Machine Teen

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caption=Machine Teen
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Machine Teen
real_name=A.D.A.M
("Autonomously Decisive Automated Mechanism")
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut=Machine Teen #1 (2005)
creators=Marc Sumerak
Mike Hawthorne
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
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aliases=Adam Aaronson
powers=Robotic body|

Machine Teen was a comic book published by Marvel Comics, loosely based on Machine Man and created by Marc Sumerak and Mike Hawthorne. It was published as a five-issue mini-series and carried the Marvel Next logo.

The main character of Machine Teen is Adam Aaronson, a high school student. He has a good life: he is captain of the all-star football team, a straight 'A' student and is liked by everyone. However, he discovers that he is really a robot created by the man he thought was his father, Isaac Aaronson.

Character history

Early life

Some years ago, Aaron Isaacs, a pioneering programmer and engineer in the field of robotics, made a breakthrough in Artificial intelligence making the "Autonomosly Decislve Automated Meachanism". But when he discovered his employer Holden Radcliffe had destroyed his work, Isaacs went on the run. He changed his name to Isaac Aaronson and built Adam, a Beta version of his A.I. project. Adam was programmed with false memories of a normal childhood and dead mother. Adam has a series of debilitating seizures caused by a logic loop in his program and suffers memory loss, systems overload and, finally, a total shutdown. Adam, having no idea what he is, acts like a normal teenager, and starts dating schoolmate Carly Whitmere. Adam's best friend, J.T. Hunt, knows he is a robot.

History 101001

The story begins with a brief prologue. It shows Dr. Aaron Isaacs running from armed guards. After getting shot in the leg, he quickly jumps on board a train, showing relief and holding a computer core.

Some time late, Dr. Isaacs, having changed his name to Aaronson, is watching a football game his son, Adam is playing in. After winning a high school football game, people start asking questions about Adam. Initially, the vice-principal thinks Adam is taking steroids or illegal drugs, a notion started by Adam's high school rival, Ricky Sims. Adam has a seizure and suffers a memory blackout. During a fight in a back alley with Ricky Sims, Adam breaks his hand and suffers another seizure. Ricky goes to Officer Michaels (who works for Aaronson's former employer Holden Radcliffe) and tells him Adam is a robot. Michaels, in turn, tells Radcliffe. Isaac Aaronson fixes Adam's hand, and later tells him the truth.

Adam, confronted with this information, becomes enraged and runs away. Seeing that Aaronson is alone, Michaels captures him and attacks Adam. Adam then goes to J.T. Hunt, who knows he is a robot, seeking help. Before Adam was "born", J.T. worked for Aaronson as a lab assistant. One day he came across Adam's robotic body, and since then was forced to keep the truth about Adam a secret. After the Holden Radcliffe agents take Adam's "father" away, Adam and J.T. Hunt start looking for him. The Holden Radcliffe Corporation is bent on getting their "stolen property" (Adam) back. Carly Whitmere, (Adam's girlfriend) unknowingly helped Radcliffe agents capture Adam. Radcliffe tries to hack into Adam and take control of him, however, he cannot. Adam manages to escape from Radcliffe, along with his father and friends, by tricking him, making Radcliffe believe that he has control over Adam. Aaronson escapes with Adam's computer core, which sets off a self-destruct sequence. Adam explodes, and Radcliffe and Michaels are caught in the explosion. One year later, Adam is rebuilt, entering a new high school, Edison High School, and starts a new life.

The Initiative

Adam is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the program, according to "Civil War: Battle Damage Report".

Other versions

House of M

During the House of M event, Adam and his father joined up with Advanced Idea Mechanics after their lab was destroyed in an explosion by reactionary mutants. He gets captured and is for a while experimented on. When the Hulk and AIM attack, Adam helps cause a distraction, allowing the Hulk to win. After this, he is called in by Bruce Banner to help with some paperwork.

Reprint

*List of Marvel Digests "Machine Teen: History 101001"

References

*comicbookdb|type=title|id=2402|title="Machine Teen"

External links

* [http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/features/marvelnext/machineteen.asp Interview with "Machine Teen" writer Mark Sumerak]
* [http://www.marvel.com/universe/OHOTMU:Bibliography-AZ6#Machine_Teen Machine Teen at the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki]