AVRO-X
Real Name: Colin Richard
Identity/Class: Human technology user; Canadian citizen
Occupation: Major of the Canadian Armed Forces
Group Membership: Canadian Armed Forces
Affiliations: Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Iron Man (Tony Stark), Colonel Okada, James Rhodes, Saberbat;
indirectly: James MacDonald Hudson (inventor of his armor)
Enemies: Dr. Doom (Victor von Doom)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile in Canada
In this story: Doomstadt, Latveria
First Appearance: Marvel Fanfare I#44 (June, 1989)
Powers/Abilities: He went through all the training a Major for the Canadian Armed Forces needed.
With his armor he possessed the ability of flight and enhanced durability. The armor's weaponry included rockets, cannons and other things not further explained.
History:
(Marvel Fanfare I#44 (fb) - BTS) - As Major of the Canadian Armed Forces and wearer of a battle-suit he was invited to the first International Symposium on Robotics in Latveria.
(Marvel Fanfare I#44) - He was present at the first International Symposium on Robotics in Doomstadt, Latveria. He met Iron Man and introduced Okada and Saberbat to him. Then he started his demonstration, but his armor was already infected with Doom's computer virus which was carried by Iron Man. He crashed into Saberbat and had to be caught by Iron Man before hitting the ground. He explained to Iron Man that he lost control when his gyros and the fly-by-wire program flipped out, but he wasn't the only one having such troubles. Later the virus was destroyed and Avro-X's armor worked again.
Comments: Created by Ken Steacy.
The armor Avro-X wore was similar to the suit Giles McHeath wore as
Scourge in Marvel Fanfare I#28 which was also drawn by Ken Steacy. In this story it was established that a prototype was originally designed by James McDonald Hudson for a company called Am-Can. It is possible that Richard's armor is the prototype or that it is part of a series built by Am-Can for the Canadian Armed Forces.
Avro was a British aerospace
(mainly) company which ceased to exist as an independent entity well before Avro-X's
armor would have been designed. They were most famous in Canada for the Avro
Arrow fighter of the 1950s, which is probably where Steacy's inspiration to use
the name for a Canadian character came from.
I am mainly suggesting that BAE Systems (the current
incarnation of the company which originally bought Avro, and thus the current
owner of the Avro name) might be another possible contender for the developer of
Avro-X's armor, unless it is unequivocally the same model as Scourge's and thus
a product of Am-Can.-
-LV
They look pretty similar to me--Snood.
Profile by Markus Raymond
CLARIFICATIONS:
Avro-X has no known connection to:
images:
Avro-X body shot: Marvel Fanfare I#44, p20, pan2
Avro-X head shot: Marvel Fanfare I#44, p18, pan5
Last updated: 08/01/05
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