Warwolves

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The Warwolves are a group that feature in Marvel Comics.

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History

The Warwolves were aa otherdimensional predator species that hailed from the Mojoverse. Originally, they a race that were elevated through genetic engineering into their current hybrid form. (Excalibur v4 #7)

Mojo came to capture the X-Man Rachel Summers who was the host of the Phoenix Force and rendered amnesiac. In some manner, Phoenix managed to escape back to Earth through an interdimensional portal, arriving in London, England. This saw Mojo dispatching the Warwolves with the task of recovering her for him. Despite their numbers, she was able to evade them allowing her to rendezvous with Shadowcat and Nightcrawler, as well as Captain Britain and Meggan who joined forces with Phoenix to battle the Warwolves. The Warwolves came to track her down only to end up facing Technet as well who were in the process of capturing Rachel Summers on behalf of their employer. This led to a three way battle against them and Excalibur for the Phoenix but both rival factions were forced to retreat following their defeats. The Warwolves decided to escape in order to recover from their injuries and mourn the loss of two of their members. (Excalibur Special Edition v1 #1)

In the meantime, Rachel and her allies had formed the superhero team Excalibur, making it harder for the warwolves to get to her. Switching tactics, the warwolves murdered a group of people and stole their skins, allowing them to walk around as humans, undetected. Using their disguises to get close to Rachel, they ambushed the woman but also ended up dealing with her teammate, Shadowcat. Unable to tell the two apart, the warwolves kidnapped both women, but had to let Rachel go when they were attacked by Excalibur. Taking Shadowcat back to their base in the sewers, they began to argue over which one of them would get to kill her and wear her skin. In the end, it was the warwolf Ducks who won, draining Shadowcat’s life force. When he went to wear her skin, he could not find it but was soon shocked when he started to turn into her instead. Meanwhile, one of the other warwolves had captured Nightcrawler and brought him back to their base, inadvertently leading the rest of Excalibur to them. A fight broke out and the warwolves were soundly beaten. As Excalibur debated whether to kill them or not, Shadowcat suddenly erupted out of Ducks’ mouth, having been saved from death by her phasing power. Not wanting to kill the sentient creatures, Shadowcat convinced the rest of Excalibur to send them to the London Zoo, as a brand-new exhibit. (Excalibur v1 #2)

The warwolves spent many months imprisoned there, whilst tourists stared at the strange creatures before them. Shadowcat would often visit them, taking time to taunt them for their failures. (Excalibur v1 #22) Another group of warwolves was soon sent to capture Rachel and they met up with Bowser, who had been seemingly killed during their first encounter with Excalibur. Still determined to send Rachel back to the Mojoverse, they acquired duplicate skins of some X-Men members and wore them to get close to her. The plan worked and they managed to get the drop on Excalibur and capture Rachel. As they began to open a portal back home, they were knocked into it, becoming stuck between the dimensions. They were forced to abandon their mission on Earth and head back to Mojoworld, for fear of being killed in the portal. (Excalibur v1 #41)

The slavelord Tullamore Voge hired the Warwolves to track down the young X-Men leading to confrontation with Nightcrawler and Bloody Bess. (Nightcrawler v4 #11)

Within the London Zoo, attempts were made to appeal to the humanoid nature of these creatures with this leading to a decline in their supernatural faculties. Difficulties in caring for the beasts led to them being relocated from the zoo with some even being sold to Cullen Bloodstone. He saw the creatures as an invasive species and his duty as a monster hunter meant that he intended to eliminate them. At this point, Apocalypse who was part of the Quiet Council of the Mutant nation of Krakoa had need of the Warwolves bodies for use in a magical ritual. To that end, Captain Britain Betsy Braddock and her team of X-Men attempted to recover the creatures from the London Zoo only to learn of the sale. Thus, they approached Bloodstone who stated that the two sides would have to compete to kill the beasts with the winner gaining the remains. Thus, the X-Men and Cullen took part in a hunt at the Bloodstone estate with the Warwolves battling both hunting groups. (Excalibur v4 #7)

Overview

In appearance, the creatures had varying contrasting physical traits such as a vaguely lupine form with the hindquarters of a wolf but the forequarters of a humanoid and a avian styled head with a beak. They had solid pupil free eyes that ranged from red to silver and a silvery metallic skin. Their front limbs were capable of being used either as hands or as legs. They ranged from walking as bipeds to utilizing all four limbs for quadrapedal movement with their limbs holding sharp talons that were able to deal considerable damage to their prey. (Excalibur Special Edition v1 #1) These constructs were genetically engineered for superhuman agility and stamina that allowed them to be very strong as well as considerably fast along with a remarkable leaping ability. Another trait of these creatures was their capacity to track their prey's scent similar to canines on Earth.

Warwolves were also immune to direct attacks using psionic energy such as telekinesis. which added to their effectiveness as ruthless hunters. (Excalibur Special Edition v1 #1)

Beyond the physical traits, they had the power to drain an individual's life force by using their bird-like tongues that can eventually leave their prey as an empty shell. This caused their victim's skeleton and internal organs to discorporate which left an intact skin behind. A more sinister trait was the capacity to steal the skin of their victim and wearing it as if it were a suit which was used to better blend with their surroundings. They were able to alter their shape in order to better don the skins in order to resemble their prey perfectly and even able to mimic the voices of their victims or other persons. Multiple Warwolves were also able to combine into a larger six headed form that had the ability to open portals back to their native dimension. When merging together psionically, they were able to retain their individual heads and psyches.

Despite their animalistic appearance, the Warwolves were in fact sentient intelligent beings with a well developed sense of social interaction. They were fully capable of speech, engaging in elaborate plotting and independent thought where they showed a strong sense of humor along with a fondness of televised entertainment.

It was shown that they mourned a fallen member of their kind by howling into the air. (Excalibur Special Edition v1 #1)

Their flesh was noted to be a potentially powerful conduit of mystical power. (Excalibur v4 #7)

Members

  • Bowzer :
  • Ducks :
  • Jacko :
  • Popsie :
  • Scarper :

Notes

  • The Warwolves were created by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis where they made their first appearance in Excalibur Special Edition v1 #1 (April 1988).

In other media

The Warwolves hunting for Longshot.

Television

  • In X-Men, the Warwolves appeared in the animated television series where they were shown in the episode "Longshot". They were summoned to Earth by Gog during the hunt for the amnesiac fugitive leader Longshot after he encountered Jubilee and fled with her. The six creatures hunted the pair where they were cornered in an alley but saved by the timely arrival of Wolverine who helped defeat them. This resistance led to Gog and Spiral deciding to flee back to Mojo World through a portal with the Warwolves following them back to their home dimension. They were shown to hold a malleable skin that were able to reshape their skin after smashing into objects where they reverted into a liquid state whilst their forms changed back to their standard bodies.

Appearances

  • Excalibur Special Addition v1: (1987)
  • Nightcrawler:
  • Excalibur v4:

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