Wildebeest Society
The Wildebeest Society is a comic criminal organization that features in DC Comics.
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History
The Wildebeest Society
The Wildebeest came to encounter the Teen Titans and engaged them in battle. A robotic duplicate was used to fight them only to be destroyed by them. The Wildebeest Society dispatched another agent in a suit who fought the Titans where they thought their foe was another machine. However, they came to fatally injure the person seemingly killing a human being in the process. (New Teen Titans v2 #36) Starfire was then arrested by the authorities for the apparent murder of the scientist Jonathan Surrey. Nightwing and Raven decided to investigate the incident where Dick Grayson determined that Starfire had been framed. (New Teen Titans v2 #37)
Looking to acquire the unborn child of Brother Blood, another Wildebeest was sent to attack S.T.A.R. Labs. The operative was able to defeat Thunder and Lightning whereupon the managed to escape with Mother Mayhem. She was taken to a secure site where it was intended for her to give birth to the child. (New Teen Titans v2 #41)
After X-24 escaped, the Wildebeest Society looked to recover her and dissect her as she was the only successful mutation achieved by the science sector. As an anomaly, her recovery was a priority in order to find the secret of her survival of the transformation process. (New Titans v1 #74)
More recently, Project M unveiled a new Cyborg Wildebeest, created by Elias Orr and used in an effort to sanction the Titans member known as Victor Stone. (DC Special: Cyborg v1 #5)
Overview
Operatives were expected to follow orders and punishment was instilled on those that disobeyed orders. The army of Wildebeests were expected to show discipline and obey the orders of their leader. It was believed that the grunts of the society were only interested in battle. They were deemed just numbers who were not only expendable but also replaceable. (New Titans v1 #74)
One division within the organization was the science sector. They were capable of mutating human bodies giving them superhuman traits though there were initial issues regarding rejection. (New Titans v1 #74)
In some cases, agents were known to wear exosuits that resembled that of humanoid Wildbeests that provided them superhuman traits. (New Teen Titans v2 #36) It was noted that the suits provided the wearer greater agility than that of a human. (New Teen Titans v2 #37) They could deploy robotic duplicates that resembled humanoid wildebeests. These physically enhanced Wildebeest exosuits could be piloted remotely. Photo-sensors in the eyes could be used to prevent people from having direct eye contact with others. (New Teen Titans v2 #36) These operatives were ranked by number to serve as an identifier for each of them. (New Titans v1 #74)
Members
- Joseph Wilson :
- Vincent Ellis :
- Number 1 :
- Number 8 :
- Number 9 :
- Number 14 :
- X-24 :
- Baby Wildebeest :
Notes
- The Wildebeest Society was created by Marv Wolfman, Eduardo Barreto and Romeo Tanghal where they made their first appearance in New Teen Titans v2 #36 (October, 1987).
Appearances
- New Teen Titans v2: (1987)
- New Titans v1: (1992)
- DC Special: Cyborg v1:
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