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[[File:Barry Witherspoon as Machine Man.jpg|upright=1|thumb|My density has brought me to you.]]
'''Barry Witherspoon''' is a victim of circumstance. Out of work for almost a year, he's had to turn to becoming a human test subject in order to provide his family. When an experiment turns him into a highly suggestible, bulletproof, unstoppable force, he also has the misfortune of being in front of a pair of ne'er-do-wells, who put him to work robbing vaults as an '''impostor [[Machine Man]]'''. Now, he's sent on plenty of jobs, and the cash flow is bountiful... but Witherspoon is completely unaware and unwilling of his participation.
==Fiction==
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Unemployed for almost a year, Barry Witherspoon became a test subject. His wife, [[Gloria Witherspoon|Gloria]], tried to convince Barry to change his mind before she tearfully took their kids away from watching their father become a lab rat.
Dr [[Hiram R. Goldsmith]]'s experiment was to siphon mass from other dimensions and saturate a human being with it. On some level, it worked, as Witherspoon was painfully bombarded with extra-dimensional mass. What went wrong was the explosive force that almost wrecked the entire laboratory. Once the process was finished, Hiram was injured, and Witherspoon was entirely entranced and dense enough to rip through brick walls like they were made of paper. Hiram entrusted his brother [[Archie Goldsmith|Archie]] and [[Fred Greenfield]] with sonic amplifiers to communicate with Witherspoon, and in so doing, they discovered he was completely obedient to their commands.
[[File:Barry Witherspoon speedos.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|But Goldsmith never said to take your trousers off, you weirdo.]]
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Archie and Fred were under orders from [[Miles Brickman]] to discredit [[Machine Man]]. They dressed Witherspoon up as the living robot and instructed him to break into a [[New York City|Wall Street]] vault, netting them bundles of cash and dragging Machine Man's name through the mud. Later that night, they had Witherspoon break into a Midtown jewellery store, where he was caught by the real Machine Man. On Archie's orders, Witherspoon beat Machine Man down, leaving him for the police to find at the crime scene.
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