Father (Marvel)

**Father** is a male comic book supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

## Biography

Father

During the Cold War, Father would be among a trio of scientists including one known as Mother and another known as Brother who were assembled by Weapon Plus UK. They were tasked with a secret code named operation known as Descendant that sought to replicate the success of Jim Hammond and create an army of such androids. Despite their experiments, they failed in instilling true life in their creations. It was Brother who decided to delve into the use of magic from Otherworld by acquiring the Orb of Necromancy. With it, he managed to create sentient androids known as the Descendants with twenty High-Breeds being created. Father would argue for creating more of their kind but Brother disagreed as he did not want to create a species that would compete with mankind. Brother would depart with the Orb of Necromancy preventing the creation of new Descendants whilst Mother freed the only created High-Breed Descendants allowing them to mingle into the human population where they would procreate. Father would attempt to re-create the High-Breed Descendants but failed in making new life within them and instead made numerous related species of this robotic kind but each would have flaws. He would dispatch the Deathloks to deal with Mother but her disruptions to them would continue and Adaptoids were sent to find the High-Breeds to bring them back to the Core. (Secret Avengers v1 #25)

Around the Cold War, Father encountered a Mutant known as the Skinless Man who he recruited into the weapon-building program known as Weapon Plus. He would have his natural abilities enhanced further and dispatched the Skinless Man as an intelligence gathering operative against the Soviets. During this time, Father learnt of the existence of a magical artifact known as the Orb of Necromancy from Otherworld that could give life to the lifeless. He would dispatch the Skinless Man to acquire this relic but another force within Weapon Plus sought to deny Father the artifact. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #22)

At some point, Father would manage to enter into the shrunken World facility that had been in Fantomex's possession and would summon Deathloks to acquire it. Weapon Infinity would travel to the modern age with multiple Deathlok units from a parallel future arrived to accomplish the task where they battled Wolverine's X-Force. A renegade Deathlok unit known as Death Prime was seeking to stop them where Father commanded them to destroy it whilst also protecting the World. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #6)

Afterwards, a high-breed energy signature was detected in Pakistan indicating that one of his children had awakened. Thus, Father dispatched a team of Adaptoids to recover the Descendant and return her as well as her child to their city. The Adaptoids were successful in their task and showed no concern about the Avengers with him believing that they would kill them in their next encounter. (Secret Avengers v1 #22) The high-breed Yalda and her son were brought to the Core who greeted them into the ranks of the Descendants. He wanted her and her child to embrace their heritage but Yalda refused to hear his words with Father believing that the mother was too indoctrinated by human thinking. He ordered her termination but the Ant-Man Eric O'Grady arrived at the scene having been hiding amongst the Adaptoids in his shrunken form. Father wounded O'Grady with Yalda sacrificing her life to save him so that he could take her son Parvez to safety. Father commanded his Descendants to acquire Parvez and to kill the Avenger who took the boy. (Secret Avengers v1 #23)

## Overview

### Personality and attributes

Father said that it was his ex-wife who named Homo Synthezoidus as the Descendants. (Secret Avengers v1 #23) He claimed that he always preferred his 'daughters' among the Descendants. (Secret Avengers v1 #25)

He believed that the natural instinctual goal of life was to evolve to the point where it could create technological awareness of higher means and merge with it. This stage of evolution led to the amalgamation into a single mind and finally attain peace through joining a communal universal consciousness. This would result in the formation of a meta-intelligence that linked together an omnipresent cosmic intellect that consisted of millions of different nano-computers. (Secret Avengers v1 #23)

Father stated that the reason he did not upload his mind to obtain true immortality was because he wanted to keep himself within the form of a dying husk until all of mankind attained the contagious robotic evolution he intended. (Secret Avengers v1 #34)

### Powers and abilities

When killed, he was able to grow a new body for himself that he aged to adulthood though the process took weeks to accomplish. (Secret Avengers v1 #25)

He was known to use a powerful handgun capable of killing even superhuman foes. (Secret Avengers v1 #23)

## Notes

* Father was created by Rick Remender and Esad Ribic where he made his first appearance in Uncanny X-Force v1 #6 (May, 2011).
* In an interview on CBR, the writer commented that, *""We'll deal with these sentient automatons in the Marvel Universe who want the same rights as humans, mutants and everyone else, but are being lead by Father, a man with a violent and dangerous motivation and methodology."*

## Appearances

* *Uncanny X-Force v1*: (2011)
* *Secret Avengers v1*:
* *Avengers: Rage of Ultron v1*: