Meta-human

## Meta-humans

**Meta-humans**, commonly shortened as **metas** and often referred to as **super-humans**, are individuals who acquired powers and abilities unlike those of normal humans after experiencing mutation of their bodies (in comparison to magic users, who learned how to harness primordial energies without being mutated themselves). On Earth-19, meta-humans are referred to as **meta-hominids**, while on Earth-27A (which exists in a separate multiverse from most other known worlds (known as a transmultiversal multiverse); with these two different multiverses each being parts of a megaverse), they are referred to as **hyperhumans**. On Earth-1, most obtained their powers after surviving an explosion caused by a malfunction of the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator on December 11, 2013, releasing a wave of dark matter throughout Central City and other surrounding areas. These people were exposed to the particles and dark matter that altered their genetic, chemical, or even atomic structure, giving them a variety of abilities. Their abilities seem to often relate to what energy or matter the future super-humans were in direct contact with at the time of exposure.

According to Clifford DeVoe, approximately 2,600 people became meta-humans the night of the accelerator explosion. Only certain people became metas as only a handful of people in Central City carried a unique and dormant "meta-gene" that allows the pituitary gland to process dark matter in order to manifest stable abilities. Team Flash later developed a cure for meta abilities that involves suppressing this gene to remove the meta's ability to process dark matter and the powers they gain from it, though they agreed to never use the cure on a meta-human against that individual's will.

On Earth-2, intending to prevent the negative effects of the particle accelerator, Dr. Harrison Wells of that universe allowed excess radiation to flow underground, with the first meta-human appearing eleven hours following.

On Earth-203, many meta-humans are implied to have been born with their powers, leaving the reason for them developing their abilities in the first place uncertain. However, some are known to be the offspring of meta-humans who had previously fought the Batman.

On Earth-TUD5, meta-humans, often referred to as **superhumans** or **Green Light Babies**, are individuals who acquired powers and abilities unlike those of normal humans after experiencing mutation of their bodies. Most obtain their powers from taking the drug Green Light, which is a manufactured vaccine. These people were exposed to the Green Light drug that can alter their genetic, chemical, or even atomic structure, giving them a variety of abilities. Many others have gained their powers naturally, by specific things that have happened.

Since the restored multiverse's Earth-Prime is a combination of the original multiverse's Earth-1, Earth-38 and Earth-TUD5, meta-humans from all three worlds exist there, along with various meta-human refugees from other miscellaneous Earths from the old multiverse.

1. ↑ "The New Rogues"
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4. ↑ "The Darkness and the Light"
5. ↑ "Prey for the Hunter"