Editing Weapon Plus (section)

==Fictional team history==
During the 1940s the existence of mutants was not yet known to the general public. A few individuals were aware of the coming of ''Homo superior'' and the fact that they had the potential to replace baseline humans as the dominant species of Earth. Thus Weapon Plus was created to address the so-called mutant problem. What was unknown by everyone involved in Weapon Plus is that its mastermind, [[Sublime (Marvel Comics)|John Sublime]], was actually the host body for a sentient bacteria present in every living creature on the planet, save for mutants, who were genetically immune to the Sublime infection.<ref>''Wolverine: Origins'' #33 (April 2009)</ref><ref>''Weapon X'' (vol. 2) #23 (July 2004)</ref>

The first nine instalments of Weapon Plus were partially successful. Weapon X produced a number of agents, though it branched off and even became opposed to Weapon Plus's interests. To prevent subsidiary programs from going rogue, Weapon Plus directly oversaw the creation of the last living weapons operating in the clandestine facilities of ''The World'', employing [[Bolivar Trask]]'s [[Sentinel (comics)|Sentinel]] technology.<ref name="NXM145">''New X-Men'' #142-145 (August - October 2003)</ref>

Throughout the decades, Weapon Plus has used increasingly more extreme methods to create its super-soldiers. Captain America was enhanced to peak human levels. Weapon X employed genetic alteration, brainwashing and memory implants. The latest creations were bred specifically to become mutant-hunting weapons much deadlier than Sentinels.<ref name="NXM145"/>

Following [[Decimation (comics)|M-Day]], most mutants are rendered powerless, and mutants as a race are on the brink of extinction. Weapon Plus appears again as Sublime attempts to use the [[Stepford Cuckoos]] to wipe out the surviving mutants.