Armadillo, Antonio Rodriguiz, is a fictional character, a minor former supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in Captain America, Vol. 1 #308. Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname The House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to the date or issue of a characters first appearance. ... Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Grant Rogers), is a Marvel Comics superhero. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... The Green Goblin, a supervillain and enemy of Spider-Man. ... Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname The House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ... The Marvel Universe is the fictional shared setting where most of the comic stories published by Marvel Comics take place. ...

Character biography

The Armadillo is a character who was given superhuman strength and durability by an organization of the Power Broker. Unfortunately, this process bonded his costume to his body giving him a freakish appearance. It was later revealed that the costume was not a costume at all, and that he had been mutagenically altered with the genetic material of an actual Armadillo.

The Armadillo's original motivation during his criminal career was to get enough money to be able to pay a doctor to find a way to cure his girlfriend, Maria, of an unspecified terminal illness. When she was cured from her treatment she abandoned him because of his appearance. Since that time his motive was to pay the Power Broker or some other scientist to find a way to reverse the process which transformed him. Look up Career in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A career is traditionally seen as a course of successive situations that make up a persons worklife. ... A power broker is a person who can influence people to vote towards a particular client (i. ... This article is about the profession. ...

He was talked into giving up a brief life of crime and turned into an ally for Captain America for a short while. It was later revealed that the Armadillo became a fighter in illegal cage matches and was taken advantage of by his manager. Eventually, he suffered brain damage (he had below average intelligence to begin with) and wound up living in an alley with homeless people. Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Grant Rogers), is a Marvel Comics superhero. ...

He is often considered one of the most idiotic comic-book creations of all time.

Powers and abilities

Due to a muscle-enhancing procedure performed on him by the villainous Power Broker, the Armadillo has superhuman strength and durability. Originally it was thought that his costume, a scaly nine-foot-tall orange armored hide with claws useful for digging through earth, was bonded to his skin by this process. It was later revealed that it was not a costume but part of his body. The upward limit of what the Armadillo can lift is somewhere under 30 tons. His armor is bullet proof and can even resist most ballistic weaponry. His claws can tear through all but the most dense of substances. A superhuman is something exceeding normal human standards. ... Alternative meanings: vehicle armour, Armor (novel) A hoplite wearing a helmet, a breastplate and greaves (and nothing else). ... Look up hide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Hide may refer to: Rawhide, the skin of animals hide (musician), a Japanese rock musician, one of the two guitarists of X Japan, and founder, composer, singer and guitarist hide, the traditional unit of land area This is a disambiguation page — a...

The Armadillo is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant as he was a skilled street fighter prior to his superhuman transformation.