Amazo is a

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s published by

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. The character was created by

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and

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and first appeared in '' The Brave and the Bold'' #30 (June 1960) as an adversary of the Justice League of America. Since debuting during the

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, the character has appeared in comic books and other DC Comics-related products, including animated

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. Traditionally, Amazo is an android created by the villain scientist Professor Ivo and gifted with technology that allows him to mimic the abilities and powers of superheroes he fights (usually the

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), as well as make copies of their weapons (though these copies are less powerful than the originals). His default powers are often those of Flash,

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, Martian Manhunter,

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, and

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(the Justice League founding members that he first fought). He is similar and often compared with the later created Marvel android villain Super-Adaptoid (introduced 1966) and marvels other robotic adapting supervillain, "Ultimo", which was introduced in (April 1966). In the '' New 52'' timeline of DC Comics, Amazo begins as the A-Maze Operating System and then becomes an android capable of duplicating superhuman powers. Later on, a sentient Amazo Virus infects research scientist Armen Ikarus and takes over his mind. With Ikarus as a host, the Amazo Virus infects other people, granting them super-powers and controlling their minds before they die within 24 hours. Amazo has been substantially adapted into media outside comics. Robert Picardo,

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, Thomas Lennon, and Nolan North, among others, have voiced the character in animated television series and films. Amazo also appears in the live-action

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Publication history

Amazo first appeared in a one-off story in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #30 (June 1960) and returned as an opponent of the

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in ''Justice League of America'' #27 (May 1964) and #112 (August 1974), plus a briefer appearance in #65 when another antagonist weaponized Amazo and other items from the JLA trophy room. Other significant issues included an encounter with a depowered

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in ''

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'' #480-483 (February – May 1978), and in ''Justice League of America'' #191 (June 1981) and #241-243 (August – October 1985). Amazo also battles a fully powered Superman in ''Superman Special'' #3 (1985). A different Amazo model featured in '' Justice League Quarterly'' #12 (Fall 1993) and battled the hero Aztek in ''Aztek: The Ultimate Man'' #10 (May 1997) before being destroyed in '' Resurrection Man'' #2 (June 1997). An advanced version debuted in a one-off story in '' JLA'' #27 (March 1999), while another appeared in the limited series '' Hourman'', specifically issues #1, #5-7, #17, and #19-21 (April 1999 – December 2000). Amazo's origin is revealed in ''Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant'' #1 (December 1999). Another version is discovered to be part of a weapons shipment in ''

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'' #636-637 (March – April 2005) and during the '' Villains United'' storyline in '' Firestorm'' vol. 2 #14-16 (August – October 2005), ''Villains United'' #5-6 (November – December 2005), and the ''Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special'' (June 2006). Amazo's consciousness returned in ''Justice League of America'' #1-5 (October 2006 – March 2007), planted in the body of fellow android the Red Tornado. Ivo also created Amazo's "offspring" in ''JLA Classified'' #37-41 (June – October 2007). A story continuing the first Red Tornado storyline featured in ''Justice League of America'' vol. 2 #21-23 (July – September 2008). Writer Mike Conroy noted: "Amazo was a persistent thorn in the JLA's side... although his programming and own sentience have displayed no ambition towards world conquest... His very existence is a hazard to all of humanity".

Fictional character biography

Modern Age

The android Amazo was created by Professor Anthony Ivo, a scientist with expertise in multiple fields who is obsessed with

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. The original Justice League of America (

, Flash,

, and the Martian Manhunter) discover their powers are being drained and somehow then being used by a thief who is after animals known to have long lifespans. While attempting to discover the perpetrator, the League is confronted and defeated by Amazo, who has duplicated their powers using Ivo's "absorption cell" technology. Amazo brings the team to Ivo, who reveals he has created a means of extending his lifespan courtesy of the data obtained from studying the creatures Amazo captured. The League then defeats Ivo and the android. Ivo's immortality results in his body becoming monstrous in form, and the android is stored in the League trophy room. The android is temporarily re-activated twice to assist the League in regaining lost abilities. When red sun radiation reaches Earth, Amazo reactivates and engages in an extensive battle with

involving time-travel, only to be defeated before it can murder Ivo and the League. Later, the Key, having been shrunken in size, re-activates Amazo in a failed bid to return to normal. The League defeats Amazo, after which Zatanna restores the Key to his former state. After the Justice League of America disbands and reforms as a small team of mostly new heroes based in Detroit, Ivo reactivates Amazo to attack this less experienced, "weaker" League. The android defeats all the new members but is finally stopped by Justice League founding members the Martian Manhunter and Aquaman. A different Amazo model is later activated and battles the superhero team the Conglomerate. This updated Amazo searches for Ivo and encounters the hero Aztek, who succeeds in reasoning with the android rather than overpowering it. This Amazo model also briefly battles the Resurrection Man before finally being destroyed. Before his destruction, the second model of Amazo is summoned into the future by the android hero Hourman, who wishes to meet his "ancestor". This Amazo copies Hourman's time-warping Worlogog, becoming "Timazo" in the process. Timazo wreaks havoc with his new ability to manipulate time, but is defeated and returned to the past so his history can run its course. Another, similar model of Amazo later has several more encounters with Hourman. Another model of Amazo is activated that can wield multiple powers at once and is programmed to automatically upgrade its abilities to match those of all active Justice League members. Initially not understanding this upgrade, the Justice League calls in reserve members to help defeat Amazo, which only results in its power increasing. On the Atom's advice, Superman (active team chairman at the time) announces the League is officially disbanded. Programmed only to mimic the powers of active members, this Amazo is suddenly depowered and easily deactivated.''JLA'' #27 (March 1999) Years later, Batman and

