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Marvel comic’s Canadian covert-operative started his career in the pages of Alpha Flight and have had countless other appearances since his introduction. Originally started out as an experiment by the Secret Empire even becoming a villain in Omega Flight, but eventually reformed when a cure was given to him making him a handsome man and joined the ranks of Alpha Flight. However, something happened and his animal form returned when he joined the ranks of X-Force, where he remained until finally joining Weapon X that mutated him further. He actually one was of the many mutants that lose their powers during M-Day, but the villain Romulus has returned him to his former glory which he faithfully serves now.
All credit to the original scanners, ie. Organizations like DCP, RacerX
Wild Child
--------------------------------------------- Biography
--------------------------------------------- All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z- #12:
Awesome history bio, but of course as shown with the scans the stats don't match up. Horrible level for fighting skills, just horrible. Guess Marvel didn't follow he was trained by the best in the world. Click HERE! to see what the stats mean
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--------------------------------------------- Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe - Master Edition #31:
They said he had superhuman strength in X-Factor, but I don't know how much. Click HERE! to see what the stats mean.
Wild Child
(Classic Form)
--------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous
--------------------------------------------- Experience
--------------------------------------------- Wolverine #54 [Vol.3]:
Here Wild Child is shown fighting in Italy during World War II [1942] against Wolverine and Captain America as a high ranking Nazi officer. Wait..what? That's right Loeb is doing a nice job of destroying his character. What the hell is going on?
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--------------------------------------------- Beta Flight w/ Gamma Flight
--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #87 (Vol.1):
The Canadian Parliament decided to drop all charges against Alpha Flight and reinstate Dept. H. They then disbanded Gamma Flight and this sends Wild Child into a furious rage and attacks government officials and flees. He is then chased by Gamma Flight his former team and Beta Flight.
Wild Child
(Weapon Omega)
--------------------------------------------- Abilities
--------------------------------------------- Enhanced Senses
--------------------------------------------- Nick Fury #32 [Vol.2]:
During Alpha Flight's world tour, Omega uncovers Ultimatum has taken over a yacht, and placed a bomb inside. Weapon Omega using his heightened senses to track it down
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--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #116 [Vol.1]:
Taking massive hits from the superhumanly strong Rok and suffering no major injuries. His healing factor heals his wound and he still has strength to break free
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--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #109 [Vol.1]:
Alpha Flight is continuing their World Tour traveling to countries to learn how the government supports their countries super powered team. They are attacked by the hand and AF is told to follow Puck and Kyle’s lead. Weapon Omega makes a comment that he was trained by the best
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--------------------------------------------- Strength
--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #116 [Vol.1]:
Kyle using his strength to rip free from his prison
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--------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous
--------------------------------------------- Best-Man
--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #105 [Vol.1]:
Sasquatch, Northstar, Puck, Weapon Omega and Puck throw a bachelor party for Box who is getting married to Diamond Lil. Jeffries asks Kyle to be his best-man
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--------------------------------------------- Santa Claus
--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #105 [Vol.1]:
After Alpha Flight help a man get his house back from a crooked owner, the team tries to be nice and give the family Christmas presents as they can’t afford it themselves. Kyle dresses up as Santa
Wild Child
(Weapon Omega)
--------------------------------------------- Battles
--------------------------------------------- Children of the Night
--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #116 [Vol.1]:
Kyle in search for Nemesis, clashes with her former child assassins the Children of the Night , now under the control of Rok.
