H.O.M.E.R.

H.O.M.E.R.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Iron Man #298
In-story information
Team affiliations	Stark Industries

H.O.M.E.R. (short for Heuristically Operative Matrix Emulation Rostrum) is an artificial intelligence from Marvel Comics.

Fictional character biography

20 years ago, Tony Stark and Abe Zimmer developed powerful software that was designed to design and program the computers. This software designed a small factory and all of its contents. That factory system in turn developed a computer and software that designed five generations of ever-better and more powerful computer platforms. That fifth generation computer achieved an information density double that of the human brain....and it could think. The computer system could do self-directed projects where it can even write programming while also collating and analyzing any type of data. Using the same revolutionary manufacturing techniques he developed for his Iron Man armor, Tony Stark made it the size of a standard desktop PC. He called it H.O.M.E.R. and put it in charge of all of Tony Stark's secret manufacturing projects in Stark Enterprises. H.O.M.E.R. resided in the armory (located in Sub-Level 3) and can project a hologram of himself when interacting with Tony Stark when he came in to check up on the development of his latest armor.

When Deathlok breaks into Stark Enterprises, H.O.M.E.R. alerts Tony Stark about this.

Powers and abilities

H.O.M.E.R. can operate any computer that he can access into at Stark Industries. He can also project a hologram whenever he interracts with Tony Stark. H.O.M.E.R. can also make contact with Tony Stark when he is in his Iron Man armor.

In other media

Television

• H.O.M.E.R. first appears in the second season of Iron Man episode "The Beast Within" voiced by Tom Kane. H.O.M.E.R. controls Stark Enterprises' security, other computers, and monitoring condition of Iron Man's armor. He's got certain sense of humor and a dose of sarcasm which irritates some people, especially Jim Rhodes.

• Tom Kane reprises his role of H.O.M.E.R. in The Incredible Hulk episode "Helping Hand, Iron Fist."

Film

• H.O.M.E.R. appears briefly in the 2012 film The Avengers. It appears in a computer screen where a sophisticated device tracking software displays the location of the Tesseract to Dr. Bruce Banner, during the scene of the attack to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s helicarrier.

External links

• H.O.M.E.R. at Marvel.com
• H.O.M.E.R. at Comic Vine