Warwolves

The Warwolves are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Warwolves
A Warwolf from Excalibur (vol. 1) #2. Art by Alan Davis.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Excalibur Special Edition (April 1988)
Created by	Chris Claremont Alan Davis
Characteristics
Notable members	Bowzer Ducks Jacko Popsie Scarper

Fictional character biography

The Warwolves are a group of extra-dimensional agents of Mojo as part of his Wildways, originating from Mojoworld in the Mojoverse. Mojo originally engineered the Warwolves as a pack of humanoid canines, artificially created through genetic engineering by Mojo's scientists.

The Warwolves (Bowzer, Ducks, Jacko, Popsie, and Scarper) first appear on Earth when Phoenix escapes from captivity by Mojo, and Mojo sends the Warwolves to London to recapture her. The Warwolves, Nightcrawler, and Gatecrasher's Technet battle over Rachel. When Captain Britain, Meggan, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat help Rachel defeat the Warwolves, they come together as the team Excalibur. The Warwolves clash with Excalibur many times, operating out of a den near the tunnel Hob's End. Rachel killed Bowzer in one encounter and in another, an unnamed Warwolf was killed.^[1]

Later, the remaining Warwolves on Earth abduct Shadowcat. In an attempt to defeat the Warwolves once and for all, Shadowcat uses her phasing power to fuse with and control Ducks; she eventually escapes from Ducks with the aid of her team. The Warwolves are defeated and interred in the London Zoo, where they become a popular attraction despite their dangerous nature.^[2]

The Warwolves briefly escape when the two allegedly "dead" Warwolves return and team with the four captives, and kill people who resemble the X-Men to impersonate the X-Men and ambush Excalibur. They capture Rachel Summers, but are forced through an inter-dimensional portal by Excalibur, who rescues Summers.^[3]

Later, when Roma perceives Franklin Richards to be a threat to the multiverse, she dispatches the Warwolves, Gatecrasher, and her Technet to kidnap him. Roma teleports the Fantastic Four and Franklin's babysitter Alyssa Moy to Otherworld when they oppose her plan.^[4] The Warwolves escape the zoo to get revenge on the new Excalibur team, but are defeated and go into hiding.^[5]

Years later, the Warwolves appear in the employ of the interdimensional slave trader Tullamore Voge. When Nightcrawler and Bloody Bess invade Voge's child slave market to rescue the X-Men students Ziggy Karst and Scorpion Boy, Voge sends the Warwolves after them. They nearly kill Bess, but are defeated by Nightcrawler.^[6]

In Excalibur (vol. 4), Cullen Bloodstone buys the Warwolves from the zoo and enlists the members of Excalibur to help kill them.^[7][8][9] The group successfully kills the Warwolves, but Captain Britain discovers that one of the Warwolves had a young pup, which she gives to Rachel Summers as a pet.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

Powers and abilities

The Warwolves are humanoid canines who possess powerful claws and enhanced agility and senses. Additionally, they are resistant to psychic attacks and can drain life energy via their tongues.^[12] This destroys the victim's skeleton and internal organs, leaving behind an intact skin which the Warwolf can then wear to impersonate them.