Wolfsbane (comics)

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Template:Superherobox Wolfsbane is the codename of Rahne Sinclair, a fictional character who is a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She is a mutant with the superhuman ability to transform into a wolf or a hybrid wolf/human form.

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History

Wolfsbane first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants. Rahne (pronounced "Rain") is a Scottish citizen who was a ward of Moira MacTaggert. She was recruited by Professor X to join the original New Mutants and remained with that team for much of its existence. During the "X-Tinction Agenda" storyline in Genosha, Rahne was mentally bonded to Havok and was subsequently manipulated by the Shadow King; this led to her joining X-Factor. Some time after her mental damage from the Genoshan bonding process was undone, she returned to MacTaggert's base on Muir Island and joined Excalibur.

Rahne later became a teaching assistant at the Xavier Institute while working part-time for Jamie Madrox's detective agency, X-Factor Investigations. For a time, she was in a secret relationship with Elixir. When she ended that relationship, the conversation was overheard by Wither, and he later released the information to the whole school, in an attempt to end Elixir's budding relationship with Wallflower. In the wake of this, Wolfsbane resigned from the school, and her formerly close friendship with Dani Moonstar, Elixir's adoptive mother, has become strained.

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Powers

Wolfsbane has the power of lycanthropy. She can change into a humanoid lupine form resembling a werewolf, or become an actual red wolf. In either form, Wolfsbane has enhanced senses of hearing, sight, and smell, animal-like strength, agility, and reflexes, razor-sharp talons and fangs, and bestial instincts. However, her powers are unaffected by the moon, unlike most lycanthropes.

Dani Moonstar has a telepathic talent that allows her to communicate with animals, which allowed her to communicate with Wolfsbane, when she was in her wolf-form.

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Other versions of Wolfsbane

  • An alternate reality version of Rahne, named Princess Rain, appeared prominently in the 1991 graphic novel Wolverine: Rahne of Terra (a pun on the phrase "Reign of Terror"). Wolfsbane was transported to the magic-based world of Gesham by the "Mage" (Cable's counterpart) in exchange for the Princess Rain, her own counterpart, and brainwashed to make her believe herself to be Rain, in an attempt to save the Princess from a prophecy which apparently said the Princess would die on her sixteenth birthday; while Wolverine was taken there by the wizard Magnus (Gesham's version of Magneto), who Magnus attempted to mind-control in an attempt to fulfil the prophecy. While there, Rahne encountered counterparts of most of the New Mutants, hallucinating that they were the versions she knew, and gradually remembering who she actually was, while Wolverine killed Magnus at the climax before they both returned home.

In 1995's sequel, Wolverine: Knight of Terra, Wolfsbane and Wolverine helped Queen Rain battle the Beast that possessed her but gave her her shapeshifting powers. A third installment, Rahne Fall (a pun on "Rainfall") was planned but never produced.

  • In the Age of Apocalypse Rahne found herself stuck in her lupine form and was a companion to the Dark Beast in his hideous labs. When this universe was revisted ten years later in the X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Rahne had been rescued and had begun to grab hold of her humanity again. She was now capable of shifting into her hybrid form but was still very feral in her mindset.
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Other media

Wolfsbane appears in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "Cold Comfort" as a member of the X-Factor led by the modern-day Forge.

Wolfsbane is featured as a minor character who attends school with the X-Men in X-Men: Evolution with her full wolf transformation.

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