground to make him fall into the magma beneath UltiM.O.D.O.K.. He resisted, but was eventually pushed into the fissure by the army of Deathloks, whom War Machine had managed to take control of.[5]

Working with Iron Man

Working with Iron Man

M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games[]

Suffering from strange visions of a family he did not remember having, M.O.D.O.K. Superior became somewhat unstable, prompting his rival, Monica Rappaccini, to declare him unfit to lead A.I.M. and violently oust him from the organization. With no resources at his disposal, M.O.D.O.K. Superior saw himself forced to seek the help of Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, to uncover the reason for his mysterious visions. Tony discovered a strange damaged drive in M.O.D.O.K. Superior's hardware, but he needed his StarkWiz technology, which had been recently stolen by A.I.M., to repair it. Fortunately for them, Monica was going to auction it off at the Criminal Technology Show Expo, so the duo decided to infiltrate the event in order to steal the machine. They were ultimately discovered and had to fight their way out of there with the item.[29]

After repairing the drive, Tony traced its source back to the original M.O.D.O.C. experiment on Boca Caliente. M.O.D.O.K. Superior went there to investigate and ended up being killed by Gwenpool, who had been hired to do so by Monica. Confronted by images of M.O.D.O.K. Superior's family, Gwenpool broke through the fourth wall and prevented his death, later helping him track down the house present in his visions. Following the lead, M.O.D.O.K. Superior traveled to Butterville, Ohio, only to find the father of his genetic template there. Alvin Tarleton revealed himself to be the true founder of A.I.M. and also the person behind George Tarleton's transformation into the original M.O.D.O.K.[30]

M.O.D.O.K

M.O.D.O.K.'s family

The visions M.O.D.O.K. Superior was having were manifestations of a program called J-O-D-1-E, which was meant to sedate M.O.D.O.K. Superior while he was in rest mode. It had been inactive since the original M.O.D.O.K. changed his core function from "computing" to "killing," but was restored when M.O.D.O.K. Superior sustained damage one week before. Having subdued M.O.D.O.K. Superior, Alvin attempted to turn him into the weapon his son was meant to have become before he went out of control and took over A.I.M., but M.O.D.O.K. Superior fought back and trapped Alvin's consciousness in his cell phone. He later used the bodies of left over Super-Adaptoid robots to create real-life weaponized versions of his imaginary family; subsequently using them to take over leadership of A.I.M. again.[31]

Project G.O.D.O.S. and Orchis[]

Just when M.O.D.O.K. Superior was planning to colonize the Moon with A.I.M., the Hulk suddenly attacked him and his minions in order to steal some technology from them. As the Hulk fought his way past his minions, M.O.D.O.K. Superior unleashed Project G.O.D.O.S., a giant battlesuit, to fight him. The Hulk disabled the battlesuit with a large train and stole various A.I.M. equipment before leaving M.O.D.O.K. Superior to die in an explosion caused by the damaged battlesuit.[7]

It was not long before M.O.D.O.K. Superior resurfaced again, however. Terrorizing a cruise ship with his experiments, he was defeated by the X-Men.[8] Soon after, M.O.D.O.K. Superior was sprung from imprisonment by Nimrod and Doctor Stasis, who recruited him into the anti-mutant organization Orchis.[32]

As M.O.D.O.C.

As M.O.D.O.C.

The Century Game[]

As part of their civilization-spanning game, the shadowy organization known as the Outer Circle activated within M.O.D.O.K. Superior a sleeper personality that was programmed to serve as their pawn: M.O.D.O.C. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Control). He was deployed to capture and contain the new Invaders team that Captain America assembled to take the Outer Circle down. Having shut the team down for five days, thus buying enough time for A.I.M. to take over Lower Manhattan in the search for Arnim Zola's neganite reactor, M.O.D.O.C. was turned back into M.O.D.O.K. Superior, but was soon activated again; this time to deter the Invaders' victory over A.I.M. However, the Invaders managed to break free from his control and ultimately defeated him, at the cost of the Destroyer's life.[33]

The Master of Yggdrasil[]

As M.Y.T.H.O.S.

As M.Y.T.H.O.S.

Tired of getting used as a pawn in the service of others, M.O.D.O.K. Superior decided to collect the shards of the shattered Bifrost and, having mastered its power, warped reality to make himself the master of the Ten Realms, building his base on Earth and erasing the memory of heroes in the process. Thor felt the disturbance caused by M.O.D.O.K. Superior's re-writing of reality and traveled to Earth to face him. Dubbing himself M.Y.T.H.O.S., M.O.D.O.K. Superior easily overpowered Thor, who retreated until getting strong enough to face his enemy again. When Thor came back, M.O.D.O.K. Superior banished him from Earth multiple times, with the God of Thunder returning in every one of them. Once M.O.D.O.K. Superior's power was depleted, Thor defeated him and reality was turned back to normal.[2]

Fall of X[]

Assuming position as the head of the Operations/Offense division of Orchis, M.O.D.O.K. Superior went on to sabotage Krakoan medicine, making him able to kick the fight-or-flight response within its users into overdrive by broadcasting a certain frequency near them. After multiple successful tests, Doctor Stasis became confident they could use it to win their ongoing war against mutantkind.[34]

