| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''ComicBook/XMen'' '''[[Characters/XMen Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''The X-Men'''\ |
| 3 | [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam The Original Team]] | [[Characters/XMen60sMembers '60s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen70sMembers '70s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen80sMembers '80s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen90sMembers '90s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2000sMembers 2000s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2010sMembers 2010s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2020sMembers 2020s Members]]\ |
| 4 | '''Other Teams'''\ |
| 5 | Characters/ChildrenOfTheAtom | [[Characters/ExcaliburMarvelComics Excalibur]] | Characters/GenerationHope | Characters/GenerationX | Characters/NewMutants | Characters/NewXMenAcademyX | [[Characters/SWORDMarvelComics S.W.O.R.D.]] | Characters/XClub | Characters/XCorp | Characters/XFactor | Characters/XForce | Characters/XStatix | Characters/XTerminators\ |
| 6 | '''Antagonists'''\ |
| 7 | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToI Rogues Gallery A To I]] | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryJToR Rogues Gallery J To R]] | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGallerySToZ Rogues Gallery S to Z]] | [[Characters/XMenVillainousOrganizations Villainous Organizations]] | [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Acolytes]] | [[Characters/XMenArakko Arakko]] | [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Brotherhood of Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenClanAkkaba Clan Akkaba]] | Characters/ChildrenOfTheVault | [[Characters/XMenExternals Externals]] | [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]] | [[Characters/XMenHellions The Hellions]] | [[Characters/XMenMarauders Marauders]] | [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]] | [[Characters/XMenMorlocks Morlocks]] | [[Characters/XMenMutantLiberationFront MLF]] | [[Characters/XMenOrchis Orchis]] | [[Characters/XMenSentinels Sentinels]]\ |
| 8 | '''Other Characters'''\ |
| 9 | [[Characters/XMenSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] | [[Characters/XMenMutants Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenXavierInstitute Xavier Institute]] | [[Characters/XMenKrakoans Krakoans]] | '''The Savage Land''' | [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Shi'ar]] | [[{{Characters/Starjammers}} The Starjammers]] | {{Characters/NYX}} | [[{{Characters/Cable}} Cable's supporting cast]] | [[Characters/{{Deadpool}} Deadpool's supporting cast]] | [[{{Characters/Wolverine}} Wolverine's supporting cast]]-]]]]] |
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| 13 | Creator/MarvelComics characters associated with the Savage Land, a hidden prehistoric land in Antarctica created by the aliens known as Nuwali for the Beyonders who wanted to observe the process of evolution under relatively controlled conditions. |
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| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | !!Residents |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[folder:Ka-Zar]] |
| 20 | !!Kevin Plunder |
| 21 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kevin_plunder_earth_616.png]] |
| 22 | !!!'''Nationality:''' British, Savage Lander |
| 23 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 24 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #10 (March, 1965) |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Ka-Zar is the name of two fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | The first character to bear the Ka-Zar name is David Rand. He was created by writer Bob Byrd, and first appeared in the pulp magazine Ka-Zar #1 (October 1936). The story was continued in two further issues published in January and June 1937, and then the character was set aside. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | The second character to bear the Ka-Zar name is Lord Kevin Plunder. He was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #10 (March 1965). |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Ka-Zar is Kevin Reginald, Lord Plunder, born in Castle Plunder, Kentish Town, London, England. He is the eldest son of Lord Robert Plunder, the English nobleman who discovered the Savage Land. After his mother had died and his father was killed by the barbaric Man-Ape natives of the Savage Land, Plunder was found and raised by the sabertooth tiger Zabu, who possesses near-human intelligence thanks to a mutation caused by radioactive mists. "Ka-Zar" means "Son of the Tiger" in the language of the Man-Apes. Ka-Zar and Zabu are constant partners. Ka-Zar became an expert hunter, trapper, and fisherman, living off the wild land. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | In the Savage Land, some territories are populated by several human or humanoid tribes, and while most of them are on friendly terms with Ka-Zar, some of them consider him an outlander and an enemy. He acts more like an unofficial general protector, preventing outside commercial exploitation, such as poaching and mining, as well as enforcing peace between tribes and serving as goodwill ambassador to friendly visitors. |
| 35 | ---- |
| 36 | * AnimalisticAbilities: Ka-Zar II can mimic the aspects of various Savage Land animals, usually by perfectly imitating their calls to command them but sometimes going further into outright superhuman feats. |
| 37 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: How he came to be known as the King of the Savage Land (not an official title, but one he does take seriously as the Savage Land's self-appointed steward). |
| 38 | * BadassNormal: Just a normal British man who TookALevelInBadass in order to survive the wild Savage Land. |
| 39 | * BattleCouple: with Shanna the She-Devil to whom he is married. |
| 40 | * BadassFamily: With Shanna and Matthew. |
| 41 | * CainAndAbel: Ka-Zar II has a supervillain brother, the Plunderer a.k.a. Lord Panival Plunder. Hey, with a name like that ''you'd'' go supervillain too. |
| 42 | * CaptainErsatz: The Ka-Zar of the early comics is a shameless ripoff of Franchise/{{Tarzan}}. His own name is just two letters shy of Tarzan's own name. |
| 43 | * CanonDiscontinuity: The Ka-Zar stories featured in these early comics are considered non-canon to both the later Ka-Zar series, and the Marvel Universe as a whole. The Golden Age Ka-Zar was called "David Rand" and was active in Africa, while the Silver Age (and still appearing) Ka-Zar was called "Kevin Plunder" and was active in the Savage Land, a fictional region of UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}}. Besides the shared code-name, they have little in common. |
| 44 | * CanonImmigrant: The Ka-Zar presented here actually started as a standalone pulp magazine character (which was also run by Martin Goodman, the head of Timely Comics) which predates this comic series by three years. The first five comic stories with Ka-Zar are directly adapted into comic form from that magazine. |
| 45 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Apparently this is how he acquired his nebulous "connection to the Savage Land" that lets him use the AnimalisticAbilities described above. |
| 46 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Kevin Plunder was born to prestigious British nobility but abandoned his lordly title and holdings to live in the Savage Land. |
| 47 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Ka-Zar presented in the early stories is not the same Ka-Zar that would appear in later Marvel stories, and they are set in a separate continuity from the Marvel universe. |
| 48 | * ElectiveMonarchy: Ka-Zar II is often called the "King of the Savage Land" and while not all the Savage Land's inhabitants acknowledge it, when the poop hits the fan he's usually the leader they all rally around. |
| 49 | * FireForgedFriends: Kevin's befriended a good chunk of the Marvel U's hero community this way, teaming up with everyone from Spider-Man to Daredevil to the Avengers and the X-Men. |
| 50 | * GoingNative: Ka-Zar II maintains some token ties to his homeland for the sake of successfully advocating for his adopted one but in all other ways has completely abandoned his former life. |
| 51 | * GreatWhiteHunter: The David Rand Ka-Zar once ran across a hunter named Steve Hardy who spent months capturing animals to bring to zoos or collections (but had no qualms about killing them if he had to). Ka-Zar judged him a good man and did not allow the animals to harm him, but he still foiled his attempts to take animals. |
| 52 | * HandsomeHeroicCaveman: Justified. He wasn't born a Savage Land inhabitant, he became one and thus his build, bone structure and overall body type are actually more typical of a highly athletic modern day man. |
| 53 | * LegacyCharacter: Played straight from a narrative standpoint but averted in-universe: "Ka-Zar" is simply a Man-Ape name meaning 'Son of the Tiger' that was given to both characters. It's likely there are other Ka-Zars in the Savage Land as well. |
| 54 | * ModestRoyalty: Ka-Zar II is of noble blood but no one would ever guess it by how he dresses in just a loincloth. |
| 55 | * NatureHero: Ka-Zar is a bit of a Tarzan CaptainErsatz (born the son of nobleman Lord Robert Plunder, lost in the jungle and [[RaisedByWolves raised by animals]]) except he was raised by ''sabre-toothed tigers'' and is the resident Nature Hero of the Marvel Universe's LostWorld, the Savage Land. |
| 56 | * {{Omniglot}}: Ka-Zar II can speak every language used in the Savage Land fluently, a number that is at least in the dozens. |
| 57 | * PantheraAwesome: Kevin is usually accompanied by his sabretooth tiger sidekick Zabu. |
| 58 | * RaisedByWolves: Kevin Plunder was found and raised by the sabertooth tiger Zabu, who possesses near-human intelligence thanks to a mutation caused by radioactive mists |
| 59 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Of all the individuals who claim dominion over the Savage Land, Kevin's easily the most rational and capable. |
| 60 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Kevin Plunder is the character just about everybody thinks of when they think of Ka-Zar and is the only Ka-Zar to be adapted into other mediums. |
