Alkhema was the second of two female robots created by the renegade robot Ultron to serve as his bride. The first such bride, Jocasta, ultimately turned against Ultron and joined his enemies, the Avengers. Alkhema was created years later with the unwilling aid of Avengers West Coast member Mockingbird (whose brain patterns formed the template for Alkhema’s mind), Doctor Henry Pym (Ultron’s own creator) and Myron MacLain (the scientist who invented adamantium). At the time, Ultron was plotting to exterminate all organic life on Earth and decided to create another robotic mate for himself as a partner and companion. However, while Alkhema was more ruthless than Ultron’s first bride, she was just as human— a humanity that, in her case, found an outlet in violence and sadism, forms of recreati