Creed, Victor

Victor Creed, also known as Sabretooth, is a sadistic mutant who will kill anything, or anyone, for the sake of it.

## Victor Creed

### Aliases

Vickie, Slasher, El Tigre, Der Schlächter, Mr. Silver, God of the Hunt, Murder Lord of the Eastern Hemisphere, The Daimsho Butcher, Satan

### Relatives

Victoria Creed (mother, dead), Zebadiah Creed (father, dead), Luther Creed (brother, deceased) Clara Creed (sister, dead), Saul Creed (brother, dead), Graydon Creed (son), Amazon daughter

### Affiliation

Weapon X-Force (formerly, leader), Magneto's X-Men, Avengers Unity Division, "Wolverines", Astonishing Avengers, Hellfire Club's Academy, Hand (Japanese Branch) (leader), overlord of the Yakuza, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, X-Men, Weapon X Program, Marauders, X-Factor, Hounds, Avengers (1950s), Team X, (C.I.A.), Logan's Mutant Team, Lethal Legion, former partner of the Constrictor

### Occupation

Adventurer (formerly), vigilante, Headmaster of the Hellfire Academy, leader of the Hand (Japanese Branch), soldier, mercenary, professional criminal, assassin, serial killer, crime lord, mobster

## History

### Early Years

Victor was born to Zebadiah and Victoria Creed in Alberta, Canada. When Victor Creed's mutation first manifested, he accidentally killed his brother over a piece of pie. His father confined him to a cellar and would systematically pull-out Victor's "devil teeth" in an attempt to purge the boy of his "demons". Victor was chained like an animal in the family cellar for years until one day he chewed off his own hand in order to break free, subsequently murdering his father. Although he would later claim to have killed his mother as well, he actually spared her, and made sure she lived a comfortable life, until she was diagnosed with cancer and confined to a hospital, where she was killed by a member of the Red Right Hand.

Freed from his parents, Victor was unleashed upon society. At age thirteen, he reportedly rampaged across three Canadian provinces and killed at least three police officers. According to Creed, he remained in Canada and, at about fifteen, worked for the railroad, laying down rail from Calgary up to the Yukon. Among the workers on the line was a belligerent older man who delighted in picking on the teenage Creed. Though the man "had a hundred pounds on him", Creed gutted him from crotch to Adam's apple with his claws.

#### Meeting Wolverine and killing Silver Fox

For years, Victor was beating and torturing his brother, Saul. on each one of his birthdays. Until one day his sister, Clara, told him that his brother had died and was now free from him.
Victor quickly learned that his brother died at the hands of the man named Logan. He then decided to get his revenge against his brother's killer and went after him. In 1909, he discovered that a serial killer killed three people in as many months. After finding an unconscious Logan in the middle of a crime scene, Victor believed that Logan was the mysterious serial killer the police were after.

Before the police arrived, Victor snatched the unconscious Logan from the crime scene and took him to the Ravencroft Institute in Westchester County where he was working as Nathaniel Essex' assistant. Essex lobotomized Logan, which put him in a comatose state. He then proceeded to cut Logan's left arm off, while Victor was enjoying seeing Logan suffer. One of the doctors, Claudia Russell, was able to free Logan and tried to help him escape, but on their way out the duo was confronted by Victor.

Victor threw Logan away and confronted Claudia, but Logan’s healing factor kicked in and started to heal his brain, awakening him from his comatose state. Logan thrust his claws into Victor's head through his lower jaw, but Victor was able to throw him away once again. Knowing that Logan had no chance against Victor in his condition, Claudia begged him to escape while Victor was injured. Despite still being in a feral state because of his brain injury, Logan understood and agreed to escape.

Before Victor could go after Logan, Claudia revealed to him that Logan was not responsible for the murders, which had happened during a full moon. She was actually the killer, but it was an accident. She then transformed into a werewolf and attacked the injured Victor. Victor was saved by Essex, resulting in Claudia's capture. Victor and Essex later experimented on Claudia and killed her.

In the following years, Victor - now known as Sabretooth - supposedly joined the organization of the mysterious Romulus, and moved to Tokyo, Japan, where he murdered several women. But one night during one of his rampages, he once again faced Logan. Logan had been extorted by the ninja sect known as the Hand into fighting Sabretooth.

During their fight, Logan was able to cut off one of Sabretooth's hands with his sword. Sabretooth was able to reattach it thanks to his healing factor, to the surprise of Logan. Sabretooth was then defeated by Logan, who impaled him with his sword. But before Logan could finish him, their fight was stopped by Romulus who knocked Logan out.

