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|seriesissue=''[[Machine Man (comic)|Machine Man]]''
|next=Byte of the Binary Bug!
|image=Introducing Machine Man.jpg
|caption=Go go Gadget existential depression!
|title=Introducing Machine Man
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|published in=[[The Transformers issue 1|''The Transformers'' issue 1]]
|date=[[20 September|20th September]], 1984
|writer=[[Marv Wolfman]] (uncredited)
|artist=[[Steve Ditko]] (uncredited)
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|letterer=[[Tom Orzechowski]] (uncredited)
|editor=Marv Wolfman (uncredited)
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'''Is he friend, foe, or the greatest hero of them all?'''
==Synopsis==
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Machine Man is X-51, the last in a line of experimental robots created in a secret underground complex in America. One such robot, [[X-35]], turned violent after experiencing an existential crisis. To stop his rampage, an elderly scientist destroyed X-35 by detonating the explosive failsafe built into every X series robot.
Becoming aware of the detonation order,
As his son flies the nest, Abel grimly regards the failsafe circuit before he is engulfed by the explosion.
==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=Regular cast
*[[Machine Man]]/X-51/Aaron Stack▼
|c1=
*[[X-35]]▼
*Military personnel▼
*[[Oliver Broadhurst]] (unnamed)
*[[William Haines]] (unnamed)▼
*[[Abel Stack]]
|h2=Antagonists
|c2=
▲*Military personnel
|h3=Incidentals
|c3=
▲*[[X-35]]
▲*[[William Haines]] (unnamed)
}}
==Quotes==
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{{MarvelWiki|Machine_Man_Vol_1_10|Renewal!}}
===Original printing===
*''Machine Man'' (vol 1) issue 10, May 1979
This story repurposes a sequence from the ''Machine Man'' story "Renewal!" (see box at right). In that issue, the two pages of exposition are a flashback from the perspective of Dr Broadhurst as he performs surgery on Machine Man, who is injured and set to detonate after nearly draining all of his power in an altercation with the [[Hulk]].<ref>{{Marvel|Incredible_Hulk_Vol_1_237|''Incredible Hulk'' vol 1 issue 237}}</ref> The first page of "Introducing Machine Man" is repurposed from a schematic of Machine Man's fixed body, as presented by Broadhurst, whose hand is visible in this UK printing even though all of his dialogue is removed. Said dialogue concerns the alterations made to Machine Man to remove several "extraneous testing devices" – i.e., some of his superpowers – in what is presumably a way for the new creative team of [[Marv Wolfman]] and [[Steve Ditko]] to limit the amount of abilities Machine Man had displayed under the
The flashback scenes of "Renewal!" were in fact something of a retelling of Machine Man's origin story as seen in {{Marvel|2001,_A_Space_Odyssey_Vol_2_8|''2001, A Space Odyssey''
*X-35's rampage is more violent and unstoppable than the two panels here would suggest.
*The "elderly scientist" that detonates the explosives is depicted to be Broadhurst, which "Renewal!" leaves implicit. In the original, he and Haines come just short of expositing the main theme that it is the lack of familial upbringing that drives the X series mad, hence why Aaron is not affected.
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Aside from the shuffling of pages...
*The newly added (and plain text) narration on the second page suggests that X-35 and X-51 were the only robots remaining, which isn't correct – X-35's psychotic break was the impetus to retire the project, and thus the detonation order was given ''afterwards''.
*The phrase "pastoral splendor and silence" is altered to "pastoral splendour and silence", with the "and" re-lettered and condensed to fit in the smaller gap between words.
*Two instances of the spelling "humanized" are corrected to "humanised".
*More plain text narration after Stack dies: "NOW READ ON, FOR THE FIRST OF MACHINE MAN'S AMAZING ADVENTURES..."
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===Continuity errors===
*Changing the page order from its original printing makes Abel Stack's remark about Aaron's enlarged eyes stand out – Dr Broadhurst's modification to Machine Man's body reduced the size of his eyes, allowing him to appear almost human when wearing dark glasses.
===Continuity notes===
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