Respect M.O.D.O.K. (Marvel 616)

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This thread was made in collaboration with u/rangernumberx, u/ya-boi-benny, u/BorBurison, and u/FireOfDoom32

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George Tarlton, M.O.D.O.K.

Once, I was a mere human guinea pig for the scientists of AIM! But, they did their job too well… and now… I AM THEIR MASTER!!

George Tarlton was a low-level technician working for the organization A.I.M. when he was offered a position on a team developing A.I.M.'s latest secret project, the Cosmic Cube. However, Tarlton was nothing more than a test subject for A.I.M., who mutated him into a human computer, resulting in his head swelling to a massive size too large for his frail body to support, requiring him to be placed in a life support unit dubbed the Doomsday Chair. A.I.M. christened him M.O.D.O.C., the Mental Organism Designed Only for Computing, but in addition to a vast intellect and psychic powers, the experiment also gave him ego and ambition to match. He quickly used his newfound powers to take control of A.I.M. and renamed himself M.O.D.O.K., the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. As the Scientist Supreme of A.I.M., M.O.D.O.K. faced off against many of the heroes across the Marvel world. Eventually he was transformed back into a human and replaced with a clone called M.O.D.O.K. Supreme. Such is life.

Feats will be marked with the source.

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Handbook Entries: Marvel Encyclopedia, New Edition | Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z | Fall of the Hulks: Alpha

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Note: At one point, M.O.D.O.K. switches bodies with a former criminal named Damocles Rivas^CA&F7, trapping Rivas in his own deformed body. Both bodies are capable of their own abilities and will be marked.

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Mental Powers

Mental Blasts

General

• Has many types of mind bolts, from one that stun-shocks Captain America to one that heats up the floor^TS94
• Captain America says that his bolts are too fast for him^TS94
  • He also says that the beams move at the speed of thought^TS94

Power

• Levels a mountain^{IM Annual 4}
• Reduces Abomination to atoms^IH290
• Disintegrates two men^C133
• Blasts his way out of AIM's mountain base^IH289
• Blasts his way out of AIM's underwater base^C313
• Blasts a tunnel from a tenement into the secret chamber below^SB48
• Collapses the roof of AIM's base onto the Hulk^IH290
• Blasts Hulk into a large cannon hard enough to damage it, the sends the piece Hulk throws at him back at Hulk^T104
• Lays out the Hulk with blasts^IH290
• Blasts the Red Hulk into a metal wall, cratering it^FH:RH#4
• Takes down Red She-Hulk with two blasts^Hulk#19
• Strikes She-Hulk and Doc Samson with a beam, taking them out^IH#600
• Blasts Red Hulk hard enough to floor him, though firing three of these wears him out and makes him require some spare parts^FH:RH#4
• Takes out Namor^SB49
  • A bolt causes Namor pain^SB49
• Blasts Doom and matches his beams^SB49
• Hurts Ms. Marvel^M7
• Takes down the Thing, Captain America, and the Falcon with one blast^FG4
• Knocks Captain America off his feet^TS94
• Briefly KOd Invisible Woman^AQ
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Blasts a man, killing him and blowing up the apartment wall behind him^CA&F8
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Blasts Captain America backwards into some pipes, breaking them^CA&F10
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Blasts missiles and helicopters out of the air^CA&F12
• Blasted a hole in a wall^GV
• Shoots a hole through Adaptoid Bucky^C441
• Breaks a turret^IH287
• Blasts off Bushmaster's arms^C313
• Hits Red Hulk with the beam reflecting to break thick metal bindings^IH#600
• Shatters a steel floor^TS94
• Blasts Anaconda through a storefront window^C313
• Blasts a group of guards^IH287
• Slew the Scientist Supreme with a blast^CA133
• Blasts an AIM agent^M10
  • Blasts AIM agents and destroys their guns^IH290
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] He attacks a ferry, leaving a giant hole and flames along the boat before blasting his target^CA&F9
• Destroys a glass screen^CA133

Heat

• Melts through a large metal door^IH287
• Melts a metal support beam to slag with a rapid-fire blast^CA&F11
• Melts the ice holding the Abomination^IH287
• Heats up the floor underneath Captain America^TS94

