Kid Amazo
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| Kid Amazo | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | JLA Classified #37 (June 2007) |
| Created by | Peter Milligan |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Frank Halloran |
| Team affiliations | Amazo |
| Abilities | Super-strength, invulnerability, a copy of the core powers of Amazo. |
Kid Amazo is a fictional cyborg from DC Comics, built to be the "son" of Amazo. Originally meant to star in a 2004 hardcover called JLA: Kid Amazo, he made his debut only three years later, in the pages of JLA Classified, being so "predated" by the similar Marvel Comics character Victor Mancha, the son of Ultron.
Fictional character biography
Kid Amazo, as his "father" before him, was built from the insane scientist Professor Ivo, still pursuing his dream of vengeance against the Justice League of America. So he plundered some bio-bechanical material from Amazo's body, crossing it with human eggs and DNA, trated to give birth to a young cyborg being. He was then sent away to live between humans, implanted with false memories of his human life as Frank Halloran, twenty-one years old college student, fond of existentialism and, ironically, Nietzsche's theories, and fell deeply in love with Sara Shapiro, a Jewish student in his same college, to whom he cannot propose because of her parent's objection to a non-Jewish boyfriend. During a walk with Sara the pair witnessed a battle between Amazo and the Justice League, in which the android saved Sara's life, leading them to rethink somehow about the role of Superman and the League. Interesting enough, while Sara started doubting about the League, Frank took their defence, and when Amazo shows up to a still shaken Frank to reveal himself and his origins, the aptly named "Kid Amazo" rebels, siding once more with the League against Amazo, thing that Ivo attribuited to the free will brought to him from his human heritage. Unwilling to let Frank walk away from him, Amazo shows up again, when Frank is trying to date Sara in Los Angeles, revealing that he has just caused the Big One in Berkeley, and he needs help from his "son" to stop it before everyone he loves dies. Kid Amazo succedes, realizing his potential, but he's now hunted from the authorities, and forced to wound grievously a police man in an uncertain attempt to use his powers to escape. He then hones his skills in the desert, but the realiziation of being a cyborg potentially evil as omnipotent is bringing him on the brink of insanity, as the Justice League is divided on helping him become a better person, or battling him before he goes into a maddened frenzy.
Powers and abilities
Due to his Amazo "heritage", Kid Amazo has the abilities of the first League core members, like Superman's strength, The Flash's speed, Green Lantern's power ring and Wonder Woman's magic lasso.