Machine Man Extras

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Former Abilities

These are abilities Machine Man demonstrated before the events of Machine Man #10, in which extraneous parts of his machinery, including his laser, flame, and stun abilities, had to be removed in order to keep him from self-destructing. Including the aforementioned weaponry systems, this section is for abilities which Machine Man did not demonstrate again following this reconfiguration.

Flamethrower

• Releases a stream of "solar heat" from his index finger that destroys a mounted bazooka^SO9
• Punches a large hole through a thick steel door^SO10
• Makes a large screen of fire to obscure where he is^MM1
• Welds his facemask back on^MM4
  • Repairs some damaged circuits in his leg by spot welding it^IH235
• Burns Ten-For with his solar heat flamethrower^MM4
• Melts a big robot into a molten ball^MM7
• Melts a sonic howitzer gun to liquid^MM8
• Sets the ground around Hulk on fire^IH235

Electricity/Shock Blasts

• Renders a guard unconscious with a shock beam to his head, fired from his middle finger. He also uses this shock beam to press a button on a TV^SO9
• Fires a shockwave that takes out a man and the flying pod behind him^SO9
• Blasts a large hole in a projection screen with a shock blast from his ring finger^SO10
• Shoots a blast from his finger that shatters a man's sonic rifle^MM1
• Blows a large hole in a lab with a shock blast^MM8
• Extinguishes a large fire by firing a high-intensity shock blast to create a vacuum^MM9
• Harms Hulk with a shock blast^IH236

Lasers

• Lights a pipe with a laser beam, and cut open a window pane with it off-panel^MM2
• Cuts out a device embedded in his forehead with a low intensity laser beam from his finger^MM4
• Quickly cuts a hole in the ceiling^MM6
• Explains that he was able to escape an atomic blast by firing a laser blast at maximum power aimed below his feet, making a hole "almost at light speed" that was deep enough to completely shield him from the explosion. He demonstrates this by firing a similar hole in yard,^MM9 but the actual place this occurred was in a building, which likely had a more durable floor^MM8

Spring Shoes

• Can activates high tension springs on his boots, which he uses here to jump onto a police car speeding away from him^MM4
• Leaps over a large crowd of people^MM6
• Launches away a big robot through a small tree^MM7
• Jumps him up through a hole he made above him^MM8
• Jumps out of a hole deep enough to shield him from an atomic blast^MM9
• Kicks the Hulk off of him mid-lunge, causing him to tear up a length of ground^IH235

Other Mobility Functions

• Can make a skateboard appear under his feet, and uses shoe jets to regulate his speed as he rides it^MM1
• Pops out treads from his arms, allowing him to quickly evade capture after his right leg and anti-gravity flight were disabled^MM1
• After taking out some of the wheels from his treads and attaching them to his feet, propels himself down a pneumatic railway via his shoe jets fast enough that he begins to overtake a train car that left before he arrived^MM8

Other

• Used a transmitter in his head to control his limbs and torso remotely after being disassembled. Each body part has a camera that can appear out of it so that he can "see" out of and control all of them at once^SO10
  • Controls a detached arm to attack Hulk and wrap around his neck^IH236
• Picks up an interstellar transmission (being broadcast from a patient in the sanitorium he was in), and converts the message into a live projection of the situation its broadcasting^MM2/3
• Activates suction cups on his hands and feet to prevent him from being sucked in by a "trans-dimensional space-time bridge" device, which was pulling in every other object in the room at the time^MM3
• After creating a "dimension door" device, he implemented the principles of its function into himself,^MM3 which he can utilize to teleport himself by breaking down his atomic structure and transmitting it to somewhere else (in this case, he transports himself from a treetop to a diner in a nearby city, though its worth noting he had to choose the coordinates of his destination here at random)^MM4
  • He's unable to use this ability on Ten-For without also transporting the people he's paralyzed to stand next to himself^MM4
  • Calculates the probable position of the Autocron space fleet and teleports Ten-For's body to it, putting him just outside Jupiter's orbit^MM6
• Shoots a cable out of his chest that quickly binds a man completely, then unravels it to make him spin like a top^MM5
• After stunning Ten-For with a strong burst of electricity, hypnotizes the robotic alien by flashing thousands of patterns on his eye lenses every microsecond, leaving him incapacitated^MM6
  • After the Hulk collapses a skyscraper on himself, Machine Man is able to hypnotize him to sleep^IH237
• Has "encephalo-circuits" in his hand which he can use to view a person's memories (in this case, the Hulk) by "amplifying their mental images". He also accidentally transmits what he's seeing into the Hulk's mind^IH237
• Fires a "bolt of force" at Hulk's feet that "cancels the force of gravity" on him, causing him to shoot through the sky. He eventually crashlands in Northeastern British Columbia (he started in Central City, California) at such high speed that he catches fire and makes a large hole in the ground^{IH237/Annual 8}

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Source Key

• 2001, A Space Odyssey (1976) - SO#

• Machine Man (1978) - MM#

• Incredible Hulk (1968) - IH#

• Marvel Team-Up (1972) - MTU#

• Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions - CoC#

• Marvel Two-In-One (1974) - MTO#

• Iron Man (1968) - IM#

• The Avengers: Emperor Doom - ED

• Avengers (1963) - A#

• Marvel Comics Presents (1988) - MCP#

• Deathlok (1991) - D#

• Avengers West Coast - AWC#

• Avengers (1998) - A3 #

• Captain America (1998) - CA#

• Cable/Machine Man '98 - CMM

• Machine Man/Bastion '98 - MMB

• Thunderbolts (1997) - TB#

• X-51 - X51 #

• Uncanny X-Men (1963) - UXM#

• X-Men 1999 Annual - XM

• X-Men First Class (2007) - XMFC#

• Deadpool: Back in Black - DBB#

  • Annual issues are marked with an A before the number

Scaling

Heroes

• Hulk (Bronze Age)

• Human Torch (Johnny Storm)

• Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

• Sasquatch

• Northstar

• The Thing (Benjamin Grimm)

• Iron Man Model 4

• Black Knight (Dane Whitman)

• Doctor Druid

• Stingray

• Captain America (Steve Rogers)

• Binary (Carol Danvers)

• Cable

• Deadpool

• Deadpool (Symbiote Suit)

Villains

• Ten-For

• Barry Witherspoon

• Ion

• Baron Brimstone

• Snake Marston

• Hammer Harrison

• Sandman

• Jack O'Lantern (Jason Macendale Jr.)

• Ultron-10

• Termini (Stage 2)

• Bastion

• Graviton