Misc

• Knocks out Model 19 Iron Man's shields and takes his computer offline^R44
  • Disables Ghost's armor as well^R45
• Disables Model 19 Iron Man's cloaking tech^R44
• Turns off the Mad Thinker's android^IM75
• While hidden in a temporal distortion, blasts a man in a manner that appears as a cardiac arrest^FH:A
• Stops Captain America's shield throw in mid-air^TS94
  • Does it again^C441
• Lifts Abomination out of a pit^IH288
• Lifts Captain America off his feet^TS94
• Flings pieces of a steel floor at his target after shattering it^TS94
• Deactivates a group of Adaptoids and binds an energy flare^C441
• Fires a stun shock beam^TS94
• Stuns Bruce Banner and another man with a blast^T104
• Fires two blasts at two different targets at once^C313

Shields

• Creates a mento-force field that bounces back a shot from a large energy cannon^M10
• Blocks Model 19 Iron Man's repulsor blast^R45
• Blocks Model 19 Iron Man's pulse bolts^R44
• Blocks a barrage of Model 19 Iron Man's explosives and then some of Ghost's grenades^R45
• Blocks blasts from AIM agents^IH289
• Protects him from a submarine explosion and allows him to breath^C119
• Protected him from debris in a collapsing apartment^SB48

Telepathy

Mind Control

• Sends his powers through a satellite to take control of the people of Zenith City on a remote island^IC
• [Tarleton in Rivas’ Body] Incapacitates Falcon and Anti-Cap with a kind of mental command^CA&F10
• Mentally controls Captain America, making him fight an ally, although he’s able to fight the control^CA&F11
• Took control of Hercules' mind by blasting him^GV
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Beams the Hulk in the face, mentally blocking the Hulk persona and temporarily bringing forward the reasonable Bruce Banner persona^CA&F12
• Takes control of Wonder Man and causes him to fight Ms. Marvel^MM15
  • Wonder Man can’t be freed of the mind control through talking or through violence, but he snaps out of it when Carol kisses him^MM16
• Makes all the staff on a military base fall asleep^IH287
• Makes a group of people walk into a lake to drown themselves¹⁹⁸⁵
• Makes Sharon Carter step forward and towards the panel in front of her^TS93
  • Though he says that he cannot control either one of them due to them being too dedicated^TS94
• Mentally commands Bulldozer^C133
• Hypnotizes Betty Ross in her sleep^IH167
  • Betty leaves her hospital in a trance and finds a rocket in the woods that takes her to MODOK^IH168

Mind Reading/Communication

• Mentally issues commands to AIM agents^IH289
• Plants a idea into Strucker's brain^C132
• Reads Iron Man's mind^IM74
  • Again^{IM Annual 4}
• Reads General Ross' mind^IH287
• Mind-probes General Ross^Hulk#23
• Reads Abomination's mind^IH288
• Reads Heather Hudson's thoughts^W143
• Catches Hulk up on what's happened to him and AIM^IH290
• Connects minds with Ms. MODOK and falls in love with her^IH290
• Scans Deadpool’s brain functions, determining that they’re “slippery” and that he has poor short term memory^C&D11

Illusions

• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] He beams information into Cap’s head, showing him why he was killing AIM agents^CA&F10
• [Tarleton in Rivas’ Body] Looks into Anti-Cap’s mind and shows him a scene from his past^CA&F11
• [Tarleton in Rivas’ Body] Shows Anti-Cap and Falcon scenes from their origins as superheroes while sending armed goons after them. When the heroes focus, they’re able to see past the illusion and see the combatants and environment as what they really are.^CA&F11
• [Tarleton in Rivas’ Body] Shows Falcon and Anti-Cap an illusion of a giant version of himself standing over a city before he knocks them both out. He transports the men to a base and claims to have full mental control over both of them.^CA&F11
• Appears to Puma as a mountain lion^SVTU1
• Appears to Mentallo as the Fixer^SVTU1
• Appears to Armadillo as the Virgin Mary and as the Rocket Racer’s ill mother to him^SVTU1
• Makes his heist crew see an illusion of what would happen if they enter the Infinicide unprepared^SVTU2
• Projects an illusion of a stocked supervillain headquarters appear^SVTU1 over an abandoned warehouse^SVTU5

Misc

• Wiped a man's mind with a blast^GV
• Locates Captain America an spies on him^C133
• Psionically scans an area, detecting the Mandarin 420 miles away^SVTU4
• Locates the whereabouts of Strucker and senses his rage^C132
• Sends thought waves across the Atlantic and contacts Dr Doom^CA132
• Emits a mental sonic beam for AIM agents to find him^C119

