Clifton Joseph was taken against his will as a young teen by a scientist named Oonagh Mullarkey who worked for Gena-Sys Corporation. Mullarkey discovered that Joseph had latent mutant abilities so she had him and four other teens with powers taken to her lab where she would wipe out their real memories. Mullarkey implanted false memories and personality matrixes into each teen and boosted their own powers and abilities by altering their genetic coding. Joseph would be given the codename Shift after he discovered the ability to move between dimensions to locate various types of weaponry and retrieve them from storage in his pocket portals. Shift and the other four teens would become the group Genetix where Mullarkey had plans to have them become operatives for the MyS-TECH organization.

Creation

Shift was created by Graham Marks, Andy Lanning and Phil Gascoine in 1993 and first appeared in Codename: Genetix # 1.

Powers & Abilities

Shift has the ability to move between dimensions to locate various types of weaponry and retrieve them from storage in his pocket portals. Shift can transport people and items by sliding through these dimensions. The weaponry he has retrieved from these dimensions vary from numerous types of guns, rifles and even suits of battle armor and gear.