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* RoboRomance: He has long-standing UnresolvedSexualTension with fellow robotic Avenger, Jocasta. The fact that she [[ComicBookDeath keeps getting destroyed and rebuilt]] again and again hasn't made things any easier.
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* RoboRomance: He has long-standing UnresolvedSexualTension with fellow robotic Avenger, Jocasta.[[Characters/TheAvengers Jocasta]]. The fact that she [[ComicBookDeath keeps getting destroyed and rebuilt]] again and again hasn't made things any easier.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He gained some degree of shapeshifting powers when his was infected with Sentinel nanotech. He didn't get to enjoy the experience, unfortunately, since the nanotech was also [[BrainwashedAndCrazy affecting his mind.]]
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He gained some degree of shapeshifting powers when his he was infected with Sentinel nanotech. He didn't get to enjoy the experience, unfortunately, since the nanotech was also [[BrainwashedAndCrazy affecting his mind.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: A recent RetCon has claimed that the version of Aaron that's been running around since ''[=NextWave=]'' is ''not'' the original Aaron, who was abducted by the Celestials, but a duplicate created by unknown parties for unknown purposes. Aaron, already inclined toward severe depression, has taken this newest cruel revelation about as gracefully as you'd expect.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: A recent RetCon has claimed that the version of Aaron that's been running around since ''[=NextWave=]'' is ''not'' the original Aaron, who was abducted by the Celestials, but a duplicate created by unknown parties for unknown purposes. Aaron, already inclined toward severe depression, has taken this newest cruel revelation about as gracefully as you'd expect.
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* NiceGuy: Once [[InspectorJavert General Kragg]] had agreed to stop persecuting him, and after he'd settled down with a very normal human job as an insurance fraud investigator, Aaron actually mellowed out quite a bit and was generally a remarkably nice guy most of the time. Then he got hit with a TraumaCongaLine of getting destroyed, reconstructed by Sentinel nanotech that tried to turn him evil, and getting abducted and seemingly rejected by the Celestials, and he's had severe emotional problems ever since.
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** Another version appeared in the short-lived ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' animated series, here one of the [[EvilutionaryBiologist High Evolutionary]]'s enforcers who, with Spidey's help, defects and joins the [[LaResistance resistance movement]].
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* BecomeARealBoy: He goes back and forth on this. On the one hand, he still wears his human facemask, and for most of his history tried to be as human as possible (getting a job as an insurance fraud investigator, of all things), but he would frequently get frustrated with humanity's vices; and after suffering an emotional breakdown after getting abducted by the Celestials, he became much more jaded toward us than he'd ever been before.
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* PinocchioSyndrome: He goes back and forth on this. On the one hand, he still wears his human facemask, and for most of his history tried to be as human as possible (getting a job as an insurance fraud investigator, of all things), but he would frequently get frustrated with humanity's vices; and after suffering an emotional breakdown after getting abducted by the Celestials, he became much more jaded toward us than he'd ever been before.
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* DeathByOriginStory: Aaron's "father" Abel Stack died in a HeroicSacrifice to save Aaron's life.
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* AlternateContinuity: He's had a couple of notable stories set outside Marvel's main continuity. He had a well-regarded self-titled miniseries in the 1980's, set in a CyberPunk future. He's also one of the main characters in ''Comicbook/EarthX.''
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* DoAnythingRobot: As he puts it, he is "full of many useful devices." This was played to the hilt during Kirby's original run, downplayed considerably during Ditko and Wolfman's run, and came back with a vengeance in ''Comicbook/NextWave'' ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' and later stories.
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* {{Expy}}: He started out as a very clear expy of Literature/AdamLink, a robot from the golden age of science fiction. ''Comicbook/NextWave'' used him as an expy of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]].
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* FugitiveArc: Most of Creator/JackKirby's run on the comic had Aaron on the run from army General Kragg (full name Joseph Kragowski), who believed Aaron was just as dangerous as his predecessors ([[{{Expy}} very much like]] General Ross and Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk). Aaron eventually earns Kragg's trust, and Kragg agrees to leave him alone.
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* FugitiveArc: Most of Creator/JackKirby's run on the comic had Aaron on the run from army General Kragg (full name Joseph Kragowski), who believed Aaron was just as dangerous as his predecessors ([[{{Expy}} very much like]] General Ross and Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk).ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk). Aaron eventually earns Kragg's trust, and Kragg agrees to leave him alone.
