MAHKIZMO
Real Name: Mahkizmo
Identity/Class: Extra-dimensional (Earth-74101) human mutant/mutate
Occupation: Former ruler and conqueror
Group Membership: Men of Machus
Affiliations: Men of Machus (aka the
Machans), especially the scientist;
Three-Who-Wait (pawns); former pawn of Cupid;
Mad Thinker, Puppet Master, Threska (see comments);
Enemies: Women of Femizonia;
Fantastic Four (Human Torch, Medusa, Mr. Fantastic, Thing),
She-Hulk
Known Relatives: None (he never even knew he had a mother at all)
Aliases: The Nuclear Man
Base of Operations: Earth-Machus/Femizonia (Earth-715)
First Appearance: Fantastic Four I#151 (October, 1974)
Powers/Abilities: Mahkizmo possesses
superhuman (Class 100) strength and durability, as well as being
a savage warrior skilled in unarmed combat. In addition, he can
release explosive force from his body sufficient to level a small
building. This can be added to the force of his punch, or it can
be released as an omni-directional wave.
It may be that his maximum strength and durability is only
achieved with conscious effort and tapping into some energy
force, as he was once knocked out by a bottle being broken over
his head.
Mahkizmo is as macho as they come. Men rule the world; any guy not up to his standards of manliness is a girly-man. He lives for combat and conquering, although he really had no idea what to do with a woman once he had the chance. I think the most he ever understood was perhaps "feeling all funny, like when you climb the rope in gym class." (thank you Garth).
Height: 7' 6"
Weight: 505 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
History: Mahkizmo is a native of Earth-Machus. The exact source of his enhanced powers are uncertain
(Fantastic Four I#151-153) - He was sent back to the modern
era to stop Thundra, who was trying to prevent the existence of
Machus by altering the past. Mahkizmo appeared and quickly
overpowered the Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic, and the Thing.
Thundra attacked him, but he teleported her back to Machus, where
he used an energy beam to sap her will and imprison her.
The Fantastic Four used Dr.
Doom's time machine to travel forwards and "sideways"
in time to follow them, but Mahkizmo and the Men of Machus
defeated them (Mahkizmo did resort to threatening to kill
Johnny to subdue the Thing when "Clobberin' Time" came
around). Mahkizmo took his prize for the conquest, Medusa,
to his chambers. Medusa entranced him with soft words and hands,
brained him with a jug of wine, and then escaped back to the
modern era. After recovering, Mahkizmo sentenced the Fantastic
Four and Thundra to death in the gladiatorial pens. When they
overcame all opposition, he entered the fight himself. Again he
defeated the group (although this time it was revealed that
they had all been subjected to his will-killing energy ray, too).
Medusa then arrived with the cavalry--the Femizons. Having used
the time machine to go to Earth-Femizonia, she then brought them
to Earth-Machus. The Human Torch destroyed the will-killing
energy ray, allowing the Femizons and Machans to fight on equal
ground. Mahkizmo summoned his energy for his devastating
nuclear-punch, but Thundra and the Thing smashed him before he
could release the force, and he was disintegrated by the energy
implosion.
With Mahkizmo destroyed, the last barrier between the Earths
(Machus and Femizonia) dissolved and the two worlds merged. The
Machans and Femizons were all affected by the merging, and ceased
their hostilities in exchange for sweet love.
(Sensational She-Hulk#39 (fb)) - Mahkizmo, was somehow maintained as an intangible, invisible cloud of atoms. Upon observing the harmony between the men and women, Mahkizmo was furious. He managed to direct his disembodied form into a man of the new world (the merged Femizonia/Machus), and transformed it into his own form. Since he had been spared the effects of the fusion, Mahkizmo was the only one who remembered how the world had been.
(Sensational She-Hulk#34) - Mahkizmo set out on a plan to set off the Gender Bomb, to kill all of the women of the past, to prevent the women of his timeline from existing. Mahkizmo then accessed a time machine of his world to travel back to the modern era.
