MARY McKENNA
Real Name: Mary McKenna
Identity/Class: Human, Canadian citizen
Occupation: Archeologist (retired)
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Wolverine/James "Logan" Howlett
Enemies: Hauk'ka
Known Relatives: Mr McKenna (father)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men I#455 (April, 2005)
Powers/Abilities: Mary possessed no superhuman abilities but was an intelligent, capable and idealistic archeologist who even in her later years didn't shy away from danger or adventure.
Height: 5'3" by approximation
Weight: 110 lbs by approximation
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Red
History:
(Uncanny X-Men I#455 (fb) - BTS) - Mary McKenna, an archeologist like her father, was introduced to and fell in love with her father's old friend Logan (years before he became known as the X-Man Wolverine).
(Uncanny X-Men I#455 (fb) - BTS) - At some unspecified moment in time Logan, Mary and her father went on an expedition where they uncovered an idol of Savage Land deity Garokk. They took a photograph with the idol as a memento.
(Uncanny X-Men I#455 (fb) - BTS) - Logan and Mary had faced and dealt with some unrevealed threat.
(Uncanny X-Men I#455) - Approximately fifty years after Mary and Logan faced the threat, Mary (now connected to Canada's Royal Tyrrel Institute, became aware of the danger's imminent return. She contacted her old friend Logan at the Xavier Institute.
(Uncanny X-Men I#455) - Wolverine traveled to Canada to meet Mary at Tyrrell Institute. Mary and Logan discussed the return of the old threat. Mary told Logan "they" would try to stop them, but Logan decided they needed to stop "them" before another massacre could occur. Mary angrily decided she needed to accompany Logan to stop them, because she couldn't allow "them" to continue to use the Tyrell museum as a cover for their greed. The two were observed by new X-Man X-23, who had secretly decided to follow Wolverine's every move. Mary and Logan left in his airplane.
(Uncanny X-Men I#456 (fb) - BTS) - En route to the Savage Land, the airplane was attacked by a group of evolved Saurians known as the Hauk'ka while flying over the Rocky Mountains. Wolverine and X-23 fought the Hauk'ka, without any real success.
(Uncanny X-Men I#455) - Mary was revealed to have died, either as a result of the crash or during the Hauk'ka's attack.
Comments: Created by Chris Claremont, Alan Davis, and Mark Farmer.
To date, it remains unclear just who or what was the big threat Wolverine and Mary went out to investigate was. It couldn't possibly be the Hauk'ka, because the Saurians seemingly had no knowledge of or interest in using the Royal Tyrrell Museum as a cover for their plans. It might have something to do with the idol of Garokk uncovered by Logan, Mary and her father half a century earlier. Considering the Petrified Man is essentially immortal, half a century is nothing to him. Be that as it may, the issue was never resolved or even mentioned. With Mary dead, only Wolverine was still aware of this threat and he was caught and brainwashed by the Hand in his own series pretty soon afterwards. It must have slipped his mind.
Profile by MarvellousLuke
CLARIFICATIONS:
Mary McKenna has no known connections to
Mr McKenna was only seen in two photographs that his daughter Mary kept in the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada. Judging from those pictures, he was an archeologist who once met the mutant Logan as a young man. In the shot, they were posing with a recently uncovered dinosaur jawbone. In the second photograph, McKenna was now an old man, posing with his daughter, Mary, and Logan (who still looked as he did way back when). The trio was holding an idol that resembled Garokk, self proclaimed deity and ruler of the Savage Land. It's unknown if McKenna was aware of the historical significance of his find or even who Garokk was. Just where these pictures were taken also remains unclear. If both photos were shot in the Savage Land (which the Garokk one has to have been at least), this means Canadian archeologists had been aware of the Savage Land decades before its existence became (semi) public knowledge in 1965's X-Men I#10. It's also never been made clear if McKenna knew or approved of his daughter's relationship with Logan.
--Uncanny X-Men I#455
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Uncanny X-Men I#455, p15, pan2 (main image)
Uncanny X-Men I#455, p15, pan1 (young Mary)
Uncanny X-Men I#455, p15, pan1 (Mr McKenna)
Uncanny X-Men I#455, p22, pan1 (death)
Appearances:
Uncanny X-Men I#455 (April, 2005) - Chris Claremont (writer), Alan Davis (pencils), Mark Farmer (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Last updated: 12/30/13
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