The MCU or Marvel Cinematic Universe has confirmed that there will be several new characters appearing in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. One of the new characters that will appear in the new Ant-Man movie is MODOK. For those of you who don’t read Marvel comics, you must be wondering who MODOK is. Therefore, this time we will discuss who MODOK is, the new villain in the MCU.
So MODOK is one of the most famous Marvel characters, the reason why this character can be famous is because MODOK has a unique appearance. So that people can easily recognize it.
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Who is MODOK in Marvel Comics
According to the story, MODOK stands for Mental, Mobile, Mechanized, Organism Designed Only for Killing. This character first appeared in the Tales of Suspense Vol 93 comic in 1967.
MODOK was originally an engineering genius named George Tarleton. George works for the company AIM or Advanced Idea Mechanics, which is developing artifacts and cosmic cube.
At the time, AIM scientists were creating a super-intelligent computer codenamed MODOC. George was forced into MODOC to be a lab rat, when the machine started. It immediately united with MODOC with a monstrous body and a huge head.
An enraged George took revenge by killing AIM scientists and changing his name to MODOK. When George became MODOK, Captain America infiltrated AIM to rescue a SHIELD agent named Carter.
Feeling that Captain America was too late to help him, MODOK was angry and obsessed with Steve Roger’s powers, so he always tried to steal Steve’s DNA so he could create the same serum.
Kekuatan MODOK di Marvel
Given that George Tarleton’s experiment with the MODOC computer system was successful, it mutated him so that he gained superintelligence, and could create advanced tools.
But the effect of the ability he gained, made his brain composition enlarged and caused his head to be bigger than his body. In order to be able to perform its mobility smoothly, MODOK uses a hoverchair. The chair is equipped with advanced weapons such as missiles, lasers and many others.
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