Fearing the Avengers would interfere with Orchis' attempted genocide of mutantkind, M.O.D.O.K. Superior recruited former Avenger the 3-D Man as the head of Orchis' Avengers desk, a division created to monitor the team's activities.[35] With Orchis' siege coming to a close and the tide turning in the mutants' favor, M.O.D.O.K. Superior made one final stand against the X-Men that resulted in his apparent death.[9]

Renewed Ambitions[]

M.O.D.O.K. Superior was resurrected through unknown means, and soon founded Chemocorp under the ownership of the Beyond Corporation. One of the individuals he employed was mutant chemist Dr. Valentine Vuong, but when he saw that they were collaborating with Ellie Camacho and Princess, who had broken into the Chemocorp building to find a way to resurrect their father, Deadpool, he sent a cyborg squad to kill them. The trio managed to kill the squad and attempted to get away, only for M.O.D.O.K. Superior to intercept them.[10] He attempted to capture them so he could use them as lab rats, but Ellie managed to distract him long enough for Valentine to regain themself and inject him with a knockout chemical.[36]

Wanting to regain control of A.I.M. again, M.O.D.O.K. Superior began working together with Madame Masque, who had also been wronged by the organization. She managed to provide him with a vial of Pym Particles which M.O.D.O.K. Superior intended to use to enter Forson's brain and take over his body, allowing him to indirectly command A.I.M.[37] He shrunk to the size of a bullet, and when Madame Masque was confronted by Forson and his men at 30 Hudson Yards, she fired M.O.D.O.K. Superior at him. Unfortunately for them, Venom got between Masque and Forson, catching M.O.D.O.K. Superior instead. M.O.D.O.K. Superior burst out of his head by returning to his normal size and, seeing Forson and A.I.M. retreating, he was overcome with rage and attempted to kill Venom and Masque's hostages.[38]

Before he could finish Venom off, Rick Jones, who was possessed by the Sleeper symbiote, intervened, enraging M.O.D.O.K. Superior even more. He destroyed the balcony that they were all on, causing the hostages to fall. Venom and the Sleeper Agent worked together to web up the civilians, until M.O.D.O.K. Superior blasted the latter. Landing on the streets below, M.O.D.O.K. Superior was ready to finish the two symbiotes and their hosts off, only for Sleeper to take him over, knocking M.O.D.O.K. Superior out and using his powers to make all witnesses forget that Jones was the Sleeper Agent. With M.O.D.O.K. Superior unconscious, the symbiote heroes surrendered him to the authorities.[39]

Attributes

Powers

In addition to those that his genetic template possessed when he was M.O.D.O.K., M.O.D.O.K. Superior also seems to have the following powers:

  • Prime Prognostication: Ability to calculate probability that borders on clairvoyance.[citation needed]

Abilities

M.O.D.O.K. Superior has a much higher pain tolerance then his predecessor M.O.D.O.K., having a engineered body that lacks many nerves.[citation needed]

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Seemingly those of his genetic template.

Former Equipment
Project G.O.D.O.S.: A giant battlesuit that gave M.O.D.O.K. Superior augmented strength and durability. It was seemingly destroyed in an explosion during a fight with the Hulk.[7]

Transportation

Flight via his Doomsday Chair.

See Also

Links and References

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 West Coast Avengers (Vol. 3) #1–3
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Thor Annual (Vol. 5) #1
  3. ↑ Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (Vol. 2) #8–10
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hulk (Vol. 2) #29
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 2020 Force Works #3
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games #3
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Free Comic Book Day 2021: Avengers/Hulk #1
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 X-Men (Vol. 6) #8
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 X-Men (Vol. 6) #34
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Deadpool (Vol. 9) #8
  11. ↑ Hulk (Vol. 2) #36
  12. ↑ Hulk (Vol. 2) #37
  13. ↑ Hulk (Vol. 2) #38
  14. ↑ Age of Ultron #10
  15. ↑ Secret Avengers (Vol. 2) #13
  16. ↑ Secret Avengers (Vol. 2) #15
  17. ↑ Hulk (Vol. 3) #6
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Secret Avengers (Vol. 3) #8
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Secret Avengers (Vol. 3) #12
  20. ↑ Secret Avengers (Vol. 3) #9
  21. ↑ Secret Avengers (Vol. 3) #10
  22. ↑ Secret Avengers (Vol. 3) #13
  23. ↑ Secret Avengers (Vol. 3) #14
  24. ↑ Secret Avengers (Vol. 3) #15
  25. ↑ Unbelievable Gwenpool #2–4
  26. ↑ Unbelievable Gwenpool #25
  27. ↑ 2020 Force Works #1
  28. ↑ 2020 Force Works #2
  29. ↑ M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games #1–2
  30. ↑ M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games #2–4
  31. ↑ M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games #4
  32. ↑ X-Men (Vol. 6) #9
  33. ↑ Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (Vol. 2) #7–11
  34. ↑ X-Men (Vol. 6) #22
  35. ↑ Avengers (Vol. 9) #12
  36. ↑ Deadpool (Vol. 9) #9
  37. ↑ All-New Venom #3
  38. ↑ All-New Venom #4
  39. ↑ All-New Venom #5
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