Weapon Plus
| Weapon Plus Program | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | New X-Men #128 (August 2002) |
| Created by |
Grant Morrison Igor Kordey |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Secret governmental genetics program |
| Base(s) | Various |
| Leader(s) | John Sublime |
| Agent(s) |
The Professor Notable Test Subjects and Creations Captain America/Weapon I Isaiah Bradley/Weapon I /Weapon I Nuke/Weapon VII Wolverine/Weapon X Deadpool/Weapon XI Huntsman/Weapon XII Fantomex/Weapon XIII Stepford Cuckoos/Weapon XIV Ultimaton/Weapon XV Allgod/Weapon XVI |
Weapon Plus is a fictional clandestine program appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It was created by Grant Morrison during his 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.
During the 1940s the existence of mutants was not yet known to the general public. A few individuals were aware of the coming of Homo superior and the fact that they had the potential to replace baseline humans as the dominant species of Earth. Thus Weapon Plus was created to address the so-called mutant problem. What was unknown by everyone involved in Weapon Plus is that its mastermind, John Sublime, was actually the host body for a sentient bacteria present in every living creature on the planet, save for mutants, who were genetically immune to the Sublime infection.
The first nine installments of Weapon Plus were partially successful. Weapon X produced a number of agents, though it branched off and even became opposed to Weapon Plus's interests. To prevent subsidiary programs from going rogue, Weapon Plus directly oversaw the creation of the last living weapons operating in the clandestine facilities of The World, employing Bolivar Trask's Sentinel technology.
Throughout the decades, Weapon Plus has used increasingly more extreme methods to create its super-soldiers. Captain America was enhanced to peak human levels. Weapon X employed genetic alteration, brainwashing and memory implants. The latest creations were bred specifically to become mutant-hunting weapons much deadlier than Sentinels.
Following M-Day, most of mutantkind has been rendered powerless, and mutants as a race are on the brink of extinction. Weapon Plus appears again as Sublime attempts to use the Stepford Cuckoos to wipe out the surviving mutants.
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