David Moreau
David Moreau is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
David Moreau
He became a scientist and a patriot who wanted to strengthen his nation of Genosha. The Sugar Man then offered him an opportunity to do so: The Sugar Man had come from an alternate timeline, known as the Age of Apocalypse and had obtained technology invented by his reality's Mister Sinister. Using this technology, David Moreau created the mutate-process: all inhabitants of Genosha were tested at their 13th birthday for any presence of the X-factor gene. If they tested positive, they were turned into mutates: their memories were erased and their personality changed to become completely obedient, they were sealed in special suits and their powers were genetically changed to serve the needs of their country. At this time, Moreau became known as the Genegineer. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #236)
At some point, the Genegineer created many clones of himself that were bred as fodder for his experiments. (X-Force v6 #37)
The Genegineer then oversaw Jennifer's transformation into a mutate, and altered her powers to better serve the state. He also had a team working on analyzing another captive, Madelyne Pryor, but when he went to check on them, he found they were all dead. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #237) In the aftermath, the Genegineer held a meeting in which the Magistrates examined the recorded psychic images of the probe which had been performed upon Pryor. In this recording, the leader of the scientific team was represented by the Genegineer himself, whom Pryor knew to be the one directing the others. Pryor dressed the pseudo-Genegineer as Mr. Sinister, before killing him psychically. The Genegineer met with Pryor himself to determine what she was, but received no answers. By this time, Phillip had fallen in with Wolverine and Rogue, two of the X-Men who had escaped after having their powers removed. Phillip had seen the prison camps in Genosha, and argued with his father over the conditions, but the Genegineer refused to accept mutants as people, believing them to be living resources instead. Magistrate Anderson threatened to have Phillip killed in order to protect Genosha's secrets, but they were interrupted by the arrival of Rogue and Wolverine's team-mates. The Genegineer fled from there to the Creche, where infant mutants were brought into the world. Whilst there, he found Pryor, and nearly killed her, but was stopped by Phillip. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #238)
In their war with the X-Men and their allies, the Genoshans allied themselves with Cameron Hodge and his RIGHT organization, an anti-mutant hate group. The insane Hodge kidnapped Storm and several New Mutants and wanted Moreau to help him absorb the techno-organic virus from the New Mutant Warlock so he could change his monstrous cybernetic form into a more human form. (New Mutants v1 #95) Moreau despised Hodge, who wanted Genosha to conquer the world and wipe out all mutants, while Moreau only was interested in Genosha's safety. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #272) Moreau assisted the X-Men in defeating Hodge, but he was killed himself by Hodge who broke his neck. (New Mutants v1 #97)
Legacy
After his death, Moreau's surviving clone came to feel his opportunity at revenge had been robbed from him. Thus, he sought to get his vengeance against his creator in another way. The clone had decided to achieve this by crafting the perfect engineered specimen using Mutant biological material. Thus, he continued the legacy of the Genengineer once more. (X-Force v6 #37)
Approaching Mikhail Rasputin, the Man with the Peacock Tattoo offered his services. He claimed he could extract the biological material of Mutants and use it to build an army for Russia. (X-Force v6 #37)
Following his abduction, the child was injected with a growth serum to increase his development. The Mutant was a young boy who was given the name Max who had shown telepathic powers. Raising the child, the Man with the Peacock Tattoo provided him love, trust and mentorship. This proved to be invaluable for Moreau's research as the Mutant boy's telepathic abilities allowed him to influence the captured resurrection egg. As such, this allowed him access to manipulate the Krakoan technology to achieve his goal in creating stable Mutant clones. (X-Force v6 #37)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As Genoshan's prominent genetic engineer, he came to be known by the name of the Genegineer. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #236) The clone of David Moreau suffered an incident where exploding lab equipment damaged his face and left him disfigured. (X-Force v6 #37)
The 'religion' of the Genengineer was said to had been biology where he believed in manipulating the flesh. Ultimately, his goal was creating a more refined version of Homo Superior that could be grafted onto Homo Sapiens. Moreau believed Mutants to be chaotic aberrations that came in thousands of different iterations whilst he sought to make a more singular evolutionary advance. To him, it did not make sense how Mutants could have completely different powers with Homo Superior simply representing biological chaos. Instead, he looked to create the one perfect specimen that was representative of evolution. (X-Force v6 #37)
Moreau's clone was always thinking about his biological 'father'. It was known that he hid the nature of his past and lied giving a false account of his life. He had longed to be accepted by his 'father' and his 'family'. However, they only saw him as an experiment which they believed to had been ruined after the clone was disfigured despite saving David Moreau's son from an explosion. This saw him showing hatred towards them where he looked to kill them all but could not do so when he was a child. He had longed to kill his creator but the opportunity was stolen from him and thus the clone resolved to get his revenge by succeeding in the research that Moreau had failed to achieve in his life. As such, this clone decided that he was the legacy of the Genengineer. (X-Force v6 #37)
The young Krakoan Mutant named Max was then raised as a kind of son to Moreau where he used the boy's telepathic powers to aid him. Following his abduction, the boy was injected with a growth serum to increase his development. The child dressed in a similar manner as the man with the Peacock Tattoo where his attire consisted of a mask and white suit. (X-Force v6 #37)
Powers and abilities
Moreau's research resulted in him creating numerous clones of himself. They were built from the Genengineers own cells that were soaked in growth serum. All of them were kept in abysmal conditions but released to serve as assistants on occasion. (X-Force v6 #37)
His clone looked to master the means of creating life itself. (X-Force v6 #37)
Like his genetic forebear, the Man with the Peacock Tattoo had a more central laboratory in Genosha. (X-Force v6 #37)
Notes
- David Moreau was created by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri where he made his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men v1 #236 (October, 1988).
- The characters name was seemingly a homage to the title character of H.G. Wells' science-fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Alternate Versions
- In Uncanny X-Force v1 #19.1 (2012), an alternate version of Dr. Moreau appeared in the Age of Apocalypse reality designated as Earth-295 in the Multiverse.
Appearances
- Uncanny X-Men v1: (1988)
- New Mutants v1:
- X-Force v6: (2023)
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