Who Is Mainframe? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Mainframe is a Marvel comic book character, with over 80 comic issue appearances. Mainframe is a sentient computer program based upon Tony Stark's brainwaves and is one of the founding members of A-Next.

Who is Mainframe?

Origin In the alternate reality of Earth-928 several years into the future; after seeing so many of his friends and comrades in the Avengers die in their last mission, Tony Stark decided that he could no longer continue as Iron Man and chose to retire. But Stark also realized that the Avengers was too important and to ensure that there would always be an Iron Man to stand at the Avengers' side, devised a special failsafe. He created a special computer program based on his encephalograms and a powerful robotic shell patterned after his Iron Man Armors that he called Mainframe. Creation Mainframe first appeared in A-Next #1, created by Tom DeFalco and Rob Frenz. It was part of the MC2 imprint that was based on What If? # 105 which an alternate timeline based on Spider-Man 's daughter, May Parker . Mayor Story Arcs Iron Man Retires In the alternate reality of Earth-298, after the disastrous final mission of the Avengers , a weary Tony Stark decided to retire as Iron Man . However he was also wary that a new danger could emerge to threaten the Earth and decided to create a contingency to prevent that from occurring. His solution was an android based in the style of his Iron Man Armors .

Key facts

Mainframe is of robot origin and first appeared in "Second Coming!". The character is published by Marvel. With 80 recorded issue appearances, Mainframe ranks among the most featured characters in comics.