Giant-Man

Raz Malhotra was born to Indian immigrants in Denver, Colorado. In college, Raz's field of study was artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the A.I. divisions of numerous companies shut down right before Raz graduated following Hank Pym's change of heart regarding the nature of these beings, and his subsequent attempts to rid the world of them. No longer with a chance at the job market of his career of choice, Raz saw himself forced to work at a tech-support company called Techbusters once he moved to San Francisco. 

Criminal scientist Dr. Elihas Starr, A.K.A. Egghead, read Malhotra's dissertation, "Breakthroughs in Moral Paradigms for Artificial Intelligence," and lured him into his lair, under the guise of wanting support for his MacBook. When Malhotra arrived to Egghead's base, the villain revealed his true intentions, of wanting Malhotra to use his knowledge to power up artificial duplicates of the Avengers he had stolen from Hank Pym. Malhotra repudiated Egghead's evil intentions, forcing the villain to use a neural override device to control him. Later, Hank Pym and Ant-Man (Scott Lang) arrived to the scene, having followed Egghead's trail, and Malhotra subsequently unleashed the A.I.vengers to attack the heroes. Pym tried to use a kill switch to deactivate them, but Raz had already overridden the programming. The neural override device used on Raz broke down during the fight, and he was able to regain free will. After contemplating what he had caused, Raz accessed the A.I.vengers and shut them down, even after being threatened by Egghead.

Months later, during an attack by Ultron, Pym seemingly perished. He left one of his labs to Scott Lang, who recalled their encounter with Raz and sent him a present: the Giant-Man's Suit. Early in his superheroic career, Raz tired to stop the costumed criminal Unicorn but got trapped within the Golden Gate Bridge during the conflict. Upon reuniting with Ant-Man, Raz (as Giant-Man) assisted him in going to confront Power Broker at his public event when he was promoting the Hench App 2.0. After that, Scott offered to train Raz in Miami while Raz took care of the lab Hank left Scott, which he accepted.

Raz has since been a member of the Agents of Atlas, and an ally to the Ultimates.