by Renaud Bédard
WILDCATS THE MOVIES
by Renaud Bédard



Millennia ago, a group of Kherubim freedom fighters crashed on Earth. Unable to repair their vessel, the Kherubim stayed on Earth to protect the natural inhabitants from the Kherubim enemies, the Daemonites. One of those stranded had been born a leader to the Kherubim, Lord Emp, and during his time on Earth he has adopted several names, the last one known being Jacob Marlowe. Jacob was one of the founding members of Team One, and at the end, Helspont tried to kill him, but only succeeded in giving the Kherubim Lord amnesia. For thirty years, Emp wandered the New York City streets until Void found him and transformed Jacob Marlowe from street bum to multi-billionaire, and together they gathered the Wildcats

- VOID -

Void is one of several humans bonded to objects known as Orbs of Power. Each Orb is a soul fragment from an elemental being known as Omina, Mistress of Light. Sometime in the distant future, Omina lost her final battle to the forces of darkness; but although beaten, she could not be destroyed by that darkness, and instead, she was shattered across the multiverse, and pieces of her soul crash landed on Earth. One piece struck the Russian space station Mir and bonded with Adriana Tereshkova, and believing her task to help the Kherubims in their war against the Daemonites, she located Lord Emp in the past and brought him back to richness and power, so they could build a team of superbeings capable of dealing with the Cabal. Since the orb exists in infinite time points, sometimes Void is capable of perceiving the past and the future in a sort of confusing vision. She can also teleport herself from a point to another in time and space, traveling through a strange subdomain of reality, and carry people with her

- SPARTAN -

On the planet Kera the standard protection for an important member of the Pantheon are the robotic bodyguards name Spartans. Those robots are trained to fight over any other consideration, and programmed to serve their master. They can fly, shoot blasts of energy and have super-strength. Spartan is Hadrian 7, leader of the Wildcats and was constructed by Jacob Marlowe from Gammoran technology, and was used to train a team of superbeings that would become the Wildcats first team. The robot's personality was based upon the great Kherubim Lord Yohn Kohl, whose heroic battles with the Daemonites led him to Earth centuries ago, and some say his essence somehow remains inside the android. In the 1930s, Yohn Kohl assumed the identity of John Colt, who eventually served as leader for the government task force known as Team One. Jacob Marlowe, an ally and friend of Colt's, took aspects of Kohl's personality and transferred them into the robotic form that became Spartan. Alongside Marlowe, Spartan helped form the Wildcats to combat the Daemonite threat. Hadrian and the half-breed telepath Voodoo later became lovers soon after meeting. During a fight, Hadrian's body was completely destroyed, but fortunately, he had made a hardcopy of his conscience on a disk, so got transferred to a more advanced series platinum model, capable of locating people by smell and analyzing different wavelengths, and many other things. He had a problem with his new body, as the Coda found a way to dismantle his memories, but when the plot was discovered, he got repaired and returned later fully operational. He can also repair and heal himself, but if the damage is too great, Spartan can simply download into another body. As an android, Spartan is immune to all mental attacks and scans. He can also make himself invisible to most mechanical detection devices, as well as make himself invisible to the visual spectrum

- ZEALOT -

Lady Zannah of Khera is a full-blooded Kherubim warrior who came to Earth to fight the Daemonites, whereupon she formed the Coda, a sisterhood of warrior women. One of the most skillful and deadly warriors among them, she even was Majestrix on Earth for a time, but during an incident at Troy she was branded a traitor and was removed from the Coda, who still want to kill her. Zealot had a close relationship with Grifter. She even trained him in the Coda way, a privilege no other man has had, but as she broke his heart, he refused to try again, although he still loved her. Eventually she became a member of the Wildcats

- GRIFTER -

Grifter or Cole Cash, his true age is a mystery, but it is known that he was a driver for the mob in his early teens. When he joined the military, Cole was recruited into a special team of black ops soldiers exposed to a chemical called the Gen Factor, which gave the soldiers of Team Seven incredible telekinetic and telepathic powers, but eroded their moral senses. Rejecting the Gen Factor, Cole left Team Seven and worked for IO, or International Operations, as an assassin, but disenchanted with them, he wandered for a while before meeting Zealot. The two fell in love, and Zealot trained him in the ways of the Coda, and was the only man to receive such training

