F.R.I.D.A.Y.

F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth) is a fictional artificial intelligence appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Not to be confused with Friday (2000 AD) or Friday (G.I. Joe).

F.R.I.D.A.Y.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Iron Man vol. 3 #53 (June 2002)
Created by	Mike Grell Michael Ryan
In-story information
Team affiliations	Stark Industries A.I. Army
Notable aliases	Girl Friday Friday Stark Ghost in the Machine

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was voiced by Kerry Condon in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Publication history

F.R.I.D.A.Y. first appears in Iron Man Vol. 3 #53 and was created by Mike Grell and Michael Ryan.

Fictional character biography

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.[1]

F.R.I.D.A.Y. became angry when Stark stopped using her. Hijacking some Iron Man armors, F.R.I.D.A.Y. kidnapped Pepper Potts. Iron Man tracked her to Stark Industries' Coney Island Facility where he dispatched the controlled Iron Man armors and a hologram of Fin Fang Foom. Iron Man reasoned with F.R.I.D.A.Y. when Pepper noted that F.R.I.D.A.Y. had a crush on Tony. Tony then grounded her to the Baxter Building under Edwin Jarvis's observation while she spent a month calculating pi.[2]

During the "All-New, All-Different Marvel," F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s holographic appearance was replaced by that of a young woman when Tony Stark started using her again.[3]

During the "Civil War II" storyline, F.R.I.D.A.Y. informs Tony Stark that the analysis on Ulysses Cain is almost complete.[4]

Tony Stark later removed F.R.I.D.A.Y. from his armor and placed her into a robot body of her own.[5]

At the time when Tony Stark established the eScape, F.R.I.D.A.Y. helped him to deal with its A.I. called Motherboard only to be deleted. Motherboard even tried to impersonate F.R.I.D.A.Y. in order to deal with Tony.[6] When Motherboard was defeated and the eScape was shut down, Jocasta persuaded Tony not to make a back-up program of F.R.I.D.A.Y. as she would be a different entity.[7]

During the "Iron Man 2020" event, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was revealed to have been reborn when Tony Stark in his Mark One form recreate the eScape as the Thirteenth Floor for the A.I. Army to use. She is revealed to have pulled Mark One's conscious into the virtual environment before he crashed to the ground. F.R.I.D.A.Y revealed to Mark One that she has been operating as Ghost in the Machine to aid the A.I. Army and has also manipulated Bethany Cabe to have Rescue obtain DNA samples from Amanda Armstrong and Jude in order to restore Tony.[8]

In other media

Television

• F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in the Avengers Assemble episode "Adapting to Change", voiced by Jennifer Hale. She is the successor to J.A.R.V.I.S.
• F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears as Tony Stark's primary AI in Marvel Future Avengers, voiced by Fumie Misuzawa in Japanese and Colleen O'Shaughnessey in English.

Film

• F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in the films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, voiced by Kerry Condon.
  • F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Avengers: Age of Ultron. She is depicted as the replacement A.I. for Tony Stark / Iron Man, after J.A.R.V.I.S. scatters his "conscience" onto the internet by Ultron and is ultimately converted into Vision.
  • In Spider-Man: Homecoming, F.R.I.D.A.Y. operates the remote-controlled Iron Man armor, after it saves Spider-Man from the river following his first encounter with Vulture.
  • F.R.I.D.A.Y. also appears in Captain America: Civil War,[9][10] Avengers: Infinity War,[11] and Avengers: Endgame.

Novels

• A significantly different version of F.R.I.D.A.Y. plays a prominent role in the 2016 young adult novel Iron Man: The Gauntlet by Eoin Colfer. It is revealed that Friday is not an AI, but a real Irish young woman named Saoirse Tory, who had posed as Tony's holographic assistant, as a spy on his operations. It is revealed she is working for a mysterious man known as Mr. Chen, who reveals himself to be none other than the Mandarin, who employed her to work for him to obtain Iron Man's armor. It is revealed Saoirse's sister is in the Ten Rings' captivity, which had further compelled her to work against Tony.

Video games

• F.R.I.D.A.Y. is featured in Lego Marvel's Avengers, voiced by Elle Newlands.
• F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in Marvel Powers United VR, voiced by Jennifer Hale.

References

1. Iron Man 3 #53. Marvel Comics.
2. Iron Man: Iron Protocols #1. Marvel Comics.
3. Invincible Iron Man Vol. 2 #1. Marvel Comics.
4. Civil War II #3. Marvel Comics.
5. Tony Stark: Iron Man #2. Marvel Comics.
6. Tony Stark: Iron Man #7. Marvel Comics.
7. Tony Stark: Iron Man #11. Marvel Comics.
8. Iron Man 2020 Vol. 2 #4. Marvel Comics.
9. "That Irish accent in Avengers Age of Ultron is actress Kerry Condon!". Irish Examiner. April 23, 2015. Archived from the original on May 3, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
10. "Every Captain America: Civil War Character From Marvel Comics Confirmed so Far – FRIDAY". GameSpot. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2016.
11. Beresford, Jack. "8 incredible Irish connections to Avengers: Infinity War | The Irish Post". The Irish Post. Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-28.

External links

• Friday at Marvel Wiki