Kurenai Tatsuo

## Alopex

* Alopex
* Kurenai Tatsuo

**Kurenai Tatsuo**, also known as "**Alopex**", is both a fictional character and tritagonist of the *Marvelous DC's* *X-Mutant* series created by Jack Kirby and Kevin Eastman. She is a mutant ninja fox, former assassin, .

He is both hockey-masked and sports equipment-themed who operates in Bayville is committed to hunting down mutant threats and criminals throughout the city at night. He is a close friend of the X-Men, Ninja Turtles and April.

"*I am on a mission to destroy the one mutant who ruined my life... Tiger Claw, my brother.*"

—Alopex, to April.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Minae Noji (English), Not Known (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

#### As Alopex

Alopex is a slender humanoid mutant fox with cat-like eyes unlike most foxes. Her outfit consists of a purple head bandana with a metal tag on the front, a long, red bandana around her neck, light purple, long-sleeve shirt with net opening and a brown chest-plate over it that extends across her left breast area and large holes on the sleeves, and dark purple pants that also have large holes on the pant leg. Around her waist is Tiger Claw's tail that she wears as a belted trophy.

* Hair Color: Not Known
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Not Known
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

When she was a girl, Alopex seemed to be on good terms with her brother and enjoyed life, however the moment they got mutated, she and Takeshi had nothing but pain and suffering because the Kraang made painful experiments on them. After they escaped, they had no choice but to abandon everything they once knew.

It is unknown if Alopex liked working at the circus, but it is clear that she deeply regretted being an assassin for doing horrible things to good people, presumably including her parents. While Tiger Claw embraced their new ruthless and violent lifestyle, Alopex blamed her brother for forcing her to become like this instead of having a normal life.

At first, she was more than determined to kill Tiger Claw no matter what, and she even used the cursed blades of vengeance on Casey to prove her point and refused to remove the curse before killing her brother, but Leo gave her a speech of how revenge is consuming her and destroying everyone around her. With that argument, Alopex realizes that she would be trapped in an endless cycle of pain, and she would be no better than Takeshi if she killed him.

Just as she had the chance to cut his head off, she warned him that she will spare his life if he would walk away from his dark path, but if he chose not to, she would not show mercy the next time they crossed paths. And just as she gave Takeshi her warning, he took the chance to shoot her in the back, but she dodged the bullet and charged back towards him and cut off his hand. She then told him to never forget that she could have taken his life for trying to betray her.

## Relationships

### Family

* Unnamed Mother (Deceased)
* Unnamed Father (Deceased)
* Tiger Claw (Brother)

## History

### Past

#### Early Life

When Alopex was a young human girl in her small village, she and her brother Takeshi, later known as "Tiger Claw", were playing in a playground when they came across a Kraang portal which they decided to enter, believing it to be a magic door. Afterwards, the Kraang mutated and experimented on them. After many months of hardships, they escaped together through a portal back to Earth.

Believing that they were monsters now, they fled their home and found refuge in a circus sideshow, but felt their skills were much too valuable for that and eventually became top-level assassins in the criminal underworld. Over time, Alopex manifested a personal vendetta against Takeshi, blaming him for ruining her life due to her mutation, raising her in the assassin life, and killing their parents. This led her to the point where one day Alopex turned on Takeshi, attempting to kill him, and the two savagely fought in a lethal duel.

The fight resulted in Alopex cutting off Tiger Claw's tail with her sword, taking it as a trophy, and escaping, but also being severely wounded in the process. Although she escaped, Tiger Claw initially believed that her wounds would be too grave for her to survive. However, as he learned later on, he was wrong, and she now wears his tail around her waist as a belt, a memento, and trophy to remind her of what he put her through.

## External links

* Alopex *Heroes Wiki*
* Alopex *TurtlePedia*