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Mentallo (Marvin Flumm) is a fictional comic book supervillain, a mutant who appears in books published by Marvel Comics. After having been fired for cause after attempting a covert S.H.I.E.L.D. takeover, he has since operated as both a freelance criminal and subversive and a high-ranking agent of HYDRA. He is usually depicted as using technology to increase his power. ==Fictional character biography== Marvin Flumm was born in Watford City, North Dakota. He once worked as a shoe salesman. As a mutant telepath of moderate ability, Mentallo was recruited by the original S.H.I.E.L.D. as a candidate for their ESP Division. However, he teamed with the Fixer in an attempt to take over S.H.I.E.L.D., and clashed with Nick Fury for the first time.〔''Strange Tales'' Vol. 1 #141〕 He then served as a division leader in the HYDRA fragment led by Silvermane.〔''Daredevil'' #123〕 Mentallo teamed with the Fixer again, and they placed Deathlok (Luther Manning) under their control. They attempted to make the U.S. President their slave, but were thwarted by the Fantastic Four.〔''Marvel Two-in-One'' #26-27〕 Mentallo and the Fixer were employed by HYDRA again, but Mentallo was rendered comatose by the Micronauts.〔''Micronauts'' #24-25〕 In the custody of Professor Power, Mentallo battled Professor X on a psychic plane.〔''Marvel Team-Up'' #118〕 Mentallo was captured by the Super-Adaptoid, impersonating the Fixer, but he was rescued by the Avengers.〔''Avengers'' #287〕 Under the name Think Tank, he was a member of the Resistants, which was originally an incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The Resistants opposed the Mutant Registration Act. As Think-Tank, he fought the then-current Captain America (John Walker).〔''Captain America'' #346〕 He was imprisoned, and resumed his identity as Mentallo. He started a mass breakout at the Vault. However, his powers were briefly amplified and used by Iron Man to compel the escapees to surrender.〔''Avengers: Death Trap, the Vault''〕 He then directed an unsuccessful attack on the Hulk and the Thing.〔''Incredible Hulk Annual'' #18〕 Mentallo later attended the A.I.M. weapons exposition.〔''Captain America'' #412〕 Mentallo once worked for the Red Skull and partnered with the Juggernaut in a successful attempt to brainwash the Hulk to attack the Avengers. Mentallo managed to mentally impersonate the Hulk's wife-killing father and bully him into submission.〔''Incredible Hulk'' #403〕 Shortly after the events of World War Hulk, Mentallo was among the members of Hood's Crime Syndicate.〔''New Avengers'' #35 (2007)〕 He remained with them until they were defeated by the New Avengers.〔''New Avengers Annual'' #2 (2008)〕 Some time after, Mentallo was hired by MODOK to be part of a supervillain heist squad. Due to his psychic powers, he realised MODOK was creating a psychic illusion of money to secure everyone's loyalty, and MODOK secretly told him the "full extent" of the plans would be revealed to him, and several other villains.〔''Super-Villain Team-Up'' (vol. 2) #1〕 Mentallo quickly decided that instead he was going to sell the villain out to whoever stumped up the cash. After noticing the Chameleon had a telepathic shield and Spider-Man's powers and Spider-Sense, he went to offer to betray MODOK's plans to the Avengers for cash. Unfortunately for Mentallo, it wasn't Spider-Man at all but A.I.M.'s Ultra-Adaptoid which incinerated him to protect its cover.〔''Super-Villain Team-Up'' (vol. 2) #2〕 He was presumed dead, but Mentallo was revealed to be alive when he appeared at Ryker's Island to inform the Fantastic Four and S.H.I.E.L.D. about the New Defenders. In Secret Invasion, a person who look likes Mentallo appears as part of the Hood's alliance with super-powered heroes. The group is intent on defeating the Skrull invasion force of New York City.〔''Secret Invasion'' #7〕 He was later seen, during an attack on the New Avengers.〔''New Avengers'' #56-57〕 During Norman Osborn's Dark Reign, the Iron Patriot has Mentallo torture Clint Barton for the New Avengers's location.〔''New Avengers Annual'' #3 (2010)〕 During the Heroic Age, Mentallo once again encountered the Avengers. He attempted to control the mind of Reptil, but Reptil transformed himself into a dinosaur; Mentallo unable to control the reptillian mind. Reptil was unable to control himself either, and Mentallo was badly savaged as a result.〔''Avengers Academy'' #6〕 Mentallo psychically enslaved the Kaiju monsters of Monster Island on behalf of the Roxxon Corporation (who attempted to seize control of the Island in order to drill for oil). He was stopped and defeated by the X-Men, after he double-crossed Roxxon and tried to flee with his professional fee of a billion dollars. While attempting to flee, one of the giant monsters dropped a cargo hold directly on top of him, which contained the entire billion dollars in cash.〔''Astonishing X-Men'' #36-41〕 Mentallo later appears as part of the new High Council of A.I.M. (consisting of Andrew Forson, Graviton, Jude the Entropic Man, Superia, Yelena Belova, and an undercover Taskmaster) as the Minister of Public Affairs.〔''Secret Avengers'' Vol. 2 #2〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mentallo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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