White Wolf (Marvel)
Hunter the White Wolf is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Hunter was a male human whose parents were on a plane travelling by the African nation of Mohanda when it crashed. The boy turned out to the only survivor where the ship was found by the Wakandan King T'Chaka who decided to adopt the boy. (Rise of the Black Panther v1 #4) In time, he eventually came to head the Hatut Zeraze where he served his adoptive father the king and engaged in many covert actions where the ends justified the means. (Black Panther v3 #4) When Prince T'Challa was young, he witnessed his older brother Hunter being dispatched by King T'Chaka on various assignments outside Wakanda that were part of efforts in protecting the realm. He conducted actions and spent resources that he believed were sanctioned to allow to keep Wakanda hidden from the world. (Rise of the Black Panther v1 #5)
Being a white foreigner, Hunter was viewed with suspicion and even contempt by the cautious Wakandans. Despite this, he developed a true love for Wakanda as one of his adopted homeland's staunchest patriots. Hunter knew he would never ascend to the throne with T'Challa as the true heir and, feeling cheated, developed a deep jealousy for T'Challa. He drove himself to be the best Wakandan possible in an attempt to upstage his adopted brother. It was this fervor that led to the previous Black Panther appointing Hunter as leader of the Hatut Zeraze (the secret police of Wakanda) where he became known as the White Wolf. (Black Panther v3 #9)
Hunter observed the recently returned N'Jadaka when T'Challa accepted the man back into Wakanda. He was impressed to had seen N'Jadaka to had seen through his suits distortion field that was keeping him invisible. The White Wolf questioned N'Jadaka and showed an interest in recruiting the man into the Hatut Zeraze. (Rise of the Black Panther v1 #4) When the Hyena Clan, led by their estranged half-brother Jakarra, began to conspire with Doctor Doom against Wakanda, T'Challa quickly pointed the blame on Hunter. Hunter and the Hatut Zeraze, however, gave T'Challa their full support against the Hyenas, and then against N'Jadaka when he initiated his first attack on the nation. (Rise of the Black Panther v1 #5)
Afterwards, he began to freelance for a number of years yet always kept an eye on Wakanda. (Black Panther v3 #4)
He later became an ally of sorts to T'Challa's temporary replacement Kasper Cole. (Black Panther v3 #50)
After T'Challa destroyed the Vibranium mines and abdicated the Wakandan Throne, he came to be the protector of Hell's Kitchen in order to help local vigilante Daredevil. Hunter began killing women there in order to draw T'Challa out. After T'Challa and the NYPD set a trap for Hunter, the two battled each other with Hunter intending to kill T'Challa and finally become the Black Panther. T'Challa defeated him, telling Hunter that he was rejected by Wakanda and the nation had no place for a murderer like him. (Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive! v1 #523.1)
He led the Wakandan Secret Police to America after a Wakandan diplomatic courier was murdered when he was carrying plans for a climate shield system. This led to him abducting Everett Ross as he believed he was involved in the matter. The interrogation was interrupted by Nakia who used the Jufeiro extract to get several of the Hatut Zeraze under her control whilst she escaped with Ross. (Black Panther Annual v2 #1)
White Wolf reappeared to fight alongside the Hatut Zeraze in battle against Cotati. (Empyre: Avengers v1 #2)
Later on, Hunter began to take an interest on the new Captain America Sam Wilson and intended to use him in a plot against Wakanda. (Captain America v10 #0) Around this time, a Wakanda Forever movement formed in the U.S. that looked to have the African-American population in the country migrate to Wakanda. By this point, Hunter had tracked down the supervillain Crossbones to the Cumberland Federal Correctional Facility. Breaking into the prison, he went about helping Crossbones escape in exchange for his help in overthrowing the Wakandan government. (Captain America: Symbol of Truth v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He went by the name of Hunter but also came to be known as the White Wolf. (Black Panther v3 #4)
It was said that one never knew which side Hunter was on. (Black Panther Annual v2 #1)
Hunter had said that he always kept an eye back on his home. He considered himself and the Hatut Zeraze to the loyalists to the throne of Wakanda. (Black Panther v3 #4)
Powers and abilities
Such was his skill that he considered himself greater than the warriors of the Hatut Zeraze. (Black Panther v3 #4)
He began to use his talents in business ventures which he used to hunt for money and also expanded his operations to pharmaceuticals. (Captain America: Symbol of Truth v1 #1)
Hunter possessed a white body suit costume similar to the habit of the Black Panther. (Black Panther v3 #4)
White Wolf served as the leader of the Hatut Zeraze' (Dogs of War) who had served as the secret police of Wakanda. (Black Panther v3 #4)
Notes
- Hunter the White Wolf was created by Christopher Priest and Mark Texeira where he made his first appearance in Black Panther v3 #4 (February, 1999).
- Christopher Priest noted in an interview that, "We needed a doppelganger. A Reverse Flash. We needed a mirror image of Panther. A man who is, himself, completely enigmatic, and whose powers of reason and deduction rivaled (if not surpassed) Panther's own. The White Wolf was, obviously, his name, but I stumbled around looking for a hook for this guy until I saw Clint Eastwood's film Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil. Of the many, many wacked-out characters in that very odd film, there was Kevin Spacey, playing a kind of southern gentleman with a raft of secrets. I called Joe and said, "That's the guy. That's the white wolf— he's, literally, a white guy. He's Kevin Spacey. Joe's original sketches for the Wolf were brilliant. I taped that face up on my computer monitor, and constructed the character (a child orphaned in a plane crash and adopted by King T'Chaka, Panther's father) from the visual. The Hatut Zeraze ("Dogs of War" ) were based loosely on the Ton Ton Macutes, the dreaded Haitian secret police."
- In an interview on Newsarama, writer Christopher Priest stated that the character was modelled on Kevin Spacey as his Southern Gentleman from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or a more modern example being the actor's character in House of Cards. He commented that, "The White Wolf was (also obviously) the Black Panther’s 'Reverse Flash.' It seemed an obvious opportunity. My approach to Panther was always to have him defined by those around him (as opposed to Panther talking about himself)."
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Avengers Assemble, Hunter the White Wolf appeared in the animated television series Black Panther's Quest season starting from the episode "The Panther and the Wolf" where he was voiced by actor Scott Porter. He was shown as being the white adoptive younger brother of T'Challa who was raised by the King alongside his existing children. From childhood, he lived alongside T'Challa and Shuri with them trained by their mentor N'Jadaka where they had much fun together though as Hunter grew older he came to resent his adoptive brothers perfect nature. By adulthood, he had left the royal palace and operated as a professional thief leading to him becoming a criminal who was on the run. This became a source of animosity between him and T'Challa though his adoptive sister Shuri still cared for Hunter with her wanting him to return back to their lives. N'Jadaka upon being revealed as a member of the Shadow Council attempted to recruit Hunter but he instead stole their files about their members in Wakanda which he ultimately gave to T'Challa where he was offered a return to the royal palace.
Films
- In Black Panther, the character of Hunter did not appear in the live-action film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe but his moniker of White Wolf was given to Bucky Barnes who was shown in the post-credit scenes as having been recovering in Wakanda with the natives giving him that name,
Appearances
- Black Panther v3: (1999)
- Astonishing Tales: Dominic Fortune v1:
- Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive! v1:
- Rise of the Black Panther v1:
- Captain America v10:
- Captain America: Symbol of Truth v1:
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