Under Romulus' orders, Sabretooth then tracked Logan to a frontier community in the Canadian Rockies. There he brutally attacked Silver Fox, Logan's lover. He raped her and left her for dead, the first of many birthday "surprises" from Victor to come. Enraged, Logan battled Sabretooth in a bar, only to be defeated. Sabretooth then manipulated a feral, mindless Logan into believing that the people of a nearby town had ordered Silver Fox's death. This prompted Logan to slaughter the inhabitants of the town, persuading him that "the townspeople are afraid of you--they don't want you around. So, they got rid of the one thing keeping you here."

### Sabretooth Unleashed

#### Fighting all around the world

Later on, in 1912, during Silas Burr's trial, a gun battle broke out and Burr was taken away by one of the bailiffs, a man eventually known as Sabretooth. Sabretooth, under the orders of Romulus, took him up to Canada, where he met a man who needed his services, a man by the name of Hudson.

In 1938, Victor was present in Nanjing alongside Ogun and watched General Matsui enter the city.

Sabretooth later served in the American military during the Korean War, moving to the island of Madripoor after his time in the service.

#### Avengers 1959

In 1959, during his time in Madripoor, Nick Fury found Victor and recruited him into his black ops team known as the Avengers. Sabretooth also had some as yet unknown history with fellow recruit Kraven the Hunter in Africa, prompting the latter to shoot him on sight. The two put aside their differences long enough to complete their assigned mission. This mission involved traveling to Helsingborg, Sweden in order to stop the imposter Red Skull from reforming the Nazis into a Fourth Reich and completing his research on a new super-soldier formula. Sabretooth walked into the path of an oncoming Nazi truck, slashing the driver to ribbons when he got out to check on him. The group then used the hijacked truck to gain entry into the Skull's castle headquarters. Kraven accidentally shot Sabretooth in the back during the ensuing battle as he was trying to target the Red Skull. Creed soon healed, but his bloodlust cost the group valuable information as he beheaded the Red Skull impostor before he could be properly interrogated. Fury took the Skull's briefcase and told the team that he would meet up with them later before disappearing for over a month. When he reappeared, he invited the Avengers members to the Stork Club in New York City to celebrate a job well done before all of the members went their separate ways.
After dinner, Sabretooth began hitchhiking out of New York on his way to Toronto. He was soon picked up by a driver in a pickup truck who had a skull logo hanging from his rearview mirror. The man turned out to be a werewolf whom Sabretooth had to fight to survive, though the creature was eventually run over by another car driving down the highway. Fury soon reunited his team when it became apparent that several other members were similarly attacked. The attacks were orchestrated by an organization known as ICON and their leader Geoffrey Sydenham to get the Nazi hunters out of the way before continuing their plan to start World War Three with Russia. Sabretooth proved himself invaluable, if somewhat unpredictable, to the Avengers' attempt to stop ICON, fighting their forces in the South China Sea, Madripoor, Wakanda, and Washington, D.C.. His bloodlust again became apparent when Fury allowed him to kill all of the members of the Ubermadchen after they had revealed what they knew of ICON's plot. After ICON had been defeated, Creed, along with the rest of the team, received pardons for any activities that they were wanted for by the government. As the group disbanded, Creed headed for Los Angeles by train with his teammates Dominic Fortune and the Blonde Phantom.

#### Team X

Sometime in the mid-60s Creed, now codenamed Sabretooth, was a member of a special black-ops group, along with Wolverine and Maverick. One of their missions was to steal the Carbonadium Synthesizer from Russia, which led them to face Soviet mutant Omega Red, managing to force him into hibernation. Sabretooth was a cold operative, willing to sell out his teammates to save himself and the mission.

While on a mission in Germany, Creed was assigned to guard Leni Zauber, a German spy. The two became intimate, and Zauber eventually gave birth to a child whom Creed never knew until years later, just as he didn't know that Leni was actually the shapeshifting mutant Mystique. Creed was also abducted by the original Weapon X Program, which was attempting to create super-powered sleeper agents. Part of the program was brainwashing and memory-implanting, performed by the Psi-Borg using elaborate movie sets. It seemed that unlike some of the other recruits, Sabretooth already had his claws and anti-aging factor. However, he did not receive the adamantium bonding that Wolverine did.

#### Vietnam War

In 1968 Creed was serving in Vietnam. He indulged his murderous urges, killing a number of prostitutes. While in Saigon a man known as the "White Devil" was rumored to be involved in the disappearance of soldiers and locals. Creed was offered a job leading his own team of enforcers, which he happily accepted.

#### Holo

After the disbandment of Team X, Logan and Victor reunited as friends, when Logan learned of anti-mutant forces within the government. Victor and Logan formed a team of rebel mutants, and Victor fell in love with a mutant named Holo. This led him to begin to become a better man, but on their last mission together, he was manipulated into killing her. This act led him down a dark path which would last almost a century.

