U.N.I.T.Y.’s brain was grown in a dish using DNA samples from a “perfect assassin” that her parent government black research program bought from a mad scientist.

I leave it to you to figure out where the connections should be drawn.

Which actually makes it a little bit heartbreaking to read Skin Horse, since while Mell has a childlike enthusiasm for violence, she’s also demonstrably rather intelligent and has no trouble remaining focused and alert when she actually puts her mind to it. Unity on the other hand has trouble keeping a thought in her head for more than a few moments, and finds her brushes with sanity to be painfully uncomfortable.  It all feels very “River Tam” to me.

I’d be interested too to see some of the Narbonic cast’s reactions to Unity, if they ever meet her.  I can easily imagine Artie being horrified and Mell trying to kill her, but I can’t picture Helen and Dave’s responses at all — this sort of thing is rather par-the-course for Mad Science, after all.   

Which is only acceptable if Unity is part Mell..