| 61 | * SuperStrength: Like Captain America Kevin is officially "peak human" but in times of extreme stress has manifested the ability to lift 2-5 tons, allowing him to match superhuman mutants like Sabretooth. |
| 62 | * TarzanBoy. He started as a short-lived cheap Tarzan knock-off in the '30s, described as an American kid who was raised by lions after his parents' plane crashed in the Congo jungle. Ka-Zar was revived decades later by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby in an ''X-Men'' comic and given a more fleshed-out characterization. Surprisingly, they made him ''more'' similar to Tarzan. Now he was Kevin Plunder, son of a British nobleman who had discovered the tropical LostWorld of Savage Land in the middle of the Antarctic. After his father got killed by a local FrazettaMan tribe, Kevin was raised by a mutant intelligent sabertooth tiger named Zabu. He eventually hooked up with Marvel's flagship JunglePrincess, ''ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil''. |
| 63 | * WeakButSkilled: Although at the peak of ordinary human strength, Ka-Zar is much weaker than most of the heroes he teams up with and villains he fights. It's his superior skills and training that set him apart. |
| 64 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Kevin had this relationship with Sauron's alter ego Karl Lykos, back before the latter had surrendered completely to the Sauron identity. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Shanna the She-Devil]] |
| 68 | !!Shanna O'Hara |
| 69 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savage_wolverine_vol_1_2_milo_manara_variant.jpg]] |
| 70 | !!!'''Nationality:''' American, Savage Lander |
| 71 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 72 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Shanna, The She-Devil'' #1 (December, 1972) |
| 73 | |
| 74 | Shanna is a jungle adventuress and protector of the Savage Lands with her husband Ka-Zar and their pet Zabu. She grew up as a child in Africa. When she was younger, a pet leopard belonging to her mother had gone amok; in his haste to shoot it, her father accidentally shot and killed her mother instead. Moving to America, she became a veterinarian and ecologist specialising in big cats, until an event where a maniac with a high-powered sniper rifle sneaked into the zoo one night and shot all of the big cats in the African exhibit. The sole survivor, a female leopard whom Shanna had raised from a cub, was then shot by a panicking police officer, further disgusting Shanna with guns, men and human society. Given an opportunity to be part of a project run by the zoo aiming to return zoo-born leopards to the wild in the African Dahomey Reserve, Shanna eagerly joined, personally caring for the twin cubs, offspring of her own murdered pet, that had somehow survived the massacre. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Using her natural affinity for the animals of the African wilderness, and her Olympics-qualified skills in UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} and physical training, Shanna became a proud warrior woman, determined to protect the wilderness from those who would abuse it. |
| 77 | ---- |
| 78 | * ActionMom: She has a son with Ka-Zar. |
| 79 | * AdaptationDyeJob: She was originally a redhead when introduced in The 1970s, but was mistakenly colorized as a blonde several times in the comics and in her appearances on ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' and ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. Ever since Frank Cho's mini-series, the blonde coloration seems to have stuck, despite Cho's comic being centered upon an entirely different Shanna. |
| 80 | * AmazonianBeauty: She is tall and has a muscular yet voluptuous body. Having men going ga-ga over her looks is not unusual in the comics (and in the Frank Cho miniseries, said men don't even try to conceal their perverseness... until Shanna finally learns this is not supposed to be done to a woman and nearly kills one of them in retaliation). |
| 81 | * BadassFamily: With Ka-Zar and Matthew. |
| 82 | * BadassNormal: Originally, Shanna had no powers. Instead, she relied on martial arts and having two leopards/a giant python as pets. |
| 83 | ** EmpoweredBadassNormal: After "Savage Wolverine," Shanna became this. |
| 84 | * BattleCouple: With Ka-Zar. |
| 85 | * CombatStilettos: Believe it or not, Shanna occasionally has these when she's actually wearing shoes. |
| 86 | * DoesNotLikeGuns: Shanna despised guns, though later stories featuring her would have her use them herself when necessary. |
| 87 | * {{Expy}}: Was developed as Marvel's version of ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle after Marvel was unable to buy the rights to the character. |
| 88 | * FieryRedhead: In the original comics and in ComicBook/UltimateMarvel. |
| 89 | * {{Flanderization}}: Originally Shanna simply preferred the jungle to the city, since she had a strong connection with animals and nature, though she didn't mind the occasional visit to the city and even had her own car. This was later changed so that Shanna had a hatred of technology and would only use it when the situation was desperate enough, even yelling at her husband for having a CD player. |
| 90 | * FurBikini: She wears one in most of her incarnations, even in the X-Men series from TheNineties, though she wore a less stripperific outfit made of cloth in Skaar: King of the Savage Land and a more traditional bikini-esque outfit in the late 90s Ka-Zar series. |
| 91 | * HappilyMarried: To Ka-Zar. |
| 92 | * HeroicBSOD: Went through this after her father was murdered by Nekra and her leopard companions, Ina and Biri, were murdered. She later went through this again when Ka-Zar was seemingly killed. She got better in the former case via therapy and the latter through weird machinery. Yes, seriously. |
| 93 | * HeroicWillpower: This is what allowed Shanna to resist the Mandrill's pheromone based control over women. |
| 94 | * JunglePrincess: Shanna's the most famous one to come out of Creator/MarvelComics -- though there is a definite resemblance to ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle. |
| 95 | * KindlyVet: She's a well-trained veterinarian. |
| 96 | * MamaBear: Not even her own husband is safe from this. Hurt Matthew and she'll hurt you. |
| 97 | * MostCommonSuperPower: She is very busty. |
| 98 | * MsFanservice: Shanna is a tall, very beautiful blonde haired woman who wears revealing outfits that present her skin and highlight her muscular yet voluptuous body, large breasts, strong toned muscles, ripped broad shoulders, nice rear end, and long muscular legs. |
| 99 | * NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: In the Frank Cho version, a soldier named her "after the comic book character". |
| 100 | * NubileSavage: She lives in the Savage Land. The only reason for the existence of a tropical region in the middle of the Antarctic is so that residents can fit this trope. |
| 101 | * PrefersGoingBarefoot: As per her JunglePrincess archetype, Shanna freely roams barefoot not only through the jungles, but also the arctic regions surrounding the Savage Land, where she'll put on a parka but no shoes. Yet her bare feet always look like she's just had a pedicure. |
| 102 | * SexForSolace: When she thought that Ka-Zar was dead, she was still grieving for her loss and ended up kissing Peter Parker and wanted him to make her feel alive, but as much as he wanted to, he couldn’t take advantage of her loss. He still helps her through her mental breakdown at the same time still feeling a sexual attraction to her. |
| 103 | * ShipTease: During her HeroicBSOD over the death of Ka-Zar, she ended up becoming pretty attached to Peter (unaware that he was Spider-Man.) |
| 104 | * {{Stripperific}}: Just look at the picture above. |
| 105 | * SuperSoldier: The result of a Nazi genetic experiment in the Frank Cho comics. |
| 106 | * SuperSpeed: After being resurrected in "Savage Wolverine." She can run at least 50 miles per hour. |
| 107 | * SuperStrength: Her resurrection also caused Shanna to develop the strength of ten men. |
| 108 | * TheAgeless: Being resurrected connected her to the Savage Land itself. So long as it survives, so will Shanna. |
| 109 | * TheBeastMaster: Shanna was quite capable of handling herself in a fight, but the fact that she was always followed by the fierce Ina and Biri, a leopard and a "black panther" (melanchromatic leopard), further aided her. After they were brutally killed, Shanna got a snake named Anata and she later had this going with her husband Ka-Zar's friend Zabu (a sabre-tooth tiger). |
| 110 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Had this going with Ka-Zar for a while, since he tended to attract a lot of women. They eventually did, even having a son together. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Matthew Plunder]] |
| 114 | !!Matthew Plunder |
| 115 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matthew_plunder_earth_616_from_fantastic_four_the_prodigal_sun_vol_1_1_001.png]] |
| 116 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Lander |
| 117 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 118 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men Annual'' #12 (October, 1988) |
| 119 | The son of Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil. |
| 120 | ---- |
| 121 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: He's the splitting image of his father Kevin Plunder/Ka-Zar. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Zabu]] |
| 125 | !!Zabu |
| 126 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d6b7478c_3429_4a4d_86ff_e6f09a7de866.jpeg]] |
| 127 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Lander |
| 128 | !!!'''Species:''' Sabertooth Tiger |
| 129 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #10 (March, 1965) |
| 130 | |
| 131 | Zabu is a sabretooth, Ka Zar's mentor, raising him and teaching him the ways of the Savage Land. |
| 132 | ---- |
| 133 | * PantheraAwesome: Is a Sabertooth Tiger. |
| 134 | * RightHandCat: To Ka-Zar. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Sauron]] |
| 138 | !!Karl Lykos / Sauron |
| 139 | [[quoteright:278:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0027bd60_52e7_4467_b222_f521d035af76.jpeg]] |
| 140 | [[caption-width-right:278:He could cure cancer, but he’d rather turn people into dinosaurs.]] |