Wild Child
(Wildheart)
--------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous
--------------------------------------------- Becoming Wildheart
--------------------------------------------- Alpha Flight #118 [Vol.1]:
Here is the discussion that prompted Kyle to change his identity from Weapon Omega to Wildheart, as he didn't want to give in to his animal actions in Wild Child, but didn't want to be a government lap-dog as Weapon Omega
Wild Child
(X-Factor)
--------------------------------------------- Abilities
--------------------------------------------- Enhanced Senses
--------------------------------------------- X-Factor #112 [Vol.1]:
Wild Child is crucial in tracking down Havok. This is the first mission he joined up with X-Factor. He can smell the metal in the air and his energy pattern
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--------------------------------------------- X-Factor #122 [Vol.1]:
Here Wild Child tracks down Sabretooth and Mystique's scent. I HATE X-Factor Wild Child, compare him to Alpha Flight's Wild Child it's a huge difference. God it's pathetic
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--------------------------------------------- X-Factor #126 [Vol.1]:
Here Sabretooth and Wild Child realize they didn't rescue the real Beast, but Dark Beast and Wild Child steps in the line of fire to make notice of that
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--------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous
--------------------------------------------- Comic Questions Page
--------------------------------------------- X-Factor #119 [Vol.1]:
See I'm not the only one who notices the vastly huge difference between Alpha Flight's Wild Child with X-Factor's. God they made him a joke, and it's sickening. Even at the end of Alpha Flight vol.1, Wild Child was an adult....not a teenager as he was depicted in X-Factor
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--------------------------------------------- Shard
--------------------------------------------- X-Factor #119 [Vol.1]:
Here Wild Child shows his feeling to Shard, which apparently Kyle would be a catch in the future. At a rave, Shard's powers act up and mutant haters grab, which Kyle steps in to lend aid
Wild Child
(X-Factor)
--------------------------------------------- Battles
--------------------------------------------- Aurora
--------------------------------------------- X-Factor #116 [Vol.1]:
Aurora has gone insane, and Kyle must now flee for his life. This shows Kyle's humanity and how he is a tragic character. This explains why he left Alpha Flight, which is a crock but meh!
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--------------------------------------------- Fatale
--------------------------------------------- X-Factor #126 [Vol.1]:
Once again Kyle defeats Fatale, a person who defeated the entire X-Factor team on her own
Wild Child
(Weapon X Upgrade)
--------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous
--------------------------------------------- Recruitment of Aurora
--------------------------------------------- Weapon X Draft: Wild Child: Wild Child (Weapon X)
Here Wild Child is sent by Weapon X to recover Aurora who is in a mental hospital. Weapon X transformed him into this vampire monster thing that looks stupid. Anyways after the scene with Sabretooth is burnt he jumps out of the pool and claws out Wild Child's voice box and doesn't talk through out the rest of the series. Well with his healing factor he could have healed it, but I think he didn't talk due to a mental block since he does eventually talk in the Weapon X mini that came out recently. Anyways here is a really sad story for Kyle, I actually felt bad for him. Him and Aurora used to be a couple when he was "normal".
Wild Child
(Romulus Upgrade)
--------------------------------------------- Speed
--------------------------------------------- Wolverine #53 [Vol.3]:
Wild Child showing his augmented speed going so fast Wolverine doesn't know what to do.
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--------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous
--------------------------------------------- Romulus’ Agent
--------------------------------------------- Wolverine #56 (Vol.3):
Just an update on Wild Child as it seems like he is still planning from behind the scenes with Romulus. Here he is putting pics of Wolverine getting tortured on the wall
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--------------------------------------------- Torturer
--------------------------------------------- Wolverine Origins #15 [Vol.1]:
Daken has broken his secret leader’s rules, so Wild Child is sent to punish Daken. So he orders his minion to whip Daken with gasoline soaked whips and gives a message from their leader.
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--------------------------------------------- Wolverine
--------------------------------------------- Wolverine #53 [Vol.3]:
A newly upgraded Wild Child storms into Wakanda's palace and kidnaps Sabretooth. Wolverine follows the trail, and severely and I mean severely gets owned by Wild Child. His claws were poisoned and knocked Wolverine out for 2 days. Wolverine admitted he was faster, and basically did nothing to Wild Child. I have no idea what happened to Wild Child, but wow.
Wild Child (Alternate Realities)
--------------------------------------------- Age of Apocalypse
--------------------------------------------- Biography
--------------------------------------------- Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: AoA 2005:
Age of Apocalypse Wild Child was a pretty cool character. However, they are under estimating him, since in this form he battled Sabretooth for three days straight and Sabretooth was not near death. Click HERE! to see what the stats mean.
