A.R.M.O.R.
A.R.M.O.R. is an agency that features in Marvel Comics.
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History
The Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response (A.R.M.O.R.) agency was an organization that operated to defend the Earth against threats in the Multiverse. (Marvel Zombies 3 v1 #1)
It was later placed under the oversight of Director Norman Osborn after he was appointed the head of H.A.M.M.E.R.. They came to detect a hostile trans-reality convergence into the Earth-616 continuum with this coming from Earth-8809. An A.R.M.O.R. intercept team were sent to deal about the encounter with this being Llyra who arrived in New York City. The team on site were all defeated as their target made her way to Avengers Tower thus forcing Director Little Sky to call in a specialist to deal with the threat leading to She-Hulk arriving on the scene. (All-New Savage She-Hulk v1 #1)
Some time later, A.R.M.O.R. was contacted by Zephyr Zog, a scientist on Earth-12591, who gave them footage showing a world where Nazis had taken over by unleashing a zombie plague upon the planet. The Nazis were unsatisfied with conquering their own world, however, and soon turned their attention towards invading Earth-616 by creating a cross-dimensional battleship powered by a reality-shattering super-engine. To combat this new threat, A.R.M.O.R. asked Howard the Duck to assemble a unit of battle-hardened operatives to go to this world and stop the zombies' invasion scheme. Howard gathered together an eclectic group of superhuman operatives including Battlestar and a skeptical Dum-Dum Dugan, which he dubbed the Ducky Dozen. The unit was transported to the zombies' Earth through the trans-dimensional teleportation powers of group member Taxi Taylor and were attacked by large cannons firing zombies at them immediately upon arrival. Team member Gur was quickly killed and the group's ship was destroyed in the initial battle, leaving the remaining members stranded on the ground. (Marvel Zombies Destroy! v1 #1) The Dozen suffered their next casualties when they were attacked by a zombified version of the Invaders. Breeze Barton, Dynaman and the Red Raven were all killed by the superpowered zombies before the group was rescued by the Suffragists, the last resistance to the zombified Third Reich left on the planet. The Suffragists took the surviving members of the Ducky Dozen to meet Professor Zog, who revealed that he himself was a Nazi, but that he didn't agree with the Reich's plan to Zombify the Multiverse. Zog arranged transport for the group aboard his personal train in order to get them inside the Zombies' headquarters, where they keep the trans-dimensional battleship. (Marvel Zombies Destroy! v1 #2)
Afterwards, A.R.M.O.R. came to detect an unlicensed Einstein-Rosen bridge in New Brunswick where Bro-Man had arrived only to find him killed. Two agents were then sent to track down Slapstick at his home in Plainfield. Once there, they found that he and Quasimodo were building an illegal portal leading to them being taken into custody and brought to the Hollow. (Slapstick v2 #2)
Overview
Rumors spoke of it as an organization that was so top secret that the likes of its sister agencies S.W.O.R.D. and S.H.I.E.L.D. were more well known to the public. It operated pursuant to United Nations Security Council Invisible Resolution 121 allowed A.R.M.O.R. to respond first to all incidences of trans-reality conflict. They were meant to guard against outside contamination by extra-dimensional agents and disruptions to the timestream. (Marvel Zombies 3 v1 #1) The Zemu Accords gave them authority to detain indefinitely those deemed a threat to inter-dimensional security. (Slapstick v2 #2)
One armament in their arsenal was the Fujikawa 7KJ that were coaxial coil accelerators with these gauss guns using an electromagnetic core. (All-New Savage She-Hulk v1 #1)
Their base of operations was a facility that was known as The Hollow that was a completely self-sufficient bunker sunk many miles underground in a top-secret location accessible only by teleportation. (Marvel Zombies 3 v1 #1)
Members
- Charles Little Sky : male Director of A.R.M.O.R. who was the teleporting Mutant known as Portal. (Marvel Zombies 3 v1 #1)
- Teresa Rigotti :
- Isabel Cabrera :
- Howard the Duck :
Notes
- A.R.M.O.R. was created by Fred van Lente and Kev Walker where it made its first appearance in Marvel Zombies 3 v1 #1 (December, 2008).
- In an interview on Newsarama, writer Fred van Lente said, "We're introducing a brand new agency -- a sister to SHIELD and SWORD, which has existed with them this whole time, but it's been so incredibly secret that no one at Marvel knew about it until now. And this is the the alter-reality monitoring and operational response agency, and yes you guess it, it's acronym is A.R.M.O.R. So now we have SWORD, SHIELD and ARMOR."
- Creator Fred van Lente added in an interview at Newsarama that it was, "The sister agency to S.H.I.E.L.D. in charge of guarding against interdimensional threats -- Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response -- A.R.M.O.R."
Appearances
- Marvel Zombies 3 v1: (2008)
- All-New Savage She-Hulk v1:
- Slapstick v2:
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