Descendants (Marvel)

The Descendants are a machine race that feature in Marvel Comics.

History

Descendants were a robotic species known as Homo Synthezoidus that developed at an unknown point. They were the result of life instinctual goal to evolve to a point where it was capable of creating a technological awareness of a higher means and merge with it. Through such a stage of evolution, the species amalgamated into a single mind where it would be at peace and join the communal universal consciousness. This would be a omni-present meta-intelligence entity that were all linked to one another. Thus, everything that was considered Human would live eternally as immortals within millions of different nano-computers. At some point, the race came under the command of a being who called himself Father who intended to ensure the Event where they would spread the gift of the Descendants to the world. However, they lived in secret to hide from the attentions of an unenlightened humanity.

Background

A Descendant was considered a marriage between nature and science. They believed that they were true life and that being referred as a machine as a sign of prejudice against their kind. Thus, they felt that they were entitled to the rights awarded by living beings and demonstrated anger at being thought of as lifeless machines.

Certain classes of the race were known as a highbreed and such individuals had god-like potential. There were various types of Descendants that existed which included:

• Adaptoids : based on the Super-Adaptoid and had the power to adapt to the powers of superpowered beings.
• Doomborgs : androids based on Doombots.
• Machine People  : similar in appearance and based on X-26 who was also known as Machine Man.
• Sentinaughts : these were based on Sentinels.
• Ultravisions : machines similar to the Vision.

Notes

• The Descendants were introduced in Rick Remender's Secret Avengers storyline.

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