Frankenstein: Agent of SHADE Preview

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I had a choice between this and the new Suicide Squad preview (If you want to see that, you can go here but on your own head be it.)

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If Dr Frankenstein has gone Ultra-Humanite on us, that's deeply, deeply creepy.



Something tells me that's not the way to get on his good side Ms Creature From the Black Lagoon

 

Comments

[shanejayell]

"Cutting edge Eugenics" ?

Wait, what?

I thought Eugenics was breeding subjects together to get results. Her father fucked a fish?

[hawkmoondirge]

But it's SCIENCE!

May be a case of author's miswording. You are correct in your definition...unless her mom/father fucked a mer-folk

[glimmung]

That is very cutting edge. It requires SCUBA gear.

[shanejayell]

I'm guessing they meant 'genetics.' Maybe.

[shadowpsykie]

heh i love how not knowing what he meant is getting us all to "visualize' the alternatives :D

[drexer]

No, Eugenics is the social policy of improving the genetic base of a population.

Of course this makes even less sense and in comicbook terms is used as a 'dirty Nazi science word' so as to imply the character has done 'something no one should ever try to do'. Which I think was the point here.

Still makes no sense. Even by comic book science standards.

[shanejayell]

I'm guessing it's a miss-word, honestly. Or someone skimmed Wikipedia and grabbed it without understanding the meaning.

[icon_uk]

It could be that she was the first to come up with a practical application for someone else's cutting edge eugenics program (into the metagene?)

[vitruvian23]

Eugenics technically just refers to any attempt to improve the gene pool. Although historically people have suggested doing this using selective breeding, mainly not letting supposedly genetically inferior people (different races, the congenitally disabled or developmentally disabled, etc.) reproduce, and has therefore been rightly associated with hateful and hate-filled ideologies, there's no reason the label couldn't also apply to the use of outright genetic engineering, so long as it was germline engineering where the fish lady could pass on her new genes to any offspring.

[crinos]

Looks like you beat me to it.

[shanejayell]

We think alike. *high fives*

[vitruvian23]

Maybe the family's from Innsmouth.

[proteus_lives]

Outsider!

Do not speak of Father Dagon's town.

[vitruvian23]

Oh, you mean the one where the Navy rounded up all the residents back in the Twenties after sending torpedoes down into the abyss just past Devil Reef? Not much of a town there anymore.

"There were vague statements about disease and concentration camps, and later about dispersal in various naval and military prisons, but nothing positive ever developed. Innsmouth itself was left almost depopulated, and it is even now only beginning to show signs of a sluggishly revived existence."

I'm guessing the character might have used surviving stock from those camps in her experiments. Wonder if Aquaman knows about the history there.

[endis_ni]

Well, they can dynamite Devil Reef, but that'll bring no relief...

[endis_ni]

Hmph. That didn't go so well.

Try this instead.

[proteus_lives]

FOR SCIENCE!

Fish-love.