Technovore

Fictional character biography

Technovore is a technological parasite created by a scientist that kills everyone inside the Stark Enterprises orbital space station. Iron Man investigates and confronts the nanotech monstrosity. As Iron Man heads to the station, a being called the "Goddess" takes him aside to offer him a place among her converts; Iron Man refuses and she promises punishment. Entering the station, Iron Man finds that the space crew members are now techno-organic creatures and they attempt to consume him as part of their quest for completion. Iron Man renovates his armor arsenal using the station stores, but after destroying the creatures they reform themselves into a single being calling itself the Technovore.^[1]

Iron Man battles the Technovore, but it can reshape itself from injury almost instantly. The Technovore causes the station's center of gravity to change, tearing the structure apart. Iron Man battles the creature in space and prepares his auto-destruct sequence but has to remain linked via telepresence at the last moment to prevent the Technovore from hacking into his computer and halting the countdown. Unfortunately, the Technovore overcomes Tony's controls. But at the explosion's instant, the Goddess separates Tony's consciousness from his body to save him from the neural feedback. She offers Tony another chance to serve her, but when he still refuses she returns him to his body.^[2]

Powers and abilities

Technovore's body is made entirely of

Technovore can absorb technology into itself, adding the abilities of consumed technology into its physical being. In addition, Technovore's inherent resilience is augmented by an ability to adapt to weapons; over time, it will become immune to a given weapon if struck by it enough times.

In other media

Television

• Technovore appears in
  Project Pegasus' data on the Iron Man and Crimson Dynamo armors to stop Obadiah Stane from getting them. The virus was meant to burn itself out, but attained sentience when it uploaded itself into Project Pegasus's nanobot project. In its self-titled episode, the Technovore molds the nanotechnology into a body and runs loose in Project Pegasus' facility, assimilating all forms of technology it can find. James Rhodes
  travels to the facility to investigate a disturbance, but encounters Technovore, who uses Rhodes' earpiece to call Stark so it can consume the Iron Man armor. Project Pegasus' lead scientist, Anton Harchov, escapes just before Iron Man arrives, activates his armor's self-destruct function, and seemingly destroys Technovore. Unbeknownst to everyone however, pieces of the virus' nanotech landed on Anton's coat.
• Technovore appears in
  Vault before escaping off-screen in "Breakout, Part 1". In "Alone Against A.I.M.", Technovore is captured by A.I.M. agents and reprogrammed so their Scientist Supreme can take revenge on Tony Stark. Technovore is released in Stark Industries and fights Stark, Maria Hill, and War Machine
  before Stark tricks the virus into consuming the Arc Reactor's vast energy, destroying it in the process.
• Technovore appears in the
  Grady Scraps for it while the parasite assimilates various forms of technology until Spider-Man
  destroys it.