F.R.I.D.A.Y. | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Iron Man (vol. 3) #53 (June 2002) |
Created by | Mike Grell Michael Ryan |
In-story information | |
Species | Artificial intelligence |
Team affiliations | Stark Industries A.I. Army |
Notable aliases | Girl Friday Friday Stark Ghost in the Machine |
F.R.I.D.A.Y. is a fictional Artificial Intelligence appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually depicted as the personal digital assistant and ally of the superhero Iron Man (Tony Stark).
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was voiced by Kerry Condon in the films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
F.R.I.D.A.Y. first appears in Iron Man (vol. 3) #53 and was created by Mike Grell and Michael Ryan. The character's name is an allusion to Friday, the title character's servant in the novel Robinson Crusoe . [1]
Unwilling to hire another secretary, Tony Stark created an artificial one in the form of an artificial intelligence named F.R.I.D.A.Y., who manifested as the hologram of a young girl. [2]
F.R.I.D.A.Y. becomes angry when Stark stops using her. Hijacking the Iron Man armors, F.R.I.D.A.Y. kidnaps Pepper Potts. Iron Man tracks F.R.I.D.A.Y. to Stark Industries' Coney Island Facility, where he dispatches the armors and a hologram of Fin Fang Foom. Iron Man reasons with F.R.I.D.A.Y. and grounds her to the Baxter Building under Edwin Jarvis's observation. [3]
In "All-New, All-Different Marvel," F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s holographic appearance is replaced by that of a young woman. [4] Tony Stark later removes F.R.I.D.A.Y. from his armor and places her into a robot body of her own. [5]
When Tony Stark establishes the virtual reality eScape, F.R.I.D.A.Y. helps him to deal with its A.I. Motherboard, only to be deleted. [6] In "Iron Man 2020", F.R.I.D.A.Y. is resurrected when Tony Stark recreates the eScape for use by the A.I. Army. [7]
F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), voiced by Kerry Condon. [8] Introduced in Avengers: Age of Ultron , F.R.I.D.A.Y. makes subsequent appearances in Captain America: Civil War , [9] [10] Spider-Man: Homecoming , Avengers: Infinity War , [11] and Avengers: Endgame .
F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in the 2016 young adult novel Iron Man: The Gauntlet, by Eoin Colfer.