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) The day after they were broken out of prison by Wildebeest and Puppeteer, Gizmo, Trident, and Disruptor are attacked by Cyborg, Changeling, and Danny Chase while on a jewel heist. They capture Gizmo while the other two escape. Raven and Jericho investigate a man named Leonard Sanders who claims to have worked with the Wildebeest, but Raven looks into his mind and discovers that he is lying. At the sound of an alert on their communicators, the team meets up to continue the chase of Trident and Disruptor, save for Changeling, who first takes Gizmo back to Titans Tower. Gizmo escapes the shackles Changeling locked him in, but when he calls the Wildebeest for help, he refuses unless Gizmo hacks the Tower to gain information about the Titans. The Titans capture Trident and Disruptor and bring them back to the Tower, where they realize Gizmo was nowhere to be found. The Titans call Dr. Charles and Dr. Ellis at S.T.A.R. Labs, where Gizmo appears on the screen and reveals that Dr. Ellis is the Wildebeest he was working for. Dr. Ellis shoots Gizmo and threatens to shoot Dr. Charles as well. Raven teleports the team to the lab, where they unsuccessfully try to subdue Dr. Ellis. Danny manages to place a tracer on him as he escapes and the team learns that Gizmo had a change of heart about his life of crime. The team rescues Mother Mayhem and later, she gives birth to a daughter. (New Teen Titans v2 #42)
The Wildebeest Society was taken over by Teen Titan member Jericho, who had been possessed by the evil in Raven's people. Under his leadership, it became involved in genetic engineering, trying to create the perfect host body for the force. They created a cat-woman named Pantha, and were in the process of creating a creature of the same form as their monstrous costumes when they were defeated by the Titans. Jericho's father Deathstroke was forced to kill his son to stop the Souls of Azarath.
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
In appearance, the Wildebeest Society was a specialized crime syndicate whose hidden leadership council, laboratory research teams, and elite foot soldiers consisted entirely of adult human humanoids, cybernetically augmented mercenaries, and artificial clones. They featured standard, athletic bipedal physical frameworks that perfectly mirrored baseline human skeletal biology, presenting four distinct limbs, ten fingers, and ten toes. The organization possessed varying individual hair structures, natural skin tones, and facial ages, with their senior scientists preserving ordinary physical statures while managing their high-tech medical containment vats. They expanded their visual identity by enforcing a rigid uniform standard designed to project absolute team cohesion, mask personal physical metrics, and instill immense psychological fear during field operations. Their garments consisted of form-fitting fabric combat jumpsuits finished in a stark matte-black color scheme, which they paired with heavy leather utility boots and thick combat gloves. Every individual operative universally wore an oversized, heavily detailed animalistic helmet shaped directly like a stylized, snarling wildebeest skull, and their tactical chest armor prominently displayed a bold, crimson-red insignia symbol mimicking a charging beast profile. (New Titans v1 #37)
Members of the Society were master thieves, elite marksmen, and advanced data scientists to execute highly sophisticated kidnappings, hack secure financial markets, and fortify sprawling underground industrial complexes against metahuman intrusions. They did not initially possess innate, organic supernatural magic or passive planetary atmospheric shields, relying instead on exceptionally high tactical intellect, vast private black-market financing, and a highly advanced stream of self-engineered bio-technology. Their specialized capabilities allowed separate employee units to navigate hidden urban underground tunnels, construct self-sustaining automated defense grids, and utilize high-grade ballistic firearms alongside customized exo-skeletal armor plates that artificially amplified a wearer's physical strength. Their primary capabilities allowed them to steer the course of municipal underworld wars from behind closed doors, maintain absolute informational blockades against the United States government, and field highly disciplined combat units capable of threatening high-tier costumed heroes. (New Titans v1 #37)
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)
The members of the Wildebeest Society are master tacticians and wear strength-boosting exoskeletons, resembling a monstrous, humanoid version of their namesakes. The New Wildebeests are wildebeest hybrids who possess enhanced strength, while the Cybernetic Wildebeest is cybernetically enhanced.
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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