Damocles Foundation

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The Damocles Foundation is a fictional organization in the Marvel Comics universe. It first appeared in X-Force #79 in 1998, and was created by John Francis Moore, Adam Pollina, Mark Morales and Rob Stull.

The Damocles Foundation was an organization of Eternals, Deviants and humans who were tired of the constant battles between the various offshoots of Homo Sapiens. When the atom bomb was invented, a number of Deviants and Eternals felt that their wars had become too dangerous, and chose to separate from their peoples and unite with human scientists to find a better way.

Unfortunately, their "better way" consisted of trying to create a race of super-beings which could control the Earth, and thus put an end to all warfare. They performed genetic experiments using human mutants, and also had agents infiltrate organizations such as S.H.I.E.L.D. and Operation: Zero Tolerance to keep tabs on existing superhumans. Their experiments produced an entire generation of super-powered mutant children in the small town of Almost Reno, Nevada, but the children proved genetically unstable and all but one perished at a young age.

The Damocles foundation takes its name from Damocles, who had a sword supended over his head by a thread. This name symbolized the danger the group felt their races' actions had created.