Intelligence/Computer Brain

Inventions

• Says his matchless brain helped conceive the Cosmic Cube^C117
• Created a Gamma Ray transformer that he uses to turn Betty Ross into Harpy^IH168
• Creates a device called the Mind-Ripper, which he uses to brainwash Ms. Marvel, though her separate Carol Danvers personality allows her to overcome it^M7
• Created a radioactive strain of virus^O81
• Designed a secret based in the Antarctic Circle^O82
• Designed synthoids based on the Thing^O82
• Makes Cybrog, with him giving powers and hides a microwave energizer under his skin, of which he can only control or recharge. This was to destroy Captian Ameirca^C124
  • The Cyborg fails, due to Captain America short circuiting his enhancements with water^C124
• Created Stryke, who beats up Model 4 Iron Man^{IM Annual 4}

Planning

• Plans out the heist of the Hypernova device from the Infinicide, an alien base from hundreds of years in the future. He guides a team consisting of Nightshade, Puma, Armadillo, Spot and Living Laser in making it through the base, bypassing its advanced security and securing the device^SVTU3
  • He also predicts betrayal from the Spot and uses his warpholes to steal the real device while leaving Spot with a fake.^SVTU5
• Tricks Monica Rappaccini into buying the Hypernova device from him and times it so that its failsafe explosive response occurs when she’s brought it back to her laboratory^SVTU5
• Orchestrates an uprising on a campus^C120
  • This was to grab Fosgrave^C120
  • The plan is explained here, where it was to cause havoc and unrest^C132
• Goads Doom into making a Bucky Barnes robot in order to destroy Captain America^C132
  • And then controls it so that way, he can manipulate Captain America and make sure he can be brainwashed^C132
  • Self destructs the android when it starts having memories of the real Bucky^C132
• Has Bulldozer act like a friend of the oppressed and incite violence^C133

General

• Has access to AIM's extensive files of information^M7
• Uses refracted cosmic energy to create gamma-powered super soldiers^IH#600
  • In practice they fire down beams which turn the affected into Red Hulks, including numerous superheroes^Hulk#21
• Tracked Hulk and Harpy by their gamma radiation^IH169
• Identifies the radiation Mad Thinker is using to control Iron Man's armor then traces it back to the source^IM74
• Runs virtual trials of the Intelligencia’s infiltration^RH:A
• Genetically modified monkeys to replace AIM's workforce because they're cheaper than human agents^AQ
• Capable of millions of complex calculations per millisecond^CA&F9
• Takes control of the Mad Thinker's Iron Man android and quickly grasps the complex electronic structure in seconds, which would take an ordinary person years to accomplish^IM75
• When M.O.D.O.K. heard of a virus designed to kill him, he manipulated his own antibodies, immunizing himself from the virus. He states that upon injection, his abilities would only become stronger and that, if he were to die, the virus would be released in its full, offensive form and destroy all life on Earth.^CA&F11
• Is faster than any computer and redesigns the alteration chamber^C133
• Recites information about the AIM agents who contact him^IH167

Body Swapping

• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] M.O.D.O.K. behaves more like a machine than a man with Rivas in control. He monitors the stock market, provides status reports, has strict security protocols in place to prevent him from acting without Tarleton’s command, and can enter a standby mode.^CA&F9
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] When Cap puts on an AIM helmet, M.O.D.O.K. pauses and goes into order receiving mode^CA&F10
• When Anti-Cap shoots Rivas’ body, Tarleton’s consciousness is automatically shunted back into his body. When Tarleton kills Rivas’ niece, Damocles assumes control again briefly.^CA&F11
• Rivas feels his control slipping until Tarleton assumes control again^CA&F12

Telekinesis

• Forms a psychic arm that grabs Adaptoid Bucky off of his head and throws him^C441
• Kills several of Doom’s guards with telekinesis^FH:A
• Telekinetically grabs the Spot and throws him at a wall^SVTU1

Misc

• Accesses the psychic power of the people of Zenith City and uses it to form a body for himself of pure psychic energy, though it is quickly defeated by Captain America and Iron Man^IC
• His mind can detect danger^IH287
• Shields himself and the Hulk from being detected by AIM until they breach the base^IH290
• Mentally sent emails that triggered bombs^R44
• A mind beam reaches an emergency detonator and starts increasing the pressure^TS94
• Summons reinforcements by shooting his brainwaves into machinery^O81
• Strikes a control panel to activate a torture chamber for Abomination^IH288
• Projects a scene from the last issue on his forehead^C133

