The Everyman Project was a project initiated by Lex Luthor. Its goal was to grant super-powers to non-metahumans. The first recipients of the treatment became the members of the Luthor's own super-hero team, the new Infinity, Inc.. John Henry Irons was granted powers through the process against his wishes. Luthor also had the ability to strip the powers away from those he had granted them to. Some time after the dissolution of the Everyman Project, the former members of Luthor's Infinity Inc developed bizarre powers stemming from their original Everyman Project powers.