Horridus

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caption= Horridus. Art by Victor Bridges
comic_color=background:#80ff80
character_name=Horridus
real_name=Sarah Hill
publisher=Image Comics
debut="Savage Dragon" #4
creators=Erik Larsen
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=Special Operations Strikeforce. Former member of the Chicago Police Department and Freak Force
aliases=
powers=Her body thorns and teeth can cause much damage. Bulletproof, less so on palms and stomach. Superhuman agillity, strength and senses. |

Horridus is a fictional superheroine created by Erik Larsen for his Image Comics series, "The Savage Dragon".

Fictional character biography

Meggan Tully, while dating George Hill, is abducted by aliens and impregnated. The event is removed from her memory and she is returned to her car. George believes the child is his and marries Meggan.

When the unusually shaped child is born, Meggan and George chain her up in the basement, with only a TV for company. They believed the child was their punishment for pre-marital sex.

After years of guilt and suffering, George and Meggan Hill take their own lives. Sara is found by the paperboy. The local police fear to enter the basement, and call in Dragon from the Chicago Police Department. He frees Horridus and takes her to his station house.

CPD's Captain James Stewart is extremely enthusiastic about assembling a superhuman strikeforce for his department and adds Sara Hill, giving her the codename Horridus, to his "Freak Force" program. It was there where she met Dragon, Rapture, Barbaric and Ricochet who was, at the time, too young to join the department. Due to restrictions imposed by the local government and their police superiors, the 'freak' officers quit the police force and strike out on their own as bounty hunters, joining up with the veteran hero Superpatriot and the new Mighty Man.

Freak Force went on to battle a number of menaces, ranging from the supervillains such has the Fantastical Force, the Covenant of the Sword, the Throwaways, Master Atom, Bludgeon, their own evil clones and the Frightening Force, to the extraterrestrial Martians, Matrix Swarm and Cosmic Cops. They even face off against other heroes like Badrock, the WildC.A.T.S. and Cyberforce.

Eventually, Horridus accompanied most of her teammates in joining the United States government's new superteam to replace Youngblood (presumed dead from the Martian attack), the Special Operations Strikeforce. It is here that Horridus has remained, gradually growing in fighting experience and gaining more worldly experience.

For a time, Horridus lives with Rapture. This pairing does not go well, as Horridus still hasn't come to terms with the fact she is very sharp; at one point she destroys Rapture's waterbed. Minutes after this destruction, Horridus briefly meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, whom she considers 'cute'. She would later make many appearances in the Turtle's own Image comics, developing a relationship with Michelangelo.

Her living situation naturally changes after Rapture's death on an off-world mission. At one point she lives with Dragon; like many other women she develops an attraction for him. Unfortunately she does not know how to handle it and ends up inappropriately touching him in the middle of the night, causing a good deal of drama.

After issue #75 of the Savage Dragon, a second, alternate Earth was introduced into that universe. Twenty-eight issues later, in #103, the original Earth was destroyed, killing virtually all of its inhabitants, including that universe's version of Horridus.

Bibliography

Horridus has made appearances in the following Image Comic series:
* "Altered Image"
* "Badrock Annual"
* "The Deadly Duo" (vol.2)
* "Freak Force" (vol.1)
* "Freak Force" (vol.2)
* "Image X-Month"
* "WildC.A.T.s"
* "Savage Dragon"
* "Savage Dragon/Marshal Law"
* "Savage Dragon: Red Horizon"
* "Savage Dragon Trade Paperbacks":"A Force To Be Reckoned With":"The Fallen":"Possessed":"Gang War":"A Talk With God":"Savage Dragon: Team-Ups"
* "Shattered Image"
* "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

ee also

*Freak Force

External links

* [http://www.savagedragon.com/ SavageDragon.com] - Official site