Marvel Database
Advertisement
Marvel Database

History

Herbert Wyndham claims to have become disgusted with the behavior of humans on Earth and believed that a greater genetic diversity heightened survival traits; He then left Earth to travel to Counter-Earth, where he created humanoid animalistic creatures only loyal to him, called beastials. Much of this is implied to be at least partially untrue, since prior to becoming the High Evolutionary he had a wife, children and a granddaughter.

Thirty years prior to the arrival of Spider-Man, Herbert was expelled from his family for carrying out genetic modification experiments on his granddaughter, Karen O'Malley. Becoming bitter and misanthropic, he rebranded himself as the High Evolutionary, engineered the bestials and Machine Men, and instigated a civil war that saw the beastials become the ruling social class; with the majority of humans being relegated to slums and ghettos, facing the oppression of speciesism and the threat of genocide. Herbert also created an elite squad of beastials called the Knights of Wundagore in order to act as his top enforcers.

New York City on Counter-Earth was divided vertically with humans living on the bottom and the beastials living at the top, miles above the city street slums. Herbert's plan was simple, to turn this planet into an earthly paradise, no matter what it took, that was until Spider-Man, along with the Symbiotes, arrived on the alternate planet to stop his diabolical plans.[1]

See Also

Links and References

References

Advertisement