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* NotHimself: His 1990's series ''X-51'' saw Aaron infected with nanotech which saved his life when he had seemingly been destroyed, but then infected him with [[Comicbook/XMen mutant-hunting Sentinel]] programming. Out of desperation, he tries purging it by [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erasing his entire memory,]] but when the Celestials come for him, they are apparently able to restore him to normal, memories included.
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* NotHimself: His 1990's series ''X-51'' saw Aaron infected with nanotech which saved his life when he had seemingly been destroyed, but then infected him with [[Comicbook/XMen [[ComicBook/XMen mutant-hunting Sentinel]] programming. Out of desperation, he tries purging it by [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erasing his entire memory,]] but when the Celestials come for him, they are apparently able to restore him to normal, memories included.
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* {{Robosexual}}: When he learns that his old enemy Madame Menace (aka [[Characters/IronManRoguesGallery Sunset Bain)]] has a crush on him, he's [[HeroicBSOD so utterly startled]] he ends up accidentally letting her get away at the end of the story. As for his, ah, physical capacity in the regard, as he puts it, he is "full of many useful devices." He may have been joking, and the comment ''was'' in ''Comicbook/NextWave,'' so [[CanonDiscontinuity take it with a grain of salt.]]
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* {{Robosexual}}: When he learns that his old enemy Madame Menace (aka [[Characters/IronManRoguesGallery Sunset Bain)]] has a crush on him, he's [[HeroicBSOD so utterly startled]] he ends up accidentally letting her get away at the end of the story. As for his, ah, physical capacity in the regard, as he puts it, he is "full of many useful devices." He may have been joking, and the comment ''was'' in ''Comicbook/NextWave,'' ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}},'' so [[CanonDiscontinuity take it with a grain of salt.]]
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* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: When the Comicbook/MarvelZombies tried to invade our universe, the government got Aaron and Jocasta to go fight them for the (actually quite logical) reason that [[ImAHumanitarian they're not edible]] or [[TheVirus infectable.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: Machine Man was actually introduced in the last couple of issues of Creator/JackKirby's ongoing title based on ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey,'' which chronicled the appearances of Monoliths throughout humanity's history, shaping humanity's development. When Aaron had been captured by hostile government forces and showed signs of possibly succumbing to the homicidal rage that dominated his predecessors, a Monolith appeared and telepathically calmed him down. Many, many years later, when Aaron was at the lowest point in his life (physically transformed by [[NanoMachines nanotech]] and corrupted by invasive [[Comicbook/XMen Sentinel]] programming), the "Monolith Aliens" (finally revealed to be the [[Characters/MCUCosmic Celestials)]] returned for Aaron and carried him away into space, seemingly to introduce him to wonderful new vistas of existence... and then they dumped him back on Earth, with no explanation. Aaron didn't take this seeming rejection well at ''all,'' falling into a deep depression, and turning into a perpetually grumpy SnarkKnight when he finally started to pull out of it.
* TouchedByVorlons: Machine Man was actually introduced in the last couple of issues of Creator/JackKirby's ongoing title based on ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey,'' which chronicled the appearances of Monoliths throughout humanity's history, shaping humanity's development. When Aaron had been captured by hostile government forces and showed signs of possibly succumbing to the homicidal rage that dominated his predecessors, a Monolith appeared and telepathically calmed him down. Many, many years later, when Aaron was at the lowest point in his life (physically transformed by [[NanoMachines nanotech]] and corrupted by invasive [[Comicbook/XMen Sentinel]] programming), the "Monolith Aliens" (finally revealed to be the [[Characters/MCUCosmic Celestials)]] returned for Aaron and carried him away into space, seemingly to introduce him to wonderful new vistas of existence... and then they dumped him back on Earth, with no explanation. Aaron didn't take this seeming rejection well at ''all,'' falling into a deep depression, and turning into a perpetually grumpy SnarkKnight when he finally started to pull out of it.
