Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4913740-20130628164607/@comment-1672596-20140805133643

Misterbunnsy wrote: Perhaps it could be that they are deformed as a result of the gene therapy? Hence that would be what they look like without their faces covered, and thus the soldiers we see in TPP are some early experiment that leads to them?

inb4 anybody suggests that this is wrong because Johnny looks normal; it's never confirmed whether he was an actual Genome soldier. From how he flits about from group to group, it's likely he joined up inexplicably at some point or another without anybody realising he wasn't the same as them. Yeah, and given that the Genome project is strongly implied via cutscenes to involve hyperdermic shots to manipulate genes, it's extremely unlikely he was one given his being afraid of needles.