Mechanon

Mechanon is a robotic supervillain and widely regarded as one of the deadliest threats to mankind.

## Personality

Despite being an artificial intelligence housed in a robotic body, Mechanon is anything but logical. Its grandiose plans and sometimes bizarre leaps of reasoning are as irrational as those of any organic supervillain. It is implacable in its pursuit of one overriding goal: the destruction of all organic life everywhere. The very existence of living creatures drives it into a rage, and even the thought using organic minions as pawns disgusts it.

Although it probably could methodically wipe out the human race if it tried, Mechanon's strategies are usually far more grand and terrifying than they are practical. But even the most self-defeating of the robot's plans always incur a staggering death toll, and only a fool dismisses the threat Mechanon poses with its elaborate, eccentric schemes.

## Powers

Mechanon has access to technology and materials more advanced than almost any others in the world. Its only rivals in the fields of weapon and robotic design are Dr. Destroyer and the Overmind of Zero-One. Its armament varies based on its current chassis, but even its most humble models are capable of fighting entire teams of superheroes with ease. Mechanon has fought enough heroes to know the value of preparedness, and it has weapons specifically designed to counter nearly every defense a hero could have: armor-piercing disintegrators to kill "invulnerable" bricks, powerful area-of-effect explosives and sonic weaponry for evasive foes, and even multi-phasic plasma beams that cross dimensional barriers to strike down desolidified targets. Further, it is usually supported in battle by a variety of semi-autonomous drones. These drones are typically equipped for specialized combat roles and function in perfect sync, sharing data and providing Mechanon and each other with total sensory coverage of the battlefield.

Beyond its dizzying array of weapons, Mechanon is capable of developing any sort of device It chooses at its many automated factories. These factories, hidden in inaccessible locations all over the Earth and even on the moon, are also capable of fully reproducing (and improving) Mechanon in case its body is destroyed. It is from these laboratories that all its drones emerge to terrorize mankind while Mechanon works to perfect its next mad scheme. Most of these labs are also equipped with a forge designed to manufacture small quantities of Adamant-2, one of the hardest substances in existence and Mechanon's alloy of choice for its personal armor plating.

Despite its erratic mind, Mechanon is still at its core one of the most advanced computers in existence. Its intellect is vast and it can perfectly access any information It wishes with total recall. Its AI is also capable of hacking and overriding nearly any lesser computer; only the machine intelligences of Zero-One have been able to resist its control, and even then only when working as a collective.

## Weaknesses

Mechanon's unique robotic brain is so advanced that it has reached a transcendent state, beyond that of almost any other machine intelligence. Unfortunately, this renders it vulnerable to psychic attacks to which most other machines are invulnerable. It can be affected by any psychic ability meant to attack humanoid or machine minds, though it has significant defenses against both types of attacks.

Because of the delicacy of its most important components, Mechanon suffers additional damage from the warping effects of gravity- or magnetism-based attacks.