Father (Marvel)

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Father in the background from Secret Avengers v1 #25.

Father is a male comic book supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

During the Cold War, Father would be among a trio of scientists including one known as Mother and another known as Brother who were assembled by Weapon Plus UK. They were tasked with a secret code named operation known as Descendant that sought to replicate the success of Jim Hammond and create an army of such androids. Despite their experiments, they failed in instilling true life in their creations. It was Brother who decided to delve into the use of magic from Otherworld by acquiring the Orb of Necromancy. With it, he managed to create sentient androids known as the Descendants with twenty High-Breeds being created. Father would argue for creating more of their kind but Brother disagreed as he did not want to create a species that would compete with mankind. Brother would depart with the Orb of Necromancy preventing the creation of new Descendants whilst Mother freed the only created High-Breed Descendants allowing them to mingle into the human population where they would procreate. Father would attempt to re-create the High-Breed Descendants but failed in making new life within them and instead made numerous related species of this robotic kind but each would have flaws. He would dispatch the Deathloks to deal with Mother but her disruptions to them would continue and Adaptoids were sent to find the High-Breeds to bring them back to the Core. (Secret Avengers v1 #25)

Around the Cold War, Father encountered a Mutant known as the Skinless Man who he recruited into the weapon-building program known as Weapon Plus. He would have his natural abilities enhanced further and dispatched the Skinless Man as an intelligence gathering operative against the Soviets. During this time, Father learnt of the existence of a magical artifact known as the Orb of Necromancy from Otherworld that could give life to the lifeless. He would dispatch the Skinless Man to acquire this relic but another force within Weapon Plus sought to deny Father the artifact. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #22)

At some point, Father would manage to enter into the shrunken World facility that had been in Fantomex's possession and would summon Deathloks to acquire it. Weapon Infinity would travel to the modern age with multiple Deathlok units from a parallel future arrived to accomplish the task where they battled Wolverine's X-Force. A renegade Deathlok unit known as Death Prime was seeking to stop them where Father commanded them to destroy it whilst also protecting the World. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #6)

Overview

Personality and attributes

He claimed that he always preferred his 'daughters' among the Descendants. (Secret Avengers v1 #25)

Father stated that the reason he did not upload his mind to obtain true immortality was because he wanted to keep himself within the form of a dying husk until all of mankind attained the contagious robotic evolution he intended. (Secret Avengers v1 #34)

Powers and abilities

When killed, he was able to grow a new body for himself that he aged to adulthood though the process took weeks to accomplish. (Secret Avengers v1 #25)

Notes

• Father was created by Rick Remender and Esad Ribic who made his first appearance in Uncanny X-Force v1 #6.

Appearances

• Uncanny X-Force:
• Secret Avengers:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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