Victor Mancha

Victor Mancha
Victor Mancha, surrounded by bars of metal and electricity on the cover of Runaways #22 (2007). Cover art by Jo Chen.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Runaways vol. 2 #1 (April 2005)
Created by	Brian K. Vaughan Adrian Alphona
In-story information
Alter ego	Victor Mancha
Team affiliations	Runaways Avengers A.I.
Abilities	Superhuman strength and speed. High intelligence. Photographic memory. Electromagnetic manipulation. Technopathy.

Victor Mancha is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics award-winning series, Runaways. Like the original Runaways, Victor has a supervillain for a parent; his is the classic Avengers villain Ultron, an evil robot bent on world domination. Victor, however, is a cyborg, with human flesh and natural tissue cloned from his human mother which completely conceals his metal parts and circuitry.

Victor Mancha was created by author Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona and debuted in Runaways vol. 2, #1 (April 2005).

When Ultron encountered a woman named Marianella Mancha who is unable to have a child due to a drug that was put in her, Ultron took some of her DNA and cloned it while combining some of his advanced nano-technology to create for her a son named Victor Mancha.

The Runaways first heard of Victor Mancha as a boy who would grow up to become the villain "Victorious", a man who would rule the world after dismantling the Avengers. Due to his prophesied betrayal, Victor was kept under close surveillance when he first joined the team, but has since been accepted as a full-fledged member. He is the team's only Latino member and one of two members who can pilot the Leapfrog, the Runaways' mode of transportation.

Victor is first introduced as the son of Mexican single mother Marianella Mancha, supposed widow of a United States Marine Corps member who was killed in action.

When an older version of Gertrude Yorkes arrives in the present, she informs the Runaways of a villain in her time named "Victorious", and how they must stop him right now while he is still a teen. It is at this point she dies, but the Runaways decide to comply with her wish. After the Runaways track Victor down at his school, the sight of Karolina Dean activates Victor's electromagnetic superpowers - it would later be revealed that Victor's powers would manifest only when he came in contact with another superhero, hence Karolina.