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Genetically engineered characters in comics
- Adam WarlockAdam Warlock begins life with no name at all. Scientists on Earth who called themselves the Enclave built him as a perfect being, the next evolution of humanity, and he knew himself only as Him. Then he learned what his makers intended,…
- DeathstrokeDeathstroke wears a mask split between black and orange, and it covers a right eye that is missing. He is Slade Joseph Wilson, a mercenary and former U.S. Army soldier. Within the DC Universe he is regarded as the greatest and deadliest…
- HomelanderGarth Ennis, who created Homelander together with the artist Darick Robertson, offered a blunt way to picture him. In Ennis's words: "It might help to think of the Homelander as having all the self-control of… let's say… a…
- Miles MoralesMiles Morales makes his first public appearance as Spider-Man by stopping an assault by a villain called Kangaroo. The bystanders are not impressed. They tell him his Spider-Man costume is in bad taste, and he considers changing it. That…
- X-23X-23 is the designation of Laura Kinney, a Marvel Comics superheroine who began life on a television screen rather than a comic page. Her creator, writer Craig Kyle, described her as "Pinocchio for Marvel Comics, she's a samurai sword…
- Lizard (character)In The Amazing Spider-Man #6, published in November 1963, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the Lizard. He is a Marvel Comics monster whose human side is a scientist named Dr. Curtis Connors, known as Curt. Connors wanted one thing. He…
- Damian WayneDamian Wayne, a hero published by DC Comics, reached Batman's world through a lie. His mother, Talia, was engaged to Bruce Wayne. When she became pregnant, she broke off the engagement and told Bruce she had miscarried. He did not learn…
- Spider-Man 2099Spider-Man 2099 made his first appearance in a five-page sneak preview printed inside the 30th-anniversary issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Readers met a hero who lived about 107 years beyond the Marvel Universe of that moment. His…
- Doomsday (DC Comics)Doomsday, the DC Comics supervillain created by Dan Jurgens, got his name from a note scribbled on a wall chart. In 1991, the editors and writers of the Superman comics held their annual brainstorming session. Some writers had noticed a…
- Black NoirBlack Noir is the name shared by three characters in The Boys, a story created in comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Eric Kripke later developed it for television. In both versions, Noir belongs to the Seven, a hedonistic and…
- DeadpoolDeadpool, the masked mercenary of Marvel Comics, once ended a storyline by breaking out of his own book and into the real world. There he confronted the writers and artists who were making the comic, and he turned to the reader with a…