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Sabretooth

FACTFILE

REAL NAME

Victor Creed

OCCUPATION

Assassin

BASE

Mobile

HEIGHT 6 ft 6 in WEIGHT 275 IbS

EYES Am ber

HAIR Blond

FIRST APPEARANCE

Iron Fist Vol. 1 »14 (August 1977)

Solyeloołh possesscs an exlended ifespan. thanks to the hoallng attity that also allows him lo rocover racKJy from almost any injury. He Oso possossos enł\anced anima*siic strength, speed and ayility. and ra/or-sharp ctaws on eachhand.

BlTTER FEUD

Like Wolverine. Sabretooth s abilitics were enhahced by the top-seeret Weapon X projeet. and while the two men share much history in common, they are the bitterest of enemics. Sabretooth (outinely

return* to stalk and defeat Wolverinc on the latters birthdav each

Sabretooth

A vicious, psychotic kliler, linie is kiiown about the early lite of Victor Creed. the mutant called Sabretooth, save that he apparently cauic from an abusivv background. His healing ability having kept him alive and youthful for deeades, hc first 3C<jiiired the alias Sabretooth in the 1060*, when he did wetwork for the CIA.

FIRST APPEARANCE The Incredible Hulk #250 (August 1980) REAL NAME Ruth Bat-Seraph OCCUPATION Poficd otlicei: Israeli govemment agent BASE Jerusaiem. lvael HEIGHT 5 ft 11 in WEIGHT 240 Ibs EYES Brown HAIR Black SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Wrist bracelets oqulpped with neuronic-frequency stunners that shoot "energy quills.' Cape bas a device that noutrataes gravity. enabling fbglit. Superhuman strength.

Whcn Kutii Bat-Scraph s mutant powers cmerged in childhood, the Israeli govcrnment sent Ruth and her parem* to live at a spccial kibbutz, where she was traincd in the use of her powers. She bccame the first member of the Israeli government s “Supcr-Agent” program, and was givcn a covcr identity as a policcwoman.

Tcrrorists killed her son, and so have bet onie her particular enemies.

Sabra has also worked for the Paris branch of PllOFESSOR XX X-CoKI*ORATION.

The naine "Sabra” is the Israeli word for botli a native-born Israeli and for a sweet, prickly pear. PS

Sagę

FIRST APPEARANCE Uncanny X-Men vol. 1 #132 (A|x>l 1080) REAL NAME Unroveaied. goes by “Tessa*

OCCUPATION Member of New Excahbur BASE England HEIGHT 5 ft 7 in WEIGHT 135 Ibs EYES Blue HAIR Black SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Abla to remembef everything she sccs and hoare; can “jump start' the mutant abilrttes of ottws. possesscs limitod telepaihy

The cnmity botween Sat^wtoolh and Woh/orine •iłwns decades. On Wofvorine'a birihday aacti yoor. ix) inatter where he was in tho wortd, Sabretooth woufci apfo chałenge him.

year. And because of his enmity for WoKerine,

Sabretooth has been pulied into the X-Men s orbit time and again, sometimes in partncrsliip with other villain such as Mister Sinistcr, sometimes on his own. But while tliere is still sonie 1 ui ma ni ty left within WoKerine s heart, Sabretooth s soul is a* black as pitch. and he is about as irredeemable an indiyidual as has cvcr cxistcd. TB

Boru in Eastern Europę, the mysterious wonian codenamcd Sago reseued an injured Proffssor X from Afghanistan and became one of Ins first mutant reeruits. Rather than joining the origin.il X-Ml'N team, Sagę became a spy within the I Illlfirl Club, where she worked as an advisor to Black King Sebastian Shaw.

When she trickcd the mind-controlling F.lias Bogan into lositig a wager, a vengeftil Bogan scarred her face. Reseued by Storm.

Sagejoincd the X-Men and most rcccndy became a member of New Excalibur. DW

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