He drove himself to be the best Wakandan possible in an attempt to upstage his adopted brother. Hunter knew he would never ascend to the throne with T'Challa as the true heir and, feeling cheated, developed a deep jealousy for T'Challa. Despite this, he developed a true love for Wakanda as one of his adopted homeland's staunchest patriots. Being a white foreigner, Hunter was viewed with suspicion and even contempt by the cautious Wakandans. Fictional character biography Īfter his parents' death in a plane crash in Wakanda, Hunter was adopted by King T'Chaka. The character, created by Christopher Priest and Mark Texeira, first appeared in Black Panther vol. However, the two are going to have to put aside their differences if they want to help the nation of Mohannda and uncover the truth about White Wolf’s plans.Hunter the White Wolf is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A lot of tension still exists between her and Wilson, stemming both from his recent actions in Wakanda and her having turned him into a werewolf. Now, though, CAPTAIN AMERICA: SYMBOL OF TRUTH (2022) #8 has confirmed what Johnson has been up to in recent years. Johnson, for her part, returned in SAVAGE AVENGERS (2019) as a patron at the Bar with No Name, though she didn’t play a major role in the story. In the closing moments of OCCUPY AVENGERS, Johnson and Red Wolf began exploring their romantic feelings for each other, though their fates in the battle against Hydra were left unclear. Together with Red Wolf, she joined the resistance against Hydra and organized people in South Dakota against the group. During the SECRET EMPRIE tie-in issues of OCCUPY AVENGERS, Johnson took up the mantle of Nighthawk following his murder. Additionally, she founded the Flashmob, using them to take on Víctor Álvarez’s Power Man, and joined Misty Knight’s Crew, which fought against the Purple Man’s Villains for Hire.Īfter the team dealt with a few smaller-scale problems, SECRET EMPIRE (2017) hit, and Hawkeye was called away from his OCCUPY AVENGERS teammates to fight against Hydra, who had taken control of the United States. That titular villain assembled a group of Super Villains, including Johnson, to help him steal a power source called the Hypernova from a technologically advanced group known as the Infinicide. Additionally, Nightshade resurrected the villainous Black Dragon during Christopher Priest’s run on BLACK PANTHER (1998), which saw her bring an alternate version of T’Challa from a parallel reality to Earth-616.Īfter BLACK PANTHER, Nightshade played a key role in several Super Villain teams, most notably M.O.D.O.K.’s 11. Both times, Rogers only managed to take down Johnson and her allies with help and by the skin of his teeth.Īlthough Nightshade has played a key role in several Captain America’s stories, she has also gone up against Power Man, Iron Fist, Colleen Wing, and Misty Knight on numerous occasions, usually employing the help of robots called Cybernauts to fight them. After Rogers defeated Superia, Johnson began working-potentially against her will-with Dredmund the Druid and succeeded at turning Captain America into a werewolf. Several years later, during the "Superia Stratagem" arc, Johnson allied with the villainous Superia to create a female-led world. agents and pit them against Rogers and Wilson. The next time Johnson returned, she used her scientific prowess to mind control several male S.H.I.E.L.D. That’s not the only time Nightshade faced off against Captain America. In the end, Rogers defeated Nightshade with some help from Nick Fury and restored Wilson to his human form. During their investigation, Nightshade captured Wilson and turned him into a werewolf. Desperate, an imprisoned man named Mel Lansing reached out to his old friend Sam for help. As part of one of her many experiments, Nightshade began transforming convicts into werewolves. That story saw Johnson team up with recurring villain Yellow Claw to take on Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, and Sam Wilson, who was acting as the Sentinel of Liberty’s partner at the time. Rather than use those abilities for good, though, Johnson turned to a life of crime, leading to her debut in CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #164 by Steve Englehart and Alan Weiss. In her early life, Johnson proved herself to be a brilliant scientist with specializations in genetics and cybernetics. Here’s what you need to know about Johnson. Now, the villain-turned-hero is back in the pages of Tochi Onyebuchi and Ig Guara’s CAPTAIN AMERICA: SYMBOL OF TRUTH (2022) #8, and her reunion with Wilson is a tense one. Cunning and intelligent, Tilda Johnson-AKA Nightshade-has stood toe-to-toe with some of Marvel’s heaviest hitters, including Sam Wilson’s Falcon, Luke Cage’s Power Man, and Danny Rand’s Iron Fist.
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