Mutant+Growth+Hormone

__**Mutant Growth Hormone **__



Mutant Growth Hormone (often abbreviated as MGH) is a naturally occurring hormone produced within Homo Superior and genetically altered superhumans. This hormone can be extracted and isolated, and when used by baseline humans it will result what's known as a "temporary genetic shift". In other words, it temporarily grants super powers like flight, teleportation or increased strength to its users. Sometimes the powers are duplicates those belonging to the donor, but results are known to vary.

MGH is most commonly available in a capsule form for oral ingestion, but a liquid form for intramuscular injection is an alternative. MGH is known to be highly addictive, especially in baseline humans. A known side effect of MGH use is increased aggression. Possession, trade and consumption of the drug is completely illegal in the United States. Other countries have passed similar laws.


 * Discovery **

The first person known to have isolated Mutant Growth Hormone was biochemist Dr. Henry McCoy PhD while working for the Brand Corporation on Long Island. McCoy was attempting to develop a serum that would act as a catalyst for activating latent mutations. He was forced to consume an experimental version of his serum to protect his discovery from industrial spies. This drug made McCoy grow fur all over his body and change his ears, canine teeth and nails to more sharpened forms of the originals. It also provided him with enhanced senses and a greater healing factor.


 * Dealers and Users **

MGH reached prominence when a mutant crimelord called Owl began refining his own genetic material to obtain drugs he could sell. He used the profits to build a new criminal empire. Daredevil stopped him, however. Later The Vanisher sold MGH on the black market until he was stopped by the X-Men.

At one point Spider-Woman, Mattie Franklin, was kept sedated in her apartment to be harvested for MGH by her boyfriend. She was eventually freed when former super heroine Jessica Jones broke into her apartment and rescued her.

The Young Avenger Patriot was a regular user of MGH. Since he had no superpowers of his own, he lied to his friends and teammates and told them that he inherited his grandfather’s super soldier powers due to a blood transfusion. When his secret was revealed Patriot was ashamed and quit the team.

The New Avengers found evidence that suggested the superhero Cloak had beaten his partner, Dagger. However, after chasing Cloak, they discovered that the attack had been performed by an orderly named Reginald Mantz who mimicked Cloak's power through using his MGH.

During the superhero civil war, Wolverine discovered that the super-villain Nitro used MGH to increase his power level, which allowed him to annihilate Stamford, Connecticut.


 * School’s Out **

In Academy X’s first series, a group of young bank robbers used MGH to gain super strength and toughness. Their bank heist was foiled by students from Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, including Bastienne Noel, Billy Pang, Dane Lightfoot, David Goldberg, Lucius Hayes, Samantha Carpenter, and X-23.


 * Welcome to Paradise **

The staff of Academy X then encounters a group of private school kids from Academy M in San Francisco that are using the powers of dead mutants. Later it is discovered that these students are using MGH taken from samples stolen from Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. The students mimic the powers of Blink, Copycat, Darkstar, Jean Grey, Pyro, Synch, and Thunderbird.


 * My Generation **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Academy M, under the direction of Headmistress Cordelia Frost, is discovered to be creating and using MGH to give its normal students mutant abilities.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Children's Crusade **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A new type of MGH is discovered without any of the previous side-effects (addiction, aggression, etc.). There is even a movement to legalize MGH in California once this type of MGH becomes popular. The eXalts discover that the new MGH has been created by Jacob Robitaille, CEO of Benetech (the company that manufactures the mutant “cure” Hope). Robitaille created the MGH with the help of a young mutant named Nikkya “Nightshade” Lewis. Nightshade’s mutant ability was to affect the chemical composition of substances. She was therefore able to create MGH without the usual side effects.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later it is revealed that Nightshade’s MGH contained a retrovirus that caused MGH users to create new proteins in the cells throughout their bodies. The proteins were engineered to respond to higher levels of Selenium. When exposed to elevated levels of Selenium, the new proteins created by the retrovirus caused a cascading necrosis effect. In other words, the bodies began to dissolve from the inside. This was discovered when Robitaille, with the help of several Purifier cells, tainted the water supply at Academy X with elevated levels of Selenium, causing several students and staff to be afflicted. Some afflicted students died. Were it not for the presence of healers at the school, many more would have died. At Academy M, the situation was much worse. 43 of 66 students died when their water supply was tainted. Robitaille and the Purifiers also tainted the water supplies of Los Angeles and San Francisco, leading to hundreds of deaths in those cities. Following these deaths, the movement to legalize MGH is ended.