Mad Thinker
| Mad Thinker | |
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| File:Mu madthinker.jpg Mad Thinker John Byrne, Art | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Fantastic Four (Vol.1) #15 |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | unrevealed |
| Team affiliations | the Maggia, Puppet Master (deceased), Egghead (deceased) |
| Notable aliases | Dr. Hose Santini |
| Abilities | Extrardinary genius with knowledge of technology centuries beyond conventional science. |
The Mad Thinker is a Marvel comics supervillain. His real name and origin have never been revealed, but his first appearance was in Fantastic Four (Vol.1) #15.
Character biography
The Mad Thinker made his debut fighting the Fantastic Four. He once attempted to take over New York City using the Baxter Building as his base and all organized crime members as his lieutenants. He trapped the Fantastic Four in the lower quarters of the building. He was eventually caught, after being stopped by the building's mailman, Willy Lumpkin.
It seemed that his primary objective had not really been to take over the city but to manipulate organized crime into helping him get into the Baxter building so that he could indulge his intellectual avarice by stealing the technology of Reed Richards. In that sense, the Fantastic Four did not really defeat him, they only defeated his pretext. The Mad Thinker would gladly get sent to prison for a peak at the secrets of what he considered the greatest mind in the world.
Prisons don't do well to hold the Mad Thinker and he escapes from all levels of incarceration with little difficulty. Since his first attack on the Fantastic Four, he has struck often, using a creature called the "Awesome Android" which was created using a combination of his own mechanical genius and ideas he stole from Read Richards.
He became interested in the young supergroup called the New Warriors, and posed them a riddle when they first formed. In the final issue of the series, the answer to the riddle was revealed: the Mad Thinker's nephew had accidentally gained uncontrollable superpowers from his lab, killing his mother in the process. Now, the Thinker wanted them to help him. Presumably they did so using the Neoneutralizer they acquired in that adventure.
Since then, the Mad Thinker has been seen battling She-Hulk in a prison escape attempt.
Powers and abilities
The Mad Thinker has no superhuman powers. However, he is an extraordinary genius with knowledge of technology centuries beyond conventional science. He has the facilities and means to create all manner of sophisticated weaponry, androids, armor, and vehicles.
His analytical, mathematical, and geometic abilities are of a sophisticated order not commonly found on the planet Earth. He is particularly adept at constructing androids and dealing with artificial intelligence. He has constructed his own android, The Awesome Android, and once resurrected the original human Torch. In addition to his own achievments he has stollen much of the secret technology of Reed Richards, back in the incident when he took over the Baxter building.