Rahne was rescued and later adopted by Moira MacTaggert. When she was revealed as a mutant, Reverend Craig led an angry mob intending to burn her at the stake. Rahne was raised as an orphan by an abusive pastor named Reverend Craig who beat religion into her from an early age. Rahne (pronounced "Rain") is Scottish (born somewhere in Ross and Cromarty). With her return, much of the X-Factor volume 3 run was dedicated to her pregnancy and her son, Tier, and her last significant appearance was X-Factor #258 (2013).įictional character biography Early life During this run, she became pregnant by the Asgardian Hrimhari, and with X-Force volume 3 #25 (2010), this pregnancy caused her to return to X-Factor, starting with issue #207 (2010). With the relaunch of X-Factor, volume 3 (2006), Wolfsbane once again saw regular publication as a central team member between issues #1 and #28 (2006-2008), after which she was transferred to the secret strike team X-Force, volume 3 (2008). She was a supporting character in the short-lived Warlock comic (1991-2000) featuring the Douglock entity, and then sporadically in The New Mutants volume 2 (2004) and New X-Men (2004-2005). Afterwards, Wolfsbane left X-Factor to visit her foster mother, Moira MacTaggart and joined Excalibur starting with issue #90 (1995) through the title's conclusion with issue #125 (1998). When the original five X-Men left X-Factor to rejoin the X-Men, Wolfsbane was recruited to join when it became a government operation, in issue #71 (1991), in which she featured as a team member through issue #111 (1995), when the title was interrupted by The Age of Apocalypse. She starred as a founding member of the New Mutants and features in nearly the entire run of The New Mutants volume 1 (1983-1991), her last issue being #97 in which she decides to stay in Genosha at the end of the X-Tinction Agenda crossover. Wolfsbane has made minor appearances in animated television, and the character made a live-action cinematic debut in the 2020 film The New Mutants, portrayed by Maisie Williams.Ĭreated by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Wolfsbane first appeared in The New Mutants (September 1982), part of the line Marvel Graphic Novel.
She served as a member of the X-Factor Investigations detective agency, until she joined the new incarnation of X-Force. She appeared for a time as a teacher at Xavier's Academy in New X-Men. Later on she joined the Pentagon-sponsored X-Factor and was also associated with the British superhero team Excalibur. She was initially a member of the X-Men's original junior team The New Mutants.
She has honed her powers to shift between human and wolf characteristics but must keep her feral instincts at bay when she does. Ī Scottish mutant, Wolfsbane possesses the ability to transform into a wolf or into a transitional state somewhere between human and wolf that is similar to a werewolf. The character is commonly associated with the X-Men. Wolfsbane ( Rahne Sinclair) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Princess/Queen Rain of Gesham, Grimfang, Mutate #490 (in Genosha)Ībility to shapeshift into a wolf-like humanoid or into a full wolf at will