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*[[Machine Man|X-51/Aaron Stack/Machine Man]]
*[[Oliver Broadhurst]] (unnamed)▼
*[[Abel Stack]]▼
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*[[X-35]]
▲*[[Oliver Broadhurst]] (unnamed)
*[[William Haines]] (unnamed)
▲*[[Abel Stack]]
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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 pen of his creator, {{Marvel|Jack_Kirby|Jack Kirby.}}
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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