Timber Wolf (DC)

Timber Wolf is a male extraterrestrial comic character who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Pre-Crisis

Brin Londo was a male extraterrestrial humanoid who was born the son of the scientist Dr. Mar Londo. (Adventure Comics v1 #327)

Brainiac 5 discovers that Brin's "condition" was the eventual result of his father's scientific machinations which has deteriorated Brin to the point of a fatal malignancy. Brin decides to wait out the remainder of his life with a small group of Legion friends that he feels are "family". Gemini magically appears and because of her deep friendship with Brin, tries to cure him, by transporting him back to the time before he was experimented on with Zuunium, but accidentally shifts the two of them back to late 20th century Earth which metamorphosizes Brin into a new different hybrid creature somewhere between his original self and the Furball beast. (Legion of Super-Heroes Annual v4 #3)

Arriving on Zuun, he set up a laboratory and created an army of androids to help him harvest the native Zuunium which was the rarest element in the universe. It existed only in the core of the cavernous world where he intended to use it to make a machine that could give humans superpowers. The androids came to recover some of the mineral in conditions that were inhospitable to humans. Once recovered, he decided to expose his son Brin to a Zuundium ray device that gave him powers. (Adventure Comics v1 #327)

Brainiac 5 came to discover' that Brin's 'condition' was the eventual result of his father's scientific machinations which has deteriorated Brin to the point of a fatal malignancy. Brin decides to wait out the remainder of his life with a small group of Legion friends that he feels are 'family'. Gemini magically appears and because of her deep friendship with Brin, tries to cure him, by transporting him back to the time before he was experimented on with Zuunium, but accidentally shifts the two of them back to late 20th century Earth which metamorphosizes Brin into a new different hybrid creature somewhere between his original self and the Furball beast. (Legion of Super-Heroes Annual v4 #3)

Reboot

Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Overview

Personality and attributes

At one point, he suffered from amnesia and made to believe that his name was Karth Arn and after gaining powers he went by the name of Lone Wolf. (Adventure Comics v1 #327)

Powers and abilities

He was imparted powers by his father Dr. Mar Londo who used a Zuunium ray device giving him partial superpowers. (Adventure Comics v1 #327)

Notes

• Timber Wolf was created by Edmond Hamilton and John Forte where he made his first appearance in Adventure Comics v1 #327 (December, 1964).
• In Interlac (1976), Jim Shooter wrote, "Second to Ultra Boy as the Legion's leading fruitcake. He is probably as neurotic as is Ultra Boy, but exclusively about his own identity. He covers his interior uncertainty with coldness and hostility. Fortunately, Light Lass is enough of a romantic to be turned on by this aloof stance. Ultra Boy thinks he knows himself while Wolf knows he doesn't. This alone makes Wolf a more palatable personality, He is the type who will make wisecracks and noise to hide his inward uncertainty. He wants their approval and acceptance. Actually, being a goody-goody Legionnaire is hard for him, because he is more of the James Bond type, just a little visious and nasty even though he's with the good guys. I think Light Lass had to lead him by the hand to bed, but thanks to her, he undoubtedly does well there now."

In other media

Television

• In Justice League Unlimited, Timber Wolf made a cameo non-voiced appearance in the animated television series set in the DC Animated Universe in the episode "Far From Home."
• In the Legion of Super-Heroes, Timber Wolf appeared in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Shawn Harrison. Brin Londo's father Dr. Mar Londo was conducting experiments in the jungles of the planet Rawl. It was revealed he had experimented on his son until he became a werewolf-like creature. Thanks to Saturn Girl, Brin managed to regain his personality in a form much closer to human. He joined the legion afterwards, but worries that he may not control the animal within him. In "Phantoms", he helps fight off Drax's pets, which annoys Phantom Girl, who doesn't like to be helped. Timber Wolf goes with Phantom Girl in the sewers to search for one of Drax's pets and Phantom Girl tells him that she can handle her own, to which he responds that he wishes she would stop acting like a princess. Timber Wolf has feelings for Phantom Girl. In "Brain Drain", several Legionnaires must travel to a planet called Zuun to collect a rare element (zuunium) that will restore Brainiac 5's failing mind. Timber Wolf says this is his homeworld and is made mission leader. It is not clear when he and his father moved to Rawl. Zuunium poisoning, Timber Wolf says, causes mutations, although the miners effected are witless, shambling zombies, instead of his own feral form.

Appearances

• Adventure Comics v1: (1964)
• Legion of Super-Heroes v1:
• Legion of Super-Heroes Annual v4: (1992)

External Links

• DC Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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