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discover a partially built Amazo android in a weapons shipment and destroy it. Another Amazo participates in a massive attack by a group of villains on the city of

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, but is destroyed by Black Adam. It is eventually revealed that after perfecting Amazo's absorption cells, Ivo combined this technology with human ova and

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to create a "son" of Amazo who grows up as Frank Halloran, unaware of his heritage. Years later, Frank is a philosophy student dating a young woman named Sara when his powers are awakened prematurely. Rather than emulate his villainous "father", Frank hopes to be a hero called " Kid Amazo". Slowly becoming mentally unstable, Kid Amazo discovers Sara is Ivo's daughter and was instructed to monitor Frank by posing as a girlfriend. Kid Amazo goes on a rampage. Batman deduces Kid Amazo has not only the powers of the Leaguers but also their contrasting personality traits. This is later used to cause greater internal instability, destroying Kid Amazo. Later, Ivo downloads Amazo's programming into the body of the Red Tornado, the android villain-turned-hero created by Professor T.O. Morrow, another enemy of the Justice League. The League battles an army of Red Tornado androids before discovering that the villain Solomon Grundy intends to transfer his mind into the original android Tornado's body. Although this plan is defeated, the Amazo programming asserts itself and attacks the League until member Vixen destroys it. A new body is created to house Red Tornado's consciousness but the Amazo programming inhabits it instead, battling Justice League before he's defeated by being teleported into the gravity well of the red star

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The New 52

As part of

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, the new origin story of the Justice League references the "A-Maze Operating System" and "B-Maze Operating System" designed by Anthony Ivo. The League later battles an android equipped with a corrupt version of this operating system. During the '' Forever Evil'' storyline, the New 52 Amazo appears as a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. During the "Amazo Virus" storyline, a biotech pathogen is created based on the android's absorption cells. The first person to be infected by this virus is former Lexcorp research scientist Armen Ikarus, whose mind becomes corrupted in the process and replaced by the virus's will. Now possessing power and driven to infect others, Ikarus's personality is replaced by the new Amazo. The Ikarus Amazo infects others, granting them super-powers based on desires and personality traits, but killing them within 24 hours. The Ikarus Amazo, able to enhance infected humans and control them through a "hive-mind" connection, is defeated by the Justice League. Young Reggie Meyer and his family are also affected. Influenced by technology from the original Amazo android, Reggie becomes the second Kid Amazo.

DC Rebirth

In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called "

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" which restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior to "The New 52". In the storyline ''Outbreak'', Amazo is one of the villains recruited by an A.I. named Genie, created by the daughter of computer technician James Palmer.''Justice League'' vol. 3 #10 (February 2017) His technology cells are later hacked and he briefly joins the Justice League's side.''Justice League'' vol. 3 #11 (March 2017) Amazo later appeared as a member of the Cabal, alongside Per Degaton, Doctor Psycho, Queen Bee, and Hugo Strange. Amazo re-appeared in the pages of '' Batman/Superman: World's Finest'' #16 with Metamorpho abilities labeled NewMazo with aide by Dr. Will Magnus of the

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. It also created an ally in the form of Ultra-Morpho.

Dawn of DC

In '' Absolute Power'', Amanda Waller and Failsafe create an army of Amazos to steal the powers of metahumans around the world before the Justice League destroys them. Jadestone, Green Lantern's counterpart, survives and becomes the guardian of the Green Lantern central power battery.

Powers and abilities

Amazo (Android)

Amazo is an advanced android built using Professor Anthony Ivo's "absorption cell" technology. This technology (later indicated to involve nanites) allows Amazo's cells to mimic the physical structure and energy output of organic beings he encounters, empowering him to mimic physical and energy-based abilities (such as the strength of

, the speed of the Flash, or the fighting skill of

). Amazo's internal energy source provides power for these abilities, so it does not matter what source of power is used by the superhuman he is mimicking (such as Wonder Woman's speed being based on magical empowerment and Superman's speed being a result of Kryptonian cells fueled by solar radiation). After his first story, many Amazo models retain the powers of the first five founding Leaguers he met as a default power set, absorbing new abilities based on other Leaguers they encounter. The models are usually only able to access a single target's unique attributes at a time. Some models have internally possessed the powers of many Justice League members, not just founding members, in their internal database and can summon them at will, but again only utilizing one person's powers at a time. Some later Amazo versions are upgraded to use and mimic multiple powers at once from any superhuman they come in contact with or anyone it identifies as a Justice League member. Several Amazo models can create duplicates of weapons as well, such as the power ring of

