The Mega-Mandroid

MEGA-MANDROID
Earth-12041

Classification: High-technology unconventional weapon (Earth-12041)

Creator: Hammer industries

User/Possessors: Justin Hammer

Affiliations: Inapplicable

Targets: Avengers (Captain America/Steve Rogers, Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff, Falcon/Sam Wilson, Hawkeye/Clint Barton, Hulk/Bruce Banner, Iron Man/Tony Stark, Thor/Odinson), Thunderbolts (Citizen V/Helmut Zemo, Atlas/Erik Josten, Mach IV/Abner Jenkins, Meteorite/Karla Sofen, Songbird/Melissa Gold, Techno/Norbert Ebersol)

Aliases: None

First Appearance: Avengers Assemble, animated series, Season#3, Episode#5 (April, 2016)

Powers/Abilities/Functions: Super powered giant robot piloted by a human driver.

Armor exterior dimensions:
    Height (overall): 60 feet (by approximation)
    Width (overall): 35 feet (by approximation)
    Width (short axis): 18 feet (by approximation)
    Weight: 70 tons (by approximation)

Armor Composition: Mostly unrevealed
    Surface/Primary Layer: Likely Omnium Steel
Power supply: Unrevealed
Body system control:
    Type: levers, keyboard console.
    Sub-systems: Verbal instructions, limited commands.
Life support, Environment design program: Unrevealed
Propulsion systems:
    Type: Locomotor (walking) capacity, hundreds of points of articulation.
    Type: Locomotor (crawlers) capacity (feet-tank).
    Maximum speed: Unrevealed

Weapon sub-systems:
    Offensive:

    Major: Energy cannon (1)
    Description: Left arm-mounted projector. It needed more that 10 seconds to recharge, before firing another blast.
    Range: 600 feet.

    Major: Semi-automatic machine-gun

    Description: Gun adapted to right hand, stored in internal compartment.
car     Range: 300 feet.

    Major: Energy guns

    Description: Triple fire-mouth energy guns mounted below shoulders detachments (2). A blast at full power could smash a rock of 5 foot diameter and still hit a sturdy massive target like Atlas, flinging him away at considerable speed.
    Range: 150 feet.

    Major: Cannon

    Description: Single cannon mounted above crawler tank feet detachments (2).
    Range: 150 feet.

    Defensive:

    Major: Two force fields protecting the body. Other lesser force field protecting the detachments.
    Description: Backside located generators enabling protective force field against metallic object and some forms of energy (they could sustain a lightning bolt from Thor's hammer without wavering). The force field allowed the cannons to shoot from the inside. The fields could not protect the body from internal attacks, nor were they effective against Meteorite's phasing power.

Computer: On board housekeeping routines, which supervises all systems, including the detachable weapons. Verbal recognition system with self-motivation programming that allows the robot to function autonomously under some battle conditions and in the event of the user impairment.

Sensors: Infravision, Radar/Sonar.

Meteorite crrying out Hammer from the Mega-Mandroid's headHistory:
(Avengers Assemble, animated series, Season#3 Episode#5) - Justin Hammer built the Mandroids and the Mega-Mandroid starting from technology he stole from Tony Stark, adding some innovations.

    Hammer had several facilities where he stored or serially produced Mandroids, but the Mega-Mandroid was a single model, hidden in a bunker in a mountainous region, which was also Hammer's base of operations. Hammer set the Mega-Mandroid up as personal means of safety against Iron Man and the Avengers, making the giant robot far more powerful than the ordinary Mandroids.

    When the Avengers and the Thunderbolts tracked Hammer's communication to the base and approached it, Hammer sat at the command console inside the Meda-Mandroid's head and confronted the heroes.

    Thanks to the detachments that came from shoulders and feet, the Mega-Mandroid was able to keep at bay many enemies at the same time. The Mega-Mandroid main resource were its force fields that could repel even the strongest heroes' hits, like Mjolnir's lighting bolts. However, the knowledge that Tony Stark had about the force field generators, having designed them, exposed the flaw in Hammer's plans. Stark had Moonstone bypass the force field using her phasing powers. She carried with her two Hawkeye's E.M.P. arrows, which she threw into the generators once she was inside the field. With the protection shut off, Thor first used his lightning to begun the attack and Atlas' smash (helped by Hulk's special ball launch) finished the job.

