Alkhema

Alkhema
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Avengers West Coast #90 (January 1993)
Created by	Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, David Ross, and Tim Dzon
In-story information
Alter ego	Alkhema
Notable aliases	Alkhema-2, War Toy

Alkhema, also known as War Toy, is a fictional robot supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Alkhema first appeared in Avengers West Coast #90 (January 1993).

Concept and creation

Roy Thomas recounted that "I wasn’t wild about the first [bride of Ultron] … so I came up with Alkhema (from alchemy, of course)… and used the name War Toy which I’d used for a robot in a story I had Tony Isabella write for Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction years ago."

Fictional character biography

Alkhema was constructed by Ultron-13 as a second attempt to create a mate, based on the brain patterns of Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse). In the end, she ultimately betrayed Ultron to the West Coast Avengers. She is different from Ultron; she desired to kill all humans individually rather than en masse like Ultron. She first went up against the Avengers shortly after being constructed, when she attacked a weapons center. She was defeated, but escaped. She later would go on to betray Ultron.

After a defeat of Ultron, she salvaged the set of brain patterns based after Hank Pym, the Wasp, the Vision, Wonder Man, the Scarlet Witch and the Grim Reaper from the rubble of Ultron's Slorenian base, where she built her Robos (War Toys and Bio-Synthezoids). However, she was seemingly destroyed at Thebes, when Hawkeye (Clint Barton) fired an "anti-metal" arrow into her.

Powers and abilities

Alkhema is composed of adamantium and is therefore virtually indestructible. She can lift 90 tons, though this is near the limit of her capacity. She can fire energy beams from her eyes and shoulder weapons. She can electrify her surface and generate jet thrust from her boots to fly.

External links

• Alkhema at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
• Official Marvel Bio