Cadmus Labs
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Cadmus Labs is a scientific research facility once owned by LuthorCorp located just outside downtown Metropolis. Cadmus was just being used by Lex Luthor as part of a larger plan; after it was taken from him in a hostile takeover by Victoria Hardwick pretending to love him and her father, Harry Hardwick, it turned out that the project was faked. Hardwick Enterprises was in major financial and legal trouble, and so Victoria and her father were financially crippled. Their company is now a LuthorCorp subsidiary.
[edit] In the Comics
In the comic books Project Cadmus is the name of a genetic engineering project to study cloning. It is responsible for the creations and clones of many DC universe heroes and villians. Cadmus has a rival of sorts in the form of the Evil Factory a monster creating laboratory set up by the villainous Darkseid with ties to Intergang. Originally founded by the orginal Newsboy Legion it was named the DNA Project and was discovered by Jimmy Olsen and the sons of the Newsboy Legion The Project created most notably the clone of the superhero The Golden Guardian and Dubbilex one of many DNAliens, creatures that are genetically manipulated into a non human being with super powers. After the history altering affects of Crisis on Infinite Earths The Project is renamed Cadmus. Cadmus is first introduced when they create Conner Kent a clone of Superman and Lex Luthor after Superman's apparent death at the hands of Doomsday. It was believed Cadmus was destroyed when Cadmus went to war with Lex Luthor but instead went underground and a problem solver named Mickey "The Mechanic" Cannon is named the new Cadmus head Mickey makes Cadmus more open to the public but Cadmus is taken over temporarily by the Evil Factory and has a series of setbacks. Soon in the time when Lex Luthor became President of the United States The Guardian and Cannon express their discomfort of listening to President Luthor and all of Cadmus seemingly vanishes. Years later in the series 52 Cadmus is shown to still be in existence (possibly due to history altering affects from Infinite Crisis ) where it is discovered for the second time by Jimmy Olsen. Soon Jimmy finds the facility abandoned except for the dying Dubbilex who tells Jimmy Cadmus created the supervillian Codename:Assassin and that he is part of a conspiracy against Superman and killed the original Newsboy Legion and attacked Dubbilex himself as he dies he tells Jimmy to warn The Guardian who has become one of Metropolis' heroes after Superman's absence of this threat.