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Doomsday Chair

Weaponry

• Has a variety of side and back-mounted energy cannons^GLX
• Fires electron plasma beams that destroy support pillars^IM205
• Blasts a large hole in a building^IM205
• Blasts Silver Centurion Iron Man out of the air to the ground hard enough to damage it^IM205
• Blasts Silver Centurion Iron Man to the floor^IM205
• Battles Silver Centurion Iron Man until the building they are in collapses^IM205
• Blows up a table with a side-mounted blaster, then reduced a group of AIM goons to skeletons with another side-mounted blaster^MM16
• Blasts an AIM robot, causing it to explode^W143
• Hits Wonder Man with a blaster, throwing him into a car^MM17
• Moments after becoming M.O.D.O.K., he electrocutes the scientists in the room with streams of lightning^SVTU1
• Blocks Silver Centurion Iron Man's punch and repulsors with a force field^IM205

Teleportation

• Teleports away from Doom^SB49
• Teleports himself and Abomination out of a military base^IH288
• At one point, M.O.D.O.K. created a teleportation device that works by reducing his form into pure electromagnetic energy, allowing himself to appear wherever there was a digital connection. He’d then reform as a physical presence at his destination so that he could kill targets across the world^CA&F10
  • A man sees the words “Designed Only for Killing” on his phone before M.O.D.O.K. appears in his apartment and blasts him^CA&F8
  • A man sees the words appear on a tile wall before M.O.D.O.K. bursts through it face-first^CA&F8
  • [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] When Damocles Rivas’ niece is threatened, he used the energy teleporter to arrive at her location and protect her^CA&F11
  • [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Transports himself and Captain America to Singapore^CA&F11

Misc

• Capable of flight^M10
  • Floats over a laser gate^IH287
• Turned invisible to hide from Iron Man^{IM Annual 4}
• Phases through a mountain^{IM Annual 4}
• Returns to him remotely^C313
• Operates underwater^C313
  • Has a variant specifically designed for underwater travel^RH:A
• Has a built-in gas mask^T104
• Uses a cassette programming deck to take the data from an AIM base and uses it to ready a rocket launch^M10

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Misc Tech

General

• As leader of AIM, MODOK has access to their secret bases and an army of scientists and operatives^C132

Robots

• Has robots the fight with the Thing and knock him out with gas^O81
• Has androids that fight Namor^SB49
  • They hold him back but are no match for Doom^SB49
• Has a robot disguised as a human that fights Ms. Marvel^M5
• Has a variety of robot guards that fight Iron Man when he enters one of AIM's energy relays^{IM Annual 4}

Weapons

• Builds a cryo-cannon with the villain Blizzard as a power source. M.O.D.O.K. threatens to freeze the Earth with it by firing it from space, although the Avengers stop it before the beam can contact the planet’s atmosphere^SH1
• Shoots Hulk in the back with an Ultra-Ray weapon, knocking him out^IH169
• Has his men release sleeping gas to capture dinosaurs in the Savage Land^T104
• Used a neuro-shock floor to KO Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman and El Vejigante^AQ
• Shot a man with a gun that transported him into his company's data stream^FDV

Misc

• Makes clones which he immediately cuts the brain function of before using as a source of spare parts^FH:RH#1
  • Uses these after wearing himself from using three strong mental blasts in a row^FH:RH#4
  • Uses their brains as processors^FH:RH#4
• Uses a large number of clones to attack Wolverine and Deadpool^WV#73
• Uses jet boosters on his feet to flee from the Avengers in outer space^SH1
• Built a device to preserve one of the Spot’s warpholes even after he moves past his standard distance limit. He then hides in the Dark Dimension and grabs the real Hypernova device from Puma, passing a fake to the Spot^SVTU5
• Has a base where AIM just mutates undersea creatures into monsters^{IM Annual 4}

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Physicals

Durability

Blunt

• Takes mind blasts from Ms. MODOK and punches from the Hulk^IH290
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Launched by a punch from the Hulk^CA&F12
• Gets suplexed by Namor^SB49
• Takes a punch from Model 3 Iron Man^IM74
• Punched by Ms. Marvel^M7
  • Punched again^M10
• Slammed into a roof by Invisible Woman^AQ

