22 Facts About Weapon Plus

1.

Weapon Plus is a fictional clandestine program appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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2.

Morrison's introduction of Weapon Plus shed new information about the origins of Weapon X, Captain America and other Marvel Comics supersoldiers.

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3.

Weapon Plus appears again as Sublime attempts to use the Stepford Cuckoos to wipe out the surviving mutants.

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4.

Weapon Plus II was later captured as part of a group of semi-animal characters including Howard the Duck, Squirrel Girl, Beast, and Rocket Raccoon.

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5.

Weapon Plus appeared as a squirrel with Wolverine's "Adamantium skeleton, claws, intelligence, and healing factor".

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6.

Weapon Plus III was a mutant with elastic multi-sensory skin.

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7.

Weapon Plus originally worked in espionage, gathering intelligence from the Soviets.

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8.

Weapon Plus was eventually sent to Otherworld in order to retrieve the Orb of Necromancy.

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9.

Weapon Plus survived and taught his muscles to function in a similar manner to his former mutant skin.

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10.

Weapon Plus later worked with Black Air and the Brotherhood of Mutants and was known as the Skinless Man.

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11.

Weapon Plus developed a hatred of Fantomex, who he blamed for his current state.

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12.

However, Weapon Plus IV is actually 'Project Sulfur' - the project spearheaded by Ted Sallis, whose research led him to become the Man-Thing.

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13.

Weapon Plus VI was led by Dr Noah Burstein and was responsible for giving Luke Cage his powers.

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14.

Logan, who would later become one of Weapon Plus' victims, kidnapped Nuke as a child, and oversaw his conditioning.

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15.

Weapon Plus VII experimented with adamantium bonding, which helped create Cyber.

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16.

Weapon Plus was the first living weapon created employing artificial evolution and nanosentinel technology.

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17.

Weapon Plus XII was "accidentally" unleashed on the Channel Tunnel and fought X-Corporation members Cannonball, M, Darkstar, Rictor, Siryn and Multiple Man.

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18.

Weapon Plus XII was eliminated by Fantomex with the aid of Jean Grey and Professor X, but at the cost of Darkstar's life.

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19.

Weapon Plus created Weapon XIII, known as Fantomex, at The World.

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20.

The Stepford Cuckoos' link to Weapon Plus has finally been addressed in the Phoenix: Warsong miniseries, written by Greg Pak, which explores unresolved storylines from Morrison's New X-Men and Pak's Phoenix: Endsong.

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21.

Weapon Plus was killed after Wolverine destroyed the Weapon Plus space station that was designed as the Super-Sentinels HQ.

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22.

Weapon Plus Infinity, known as Project: Deathlok, is the cyborg conversion of both ordinary citizens and then all superheroes in the future.

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