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The Project had an "opposite number" in the form of the Evil Factory, a monster-creating project set up by Darkseid as part of Intergang and run by two of his servents called Simyan and Mokkari. They were killed, but Donovan subsequently cloned them. Following the Crisis On Infinite Earths the DNA Project was reintroduced as Project Cadmus, named after the Greek legend of Cadmus , who created warriors from the teeth of a dragon. The Post-Crisis version made its first appearance in ''Superman Annual'' #2 (1988). It was responsible for the creation of the new Superboy , cloned from genetic material obtained from both Superman and Lex Luthor . Dubbilex subsequently became a supporting character in the Kid's own title, set in Hawaii . Cadmus was supposedly destroyed in a Superman story called ''The Fall of Metropolis'', which featured a "clone plague". However, the Project had simply taken advantage of this to go underground. In ''Superboy'' #57, the Project was put under new management, following the Newsboys' retirement. The new project head was Mickey "the Mechanic" Cannon, a former Suicide Slum resident with a reputation for being able to "fix" anything, a car or a country. The new head of genetics was Dr Sterling Roquette, a teenaged genius with a crush on the Guardian. Dabney Donovan was also brought back, under armed guard. Cannon made Cadmus more open to the public. Shortly after this the Project temporarily came under the control of the Evil Factory, now revealed to be part of an organisation called The Agenda, run by Lex Luthor 's ex-wife, the Contessa. When Luthor became President, Cannon and the Guardian became uncomfortable with the amount of government pressure on the Project. Following the Imperiex War, the entire project disappeared. The current whereabouts of its members is unrevealed. OTHER MEDIA Project Cadmus has featured as an adversary of the Justice League in the Animated Series '' Justice League Unlimited ''. In the series Cadmus is a government project designed to take precautions against the League going rogue. The project was started when '' where the project was designed to deal with the Man of Steel if he were to attack the Earth again. The project's goals extended to the Justice League as well after the Justice Lords incident. Members of this version of Cadmus include Amanda Waller , Professor Emil Hamilton , Tala , General Wade Eiling , Dr. Achilles Milo , Maxwell Lord , Hugo Strange , and Dr. Moon . In addition, they had also had access to Task Force X, which is the official name for the organization known in DC Comics as the Suicide Squad , for risky field missions. Cadmus was later shown to be backed by Lex Luthor , who only financed the project in a grab for superpowers of his own. After taking what he needed from Cadmus, Luthor attempted to destroy it by hacking into an immense laser built into the League's Watchtower, but failed. Despite popular assumption, his actions were not being controlled by Brainiac , he was simply living inside him at the time and helped out occasionally. After both of them were defeated, Cadmus ceased operations and the Justice League announced the establishment of a planetside base to improve their public relations. They were responsible for creating Doomsday (a clone of Superman ), Galatea (a clone of Supergirl who resembles Power Girl ), the Royal Flush Gang , and the Ultimen (a team of genetically engineered heroes who are a Pastiche of several heroes created for the '' Superfriends '' series). And ultimately, Terry McGinnis / Batman II . Precursor organizations to Cadmus may have been involved in the creations of such metahumans as Bizarro , Volcana , and Man-Bat . When the '' as explained in '' Epilogue ''. The television series Smallville referenced a company called "Cadmus Labs," which Lex Luthor bought. This Cadmus, however, was just being used by Luthor as part of a larger plan; after it was taken from him in a hostile takeover by a woman pretending to love him and her father, it turned out that the project was a feint. The company was in major financial and legal trouble, and so the "lover" and her father were financially crippled. See also: Cadmus , Dragon's Teeth |
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