## Attributes

**Enhanced Mutant Physiology:** Sabretooth is a mutant who had been given artificial enhancements on multiple occasions by various backers. The O\*N\*E classified him as a **Severe Threat**.

* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Sabretooth's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process that enables him to regenerate most (if not all) damaged or destroyed areas of his anatomy with far greater efficiency than an ordinary human. The rate of regeneration is proportional to the damage caused. This process is automatic and Sabretooth seems to have no control over it. His healing factor, however, does not seem to stop Sabretooth from feeling the pain of his wounds nor the pain of his body regenerating itself.
	+ **Contaminant Immunity:** Sabretooth's natural healing also affords him the virtual immunity to poisons, viruses, diseases, and most drugs.
	+ **Fatigue Resistance:** Sabretooth is partially resistant to fatigue poisons produced from physical activity.
	+ **Decelerated Aging:** In addition, Sabretooth's healing factor provides him with an extended lifespan by slowing the effects of the aging process; Sabretooth was born sometime during the late 19th Century. Although well over 100 years of age, Sabretooth retains the health, apperance and phyiscal vitality of a man in the physical prime of his life.
* **Superhuman Senses:** Sabretooth possess superhuman senses including sight, hearing, smell and taste but not known if his sense of touch has also been heightened. These senses allow him to track prey similar to dogs.
	+ **Sight:** Sabretooth has enhanced night vision due to containing twice the average number of retina in his eyes. This also allows to see in the infra-red as well as visible spectrum. However, due to his more animalistic nature he may be colorblind.
	+ **Hearing:** Sabretooth has extraordinarily accurate hearing as he could hear light breathing from 200 ft away.
	+ **Smell:** Sabretooth has a highly developed olfactory sense and memory allow him to detect and track a scent over 8 hours old with a concentration of 20 parts per million.
	+ **Taste:** Sabretooth can detect 1 part in 10,000 with his sense of taste.
* **Claws:** Sabretooth has claws on each of his fingers and toes, with them they could penetrate most flesh and many natural materials. After augmentation, his bones became indestructible and his claws are capable of tearing through any material.
* **Fangs:** Sabretooth posses’ animal like canine teeth which are capable of chewing through substances as strong as bone.
* **Superhuman Strength:** Sabretooth strength allowing him to withstand high levels of physical pressure. His strength is also boosted to enhanced levels, allowing him to briefly lift over 800 lbs.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Sabretooth has speed greater than a trained human athlete. Easily able to dispatch gunman with relative ease before they pull the trigger or get a proper shot in. Dodge point blank gunfire from expert marksmen like Frank Castle aka The Punisher.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Sabretooth's healing factor grants him superhuman stamina and is partially immune to fatigue toxins generated by physical exertion and thus has greater endurance than actual humans. His stamina has been described as metahuman.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Sabretooth's bone and muscle tissues are augmented to levels that are considerably stronger than human tissue.
* **Enhanced Reflexes and Agility:** Sabretooth's reflexes and agility are enhanced, being able to dodge enemy attacks. His reflexes are three times as swift as a normal person.

### Abilities

**Hand-to-Hand Combat Expert**: Sabretooth is an excellent hand to hand combatant, having been trained by various organizations. Creed was made into a highly skilled soldier and warrior with expertise in various fighting forms, having been trained by the CIA, Weapon X, Hydra and the Foreigner.

**Master Tracker**: He is also an expert hunter and tracker, even without the use of his heightened senses. Due to his superhuman sense, Sabretooth is an extraordinary tracker.

**Cunning Intellect**: Although his brutish nature coupled with extreme arrogance gives him the appearance of stupidity, Creed actually has quite the acumen being well above average level intelligence. One credited to, in his own words, two centuries worth of experience. Routinely hacking into government databases to steal classified information and easily escaping from the highest levels of incarceration. More than once he has proven himself capable in the brain over brawn aspect, able to dupe the likes of Logan into playing step by step into his ploys, or besting super geniuses such as Sinister and his creations.

**Expert Marksman**: Being a skilled cloak & dagger specialist with decades of spymaster practice under his belt, Sabretooth is an adept sharpshooter with just about any kind of firearm he can get his hands on.

**Avid Manipulator**: Another note to his intelligence is that Creed excels at scheming, planning and coaxing others into doing his dirty work for him, or pushing them into doing things that they don't realize are for his benefit.

**Advanced Covert Ops Specialist**: Having spent many centuries working for secret societies and "officially unsanctioned" government installations, Sabretooth has amassed an impressive conglomerate of knowledge base on countless surreptitious interested powers and their numerous tactics regarding assassination techniques, weapons specialty, vehicles, explosives, espionage, intelligence, black bag ops, infiltration, the works.

