Hounds (comics)

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Hounds are the name given to several fictional groups of mutant characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. This term usually refers to those who track or hunt down mutants while serving a higher authority.

History

Days of Future Past

The Hounds were first introduced in Uncanny X-Men, from the "

Ahab, who used them to hunt down and imprison mutants in concentration camps. Rachel was forced to become one of these Hounds while still an adolescent, which scarred and haunted her for years afterward. Eventually she broke her conditioning and rebelled. As a result, Rachel was sent to the camps herself as punishment.[1]

Shadow King's Hounds

Shadow King is later seen to use mind-controlled humans called Hounds to track Storm, who had been transformed into a child by the villainous Nanny. These Hounds were reduced to a nearly mindless, animalistic state by the Shadow King apparently for his own amusement.[2]

Orchis' Hounds

Reaper to target Mystique and Nightcrawler's Creepy Crawler appearance.[4]

Other versions

Age of Apocalypse

In the

Beast who served Holocaust
as his leading hunter after the defection of Sabretooth.

Spider-Verse

In the "

Peter Parker's body), Assassin Spider-Man, and Spider-Punk emerge from a portal and immediately incapacitate the Hounds. While Verna mourns the deaths of her Hounds, Miles looks at the shattered gravestone of his mother and says she made things personal between them with Verna furiously responding that she will feast on his bones.[6] Verna later sent the Vultures after the Ben Reilly of Earth-94. Reilly defeats them with the aid of Spider-Ham and the Old Man Spider-Man of Earth-4[7] Verna, Rhino, and Scorpion arrive to hunt Hobgoblin (who was the identity of this world's Peter Parker) and drain his life force. They are thwarted by Spider-Woman of Earth-65 who then escapes with Hobgoblin.[8] In the final battle, Verna has an army of Green Goblins.[9]

During the "

Chameleon being the latest Hound. They compete with Kaine Parker's group to get to the crystal first.[10]

In other media

Television

Live action

Main articles:
The Gifted (U.S. TV series)

The Hounds feature in the X-Men film universe spin-off television series, The Gifted. They are directly referenced first during a scene in the season one episode titled "boXed in".[11] In the series, the Hounds' villainous leader Roderick Campbell is portrayed by Garret Dillahunt.[12]

Animation

In the

Apocalypse who were called Hounds (rather than the Horsemen of Apocalypse despite the title of the episode). Their costumes were based on those of the Days of Future Past Hounds. Three of them were unnamed, but the fourth was Caliban of the Morlocks
(who in the comics was one of the Horsemen of Apocalypse).

References

  1. ^ Uncanny X-Men #141. Marvel Comics.
  2. ^ Uncanny X-Men #266. Marvel Comics.
  3. ^ Uncanny Spider-Man #2. Marvel Comics.
  4. ^ Uncanny Spider-Man #3. Marvel Comics.
  5. ^ The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #9. Marvel Comics.
  6. ^ The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #10. Marvel Comics.
  7. ^ Spider-Verse Team-Up #1. Marvel Comics.
  8. ^ Spider-Verse Team-Up #2. Marvel Comics.
  9. ^ The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #15. Marvel Comics.
  10. ^ Spider-Force #1-2. Marvel Comics.
  11. ^ "'The Gifted': What Are Hounds?".
  12. ^ "'The Gifted' Introduces Pulse and Sets up the Mutant-Tracking Hounds | moviepilot.com". Archived from the original on 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-10-31.

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