Tim Rhodes (Earth-616)

Genus
Name	Tim Rhodes
Current Alias	Genus
Affiliation and Relationships
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Orange
Hair	Bald
Skin	Pink
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Mutant
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Cause of Death	Killed by police
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	Canadian
Base of Operations	Mobile
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Chip Zdarsky, Carlos Magno, Butch Guice
First	Invaders (Vol. 3) #4 (April, 2019)
First	Invaders (Vol. 3) #4 (April, 2019)
Death	Invaders (Vol. 3) #4 (April, 2019)
Death	Invaders (Vol. 3) #4 (April, 2019)

History

Tim Rhodes was a mutant who came to Stony Plain, Alberta claiming to only be looking to make new friends. His appearance and abilities forced the police to treat him as a threat. Coincidentally Charles Xavier and Namor happened to be in town following rumors of a possible mutant.

When Tim "made friends" with an officer, the others began to shoot at him; meanwhile, the officer struck by Tim's powers had had his DNA transumted into that of a human-animal hybrid. Charles prevented the RCMP from shooting at them as he conducted a psychic sweep of Tim's mind and found out that he was part of a government program which labeled him as subject Genus.

Tim had escaped from a facility and began transforming animals into people in hopes that they could help him. Xavier saw the transformation of the cop and realized that Tim could change the species of any living creature, meaning they could use Tim's gift to accelerate mankind's evolution into mutants; however, Namor saw that Tim's powers would be used by humans as a cure for mutation instead and forcibly attempted to convince Xavier of this.

Xavier lost control of one of the officers, who fired a shell from a shotgun into Tim's chest. As he lay dying in the streets he whispered to Namor that he was lonely.

Attributes

Powers

Genus unleashing his power

DNA Manipulation: Genus was a mutant with power to rewrite DNA of other beings down to changing them completely from one species to another, for example turning animals into humans. According to Charles Xavier and Namor, he should have been able to grant X-Gene to normal humans and turn them into mutants, or vice versa remove the X-Gene and turn mutants into humans, but Genus died before either of these theories was tested.

See Also

• 1 appearance(s) of Tim Rhodes (Earth-616)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Tim Rhodes (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) of Tim Rhodes (Earth-616)
• 2 image(s) of Tim Rhodes (Earth-616)