AMAZO

Powers & Abilities

• Amazo Virus Incubator: Armen's body and mind had been heavily mutated, altered radically and permanently at a genetic level to produce, metabolize and replicate the effects of Luthor's Amazo Virus. Being a living, breathing incubator for the affliction, Mr. Ikarus can manipulate his body in unique ways in order to replicate the powers, skills or equipment function of whomever or whatever he is mimicking at will.
  • Superhuman Strength: Even without the need of replicating it, Patient Zero already possesses vast levels of strength. Tearing his way through an entire city and clashing against the likes of Superman.
  • Superhuman Durability: He could endure hits from both Superman and Wonder Woman without visible injury.
  • Power Replication: The Amazo Virus gave Patient Zero the ability to mimic every power he came into visual contact with. He does it by mutating his body accordingly to the ability he's replicating, evolving with every enemy he encounters.
    • Object Duplication: As a side effect of his ability to replicate powers, in some instances Armen will replicate the equipment that generated the power such as a Green Lantern's power ring or Wonder Woman's magic lasso.
    • Energy Negation: In his first clash with the Justice League, Amazo had the ability to temporarily overrule a superhero's powers while mimicking him.
    • Duplicated Powers & Weapons:
      • Superman:
        • Heat Vision: An ability he gained by watching Superman's eyes, he concentrates great amounts of heat before releasing them through his optical nerves.
      • Batman:
        • Batarangs
      • Wonder Woman:
        • Lasso of Truth
      • Green Lantern (Hal Jordan):
        • Green Emotional Energy: Amazo had can emulate the energies of the emotion spectrum, harnessing green light for blasts and energy constructs fired from his clenched fists like Green Lantern.
      • Aquaman:
        • Hydrokinesis
        • Trident of Poseidon
      • Flash (Barry Allen):
        • Super Speed
      • Martian Manhunter:
        • Shape-Shifting
        • Invisibility
      • Firestorm:
        • Pyrokinesis
      • Zatanna:
        • Magic
      • Red Tornado:
        • Aerokinesis
        • Tornado Creation
      • Red Arrow:
        • Bow and Arrows
      • Black Canary:
        • Canary Cry
      • Shazam:
        • Electrokinesis: Copied from Shazam, able to discharge bolts of lightning from his hands at will.
      • Black Lightning:
        • Electrokinesis
      • Elongated Man:
        • Elasticity
      • Atom:
        • Size Manipulation
      • Captain Atom:
        • Atomic Manipulation
  • Metamorphosis: Amazo's body had been altered in a great many ways from the original anatomic structure of its host. It also used this function to spontaneously alternate his biology in order to produce new functions for newfound powers he'd acquire.
    • Wings: An attribute he gained by watching Superman hover, he grows a pair of bat-like wings on his back that allows him to fly at high speeds.
      • Flight: These wings allow him to fly at high speeds, much like Superman.
    • Arm-Cannon: A weapon he gained by watching Lex Luthor's battle suit gun, he grows a series of cannons on his forearm that shoot powerful beams of energy.
  • Infection: As the virus' living incubator, he can spread the disease airborne in order to contaminate every human it encounters.
    • Power Distribution: Through the virus Armen could bestow as well as control the unique powers bestowed upon the individually afflicted, powers granted manifest via subconscious desires or psychological characteristics right before infection kills its host.
    • Power Dilution: As with the original Virus, Amazo can dampen if not outright negate the superhuman abilities of infected metahumans at will. As was the case with the afflicted Justice League as well as the assailant Neutron.
    • Telepathy: Patient Zero has the ability to mentally communicate with all of those who were infected by the Amazo Virus.
      • Mind Control: He can consciously manipulate the minds of the infected in order to work as a hive mind of sorts.

Equipment

• Amazo Virus

Weaknesses

• Mental Illness: As the virus mutated and strengthened his body, Ikarus' mind was in a blurred state that didn't allow him to think or act sanely.
  • Diminished Intellect: The virus ultimately consumed him, leaving only "Amazo".
• Vulnerability to Ice: The Amazo Virus can be neutralized through the use of sub-zero temperatures, rendering Amazo's powers inert.
• Vulnerability to Bio-Hacking: Being a mass of programmable viral matter. Amazo can be reprogrammed by an outside computer, enabling them to remote control his actions and perceptions.

Fun Facts

Did you know that in the Prime Earth Universe, AMAZO´s real name is Armen Ikarus who got infected by the Amazo Virus. But in the New Earth Universe, AMAZO is the world´s first official android, created by the immortal, evil mastermind Professor Ivo.