| 141 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Argentinian, Savage Lander |
| 142 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 143 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #60 (1969) |
| 144 | |
| 145 | -> ''Dead, mutant? I am evil incarnate -- I cannot die! Behold, fools, the rebirth of Sauron!'' |
| 146 | |
| 147 | A mutate that was originally supposed to be a vampire, that was a no-go with the comics code at the time, so instead he was reworked into an energy-sucking pterodactyl man with an... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Odd fixation on prehistoric animals]]. Really. Lykos was on an expedition to Antarctica with his father when they stumbled upon some caves leading to the Savage Land, full of Pteranodons. Lykos was injured by a Pterodon scratch and gained the ability to drain energy from other humans, and later when he did so to a mutant, the ability to turn into a giant were-Pterodactyl with hypnotic powers. Going mad with evil, he names himself after the villain from his favorite books and decides to try to suck the life out of everyone. Joined Toad's Brotherhood in UsefulNotes/TheNineties, despite not being a mutant. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | And, yes, you heard right, he is indeed named after [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Tolkien character]]. Both InUniverse and out, in fact, despite the fact that the Dark Lord of Mordor likely wasn't meant to be a vampire pterodactyl-man -- the relevant thing, in Lykos' mind, was that he viewed Tolkien's villain as an ultimate embodiment of evil, and evil was what he sought to be. |
| 150 | ---- |
| 151 | * ActuallyNotAVampire: In his early appearances as a creepy private-practice physician whose patients experience anemic symptoms, the still human-seeming Karl Lykos gives off ''all'' the classical warning signs for some kind of vampire or other. Actually, he's a ''much more bizarre'' mutant monster. As the intro paragraph specifies, he is also an ''inverted meta-example'', with the creators trying to make a villain who was as vampire-like as possible without upsetting the editors. |
| 152 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Pteranodons. |
| 153 | * {{Animorphism}}: A sort of {{Involuntary Shapeshift|er}}ing, where Lykos transforms into Sauron whenever he absorbs mutant energy. |
| 154 | * ArchEnemy: Forgotten in recent years, but back in the day he was one of these to Havok. As Karl Lykos, he even served a stint as Havok's psychiatrist. More frequent X-Men sparring partners include Angel and Iceman, occasionally Cyclops when he wants some of that sweet sweet Summers energy, and most frequently the X-Men ally Ka-Zar. |
| 155 | * BadFuture: In the miniseries ''Weapon X: Days of Future Past'' Sauron is a high-ranking collaborator with the Sentinels, having grown [[VillainousGlutton so fat off mutant energies he can no longer fly]]. |
| 156 | * CantStayNormal: Karl. Professor X even cured him of being Sauron in the 80s, but sooner or later, he'll be back. |
| 157 | * CardCarryingVillain: Perhaps fitting for a SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron just ''can't shut up'' about how evil he is. In fact, upong first transforming, he '''immediately''' names himself Sauron after, in his own words, "[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] ultimate evil!" |
| 158 | -->''"And, I choose -- '''Evil!''' An evil so ''great''... so ''monumental'' that only ''one name'' in all the annals of literature will ''contain'' it! The name of ''Tolkien's'' ultimate villain... that dark lord who ''personified'' evil... who was truly ''evil incarnate''...! The name of '''Sauron!'''"'' |
| 159 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Practically the poster child of this trope. He's a guy that can [[OurVampiresAreDifferent drain the life force of others]], [[ShapeShifting turns into a flying pterodactyl man when he drains the life force of a mutant]], said pterodactyl man form also has SuperStrength, the power to [[HypnoticEyes hypnotize people]] and can [[BreathWeapon breathe fire?]] ComicBook/SpiderMan even noted how ridiculous him being a vampiric pterodactyl man was without even making note of all his other powers. |
| 160 | * TheConqueror: Numerous times Sauron has attempted to raise an army from the disaffected residents of the Savage Land in order to seize control of it. These efforts are usually thwarted by Ka-Zar. |
| 161 | * CumbersomeClaws: He is unable to use conventional firearms due to his "weird dino-mitts." He has compensated by building a gun that responds to mental commands. |
| 162 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: See [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sauronx.jpg here]]. Spider-Man notes that he could be using his advanced tech to cure cancer, but being a SuperpoweredEvilSide Sauron has no interest in such MundaneUtility. |
| 163 | * DemotedToExtra: Karl Lykos almost never appears anymore, having more or less been completely subsumed by Sauron. |
| 164 | * DespairEventHorizon: After his love interest Tanya was murdered by Toad during the 90's, Karl lost all reason to try and live an ordinary life. He's since given into his evil side more or less completely. |
| 165 | * DinosaursAreDragons: Later appearances saw him acquire the ability to [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]]. |
| 166 | * TheDragon: Often serves this role to whatever BigBad of the day is currently trying to take control of the Savage Land. Zaladane and Garrok have both employed his services; unfortunately for them, his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder leads him to invariably stick the knife in at inconvenient moments. |
| 167 | * EnemyMine: During the ''[[ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008 Secret Invasion]]'', Sauron allied with his longtime Savage Land enemies Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil against the Skrull invaders. |
| 168 | * EnemyWithin: Sauron is this to the fairly mild-mannered Lykos. |
| 169 | * FromBadToWorse: As if being tempted to drain the life-energy of your patients all the time isn't bad enough, you then discover that draining another mutant turns you into a dangerous monster beyond your control. |
| 170 | * EvilOverlord: He's usually trying to be this in the Savage Land. |
| 171 | * EvilTeacher: ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' saw him find employment as a science teacher for the Hellfire Academy. ''Definitely'' a showcasing moment of the character's NarmCharm. |
| 172 | --> '''Sauron:''' (wearing glasses and a lab coat) I am Sauron, supreme ruler of this classroom, master of all second period! |
| 173 | * EvilVersusOblivion: In ''Deadpool #10'', he joins with Deadpool to prevent the world from being destroyed by black goo, reasoning that if the world is destroyed, he won't be able to turn people into dinosaurs anymore. |
| 174 | * FantasticRacism: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/wazvqv/sauron_being_racist_towards_birds_xmen_unlimited/ He hates birds]], because "[[ShownTheirWork they could have become dinosaurs]], [[InsaneTrollLogic but chose to become lesser]]". |
| 175 | * {{Flanderization}}: In a ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' tie-in Sauron was reduced to a Shadow King-tier IHaveYouNowMyPretty creeper who spent most of his on-panel slavering over various disgusted women. This wasn't ''completely'' out of nowhere, as a famous panel from one of Sauron's early appearances has him menacing a knocked-out Storm, but aside from this miniseries it's not really a big part of his character. Hell, he even went [[HoYay/XMen the other way completely]] once during the 90's. |
| 176 | * FrontierDoctor: As Lykos, he attempted to become one of these in the Savage Land. His efforts earned him the friendship of Ka-Zar, but eventually StatusQuoIsGod kicked in and Sauron returned. |
| 177 | * GiantFlyer: Not terribly gigantic, outside of that one time he fought Garrok, but still counts. |
| 178 | * GreenAndMean: His skin is green and he's a dangerous pterodactyl man. |
| 179 | * GuiltByAssociationGag: When Stryker started rounding up mutants for his Church of Human Potential, he went after Sauron. When Sauron pointed out that he was not a mutant, Stryker just shrugged and said that Sauron hung out with them so much that he was basically an honorary one. |
| 180 | * HappyEndingOverride: His ''Marvel Fanfare'' quadrilogy ended with Professor X sitting him down and finally managing to cure him of being Sauron. It worked completely too, as he and Tanya went to New York and lived in peace for the rest of the 80's. But come the 90's Toad decided he wanted a heavy-hitter for his Brotherhood, so he abducted Karl and Tanya and hooked them up into machines that drained Tanya's life force into Karl, forcing him to become Sauron again. |
| 181 | * HeroKiller: Early in the first ''ComicBook/XForce'' run he killed Sam Guthrie aka Cannonball. It... [[ContinuitySnarl probably didn't take]]? |
| 182 | * IJustWantToBeFree: A noteworthy character trait of his. He might [[VillainTeamUp work with other villains]] when it serves his purposes, and surprisingly is even usually a good team player during those periods. But at his soul Sauron is an independent villain who doesn't want to be used by anyone and is always trying to be the top dog of wherever he is. During one storyline in ''X-Men: The Hidden Years'', Magneto tried recruiting him to the Brotherhood, promising him untold riches and a place at his right-hand. But after realizing that would mean accepting subservience to Magneto, Sauron refused, telling the other villain he'd found a peace in the Savage Land and he would never give that up in exchanging for being someone else's lackey. |
| 183 | * JekyllAndHyde: Lykos is an essentially decent and well-meaning person. His dark side, Sauron, is a vicious monster and a [[KillAllHumans genocidal maniac]]. |
| 184 | * LargeHam: As deadly as he can be, Sauron is by his nature not one of the X-Men's more serious villains, and frequently spends as much of his time chewing the panels as he does pecking at the heroes. |
| 185 | * LaughablyEvil: Sauron is a CardCarryingVillain who spends as much time ChewingTheScenery and engaging in bizarre plots as he does genuinely evil things. This line of dialogue probably sums him up best: |
