Editing Transhuman (section)

== Transhumans in fiction ==
{{seealso|Transhumanism in fiction}}

Examples of transhuman entities in fiction exist within many popular [[video games]]. For example, the [[BioShock (series)|''Bioshock'' media franchise]] depicts individuals receiving doses of a substance called ADAM, harvested from a fictional type of [[sea slug]]s, able to give the user fantastical powers through [[Human genetic engineering|genetic engineering]]. Thus, previously standard humans can gain the ability to summon [[ice]], wield [[lightning]], turn [[Invisibility|invisible]], and commit other seeming miracles due to their enhancement.<ref name="Plasmids"/>

A 2014 article from ''[[Ars Technica]]'' speculated that mutating clumps of mobile genetic elements known as "[[Transposable element|transposons]]" could possibly be used as a [[Transposons as a genetic tool|semi-parasitic tool]] to raise people to a higher status in terms of their abilities, making at least part of the game's scenario theoretically plausible.<ref name="Plasmids">{{Cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/science-is-slowly-building-towards-real-life-bioshock-like-plasmids/|title=Science inches closer to real BioShock-style plasmids|date=12 February 2014}}</ref> Similar commentary later occurred from gamers with the advent of [[CRISPR gene editing]].

Transhumans also have played a major role in the [[Star Trek|''Star Trek'' media franchise]]. For example, in "[[Space Seed]]", the twenty-second episode of the [[Star Trek: The Original Series (season 1)|first season]] of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' that initially aired on February 16, 1967, a [[Charisma|charismatic]] and physically intimidating [[genius]] called [[Khan Noonien Singh]] attempts to take control of the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|''Enterprise'']] operated by the show's protagonists. The [[Selective breeding|selectively bred]] individual had advanced beyond simple human status and nearly succeeds. The [[Space vehicle|starship's]] crew opt to [[exile]] the leader and his league of similar beings to a [[Planetary habitability|habitable]] but isolated alien planet instead of assigning a true punishment per se, a ruling which he accepts without protest. Played by [[Ricardo Montalbán]], Khan returns in the 1982 film ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'', which broadly serves as a sequel to the episode. References to "Space Seed" appear in episodes of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', and the 2013 film ''[[Star Trek Into Darkness]]'' as well.