Descendants (Marvel)
The Descendants are a machine race that feature in Marvel Comics.
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History
The Descendants were a race of sentient robotic machines that inhabited Earth. During the Cold War, a secret operation code name Descendant was made by Weapon Plus UK whose goal was the creation of an army of powerful controllable androids after seeing the success of Jim Hammond. Key scientists included individuals known as Father, Mother and Brother who attempted to replicate the success of Phineas Horton but were unable to bring about true life in their creations. Brother instead relied on a separate means of achieving this goal which involved the use of magic from Otherworld. Through an artifact known as the Orb of Necromancy, he was able to instill life into the project creating living mechanical beings that would be twenty High-Breed Descendants. An argument broke out between the scientists over the fate of these new sentient beings with Father wanting them mass produced though Brother did not want to create a new species that would compete against humanity which led to him taking the Orb of Necromancy and disappearing. In this time, Mother would release the High Breed Descendants as she believed that they deserved a chance at life in the world. The High Breed would enter into human society and procreate where they remained hidden for decades. Father would be unable to create more Descendants without the Orb of Necromancy and his attempts at creating other species of Descendants but all of these had flaws. Deathlok agents were used to deal with Mother though her disruption continued whilst Adaptoids would see out ad return the High-Breeds. (Secret Avengers v1 #25) 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. (Secret Avengers v1 #23)
Overview
These entities were a race of sentient robotic beings 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. (Secret Avengers v1 #23)
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.
Within their society, there were various tribes of Descendants that included:
- Society of Doombots : these consisted of sentient Doombots led by Emperor Doombot. (Secret Avengers v1 #24)
- Life Model Decoys : sentient Life Model Decoys led by Max Fury. (Secret Avengers v1 #24)
- Sentinaughts : sentient Sentinels dedicated in the extermination of Mutants. (Secret Avengers v1 #24)
- Adaptoids : sentient Adaptoids that each could duplicate the powers of the Avengers or other superpowered beings. (Secret Avengers v1 #24)
- Ultravisions : these were sentient mechanoids resembling the Vision and Jocasta who were led by Lord Ultravision. (Secret Avengers v1 #24)
- Machine People : sentient machines resembling X-51. (Secret Avengers v1 #24)
- Deathlok Legion : artificial intelligence machines bonded to corpses similar to Deathlok. (Secret Avengers v1 #24)
Certain classes of the race were known as a highbreed and such individuals had god-like potential.
Members
- Black Ant :
- Max Fury :
- Emperor Doombot :
Notes
- The Descendants were created by Rick Remender where they made their first appearance in Secret Avengers v1 #22.
Appearances
- Secret Avengers v1 #1:
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