| 186 | -->'''Spider-Man:''' [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood You can rewrite DNA on the fly, and you're using it to turn people into dinosaurs? But with tech like that, you could cure cancer!]] |
| 187 | -->'''Sauron:''' But I don't ''want'' to cure cancer. [[ARareSentence I want to turn people into dinosaurs]]. |
| 188 | * LifeDrinker: Due to the whole can't-be-a-vampire thing, Lykos ended up as one of these. He can drain the life force of anything he touches, but only mutant energy will [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter turn him into Sauron]]. As his SuperpoweredEvilSide, Sauron's constantly nettling him when he's human to go drain the nearest handy mutant in his vicinity. |
| 189 | * LineOfSightName: He named himself after ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' villain. He even [[ShoutOut says so himself]] on-panel during his origin story. The fact that he calls Sauron "Tolkien's ultimate villain" rather than Morgoth, though, would suggest that he (and possibly the writers) only has passing knowledge of the legendarium. |
| 190 | --> '''Sauron:''' I choose... evil! An evil so great... so monumental that only one name in all the annals of literature will contain it! The name of Tolkien's ultimate villain... that dark lord who personified evil, who was truly evil incarnate! The name of -- SAURON! |
| 191 | * LogicalWeakness: Being a cold-blooded creature, Sauron is vulnerable to ice and cold, and superheroes with those powers. You can guess which X-Man gives him the most trouble. |
| 192 | * MeaningfulName: Lykos is Greek for 'wolf', an appropriate name for a character who so often plays the wolf in the fold. |
| 193 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: For many years an irrelevant bit of plot trivia, this has actually helped him get legitimate work in recent years, first as an unlikely member of Weapon X and then, in an even more unlikely twist, as a ''teacher'' working for the Hellfire Academy. |
| 194 | * MoralityPet: Tanya Anderssen, his longtime love interest. She was murdered by Toad in the 90s as part of his scheme to reawaken and recruit Sauron for the Brotherhood. |
| 195 | * MouthOfSauron: Has never had a character serve as this for himself, but amusingly was Garrok's Mouth for a time. |
| 196 | * NobleDemon: Lykos is this, as despite falling prey to the wiles of Sauron more often than not he's essentially a decent and well-meaning person. The whole reason he's in the Savage Land in the first place is because he exiled himself there, thinking there would be no mutants for Sauron to prey on. |
| 197 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: You don't get much more NinjaPirateZombieRobot than a vampiric were-pterodactyl mutate. |
| 198 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: At least as Karl Lykos, he's smart enough to not fell prey to the usual villain pitfall for UnderestimatingBadassery. When the Savage Land Mutates have the Avengers captured in ''New Avengers'', he urges them to kill their heroic prisoners right away rather than experiment on them as Brainchild wants to do, telling him that he's just giving ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} an excuse to attack them. And lo and behold, a few panels later, that's exactly what they do. |
| 199 | * OnlyMostlyDead: When near-death Sauron can enter a state of "regenerative stasis". He fell into this after being shot up by X-Force, and recovered completely after a few weeks. |
| 200 | * PickyPeopleEater: Apparently people have their own distinct taste to Sauron, as he remarked upon the specific taste of Kid Omega's lifeforce during his stint with the Hellfire Academy. |
| 201 | * PragmaticVillainy: He's shown himself willing to help save the world on occasion, but only so he can continue being evil and turning people into dinosaurs. |
| 202 | --> '''Deadpool''': I thought you just wanted to turn people into dinosaurs, not save the world?\ |
| 203 | '''Sauron''': Well, if the world is all black goo, I can't turn people into dinosaurs anymore.\ |
| 204 | '''Deadpool''': Good point. You're in. |
| 205 | * PrimitiveClubs: One appearance had him carrying an actual prehistoric club. ''[[NarmCharm Of course]]'', it was included with his action figure. |
| 206 | * PunnyName: The name of the famous villain was probably chosen to invoke how he is a ptero''saur''. |
| 207 | * TheQuisling: Collaborates with the Sentinels in at least one BadFuture. |
| 208 | * ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Stan Lee must have figured an energy-sucking dinosaur man was the next-most abhorrent thing to an actual vampire. |
| 209 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: In recent years he's become more of a ComicBook/SpiderMan villain. |
| 210 | * SanitySlippage: During the 90s, after Toad killed Tanya Anderssen, Sauron starting hallucinating his alter ego Lykos. These hallucinations eventually got to be so frequent that even the Savage Land mutates (who are hardwired to seek out a leader and obey them ''[[SlaveMooks without question]]'') started questioning his sanity. |
| 211 | * SixthRanger: Randomly recruited to Toad's Brotherhood during the 90s, despite not being a mutant himself. |
| 212 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Sauron is very much this. |
| 213 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: After years and years of fighting Sauron's influence, Karl Lykos gave into it completely as of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers''. In his human and form and apparently completely free of Sauron's influence, he still urged the Savage Land mutates to kill their Avenger prisoners ASAP, all while wearing a SmugSnake smirk. Of course, Karl was entirely in the right, as the Avengers broke free very shortly after. |
| 214 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Played with in the third ''Weapon X'' volume, when he's recruited to Weapon X-Force -- on any other team, Sauron would be this, but this is a team led by '''Sabretooth''' and filled out mostly by other Wolverine villains. On this team, Sauron isn't the token evil teammate -- the whole team is evil! |
| 215 | * TokenHuman: Lykos is a normal man who was turned into a mutate after being attacked by the Savage Land's breed of pterodactyls and has never had any investment in mutants beyond their use in feeding his SuperpoweredEvilSide, yet he randomly joined up with the Brotherhood in the 90s. |
| 216 | * TookALevelInBadass: In the X-Men novel "Law of the Jungle", he becomes a much more calculating and dangerous enemy via the Savage Land mutate Brainchild cooking up a way to stabilize his Sauron personality. |
| 217 | * UnexplainedRecovery: Being one of the longest-running X-villains, he's had his share of these. There was the time Cable shot him dead, for instance. Another time Lykos made a psychic HeroicSacrifice supposedly destroying his and Sauron's personalities forever. Both times he recovered and returned without explanation. |
| 218 | * VillainsOutShopping: When Sabretooth threw a party to celebrate taking over the Japanese underworld Sauron [[https://dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.net/i/4791/23441/2f79d1154a4e3ae1b3aff747b7148632.jpg?h=a9f06ec750a6a17b010b94dd242570dd made a cameo appearance]] as one of the guests in attendance. |
| 219 | * VillainTeamUp: Once he teamed up with fellow dinosaur rogue Stegron against Spider-Man and the X-Men |
| 220 | * WerewolfThemeNaming: Notable for being a werebeast [[NonIndicativeName but definitely not]] a were''wolf'', his last name Lykos is Greek for wolf. |
| 221 | * YoYoPlotPoint: He gets cured at the end of most encounters only to get un-cured again at the beginning of the next. As ever, StatusQuoIsGod. |
| 222 | ** TrappedInVillainy: Lykos wants nothing more than to be rid of Sauron forever, but eventually his powers always wind up getting the better of him. TragicMonster indeed. |
| 223 | * YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: Spider-Man points out he could have used his advanced tech to cure cancer. |
| 224 | --> ''[[CardCarryingVillain I don’t want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.]]'' |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Stegron]] |
| 228 | !!Vincent Stegron / Stegron the Dinosaur Man |
| 229 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5608999_stegron_spider_man_marvel_comics_h1.jpg]] |
| 230 | !!!'''Nationality:''' American, Savage Lander |
| 231 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 232 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' #19 (March, 1974) |
| 233 | |
| 234 | -->''" Once, again, the time comesss for... dinosaurs to rule this Earth!"'' |
| 235 | |
| 236 | A former assistant to Curt Connors, Vincent Stegron used stegosaurus DNA to augment his body. |
| 237 | ---- |
| 238 | * ArtisticLicensePaleontology: |
| 239 | ** Due to being half dino hybrid, he is cold-blooded like a reptile... despite the fact that -- as it's been discovered long time ago -- most if not all dinosaurs were actually endothermic. |
| 240 | ** He is depicted with a beaked maw just like a real stegosaurus in most appearances, but some artists will draw him with more generic reptilian snout, similar to the one Lizard has. |
| 241 | * BewareMyStingerTail: His tail has four thagomizers like a regular stegosaurus. |
| 242 | * EnemyMine: |
| 243 | ** Makes a temporary alliance with Spider-Man and other superheroes against Roxxon Oil Corporation to stop their machinations in the Savage Land. |
| 244 | ** In ''Spider Island'' AlternateUniverse, he agreed to cooperate with the Resistance in order to help them bring down Adriana Soria -- the Spider-Queen -- who was trying to take over Manhattan by spreading a virus which turned everyone into arachnoid abominations. After the heroes succeeded, Stegron joined the reformed Avengers, [[HeelFaceTurn permanently becoming one of the good guys]]. |
| 245 | * FantasticRacism: Ever since his mutation, he views humans as inferior and seeks to turn them into dinosaurs. |
| 246 | * GeniusBruiser: Even after being turned into a dinosaur-human hybrid, he retains his advanced scientific knowledge and high level of intelligence. |
| 247 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Half human, half stegosaurus. |
