PANTHER

Real Name: Corinne Walton

Identity/Class: Human cyborg mutate; British citizen

Occupation: Agent of S.T.O.R.M.;
   secretly spying for Mys-Tech

Group Membership: Gene Dogs (Cat/Emma Malone, Howitzer/Shaka, Kestrel/Annie Jones, Pacer/Carlos deSilva, Tyr/Marc Devlin);
   formerly Team Omega

Affiliations: Lars Dinkelbach, Doctor Sam Merrick 

Enemies: Genetix (Base/Hiro Sokuto, Ridge/Tim Holloway, Shift/Clifton Joseph, Stinger/Blodwen Reese, Vesper/Raaini Jatwinder), Q7 Strikeforce (Automaton, Banzai, Firestrike, Harvester, Victor Sternwood, Tanuta Umbotha)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None (see comments)

Base of Operations: STORM Central, North Wales

First Appearance: Gene Dogs#1 (October 1993)

Powers/Abilities: Panther possessed enhanced agility and heightened senses. She may also have possessed a degree of enhanced or even superhuman strength. She had a gene-chip implanted in her cortex which further enhanced her abilities. Her powers and the chip needed regular stabilizing using the same Gene Match Device that had empowered her, or else she risked them failing and potentially going insane.

   Panther was a trained counter-terrorist operative and soldier, proficient in jungle survival, the use of multiple types of firearm and hand-to-hand combat even prior to her enhancement.

   Panther wore twin wrist gauntlets each equipped with dual sharp blades extending like claws.

Height: 5'8" (by estimation - see comments)
Weight: 145 lbs. (by estimation)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black

History:
(Gene Dogs#1 (fb) - BTS) - Corinne Walton was a member of Team Omega, an elite counter terrorist squad assembled by Lars Dinkelbach, a.k.a. agent Eagle of S.T.O.R.M. (Special Taskforce Omega Response Mandate), a Pan-European Defense and Counter-Terrorism Organization. Eagle used them to fight a secret war against worldwide crime and terrorism.

(Gene Dogs#1 (fb)) - At some point (see comments) she began dating fellow team member Tyr.

(Gene Dogs#1 (fb) - BTS) - After an unrevealed length of time carrying out these tasks Eagle sent Team Omega on a mission to the African Congo to destroy a secret research base there. Successfully bypassing the base's defenses the group set C4 explosive charges and got out just ahead of their bombs blowing the place to smithereens. 

(Gene Dogs#1 (fb)) - However, as they raced through the jungle away from the exploding base they were attacked by a monstrous creature.

(Gene Dogs#1 (fb) - BTS) -The creature ripped the team to pieces before Tyr was finally able to stop it. The team were treated for their injuries in Nairobi, but the creature had carried an artificial virus that prevented them from healing.

(Gene Dogs#1 (fb)) - They were rushed back to STORM HQ in Wales, where scientist Sam Merrick put them through a dangerous experimental process using his Gene Match Device to identify the most compatible animals for each agent and then re-write and re-combine their DNA patterns with the chosen animal, implanting their genetic abilities and heightened natural talents into the host. To support this gene-chips, bio-wetware computer chips, were implanted into the subject's cortex, further enhancing them. Corrine was the first of Team Omega to undergo the still experimental process, and was backed up with feline DNA, emerging completely healed.

(Gene Dogs#3 - BTS) - Though the team members were not informed, every Gene Dog required to undergo regular stabilizing procedures in the GMD or their human aspects would reject the bio-implants and animal DNA that gave them their powers, which would cause their powers to fail, and might even drive them mad. Only Merrick knew how to carry these out.

(Gene Dogs#1 (fb) - BTS) - Corrine took on the codename Panther, and Team Omega was renamed the Gene Dogs. For the next year they underwent training and testing, though even by the end of that time Merrick was concerned that Panther was not ready for a field test.

   Though not used for combat missions, they did carry out other work, with Panther being assigned to track down the location of Codename: Genetix with the intent to eventually capture them.

(Gene Dogs#1) - Panther for her part secretly felt she was too old to continue undertaking dangerous missions, wishing she had quit after Africa, left the service and never let Merrick put her through his machine.

(Gene Dogs#2 - BTS) - At some point (see comments) Panther began passing information to the villainous Mys-Tech organization, allowing them to evade STORM's efforts to stop them. 

