APOCALYPSE Robot
Real Name: None
Identity/Class: Terrestrial robot
Occupation: Rogue servant
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Cyborg assassin, Honker of Doom,
formerly) Apocalypse
Enemies: Apocalypse, Gahck, Tribe of Fire, Wolverine
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: The Savage Land
First Appearance: Wolverine: the Jungle Adventure (1990)
Powers/Abilities: The Apocalypse robot was very strong, but displayed no other powers that are often attributed to the real thing.
History: (Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure (fb)-BTS) - The mutant known as Apocalypse created several robotic doubles of himself, and posted them at various lairs around the world. Over time, the one placed in the Savage Land began to subvert its original programming. Reversing it, this Apocalypse robot sought to wipe out mutants and make the world safe for humans, the opposite of the real Apocalypse's goal. It began to experiment on local natives and dinosaurs, creating cyborgs out of them. He sent one to kill Wolverine.
After the cyborg assassin's failed attempt on Logan's life, Wolverine arrived in the Savage Land in search of who sent it after him. Eventually, Logan confronted and destroyed the Honker of Doom, a giant cyborg dinosaur that served the robotic Apocalypse. Wolverine tracked its origins to the secret compound, where he was captured. During their fight, the Apocalypse robot realized Gahck, a Tribe of Fire member, was there as well and tried to use her as leverage, but Wolverine freed her. Enraged, Wolverine tore at the robot, revealing its true nature. Once it was destroyed, the real Apocalypse made his presence known through a hologram, but Wolverine blew the laboratory up before Apocalypse could kill him.
Comments: Created by Walter Simonson, Michael Mignola and Bab Wiacek.
Turok called dinosaurs Honkers in his Dell/Gold Key run.
--John McDonagh
Clarifications:
The Apocalypse robot was built to resemble the real
Apocalypse, has no known connections to anyone else.
The Apocalypse robot sent an assassin to kill
Wolverine, and the real Apocalypse arranged to have it confront Logan
in public. It tried to kill Logan, but was quickly defeated, and
Wolverine used the scent of the being to track its origins to the
Savage Land.
--Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure
The Honker of Doom, so called that by the Tribe of
Fire, was a gigantic cyborg t-rex that the Apocalypse robot had created
and used to gather more victims for its experiments. It attacked
Wolverine and the Tribe of Fire, but after swallowing Logan, the mutant
destroyed it from within.
--Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure
images:
page 31, panel 3 (Apocalypse robot)
page 10, panels 2-3 (cyborg assassin)
page 23, panel 1 (Honker)
Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure (1990) - Walter
Simonson (writer), Michael Mignola (penciler), Bob Wiacek (inker), Bob
Harras (editor)
01/16/07
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