Wolfsbane (comics)
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Template:Superherobox Wolfsbane is a fictional character, a superhero in Marvel Comics' universe. She is a mutant with the superhuman ability to transform into a wolf or a hybrid wolf/human form.
Wolfsbane (real name Rahne Sinclair) 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, she 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.
She is currently a teaching assistant at the Xavier Institute, while working part-time for Jamie Madrox's detective agency, and is in a secret relationship with Elixir.
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, halluncinating 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.
Wolfsbane is featured as a minor character who attends school with the X-Men in X-Men: Evolution.
External links
- Rahne-Sinclair.com (http://www.rahne-sinclair.com/)
- Peter David, the writer, briefly discusses Rahne of Terra (http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/002134.html).