(Sensational She-Hulk#38) - Mahkizmo arrived in the modern era and attacked the She-Hulk, apparently planning to humble one of the most powerful women of that era. They fought an even match, until Cupid, acting on a challenge of Venus, shot Mahkizmo with one of his arrows, and he fell in love with the She-Hulk. He abducted her to his world, with the intention of making her his bride (and then finishing up on the plot to kill the wimmens.
(Sensational She-Hulk#39) - They were followed by the Thing
and Wyatt Wingfoot, who used Reed Richard's time machine to
follow Mahkizmo's "temporal trail." The She-Hulk and
the Thing combined their power and defeated Mahkizmo. Jen then
explained to him why his plan wouldn't work they way he wanted it
to (Birds and Bees and What-Not).
However, the arrival of the heroes from the modern era allowed
the men and women to remember their pasts. This broke their
unnatural spell of harmony and peace, and allowed them to beat
the crap out of each other, just like good warriors should.
Mahkizmo's assistant explained that these brawls were nothing
more than household spats as played out by a race of warriors...and
everyone lived happily ever after.
(Fantastic Four: Foes#1) - Mahkizmo attended a gathering of enemies of the Fantastic Four held by the Puppet Master, who suggested that they combine their forces. Occulus left with the others, without even acknowledging the Puppet Master's scheme, unaware that the Mad Thinker had obtained a DNA sample from him, as per his primary intentions.
(Fantastic Four: Foes#5 (fb) - BTS) - The Fantastic Four captured Mahkizmo and transferred him to the newly constructed Vault in the Negative Zone.
(Fantastic Four: Foes#5) - Mahkizmo and the rest of the inmates were released from their cells by the Negative Zone sorceress Threska.
(Fantastic Four: Foes#6) - Mahkizmo and most of the other inmates fought the Fantastic Four, and they either voluntarily returned to their cells or were recaptured by force.
Comments: Created by Gerry Conway and Rich Buckler.
In Fantastic Four#153, the worlds of Machus and
Femizonia were merged. That created Earth-Femizonia/Machus.
However, it has since been shown that there are diverging
realities/timeline, and while in one reality the two worlds
merged, in another (as first seen in Marvel Two-In-One#67), they
remained separate. Thundra traveled to the unmerged Femizonia, where she rules as
queen. The Men of Machus have been seen opposing her, but the
Mahkizmo of that separate reality has not (it may be that there
is not one, since he was "destroyed" before the
merger). It is not 100% clear where the Men of Machus from the
unmerged reality live. It may be that they still exist on
separate parallel worlds and travel to Earth-Femizonia to attack
the Femizons, or it may be that they are now exist as separate
nations on the same planet.
The profile on the Femizons may or may not help explain this further.
Mahkizmo did actually have an interest in the womenfolk in his first appearance, as he kept trying to bring Medusa and Thundra back to his bed chambers. It was John Byrne who made him even simpler, so that he had no idea what women were for.
Mahkizmo has a loose association with other Negative Zone Vault prisoners, including [DEVOS]?, DIABLO, DRAGON MAN, [DREADFACE]?, GREY GARGOYLE, HYDRO MAN, [ICONOCLAST?]?, KLAW, kree (?), MAD THINKER, [MODOK?]?, MOLECULE MAN, MOLE MAN, OCCULUS, [OVER-MIND, PSYCHO-MAN]?, PUPPET MASTER, [RAMA-TUT]?, RED GHOST, RUINED ([B'arr], Exalt, [Stem]), SPHINX, SUPER-SKRULL, [STAAK]?, SUPER-APES, [TERRAX]?, THRESKA, TRAPSTER, WIZARD, [cloaked figure, dark haired woman, blue-skinned spiked shoulder pad guy, dark-haired guy with red cape]?, guy with cybernetic left eye
Mahkizmo has an entry in Marvel Legacy: The 1970's Handbook.
