Talk:Biological Essence Manipulation/@comment-9597460-20130618002228

Here's a thought-experiment:

Suppose Tony Stark gets ahold of the DNA of Athena and Ares of the Olympian pantheon. He creates a clone of Athena, but he does an "X-23" and switches out the final X chromosome and adds Ares' Y chromosome. Now he's created a mindless living body that's the identical twin brother of Athena.

For the next step, Stark calls you up—you the reader of this thread—and tells you your new body is ready. Turns out he has a variant of Emma Frost's persona transference gun which he uses to move your personalty (soul, astral body, spirit, energy-consciousness, whatever) into the masculinized Athena clone.

"Congratulations," he says, "now you're a god." Is he correct?

The big question here is: what's actually the essence of a god? If you have the DNA of an Olympian deity does that mean you have the "essence" of a god now?