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The [[Metal Men]] became something of a fan favorite, although they had sporadic success in their own title. Over the course of their series, they faced a number and variety of enemies, including recurring foes such as the Missile Men and the walking chemical vat called Chemo. Keeping with the chemistry theme, some issues even included 'fun factoids'. The original series eventually came to its end in 1978 after 56 issues.
Both during and after the series, there were frequent team ups with other DC heroes, including [[Batman]] and [[The Atom]], and occasional appearances in other series. They wouldn't get their own series again until the 1993 miniseries that rewrote their origin so that [[Brain Uploading|their personalities originally came from humans]]. This and other changes were greatly disliked. Thankfully, the miniseries [[
Their next series was the 2007 eight-issue miniseries that told a new origin of the metal marvels with the addition of a new member, the female Copper. In 2009, they were featured in the new [[Doom Patrol]] series as a second feature.
Recently{{when}}, the [[Metal Men]] have become recurring characters in the ''[[Batman:
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* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: In the original series, while Doc ''was'' deliberately trying to make sentient robots, the fact that he succeeded so well with these six was a bit of a fluke that he was not readily able to pull off again. This was originally attibutted to sunspots, but that has since been forgotten.
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The responsometers, the device that is the source of the powers and personalities. Can be seen as early [[Nanotechnology]].
** In addition, a retcon by [[John Byrne]] in the late 80's established that the Metal Men are actually made of a secret polymer (read: plastic) that can be rearranged in form and characteristics by their responsometers. This was likely done to explain the [[Fridge Logic|logical discrepances]] that their being actually made of the indicated metals would entail (eg. Mercury would be highly toxic, Platinum would be more costly than all the gold in America, etc.)
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Back for
* [[Bash Brothers]]: When executed well, this is how the Metal Men fight as a unit. When done ''badly'' you tend to get bombarded by a long-winded explanation.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Happens occasionally with the Metal Men, and a couple of times to Doc. A more sustained version occurred when Doc was kidnapped by a foreign dictator, brainwashed, and then began threatening nations as an evil [[Mad Scientist]]; he eventually got better.
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* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Believe it or not, Magnus' experiments were originally designed to "merely" aid mankind in ease of construction ("Imagine a bridge rising out of the ground, simply because ''we asked it to''.") and other fields. While money was never the primary reason for his research, Magnus ''did'' intend to profit from his breakthroughs. But after the creation of the Responsometer things get a tad more hectic...
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Arguably what they tried to do beginning in issue 33. During an upgrade of the [[Metal Men]]'s responsometers, Doc is injured and in a coma. The upgrade makes the teams powers harder to control, the public turns against them, and the team becomes wanted fugitives. A good bit of the humor is gone, as is Nameless. The series is even called "The New Hunted Metal Men." Later issues have the robots disguised as humans, and Doc kidnapped and [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed]], threatening nations.
** The '93 miniseries had [[Incredibly Lame Pun|elements]] of this as well, what with all the [[Body Horror]] and the [[Canon
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mercury.
* [[Determinator]]: Being blasted into their component parts amounts to little more than a setback to the Metal Men, most of the time.
** One instance in their '07 mini-series saw stone golems smash them to pieces. We assume they're dead, until Mercury, Lead, Iron and Platina arrive on the scene as [[Oh Crap|one great, big composite Metal Man]].
* [[Distaff Counterpart]] / [[Spear Counterpart]]: The Metal Women (Gold Girl, Iron Girl, Mercury Girl, and Lead Girl) and Platinum Man were created by request by Doc as potential mates for the team. They did not get along and [[Status Quo Is God|they were destroyed at the end of the issue]]. {{spoiler|Platinum Man turned out to survive and appeared as a foe in ''[[The Brave and
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Lead is as thick as a pyramid and twice as tough.
* [[Fastball Special]]: The team occasionally employs this tactic.
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* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Most of the early issues pretty much run on this. Whenever Doc creates a new team to help the original team, they are always destroyed by the end and he rarely attempts to rebuild them.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: The Death-Metal Men.
* [[Teeth
* [[Unobtanium]]: Veridium. The alien alloy introduced in the 1993 miniseries is indestructible and had more power than all the Metal Men put together. Considering the main idea behind the team was playing with the properties of known metals, adding this wonder metal kinda [[Completely Missing the Point|tossed the theme out the window]].
* [[Was Once a Man]]: In the 1993 miniseries, the Metal Men were retconned to have been people. Gold was Doc's brother Mike, Platinum was Mike's fiancee Sharon, Mercury and Iron were fellow scientists (Redmond Wilde and Randy Pressman), Tin was a janitor named Thomas Tinkham, and Lead was a pizza-delivery man named Jack. Gold was soon [[Killed Off for Real|killed]], and Doc became Veridium. This was [[Canon
* [[Yandere]]: Platinum.
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