- VOODOO -

Priscilla Kitaen  used to be the main attraction in the hottest strip club in Georgetown, until one night, she got attacked by a Coda warrior and some men she saw as monsters; due to her genetic legacy, she was capable of seeing the true shape of the Daemonites, an ancient alien race who live on Earth in disguise. Fortunately for her, Grifter was also present, and after rescuing her, he offered her a chance to join the Wildcats. While in the group, Pris began to feel an attraction to Spartan, who in spite of his robotic nature, reciprocated her feelings. The secret of Pris' powers was discovered as she got shot and went into a coma. Void had to enter her head to get her back, and there she discovered the truth. Many centuries ago, the Daemonites kidnapped a Kherubim in an attempt to create a hybrid, an experiment that proved successful. Unfortunately for them, the child's mind was mostly Kherubim, and escaped. Priscilla Kitaen is a gifted one, with the power known as "The Sight" which enables her to see Daemonites who are possessing humans. It gives her some telepathic abilities as well, and she also learned to become a skilled combatant through Zealot's training. Voodoo has demonstrated the ability to tap into her ancestral Daemonite genes and transform into a pseudo-human/Daemonite during times of great stress and anger. While in this form, she does not seem to possess her psychic abilities, but she has enhanced strength and speed

- MAUL -

Jeremy Stone, is a crossbreed that descended from a type of Kherubim known as a Titanothrope, although for many years Maul did not know of his roots. These giants all possess to varying degrees the same power that Maul does. His human form is that of a skinny brainy-looking white guy, but he can turn into a huge purple beast with horns coming out of his back in split seconds, but his power can temporary also turn him into an angry mindless destructive monster; but in his normal state, Jeremy is normally quite friendly and has an active social life. When the team went to Kera after the WildStorm Rising incident, Maul had the opportunity to meet members of his race. It transpired that the Titans were the original inhabitants of the planet, but were turned into second-class citizens and were relocated to ghettos by the Kherubim who took the planet from them. Maul is pretty much near unstoppable with his ability to exponentially increase his physical mass into a gigantic fighting beast

- MR MAJESTIC -

Lord Majestros of Khera is a member of the race of Kherubim who lived among humans for centuries, never socializing much with them. Part of the warrior clan, he has great power, increased by his way of life, for he allows himself no weakness, and lives by a very strict code. A long time ago, a traumatic event possibly the loss of human lives due to his mistake, made him retire, and he has lived since then in the Arctic Circle, apart from other beings. However, Savant managed to recruit him for the second Wildcats team, when the founding group got transported to Kera and was presumed dead

- SAVANT -

Kenesha, also known as Cordelia Matheson, along with her sister Zannah, aka Zealot, she forsook her home world of Khera to fight a desperate war against the intergalactic conquerors, the Daemonites. Sometime during her travels, Savant and several hundred Kherubim crash-landed on Earth. and Without a ship or a way to call home, the Kherubim blended into human society waiting for their Daemonite counterparts to show themselves. Unlike Zannah, Savant chose to avoid the ways of the Coda and focused on the study of ancient objects. She was poisoned and in order to save her, Zealot climbed to the lair of a powerful witch named Tapestry and offered her any payment in exchange for Savant's healing. The witch agreed, but asked for a century of Zealot's life in slavery. During that period, she changed Zealot in many ways, trying to make her similar to herself, but Zealot managed to refuse the seducing power. To help her continue, Zealot made Savant promise that she would kill her rather than let her become what Tapestry is; and the second time Zealot appeared in their lives, Savant was forced to possible face that vow. Fortunately, Zealot returned to her usual self, and Savant didn't have to kill her, but after becoming one of the Wildcats, she kept in contact, and when they were presumed to be dead, Savant founded with Mr. Majestic a second team. Although not a bad fighter, Savant, doesn't match her sister's abilities. Well integrated in the human world, she works as an archeologist in the Smithsonian museum;  and it is said that one of the wings was totally built by her grandmother, but considering the life cycle of a Coda, she might just be that same person pretending her own death in order to be reborn and avoid suspicions on her true nature. Also, Savant always carries a bag of mystical objects with special powers

- WARBLADE -

When Reno was a teenager, Daemonites killed his family right before his eyes. Since that time, Reno has made it his goal in life to stop the Daemonites whenever possible; and early in his career, he worked with Ripclaw, Misery and Killjoy at Cyberdata. Together they made an unstoppable force, until the telepath Misery used Reno and Ripclaw against each other. After the battle, Jacob Marlowe found Reno stumbling through a Gamorran jungle. Taking him back to New York, Jacob removed a computer chip that was controlling Reno's actions, and convinced him to work for the Wildcats. As a master of the martial arts, and operating as Warblade, Reno can be very impulsive and deadly, and can turn his body parts into a bio-molecular high intensity steel, which he can form into any shape he desires; and his most common attack is to form his hands into bio-organic claws, but he is capable of other variations such as covering his body in spikes. Warblade is also capable of manipulating his bio-molecular metal in such a way as to create a negative zone immediately around him that renders him immune to all forms of radar

PS: Please release on high quality regular size hardcovers archives the original first WildC.A.T.S. issues, including issue 0, also hardcover volumes collecting Wildcats Street Smart, and Serial Boxes