**Special Skills:** He possesses a pronounced assault leap, which few can sense, even those like Wolverine who have animal senses. This leap is a combination of his great strength, speed, reflexes and agility working in concert; flexing and un-flexing his muscles much harder and quicker than a normal human, similar to a tiger or lion's pounce. This allows for a devastatingly powerful and fast leap onto the opponent, which few can recover from.

### Weaknesses

Due to the similarities between his and Wolverine’s powers, he likely shares a similar set of weaknesses:

* **Muramasa Blade:** Sabretooth was vulnerable to the Muramasa Blade. The sword, which was constructed through some means with the use of a piece of Wolverine's own soul, had the ability to greatly nullify the efficiency of an accelerated healing factor. Later the blade was broken and a piece of it was stolen by Daken and laced to the underside of his two wrists' bone claws, similar to his father's bonding process, by Phineas Mason (Tinkerer). Logan later removed the pieces of the Muramasa blade from Daken's arms and buried them with the rest of the blade in an unmarked grave near the Howlett Estate in Alberta. After Logan's death, Laura Kinney and Carol Danvers were tricked into revealing the location of the blade and its fragments to the Orphans of X who melted it down and forged it into several bullets.[*citation needed*]
* **Carbonadium Poisoning:** Sabretooth's healing factor can be dramatically slowed if Carbonadium is implanted inside of him, such as swallowing something made of Carbonadium or being wounded by a bullet composed of it. It causes his healing factor to be reduced to a slow crawl, at least in comparison to its normal speed, but doesn't fully suppress it.[*citation needed*]
* **Vulnerable Senses:** Sabretooth's his heightened senses can be taken advantage of.[*citation needed*]
* **Memory Issues:** Likely due to his healing factor, Sabretooth has gone large periods of life without memories of certain traumatic events.[*citation needed*]
* **Drowning:** Of the few ways to kill Sabretooth, given drowning cuts the brain's oxygen supply.[*citation needed*]

* **Decapitation/Severe Spinal Damage:** Sabretooth can be killed if his head becomes separated from his body, causing his brain to be unable to send signals to the section(s) of his body that needs healing.[*citation needed*]

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Adamantium Laced Skeleton** (occasionally): Even though this has been inconsistent. There are some occasions where Sabretooth has had his bones and claws laced with the indestructible synthetic metal known as adamantium. Once he had been implanted by Apocalypse but soon forcefully forfeited it back to him, who then transplanted it back into LoganThe second time he had his bones bonded was when Weapon X had been reinstated and captured him to commence with said molecular lacing procedure as well as kick his strength, speed and healing factor up a notch. Due to the Scarlet Witch's Reality Warp it was unsure if Sabretooth kept his adamantium skeleton, but it was confirmed that he still has his adamantium-laced skeleton.

### Weapons

* **Adamantium-Laced Claws** (occasionally) This varies or depends on whose the writer, Sabretooth's claws, along with his skeleton, have been bonded with adamantium. As a result, his claws were virtually indestructible. The adamantium further enhanced the already razor sharp edge of Sabretooth's claws and enabled him to slice through almost any surface.

## Notes

* Mister Sinister created clones of all of the Marauders using genetic material he had gathered from all of them.
	+ Sabretooth's cloning partner in the Marauders is Riptide.
	+ At one point, Sinister claimed he was unable to clone Sabretooth anymore, and wanted another genetic sample. However, he later managed to clone vast troops of Sabretooth Hounds while in Sinister London.
* Creed has been stated to be a psychopath and a sociopath. Since the "inversion" event, this no longer appears to be the case, though he eventually relapsed.
* Sabretooth has a tradition of attacking Wolverine once a year on Logan's birthday.
* Sabretooth's physical strength has been artificially enhanced at least twice. Sabretooth received his first strength enhancement from his son, Graydon Creed, during the mini-series Sabretooth: Death Hunt. Sabretooth's strength was further enhanced later after joining the latest incarnation of the Weapon X Program.
* Although Sabretooth was a proud killer, his animal tendencies sometimes overwhelmed him. To stay in control, he forced a telepath named Birdy to routinely give him "The Glow", a psychic sedative effect that helped manage his animal side. When Birdy was killed, the withdrawal symptoms made Creed's animal side more uncontrollable than ever, and he sought psionic treatment from the X-Men. After Wolverine poked a claw through his brain, however, Creed's personality regenerated as a purer fusion of animal and man, making him at least temporarily more resistant to psychic powers, though both Jean Grey and Professor Xavier were able to eventually overcome this.