, the metal mace of

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, or the lasso of

. These copied weapons are more limited in power than the original products. At times, Amazo is a simple minded android, capable of basic strategies and possessing average intelligence but with narrow focus. Some models of Amazo have demonstrated advanced analysis and tactics in battle, helping them maneuver to apply their stolen powers effectively to defeat opponents. In most incarnations, Amazo takes on a person's weaknesses simultaneously when mimicking their powers (as an example, becoming vulnerable to

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radiation while using Superman abilities). Multiple stories have also indicated that his android body, designed to emulate the form and function of a human being, also possesses the pressure points and stress spots the average human body possesses.

Amazo (Ikarus)

Arman Ikarus is a former scientist and researcher at Lexcorp who is the first to be exposed to the Amazo Virus outbreak.''Justice League'' vol. 2 #36 (January 2015) This version of Amazo is driven to infect others with the Amazo virus, causing them to develop psychoactive superhuman abilities based on inherent desires and characteristics before dying within 24 hours. The Ikarus Amazo could emulate technology and super-powers he encountered by crudely modifying his genetic structure and biological structure.''Justice League'' vol. 2 #37 (February 2015) The Ikarus Amazo can remotely augment the physical abilities of anyone infected with the Amazo virus and influence their behavior through establishing a mental "hive-mind" connection.''Justice League'' vol. 2 #39 (April 2015) Initially, Ikarus's body seemed to degenerate from the strain of the virus altering his biology, but later his form stabilized and evolved into the appearance of the classic Amazo android.

Other versions

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'' #14-15.

In other media

Television

* Amazo appears in series set in the

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'' episode "Tabula Rasa" and initially referred to simply as the "Android", this version is a gray, blank humanoid capable of accessing several replicated abilities simultaneously and gradually removing weaknesses. While looking for Professor Ivo to help him fix his battle suit, Lex Luthor finds Amazo and uses him to steal the

's abilities and the parts he needs to fix his suit. After absorbing J'onn J'onzz's abilities however, Amazo takes on a gold coloration and leaves Earth to find the meaning behind his existence. ** As of the ''

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'' episode "The Return", Amazo has attained godlike power and the ability to teleport. He intends to kill Luthor for using him, but eventually gives up this quest after fighting

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and is given sanctuary in the Tower of Fate to find his purpose. In the episode "Wake the Dead", Amazo attempts to help the League battle Solomon Grundy, but leaves after he drains his energy. * Amazo appears in the '' Young Justice'' episode "Schooled", voiced by

. * Amazo appears in the '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' episode "Triumvirate of Terror!", voiced by Roger Rose. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom. * Amazo appears in the '' Justice League Action'' episode "Boo-ray for Bizarro", voiced by Thomas Lennon. In addition to replicating a target's skills, powers, and personal tools, this version is also able to replicate mental prowess. He captures the Justice League in an attempt to replicate their powers, only to be overloaded and rendered catatonic by

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's backwards mentality. * A.M.A.Z.O. (Anti Metahuman Adaptive Zootomic Organism) appears in "

". This version was built by Ivo Laboratories for A.R.G.U.S. to replicate the natural skills and special abilities of any extraordinary, metahuman, and extraterrestrial individual it comes across. After Dr. John Deegan's attempts to alter reality cause Oliver Queen and

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to switch lives instead, the former unknowingly activates A.M.A.Z.O. while thwarting a robbery at Ivo Laboratories. Upon learning of what happened and receiving help from Cisco Ramon,

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, and

, Queen and Allen defeat the android. After eventually and successfully altering reality, Deegan recruits A.M.A.Z.O. to assist him until it is destroyed by Brainiac 5.

Film

* Amazo appears in '' Batman: Under the Red Hood'', voiced by Fred Tatasciore. This version has the same weak points as a human being. * Amazo appears in ''

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''. This version was built by

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ostensibly to help Superman enforce global peace, but with the secret goal of killing Superman after replicating his powers. After becoming violent in its quest to maintain order, Superman and his allies join forces with Batman's resistance to fight Amazo. It kills

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and

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destroys it from the inside. * Amazo appears in '' Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths'', voiced by Nolan North.'

Video games

* Amazo appears in '' Justice League: Chronicles''. * Amazo appears as a character summon in '' Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure''.

Miscellaneous

* Amazo appears in '' DC Super Friends'' #18. * Amazo appears in the '' Injustice 2'' prequel comic. After being forced by the League of Assassins to build Amazo, Professor Ivo sells him off to a terrorist initiative led by

and Solovar. * Amazo and his alternate universe counterpart Amazo-II appear in '' Justice League Infinity''. The latter is a version of him who fused with the Anti-Life Equation before being cleansed by the main universe Amazo, after which they leave to travel the multiverse together.

References

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