4. The Bourne Legacy Superman Drugs
The Technology The Bourne Legacy was a pretty competent way to carry on the Bourne franchise, this time focusing on Aaron Cross, an Outcome agent from a programme similar to Blackbriar, except with a lot of performance-enhancing drugs. While most drugs would only see fractional gains in performance, the ones given to the agents on the program were absolutely mind-blowing, giving them superhuman reflexes and data processing skills enabling them to jump out of trees and crack codes with unnatural aplomb. However, thanks to embarrassing footage of Treadstone and Outcome personnel together, Edward Norton orders the Outcome operation terminated.
What They Should Have Used It For These drugs seem to represent the apex of human regeneration, with each coloured pill able to regenerate the brain and the body with ease why the hell arent they making these things public? They appear to work, and judging by the amount of Outcome agents they work over time and in a variety of people. So why doesnt anyone decide to not junk the part of the project which allows people to possibly recover from conditions such as Huntingtons, Alzheimers and Parkinsons Disease? Granted, we see that there were plans afoot to introduce the mind pills to treat Alzheimers, but Norton appears to be ready to scrap the whole project over embarrassing photos for a completely different super-soldier project. What hes effectively doing is dooming millions of people for the sake of embarrassment, and one that can be easily avoided with a cover story. What makes it worse is that with a little deduction, you can make the effects permanent quite easily Weiszs scientist, who has plenty of other geneticists trained to her level, is able to inoculate Aaron Cross pretty easily in the primitive conditions of a Filipino flophouse. So really, Nortons attempting to destroy an easily-implementable panacea for most of the worlds incurable illnesses for no reason at all. Good one, man.