Profile by Snood
CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:
Earth-Machus and the Machans (see comments) are of uncertain connection to:
The Three-Who-Wait have no known connection to:
Earth-74101 is an alternate future world, presumably @ the 23rd Century, in which the men of the world are extremely barbarous and the women have been enslaved. This reality was parallel to the world of Earth-Femizonia (Earth-715), where the women (Femizons) rule. The Machans and Femizons soon became enemies after learning of each other, as their dimensions for some reason began to move closer to one another. Men of Machus traveled to Femizonia, inspiring the men of that world to rebel against the Femizons. As the two worlds continued to move closer together, the problems worsened. The Empress of Femizonia chose Thundra, their strongest warrior to travel back in time, in the hopes that if she could defeat the most powerful man of the modern era, men would learn their lesson for all time. In response Mahkizmo traveled back to
--Fantastic Four#151 (151(fb), [151], 152, 153->Earth-Femizonia/Machus
The Men of Machus continue to exist in some fashion (see comments) in a divergent reality in which the worlds of Machus and Femizonia never completely merged. Some of the imprisoned men of Machus revolted, and constructed a large android which sent out alpha waves to weaken women. Using this android, they took several of the prison guards hostage. Thundra traveled back to the modern era and recruited the Thing to help her and they defeated the android, allowing the Femizon guards to rise up and defeats the Machans.
--Fantastic Four I#303
They are strong, powerful, barbarous warriors.
It is likely that only Mahkizmo possesses superhuman strength and
the rest of the Men are merely powerful athletes, although they
could be enhanced human. While they use swords and offer fight in
using other primitive weaponry, they also have access to various
energy weapons and other advanced equipment, such as their Android Champion, the Gender
Bomb, a time machine, and the Will-Killing energy ray. They just prefer hand-to-hand combat, as they felt
that to be more manly.
I believe Mahkizmo is the only one identified by name, and his
assistant, the scientist is the only other one of individual significance. Also
present were the Three-Who-Wait, a group of mutates used in gladiatorial combat.
The Android Champion
Created by the Machans (of the unmerged timeline), it released "alpha waves" which weakened the women of Femizonia. Between that and its great strength (Class 25-75) none of them could stand against it. The Thing put the kibosh on it with a single punch.
--Fantastic Four I#303
The Gender Bomb
Designed by Mahkizmo's
scientist on Femizonia/Machus, this device was designed to be
sent back in time to the modern era, at which point it would
release a radiation that would cause chronal acceleration of all
of the women of Earth, causing rapid aging and death within
minutes. Mahkizmo believed that this would eliminate the women of
Femizonia, whom he hated, and failed to appreciate that this
would cause the extermination of the human race.
The same scientist may have designed the rest of the
technologically advanced items on Machus, and or
Femizonia/Machus.
--She-Hulk II#34, 39 (34, [38], 39
Will -Killing Energy Ray
This device was used on the enemies of Machus, to prevent them from fighting back with their full strength. It may well have functioned similarly to the "Alpha Wave" generator of the Machans android champion, but it could also be used against males. It was destroyed by the Human Torch.
--Fantastic Four#152, 153 (152-BTS, 153
The Three -Who Wait
These were monstrous creatures used in the gladiatorial pens of Machus. Whether those were natives to Earth-Machus (races of mutates might be quite likely a few hundred years in the future, esp. in sci-fi/fantasy), genetically engineered mutates, or perhaps prisoners from other conquered realms is never detailed. They fought and were defeated by Thundra and the men of the Fantastic Four.
--Fantastic Four I#153
Appearances:
Fantastic Four I#151-153 (October-December, 1974) - Gerry Conway (writer), Rich Buckler (pencils), Jim Mooney (#152) & Joe Sinnott (#153) (inks), Roy Thomas (editor)
Sensational She-Hulk#34 (December, 1991) - John Byrne (writer/pencils), Keith Williams (inks), Renee Witterstaetter (editor)
Sensational She-Hulk#38-39 (April-May, 1992) - John Byrne (writer/artist), Renee Witterstaetter (editor)
Fantastic Four: Foes#1 (March, 2005) - Robert Kirkman (writer), Cliff Rathburn (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Fantastic Four: Foes#5-6 (July-August, 2005) - Robert Kirkman (writer), Cliff Rathburn (artist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Last updated: 06/27/05
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