Comments: Created by Mark Hoffmeier

    Most of the weaponry described in the powers section comes from similarities with other Mandroids of Earth-616.

    The Season#3, Episode#5 was "re-printed" in Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6, from which images are taken from.

    There is some similarities between the Mega-Mandroid and a yellow, huge, mechanical, humanoid foe used by the U.S. Office of National Emergency (O.N.E., of Earth-616) against the X-Men.

Profile by Spidermay.

Clarifications:

The Mega-Mandroid has no known connection to:
Earth-12041 Mandroidsred mandroid attacking

Classification: Unconventional weapons, super-powered suits of armor (Earth-12041)

Creator: Hammer industries

User/Possessors: Justin Hammer

First Appearance: Avengers Assemble, animated series, Season#3, Episode#5 (April, 2016)

Powers/Abilities/Functions: Humanoid robots with several gun machines and defensive coating.

Armor exterior dimensions:
    Height (overall): 18 feet (by approximation, they were taller than three Black Widows)
    Width (overall): 9 feet (by approximation)
    Width (short axis): 6 feet (by approximation)
    Weight: 2.2 tons (by approximation)
    Color: Red, Green, Blue.

Armor Composition: Mostly unrevealed
    Surface/Primary Layer: Likely Omnium Steel

Propulsion systems:
    Type: Locomotor (walking) capacity.

Weapon sub-systems:
    Offensive:
    Major: Semi-automatic machine-gun
    Description: Gun adapted to right hand, stored in internal compartment.
    Range: 300 feet.

    Major: semi-automatic machine-gun
    Description: firing gun stored in internal compartment of the left forearm.
    Range: 300 feet.

Computer: On-board housekeeping routines, which supervises all systems, including the detachable weapons. Verbal recognition system with self-motivation programming that allows the robot to function autonomously under some battle conditions and in the event of the user impairment.

Sensors: Infravision, Radar/Sonar.Mandroids on the assembly line, rear view


History:
(Avengers Assemble, animated series, Season#3 Episode#5) - Justin Hammer mass-produced the Mandroids using technology he stole from Tony Stark, adding some innovations.

    The Mandroids were assembled and stored in three factories in isolated places far from town.

    The Mandroids were activated against intruders because the Avengers and the Thunderbolts approached the bunkers. The Red Mandroids assaulted Hawkeye, Falcon, Thor, Meteorite and Mach IV, walking toward them, but moving quite slowly in comparison with the human intruders. Meteorite's energy blasts were not effective against a Mandroid's left forearm, but the same robot easily fell thanks to an explosive arrow. Falcon's energy feathers severed another Mandroid's left arm superior part. The machine-gun ammunition was less than effective against Mach IV's energy field. Meteorite's blasts and Thor's hammer felled Mandroids with any strike.

    Meanwhile, Green Mandroids of another bunker tried to eliminate Captain America, Black Widow, Citizen V and Songbird, shooting them. The robots' armor was no match against Captain America's shield and Black Widows's energetic batons. Nor were their protections effective against Citizen V' sword. Songbird's powered voice smashed some of them with one scream.

    The location C was defended by Blue Mandroids, but they fell into pieces against Iron Man's missiles and the Hulk's smashes. The robots' left machine-guns were only a distraction for the jade giant and were easily avoided by Iron Man's flight. Atlas broke a robot into two pieces. Techno perforated the last one.

    All the locations contained other Mandroids, inactive, of any color, still on the assembly line. A visual scan by Iron Man confirmed that they contained Stark Technology. The inactive robots were destroyed by Justin Hammer, who remotely set up the auto-destruction of the factories.

Comments: Apparently there were not other differences between differently colored Mandroids. The name, the humanoid shape, the Mega-Mandroid and the inventor (Stark) suggest that the Mandroids were exo-skeleton suits that could host a pilot inside, as is the case for Earth-616 Mandroids. It is very likely that all the Mandroids seen operated under self-motivation programming. This operating mode, without a human pilot, also probably decreased their effectiveness in battle.


---Avengers Assemble, animated series, Season#3 Episode#5 (Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6)
 O.N.E. "Mandroid"the yellow mechanical giant compared to the Mega-Mandroid

Classification: High-technology unconventional weapon (Earth-616)

Creator: Unrevealed

User/Possessors: Office of National Emergency (O.N.E.)