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* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: When the Comicbook/MarvelZombies ComicBook/MarvelZombies tried to invade our universe, the government got Aaron and Jocasta to go fight them for the (actually quite logical) reason that [[ImAHumanitarian they're not edible]] or [[TheVirus infectable.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: Machine Man was actually introduced in the last couple of issues of Creator/JackKirby's ongoing title based on ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey,'' which chronicled the appearances of Monoliths throughout humanity's history, shaping humanity's development. When Aaron had been captured by hostile government forces and showed signs of possibly succumbing to the homicidal rage that dominated his predecessors, a Monolith appeared and telepathically calmed him down. Many, many years later, when Aaron was at the lowest point in his life (physically transformed by [[NanoMachines nanotech]] and corrupted by invasive[[Comicbook/XMen [[ComicBook/XMen Sentinel]] programming), the "Monolith Aliens" (finally revealed to be the [[Characters/MCUCosmic Celestials)]] returned for Aaron and carried him away into space, seemingly to introduce him to wonderful new vistas of existence... and then they dumped him back on Earth, with no explanation. Aaron didn't take this seeming rejection well at ''all,'' falling into a deep depression, and turning into a perpetually grumpy SnarkKnight when he finally started to pull out of it.
* TouchedByVorlons: Machine Man was actually introduced in the last couple of issues of Creator/JackKirby's ongoing title based on ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey,'' which chronicled the appearances of Monoliths throughout humanity's history, shaping humanity's development. When Aaron had been captured by hostile government forces and showed signs of possibly succumbing to the homicidal rage that dominated his predecessors, a Monolith appeared and telepathically calmed him down. Many, many years later, when Aaron was at the lowest point in his life (physically transformed by [[NanoMachines nanotech]] and corrupted by invasive
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* {{Expy}}: He started out as a very clear expy of ''Literature/AdamLink'', a robot from the golden age of science fiction. ''Comicbook/NextWave'' used him as an expy of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]].
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''Machine Man'' is a Creator/MarvelComics series created in the 70's by Creator/JackKirby, who was then succeeded by Creator/SteveDitko on art with Creator/MarvWolfman as writer.
In 1976, Marvel published a ComicBookAdaptation of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' written and drawn by Creator/JackKirby, followed by an ongoing series which ran for ten issues. The first seven issues focused on the Monolith aiding humans in the past and the future. The last three focused on X-51 a.k.a. ComicBook/MachineMan, who was later incorporated into the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. The Monolith returned in the last two issues of X-51's 1999-2000 series, in which it was revealed that it had been created by the Celestials (in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, at least...)
Dr. Abel Stack, a scientist working on a government project to design robotic soldiers capable of acting like humans, had a theory that a robot could only function like a human if it was raised like one. Taking one of the robots home, Stack raised X-51 as if it was his own son.
After the project was shut down because all of the other robots started displaying psychotic behavior, all of the robots were ordered destroyed using a auto destruct device in each robot. Sacrificing himself, Abel Stack managed to remove the device shortly before it detonated. Now on the run from the government, X-51 - now calling itself Aaron Stack- tried to make his fathers dream of peace between humans and robots a reality, becoming a superhero dubbed "Machine Man" in the process.
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* CivvieSpandex: These days, he likes to wear a BadassLongcoat over his purple costume.
* DoAnythingRobot: As he puts it, he is "full of many useful devices." This was played to the hilt during Kirby's original run, downplayed considerably during Ditko and Wolfman's run, and came back with a vengeance in ''Comicbook/NextWave'' and later stories.
%%* DoAndroidsDream
* EasilyDetachableRobotParts: He can remove and reattach his limbs without that much trouble. One of his early story arcs involved greedy industrialist Sunset Bain (aka Madame Menace) literally stealing his arm to reverse-engineer it. Naturally, Aaron wanted it ''back.''
* EatingMachine: He can eat despite being a robot. Heck, he can get ''drunk'' despite being a robot; he only discovered this after his return from the Celestials, and he's ambivalent as to whether he's happy about it.
-->"My robot brain needs beer."
* {{Expy}}: He started out as a very clear expy of ''Literature/AdamLink'', a robot from the golden age of science fiction. ''Comicbook/NextWave'' used him as an expy of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]].
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* FugitiveArc: Most of Creator/JackKirby's run on the comic had Aaron on the run from army General Kragg (full name Joseph Kragowski), who believed Aaron was just as dangerous as his predecessors ([[{{Expy}} very much like]] General Ross and Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk). Aaron eventually earns Kragg's trust, and Kragg agrees to leave him alone.
* KillerRobot: The previous fifty androids in Aaron's series quickly suffered [[TomatoInTheMirror identity crises]] and went homicidally insane. Getting raised as a son by Abel Stack is why Aaron isn't nuts (though these days he tends to be depressed).
* MechanicalLifeforms: One of Aaron's first enemies was Tenfor the Autocron, first scout of a robotic alien race who wanted to invade Earth.
* MonochromaticEyes: His eyes are a solid red (or gold, in some depictions).
