Wild Child (Marvel)

Wild Child is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Kyle Gibney

Kyle never made it up to the ranks of Beta and Alpha Flight and, in time, when the government decided to stop the Flight program and cut the funding of Department H, he, like many others, found himself out of job and without a future. (Alpha Flight v1 #1)

Alpha Flight

Jerry Jaxon, an old rival of James Hudson, took advantage of this and had his associate, a robot woman named Delphine Courtney equipped with a behavior influencer, recruits Wild Child and most of the others for Omega Flight. Jaxon’s revenge was well planned and he lured Hudson, aka Guardian, away from Canada, but he still managed to contact Alpha Flight for help. In battle, Wild Child lashed out against Aurora, who called him ugly, which earned him the wrath of Northstar, who slammed him into a wall. In the battle of the two teams, Guardian‘s suit was damaged and he was seemingly killed in the ensuing explosion. (Alpha Flight v1 #12)

Weapon Omega accompanied Alpha Flight on their World Tour and got to meet other heroes like the American X-Factor and some super-powered individuals in Europe. The tour was cut short, however, when the Infinity War occurred. Alpha Flight returned to the North American continent to meet up with some other hero teams, as evil duplicates of them were causing destruction all over. Face to face with his own evil self, actually a simulacrum of him from his Wild Child days, Kyle questioned if he could really ever be fully cured, or if there was some remnant of the beast buried deep inside himself. (Alpha Flight v1 #112)

Questioning himself, Wild Child temporarily left Alpha Flight to find some answers about himself. It was right then that he found himself targeted by Wyre, who had learned that one of the people who had been modified with his DNA was still alive. Wyre drugged Kyle and overpowered him but, instead of killing him right away, he teased and taunted him about his past, trying to get Kyle to snap into his killer mood, which would have proven him right in slaughtering him. However, Kyle did not and was ready to accept his fate, in return for some answers about his past. Before the situation could be solved either way, Alpha Flight intervened, as they had searched for their missing teammate, concerned about his state of mind. (Alpha Flight v1 #115)

Kyle continued to serve Alpha Flight until Canada experienced its own wave of anti-mutant/superhero hysteria. Thinking this to be a too hot topic, Department H decided to temporarily shut down the Flight programs and lay low for a while. (Alpha Flight v1 #130)

House of X

Following the establishment of Krakoa, the living island came to be a homeland for all Mutants with Wild Child being offered a place there. This saw him being removed from Department H and taken to Krakoa but his nature led to violent anti-social tendencies that caused the X-Men to lock him up. The Quiet Council came to decide on his fate where they put him on a team of other similar misfits that were struggling to interact in Krakoan society. (Hellions v1 #1)

Eventually, the team arrived in Arakko where they were confronted by the Vile Locus who revealed that the Swordbreakers of Arakko had departed for the tournament. Thus, the team had failed in their mission but Mister Sinister's true intention was to acquire the genetic samples of the inhabitants of Arakko. The Hellions were then massacred by their foes as they delayed their foes to allow some of their number to escape. Psylocke then asked Wild Child to fight the enemy to allow the others to flee through the portal with Kyle sacrificing himself for his team mates who managed to escape back to Krakoa. (Hellions v1 #6)

Overview

Personality and attributes

He said that most people tended to find his face disturbing. (Alpha Flight v1 #11)

Powers and abilities

Department H provided Kyle with special pills to suppress his animalistic tendencies, which were a side-effect of his mutation. (Hellions v1 #1)

Notes

• Wild Child was created by John Byrne where he made his first appearance in Alpha Flight v1 #11 (August, 1983).

In other media

Television

• In X-Men, Wild Child made a cameo appearance in the 1990s animated television series in the episode "One Man's Worth".

Appearances

• Alpha Flight v1: (1983)
• Wolverine: Origins v1:
• Hellions v1: (2020)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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