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Real Name: Primus
Occupation: Servant, wanderer, would-be savior
Legal Status: None (Robot)
Identity: Existence unknown to general public
Place of Creation: Castle Zola, Weisshorn Mt., Switzerland
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Inapplicable
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Imitation: Excellent rank
Shapechange: Typical rank
Armorskin: Remarkable resistance to physical attacks by making his body either pliant or hard.
Regeneration: Good rank
Talents:
Incredible Reason in regard to Arnim Zola’s discoveries or equipment.
Contacts:
None
Role-Playing Notes:
As a self-aware android, Primus sees himself as the first of a new race. He is lonely and seeks companionship. Primus would probably be sympathetic to other androids. He would also like to transform agreeing humans into beings like himself. Primus is not a villain but misinterpre tion of his actions might make him seem to be one.
History:
Primus is the most sophisticated genetic creation of the Swiss master geneticist Amim Zola. Zola, who utilized scientific knowledge amassed by the genetic offshoot of humanity called the Deviants, became an expert at engineering bioforms from living cells (usually human) accord ing to whatever template he desired. Certain of his bioforms, notably Primus and Doughboy, were given malleable tissue able to shape-change into various configurations. Primus was the first of Zola’s creations who possessed creative intelligence and a high degree of autonomy. When Zola captured Captain America and Donna Maria Puentes with the aid of Doughboy and Primus, Primus discovered he experienced desire for the woman. Zola wished to use her for genetic experimentation, however, and refused to let Primus have her. Enraged, Primus attacked Zola. Zola used his will-subverting ESP box to make Primus merge with the extremely pliant and nearly mindless Doughboy.
Eventually Primus took control of Doughboy and escaped from Zola’s castle which was engulfed by flames at the end of Zola’s first encounter with Captain America. There Primus met the younger Baron Zemo, who had journeyed to Castle Zola to enlist Zola in his crusade against Captain America. Prim us joined him instead, using his shape-shifting powers to take on the shape of Amim Zola. Zemo’s plan was to totally ruin Cap tain America’s reputation before kill ing him. Holding the Avenger captive, Zemo sent Primus, in the form of Steve Rogers, to appropriate his private life and totally subvert all of his personal relationships. How ever, when Primus met Steve Rogers’ girlfriend Bernadette Rosenthal, he again felt desire and decided to continue the masquerade without disrupting it in order to have her love. Captain America escaped from Zemo’s lair, and forced Primus to reveal who he really was. Primus managed to abduct Rosenthal and flee from the Avenger, affording him the opportunity to reveal to her his desire to unite natural and artificial men to create a new order to save the planet. He also wanted to give Rosenthal a new mutated body like his. Captain America tracked him down, and engaged Primus in combat. Although Primus’s great strength and malleability gave him the upper hand, Rosenthal provoked him to give up the fight by rejecting him and professing her love for Captain America. The current whereabouts and activities of Primus and his companion Doughboy are unknown.