Modular Man is an android created by ace inventor Maxim Travnicek, an eccentric, almost deranged genius. Modular Man is incredibly sophisticated, gifted with artificial intelligence and human emotions, and also possessing a wide range of robotic abilities. Initially, Travnicek intended to use the android as a marketing ploy to start his own robot-building company, so he programmed Modular Man to act as a superhero. Modular Man was one of the most prominent crimefighters of the 1980s. The android often struggled to deal with his own human emotions and the whims of his greedy, megalomaniacal creator.