@Simon_Jester: How come you didn't include Bone Growth + Plant Integration experiments? It would be easy enough giving Pamela the Bone Growth serum, but we should see how combining the two serums work first.
Because I'm afraid of what happens if we give one of our prisoners Really Serious Superpowers.
You can imagine it as well as I can. "John Doe was a small-time crook who fell in with the wrong crowd until Lex Luthor kidnapped him and performed insanely unethical experiments on his body." That is like
literally the perfect superhero origin story. And the superhero in question would hate us and do everything in their power to screw us over.
People who've been given the bone growth formula or Gingo fruit elasticity are, for lack of a better term,
containable. The worst things they can do to you are, well,
limited. If you try very hard to kill them with conventional weaponry you will probably succeed, especially if they start out in a heavily built prison cell of the sort Carl Draper designs.
But people with Poison Ivy's plant powers are going to be pretty hard to contain if they ever get access to large amounts of vegetation. People with, say, Captain Atom powers (or weird Doctor Manhattan-esque powers from being an energy being that somehow survives and learns to contain itself) would be much, much worse. So would physically powerful cyborgs.
I'm trying to
expend these prisoners, not give them powers they are likely to turn against us if they ever somehow escape.
Furthermore, our current iteration of the bone growth formula is so undeveloped that it's not remotely ready to give to Dr. Isley or anyone else whose life is valuable to us. We would learn very little by giving both formulas to a test subject when the bone growth formula is still so horrifically flawed.
Also, why not offer a few subjects for Amazo experimentation? Ives would probably prefer that more than regular organ transplant.
1) That's not one of the listed options.
2) It's not clear to me in what way the A.M.A.Z.O. project would actually benefit from expendable human test subjects.
Plus, we could probably get some Amazo progress by doing something extreme like making Metallos.
Yes, but we could also do so in many other ways? The only way to get A.M.A.Z.O. progress is to have Ivo work on something high tech and
very specifically related to the project.
Clearly we should make a show depicting how self-serving heroes are ala the Boys.
Oh no. We just produce an adaptation of Irredeemable.
We do something like
The Boys about five years from now, when superheroes are more publicly 'out' than they are now and they're known in many cities.
We do something like
Irredeemable a year or three after the time Superman joins some superhero team like the JLA.