| 248 | * ImmuneToBullets: Possessing a thick scaly hide, Stegron is bulletproof. |
| 249 | * LargeHam: Big time. He seems to be incapable of casual speech, and his dialogue consists mostly of cheesy lines, as if his character never left UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks. |
| 250 | * LastNameBasis: Since his last name is already similar-sounding to 'Stego', almost no one calls him by his first name. |
| 251 | * LifeDrain: He inexplicably gets this ability during his team-up with Sauron. This is poorly handwaved in that his partner supposedly taught him how to do it -- despite the fact that superpowers are normally inherent (or gained via mutation) and not something you can just learn. |
| 252 | * LightningBruiser: Stegron is stronger and faster than Spider-Man, capable of knocking him out cold with a single TailSlap. In ''Thunderstrike'' issue #20 he is fighting both the eponymous superhero ''and'' Black Panther simultaneously -- and actually is ''at the advantage'' during most the battle. The heroes cannot keep up and are able to defeat him only after [[WeaksauceWeakness exposing him to cold]]. |
| 253 | * LogicalWeakness: Debatable. The idea at the time of creating the character was that as a human-dinosaur hybrid, Stegron is a reptile, so cold weather weakens him and can even force him to enter a hibernation state. However, [[ScienceMarchesOn today we know]] that most if not all dinosaurs were actually warm-blooded, which deprives that weakness of any logic. Strangely, it was never retconned, although comic writers of today should be aware that it no longer makes any sense. |
| 254 | * PatrioticFervor: He's surprisingly loyal to his adopted homeland, once even going so far as to assault a series of SHIELD installations to rescue a captive Moon Boy because Devil Dinosaur was wasting away pining for his best friend. |
| 255 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His body is dark orange and his eyes are green. |
| 256 | * SuperStrength: Stegron is superhumanly strong, capable of lifting 25 tons. |
| 257 | * SssssnakeTalk: Despite not being a snake, he speaks this way. This is most likely -- after his [[LargeHam cheesy]] speech pattern -- another leftover from the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]. Actually, at some point, Sauron openly mocks this during their brief team-up. |
| 258 | -->'''Sauron:''' ''[[[MilkingTheGiantCow assuming dramatic stance]]]'' I am the sssacred sssovereign of the sssavage land and asss sssuch ssspeak however I pleassse. [[LampshadeHanging Seriously, why do you talk like that?]] |
| 259 | -->'''Stegron:''' [[IResembleThatRemark I sssound the way everyone speaksss!]] |
| 260 | -->'''Sauron:''' Ha! You sound like effeminate cartoon snake! Everybody hears it! |
| 261 | * TailSlap: Naturally, Stegron is capable and quite fond of these. In fact, his tail attacks are so powerful that they proved to be a OneHitKo for average superhero such as Spider-Man on more than one occasion. |
| 262 | * UnskilledButStrong: He may be superior to Spidey in sheer strength and speed department, but he is still just a scientist by profession, with no combat training nor experience, which allows Parker to repeatedly beat him despite the advantage he has in above areas. |
| 263 | * VilerNewVillain: He was this to the Lizard long before Carnage became this to Venom, being a reptilian supervillain to Spider-Man like the Lizard but possesses much less humanizing qualities, is seen much less in his human form, does not appear to have a family, and whatever small sympathetic traits he has are played up much less compared to Curt Connors' good qualities. |
| 264 | * VillainTeamUp: Once he teamed up with fellow saurian rogue Karl Lykos/Sauron against Spider-Man and the X-Men to turn the population of New York into dinosaurs. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Garokk]] |
| 268 | !!'''Garokk, the Petrified Man''' |
| 269 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/garokk.jpg]] |
| 270 | !!!'''Nationality:''' British |
| 271 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 272 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Astonishing Tales'' #2 (1970) |
| 273 | |
| 274 | A god worshiped by the Sun Tribe of the Savage Land, Garokk was once a human explorer who stumbled on an altar to to their god, and drank a mysterious liquid, which turned him into a stone man. Thwarting the mad schemes of his high priestess Zaladane, Garokk supposedly died, only to be resurrected again. Garokk had crossed paths with the X-Men several times, and while he's often apparently perished, sooner or later the Petrified Man walks again. |
| 275 | ---- |
| 276 | * AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear if Garokk is truly just a mutate who drank a weird drink and became the living image of a nonexistent god, or if Garokk is in fact a higher deity of some sort that simply possesses hosts as it sees fit. Zaladane believes the latter, Sauron was skeptical and no one else really knows one way or the other. Garokk doesn't seem terribly eager to set the record straight. |
| 277 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Claims to be a personification of ancient forces. Which he might well be. |
| 278 | * BaldOfEvil: He's got a few wisps of hair left, but not much. |
| 279 | * BodyHorror: He survived his plummet into a bottomless pit, but one half was crystalized. The other, stone half, was melted. |
| 280 | * DeathIsCheap: He died in his first appearance. In his second, he plummeted down an apparently bottomless pit, and then again in his third. He even once discorporated himself, only to pop up again in time. |
| 281 | * DeathSeeker: On his reappearance in the mid-80s, Garokk wasn't terribly happy with his condition as a half-melted stone man. |
| 282 | * EyeBeams: One of his powers, strong enough to engage in a beam-of-war with Cyclops. |
| 283 | * FreudianExcuse: In a beam-of-war with Cyclops, claims he's seen enough suffering over his lifetimes to make even God despair, and his motivation for taking over the Savage Land is to make sure it never happens again. |
| 284 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In his origin story, Garokk sided with Ka-Zar against Zaladane. Afterwards, he's generally been an antagonistic force, whether because of his own intentions or outside circumstances, though in an appearance in Jonathan Hickman's ''Avengers'', he helped them against the High Evolutionary. |
| 285 | * InconsistentSpelling: Is it Garokk or Garrok? It's ''usually'' the former, but sometimes it can be the later. On occasion, in the same issue even. |
| 286 | * LightEmUp: During his half-crystalline stage, he could project blinding light. |
| 287 | * LightningBruiser: For a guy made of stone, he can run astonishingly fast, faster than an ordinary human can. |
| 288 | * Really700YearsOld: He's at least "half a millennium" old and possibly much older. In one monologue, he claims to be a representative of forces older than humanity itself. |
| 289 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: During the 80s, Magneto used him as a sort of butler [=/=] unwilling attack dog for his secret volcano lair outside the Savage Land. |
| 290 | * SuperpowerLottery: Maybe because he's a god, or close as, but ''whoo'', Garokk's got himself a whole set of goodies. Probably one of the few reasons he's not a bigger threat to the Marvel Universe is because he only really cares about the Savage Land. |
| 291 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Like everyone else in the Savage Land, Garokk's only outerwear tends to be a loincloth, to conceal whatever it is a man made of stone has that is necessary to conceal. |
| 292 | * WasOnceAMan: |
| 293 | ** There's an important lesson in Garokk's origins about not drinking mysterious liquids found in hidden civilizations, lest you turn into an immortal stone man. |
| 294 | ** His first resurrection came around when Zaladane grabbed some random guy, and daubed him with some of Garokk's ashes, turning him into a new Garokk. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | !!The Savage Land Mutates |
| 298 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 299 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3e9fc083_7204_4537_9878_3e608845dc4f.jpeg]] |
| 300 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Their original names, if they had them, before being mutated, are unknown. |
| 301 | * {{Transhuman}}: As their name indicates, they're Savage Land natives mutated into more powerful forms. |
| 302 | * SlaveRace: Magneto intentionally engineered them so that they'd be subservient and they have no initiative of their own. This was originally an ironclad rule, but as the years have gone on has gone more the way of an InformedFlaw, with Brainchild, Barbarus, and Worm all having stepped up to lead the group in the absence of any other leaders. Even one of Vertigo's clones was able to break the conditioning, for all the good it did her. |
| 303 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Ironically, despite having been created by Magneto to serve him, the Savage Land Mutates only did so during their introductory storyline and a single two-issue storyline in Avengers. Most of their appearances were spent following the leadership of either Zaladane, Sauron, or both at the same time. This even led to them actively fighting Magneto when he decided he could not let Zaladane live. Vertigo even went off and joined Mister Sinister's Marauders. This was homaged in the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, where the Mutates are introduced having betrayed Magneto and switched allegiance to Mister Sinister. |
| 304 | * YoYoPlotPoint: They were cured of their mutations several times during the 70s, but always inexplicably reverted to their mutated selves in time for the next appearance. Even the official Marvel Wiki suggests that whatever was done to mutate them in the first place results in their mutated genes actively restoring themselves should the damage be undone. |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Zaladane]] |
| 308 | !!'''Zala Dane / Zaladane''' |
| 309 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zaladane00.jpg]] |
| 310 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 311 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 312 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Astonishing Tales'' #3 (1970) |