(Gene Dogs#1) - Despite Merrick's qualms, Panther and the others were deployed for their first field mission to stop Otomocorp's mercenaries, the Q7 Strikeforce, who were raiding the Nakasoni Corporation's bio-tech research facility in Liverpool in order to steal a new Gene Scanner. The Gene Dogs confronted the Strikeforce outside the building and engaged them in combat, with Panther squaring off against Banzai. After slicing his chest with her claws he activated a chameleon-mode that was supposed to render him invisible to his foes, but he had failed to reckon with Panther's enhanced senses; still able to tell exactly where he was, she delivered a flying kick to his head. The other Gene Dogs likewise were fairing well against the Strikeforce, so Strikeforce member Tanuta Umbotha activated a device that made them vanish, apparently temporarily phased out of sync with their surroundings. Moments later Banzai reappeared behind Panther and before she could react he stabbed her in the back, his sword going all the way through her midriff. As she collapsed the other Strikeforce members surrounded her, seeking to force her teammates to battle them head on if they wanted to come to her aid. Despite knowing this was a trap, the Gene Dogs raced into battle, but Panther realized her wound was too severe and their help would come too late.

   With sensors (either in her suit, or sent via the gene-chip) sending telemetry back to STORM HQ, Merrick saw that Panther's blood pressure was dangerously low and respiration was weak, and realized the rest of the team wouldn't get to her on time and ordered in back-up in the form of of a STORM assault squad with new Gene Dog Cat. This assistance allowed the team to reach Panther and prompted the Strikeforce to retreat. With Panther barely hanging on to life, Tyr cradled her in his arms. Her last words to him were to apologize for not being able to stick around, and tell him "it was fun though, wasn't...."

(Gene Dogs#2 - BTS) - Having discovered that Panther was a Mys-Tech spy (see comments), Eagle informed Cat of this and told her to use her telepathic skills to discover if any of the other Gene Dogs were also traitors. Meanwhile the Gene Dogs acted on the intelligence Panther had left behind and tracked down Genetix.

(Gene Dogs#3 - BTS) - Through her telepathy Cat confirmed that all of the Gene Dogs bar Tyr were definitely not working with Panther to spy for Mys-Tech; Tyr remained uncertain as his strong psychic defenses had prevented scanning thus far. In order to make these defenses drop, Cat let slip to the team about Panther's betrayal. Though Tyr refused to believe her, his anger made his guard drop, and Cat was able to confirm he had not been working with Panther on this front.

(Gene Dogs#4 - BTS) - Mys-Tech Board members Ormond Wychwood and Algernon Crowe bemoaned that they had lost Panther, their agent within STORM's inner cadre.

Comments: Created by John Freeman, David Taylor and Stephen Baskerville.

   Panther's surname was revealed in Marvel Atlas#1's UK entry.

   The flashback in Gene Dogs#1 confirms that Marc Devlin already went by the codename Tyr back in Team Omega, which suggests the other members also had codenames,. However, his codename doesn't tie to the animal whose DNA he subsequently got sliced with, unlike Panther and Kestrel. If they already had those codenames, either they inspired Merrick's choice of animals to save the two women or else it's a heck of a coincidence. Or perhaps the women changed their codenames after being gene-spliced to reflect their new abilities. 

   The origins of the creature that attacked Team Omega in the Congo isn't provided, but given they had just blown up a secret research lab it was probably either something that lab was examining (perhaps an alien, Deviant monster, mutant, etc.) or else a creation of said lab, especially as it carried an artificial virus.

   There are no good image options to compare Panther's height against someone else, let alone against a character with an established height. There is one image of her standing near Tyr in their Team Omega days that suggests she was a little shorter than him then, and another in the present that suggests she's several inches shorter than the transformed Tyr, and in turn Tyr has a pretty poor image in Revolutionary War Omega that suggests he's about the same height as some of the Super Soldiers (but much shorter than Gog), and we know from Super Soldiers#4 that the Dalton is slightly shorter than USAgent, who is 6'4". So extrapolating backwards, that makes Dalton perhaps 6'1" or 6'2", and transformed Tyr around the same height, so at a VERY ROUGH estimate, Panther was probably around 5'8".

   It's not revealed when Tyr and Panther began dating - it could have been back as far as before they both joined Team Omega, during their time in that team, or after they became Gene Dogs. Likewise the same holds true for how far back she had been working for Mys-Tech - was she already a spy when she was recruited, or did that come after she was in Team Omega or after she became a Gene Dog? And while Eagle presumably only learned of this later, did he find out only after she died, or had he discovered this before her death and was perhaps planning to have Cat monitor her so he could learn what information she had leaked and maybe use her to feed back disinformation, only for her untimely demise to derail that?

   This profile was completed on 08/03/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent Gene Dogs.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Panther has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Gene Dogs#1, p9, pan4 (main image)
Gene Dogs#1, p3, pan1 (crouching)
Gene Dogs#1, p8, pan3 (in Team Omega outfit)
Gene Dogs#1, p11, pan1 (stabbed)

Appearances:
Gene Dogs#1 (October 1993) - John Freeman (writer), David Taylor (pencils), Stephen Baskeville (inks), Bambos Georgiou (editor)

First Posted: 09/29/2026
Last updated: 08/03/2026

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