Maria Callasantos -- Feral

Name: Maria Callasantos

Alias: Feral

Affiliation: New Hellions, formerly X-Force and the Morlocks.

Powers: Superhuman mutant with dense fur, claws, a healing factor, and a prehensile tail.

Fact: Feral is afflicted with the Legacy Virus.

Favorite quote: "Couldn't we put, like, a slurpee machine or sumthin' cool like that in there?" X-Force #26, while the team is attempting to repair Cable's techno-organic arm.

Friends: Well, she was pretty lustful for Shatterstar for a while there in X-Force ("Hey Shatty-buns!")

Enemies: X-Force (especially Siryn), her sister, Thorrn.

First appearance: New Mutants #99

Extry fact: Maria and her sister, Lucia (better known as Thorrn) were sexually abused by their mother's boyfriend as children. Maria may also be responsible for the deaths of several of her siblings.

Favorite storyline: X-Force: Fun House, a tale of Deceptions and Death. In this story, we meet Maria's elder sister Thorrn, and journey with them back to the Bronx, as Thorrn attempts to find out the truth behind the suspicious deaths of her sisters and brothers. Great, great stuff, and added a much needed sense of depth to Feral, who before that was mostly just a vicious furry woman in a skimpy costume.

Least favorite storyline: After all that, Feral goes bad, rips out Siryn's throat, and is jailed. Sigh.

Created by: Rob Liefield.

Where can she be seen?: Formerly a regular in X-Force, Feral went bad and now occasionally shows up as a villain.

Feral links: Claw Marx, the best (and only) Feral page out there, done beautifully.