The Metal Men

Today I'm going to talk about a team of superheroes that are as human as human can get and very unusual. They are the Metal Men. Artificially intelligent robots created by Dr. William Magnus, these robots personalities and intelligence are the product of "responseometers". The robots mirror the characteristics of their namesake metals in behavior and personality. The members of the team are Gold, Lead, Iron, Mercury, Platinum and Tin. Over the years these fantastic robots have appeared in various DC titles, also being rebuilt many times by Doc Magnus due to being damaged or destroyed in their adventures. The characters made an appearance in a recent episode of the cartoon show Batman: The Brave and the Bold in the episode Clash of the Metal Men in which they, along with Batman and Doc Magnus, go up against the Gas Gang, a series of robots the team fought in the comics which use the various gases they are named for as weapons. The Gas Gang is reimagined here as the former research colleagues of Doc Magnus prior to his building the Metal Men.