| 313 | |
| 314 | -> ''I think you'll find a full measure of respect, and not a little fear... for the woman responsible for the ultimate destruction of Magneto.'' |
| 315 | |
| 316 | An ambitious Savage Land priestess who attempted several times to take over the region. Notable for her alliance with Sauron and for having stripped Polaris from her magnetic powers not long after the ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' arc, to the point of being on par with Magneto in terms of mastery over magnetism. She was eventually killed by Magneto himself for claiming his own title. |
| 317 | ---- |
| 318 | * EightiesHair: From the time she stole Lorna's powers, she sports a big 80s perm. How she maintains it in the humidity of the Savage Land is anyone's guess. |
| 319 | * AbortedArc: Under Creator/ChrisClaremont's original plan Zaladane was going to come BackFromTheDead and join new villain group the Wild Boys (yes, named after the Music/DuranDuran song). This group was retooled into the Upstarts after Claremont left and Zaladane remained dead, her place in the new group taken by new villain Siena Blaze instead. |
| 320 | * AmbiguouslyLesbian: Her interactions with Shanna the She-Devil in the X-Men's late 80s "Savage Land" story arc were ambiguous, to say the least. ''Uncanny X-Men'' #250, especially, which had her all but going IHaveYouNowMyPretty on the captured jungle heroine. (The story was written, naturally, by Creator/ChrisClaremont.) |
| 321 | * AntagonisticOffspring: Towards [[spoiler:Magneto]], assuming she was in fact his daughter. |
| 322 | * ArchEnemy: To Ka-Zar and later Polaris. |
| 323 | * BigBad: Only used for this in a single issue, ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #275, but in that issue she successfully supplanted ''Magneto himself'' in threat level. |
| 324 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: As the High Evolutionary's assistant Zaladane wore an outfit featuring a prominent stylized Z, predating [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Lord Zedd]] by a handy decade or so. |
| 325 | * CainAndAbel: She's the Cain, Polaris is the Abel. |
| 326 | * ConflictKiller: She was a big enough threat in UXM #275 to necessitate an alliance between S.H.I.E.L.D, the Russian government, the X-Men (via Rogue) and Magneto. |
| 327 | * ContinuitySnarl: ''Is'' she [[spoiler:Magneto's]] daughter? Is she Polaris's sister? We know Lorna definitely is Erik's kid, but nothing definite's been given about Zaladane. |
| 328 | * TheDragon: To Garokk and later the High Evolutionary before striking out on her own. |
| 329 | * FluffyFashionFeathers: Her last costume incorporated these, presumably as a riff on her first (which featured a headdress that looked ''remarkably'' like a rooster comb). |
| 330 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Introduced as the queen of the Sun People, one of the Savage Land's multiple indigenous tribes. |
| 331 | * HighPriest: For Garokk's cult. |
| 332 | * KickTheDog: She once kidnapped an innocent man and subjected him to a ritual that overwrote his mind and body with that of Garrok, essentially condemning the poor sucker to a FateWorseThanDeath. |
| 333 | * KillItWithFire: Alongside Garokk, she attempted to have Colossus executed via burning at a stake. |
| 334 | * KilledOffForReal: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #275, courtesy of Magneto. |
| 335 | * LadyMacbeth: Played this role to both Garokk and the High Evolutionary, actively egging on and encouraging their villainy (not that Garokk needed much encouraging). |
| 336 | * LongLostSibling: Revealed/retconned into being one for Polaris. |
| 337 | * ManipulativeBitch: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} during her time as the High Evolutionary's assistant, when she all but broke her back trying to manipulate the latter only for him to reveal to the heroes that he knew her true goals all along, but didn't care enough about politics to go to the trouble of stopping her. As long as Zaladane helped him preserve and restore the Savage Land's environment, the High Evolutionary didn't care at all what she did in her off time. |
| 338 | * MeaninglessVillainVictory: In her sole ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' appearance Zaladane was able to successfully consolidate her rule over the Savage Land, only for it to become moot when a fleet of Sentinels slaughtered her and nearly every other mutant on Earth. |
| 339 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: She is heavily implied in her last appearance to have grown stronger than Magneto, so much so that Mags declares her TooPowerfulToLive and kills her. Few heroes or villains can said to have made ''Magneto'' feel fear, but Zaladane is one of them. |
| 340 | * MostCommonSuperPower: She’s quite busty. |
| 341 | * MouthOfSauron: Served this role to Garrok in her first few appearances. |
| 342 | * {{Mutant}}: Averted, at least if we accept her word for it. Zaladane claims at one point to be a mutate, an ordinary human empowered with mutant-level abilities via technology, and while she never proves this it should be noted that the Savage Land features a ''heavy'' mutate population. [[spoiler:Though if she is truly Polaris's sister then she was either lying and actually a mutant or she had latent mutant potential that was activated by mutate technology.]] |
| 343 | * NearVillainVictory: In part due to a Russian colonel's grudge against Magneto, but Zaladane came ''this'' close to having the Savage Land under her leadership declared a sovereign state by the United Nations, in exchange for her agreement to leave the rest of the world in peace. Zaladane was smart enough to realize the U.N. would probably not leave things at that, but her fledgling statecraft went no further as the good guys kicked in her door not too long after. |
| 344 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: At the height of her power Zaladane was powerful enough to threaten every nation on Earth with devastating earthquakes. |
| 345 | * PowerParasite: Not naturally, but she used the High Evolutionary's technology to siphon Polaris's powers into herself. As a Creator/ChrisClaremont plot, this event stuck for some time, with Zaladane retaining Polaris's powers right up to her death and Polaris manifesting a secondary FlyingBrick mutation that lasted until the inevitable StatusQuoIsGod reset button. |
| 346 | * StrongerSibling: To Polaris, if she is in fact her sister. |
| 347 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: A debatable case with her debatable lineage, but it does bear noting that she uses magical powers very similar in nature to those of [[spoiler:her possible half-sister the Scarlet Witch]]. |
| 348 | * ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Literally the words used by Magneto himself as he killed her: "There can be only one Master of Magnetism." |
| 349 | * ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: If she is in fact not a native of the Savage Land, her name might be a corruption of "Sarah Dane" done up to sound more local to the Savage Land. |
| 350 | * TookALevelInBadass: Took several levels in her final appearance, to the point where Magneto himself decided she was TooPowerfulToLive. |
| 351 | * UngratefulBitch: In their first fight Ka-Zar saved Zaladane's life by cushioning her fall when they both fell off a pterodactyl. Zaladane's way of saying thanks was to lure Ka-Zar into a cavern guarded by a demonic beast. Amusingly, this led to some LaserGuidedKarma when an out-of-control Garrok chased her right back into said cavern. |
| 352 | * VainSorceress: Mildly vain. Zaladane's not above a good gloat, but fighting for power in the Savage Land also taught her the necessities of being a CombatPragmatist. |
| 353 | * WouldHurtAChild: In one issue she used her sorcery to control Colossus and ordered him to kill Ka-Zar's infant son out of spite. |
| 354 | * {{Zeerust}}: Presumably the reason she has not been revived; like the Marauders, Zaladane's design was heavily influenced by the era she was created in and consequently she comes off as rather dated today. |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | [[folder:Amphibius]] |
| 358 | !!Amphibius |
| 359 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amphibius_earth_616_from_uncanny_x_men_vol_1_457_0001.jpg]] |
| 360 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 361 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 362 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #62 (November, 1969) |
| 363 | |
| 364 | One of the first generation of mutates created from the Swamp Men tribe of the Savage Land by Magneto, Amphibius is one of the most visibly mutated of his team members. |
| 365 | ---- |
| 366 | * TheBeastmaster: Amphibius can telepathically control any creature that lives in water. |
| 367 | * ExpyCoexistence: He's basically the Savage Land's answer to Toad, and for obvious reasons the two never cross paths. Amphibius is apparently the superior toad-man though, at least if TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes is to be believed. |
| 368 | * FrogMen: Amphibius appears as a man-sized humanoid frog. |
| 369 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: A couple of 2000s era appearance featured him with these. |
| 370 | * InASingleBound: Like the frog he resembles, Amphibius can leap incredible heights and distances, as well as having superhuman reflexes and agility. |
| 371 | * MultipurposeTongue: Amphibius' tongue is both prehensile and long enough that he can use it as a weapon in combat by ensnaring or grappling his victims. |
| 372 | * SpeechImpediment: Spoke with a rasping lisp in the 1992 animated series. |
| 373 | * SuperNotDrowningSkills: Unsurprisingly has the ability to stay underwater for hours, again just like the frog he resembles. |
| 374 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Since he's a frog man, he needs to stay moist to breathe and fire of any kind will completely ruin his day. |
| 375 | * WolverineClaws: His most iconic weapon is a left-hand glove outfitted with razor sharp talons. |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Barbarus]] |
| 379 | !!Barbarus |
| 380 | [[quoteright:236:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barbarus_earth_616_from_marvel_comics_presents_vol_2_6_0001.jpg]] |
