Human Robot
Human Robot is a comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
M-11
One account claimed that the Human Robot was built by an unidentified scientist, under the guidance of his business manager. The scientist programmed the robot so that it would only respond to commands given on its secret frequency. He tested the robot out, ordering it to pick up a chair, and the robot did so but then lifted another chair, unable to differentiate between plural and singular. The scientist deactivated the robot for later work. On that evening, the business manager broke into the lab and set the robot up so that he could control it. The manager had grown tired of the scientist, who refused to speed up the robot's production, and believed that it was already set for release to the public. The following day, the scientist was about to install a regulator to control the robot, when the manager ordered the robot to kill the man in the room with the robot complying by strangling its creator. The manager entered and was pleased with this outcome but then the robot strangled him as well. It then set off to find more men in rooms to strangle. (Menace v1 #11) In reality, the robot was actually commissioned by the international terrorist known as the Yellow Claw as part of a complex plan in ensuring that his unknowing successor Jimmy Woo became a great hero. M-11 was completed in 1954 where the professor responsible for creating him came to be concerned by the Atlas Foundation's plans for the robot. Unable to instil program modifications in his creation, he decided to allow himself to be killed by electrocution under the belief that part of his life essence into the robot. This came to be encoded within the neural net of M-11 giving it free will and emotions with the Human Robot departing the lab where it walked into the sea and laid inert under the water. (Agents of Atlas v1 #6)
M-11 descended to the ocean floor and stayed there until he came to be found by the Atlantean Namora. (Atlas v1 #3) After finding M-11 undersea, she came to offer it to Jimmy Woo, who was putting together a team to save President Eisenhower. (Agents of Atlas v1 #1) Jimmy Woo cleaned the robot off and his team of F.B.I. agents, including Gorilla-Man Kenneth Hale and Namora. They were surprised to hear the robot introduce himself as M-11 and expressing a willingness to help them. (Atlas v1 #3) Marvel Boy Robert Grayson who had joined the team came to use his advanced Uranian science to restore M-11 to full functionality. (Agents of Atlas v1 #1) Along with the Department Zero, M-11 attacked Yellow Claw's Mongolian fortress. They easily went through his soldiers, but inside they were nearly overpowered by Voltzmann's Shadow Warriors. Marvel Boy saved his teammates and M-11 captured Voltzmann, but Yellow Claw and his niece Suwan were already gone, despite transmitting their holograms from their escape vehicle. President Eisenhower was saved and the Department Zero agents brought him back to the United States. Atlas v1 #3)
One mission led the Department Zero team into San Francisco's bay area. (Agents of Atlas v1 #5) After six months activity the Department Zero team were disbanded. (Agents of Atlas v1 #1) The Atlas Foundation retrieved M-11 after Grayson had returned to space, and the robot stayed with them. It let them make more improvements on him enabling the robot to access any computer network on the planet. And Mr. Lao put a restoration enchantment on the robot in case of destruction. (Agents of Atlas v1 #6) In 1958, the team helped Agent Garland identify a foreign craft. (Agents of Atlas v1 #2) Woo brought M-11 in to disintegrate enemy agents, in order to help save Gorilla-Man and ally Kit Dekum. M-11 then dissipated a gas attack with his rotating robot arm. Following a tech trail, the Agents were led to a portal that led them to a distant wasteland full of skeletons, both human and dragon. (Agents of Atlas v1 #3) The Agents found themselves in the Dragon’s Corridor, another dimension used by Russian operatives for training and travel, and they soon found Suwan there, as well as the bodies of Captain America and Bucky in stasis. M-11 carried them to safety as they battled more of the Russian soldiers. Dekum passed through a portal and the Agents rushed to follow, having to leave Suwan, Cap, and Bucky behind. They lost their memories of the events. (Agents of Atlas v1 #4)
Agents of Atlas
Decades later Gorilla-Man met M-11 during a recon mission for SHIELD. The robot told him about Woo's critical condition. It requested Hale's help to retrieve Woo from SHIELD's Mojave Base and to call Marvel Boy Grayson for assistance. (Agents of Atlas v1 #3) M-11 worked together with Gorilla Man to break out the heavily injured, aged Jimmy Woo. They escaped in Marvel Boy's flying saucer. Inside the ship M-11 witnessed how Uranian technology restored Woo's body to a youthful and healed state and a bit of memory loss. (Agents of Atlas v1 #1) M-11, Gorilla-Man, Marvel Boy and Woo caught SHIELD agent Derek Khanata when his investigations brought him to Woo's house. They took Khanata with them to Africa to pick up Venus. Through M-11's eyes Golden Claw had watched every move Woo and his team made and finally attacked them with a robot duplicate of himself and some Automatons in Africa. (Agents of Atlas v1 #2) M-11 accompanied Venus, Derek and Kal'ti while the others defeated Golden Claw's robots. The team returned to San Francisco in Marvel Boy's flying saucer. Woo remembered how he hand-picked the team and Khanata pointed out that M-11 wasn't picked by him, but brought to him by Namora. In San Francisco the team returned to the place where Woo accessed the underground with his killed team, but they found nothing special there. M-11 later told his team that Namora was not dead and gave them the coordinates where they came to find Namora's coffin. (Agents of Atlas v1 #3) Golden Claw watched through M-11 how Woo's team found Namora. Marvel Boy realized that the dead Namora was an illusion. M-11 freed Namora from the block of ice she was in while the rest fought giant crabs. Namora helped when she was free again and later thanked M-11 and joined Woo's team against the Atlas Foundation. M-11 was instrumental in taking down several operations of the Atlas Foundation including Atlas Nursery, Atlas Mortuary, Atlas Biotech, Atlas Orphanage and many others. During a break on a Fiji island M-11 made a fire to grill fish. The team was attacked again by Golden Claw using animated Terra Cotta Warriors. They left after defeating them and Woo finally realized that someone among them was a double agent. (Agents of Atlas v1 #4) Woo told Khanata that M-11 had to be an agent of Golden Claw because he was always the last to arrive when Claw attacked them. Woo was sure Claw orchestrated his return with M-11's help. (Agents of Atlas v1 #5)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, the Human Robot was a humanoid shaped metallic grey skinned robot who had a single visor for an eye on his face. (Menace v1 #11)
Powers and abilities
M-11 was part of the Menacer series of robots that were created in secret since the early 20th century with each successive generation being upgraded to be better for warfare with the preceding models ranging from M-1 to M-10. (Agents of Atlas v2 #10)
It was strong enough to rip tanks to pieces with his bare hands and lift and throw a tank with enough force to break through reinforced steel doors. (Agents of Atlas v1 #1)
Notes
- The Human Robot was created by Stan Lee and John Romita where he made his first appearance in Menace v1 #11 (May, 1954).
- Its designation was a nod to its first appearance in the comics namely in Menace #11.
Alternate Versions
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Menace v1: (1954)
- Agents of Atlas v1:
- Agents of Atlas v2:
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