BABY WILDEBEEST

Real Name: Baby Wildebeest

Class: Humanoid clone

Occupation: Superhero, baby

Group Affiliation: formerly New Titans, Black Lantern Corps

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Solar City, Russia

First Appearance: New Titans #85 (April, 1992)

Powers: Baby Wildebeest was a mammalian infant, who, in times of stress, transformed into an adult form with limited abilities of cognition and speech. As an adult Wildebeest possessed superhuman strength and durability.

History: The Wildebeest Society created mammalian clones to house the souls of Azarath, but their ownly success was the Baby Wildebeest.

(Damage #5, 6) - The governor of Georgia called in some favors in Washington to get Wildebeest and the New Titans to reunite and come to his state to deal with an outbreak of superhuman violence. The Titans interrupted a battle between Damage and Steelhawk and told Damage they were there to stop his rampage across Georgia. They didn't realize he was new to his destructive powers and had been forced to use them to defend himself against supervillains. They didn't realize he was new to his destructive powers and had been forced to use them to defend himself against supervillains. Iron Munro convinced them he was a hero and they all turned their attention to Steelhawk. The fight ended when Munro, Damage and Steelhawk were caught in a temporal distortion field caused by Zero Hour and sent into the past. The Titans still functioned poorly as a team, and decided to stay disbanded.

(Titans I #20) - Wildebeest threw a temper tantrum when Red Star told him to do his homework. He prepared to smash Red Star with a piece of heavy machinery when Nightwing and Cyborg arrived in Science City, distracting Wildebeest, who went to greet them. Science City scientists performed an operation transferring Cyborg's consciousness into a cloned human body, and Wildebeest watched the surgery with excitement.

(Teen Titans III #32) - Superboy Prime confronted Superboy because he wanted to take his place, and was willing to kill him to do it. Wildebeest and other Titans reservists were in to combat Prime. There were casualties, and Superboy threw a tantrum and killed Pantha and Wildebeest, causing Red Star to go berserk seeing his family die in front of his eyes. Flash Jay Garrick, Flash and Kid Flash took Prime out of action by running him into the Speed Force.

(Blackest Night: Titans #2, 3) - Baby Wildebeest and Pantha were resurrected as part of the Black Lantern Corps on Heroe's Day, a day of remembering fallen heroes. They were charged with ripping out the hearts of those emotionally affected by their resurrection, gathering their emotions and using them to help Nekron return and end life in the universe. They attacked their former teammates the Teen Titans and Titans, They attacked the Teen Titans and Titans, and were winning until Dove used her lifeforce connection to permanently destroy most of them.

Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman & Tom Grummett.

Baby Wildebeest had cameos in Blackest Night: Titans #1 Damage #0, Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1 and Titans II #9,  22..