JAMES GUNN’S NEW vision of the DC Universe– or, the DCU– has actually lastly started in earnest. We’re 3 episodes into Animal Commandos, and it’s simple to see how the world is being developed as one where superheroics and odd, borderline sci-fi happenings are have actually long been stabilized (instead of a grounded world where Superman gets here and alters whatever). That’s not very unexpected; the facility of Commandos is that Amanda Waller (Viola Davis, repeating her function from the old DCEU) jobs Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) with leading a group of not-quite-human beings. Off the bat, we’ve go to accept that the similarity Dr. Phosphorous (Alan Tudyk), The Bride (India Varma), G.I Robot (Sean Gunn), and Eric Frankenstein (David Harbour), to name a few, are simply a part of this world.
Individuals in Animal Commandos accept it, and as an outcome, so do we. Part of what’s fed into what individuals have actually referred to as “superhero tiredness” is that we keep seeing the very same origin stories over and over and over once again; Gunn plainly wishes to primarily avoid that part and simply get to the excellent things.
Which’s primarily what’s occurring here, though Animal Commandos episode 3, entitled “Cheers to the Tin Man,” invests an excellent quantity of time being familiar with G.I. Robot– a modern android from WWII who’s only goal is eliminating Nazis. While his modern weapons at first bails out his pals in the Easy Company throughout the war, he rapidly ends up being a sideshow in the years following the war; believe Steve Rogers at the USO reveals offering War Bonds in Captain America: The First Avenger. G.I. Robot does not rather have operating social abilities, so he’s not a fantastic suitable for this.
Where he is an excellent fit, however, is his innovative innovation. When he’s being paraded around, he gets one really crucial fan: Dr. William Magnus (likewise voiced by Alan Tudyk). Magnus is a researcher, a self-proclaimed AI specialist (choosing that term to ‘robotic’), and takes G.I Robot to his laboratory for studying. He’s enamored with G.I. Robot, thinking that at his core he’s got a bit more humankind than his only goal of eliminating Nazis would appear to let on.
While G.I. Robot does not dive excessive deeper than his desire to eliminate Nazis, he does reveal how he wishes to be reunited with his young boys from the Easy Company. Magnus isn’t too worried about that, however, however he wishes to utilize whatever he can discover about G.I. Robot to construct a new age of robot.
What does that suggest? Let’s dive in.
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Who is Dr. William Magnus in DC Comics?
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Simply put, Dr. William Magnus is a long time character in the DC Comics universe (and all other variations), very first appearing method back in April 1962’s Display # 37.
