MODOK

First Appearance in Hulk comic: The Incredible Hulk #167

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Name Anagram:Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing

Powers/Abilities: MODOK has a highly developed brain and has created highly advanced equipment/weapons. He focuses his thoughts into a mind-beam, a highly concussive energy beam and is also able to hypnotize/mentally control a large number of people at one time. He is always going through mental calcuations about different probabilities of various situations for occurring. Given the large size of his head, he moves by a thought controlled magnetic powered mobile chair.

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Origin: During an experiment to create a new weapon, AIM took one of their own workers for the experiment. That man turned into MODOK and took over control of AIM.

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY

The Incredible Hulk #167: MODOK is seen sitting at the center of AIM, getting various reports from his agents. An agent from the field reports in that he has spotted Betty Ross, General Ross, and Colonel Armbruster at a nearby airport. MODOK talks to himself that he has always been defeated in the past because of his body so he has his men create a large mechanical stucture to hold his head. He figures the only person who would be able to defeat him once he is in his invincible suit is the Hulk so he figures to destroy him first. He installs himself into the robotic body and figures the only way to defeat the Hulk is to create a stronger Hulk. He would need to get a person who has a tolerance to gamma rays, namely Betty Ross. Later, at a hospital, the Hulk visits Betty and she goes a little crazy and says she hates the Hulk. A nurse/agent reports this to MODOK. That night, MODOK goes to Betty's room in his robotic body. While she is sleeping, he uses hypnotic powers and tells her that he can help her get revenge on the Hulk. The Hulk spies this and attacks MODOK. The Hulk and MODOK fight and eventually the Hulk destroys the body and MODOK manages to fly away.

The Incredible Hulk #168: Betty leaves the hospital in the middle of the night, due to the hypnotic trance from MODOK, and enters a small rocket which sends her to MODOK. When she gets to the AIM base, MODOK subjects her to the gamma ray transformer. The gamma energies strike Betty and she forms a coccoon and emerges as the Harpy. The Harpy immediately asks for where Bruce Banner is and fires an energy blast at MODOK. An agent comes in and tells MODOK that the Hulk has been spotted in Manhattan. MODOK tells the Harpy to go and destroy him.

The Incredible Hulk #169: The Bi-Beast kidnaps the Hulk and Harpy and takes them to his island in the sky and MODOK is able to track the Harpy through the gamma radiation. MODOK is surprised to see the Bi-Beast and says he is just there to retrieve the Hulk and Harpy. The Bi-Beast tells MODOK that the Harpy is his prisoner and that the Hulk has reverted to Bruce Banner and is working on equipment on the island. MODOK convinces the Bi-Beast that Bruce Banner will try to destroy the island, not help. The Bi-Beast goes to find Bruce who turns into the Hulk and they fight. MODOK comes in and shoot the Hulk in the back and claims the floating island for AIM. His soldiers fire on the Bi-Beast. The Bi-Beast, mortally wounded, activates the self-destruct on the island and MODOK and his men flee the island before it explodes.

Marvel Team-Up #104: Bruce takes a job aboard a ship to make some money when he notices some strange things about it. Him and another guy working on the ship also curious break into the cargo section. They stumble upon a large amount of scientific equipment and weapons and upon MODOK. He tells Bruce that he knew he was on board and then stuns them. He tells his soldiers to keep Bruce sedated. The ship goes to the Savage Land and MODOK uses Bruce as bait to lure dinosaurs close. When the large dinosaurs get close, MODOK releases sleeping gas and knocks them out. Ka-zar comes to try and stop MODOK but he falls unconscious from the gas also. MODOK plans to use the same technology that created him to advance the dinosaurs to create a strikeforce. He throws Bruce and Ka-zar into the bowels of the ship with the dinosaurs and Bruce overcomes the sedatives and becomes the Hulk. Ka-zar tricks the Hulk into breaking his chains and gets free also. They fight the dinosaurs and make it out of the ship. The Hulk takes on MODOK and manages to defeat him.

The Incredible Hulk #287: Late one night at Project Nightfall, MODOK breaks into the base, rending more of the staff unconscious. MODOK finally arrives at the cryogenics core of the base to the frozen body of the Abomination. MODOK left General Ross awake because he knew that Ross's hatred for the Hulk would make him perform treason and help MODOK free the Abomination, which he does.

The Incredible Hulk #288: MODOK finishes thawing out the frozen Abomination, as MODOK and General Ross agree to help in each out, in regards to MODOK using the A HREF="theabomination">Abomination to destroy the Hulk. MODOK and General Ross were both surprised when the newly thawed Abomination had a cowardly attitude after being beaten by the Hulk so many times. MODOK knocks General Ross unconscious so that it wouldn't look like he helped and then disappears with the Abomination. Later, back at MODOK's lab, MODOK continually tortures the Abomination until he finally gives in a fights the Hulk because he's scared of MODOK more.

The Incredible Hulk #289: At the AIM base, MODOK is attacked by his own scientists, who were sick of being ruled by the freakish MODOK. MODOK was surprised and was managed to be driven off, planning on his revenge. Meanwhile, the scared Abomination fights the Hulk and manages to kidnap Kate Waynesboro.

The Incredible Hulk #290: The Abomination brings Kate to create a new MODOK-like person who they can control. The Hulk and MODOK break into the AIM stronghold but it was too late as the AIM scientists had turned Kate into Ms. MODOK. Ms. MODOK goes against her creators and decides to wed MODOK, despite the Hulk's pleas. MODOK then started attacking the Hulk and then disipates the Abomination into atoms which shocks Ms. MODOK and she goes against MODOK. MODOK gets upset that she would go against him so as he fights both the HULK and Ms. MODOK, he pushed Ms. MODOK back into the equipment that first changed her. MODOK then blows a hole in the wall and escapes.