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--------------------------------------------- Battles
--------------------------------------------- Sabretooth (AoA)
--------------------------------------------- X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot #1 (Vol.1):
Here Wild Child and Sabretooth clash for three straight days and the way it stops is Sabretooth pees on him...now that's unique
Another absolutely awesome respect thread Mundi. God with the amount and quality of information you've thrown into the respect forum there should be a goddamn "respect KM topic".
And dead?! (****!!) Omega Red tossed him into a vat of steel, in full panel view. I guess that's it for Kyle.
Whether he was a Nazi in some weirdly distant retcon or not, I'm laid back and would have waited to see how it turned out. The only thing I'm absolute about these days is that Kyle is not "inferior Sabretooth knock-off" but is actually Creed's biological son.
At -K-M-'s request, I'm posting some of my own observations of the character's traits. I have no accompanying pics yet.
Wild Child's Speech Pattern:
Byrne introduced Wild Child as eloquent and fluid in his speech. Future writers ran with this with some patchy spots in between. Scott Lobdell continued the eloquence in Weapon Omega, and to an extent Simon Furman did so with Wildheart. Not until Jeph Loeb tried revitalizing the character with amazing results did we see his eloquence again. I give the man credit where credit is due trying to take the character back to his roots.
Other writers either made him mute (Tieri) or talking with the exact same speech pattern as Sabretooth and Wolverine (Mackie, Way). If people criticize the character for being too much like Sabretooth, why perpetuate the wrong speech pattern? He never talked like this at all in Alpha Flight or Loeb's take as Romulus' right hand man.
Wild Child's mental state:
He has been sane, he has been insane, he has been noble, he has been twisted, he has been psychotic (here's a retcon they could have used. Daken's phermones inducing psychotic rage.) It was said in Alpha Flight that he had two distinct personalities. I would say not to the extent of Aurora/Jeanne-Marie, but he is definitely dissociative, and his persona changes seem tied to his shifting appearance. Something else he doesn't share with Sabretooth. Whether this has anything to do with his genetic alterations, his powers affecting his mind or influenced by Romulus, it bears exploring.
Wild Child's healing factor:
Diablo caused a spot on his chest to burn from lava, without injury or effect. His age also fluctuates, which would suggest his healing factor is not stable and can be so strong at times that it can reverse his aging process to a limited but significant extent.
Wild Child's father:
Who is he? It's been said he's supposed to be the son of Sabretooth, which explains their similarities. Is it Victor? It wasn't Wyre, merely the source for genetic experiments on abducted mutants. Could it even be Romulus himself? I doubt he'd trust an incompetent as closely as he trusted Kyle as his right hand. But his son?
Spoiler............
Wild Child's Death:
It felt off, forced, callous and deliberate. Not only does Way portray the character directly opposed to how Loeb was setting him up, he wrote him as so profoundly out of character it seemed deliberate. Wild Child died directly on panel, so we could see him descend into a vat of molten iron hands first and then another shot of nothing in the vat, Wild Child submerged and destroyed, the same vat of molten iron Wolverine had just gotten out of. Nevermind that Kyle has been exposed to such extremes before and his healing factor may have been comparably strong enough to save him. Way wanted him dead and wanted to make a point of the character being unusable. If a character "sucks" wouldn't a writer do something other than perpetuate that notion and kill it off? Loeb obviously had some damn good if unusual ideas. I still want to know what he was doing in WWII. If they retconned that in. Wild Child was anything but the incompetant he way portrayed in W:0 #39.
Wild Child (Alternate Realities)
--------------------------------------------- Age of Apocalypse
--------------------------------------------- Battles
--------------------------------------------- Wolverine (616)
--------------------------------------------- Uncanny X-Force #11 (Vol.1):
Here Wild Child briefly takes on 616 Wolverine and actually is so quick he is cutting up Wolverine’s muscles before they can even heal. He eventually is hit away and then Psylocke stops the fight
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