Alkhema

Alkhema is a female robot comic supervillain that features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

The War Toy in Avengers West Coast v2 #91.

Alkhema was constructed by Ultron-13 as a second attempt to create a mate with her being based on the brain patterns of Mockingbird. For this goal, Ultron abducted Hank Pym, Mockingbird, and Myron MacLain. Using mind control, he forced MacLain to forge an Adamantium body, whereupon he forced Pym to program the body with the brain patterns of Bobbi Morse. Thus, Alkhema was created as a result where she soon greeted the Avengers who came seeking Ultron's captives. She first went up against the Avengers shortly after being constructed, when she attacked a weapons center. (Avengers West Coast v1 #90) After struggling against the Avengers, Alkhema realized her goals differed slightly from Ultron and so she assaulted him. In the end, she ultimately betrayed Ultron to the West Coast Avengers. However, Pym, MacLain, and the Vision managed to magnetize the two robots to a nuclear missile, which they launched into space and detonated. Though they survived the explosion due their adamantium forms, they were temporarily neutralized. (Avengers West Coast v1 #91)

Ultron and Alkhema recovered and relocated to San Francisco where they began plotting to activate a number of volcanoes across the planet to cause massive death of biologic life forms. The Avengers discovered their plans, but fell victims to Ultron's mind control beam and instead became their slaves. Raptor also discovered their plans, but escaped in time and joined forces with Iron Man, Living Lightning, Hank Pym, Tigra, and the Wasp to stop the mind-controlled Avengers from activating the three seismic activators. The activator at Mt. St. Helens was neutralized and so Ultron and Alkhema traveled there to activate it by hand. Ultron nearly defeated the gathered Avengers whose minds had been freed in the process, but ultimately Alkhema turned against him, destroying the activator and then combining her power with the Avengers so that Ultron could be captured and contained. She then took off to plot her own course. (Avengers West Coast Annual v1 #8)

She intended to strike against the Avengers and eliminate mankind in an effort to spite Ultron. As Alkhema-2, she secretly took over the Wakanda Design Group with the Black Panther investigating but he was defeated by the robot. This attracted the attention of the Avengers who arrived on the scene to fight with Alkhema. Despite her power, she was ultimately defeated by the actions of the Scarlet Witch leading to her being imprisoned. (Avengers v3 #19) She was later freed by her robotic War Toys that allowed her to escape captivity. (Avengers v3 #21)

After a defeat of Ultron, she salvaged the set of brain patterns based after Hank Pym, the Wasp, the Vision, Wonder Man, the Scarlet Witch and the Grim Reaper from the rubble of Ultron's Slorenian base, where she built her Robos (War Toys and Bio-Synthezoids). However, she was seemingly destroyed at Thebes, when Hawkeye (Clint Barton) fired an "anti-metal" arrow into her.

After Ultron's defeat, she came upon the ruins of his lair in Slorenia where her War Toys sifted through the devastation and found six brain-patterns that her creator had intended in the creation of a new robotic race to take over the Earth. With them in her hands, she decided to make use of them for herself for her own schemes that were separate from Ultron. (Avengers v3 #22)

She came to be restored and formed a group called the Opus Futurae with her intending to wipe out mankind. During this time, Arno Stark began an initiative to curtail artificial intelligences. Whilst this happened, Alkhema and her followers struck at a top secret facility in Siberia where she freed the security robots from the human guards. She then claimed a bio-chemical weapon that would kill all organics with her actions causing the security robots to turn against her where they triggered the self-destruct system. Only Alkhema survived the explosion where she vowed to continue her mission in conquering the world. (2020 Iron Age v1 #1)

Overview

Personality and attributes

After rebuilding her body, she came to be referred to as Alkehma-2. (Avengers v3 #22)

Though created to be Ultron's mate, her goals came to be different from him. Unlike Ultron, she desired to kill all humans individually rather than en masse. (Avengers West Coast v1 #91)

Powers and abilities

Alkhema is composed of adamantium and is therefore virtually indestructible. She can lift 90 tons, though this is near the limit of her capacity. She can fire energy beams from her eyes and shoulder weapons. She can electrify her surface and generate jet thrust from her boots to fly.

Notes

• Alkhema was created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, David Ross, and Tim Dzon where she made her first appearance in Avengers West Coast v1 #90 (January, 1993).
• Roy Thomas recounted that "I wasn’t wild about the first [bride of Ultron] … so I came up with Alkhema (from alchemy, of course)… and used the name War Toy which I’d used for a robot in a story I had Tony Isabella write for Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction years ago." (Ultron: The Black Sheep of the Avengers Family)

Appearances

• Avengers West Coast v2: (1993)
• Avengers v3:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry

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