Okay Dr. Bolton, unless you discovered dolphins had genes that can cure diabetes or something, just what reason did you have for splicing humans and sea life unless you planned to become a supervillain yourself?
Actually in the second season finale it was revealed that Bolton had been helping a race of subterranean reptilian creatures by healing their genetic damage. So it's possible that Bolton had a more Boring, but Practical application in mind for the Gene Slammer.
Dr. Paradigm showed in one case that it's possible and relatively easy to gene-slam a person without turning them into the brightly colored freaks we normally see. He turned a barely functional old man into a human tank that looked half his age with one simple treatment. Presumably, Dr. Bolton's original goal was a toned down variation of this as a medical procedure for public use in situations that traditional medical science could never treat.
One episode had the characters Brought Down to Normal, only to learn it was a plan to make them no longer super-powered and thus unable to foil Paradigm's schemes. At the end of the episode, they decided the best thing to do was turn back into shark mutants. Fair enough, but why didn't they bother trying to replicate some of the cure? At the very least, it would have been useful in combating the evil mutants (most of which would turn into harmless sea life if un-mutated).
Wouldn't be much of a story if they could permanently revert their enemies' mutations and turn them back into sea creatures. (Besides, Killamari wanted to be a full human, and Paradigm says it would only turn him back into a squid.)