| 381 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 382 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 383 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #62 (November, 1969) |
| 384 | |
| 385 | One of the first generation of mutates created from the Swamp Men tribe of the Savage Land by Magneto. |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Mostly depicted as Caucasian but in a few appearances he's had grey skin for some reason. |
| 388 | * BoisterousWeakling: He's got a warrior's boisterous personality and while he isn't exactly weak, he's always either overpowered by someone stronger or his lack of smarts is used to beat him. |
| 389 | * DumbMuscle: He's superhumanly strong, but his smarts are lacking. |
| 390 | * ExpyCoexistence: Rob Liefeld would later introduce a mutant named Forearm who was basically Barbarus but not IN THE JUNGLE. Canonically Barbarus is the stronger of the two four-armed men. |
| 391 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has four fully functional arms. |
| 392 | * ReluctantRuler: Once assumed command of the group while every other leader including Brainchild was away, but he's afflicted with the same subservience the rest of them are. |
| 393 | * SuperStrength: Can lift up to 30 tons if he can bring all four arms to bear on the object. |
| 394 | * SuperToughness: He's much more resistant to injury and fatigue than the regular human. |
| 395 | * SuperSpeed: Downplayed; despite his size, he's much faster than the average human, though not a true super-speedster. |
| 396 | * UnskilledButStrong: An annotation from ComicBook/LukeCage in [[AllThereInTheManual "New Avengers Most Wanted Files #1"]] summarizes Cage's opinion on Barbarus thusly: as strong as Luke Cage, but low on skill. Cage is confident he could take the mutate any day of the week. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Brainchild]] |
| 400 | !!Brainchild |
| 401 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/89fd099e_cc75_4abe_9176_aaf7cf0b0250.jpeg]] |
| 402 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 403 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 404 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #62 (November, 1969) |
| 405 | |
| 406 | One of Magneto's first Savage Land Mutates, Brainchild often fills the role of their leader. |
| 407 | ---- |
| 408 | * BeastOfBattle: In what was probably the coolest thing he's ever done, Brainchild was once able to wrangle Devil Dinosaur away from Moon Boy and ride him into battle. |
| 409 | * ChessmasterSidekick: In the X-Men novel "Law of the Jungle" he alters Sauron's personality to make him a more effective leader. It works. |
| 410 | * DepravedDwarf: He's the smallest of the Mutates, but no less wicked or villainous. |
| 411 | * EvilBrit: Nightcrawler once noted he spoke with a British accent, seemingly for no other reason than to evoke this trope (he's definitely not from Britain, nor has he spent any time there). Averted in the 1992 animated series, which gave him a high-pitched keening voice that was not even remotely British. |
| 412 | * EvilGenius: One look at him and you already know what role he fills for the group. |
| 413 | * TheGreys: His appearance calls to mind a stereotypical Grey alien, with a scrawny, child-sized body contrasted by an oversized, rounded head. |
| 414 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: He's got some ''very'' creepy intentions towards Storm. Not exactly unusual for villains when written by Claremont, but Brainchild doesn't even have the Affable part of AffablyEvil to compensate. |
| 415 | * MyBrainIsBig: Has an enlarged cranium to make his SuperIntelligence more obvious. |
| 416 | * PsychopathicManchild: His nom du guerre itself evokes the trope, and he more than lives up to it with his childish temper tantrums. His first appearance even describes him as having "the emotions of an infant". |
| 417 | * ReluctantRuler: He leads the Mutates whenever there's no one else around to do it but he suffers from the same subservience the rest of them do and happily gives up command whenever a stronger leader (usually Sauron) comes back. |
| 418 | * SuperIntelligence: Is said to have a a brain like a computer. |
| 419 | [[/folder]] |
| 420 | |
| 421 | [[folder:Equilibrius]] |
| 422 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 423 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 424 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #62 (November, 1969) |
| 425 | |
| 426 | One of the first generation of mutates created from the Swamp Men tribe of the Savage Land by Magneto. Equilibrius only appeared five times during the team's early exploits, and then faded into the woodwork. This may be because he's basically just a male counterpart to Vertigo. |
| 427 | ---- |
| 428 | * CharmPerson: Downplayed. He has the ability to psionically influence others to look him in the eye, setting them up for his vertigo attack. |
| 429 | * DeadlyGaze: Whereas Vertigo unleashes waves of psionic energy that affect whatever they touch, Equilibrius' powers only work on those who meet his gaze. |
| 430 | * SensoryAbuse: Those who meet the gaze of Equilibrius are overwhelmed by crippling vertigo. |
| 431 | * SpearCounterpart: He's literally just a male Vertigo, which probably explains why he was dropped. |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Gaza]] |
| 435 | !!Gaza |
| 436 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/186673_186957_gaza.jpg]] |
| 437 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 438 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 439 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #62 (November, 1969) |
| 440 | |
| 441 | Gaza was one of Magneto's first Savage Land Mutates. |
| 442 | ---- |
| 443 | * BeastOfBattle: Once rode a T-Rex into battle. |
| 444 | * TheBigGuy: At 6'9", Gaza is officially the tallest member of the group, towering over even Barbarus. |
| 445 | * DisabilitySuperPower: Gaza's mutant power is basically "he's blind, but not really". |
| 446 | * HandicappedBadass: Although technically blind, Gaza possessed psionic abilities which provided him with the equivalent of normal eyesight. |
| 447 | * HeroicBuild: If Brainchild is the brains of the team, Gaza is definitely the team {{Hunk}}. |
| 448 | * NobleDemon: He's occasionally been depicted as having a sense of honor mostly lacking from the group's other members. |
| 449 | * NoSell: He is immune to purely visual (as opposed to psionic) illusions, blinding attacks, and any attacks that require eye contact. |
| 450 | * WeakButSkilled: He's not as strong physically as Barbarus but is a much better fighter, even besting Ka-Zar in a few encounters. |
| 451 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: At one point in the nineties he ditched the loincloth and harness in favor of some very... ''[[https://i.imgur.com/L2q3Rew.jpg nineties]]'' looking threads. Fortunately this TotallyRadical phase did not last long. |
| 452 | [[/folder]] |
| 453 | |
| 454 | [[folder:Leash]] |
| 455 | !!Leash |
| 456 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/162147_58681_leash.jpg]] |
| 457 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 458 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 459 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land'' #2 (December, 2001) |
| 460 | |
| 461 | Leash is a third-generation Savage Land Mutate, having been created after the death of Zaladane. |
| 462 | ---- |
| 463 | * CollaredByFashion: Wears a spiked collar. |
| 464 | * DressedLikeADominatrix: Red leather, [[WhipOfDominance uses a whip]] and her outfit is [[SpikesOfVillainy full of spikes]]. Even if she doesn't know what a {{Dominatrix}} is, she dresses like one. |
| 465 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: She's defeated when Sage turns her own powers against her, and becomes Sage's thrall. |
| 466 | * MoreThanMindControl: Leash's power lets her generate a leash-like coil of telepathic energy. If she can wrap this around a victim's neck, she can render them her obedient pet, helpless but to obey her every command. She can even attack astral forms with this ability. |
| 467 | * MysteriousPast: As one of just two Savage Land Mutates who debuted after Zaladane's defeat, it's not clear who created her or if she is even actually one of the mutates at well. In both appearance and attitude, she acts much more like an "outlander" who just found the group appealing for whatever reason and joined up. |
| 468 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Black hair, dresses in red leather and she's an enforcer of the Savage Land Mutates. |
| 469 | * TheRival: She seems to have a rivalry with Lupa, as they both compete for Brainchild's favor and go out of their way to insult each other. |
| 470 | * TheRuntAtTheEnd: Leash stands out from the rest of the team like a sore thumb, with everyone else wearing loincloths and sandals while she struts around in a leather bondage getup and looks like Fetish Fuel incarnate. No points for guessing [[Creator/ChrisClaremont who created]] [[AuthorAppeal her]]. |
| 471 | * StatuesqueStunner: Stands at 6'1"/185cm tall and she's a striking woman who dresses pretty provocatively. |
| 472 | * WhipOfDominance: She has a {{Dominatrix}} motif and not only carries a bullwhip as a weapon, but also uses a psychic leash to bind the psyches and souls of other people to her will, allowing her to control them like PeoplePuppets. She's also mentioned to be the overseer of Brainchild's slaves. |
| 473 | |
| 474 | [[/folder]] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | [[folder:Lorelei]] |
| 477 | !!Lani Ubanu / Lorelei |
| 478 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lani_ubanu_earth_616_from_marvel_comics_presents_vol_2_7_0001.jpg]] |
| 479 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 480 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 481 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #63 (December, 1969) |
| 482 | |
| 483 | Known initially as Lorelei, Lani Ubanu is a Savage Land native who was mutated in order to become a terrorist in Magneto's service. She later served the High Technician. |
| 484 | ---- |
| 485 | * CompellingVoice: Lorelei possesses mutant/mutate hypnotic powers, she is able to mesmerize any or all males within hearing range by singing. |
