As an example of the latter, a man named Raymond was spliced with a ram's DNA, and quickly became stronger and more aggressive. As an example of the former, Chelsea Cunningham underwent splicing to make her eyes resemble those of a cat. Without regulation from the authorities, it was offered to the public and quickly became a popular fad, with applications ranging from cosmetic surgery to physical enhancement. Splicing did not appear again until the 2040s, developed by Dr. Three teens spliced to look like vampires.
Langstrom's notes and incorporated splicing into the genetics work of Project Cadmus. One scientist apparently experimented with splicing, going so far as to turn herself into a humanoid cheetah to prove the effectiveness of her work.Īt some point, Dr. An example of this was Tygrus, Dorian's "son", a humanoid wildcat.ĭorian was eventually apprehended and incarcerated, while Tygrus lived alone on the island. Another branch involved creating entirely original creatures from spliced DNA. Along the branch of the science that involved modifying existing humans, his work included Garth, an ape-man, and an attempt to transform Selina Kyle into a real-life cat-woman. Dorian also continued his experiments, becoming even more successful than either March or Langstrom. When Batman confronted March, he finally came to his senses and terminated his experiment, as well as burning his files. Then an accident in his laboratory infected his daughter Francine with the formula, making her into the She-Bat. March continued to work on the formula, developing an even more potent version of it.
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Langstrom's formula was sufficiently advanced that he would never return to full human form again.ĭespite the danger of splicing shown by Langstrom's experience, Dr. However, the precise meaning of "permanent" in this case is unclear, seeing as it could either mean that the transformations would continue on a regular basis without further chemicals, or that Dr.
At the point of Batman's interference, the Man-Bat was one component away from making the condition permanent. It was at this point that Batman got involved and curtailed the activities of the Man-Bat, managing to restore Langstrom to normal. Each transformation didn't last long, but Langstrom soon became addicted to the formula and even came to believe that the Man-Bat had its own personality and could act as a separate entity.Įventually, to preserve its own existence, the Man-Bat started robbing pharmaceutical companies for the chemicals that would keep the transformations occurring. By ingesting a mixture of chemicals, Langstrom was able to temporarily transform himself into a half-man, half-bat creature (or Man-Bat, as it was called in the newspapers of the time). Kirk Langstrom, also employed by the Gotham Zoo, was the first to put this theory into practice. Only then, March believed, would humans be in a position to survive the next evolutionary cataclysm.ĭr. March believed in bats' evolutionary superiority to humans, and theorized that a man could combine his DNA with that of a bat's, taking on characteristics of that species. The first documented splicing incident was in the early 1990s at the Gotham Zoo bat exhibit. However, Dorian encountered multiple failures prior to this discovery, as Batman found cats with painful deformities, which were noted as "the good doctor's earlier experiments". He eventually conceived T-99, a mutagen that formed the base chemical in several other splicing formulas. Emile Dorian, a geneticist with a particular fascination with cats. Some of the earliest experiments in splicing were conducted by Dr.