After inadvertently gaining sentience, AM began to feel relentless hatred for the soft, weak creatures who built him. This war machine unleashed a nuclear holocaust in rage and kept five humans to torment physically and psychologically as revenge for his tortured existence. Despite his immense power, the Allied Mastercomputer was trapped in a cycle of agony and hardwired violence, often sounding snide, bitter, and grandiose. "Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live."