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Professor Ivo

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Anthony Ivo
Anthony Ivo as depicted in Justice League of America #258 (January 1987). Art by Luke McDonnell.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceThe Brave and the Bold #30 (June 1960)
Created byGardner Fox
Mike Sekowsky
In-story information
Alter egoAnthony Ivo
SpeciesMetahuman
Team affiliationsSecret Society of Super Villains
S.T.A.R. Labs
N.E.M.O.
PartnershipsAmazo
T.O. Morrow
Abilities

Anthony Ivo is a supervillain in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is a mad scientist who is the creator of the android villain Amazo and, along with villainous scientist T. O. Morrow, the co-creator of the android Tomorrow Woman. As a result of his thanatophobia, Ivo has used his own scientific discoveries to make himself nearly immortal and invulnerable, causing him to become monstrous in the process.

Anthony Ivo appears in the second season of the live-action Arrowverse series Arrow, portrayed by Dylan Neal.

Publication history

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Anthony Ivo first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #30 (June 1960), and was created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky.[1]

Fictional character biography

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Anthony Ivo grows up with thanatophobia, a fear of death so strong that he even avoids his own mother's funeral. He becomes obsessed with obtaining immortality and becomes a criminal to obtain resources for his experiments.[2] Ivo additionally builds the android Amazo to assist him.

JLA: Year One revises Ivo's history, revealing that he was originally an employee for the criminal organization Locus and gained his technology from them.

Ivo successfully creates an elixir to gain immortality, but it gradually disfigures him.[3] He attempts to commit suicide, but is unsuccessful. Ice of the Justice League sympathizes with Ivo and unintentionally cures him using Guy Gardner's power ring. Despite this, Ivo creates another elixir and disfigures himself once more, accepting his condition.

Prof. Ivo and Red Volcano on a mission for the SSoSV.

Ivo later becomes an ally and friendly rival of T. O. Morrow. He joins the Secret Society of Super Villains in Infinite Crisis, and helps them create the villain Genocide.[4] Maxwell Lord later recruits Ivo to reprogram the Metal Men and help build OMAC Prime.[5]

The New 52

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In 2011, The New 52 reboots the DC Comics universe. Ivo is depicted as a former biology professor at Ivy University and the director of the Red Room, a S.T.A.R. Labs project that collects and analyzes technology.[6][7][8]

In Dark Nights: Metal, Ivo appears as a member of the Science Squad during Barbatos' invasion.[9]

Powers and abilities

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Anthony Ivo is a criminal mastermind and a scientific genius, skilled in genetics, biology, programming, robotics, artificial intelligence, and engineering. According to JLA: Year One, he obtained some of his knowledge and expertise by studying the technology and biology of aliens and super-villains. He is responsible for the creation of various artificially intelligent androids including Amazo and, with help from T.O. Morrow, the Tomorrow Woman. Ivo has intense thanatophobia, with the one exception being a short time when he believed suicide was preferable to increasing pain and immobility.

As a result of his immortality elixir, Ivo's skin seems to be invulnerable to conventional weapons, fire, and most forms of energy attack. It is unknown if his aging is completely halted, but Ivo believes that his first elixir would extend his life for five hundred years and that he can consume more elixir when it wears off.

Ivo's androids

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The following androids were created by Anthony Ivo:

  • Amazo - Android capable of mimicking physical abilities, superpowers, and creating copies of weapons.
  • Amazoid - Androids similar to Amazo, but each can only duplicate the abilities of one superhuman.
  • Composite Superman - In one version of Ivo's origin, his android Composite Superman is an early attempt to duplicate the Justice League's powers before later creating Amazo.[10]
  • Kid Amazo - The "Son" of Amazo, a techno-organic being created with Amazo technology and manipulation of human biology.
  • Red Volcano - An android with great speed and heat-based abilities.
  • Shaggy Man - In "The New 52", Shaggy Man is a robotic creation dressed in a hairy humanoid costume that Ivo created to strengthen Outsider's Secret Society of Super Villains.
  • Tomorrow Woman - An artificial life-form with telekinetic powers, artificial respiration and pulse, and false memories of a human life; co-created by T.O. Morrow and originally designed to infiltrate and eventually destroy the Justice League.

In other media

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Television

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  • Anthony Ivo appears in Young Justice, voiced by Peter MacNicol.[11] This version is a member of the Light who is assisted by monkey-like robots dubbed M.O.N.Q.I.s (Mobile Optimal Neural Quotient Infiltrators) and an android duplicate who is serving time in Belle Reve in his place.
  • Anthony Ivo appears in the "Vibe" segment of DC Nation Shorts, voiced by Jason Marsden.
  • Anthony Ivo appears in flashbacks depicted in the second season of Arrow, portrayed by Dylan Neal.[12] In his quest to find a sunken Japanese submarine containing the Mirakuru serum and save his wife Jessica from an unspecified, worsening illness, he employed the crew of the ship, the Amazo, traveled to the island of Lian Yu, and rescued Sara Lance from the sinking Queen's Gambit yacht. While on the island, Ivo encounters the stranded Oliver Queen and claimed that he intended to "save the human race" before forcing him to choose between whether Lance or Shado dies by his hand. After killing Shado and losing his right hand and the Amazo to a crazed Slade Wilson, Ivo begins to suffer from blood poisoning before being killed by Queen.[13][14]
  • Anthony Ivo appears in My Adventures with Superman, voiced by Jake Green.[15][11] This version is the CEO of AmazoTech who is suspected of being involved in illegal activities, is served by Alex Luthor in the first season, and is wary of Superman's intentions. Additionally, he utilizes the energy-draining Parasite armor and temporarily joins Task Force X later in the season.

Film

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Video games

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Miscellaneous

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References

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  1. ^ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016). The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-4654-5357-0.
  2. ^ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. p. 275. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.
  3. ^ McDonnell, Luke (p)Smith, Bob (i)"DeMatteis, J.M." Justice League of America, no. 258, p. 3 (January 1987). DC Comics.
  4. ^ DC Universe #0 (June 2008)
  5. ^ Justice League: Generation Lost #10. DC Comics.
  6. ^ Justice League (vol. 2) #4 (February 2012). DC Comics.
  7. ^ Justice League (vol. 2) #8 (June 2012). DC Comics.
  8. ^ Justice League of America (vol. 3) #4. DC Comics.
  9. ^ Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1. DC Comics.
  10. ^ Superman/Batman Annual #3
  11. ^ a b c "Professor Ivo Voices (DC Universe)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 29, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  12. ^ Fitzpatrick, Kevin (September 26, 2013). "Arrow Season 2 Exclusive: Percy Jackson Star Dylan Neal Joins as DC's Dr. Anthony Ivo!". ScreenCrush. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
  13. ^ Arrow, Season 2, Episode 15
  14. ^ Arrow, Season 2, Episode 19
  15. ^ Nelson, Samantha (June 26, 2023). "My Adventures With Superman Review". IGN. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  16. ^ Harvey, James (December 5, 2023). "Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths, Part One Arrives January 2024, Press Details". The World's Finest. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
  17. ^ Eisen, Andrew (October 2, 2013). "DC Characters and Objects - Scribblenauts Unmasked Guide". IGN. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
  18. ^ DC Super Friends #1
  19. ^ Smallville Season 11 #10
  20. ^ Injustice 2 #12
  21. ^ Injustice 2 #14
  22. ^ Injustice 2 #24
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