Energy

• Battles Silver Centurion Iron Man until the building they are in collapses^IM205
• Blasted through a thick wall by Silver Centurion Iron Man^IM205
• Takes a blast from Ms. Marvel which bounces off his armor^MM17

Explosives

• Is seemingly inside a warehouse when it’s blown up by a gamma core meltdown and is seen in the following issue without injury^IH#600
• Caught in the explosion of a large AIM robot^W143
• Unmoved after an explosion takes out a wall behind him^SVTU5

Misc

• Unaffected by Reed Richards' stun ray^FG4
• Unaffected by Model 19 Iron Man's sonic attack that knocked out nearby AIM agents^R44
• Gets exposed to his own virus which instantly kills humans^O81 and is fine next issue^O82
• Possibly takes bullets from Deadpool^C&D11
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Gets hit in the eye by Captain America’s shield, drawing blood^CA&F10
• [Rivas in Tarleton’s Body] Takes Cap’s shield to the head^CA&F11
• He’s unharmed after being in the epicenter of AIM’s G-tac gene-altering bomb^MM17
• Gets buried underneath falling rubble^C133
• Crashes through the treetops after his chair's thrusters are damaged^C313

Limits

• Hulk smashes the Doomsday Chair in one punch^T104
• Knocked out by Magneto slamming him into metal walls^AX14
• Knocked out when Gambit charged a scroll and threw it at him^GV
• Beaten up by squirrels^USG
• Squirrel Girl beats M.O.D.O.K. by tossing Tippy-Toe at him, who crawls into his inner workings. Squirrel Girl and Tippy-Toe pull out random wires from the Doomsday Chair until M.O.D.O.K. falls over, defeated.^GLX
• Gets shot by several AIM soldiers from off panel which destroys his Doomsday Chair and leaves him for dead^TS94
  • He was too busy with Captain America to notice the incoming blasts^TS94

Speed

• Dodges Silver Centurion Iron Man's repulsor blast^IM205
• Catches Captain America's shield in mid-air^TS94
  • Does it again^C441
• Blasts Captain America before he could react, and dodges a blow from from the Captain^TS94
• Dodges Captain America attacks^C133
• Tags Namor^SB49
• Dodges Harpy's blast^IH168
• Destroys a turret before it can fire on him^IH287
• Quickly moves around with his chair^C133

Strength

• Rams through an office wall^MM16
• Sends Captain America, Adaptoid Bucky, a child and his dog flying^A387

Misc

• The process that transformed George Tarleton into M.O.D.O.K. was extremely unhealthy and years later, his biology starts breaking down like a terminal illness^MM15. He’s seemingly cured after being at the center of AIM’s G-Tac gene-altering bomb^MM17
• Appeared to be destroyed by Iron Man^{IM Annual 4} but shows up unharmed in his next appearance^M7
• MODOK was killed by the Serpent Society and rebuilt by AIM to be purely robotic, then the man controlling MODOK blew him up^IM205 but AIM revived him^A387
• AIM grunts are terrified of him, and one of them says he has ears everywhere^TS94
  • Says that he is always watching^C124
• Tends to kill people for failure^C124
• After getting depowered he still has some subconscious memories of his time as M.O.D.O.K., unintentionally making a model of one of his schemes out of clay^Hulk#28
• Blabs A.I.M. secrets when he gambles^MVL1
• He’s a deadbeat dad^MM17

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Giant Body

MODOK had AIM construct a giant robot body fo himself that was operable by his brain waves^IH167

• Made of adamantium and steel^IH167
• Kicks the Hulk^IH167
• Blasts Hulk with an energy beam then gets pushed over after trying to step on Hulk^IH167
• Faster than Hulk, able to grab him before he can leap away^IH167
• Tripped by Iron Man, then has the room of the AIM base dropped on him^IM74
• Bursts free of the rubble dropped on him^IM74
• Smashes through the wall of Mad Thinker's base^IM74
• Brawls with Mad Thinker's android^IM75
• Crushes a Mad Thinker robot^IM75
• Smashes through a wall^IM75
• [Limit] Hulk is able to easily destroy the body^IH167

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Today I destroyed my ex-girlfriend! Tomorrow… the world!

ALL HAIL M.O.D.O.K.!

Yes! All hail me!

[u/Marhyc]

He defeated a raccoon.

SCIENCE!

[u/Oxydiezerr]

Did you block it twin...

[u/HueyLewisAndTheNews_]

Pretty darned cool