AMAZO
Created By: Gardner Fox & Murphy Anderson
First Appearance: The Brave and the Bold #30 (June 1960)
Role: Copycat Villain, Silver Surfer Homage, Naiive Newcomber
Voice Actor: Robert Picardo
Finest Moment: Beat the living crap out of various League incarnations, from six people to a hundred.
PL 14 (510)
STRENGTH 10
STAMINA --
AGILITY 0
FIGHTING 9
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS -1
PRESENCE -1
Skills:
Intimidation 8 (+7)
Advantages:
Ranged Attack 8
Powers:
"Android Body"
Immunity 30 (Fortitude Effects) [30]
Protection 10 (Extras: Impervious 9) [19]
Regeneration 8 (Feats: Regrowth) [9]
"Nanotech-Based Mimicry"
Mimic (All Traits of Others) 50 (Extras: Continuous) (Flaws: Tainted, Full-Round Action) [400]
(250 points' worth of traits)
Offense:
Unarmed +9 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
League Powers +14 (+14 Damage, DC 29)
League Ranged Powers +12 (+12 Ranged Damage, DC 27)
Initiative +0 (+12 Flash Speed)
Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +9 (DC 19), Toughness +10 (+5 Impervious), Fortitude --, Will +6
Complications:
Power Loss, Weakness, Vulnerable (Various)- Amazo adopts the weaknesses of anyone he copies, up to and including Kryptonite.
Relationship (Father Figures)- Amazo was heartbroken when his "father" Professor Ivo died, and he looked to Luthor as a replacement. This made him easily-controlled.
Total: Abilities: 24 / Skills: 8--4 / Advantages: 8 / Powers: 458 / Defenses: 16 (510)
-Amazo, being pretty much the worst name in the history of comics not possessed by a D-League joke (Paste-Pot Pete, Rainbow Raider and the like), got only one or two mentions and nods in the episodes featuring this guy, usually referred to as "The Android" or "Ivo's Android". A nanotech-based monster of a warrior (who nonetheless only wishes for a father figure to replace the dead Ivo), he pretty much just scans the members of the League and copies their powers. "Power Copying" is about the nastiest power in all the world, so he made short work of the team numerous times, being beaten back once only because he'd gained Superman's weakness to Kryptonite the first time around (it wouldn't work a second, since Amazo was wise to it). Subsequently, he was the classic case of "convince the bad guy to go away", as J'onn willingly gave up his Telepathy to allow The Android to read Luthor's mind, and see his inevitable betrayal.
-Unfortunately, he came back, packing WAY more power the second time around, to punish Luthor and discover his purpose in existence, in that order. Now, I ran into problems with this variant, since he was just FAR too powerful for the context of the show. For a Big Bad ending villain, fine, but this? Especially once he turned good again and tried to help the heroes out? He had GOD-LIKE POWER enough to blow planets apart, and he just hung around, doing nothing? No wonder they half-assedly wrote him out, causing trouble thanks to a deus ex machina in Solomon Grundy's enhanced powers and bailing to allow the League to do their thing. We never saw him again after that, presumably doing whatever the heck else he needed to do to find his purpose in life (hint: The writers plum ran out of crap for him to do, so he was written out permanently- he never returned from his exile from the Grundy fight). Regular Android, good. Godlike Android, bad. He may just be floating above the Earth, wondering when it's safe to come back down.
-The most powerful
JLU character by far, and this is just the BASELINE Android (full-on power is essentially Variable Power X by the time JLU rolled around). His Mimic (essentially Variable since it takes more than a Move Action) has enough ranks on it to gobble up all the power sets in the Big Seven and THEN some, allowing him to increase his power. He's bad enough just with Hawkgirl's Mace & Flash's Speed, but once he starts cranking out GL-level Energy Blasts, the Lasso & all of SUPERMAN's powers? Well then they're just done unless they cheat. Variable's an expensive power once you get to these high levels- he can grab powers at Range, always keeps them, and doesn't have any of those silly flaws that the official "DCA" build gave him, because those don't match what the Mimic or Variable Powers actually outline. But hey, he's a one-shot villain, so you can get away with cracking open the power rules a bit.
-Note some baseline powers he starts with: He's tough, but PL 10 tough. He can Regenerate too, as shown with Luthor blows up his head and he just pops in a new one (obviously he didn't get that from the League). But boosting his Powers with theirs, shoring up his Strength, accuracy and Advantages (mostly from The Flash)? He's a PL 14 ass-kicker.
About the Performer: Robert Picardo is best-known to today's audiences as the holographic Doctor in "Star Trek: Voyager"- about 90% of the episodes I saw focused on him more than any other character, as the writers apparently decided that all the other characters were terrible, and didn't want to focus on them. He was first known to audiences as the hilarious buffoon, Coach Cutlip, on "The Wonder Years", where he perfectly portrayed the kind of always-hostile teacher kids loved to hate. He even had a sweet episode once, where he was a Mall Santa, explaining to the main kid that "I just wanted kids to like me". He actually got his start in theater, doing well on that front.