Psycho-Man
Psycho-Man is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
It was part of the cluster of worlds know as Sub-Atomica that were located within the Microverse. From within the single earthly atom, he observed the Earth as chief scientist of his world. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #5)
Unknown to him, the renegade scientist was guided by Nox of the Fear Lords into unlocking the enigma of fear and starting him on the path to become the Psycho-Man. (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme v1 #32)
His people's were expanding at a fast rate and they required a larger planet to house their population. He hen determined that Earth was perfect for his people and decided to use his mind ray technology to conquer it. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #5)
He was known to had met the Quiet Man where they two became close allies. (Fantastic Four v1 #642)
Another of his schemes was enlarging a subatomic monster to distract the Fantastic Four and Hank Pym who were forced to deal with the danger. This allowed the Psycho-Man to target the young superheroes at the Avengers Academy who were being trained by Spider-Man. The Psycho-Man used his abilities to overwhelm their emotions forcing the students to turn against Spider-Man until he managed to free them. During the battle, Mettle destroyed the Psycho-Man's mechanical body causing his real form to shrink back into the Microverse. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #662)
During the Serpent's attack on Earth, the Psycho-Man sought to collect the fear that saturated on the planet for his experiments. This involved to capture the avatar of fear that was the Man-Thing who was to be used to create a doomsday weapon that was a fear bomb capable of bringing countless worlds to their knees. (Fear Itself: Fearsome Four v1 #2)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, the Psycho-Man was a humanoid wearing a white, green and black armour with a yellow face mask. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #5)
Though a master of emotion, he claimed that he was a stranger to the emotion of pity. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #5)
He had a daughter who went by the name of Psycho-Woman who used a similar guise as her father. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #32)
Powers and abilities
In reality, he was a microscopic being who piloted a humanoid artificial body that was operated by mental control. The armour he wore was capable of protecting him from a range of attacks. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #5) He later rebuilt his suit into the ultimate combat armor with increased capabilities. (Fear Itself: Fearsome Four v1 #2)
This generated a psycho-ray that influenced the emotions of his target. The images he created were capable of destroying his foes. He claimed that there was no defence against his mind ray. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #5)
He was regarded and classified as being a cosmic-level threat. (Fear Itself: Fearsome Four v1 #2)
Notes
- Psycho-Man was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in Fantastic Four Annual v1 #5 (November, 1967).
Alternate Versions
- In Ultimate Fantastic Four v1 #44 (2007), the Psycho-Man appeared in the Ultimate Marvel universe setting of Earth-1610 in the Multiverse. This version of the character was Revka Temerlune Edifex Scyros III (translated to "The king with no enemies") who was an inhabitant of the planet Zenn-La.
- In Marvel Adventures: Hulk v1 #12 (2008), the Psycho-Man appeared in the alternate universe setting of Earth-20051 in the Multiverse. He was a scientist named Revka from a subatomic realm who looked to conduct experiments on emotional manipulation. He was raised to become the strongest telepath that Zenn-La ever produced and instated an edict that made him the ruler for the rest of his natural life. Using machines located throughout Zenn-La to augment his telepathy, the Psycho Man kept the planet's population docile and happy through ignorance. He trained the Silver Searcher Norrin Radd to be his successor. Disgusted with the shallow perpetual joy enforced by his master, Norrin rose up against Revka and freed Zenn-La's population from his control. The planet ended up destroying itself, and the Searcher was banished from Zenn-La for his betrayal. A long time passed before Reed Richards attempted to create a Cosmic Cube. In an attempt to locate an energy source powerful enough to power the Cosmic Cube, Reed locked onto the power of what he thought was a star and instead summoned the Silver Searcher to Earth. The Searcher saw the people of Earth as suffering and unhappy, and summoned Revka to Earth. Revka was first dubbed the "Psycho-Man" by Johnny Storm. Believing the citizens of Earth to be suffering due to their own thoughts, Psycho-Man took telepathic control over the people of Earth. He teleported the population of Earth, now placated and under his control, back to Zenn-La. There he again used his telepathy augmented by his machines to control the population, giving them the identities and personalities of the original residents of Zenn-La. It was the Searcher who first came out of the Psycho-Man's control once again. He freed Reed from Psycho-Man's control by flying him out of range of the Psycho-Man's machines. When Psycho-Man realized what was happening he sent others, similar in appearance and powers to the Silver Searcher, to regain control of the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four, with the help of the Silver Searcher, were able to defeat the Psycho-Man's minions and also Psycho-Man himself. Using Psycho-Man's own machines against him, they were able to reprogram his mind so that he believed that he was a little child. Psycho-Man was doomed to live out a life of blissful ignorance similar to that which he had forced upon the population of Zenn-La and then the people of Earth
In other media
Television
- In Fantastic Four, the Psycho-Man appeared as an antagonist in the 1994 animated series episode "Worlds Within World" where he was voiced by actor Jamie Horton.
Appearances
- Fantastic Four Annual v1: (1967)
- Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme v1:
- 4 v1:
- Fear Itself: Fearsome Four v1:
- Fantastic Four v1:
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