Feral (comics)
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Feral (Maria Callasantos) is a fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, most recognizably associated as a member of the New Mutants and X-Force. In many ways, she was X-Force's counterpart to X-Factor's Wolfsbane, or the X-Men's Wolverine.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
The cat-like mutant Feral joined Cable's paramilitary group X-Force in New Mutants #100 (the final issue of the comic book series). She remained with the team from X-Force #1 and on throughout the early 1990s.
Feral was always the ticking time bomb of X-Force especially when it came to fellow teammate Siryn, barely capable of controlling her deadly temper. Prior to joining the group, Feral and her sister Thornn had to leave home and lived with the Morlocks. It was later discovered that both girls had been molested by their drugie step-father and in retaliation Feral had killed the man and shoved his body into the wall. Her mother,who was also addicted to cocaine, found out and sought vengeance on the girl by killing all of her pet pigeons. This infuriated Feral to the point where she also killed her mother in a fit of rage. It was also hinted at that she had purposely pushed their younger sister down the stairs, leading to her death, as well as allowed their younger brother to fall to his death from their roof. Feral joined X-Force when she fled the morlocks tyrannical leader,Masque. Ultimately, Feral betrayed X-Force and became the enemy of her former teammates, when she was convinced to join the terrorist group known as the Mutant Liberation Front, although her alliances would continue to shift.
After a brief stint with the MLF, Feral emerged from hiding when the New York City police captured Thornn. Thornn revealed that she had seen Feral kill Harry Bellinger, their mother's boyfriend. 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. During her jail time, Feral discovered she was infected with the Legacy Virus. She was either unable to be convicted or escaped, as she was next seen trying to obtain Isotope E (along with other virus sufferers) as a possible cure from the High Evolutionary.
Feral, now mentally disraught from her illness later resurfaced with a new incarnation of the Hellions led by King Bedlam. Although the team's criminal activities were limited to stealing the Armaggedon Man to use him as a weapon, Feral left her mark. All of the rage that she had felt for Siryn in the past boiled over in an argument where Feral sliced through Siryn's vocal cords, incapacitating her powers.
After being cured from the virus Feral apparently had a change of heart. She, as well as her sister Thornn, were recruited to be members of X-Corporation Mumbai along with her former teammate Warpath and Sunfire. This did not bode well with fans because of all of the tensions between those relationships: Thornn hated her sister for killing their family, Warpath had an extreme disgust for Feral because of what she had done to Siryn, and Sunfire had sworn off working with the X-Men a long time before. It should be noted the characters did act in accordance with their respective relationships. Nevertheless, this appearance was a brief one. The team helped save Professor X from an assassination attempt by a crazed Empress Lilandra, who still believed that Charles Xavier was Cassandra Nova.
She once more disappeared into comic limbo and reappeared after the event of M-Day, where the Scarlet Witch caused the mutant gene to disappear from 90-95% of the mutant population worldwide, making them "baseline humans". Both Feral and her sister were shown to be depowered.
[edit] Powers
Formerly had a feline appearance that endowed her with a thin layer of orange and white fur covering her body, sharp claws and teeth, enhanced senses, night vision, agility, strength, and healing ability as well as a prehensile tail. Now depowered.
[edit] Appearances in Other Media
- In the film X2, her name appears on a list of names Mystique scrolls through on Stryker's computer while looking for Magneto's file.
[edit] Bibliography
- Captain America vol. 1 #406-407
- New Mutants Annual #7
- New Mutants vol. 1 #99-100
- New Warriors Annual #1
- Quicksilver #6, 8-9
- Spider-Man #16
- Uncanny X-Men #295
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #15
- X-Factor Annual #6
- X-Factor vol. 1 #84
- X-Force Annual #1-2, 4
- X-Force vol. 1 #1-17, 19-28, 40-41, 87-90
- X-Men vol. 2 #133
