MAN-KILLER WOLF

Real Name: Man-Killer Wolf

Identity/Class: Magically-enhanced human;
    Native American (Siksika nation);
    18^th Century

Occupation: Tribal leader

Group Membership: Led a tribe that was a faction of the Siksika nation

Affiliations: Adversary (whom Man-Killer Wolf referred to as the Drummer with No Sound, Great One, and Silent Drummer)

Enemies: Albert, Elsie-Dee, Hunter-in-Darkness; rival Siksika faction (whom Man-Killer Wolf referred to as the "Dog-Eating Unbelievers");
    Forge-94102, Wolverine-94102;

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: The Great plains (what is now Alberta, Canada)

First Appearance: Wolverine II#86 (October, 1994)

Powers/Abilities: As a shaman of and 18^th Century, Man-Killer Wolf presumably had some experience with herbal medicine and perhaps some actual mysticism. He carried a (presumably) human femur as a physical weapon.

    He spoke a dialect of Algonquian.

    Under the Adversary's influence, he believed that no weapon could pierce his body, but Albert nearly disemboweled him.

    The Adversary empowered him to fly at great speeds, crash through large wooden poles, project energy blasts from his finger tips and carry two adult men (including the heavy, Adamantium-laced bones of Wolverine). However, he could still be injured by Wolverine's Adamantium claws and Forge's energy-blaster.

    His empowered form had sharp teeth and claws.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'8"-6')
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 150-200 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (not clearly shown, but likely brown); glowed red when charged with the Adversary's power
Hair: Unrevealed (always covered by his headdress, but likely black)
Other Distinguishing Features: His headdress was a wolf with a man's severed wrist/hand in its mouth

History:
(Wolverine II#86 (fb) - BTS) - Apparently 10 years in the relative future (compared to the main story) of Earth-94102, the demon known as the Adversary, or the Great Trickster, apparently escaped from the seemingly permanent containment in which Forge had trapped him.

    The Adversary fled to the 18^th Century Great Plains on Earth-616 (on at a point in time common to Realities-616 and -94102), around what would become Alberta, Canada, and he took over the Siksika shaman Man-Killer Wolf, making him a pawn through which to work his evil. A faction of the Siksika followed Man-Killer Wolf, while many who were wise to the Adversary's plots opposed him.

    Forge determined that the Adversary's actions in that "time string" was setting off a "devious destructive seed of evil consequences," resulting in a chain of trans-temporal events that could spread across the entire time continuum, infecting all time streams. Reality-94102's Wolverine joined Forge in traveling to the 18^th Century to thwart the Adversary's plot.

    Forge and Wolverine based themselves in a village of a Siksika sect that opposed the Adversary and Man-Killer Wolf's forces.

(Wolverine II#53 (fb) - BTS / Wolverine II#86 (fb)) - As Man-Killer Wolf's tribe battle the rival sect, to whom he referred as "dog-eating unbelievers," the Albert (a Wolverine android), Elsie-Dee (a childlike android partnered with Albert) and the Hunter-in-Darkness (a large creature both androids had befriended) -- sent into the past by Spiral to investigatea skeleton with Wolverine-esque Adamantium claws (belonging to a temporal variant of Wolverine-94102) -- dropped to ground from a sky portal.

(Wolverine II#86 (fb)) - Man-Killer Wolf assumed the rival tribe to have summoned "hungry ghosts from the sky." Stating that he was the strong right arm of the Adversary and that no weapon could pierce him, he struck Albert across the face with a bone (presumably a femur). Unharmed, Albert struck back with a swipe of his claws, apparently disemboweling Man-Killer Wolf with his claws, after which his tribesmen piled on top of Albert. Elsie-Dee and the Hunter came to assist him, and the three of them swiftly overwhelmed this tribe. Man-Killer Wolf's tribesmen carried him with them as they fled.

    After Albert, Elsie & the Hunter met up with Forge and Wolverine-94102, who discussed the events that had led to the current situation, Forge's scanner observed as Man-Killer Wolf kneeled before a fire and told his master that he had failed, that his warriors had deserted him and that he sang his death song.

    The Adversary appeared in the flames, telling Man-Killer Wolf that his problem, besides his propensity for pretentious blathering, what his utter lack of a sense of humor. Stating that life and death were a great joke and a trick, the Adversary healed and transfigured Man-Killer Wolf as the conduit of his power on "this pitiful plane."

    Projecting powerful energy through his mouth, the Adversary sent Man-Killer Wolf back across the river, instructing him to bring Forge to the great falling waters so the Adversary could unmake him.

    Man-Killer Wolf struck the rival tribe's base in his energy form, shattering wooden posts and constructs. Telling Forge that his doom was upon him as he had been summoned to the Great Trickster, the Adversary picked up Forge and began flying him to the waterfall, and he either inadvertently picked up Wolverine as well, or Wolverine jumped on to help Forge.

    Regardless, after Forge revealed that Man-Killer Wolf didn't have any real power on his own but was rather only a vessel, Wolverine slashed Man-Killer Wolf, cutting him to the bone. Forge then blasted Man-Killer Wolf with an energy weapon, causing the Siksika shaman to abandon the two and head back for the waterfall.

    Forge and Wolverine followed him, instructing Elsie-Dee and the others to stay behind and watch out for the Siksika.

(Wolverine II#86 (fb)) - BTS) - As Wolverine and Forge fought the Adversary, he/it generated a temporal vortex that pulled in Wolverine. However, Albert, Elsie, and the Hunter's having traveled back in time and/or Wolverine's involvement at the Crunch protected Wolverine so that he was returned to his own time.

    Man-Killer Wolf's fate was unrevealed, but it seems likely that he perished in the final battle between the Adversary and Forge- and Wolverine-94102

Comments: Created by Larry Hama and John Nadeau.

   This profile was completed 12/05/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Man-Killer Wolf should be distinguished from:

• MAN-KILLER (Kativa) - African, wore hyena pelt and posed as animal man--Lorna, the Jungle Girl#7/2
  
• MAN-KILLER - Hydra robot, sent after Captain America, destroyed by him--Captain America I#111
  
• MANKILLER (Katrina* Louis van Horn) - Crimson Cowl (Justine Hammer)’s Masters of Evil, former head of Hydra’s assassins division, former European Olympic-class skier, crippled in competition with sexist male skier, body rebuilt and given powerful exoskeleton by A.I.M. -aka AMAZON, Wilma--Marvel Team-Up I#8
• other "Man," "Killer," and/or "Wolf" characters, groups, items, events, races or places...

First posted: 09/26/2026
Last updated: 12/05/2025

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