Warwolves
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| Warwolves | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Excalibur Special Edition #1 (1987) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont Alan Davis |
| Characteristics | |
| Notable members | Bowzer Ducks Jacko Popsie Scarper |
The Warwolves are fictional characters appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics, as part of the shared Marvel Universe. They were originally a group of extra-dimensional agents of Mojo as part of his Wildways. Mojo originally engineered the Warwolves as a pack of six lupine servants, artificially created through genetic engineering. The Warwolves have the power to drain the life essence of a victim, and wear the actual skin and clothing of the victim to masquerade as that person, altering their shape to resemble the prey perfectly.
The Warwolves first appeared on Earth when Phoenix escaped from captivity by Mojo, and came to Earth to recapture her. The Warwolves and the Technet fought over Rachel and during the fight, the original Ferro was killed. When Captain Britain, Meggan, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat helped Rachel defeat the Warwolves, they formed together as a team and called themselves Excalibur for the first time.
The Warwolves clashed with Excalibur many times, operating out of a den near the Hob's End underground transportation tunnel. Rachel killed Bowzer in one encounter and in another, an unnamed Warwolf was killed.
Later, in an attempt to defeat the Warwolves once and for all, Shadowcat actually became merged with Ducks in a similar manner the wolves take over humans. She eventually escaped from Ducks with the aid of her team.
The surviving Warwolves were interred in a transparent cage in the London Zoo, where they became a popular attraction despite their dangerous nature.
The wolves would briefly escape and kill people who resembled the X-Men in order to ambush Excalibur.
Later, when Roma perceived Franklin Richards to be a threat, not only to his home reality (Earth-616) but to all of reality; she dispatched the Warwolves, Gatecrasher and her Technet to kidnap him. When her plan was being opposed by the Fantastic Four and Alyssa Moy, who was babysitting Franklin at the time, Roma teleported them all to Otherworld to face the full fury of the entire Corps.
Recently the Warwolves reappeared when they escaped the zoo in order to get revenge on the new Excalibur team, but were beaten back and have gone into hiding.
