Feral (Marvel)

Feral is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Maria Callasantos was a female human Mutant who was the daughter of Mr. Callasantos and Marcella Callasantos where she had a sister named Lucia Callasantos, a brother named Matteo Callasantos and their youngest sibling was Carolina Callasantos. (X-Force v1 #40) After their youngest sister was born, their father ran away as having four kids with no job was too much for him. Their mother came to blame her children and in particular Carolina where she thought that they drove their father away. Maria was only six years old when she heard her mother's words and came to blame her younger siblings for their harsh family life. One day, her father was found dead with a needle in his arm with the Callasantos family learning this from the police. Later on, her mother got involved with a man named Harry Bellinger where he was a drug user and drunk who got Marcella Callasantos messed up on drugs. In this time, their mother would often get drunk and pass out on the couch. In that time, Harry would paw at both Maria and Lucia where he tried to have his way with them. One night, Lucia was 17 years old when she wanted to get out of the house but was followed by Harry who dragged her to an alley and force himself on her. Maria had followed them and in a rage attacked Harry where she killed them. This led to the sisters being forced to hide the body. Afterwards, their mother wanted to get back at Maria for getting rid of Harry which led to her killing her daughters pigeons. It was then that Maria in anger struck and killed her mother. Lucia attempted to over for her sister and helped her find the Morlocks so that she could escape from the authorities. (X-Force v1 #41)

X-Force

For a time, Feral served well in X-Force. But then the team attempted to rescue government official Henry Peter Gyrich from the terrorist Mutant Liberation Front, led by Reignfire. Feral hated Gyrich, who was no friend to mutants, and Reignfire persuaded her to join the Mutant Liberation Front and to kill Gyrich. When Feral attacked Gyrich, X-Force's leader Cable shot her with a non-lethal charge, but then Reignfire abducted her. (X-Force v1 #28)

Feral emerged from hiding when the New York City police captured Thornn. Feral confronted Thornn and X-Force member Cannonball. Thornn revealed that she had seen Feral kill Harry Bellinger, and Cannonball provoked Feral into admitting that she had murdered her mother. Cannonball overpowered Feral, and an old friend of Lucia's, Police Detective Jose Hidalgo, arrested her for killing three members of her family and Bellinger. Thornn went free and Feral was sentenced for murder. (X-Force v1 #41) During her jail time, Feral discovered she was infected with the Legacy Virus. (X-Force v1 #90)

M-Day

Through unknown means, Feral and her sister regained their feline looks with these being restored by Romulus. (Wolverine v3 #55) Their memories however, began to slowly come back when Wolverine appeared. He was surprised to see their visages but gladly accepted the additional power that their mutant forms carried, should they wish to continue. Feral chose to proceed, ecstatic in the chance to use her powers again. Now that Wolverine had finally found and secured the sisters he could continue his search for Sabretooth. The two continued to search the facility they were in. With so many hallways and doors they inadvertently got separated. While alone, Feral stumbled upon Sabretooth who was was very different and even more animalistic compared to him normally. Confident in her skills, she willingly confronted him and fought against him. In such close quarters and Sabretooth in his apparently mindless state, she found the truth about her powers far too late. Sabretooth killed her as Wolverine had just arrived at the scene to see Feral's death. (Wolverine v3 #54)

Despite her death, Feral was resurrected and repowered by means of the Transmode Virus to serve as part of Selene's army of deceased mutants. Under the control of Selene and Eli Bard, she took part in the assault on the mutant nation of Utopia and was seen attacking X-23 and Dr. James Bradley. Similar to most of the resurrected Mutants, she came to die once again after Selene was killed. (X-Force v3 #21) Later as Shatterstar and Wolfsbane defeated a demon calling itself a Sin-Eater at a local church, the two are about to leave when they encounter Feral waiting outside the church. (X-Factor v1 #220)

Overview

Personality and attributes

She said that she always looked to finding a means of surviving. (X-Force v1 #41)

When she was young, she had a pigeon coop where she looked after the birds as they were all she ever had and needed in her life. Those birds were the only thing that she believed needed her (X-Force v1 #41)

Notes

• Feral was created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza where she made her first appearance in New Mutants v1 #99 (March, 1991).

Alternate Versions

• In X-Men: Age of Apocalypse v1 #2 (2005), an alternate version of Feral appeared in the Age of Apocalypse reality set on Earth-295 in the Multiverse.
• In House of M: Avengers v1 #2 (2007), an alternate version of Feral appeared in the House of M reality set on Earth-58163 in the Multiverse.

In other media

Television

• In X-Men, Feral made a cameo appearance in the setting of the 1990 animated television series. In the "Slave Island" episode, she is among the mutants enslaved on Genosha. In the "Graduation Day," episode she was with Sunfire and some unnamed mutants when they watched Henry Peter Gyrich's attack on Professor X. The two of them talked about this incident. She was also with Sunfire when he and the other mutants on Genosha wanted Magneto to lead them against the humans.

Appearances

• New Mutants v1: (1991)
• X-Force v1:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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