In the beginning, the New Mutants were assembled by Professor Xavier, who seemed to truly want to teach them to protect themselves with their powers, while avoiding and discouraging the idea that they would ever become superheroes. As with most of the original New Mutants, she started strong and won hearts only to be written wildly inconsistently for the next few decades after the original series had run its course. That was in 1982, so she’s been hanging out in the Marvel Universe for close to 40 years now.

Wolfsbane was created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod along with most of the rest of the New Mutants, making her first appearance in Marvel Graphic Novel #4. Wolfsbane by Bill Sienkewicz Wolfsbane's Origins Joining the New Mutants, she found a family, but she has still not been given the chance to recover from the upheaval of her early life. for their intolerance.Īmong these many tales, there is the story of Rahne Sinclair, better known as Wolfsbane, a young lycanthropic mutant whose religious upbringing left her with lifelong pain that she has yet to fully work through. Stories like God Loves, Man Kills served as a metaphor through which to call out some religious leaders in the U.S. Though there are many positive portrayals of any number of different belief systems in the lives of our Merry Mutants, there are also a lot of takes that illustrate the dangers of organized religion when it becomes nothing more than a facade for bigotry to hide behind. With all things big and small in the X-Universe, there is seldom a definitive stance on anything, and much of the series has served as a morality tale against things like abuse of power or being blinded by good intentions. The X-Men have been around since 1963, and over the last 46 years, hundreds of creators have worked to give us several spin-offs, countless crossovers, and many seemingly conflicting takes on any number of characters both major and minor.

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