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Feral (character)
Feral (Maria Callasantos) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, she first appeared in The New Mutants #99 (March 1991). Feral belongs to the subspecies of humans called mutants who are born with superhuman abilities. She has feline features and superhuman attributes and most often appears in the X-Men family of books. Feral has been both a protagonist and an antagonist at various points in her history. She is a founding member of X-Force and has also been affiliated with the Morlocks, the Mutant Liberation Front, and the New Hellions.
Feral debuted in The New Mutants #99 (March 1991), created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. She appeared regularly as a cast member in X-Force until she left the book in issue #28 (November 1993). The character would subsequently fall out of regular publication and made brief appearances in X-Force (1994, 1999), Quicksilver (1998), and New X-Men (2002). She played a supporting role in a 2007 storyline in Wolverine (vol. 3), during which she was killed. Feral was briefly revived during the 2009–2010 "Necrosha" event, but died again at the event's conclusion. Her ghost appeared in X-Factor #220–224 (August–October 2011).
Feral was resurrected during the 2019 "Dawn of X" publishing initiative and appeared sporadically in various X-Men titles published during the Krakoan Age. When X-Factor was relaunched in 2024 as part of the "From the Ashes" publishing initiative, she joined the main cast, but was seemingly killed in issue #1 (October 2024) along with several other team members.
Maria Callasantos was born in New York City to Marcella Callasantos and an unnamed father. She is the second of four children, including her older sister Lucia, her younger brother Matteo, and her younger sister Carolina. Her father is abusive towards Marcella and abandons his family shortly after Carolina is born. He is later found dead of a drug overdose and Marcella blames the size of their family for driving him away. Maria, influenced by this, comes to blame her younger siblings for their father abandoning them. While Maria is babysitting Matteo and Carolina, Carolina falls down a flight of stairs and dies. It is left ambiguous as to whether Maria is involved in her sister's death. Later, Matteo trips and falls off of the roof of their tenement while chasing pigeons Maria keeps as pets. Maria witnesses this and it is implied that she did not try to help her brother as he hung from the building's ledge, killing him with her inaction.
As with most mutants, Lucia and Maria's mutations develop when they begin puberty, though Maria's develops more quickly than Lucia's. Both sisters gradually gain feline features, including fur and claws. Meanwhile, Marcella begins dating Henry Bellinger, an alcoholic and cocaine addict, and soon becomes addicted to cocaine herself. Henry makes frequent sexual advances towards Lucia and Maria and eventually attempts to rape Lucia, but Maria intervenes and kills him. In retaliation, Marcella kills Maria's pet pigeons, sending Maria into a murderous rage. She kills her mother and she and Lucia run away to the tunnels under the city, joining the Morlocks and taking the names Feral and Thornn respectively.
Feral is introduced in The New Mutants during her attempt to escape from the despotic Masque, leader of the Morlocks. She seeks refuge with the New Mutants and warns them of Masque's plans to ignite a war with the surface, beginning with attacking their team. Cable fights off her pursuers and Feral agrees to join his new paramilitary group X-Force in return for protection. Feral joins the cast of X-Force as one of the team's founding members and helps defeat the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants when they ally with the Morlocks, dueling her sister Thornn. She appears in the 1992–1993 "X-Cutioner's Song" event, notably losing a fight with X-Factor member Wolfsbane.
During a mission to rescue Henry Peter Gyrich from the Mutant Liberation Front (M.L.F.), the M.L.F.'s leader, Reignfire, convinces Feral to leave X-Force and join him, preying on her resentment of Gyrich's anti-mutant bigotry. Feral serves as an operative of the M.L.F. until Thornn is arrested on suspicion of murdering their family and later rescued by X-Force from the anti-mutant group the Friends of Humanity. Learning of Thornn and Feral's troubled past, X-Force confront and subdue Feral, who is arrested and imprisoned for murdering her mother, her mother's boyfriend, and her siblings.
Escaping prison, Feral next appears in Quicksilver (1997–1998) as a member of a team of villainous mutants led by Pyro. She and her teammates have been infected by the Legacy Virus and are working for Exodus and the Acolytes in exchange for a cure. They fail in their mission and are left stranded in the Savage Land.
