Biotech Unbound

Maybe being yourself used to be good enough for you—but how many years ago was that? As Detroit gets ever more high-tech, do you feel more low-down? Are you more tired than you used to be? Older than you used to be? Less proud of what you see in the mirror than you used to be? Afraid you're going to get passed by in life as the rest of the world favors someone newer or younger... or worse, favors someone who isn't even "someone" because they're a rotten inhuman Sumdac machine out to steal your job?! If any of these symptoms sound familiar, talk to your doctor about the unique biotechnology upgrades available through Biotech Unbound.

Side effects? What side effects?

Fiction

Animated cartoon

Biotech Unbound was started by Prometheus Black to appeal to citizens who felt threatened by Sumdac Systems' omnipresent robotics fleet. Black had developed a treatment regime consisting of cybernetic implants and steroid injections that would restore strength and vitality to weak or aged humans. At least some of this biotech expertise was gained by experimenting on prison inmates. Black successfully bio-upgraded a frail elderly man into the hulking Colossus Rhodes, but when Rhodes then went on a destructive rampage, public confidence in Biotech Unbound plummeted, and Black's chief financier—Sumdac Systems' own Porter C. Powell, playing both sides of the fence—pulled out. The business was ruined... and after Black transformed himself into the acid-spewing supervillain Meltdown and was arrested, all Biotech assets went under lock and key as well. Total Meltdown

Powell had retained possession of some of Biotech Unbound's remaining laboratories and equipment. When Optimus Prime and Grimlock were ordered by Blackarachnia to fetch Meltdown's genetic modifier from his old lab or watch their friends die, the Autobots attempted to retrieve the device but at first were opposed by Powell. He had hoped to continue to profit from Black's experiments, but Grimlock convinced him he should first really hope to stay alive—and soon the Autobots were on their way with the last piece of Biotech Unbound machinery known to have existed. Shortly thereafter, it was accidentally destroyed by Meltdown himself. Black Friday

Notes

• In "Black Friday", the Biotech Unbound lab appears to actually have been inside Sumdac Tower all along. As absent-minded as Isaac Sumdac occasionally showed himself to be, this is still hard to believe; more plausible is that the lab had originally been somewhere else and that Powell rebuilt it after taking possession of what was left.
• "Prometheus Unbound"?