Weapon X

Weapon X was a metahuman research initiative proposed by Dr. Truett Hudson and the mutant Nathaniel Essex in the 1970s, a spinoff of the Weapon Plus program developed under the Department of Extranormal Affairs. Weapon X suggested taking the research conducted by Weapon Plus and CADMUS and applying it to individuals who were not otherwise compliant or willing to volunteer. A covert agreement with Canada's Department K allowed the US Government to operate an otherwise illegal research facility outside of US soil.

Former Weapon Plus research subjects were kidnapped against their will and experimented upon. In 1979, Logan Howlett was kidnapped and his bones forcibly fused with adamantium. Not only was Weapon X able to refine their adamantium-bonding process, they identified the genetic sequence for rapid healing. These techniques were applied to a number of other subjects, including Yuriko Oyama and Victor Creed. Some Weapon X assets were picked up by the DEO and assigned to the black bag group called Task Force: X (Suicide Squad). Others were recovered, rehabilitated, and transferred into Stormwatch. When the Mutant Relocation Act passed in 2006, more than a few transient and mentally disturbed former subjects of Weapon X were kidnapped as well.

Upon discovering the talented Dr. Killebrew in the early 2000s, Essex and and Hudson created the 'Hospice' facility on the outskirts of Vancouver, B.C. Under the guise of offering experimental medical therapy to the chronically ill, Dr. Killebrew and his associate Francis Fanny transported individuals to Weapon X and performed radical gene therapies in an attempt to trigger a metagene crisis. Hospice also became a home for the rejected experiments produced by Weapon X, often thrust into gladiatorial combat and brutally tortured as part of a last ditch effort to glean any scientific information from their deaths. The last of the Hospice guests was the mercenary known as Wade Wilson. His parting gift to Hospice was the destruction of that facility in 2015.

The primary Weapon X facility was destroyed in 2007 by the First Class of Xavier's Graduates.