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After the villainous Achebe launched a coup and installed himself as the ruler of Wakanda, Hunter confronted T’Challa and tried to force him to order Achebe’s assassination. The White Wolf resurfaced with the Hatut Zeraze while Black Panther was stuck in the United States in BLACK PANTHER (1998) #4. Despite their status, Hunter and his team still saw themselves as ultimately loyal to Wakanda. Following a stint in a Wakandan prison, the White Wolf and several other members of the Hatut Zeraze started operating as mercenaries with their signature vibranium suits. However, T'Challa vehemently disapproved of their actions, as he made clear during a fight with the White Wolf in RISE OF THE BLACK PANTHER (2018) #5 by Evan Narcisse, Javier Pina, and Edgar Salazar.Īfter T’Chaka’s death, T’Challa became the King of Wakanda and disbanded the Hatut Zeraze when he took power, adding that the group’s brutality was an insult to their father’s memory. With his extensive combat training and a fierce devotion to protecting Wakanda’s secrets, the White Wolf led the Hatut Zeraze as they conducted assassinations and kidnapped political prisoners. These so-called “Dogs of War” mixed mystic enhancements with weapons-resistant vibranium suits and advanced cloaking technology that could render them invisible. As Tochi Onyebuchi, Setor Fiadzigbey, Fran Galán, Enid Balám, and Ramon Bachs detailed in BLACK PANTHER LEGENDS (2021), Hunter and T’Challa grew up alongside each other, but Hunter soon became jealous of his brother. However, Hunter found a kindred spirit in Ramonda, T’Chaka’s South African second wife, and the two bonded over their shared status as relative outsiders to Wakanda.Įventually, T’Chaka gave Hunter the title of the White Wolf and made him head of the Hatut Zeraze, Wakanda’s secret security force. However, Hunter’s status in the family shifted after N’Yami died giving birth to T’Challa, who quickly became the heir apparent and T’Chaka’s favored son. Although Hunter was viewed with some suspicion due to his status as an outsider, he had a princely upbringing and grew up loving his adoptive parents and his adoptive home.

After a kindly Wakandan couple found him in a desolate part of northern Wakanda, they brought the young survivor to King T’Chaka, who made the shocking decision to adopt Hunter with his wife N’Yami. When Hunter was a small child, he was the only survivor of a plane crash that killed the rest of his family. Hunter hails from Mohannda, a nation that neighbors Wakanda to the north and has a history of racial inequality and violent oppression.

The White Wolf debuted as an adult in BLACK PANTHER (1998) #4 by Christopher Priest and Mark Texeira, but he joined Wakanda’s royal family years before T’Challa’s birth.

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