Tasmanian Devil (comics)

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Tasmanian Devil

Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Superfriends #7
Created by

Characteristics
Alter ego	Hugh Dawkins
Affiliations	Global Guardians Ultramarine Corps Justice League
Abilities	Transforms into a Were-beast

Tasmanian Devil is a member of the Justice League Europe. The team was based in Paris, France. There is no relationship between the character and the Looney Tunes character.

[edit] History

Hugh Dawkins is a born metahuman with the ability to turn into a supernaturally large and intelligent Tasmanian Devil, in a fashion similar to a werewolf (An alternate origin, claiming that Hugh's mother was a were Tasmanian devil who raised him in a Tasmanian devil cult, which gave him a Tasmanian devil amulet after selling his soul to a Tasmanian devil and injecting him with a radioactive Tasmanian devil musk from a race of alien Tasmanian devils which gave him his powers, has jokingly been offered). While Hugh was a pacifist, his alter ego of the Tasmanian Devil was aggressive and bestial. His parents had a hard time with him until he saved his father's life.

He became a superhero in Tasmania until he was contacted by a man named Doctor Mist to join the Global Guardians where he fought alongside them until their base was destroyed and the team disbanded.

Dawkins later joined the Justice League International after helping to rebuild the Justice League Embassy which had been destroyed during the Invasion. It was revealed that Hugh is openly gay in Justice League Quarterly #8.^[1] After some time missing, he was shown attending the funeral of Sue Dibny, wife of the Elongated Man, in 2005.

In 2006, as of Green Lantern #10, Dawkins is shown once again as a Global Guardian.