DNAliens are genetic creations by Project Cadmus, made by splicing human DNA with that of other lifeforms.
History
They generally take the form of either slightly modified human clones or new lifeforms.
New Lifeforms
New lifeform type DNAliens are mostly the creations of Dabney Donovan. Such creatures include unique individuals like Dubbilex, Gene-Gnome and Angry Charlie and creature types such as Donovan's monster men like Dragorn and Lupek, the dangerous Four-Armed Terrors created by the Evil Factory, the mellow illuminati, and the tiny vicious Jugglars. Step-Ups like the Hairies are the most human like of this type of DNAlien.
Modified humans
Cadmus has revolutionized human cloning by discovering ways to splice together the DNA of different individuals with those of alien species and create a human looking clone with superpowers. When mixed with their process of artificial aging and memory transplanting that allows these new creations to be "born" with selected knowledge already in their minds and aged past infancy these individuals are usually ready to fight with their first breath. The DNAngels are an example of this technology in action.
Other Cadmus Clones
The clones of the Newsboy Legion are not considered DNAliens due to their unmodified genetic structure. While they were artificially aged and had memories implanted they are straight clones of the originals. Jim Harper II masquerades as this type of clone but is actually a modified human.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Telepathy: Several DNAliens were designed with telepathy, including Dubbilex and Gene-Gnome.
- Psychokinesis
- Power Manipulation: Due to their unique biology, DNAliens are able to replicate the superpowers and abilities of their genetic templates.
Abilities
- Surveillance
- Science
- Physics
Weaknesses
- Genetic Instability: Not all DNAliens suffer from this but it is fatal for most of them, and even distinguished members of the group like Superboy have nearly died of it. Dubbilex and Jim Harper II have proven more resilient due to aging at a slower pace rather than the quick aging most of Cadmus clones are subjected to prior to "birth".
- Mental Deuteration
Miscellaneous
Representatives:
- Dubbilex (XX)
- Kon-El / S-13 / Superboy (a binary clone of Superman and Lex Luthor)
- Adam (a binary clone of Dubbilex and Jim Harper)
- Alex (XXX) (a Dubbilex clone modified with Kryptonian DNA)
- Anomaly (a clone of Floyd Barstow)
- Angry Charlie
- Auron (modified Jim Harper clone)
- Bizarnage (Amalgam Universe) was a DNAlien in Amalgam.
- Black Zero (modified Paul Westfield clone from the Hyper-Tension)
- The DNAngels
- Dragorin
- Gene-Gnome
- Gwendoline Harper (a female clone of Jim Harper)
- Hairies
- Jim Harper II (modified Jim Harper clone)
- Jude
- Lupek
- Simyan
- Underworlders
- See also: Category:DNAliens
- See also: Category:Human/Alien Hybrids
Trivia
- In DCAU, the Ultimen and Galatea were created using essentially the same process.
- For the Young Justice (TV Series) set on Earth-16, the DNAliens were renamed Genomorphs.
- On the Earth where Black Zero was originally from, Donovan and Westfield termed their version of DNAliens "Genetix" instead.[2]
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