Mekanique
Mekanique is a female comic robot supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Mekanique was a feminine robot that came from the 23rd Century from a future era where a small elite ruled despotically over a downtrodden slave race. The elite were in danger of being overthrown due to a woman named Maria, who led the slaves into open rebellion. To combat this, an evil scientist named Rotwang created her and gave her the ability to travel back in time for the purpose of making sure Maria would never be born.
She arrived in 1942, appearing suddenly in the headquarters of the All-Star Squadron; badly damaged, Mekanique attacked Firebrand. Before she can be destroyed by Green Lantern, Robotman steps in and offered to repair her. A subsequent power surge threatened to destroy the headquarters, but instead restores Mekanique. She revealed that she is from the far future, and had returned to the past to prevent a horrible future war. Mekanique shows the heroes an image of a child about to be killed in a car accident, and they save her, thus changing the future. However, she reveals to Robotman secretly that the rescue of the child did not prevent the future war, but instead made certain that it took place.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. Mekanique
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Mekanique was created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thoms, and Todd McFarlane where she made her first appearance in Infinity, Inc. v1 #19 (June, 1985).
- Mekanique's future world is the one of Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis, and Mekanique herself the Maria-robot. This was possible, in part due to the fact that at the time of publication, "Metropolis" was a public domain film in the US and DC could, as such, use the film freely. However, for copyright reasons, Roy Thomas gave her a completely unique name rather than have characters refer to her as 'Maschnenmensch'.
Appearances
- Infinity, Inc. v1: (1985)
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