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Professor Ivo

General Information
Real name:	Anthony Ivo
First Appearance:	Brave and the Bold #30 (July, 1960)
Created by:	Gardner Fox Mike Sekowsky
Affiliations:	T.O. Morrow The Society Locus (Formely)
Abilities:	Robotic Engineering Genius Level Intellect
Portrayed by:	Peter MacNicol (Voice)

History

Origin

During his childhood Anthony Ivo saw his mother die, it developed an irrational fear of death, it led to an obsessive search for immortality. As a young adult, Ivo studied cybernetics and created his masterpiece: the android Amazo. He used the android to capture the Justice League and steal their powers and memories, so that he could create an immortality serum. The Green Lantern is able to break free and absorbs the powers of the android and returns them to the other members, Ivo and Amazo are defeated. Ivo is sentenced to 500 years in prison and Amazo is turned off and placed in the trophy room.

Justice League: Year One

In the Year One story arc, it is shown that Ivo was hired by the criminal organization called Locus to dissect the Appelaxians to create weapons. Using the knowledge obtained from his research, he was able to create the Amazo.

Legends

During Legends, Ivo discovers an immortality serum. The serum works, but with a side effect, the skin becomes hard and scaly. Ivo blames the Justice League for his disfigurement and disappears, to ease his loneliness he creates duplicates of himself. Instead, the duplicates search for revenge against the team.

His duplicates attacked the League, in the midst of the battle Vibe was killed and Steel is seriously injured, being put into a coma. Steel is put on life support.

Healed

Sometime later it is shown that the disfigurement of Ivo was turning him into a living statue, it made him want to die. To stop the process, he creates the Amazoids who steal the powers of most powerful metahumans to kill him. The Justice League follows the Amazoids to the island where Ivo lives, but are defeated by the robot population, the Amazoids use their powers but they fail to kill him. Ice was trapped in Ivo's fortress and uses the Green Lantern ring to heal him and Ivo is forgiven for his crimes.

Tomorrow Woman

Again Ivo, drink the serum of immortality and partnered with T.O. Morrow to create the Tomorrow Woman to destroy the League members, Ivo built her body and Morrow her brain, hid inside the android is an EMP bomb to kill the whole team, but like the Red Tornado she rebelled against her creators and joined the team. But the bomb on her body was about to explode, so she sacrifices herself to save them, the Justice League holds Ivo and Morrow in prison. Although they worked well together, they fought constantly, often trading insults, and they feel resentment towards each other, yet they maintain a friendship.

Kid Amazo

See: Kid Amazo

Tornado Path

Ivo is forced by an intelligent Solomon Grundy to build an Amazo body for him to live forever, but the body comes to believe that is the Red Tornado and goes in search of his family. The Justice League destroys the android. Meanwhile, Ivo used a teleporter and becomes undetectable even to the magicians.

Ressurection

After the Justice League having destroyed the new version of Amazo, the team tries to deal with the new powers of Vixen and Animal Man. Meanwhile Red Tornado asks Batman to find Ivo,who finds in Dubai working for Alva Robotics,Tornado and Batman confront him, only to discover that he was a robotic impersonator. At this point, Zatanna traces its location through the voice relayed by impersonator and teleports to prison.

Salvation Run to Final Crisis

Ivo was sent to the planet Salvation along with the number of other supervillains, along with Lex Luthor and other scientists, he constructs a Boom Tube to escape.

Back on earth, he is invited by T.O. Morrow to be a member of The Society exchange for healing his condition. The task of collecting soil samples at Auschwitz to be used in creation of Genocide, a new villain for Wonder Woman, is allotted to Ivo. Ivo brings his newest android Red Volcano as an aid. After Final Crisis, he was with the Cheetah's Secret Society of Super Villains.

Brightest Day

In Brightest Day, Professor Ivo was being mind controlled by Maxwell Lord, who made him build the OMAC Prime in an attempt to take command of Checkmate. Justice League International defeated OMAC Prime and Maxwell Lord escaped, leaving Ivo to take the OMAC's attack.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Immortality
Invunerability:This disfigurement renders his skin exceptionally resilient, and he is able to withstand energy attacks and bullets.

Abilities

Genius Level Intellect
Robotic Engineering

Equipment

Ivo's robotics duplicates

Creations

Amazo
Amazoids: The Amazoids are androids nicknamed Men in Black,with powers similar to the Amazo, he could be stealing a superpower each time.
Kid Amazo
Tomorrow Woman (Co Creator)
Red Volcano
OMAC Prime
Composite Superman

Other Media

Ivo makes an appearance in the Justice League episode "Tabula Rasa". He was a scientist working at LexCorp, but was fired by Mercy Graves. Following a battle with the League, Luthor seeks him out, and discovers that Ivo (identified as "Arthur Ivo" and described as a medical doctor) has already died (dialogue implies this may have been the result of lung cancer). Instead, Luthor finds Amazo, who is waiting for Ivo to "come back".
Ivo appears in the Young Justice episode "Schooled" voiced by Peter MacNicol. Previously thought dead by the League, he sends his new creation, Amazo against them. It is defeated after a lengthy battle, and parts of it are placed in separate trucks to be transported to STAR Labs. He sends small monkey-like androids to steal the pieces of the android back. He reassembles Amazo, and uses him to fight the members of Young Justice who have tracked him. Though Amazo is ultimately defeated, Ivo manages to escape. He is one of few villains on the show not to be revealed to have been working for the mysterious Light. He later appears in the episode "Humanity," in which he is incarcerated in Belle Reve and attempts to hide T.O. Morrow's location from the team.

Links

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 ===Tornado Path===
 Ivo is forced by an intelligent Solomon Grundy to build an Amazo body for him to live forever, but the body comes to believe that is the Red Tornado and goes in search of his family. The Justice League destroys the android. Meanwhile, Ivo used a teleporter and becomes undetectable even to the magicians.
+===Ressurection===
+After the Justice League having destroyed the new version of [[Amazo]], the team tries to deal with the new powers of Vixen and Animal Man. Meanwhile Red Tornado asks Batman to find Ivo,who finds in Dubai working for [[Alva Robotics]],Tornado and Batman confront him, only to discover that he was a robotic impersonator.
+At this point, Zatanna traces its location through the voice relayed by impersonator and teleports to prison.
 ===Salvation Run to Final Crisis===
-Ivo was sent to the planet Salvation along with the number of other supervillains, along with Lex Luthor and other scientists, he constructs a portal to escape.
+Ivo was sent to the planet Salvation along with the number of other supervillains, along with Lex Luthor and other scientists, he constructs a Boom Tube to escape.
-Back on earth, he is invited by [[T.O. Morrow]] to be a member of The Society io exchange for healing his condition. The task of collecting soil samples at Auschwitz to be used in creation of Genocide, a new villain for Wonder Woman, is allotted to Ivo. Ivo brings his newest android Red Volcano as an aid. After Final Crisis, he was with the Cheetah's Secret Society of Super Villains.
+Back on earth, he is invited by [[T.O. Morrow]] to be a member of The Society exchange for healing his condition. The task of collecting soil samples at Auschwitz to be used in creation of Genocide, a new villain for Wonder Woman, is allotted to Ivo. Ivo brings his newest android Red Volcano as an aid. After Final Crisis, he was with the Cheetah's Secret Society of Super Villains.
 ===Brightest Day===
 In Brightest Day, Professor Ivo was being mind controlled by Maxwell Lord, who made him build the OMAC Prime in an attempt to take command of Checkmate. Justice League International defeated OMAC Prime and Maxwell Lord escaped, leaving Ivo to take the OMAC's attack.
 ==Powers and Abilities==