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Feral (character)
Feral (Maria Callasantos) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, she first appeared in The New Mutants #99 (March 1991). Feral belongs to the subspecies of humans called mutants who are born with superhuman abilities. She has feline features and superhuman attributes and most often appears in the X-Men family of books. Feral has been both a protagonist and an antagonist at various points in her history. She is a founding member of X-Force and has also been affiliated with the Morlocks, the Mutant Liberation Front, and the New Hellions.
Feral debuted in The New Mutants #99 (March 1991), created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. She appeared regularly as a cast member in X-Force until she left the book in issue #28 (November 1993). The character would subsequently fall out of regular publication and made brief appearances in X-Force (1994, 1999), Quicksilver (1998), and New X-Men (2002). She played a supporting role in a 2007 storyline in Wolverine (vol. 3), during which she was killed. Feral was briefly revived during the 2009–2010 "Necrosha" event, but died again at the event's conclusion. Her ghost appeared in X-Factor #220–224 (August–October 2011).
Feral was resurrected during the 2019 "Dawn of X" publishing initiative and appeared sporadically in various X-Men titles published during the Krakoan Age. When X-Factor was relaunched in 2024 as part of the "From the Ashes" publishing initiative, she joined the main cast, but was seemingly killed in issue #1 (October 2024) along with several other team members.
Maria Callasantos was born in New York City to Marcella Callasantos and an unnamed father. She is the second of four children, including her older sister Lucia, her younger brother Matteo, and her younger sister Carolina. Her father is abusive towards Marcella and abandons his family shortly after Carolina is born. He is later found dead of a drug overdose and Marcella blames the size of their family for driving him away. Maria, influenced by this, comes to blame her younger siblings for their father abandoning them. While Maria is babysitting Matteo and Carolina, Carolina falls down a flight of stairs and dies. It is left ambiguous as to whether Maria is involved in her sister's death. Later, Matteo trips and falls off of the roof of their tenement while chasing pigeons Maria keeps as pets. Maria witnesses this and it is implied that she did not try to help her brother as he hung from the building's ledge, killing him with her inaction.
As with most mutants, Lucia and Maria's mutations develop when they begin puberty, though Maria's develops more quickly than Lucia's. Both sisters gradually gain feline features, including fur and claws. Meanwhile, Marcella begins dating Henry Bellinger, an alcoholic and cocaine addict, and soon becomes addicted to cocaine herself. Henry makes frequent sexual advances towards Lucia and Maria and eventually attempts to rape Lucia, but Maria intervenes and kills him. In retaliation, Marcella kills Maria's pet pigeons, sending Maria into a murderous rage. She kills her mother and she and Lucia run away to the tunnels under the city, joining the Morlocks and taking the names Feral and Thornn respectively.
Feral is introduced in The New Mutants during her attempt to escape from the despotic Masque, leader of the Morlocks. She seeks refuge with the New Mutants and warns them of Masque's plans to ignite a war with the surface, beginning with attacking their team. Cable fights off her pursuers and Feral agrees to join his new paramilitary group X-Force in return for protection. Feral joins the cast of X-Force as one of the team's founding members and helps defeat the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants when they ally with the Morlocks, dueling her sister Thornn. She appears in the 1992–1993 "X-Cutioner's Song" event, notably losing a fight with X-Factor member Wolfsbane.
During a mission to rescue Henry Peter Gyrich from the Mutant Liberation Front (M.L.F.), the M.L.F.'s leader, Reignfire, convinces Feral to leave X-Force and join him, preying on her resentment of Gyrich's anti-mutant bigotry. Feral serves as an operative of the M.L.F. until Thornn is arrested on suspicion of murdering their family and later rescued by X-Force from the anti-mutant group the Friends of Humanity. Learning of Thornn and Feral's troubled past, X-Force confront and subdue Feral, who is arrested and imprisoned for murdering her mother, her mother's boyfriend, and her siblings.
Escaping prison, Feral next appears in Quicksilver (1997–1998) as a member of a team of villainous mutants led by Pyro. She and her teammates have been infected by the Legacy Virus and are working for Exodus and the Acolytes in exchange for a cure. They fail in their mission and are left stranded in the Savage Land.