An interesting Jim Idea I stumbled across
I found this on CBR, originally proposed by user EuropaBambaataa
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I’ve always wondered how some robotic/android characters seem to be able to function as fully developed individuals from the moment of creation. I especially wonder about knowledge such as acquired skills.
For the original Human Torch, I believe I have found the solution. Like Ultron, the Vision and Alkhema, Jim Hammond uses the brain patterns of a human being. I don’t recall any explicit mention that Henry Pym invent the brain pattern scanner/recorder seen in Avengers #58 (the scene where Hank records Wonder-Man’s brain was not shown in #9 - Simon dies at the end of the issue and that’s it), so I can propose that it already existed and was, in fact, invented by Phineas Horton.
The Human Torch’s patterns came from Horton’s lab assistant, Fred Raymond (Toro’s father). It explains why Hammond and Toro got along so well from the beginning and why Toro would see an android who was chronologically younger than him as a father figure. The use of a base brain pattern would also explain why he understood things such as the English language when he first escaped from his confinement.
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Now it is established the Jim was put into the cement with learning tapes playing to him via headphones he wore and now established that Jim also learns from …. Whatever technique that was in The Torch (mimicry?) but I think it's also a good point that neither explain his adult grasp of the English language from the very start, as well as other issues.
I think it's an interesting idea. Also think it would make a possibly interesting fanfic for queer_fest if it were Nora's (Toro's mother's) brain patterns, but that's another whole issue.
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I’ve always wondered how some robotic/android characters seem to be able to function as fully developed individuals from the moment of creation. I especially wonder about knowledge such as acquired skills.
For the original Human Torch, I believe I have found the solution. Like Ultron, the Vision and Alkhema, Jim Hammond uses the brain patterns of a human being. I don’t recall any explicit mention that Henry Pym invent the brain pattern scanner/recorder seen in Avengers #58 (the scene where Hank records Wonder-Man’s brain was not shown in #9 - Simon dies at the end of the issue and that’s it), so I can propose that it already existed and was, in fact, invented by Phineas Horton.
The Human Torch’s patterns came from Horton’s lab assistant, Fred Raymond (Toro’s father). It explains why Hammond and Toro got along so well from the beginning and why Toro would see an android who was chronologically younger than him as a father figure. The use of a base brain pattern would also explain why he understood things such as the English language when he first escaped from his confinement.
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Now it is established the Jim was put into the cement with learning tapes playing to him via headphones he wore and now established that Jim also learns from …. Whatever technique that was in The Torch (mimicry?) but I think it's also a good point that neither explain his adult grasp of the English language from the very start, as well as other issues.
I think it's an interesting idea. Also think it would make a possibly interesting fanfic for queer_fest if it were Nora's (Toro's mother's) brain patterns, but that's another whole issue.