Artificially Enhanced Physiology

Artificially Enhanced Physiology
Gamora (Marvel Comics) received treatments from Thanos that enhanced her physiology with superhuman strength, durability, endurance and reflexes, and healing factor.
Power/Ability to:	Gain strength via artificial enhancements.

"It's as if millions of cells were forming at incredible speed! In a matter of minutes...I've actually become a New Man!!"

― Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)

"T-thought I was dead...! Felt those bullets hit me!! But there's only these bruises...My whole body's just like my fists...Hard!!! Hard as steel! Doc's Machine worked on my cells all right...Changed 'em so I ain't human anymore!!!"

― Carl Lucas/Luke Cage shortly after escaping prison and gaining his powers. (Marvel Comics)

The power to gain strength and powers through artificial enhancements. Variation of Science Attuned Physiology. Not to be confused with Artificial Physiology. Scientific equivalent of of Magically Enhanced Physiology.

Also Called

• Artificially Enhanced Condition
• Genetically Altered/Engineered/Modified Body/Physiology
• Genetically Enhanced Condition/Physiology

Capabilities

The user possesses an artificially enhanced physiology and remodified bodies with man-made alterations such as genetic to cybernetic, by specialized drugs, experimentation, genetic engineering/manipulation, etc, all granting them a variety of strength and powers.

Depending on the methods to these man-made enhancements and the elements used for such empowerments users can gain different abilities bound to the nature behind the method which can refine the users physiology.

Applications

• Bio-Technology: Users biological nature can be altered by technology.
  • Bio-Augmentation: Through biological enhancement users can get stronger.
  • DNA Manipulation: Users genetic nature can be manipulated.
  • Enhancing Mutation: Biological alterations can cause enhanced mutation.
• Cybernetic Enhancements: Users can use cybernetics to enhanced themselves and their bodies.
  • Cybernetic Strength: Have immense strength as a cyborg or through cybernetic enhancements.
  • Cybernetic Speed: Have immense speed as a cyborg or through cybernetic enhancements.
  • Efficient Body: Have a body/bodily systems that are perfectly optimized, totally efficient, with absolutely no wasted energy or effort on their part.
• Drug Empowerment: Through drug usage users can be empowered.
  • Conditional Power: Different drugs can grant different abilities with conditions.
  • High Empowerment: Users drugs can intoxicate yet empower users.
  • Lethal Dose: With lethal doses users can be at their peak but at the price of their life
• Supernatural Surgery: Through surgical experimentations users can gain abilities.
  • Robotization: Surgery can grant cybernetic enhancements.
  • Transhumanization: Users can gain transhumanize status.
  • Weaponized Body: Through surgery users body can be weaponized.

Variations

• Frankensteinian Monster Physiology
• Homunculus Physiology
• Pseudo-Vampire Physiology
• Pseudo-Werebeast Physiology
• Super Soldier
• Transhuman Physiology

Associations

• Ability Creation
• Ability Learning
• Artificial Physiology
• Power Augmentation
• Power Bestowal
• Science Attuned Physiology
• Transcendent Enhancement

Limitations

• Scientific experts may counteract users.

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Kurume (Akame Ga Kill!)
• Eri Haruue (A Certain Scientific Railgun); via Ability Body Crystal
• Helios MK2 (Bakugan)
• Kara (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
  • Delta
  • Boro
  • Code
  • Victor
  • Deepa
  • Eida
  • Ao
  • Garo
• Kawaki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generation)
• Kageroza Inaba (Bleach)
• Android 17 (Dragon Ball series)
• Android 18 (Dragon Ball series)
• Pandora (Freezing)
• Nomu (My Hero Academia)
• Hidden Sound Ninja (Naruto)
• Franky (One Piece)
• Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece)
• Pacifista (One Piece)
• Genos (One Punch Man)
• Kang Horyang (Tower of God)
• Beniamino Cassano (Tower of God)
• Beta (Tower of God)
• 25th Baam/Jyu Viole Grace (Tower of God)
• Rudol von Stoheim (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency)

Cartoons/Comics

• Inque (Batman Beyond)
• Sevenseven (Ben 10)
• Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
• Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom)
• Vlad Masters/Plasmius (Danny Phantom)
• Azrael (DC Comics)
• Bane (DC Comics); via Venom
• Midnighter (DC Comics)
• Anarky (DC Comics)
• Clayface (DC Comics)
• Deathstroke (DC Comics)
• Slade Wilson (DC Comics)
• Vandal Savage (DC Comics)
• Breach (Generator Rex); by the power/ability-amplification pack Van Kleiss created
• Various Characters (Image Comics)
• Cooch (Super Mansion)
• Brad (Super Mansion)
• Josiah al hajj Saddiq/Justice (Marvel Comics)
• Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics/Marvel 2099)
• James Bradley/Doctor Nemesis (Marvel Comics)
• Elijah Bradley/Patriot (Marvel Comics)
• Gamora Zen Whoberi Ben Titan (Marvel Comics)
• Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics); via Super-Soldier Serum
• James Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics); via Infinity Formula and Bionic Arm
• Natalia Romanova/Black Widow (Marvel Comics); via variant Super-Soldier Serum
• Nathaniel Essex/Mr. Sinister (Marvel Comics)
• Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Marvel Comics)
• James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
• Ajax (Marvel Comics)
• Steve Rogers/Captain America (Ultimate Marvel); via Super-Soldier Serum
• Kyle Gibney/Wild Child (Marvel Comics)
• Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Experiment 627 (Lilo & Stitch)