| 486 | * OneSteveLimit: Shares her codename with the Asgardian sister of the Enchantress and the mutant Lorelei Travis. |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[folder:Lupa]] |
| 490 | !!Lupa |
| 491 | [[quoteright:287:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4489535_lupa.png]] |
| 492 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 493 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 494 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land'' #2 (December, 2001) |
| 495 | |
| 496 | Lupa is a third-generation Savage Land Mutate, having been created after the death of Zaladane. |
| 497 | ---- |
| 498 | * AnimalThemedSuperBeing: Lupa has a generic "bestial" appearance and power-set, including SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperSpeed, SuperToughness, enhanced reflexes, heightened sense of hearing and night vision. She can also emit pheromones that allow her to control bestial creatures, although the stronger their will, the harder it is to cow them into submission. |
| 499 | * TheBeastmaster: She can emit pheromones that puts bestial creatures under her thrall. She has some difficulty controlling more intelligent ones with strong wills. |
| 500 | * BerserkButton: She's furious that Brainchild and Leash treat her like DumbMuscle. |
| 501 | * CuteMonsterGirl: Lupa has furry forearms, [[PointyEars pointed elf-like ears]], yellow-on-black bestial eyes, and pronounced claws on her hands, but she's still otherwise a very buxom young woman who runs around in a ragged bikini. |
| 502 | * DistaffCounterpart: She's just Lupo with breasts. Naturally, she's the more popular of the two. |
| 503 | * TheRival: She seems to have a rivalry with Leash, as they both compete for Brainchild's favor and go out of their way to insult each other. |
| 504 | * TheStarscream: She briefly usurped Sauron as the Savage Land's ruler by using a Cosmic Cube fragment to increase her powers. |
| 505 | * StatuesqueStunner: Stands at 5'11"/180cm tall and she's not bad looking. |
| 506 | * WolverineClaws: Lupa sports enlarged, claw-like nails that are sharp enough to be used as weapons, similarly to Wolverine's ArchEnemy Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth. |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[folder:Lupo]] |
| 510 | !!Lupo |
| 511 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lupo_earth_616_from_uncanny_x_men_vol_1_458_001.jpg]] |
| 512 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 513 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 514 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #62 (November, 1969) |
| 515 | |
| 516 | One of the first generation of mutates created from the Swamp Men tribe of the Savage Land by Magneto, Lupo is the only other Mutate of his generation to be as deformed as Amphibius. |
| 517 | ---- |
| 518 | * BeastMan: Courtesy of his mutation, Lupo appears as a bestial humanoid with traits that could be considered either canine or feline, including a body covered in fur, claw-like nails, fangs, and glowing eyes. |
| 519 | * TheBeastmaster: Lupo can use a psionic command carried by high-pitched cries to compel any mammalian carnivore within 1 mile to obey him. |
| 520 | * FreudianExcuse: Gets one in the "Law of the Jungle" novel where it's revealed that he used to be a boy cruelly called Rat-Tail and was abused by his stepfather. |
| 521 | * LittleBitBeastly: Originally he was just a somewhat hairy guy with big ears, but as time has gone on he's become more and more overtly lupine in appearance. |
| 522 | * SavageWolves: He's a wolf-themed villain who can control actual wolves to do his bidding. |
| 523 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In one of his more recent appearance he tried to do this, not caring when Amphibius found Magneto's Asteroid M in the ocean and not wanting to go look for him but being forced to do so anyway by Worm. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Piper]] |
| 527 | !!Piper |
| 528 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/piper_by_keith_pollard_1.jpg]] |
| 529 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 530 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 531 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #62 (November, 1969) |
| 532 | |
| 533 | One of the first generation of mutates created from the Swamp Men tribe of the Savage Land by Magneto, Piper is known to have left the team for a prolonged period before ultimately returning to it. What he did during his absence and where he went are mysteries. |
| 534 | ---- |
| 535 | * TheBeastmaster: Piper can control animals, mindless monsters, and "primitive" creatures, but only if he has access to a wind instrument such as panpipes or flutes to observe as a focus for his powers. |
| 536 | * ExpyCoexistence: A character with an identical name and identical powers debuted later as a member of the Morlocks. It's never been clarified in any of the Marvel Handbooks if they are different characters, but according to TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes they are in fact two separate characters. |
| 537 | * SupportPartyMember: Unlike many of the Mutates he has no hand-to-hand combat ability and is easily dealt with whenever he shows up. |
| 538 | [[/folder]] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | [[folder:Vertigo]] |
| 541 | !!Vertigo |
| 542 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vertigo_xmen.jpg]] |
| 543 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 544 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 545 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Fanfare'' #1 (1982) |
| 546 | |
| 547 | One of the first generation of mutates created from the Swamp Men tribe of the Savage Land by Magneto, Vertigo is like Piper above in having left the team, though she found much more prominence in the world as a member of Mr. Sinister's Marauders. |
| 548 | |
| 549 | See [[Characters/XMenMarauders The Marauders]] for more on her. |
| 550 | ---- |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | [[folder:Whiteout]] |
| 554 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 555 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 556 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #249 (October, 1989) |
| 557 | |
| 558 | One of two second-generation Mutates, created by Brainchild at Zaladane's order to expand her forces after she took over as leader of the Mutates. After the death of Zaladane, she left the Savage Land and joined Superia's Femizons, but ultimately she left them too and made her way back to the Savage Land. |
| 559 | ---- |
| 560 | * AlbinosAreFreaks: She's the only albino mutate, though whether she was always albino or transformed by the mutate procedure into one is not known. |
| 561 | * BlindedByTheLight: She can emit a pulse from her body that blinds anyone she chooses for a period of 1 minute. When doing so, she appears to emite a blinding white flash of light from her body. Her ability to selectively target who is or isn't affected by the flash, as well as affect beings who should logically be able to NoSell her powers, such as the blind or those with bionic eyes that can normally counter intense light, suggests her powers are psionic in nature and the "light" isn't actually real. |
| 562 | * StrawFeminist: Almost certainly not intended to be one, but when looking at her character history she gives a strong impression of this, firstly working for the villainess Zaladane, then signing up with Superia's Femizons and then supporting Lupa when she briefly usurped Sauron and instituted a {{Matriarchy}} rulership. |
| 563 | * SupportPartyMember: Whether it was design or happy coincidence, Whiteout is practically tailor-made to work as this to her fellow mutate Gaza, as her "blind the enemies" power works wand in hand with his "can't be blinded by non-psionic means" power. |
| 564 | [[/folder]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | [[folder:Worm]] |
| 567 | !!Worm |
| 568 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/worm_savage_land_mutate_earth_616_from_uncanny_x_men_vol_1_274_001.png]] |
| 569 | !!!'''Nationality:''' Savage Land |
| 570 | !!!'''Species:''' Human mutate |
| 571 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #250 (October, 1989) |
| 572 | |
| 573 | One of two second-generation Mutates, created by Brainchild at Zaladane's order to expand her forces after she took over as leader of the Mutates. After the death of Zaladane, he fell into line as one of Sauron's enforcers but has been seen only very infrequently since. |
| 574 | ---- |
| 575 | * CoveredInGunge: His mind controlling power comes with the interesting twist that he must first coat the victim in a slime he secretes from his hands. Fortunately for him the slime is effective enough for him to paralyze prey with just a touch, allowing him to finish up on them unimpeded. |
| 576 | * {{Gonk}}: Worm is visibly mutated, with green skin and solid purple eyes. |
| 577 | * MoreThanMindControl: Worm's power is to secrete a psi-receptive chemicle from suction cup-like pores in his hands; when smeared on the skin, this chemical penetrates the victim's bloodstream and migrates to their brain tissue. It takes time to take effect, but once it does so, Worm gains the ability to control the victim's thoughts and body indefinitely, unless the victim has a strong enough will to break free. |
| 578 | * MotiveDecay: In the fourth volume of ''New Mutants'' he decides to try and convince Magneto, a man he's never before met, to lead the Mutates again, even going so far as to use his power to force non-complaint members of the group (Barbarus, Lupo, and Sauron) to go along with his plan. |
| 579 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: As one of the latecomers to the group, Worm never appeared in the 1992 animated series and most writers forget he exists. |
| 580 | * SnakePeople: Well, worm person, but he still fits the general theme of "half human, half serpentine". |
| 581 | * SycophanticServant: An unusual trait for a mind-controlling villain, but outside of a single attempt Worm has never tried to lead the group and has always been at his happiest brainwashing heroes for a boss. |
| 582 | * YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Has these to emphasize his devious nature. |
| 583 | [[/folder]] |
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