Fang (Imperial Guard)

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comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Fang
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publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Uncanny X-Men" #107 (October 1977)
final appearance="Uncanny X-Men" #162
creators=Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum
species= Unknown
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
alliances=Shi'ar Imperial Guard Brood
powers=Highly developed feral senses

Fang is a fictional Marvel Comics extraterrestrial character who first appeared in "Uncanny X-Men" #107 in October 1977.

Fictional character biography

Fang was a member of the Royal Elite of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. He joined the other Imperial Guardsmen in battle against the X-Men on behalf of Emperor D'Ken no a nameless Shi'ar Empire planet. He was attacked by Wolverine, who defeated him and stripped him of his costume. ["X-Men" Vol. 1 #107]

Fang later became a "Borderer": a Guardsman stationed on one of the Shi'ar's conquered worlds to help its governor enforce Shi'ar law there. Fang and a small number of other Guardsmen became renegades and turned traitor, betraying the Shi'ar Empire by serving Deathbird in her attempt to overthrow her sister Princess-Majestrix Lilandra. This incident involves "Lord Samedar" attempting to use some of the outlaw Guard in order to attack the Earth. His faction is opposed by other Shi'ar and the X-Men, the renegade Guardsmen battling the loyal Guardsmen, and Fang fighting Nightcrawler during the conflict. The Brood interfere with a concussion-style bomb secretly hidden in the midst of the battle. ["Uncanny X-Men" #157]

Soon after this incident, Fang is slain when the Brood uses him as a host body for the egg of one of their young on the "Broodworld," former home-world of the Brood. His body is consumed and transformed by the Brood embryo implanted inside him, and the resulting Brood alien later fought Wolverine and was apparently killed by him. ["Uncanny X-Men" #162]

In "Untold Tales of Captain Marvel" — which takes place before his first encounter with the X-Men — Fang, the Guard, Marvel and the Kree face an attack by the Brood.

Powers and abilities

Fang's strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes are higher than that of the average human. He is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, having been trained by the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.

Imperial Guardsmen wear small anti-gravity devices permitting them to fly, designed by Shi'ar scientists and technicians.

Inspiration

Several of the members of the Imperial Guard are at least partly based on members of the DC Comics team Legion of Super-Heroes. (Dave Cockrum, co-creator of the Guard, also had a long run as artist on the Legion.) Fang is based on LSH member Timber Wolf.

External links

* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/fangimpguard.htm Marvel Appendix entry for Fang]
* [http://www.marveldatabase.com/Fang_%28Shi%27ar_Imperial_Guard%29 Marvel Database entry for Fang]

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