Dr Moreau
Real Name: Dr Alphonse Moreau
Identity/Class: Normal human
Occupation: Geneticist
Affiliations: None known
Enemies: Edward Prendrick
Known Relatives: None known
Aliases: None known
Base of Operations: His island
First Appearance: The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)
History: Edward Prendrick is shipwrecked and rescued by a ship bound for the uncharted island on which Moreau lives after his exile from Europe (Moreau's experiments were egregiously cruel). Once on the island he discovers that Moreau and his assistant Montgomery are conducting experiments and creating creatures who seem to be human-animal hybrids. Prendrick assumes that Moreau is vivisecting humans into animal-like creatures and runs away. Moreau and Montgomery finally catch up to Prendrick and manage to convince him that he's wrong and that Moreau is not turning humans into animals, but rather trying to do the reverse. Moreau and Montgomery are only intermittently successful, though, as the test subjects continue to revert. Eventually this catches up to them and both are killed. Prendrick manages to escape and returns to England, but there he finds that the humans he meets remind him of Moreau's subjects.
Powers/Abilities: Skilled geneticist.
Comments: Created by H.G. Wells. Dr Moreau was a scientist who played with the genetic inheritance of man, to create man/beast hybrid creatures on an isolated island. Eventually his creations destroyed him.
Moreau is the spiritual father of such comic book characters as the High Evolutionary.
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