Wolf-Man

In his transformed state he looms as a hulking beast, his fur washed in pale grey tones and his frame packed with dense muscle. Piercing yellow eyes glare out from the wolfish face. Unlike the tailless werewolves of certain folk traditions, this incarnation keeps a full tail.

Before the curse took hold, Gary ran a record label and enjoyed real wealth, sharing his life with his wife Rebecca and their teenage daughter Chloe. That happiness ended on a camping trip, where a werewolf sank its bite into him and passed the affliction along. Rather than hide from it, he embraced the change and turned to heroism, guided through the occult by an aged vampire named Zechariah.

The mentorship proved poisonous. Zechariah eventually murdered Rebecca, pinned the crime on Gary, and even convinced Chloe that her own father had killed her mother. At some point Gary signed on with the Global Defense Agency, serving it as a costumed hero.

During the citywide devastation of the Invincible War, he clashed with the villainous variant Viltrumincible above New York, the two grappling their way down the length of the Empire State Building while the variant boasted of having slain him once before. Buried under rubble after his defeat, Gary clawed free the following night to find the ruined skyline that Viltrumincible had left behind.

His werewolf physiology grants sharpened senses, savage reflexes, and lethal claws and fangs. Smell and hearing rank far above any human baseline, while his agility and raw strength both climb well past normal limits. During the Invincible War he wrestled a Viltrumite-tier opponent in midair and traded blows for a stretch before the variant pressed on with its mission. His durability stands out most of all: he crashed through walls, absorbed strikes from that same variant, and plunged several stories without any visible bleeding, surviving an encounter that would have killed almost anyone else.