Primus (Android) (Earth-616)

Primus
Name	Primus
Aliases	Steve Rogers (can assume the likeness of any individual)
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Unstoppables, ally of Arnim Zola Formerly ally of Thinker and Baron Helmut Zemo
Relatives	Arnim Zola (creator)
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	6′4″ (1.93 m)
Weight	360 lbs (163.29 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Yellow
Hair	No Hair At All
Skin	Yellow
Unusual Features	Shape Shifting
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Organic android created by the Nazi scientist Arnim Zola.
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Castle Zola, Weisshorn Mountain, Switzerland
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Occupation	Servant/assistant
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Jack Kirby
First	Captain America #209 (February, 1977)
First	Captain America #209 (February, 1977)

 I am Primus. A malleable plastiod construct created by Arnim Zola. A Nazi scientist. A mad scientist, to be accurate. Who is now a head in a box. Pleased to meet you. 

—Primus

History

Primus is the most sophisticated genetic creation of the Swiss master geneticist Arnim Zola. Zola, who utilized scientific knowledge amassed by the genetic offshoot of humanity called the Deviants, became an expert at engineering bioforms from living cells (usually human) according to whatever template he desired. Certain of his bioforms, notably Primus and Doughboy, were given malleable tissue able to shape-change into various configurations.

Primus was the first of Zola's creations who possessed creative intelligence and a high degree of autonomy. When Zola captured the hero Captain America and woman Donna Maria Puentes with the aid of Doughboy and Primus, Primus discovered he experienced desire for the woman. Zola wished to use her for genetic experimentation, however, and refused to let Primus have her. Enraged, Primus attacked Zola. Zola used his will-subverting ESP box to make Primus merge with the extremely pliant and nearly mindless Doughboy.

Eventually Primus took control of Doughboy and escaped from Zola's castle, which was engulfed by flames at the end of Zola's first encounter with Captain America. There Primus met the younger Baron Zemo, who had journeyed to Castle Zola to enlist Zola in his crusade against Captain America. Primus joined him instead, using his shape-shifting powers to take on the shape of Amim Zola. Zemo's plan was to totally ruin Captain America's reputation before killing him. Holding the Avenger captive, Zemo sent Primus, in the form of Steve Rogers, Captain America's secret identity, to appropriate his private life and totally subvert all of his personal relationships. However, when Primus met Steve Rogers' girlfriend Bernadette Rosenthal, he again felt desire and decided to continue the masquerade without disrupting it in order to have her love. Captain America escaped from Zemo's lair, and forced Primus to reveal who he really was. Primus managed to abduct Rosenthal and flee from the hero, affording him the opportunity to reveal to her his desire to unite natural and artificial men to create a new order to save the planet. He also wanted to give Rosenthal a new mutated body like his. Captain America tracked him down, and engaged Primus in combat. Although Primus's great strength and malleability gave him the upper hand, Rosenthal provoked him to give up the fight by rejecting him and professing her love for Captain America.

Primus later worked with the Mad Thinker to observe the New Warriors.

Primus later began working for Arnim Zola again who was forced to work for the company Absoluton Solutions to experiment on superhuman prisoners. Primus and Zola and operated out of a bunker in North Dakota formerly used by the villainous group Factor-3. After Zola failed to capture the mutant D-Cel using a brainwashed Quicksand, D-Cel's friend Juggernaut smashed his way into Zola's bunker to stop him. However, Primus was able to restrain Juggernaut and capture him. When D-Cel entered the bunker to help Juggernaut, Primus captured her as well. Before Zola could experiment on D-Cel, Juggernaut smashed his way out of his containment. He then took out Primus by unleashing a thunderclap that dispersed Primus into many pieces.

Attributes

Powers

• Shapeshifting: Primus is an artificial lifeform with malleable tissues, skin and bones. He can increase or decrease the hardness of skin and shed up to 10% of his body mass to become smaller but cannot add mass to become larger. He can change his skin color and make his tissue take on the color and texture of hair. When taking on a new shape he can maintain it indefinetly until he willingly changes back or becomes unconscious. His powers seems to have increased through the years to the point where he can now shed large quantities of his body mass without issue and even grow new limbs.
  • Elasticity: Primus seems to have developed the ability to stretch his body to great lengths and has managed to incorporate and imprison within itself Juggernaut and the keep him bound with his limbs for a prolonged period of time.
  • Size Alteration: Primus has developed the ability to greatly increse his size.
• Superhuman Strength: Primus possesses superhuman strength and can lift 2 tons.
• Superhuman Durability: Primus body possesses a high degree of resistance to physical attack and can enhance it by turning his skin rock-hard. Despite this he is not invulnerable and fire, sharp blades and bullet can injure him.
• Regenerative Healing Factor: Primus can recover from injury 10 times faster than a human and can reattach shed body mass by touching it to its stomach.

Abilities

• Aviation: Primus can pilot flying crafts.

See Also

• 22 appearance(s) of Primus (Android) (Earth-616)
• 3 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Primus (Android) (Earth-616)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Primus (Android) (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) of Primus (Android) (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Primus (Android) (Earth-616)
• 6 image(s) of Primus (Android) (Earth-616)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Primus (Android) (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Unofficial Handbook of the Marvel Universe