* MotherlyScientist: Fatherly Scientist, actually. Abel Stack raised Aaron as his son, which is why Aaron turned out sane, unlike the fifty previous robots in his series.
* NotHimself: His 1990's series ''X-51'' saw Aaron infected with nanotech which saved his life when he had seemingly been destroyed, but then infected him with [[Comicbook/XMen mutant-hunting Sentinel]] programming. Out of desperation, he tries purging it by [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erasing his entire memory,]] but when the Celestials come for him, they are apparently able to restore him to normal, memories included.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: He's never admitted it to anyone (except a probably-nonsentient robot psychiatist he built just to have someone to open up to), but ever since the [[Characters/MCUCosmic Celestials]] dumped him back on Earth, he's periodically aware of a tiny invisible Celestial literally riding around on his shoulder. Since Celestials scarcely ever explain anything, he has no idea what it wants, or even if it's real or a hallucination.
* PinocchioSyndrome: He goes back and forth on this. On the one hand, he still wears his human facemask, and for most of his history tried to be as human as possible (getting a job as an insurance fraud investigator, of all things), but he would frequently get frustrated with humanity's vices; and after suffering an emotional breakdown after getting abducted by the Celestials, he became much more jaded toward us than he'd ever been before.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His body was originally purple.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: He can easily pass as human as long as he wears sunglasses to hide his robotic eyes. His big red bug eyes got shrunk considerably when Ditko took over from Kirby as artist (this was part of an in-universe upgrade), but still didn't look human; later artists have gone back to depicting him with the iconic big eyes.
* RoboRomance: He has long-standing UnresolvedSexualTension with fellow robotic Avenger, Jocasta. The fact that she [[ComicBookDeath keeps getting destroyed and rebuilt]] again and again hasn't made things any easier.
* {{Robosexual}}: When he learns that his old enemy Madame Menace (aka [[Characters/IronManRoguesGallery Sunset Bain)]] has a crush on him, he's [[HeroicBSOD so utterly startled]] he ends up accidentally letting her get away at the end of the story. As for his, ah, physical capacity in the regard, as he puts it, he is "full of many useful devices." He may have been joking, and the comment ''was'' in ''Comicbook/NextWave,'' so [[CanonDiscontinuity take it with a grain of salt.]]
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* SelfConstructedBeing: Not totally, of course, but he's made a lot of modifications to himself over the years. This ends up giving him an advantage when he faces off against a [[EvilTwin robot double]] built from him his original specs.
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Level 4: possesses an above normal intellect, with a capacity for unlimited self-motivated activity, creative intelligence, and human-like emotions.
* SnarkKnight: He always had a sarcastic streak, but he got much snarkier after his abduction by the Celestials.
* SomethingPerson: Machine Man
* TelescopingRobot: Machine Man has the ability to telescope his arms and legs to a length of 100 feet.
* TouchedByVorlons: Machine Man was actually introduced in the last couple of issues of Creator/JackKirby's ongoing title based on ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey,'' which chronicled the appearances of Monoliths throughout humanity's history, shaping humanity's development. When Aaron had been captured by hostile government forces and showed signs of possibly succumbing to the homicidal rage that dominated his predecessors, a Monolith appeared and telepathically calmed him down. Many, many years later, when Aaron was at the lowest point in his life (physically transformed by [[NanoMachines nanotech]] and corrupted by invasive [[Comicbook/XMen Sentinel]] programming), the "Monolith Aliens" (finally revealed to be the [[Characters/MCUCosmic Celestials)]] returned for Aaron and carried him away into space, seemingly to introduce him to wonderful new vistas of existence... and then they dumped him back on Earth, with no explanation. Aaron didn't take this seeming rejection well at ''all,'' falling into a deep depression, and turning into a perpetually grumpy SnarkKnight when he finally started to pull out of it.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He gained some degree of shapeshifting powers when his was infected with Sentinel nanotech. He didn't get to enjoy the experience, unfortunately, since the nanotech was also [[BrainwashedAndCrazy affecting his mind.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: A variation. Aaron truly loved his "father," Abel, and no matter how angry he gets at humanity in general, he still misses him deeply. No, Aaron's rejection complex comes from believing that the Celestials — who contacted him early on in his career, and came back for him decades later, and then dumped him back on Earth with no real explanation — found him inadequate somehow. Since the Celestials scarcely ever explain anything they do, he is probably ''wrong'' about this, but it left him feeling like a failure.
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