Wolfsbane (Marvel Comics)

**Rahne Sinclair**, also known as ***Wolfsbane***, is a Scottish mutant who was raised by her hyper-religious father. When her mutant powers manifested, she was mistaken for a werewolf and a group of religious locals believed that she was possessed by the devil. She was eventually rescued by Moira MacTaggert and taken to the Xavier Institute.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Lycanthropy:** Much like the werewolves of folklore, Wolfsbane can transform into a wolf. However, she is not a werewolf and therefore is not restricted to the limitations of a creature of the night. She can also retain full memory of herself and therefore has her human consciousness while in her wolf and transitional forms. In her transitional form, she is able to stand erect on her legs and retain the use of her hands but is also able to run and maneuver on all fours like a wolf. Other effects of her wolf and transitional forms include:

* ***Enhanced size:*** Her hybrid form's bones and muscles make Wolfsbane taller, stronger, and proportionately greater in size than that of her human form. Although her lupine and transitional forms are more massive than her human form, the source of this additional mass is unknown.
* ***Enhanced strength:*** Her strength in her wolf and transitional forms is greater strength than that of a normal adult male due to her enhanced muscular build.
* ***Enhanced speed:*** Wolfsbane's enhanced muscles are as swift as those of a wolf but to the proportional size of a human.
* ***Enhanced reflexes:*** Her enhanced muscles and extremely flexible skeleton give her the ability of an animal.
* ***Hyper-keen senses:*** Wolfsbane's keen animal senses of sight, smell, and hearing combined with her human intelligence are heightened further than those of a regular wolf. She can perceive infrared, ultraviolet, heat, pheromones, and emotions.
	+ ***Enhanced vision:*** Although not an ability possessed by natural wolves, Wolfsbane is able to see into the infrared and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum in her lupine form. By viewing the heat signatures of human beings, she is able to detect a person's emotional state and also determine if a person is lying.
* ***Claws and fangs:*** In her transitional and lupine forms, Wolfsbane possesses sharpened nails along with pronounced canines with which to rip and tear through most substances. Following undergoing a secondary mutation, her claws became further pronounced, taking on an elongated and bony appearance.
* ***Regenerative healing factor:*** Wolfsbane is capable of regenerating damaged or destroyed areas of her body with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Injuries that result in massive tissue damage, such as bullet wounds, slashes, punctures, blunt force trauma, and severe burns, heal completely without so much as a scar in a shorter amount of time.
* ***Duplication shapeshifting:*** Wolfsbane, since her secondary mutation, is able to split herself into a pack of five wolves.

**Lightforce generation (formerly):** Wolfsbane briefly had access to the light-based powers of Dagger, but they proved to be too much for her and were returned to their former wielder by a combination of Rogue, Magik, and Professor X.

* ***Lightforce daggers (formerly)***
* ***Lightforce detoxification (formerly)***
* ***Lightforce manipulation (formerly)***

**Pregnancy alterations (formerly):** After Elixir altered her DNA to match that of her unborn child's strength, she demonstrated greatly increased abilities beyond what she originally possessed. These changes were similar to the changes undergone on Genosha when Wolfsbane underwent several artificial mutations. After returning to X-Factor, she stated that was almost impenetrable.

* ***Superhuman strength (formerly):*** Her strength was amplified to an unknown, but impressive, degree.
* ***Near-invulnerability (formerly):*** Elixir believed her to be bulletproof.
* ***Enhanced senses (formerly):*** Her senses became further heightened to the point where she could smell out a missing teammate underground from nearly a mile away.

### Weaknesses

**Werewolf drawbacks:** There are several drawbacks to being a wolf. She cannot orally communicate with others while in her lupine form. Instead, she has the vocal cords of a wolf and therefore growls, barks, and howls. In this form, she is capable of communicating telepathically with Mirage. Additionally, while she may retain her human consciousness, she is more prone to wild behavior. This can sometimes dull her intelligence or override her usually uprightand moral consciousness.

## Notes

* Wolfsbane's foster brother, Proteus, is also a mutant.
* Her son, Tier, is an Asgardian-mutant hybrid.