Abigail and the Beautiful Garbage were the multicultural waste product from assorted black program attempts to upload human consciousness into digitalized form, including upload research projects from A.I.M. and Hydra. Abigail and the other beta test uploads were classified as disposable trial runs. However, they escaped disposal and deletion.

Absynthe, Abigail's identity as a computer program, and the Beautiful Garbage targeted Tony Stark for his accelerationware, technology capable of making programs achieve incredible speeds. During Stark's test run with his new Iron Man Armor, the Beautiful Garbage mechs attacked him with a rail gun, which penetrated his suit and incapacitated Tony. The new Iron Man's fail safe program kicked in, and a digitalized version of Stark's mind, Tony Stark 2.0 was uploaded into the suit. Via deposit by the rail gun round that penetrated the suit, Absynthe infiltrated its operating code.