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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Great point on the super human contingency giving Hydra the edge. The closest thing that Cobra has to a meta-human is Serpentor, and in reality, that's more because of his origin than anything resembling actual superhuman abilities. Unless you consider turning living snakes into poison tipped javelins a skill.

That really depends on how narrowly you define “meta-human.”



I’d argue that exceeding the normal limits of the human mind and body is actually a core element of Cobra’s philosophy, considering how often it’s come up over the last three decades. Cobra’s R&D has consistently demonstrated the ability to create enhanced humans of one kind of another, whether cyborgs with enhanced strength and reflexes (Star Vipers, Overkill), fearless, single-minded combat drones (Zombie Vipers) or human-animal chimaeras ranging from the monstrous, well, “Mega Monsters” as pictured above to the “Electric Eels,” who are basically what would happen if you put Shocker through Navy SEAL training. They’ve also apparently mastered the process of cloning and have access to an effective method of mind-imprint transference, which would theoretically allow any given Cobra operative to effectively be immortal given sufficient reason to keep cloning him or her in the event of death.