Weapon Plus
fictional comic book program
Weapon Plus is a fictional clandestine program appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It was created by Grant Morrison during their run in New X-Men. The program's purpose is the creation of super-soldiers intended to fight the wars of the future, especially a mutant-human war. Weapon X, the organization's most well-known program, was originally the tenth installation, but eventually it branched off and became an independent program with similar purposes. Morrison's introduction of Weapon Plus also shed new information about the origins of Weapon X, Captain America, and other Marvel Comics supersoldiers.
Fictional team history
During the 1940s, the existence of mutants was not yet known to the general public. A few individuals were aware of the coming of mutants and the fact that they had the potential to replace baseline humans as the dominant species of Earth. Weapon Plus was created to address the so-called mutant problem. What was unknown by everyone involved in Weapon Plus is that its mastermind, Sublime, was a sentient bacteria present in every living creature on the planet, save for mutants, who were genetically immune to the Sublime infection.
Programs
Before Weapon I
Project: Rebirth began as a collaboration between American, British and German eugenicists led by Josef Reinstein (later known as Abraham Erskine) and Koch.
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