Live Television/Movies

• Ripley 8 (Alien: Resurrection)
• Aaron Cross (The Bourne Legacy)
• Riley Finn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Biomechanical demonoids (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• X5 Series supersoldiers (Dark Angel)
• Max Guevara (Dark Angel)
• Peyton Westlake (Darkman)
• Wes Keenan (Smallville)
• Augments (Star Trek)
  • Khan Noonien Singh
  • Julian Bashir
• Brixton Lore (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw)
• Joshua (No Ordinary Family)
• Ultimate Predator (Predator)
• Steve Rogers (Marvel Cinematic Universe); via Super-Soldier Serum
• James Buchanan Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe); via Super-Soldier Serum
• Michael Peterson (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Luke Cage (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Jessica Jones (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Trish Walker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• The Processed (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Adam Jensen (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
• FEV Mutants (Fallout series)
  • Super Mutants
  • Deathclaws
• Spartan II's (Halo)
• Spartan III's (Halo)
• Spartan IV's (Halo)
• Forerunners (Halo)
• Jack (Mass Effect)
• Genome Soldiers (Metal Gear Solid)
• Vermaak 88/The Ice Gang (Infamous 2)
• Jak (Jak and Daxter)
• Soldier 76 (Overwatch)
• Gabriel Reyes/Reaper (Overwatch)
• Mewtwo (Pokémon)
• Genesect (Pokémon)
• Alex Mercer (Prototype 2)
• James Heller (Prototype 2)
• Big Al (Ratchet and Clank)
• Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)
• Tyrants (Resident Evil)
  • Nemesis-T Type
  • Tyrant T-103
• Malefor (Skylanders)
• Dr. Krankcase (Skylanders)
• Witchers (The Witcher)
  • Geralt of Rivia
• Hanna Petrescu (Hanna TV series)
• Clara Mahan (Hanna TV series)
• Sandy Phillips (Hanna TV series)
• Jules Allen (Hanna TV series)
• Bionic Humans (Lab Rats)
  • The Lab Rats
  • Bionic Soldiers
  • Victor Krane
  • Leo Dooley; leg and arm only
  • Dr. Gao

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Android 17 and 18 (Dragon Ball series) were once regular humans who were severely augmented by Dr. Gero's experiments.

Mercenary Tao Tao Pai (Dragon Ball)

Each Hidden Sound Ninja (Naruto) had some form of artificial alteration as result of Orochimaru's tampering.

Franky (One Piece)

Genos, the Demon Cyborg (One-Punch Man)

Comics/Cartoons

Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom) gained his ghost powers through a lab accident when he accidentally activated the Fenton Portal from the inside.

Deathstroke (DC Comics) obtained his strength and abilities via experimental Super Soldier.

Clayface (DC Comics)

Bane (DC Comics)

Inque (Batman Beyond)

Experiment 627 (Lilo & Stitch)

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Marvel comics)

Luke Cage (Marvel Comics) possesses various superhuman physical enhancements after undergoing a Super-Soldier experiment known as the Burstein Process, which was designed to increase his body's cellular regeneration rate.

Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)

Steve Rogers/Captain America (Marvel Comics)

Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics/Marvel 2099)

Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Video Games

SOLDIERs (Final Fantasy 7) are all infused with the cells and genes of an extraterrestrial, significantly increasing their overall physiology and condition.

Grunt (Mass Effect) was engineered to be the ultimate krogan super soldier.

Jack (Mass Effect) was experimented on for years to become the most powerful human biotic alive.

Samus Aran (Metroid)

Mewtwo (Pokémon) is a genetically augmented clone of Mew.

Genesect (Pokémon) is a cybernetically augmented clone of an extinct apex predator.

Alex Mercer (Prototype) is one of the Evolved, humans augmented by the Blacklight Virus.

James Heller (Prototype 2) an Evolved infected by Mercer.

Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)

The T-103 Tyrants (Resident Evil) are cloned humans mutated and augmented through the T-Virus.

The Nemesis-T Type (Resident Evil) is an elite variant of the Tyrant created by further augmenting the T-103 with the NE-α Type parasite.

Others

XII (Anima: Beyond Fantasy) is one of Crows that survived the Process, a technomagical experiment that replace all subject's blood with an unknown black fluid, granting him supernatural conditions and powers.

Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is an undead being, a self-described bio-mechanical demonoid, created as part of the 314 Project.

Quint Lane (Underworld: Awakening) was greatly enhanced through repeated injections of the Corvinus Strain.

Weapon XI/Deadpool (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) was augmented to become the perfect mutant killer.

Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek)

Death Troopers (Star Wars) received surgical enhancements to increase their lethality.

Most Bionic Humans (Lab Rats) like the Lab Rats and the Bionic Soldiers are all genetically/artificially engineered from birth to handle Bionic Abilities that are delivered from their Bionic Chips and survive in any extreme weather condition on earth...

... and some bionic people like Krane, Gao, or Leo became bionic through other artificial means like Bionic Implants or Liquid Bionics.

Videos

O'Brien Learns of Bashir's Genetically Enhanced Background (Dr. Bashir, I Presume?)-2

Star Trek - Dr. Bashir Genetically Engineered

Julian Bashir- Personnel File