Metamorphic Mutations Motivate Madness

Metahuman mutations can on occasion induce madness, due to the traumatic alteration of genetic coding on a molecular level. This was the case when Rex Mason was exposed by multiple industrialist Simon Stagg's Orbs of Ra and when Sandy Hawkins was exposed to industrialist Wesley Dodd's silicon gun.

When initially irradiated by the original orb, Rex retained his sanity due to a pain pill he ingested during his mutation. However, years later as he was nearing his wedding date to heiress Sapphire Stagg, her vengeful father Simon used several replica orbs constructed from the same meteor as the original to transform Mason into a golden mass of silicon. Rex’s counterpart Joe Morgan was consumed by the evil of the alien orb he merged with before regaining his humanity.

After the death experimental silicon gun exploded and irradiated Sandy Hawkins, he was transformed into a golden mass of silicon that turned insane and developed an evil persona. His counterpart Brion “Geo-Force” Marcov along with his Outsider teammates attempted to revive Mason through exposure from the original Ra meteor in Egypt. Once more transformed into his standard Metamorpho form, this time Rex succumbed to madness induced by an ancient pharoah who teleported Mason and his teammates to an ancient Egypt. 

Soon after their transformations, both Rex and Sandy trained their sanity, while their doppelgänger’s Joe and Brion would themselves succumb to vengeful attitudes due to the betrayal of Joe’s three protégées and the rape of Brion’s girlfriend, spurred on my their own mutations which affected their judgement. Thankfully, the Outsiders and All-Stars intervened and helped these two men to train their moral clarity once more.