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* In the appropriately named ''Transhuman'' by [[Jonathan Hickman]] medical advances make it possible to give people super powers. However there is a one power limit so everybody opts for [[Healing Factor]].

* [[Iron Man]], in recent years, has been doing everything he can to transhumanize himself, ranging from cyborg parts to a [[Super Serum]]. Of course, it's debatable how much of this is symbolic of the lack of humanity in his ''behavior'' during the [[Marvel Civil War]] and its aftermath. Many fans theorize that the Extremis Formula ''caused'' a lot of his [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|erratic, high-handed behavior,]] either by directly affecting his mind or just giving him a superiority complex.

** In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s version of [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate Tony's]] origin, he was born with a [[Healing Factor]] because of experiments by his parents. This seems to be getting treated as [[Canon ~~Dis Continuity~~]], however.

** In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s version of [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate Tony's]] origin, he was born with a [[Healing Factor]] because of experiments by his parents. This seems to be getting treated as [[Canon Discontinuity]], however.

* [[The Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] villain the Leader seems preoccupied with creating more Gamma-powered mutates like himself.

* The short-lived [[DC Comics]] series ''The New Guardians'' (unrelated to the current ''[[Green Lantern]]'' spinoff) involved a [[Xanatos Roulette]] by the [[Green Lantern|Guardians of the Universe]] to turn humanity into a race of transhumans. Unfortunately, the series' execution was... somewhat lacking, and it's been forgotten, with reason. The method for spreading super-genes through the population was to, well, [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex|have sex with as many people as possible;]] by picking people up in singles bars; despite one member of the team being an apparently sterile cyborg and another being gay. Oh, and they were all wince-inducing [[Ethnic Scrappy|Ethnic Scrappies,]] to boot.

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== Web Original ==

* ''Very'' deeply explored in [[~~Orions~~ Arm]], to the point that baselines (regular non-modified humans) are something of an endangered species by 10,600 AT. It's also not limited to humans; several xenosophont species have also embraced self-enhancement, and animals both terragen and alien have been [[Uplifted Animal|provolved to sophonce]].

* ''Very'' deeply explored in [[Orion's Arm]], to the point that baselines (regular non-modified humans) are something of an endangered species by 10,600 AT. It's also not limited to humans; several xenosophont species have also embraced self-enhancement, and animals both terragen and alien have been [[Uplifted Animal|provolved to sophonce]].