GENEGINEER
Real Name: Dr. David Moreau
Identity/Class: Human technology user
Occupation: Creator of Mutates for the Genoshan government
Affiliations: Genoshan Magistrates and President, Magistrate Anderson, the Press Gang, Sugar Man, (briefly) X-Men
Enemies: Genoshan mutates, the Genoshan President, Cameron Hodge, Phillip Moreau, New Mutants, Madelyne Pryor, Jennifer Ransome, X-Factor, X-Men
Known Relatives: Phillip Moreau (son), Thomas Moreau (Zealot, son)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: The Citadel, Hammer Bay, Genosha
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men I#236 (October, 1988)
Powers/Abilities: The Genegineer had no powers, but used technology supplied to him by the Sugar Man to turn mutants into near-mindless slaves for the country of Genosha
History: (Uncanny X-Men I#236)- The Genegineer met with his son Phillip as a team of Magistrates arrested
the family of Jennifer Ransome. Moreau had discovered that Phillip had attempted to conceal Jennifer's status as a mutant, and was
now meeting out retribution against her family.
(Uncanny X-Men I#237)- 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 I#238)- 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. There, he found Pryor, and nearly killed her, but was stopped by Phillip.
Afterward, Phillip and Jennifer left Genosha with the X-Men, to make their case against Genosha from overseas where they would be protected.
Moreau was unable to change his son's mind.
(New Mutants I#95)- While the Genegineer was in
the middle of turning a young boy into a mutate, Cameron Hodge entered the room
with an incapacitated Warlock and demanded that Genegineer help him in stealing
Warlock's powers. (The Genoshans had earlier captured several members of the New
Mutants as well as Storm.) Genegineer objected, but was presumably won over by
Hodge, since Hodge later did attempt the process in which he tried to steal Warlock's powers.
(X-Factor I#60)- The Genegineer barged into the Genoshan President's office while she was with Cameron Hodge and got into an argument about the way they were handling their mutant captives. The President pulled him out of the room and explained to him that even though Hodge was insane, they needed him for the time being.
(Uncanny X-Men I#271)- The Genegineer was in a televised debate hosted by Manoli Wetherell about the
captive mutants held by Genosha against Moira MacTaggert. Afterward, he went to
his office and brooded over his son and how much it hurt to do his duty. Storm,
who had escaped from the cell the Genoshans were holding her in, then snuck up
on the Genegineer and held a knife to his throat, saying that no matter what
happened to her, at least there would be no more mutate slaves produced. But
before Storm could do anything, Hodge entered and incapacitated her. Genegineer
then turned her into a mutate slave, but while Hodge was preoccupied with
Psylocke and Wolverine, Genegineer programmed Storm, as a mutate, to return to the
X-Men the powers that had been stolen from them by the mutant Wipeout.
(New Mutants I#96)- The Genegineer turned Rahne Sinclair AKA
Wolfsbane, into a mutate slave. However, at Cameron Hodge's command, he
programmed her so that she would remember her past life, but be unable to go
against the mutate programming, thereby making her enslavement all the more painful. (X-Factor I#61)- The Genegineer was in the Genoshan President's
office, arguing with Cameron Hodge and the President over their ambitions for
Genosha and the rest of the world. Genegineer wanted to avoid war and be
peaceful, while Hodge wanted to wipe mutant kind off the Earth.
(Uncanny X-Men I#272)- The Genegineer was spied upon by Rictor, Boom Boom,
and Jubilee (all on the run from Genoshan magistrates), as he initiated his plan
against Cameron Hodge. He tunneled underground into Cameron Hodge's lab with the
help of a mutate slave with energy powers. Meanwhile, Magistrate Anderson, worked with him. While he went to Hodge's lab, her and other
magistrates were to capture the Genoshan President. (New Mutants I#97)- The Genegineer was confronted by Boom Boom,
Rictor, and Jubilee when they were found by the rescue party consisting of
members of X-factor, the New Mutants, and the X-Men. Meanwhile, the Genegineer's
plan with Storm had come to fruition and she had returned the X-teams' powers.
Together, the Genegineer and several mutants began destroying Cameron Hodge's
lab, significantly weakening his cyborg body by destroying its power sources.
This was Genegineer's purpose for tunneling into the lab. However, Hodge showed
up in the middle of the destruction, and quickly incapacitated several mutants.
The Genegineer then unleashed a very high power energy weapon on the already
weakened Hodge. Hodge picked up the Genegineer in one of his mechanical
tentacles and broke his neck, killing him, but in his death, the Genegineer had
weakened Hodge significantly. Comments: Created by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri. The process in which he created mutates consisted of first
calling in every Genoshan citizen to be tested for a mutant gene on their 13th
birthday. If tested positive, first the subject's mind would be wiped clean of
all their memories. Then, it would be programmed like a robot, or a zombie
to be blindly obedient and do whatever it was told. The mutate could not really
think for itself. It was then put into a suit that was a completely sealed,
self-sustaining environment. Once bonded, the suit was like a second skin. It
was the last suit they ever wear. They were given numbers and their names were
taken away. From the day they become mutates, they are only known by numbers.
Assigning a living thing a number and putting it to work because of something
that they had no control over sounds very familiar to something that happened in
the 1940's. Every time I read this story, I always ask myself: So was this
guy a hero or a villain? I think he's not quite either, and that he is a
Genoshan patriot who wanted what was best for his country, but wanted noble ends
through evil means. I think that there was a line used to describe Napoleon that
can just as well describe the Genegineer. "He was as great as a man can be without virtue." by CLARIFICATIONS: The Genegineer should not be confused with:
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