Awesome Android

Within Marvel narrative continuity the Mad Thinker creates the Awesome Android from research notes of Mister Fantastic, synthesizing ape DNA with unstable molecules and incorporating a microcomputer and a solar‑power source to animate an almost indestructible fifteen‑foot humanoid body. Introduced in Fantastic Four #15 (June 1963), the Android functions as the Thinker's engineered agent against superheroes until later storylines depict it gaining sentience, rebelling, and seeking legal emancipation.

Described in sources as a roughly 15‑foot (4.6 m) humanoid artificial being built from a synthesis of ape DNA and unstable molecules into an almost indestructible body with integrated electronics and a solar power source. Visual portrayals vary across comic issues and adaptations (including animated versions), but the consistent image is of a large, humanoid android; some adaptations present alternate characterizations (for example, media versions like an "Andy Erwin" analogue in Iron Man: Armored Adventures).

The Awesome Android possesses inhuman physical attributes including great strength and exceptional durability owing to its near‑indestructible construction. It can mimic a single opponent's ability at a time after touching that opponent, and can emit short‑range blasts of gale‑force wind from its mouth. The being has limited artificial intelligence: originally it lacks self‑motivated activity, is dependent on programming and spoken commands, and usually deactivates when not active. Storylines also record cases of reprogramming, external control, resurrection by other technologists or villains, and an arc in which it attains sentience and functions autonomously.