Targets: Mutants

Aliases: None

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men V#21 (2021)

Powers/Abilities/Functions: Super powered giant robot;
    possibly piloted by a human driver.

Armor exterior dimensions:
    Height (overall): 35 feet (by approximation)
    Width (overall): 20 feet (by approximation)
    Width (short axis): 9 feet (by approximation)
    Weight: 20 tons (by approximation)

Propulsion systems:
    Type: Locomotor (walking) capacity, hundreds of points of articulation.
    Maximum speed: Unrevealed

Weapon sub-systems:
    Offensive:
    Major: Semi-automatic machine-gun

    Description: Firing gun stored in internal compartment of the right arm.

    Major: Energy cannon

    Description: Multiple attached fire-mouths along left arm.

    Major: Unrevealed

    Description: Attached device from the right shoulder.

History: (Uncanny X-Men V#21) - The U.S. Office of National Emergency (O.N.E., of Earth-616) was given several resources in order to contain the mutant problem. Among the weapons at its disposal, O.N.E. had a giant yellow robotic humanoid, resembling a mix between a Mark IV Mandroid armor, a Mark X Mandroid armor and the Mega-Mandroid of Earth-12041.

    When a bunch of X-Men assaulted the Hotel Romeo, an O.N.E. facility, General Callahan unleashed against them a the giant mechanical "Mandroid". The yellow-coated giant was taller than any Mandroid seen before, although the O.N.E. Sentinels were taller. Its appearance was announced by an explosion caused by the shot of one of his attached cannons. The brunt of the explosion was taken by Wolverine, who survived thanks to his regenerative powers. Hope was behind him, and other X-Men were also flung away by the wave. Cyclops hit the giant with his optical blast but the metallic giant's hide seemed unscathed. The mechanical behemoth slapped Banshee away, when he flew into range, after which it stomped his enormous foot above the mutant. An explosion of unrevealed origin, bigger than the previous one apparently destroyed the robot and killed Banshee. 

Comments: Created by Matthew Rosenberg and Salvador Larroca
    The mechanical giant appeared in one page only, and it is impossible to confirm that there was a human pilot inside it. It could be a Mandroid, a new type of Secbot, an unidentified robot, or else. There are some particulars that lead me to think at it as another Mark of Mandroid:

  1. The color. Yellow is the color most used for the Mandroids, especially for those belonging to government or military agencies;
  2. The head visor, similar to the Mandroid Mark VIII one. Some circular spots on the armor are also in common between the two models;
  3. The shape and the attachments from shoulders and arms, very similar to the Mega-Mandroid. The size of the Mega-Mandroid seems doubling the O.N.E.'s one, though. Oddly, the yellow giant had a H-shaped zone on the chest, and the Hammer's Mega-Mandroid (all his Mandroids) had a "H" onto the chest, too ("H" stood for "Hammer", logically).
  4. The four-fingered feet, already seen in the schematics of the Mark X suit;
  5. In the following issue, the Sentinels employed by General Callahan were yellow, but resembled Sentinels, not Mandroids.


Appearances:
Uncanny X-Men V#21 (September, 2019) - Matthew Rosenberg (writer), Salvador Larroca (artist), Guru eFX (colors), Jordan D. White (editor)


images:
Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6, page 15, panel 1 (Mega-Mandroid)
Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6, page 19, panels 4-5 1 (head shot, Meteorite, Hammer)
Avengers Assemble, animated series, Season#5, Episode#5, 18:35 min. ("foot" detached tank)
Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6, page 8, panel 1 (red Mandroid attacking)
Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6, page 12, panel 1 (Mandroids' rear view)
Uncanny X-Men V#21, page 13, panel 1 (O.N.E. "Mandroid" in comparison with...)
Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6, page 15, panel 3 (...the Mega-Mandroid)

Appearances:
Avengers Assemble, animated series, Season#3 Episode#5 (April, 2016) - Philip Pignotti (directors), Mark Hoffmeier (writer)
Marvel Universe Avengers: Ultron Revolution#6 (December, 2016) - Mark Hoffmeier (writer), Phil Pignotti (director), Joe Caramagna (adaptation), Christina Harrington (editor)

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

First Posted: 06/02/2024
Last Updated: 06/04/2024

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