Wendigo
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First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #162
Real Name: Paul Cartier, Georges Baptiste, Francois Lartigue, Larry
Origin: The Incredible Hulk #162
Powers/Abilities: The Wendigo has extremely superhuman strength and
endurance. He has extremely sharp claws on each hand. He has very
limited intelligence and acts mostly from instinct. Although physical
damage has stopped Wendigos for short periods of time, magic has been
the only process that can permanently stop a Wendigo, by either transferring
or removing the curse.
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Origin: The woods of Northern Canada are cursed such that if any human
eats the flesh of another human being while in the woods, turns into
the Wendigo creature. The creature roams the woods and eats the flesh
of other humans until the curse can be lifted.
GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY
The Incredible Hulk #162: While in the norhtern woods of Canada,
the Hulk hears a voice in his head, calling himself Paul Cartier and
asking for help. He doesn't understand where it comes from. Suddenly,
people from the local town stumble across the Hulk and mistake him
for the Wendigo and start firing at him. A woman runs up and hits
the Hulk, demanding him to return her brother, Paul Cartier. The Hulk
says he is not the Wendigo but that he will go find her brother. The
Hulk walks through the woods and stumbles across the sleeping Wendigo.
The Hulk tells the Wendigo to return Paul and the Wendigo just roars
and attacks the Hulk. A man crawls out and begs the Hulk for help.
He tells how the Wendigo has just been torturing him until he gets
hungry. The Hulk and Wendigo fight each other (in fact, the Hulk mentions
that the Wendigo is the strongest foe he has ever fought) until the
Wendigo knocks the Hulk off a cliff. The Wendigo grabs the man and
throws him off the cliff but the Hulk catches him. The Hulk takes
the man to the town thinking he has saved Paul but the girl says that
it is a friend of Paul's. The man tells how himself, Paul and another
man were hunting in the woods when they were attacked by wolves. Trapped
and wounded in a cave, Paul got hungry enough that he ate the flesh
of their dead companion and turned into the Wendigo. The Hulk, still
wanting to help the girl, returns to the woods to try and bring back
the Wendigo so someone can help him. The Hulk finds him and Paul's
voice once again asks the Hulk for help before his mind dissolves.
THe voice begs the Hulk to defeat the Wendigo and get help. The Hulk
and Wendigo fight and the Hulk manages to beat the Wendigo down but
the voice of Paul says it is too late as his mind dissolves, only
leaving the Wendigo. The Wendigo pushes the Hulk back and flees into
the woods.
The Incredible Hulk #180: The Hulk is going through the Canadian
woods when a voice calls his name and tells him to come. Marie Cartier
uses arcane methods to call the Hulk while Georges Baptiste begs her
to stop. Marie explains that she will use arcane methods to transfer
the curse from her brother's body to the Hulk's. Georges is reluctant
to help, but she reminds him that it was his idea to go on the hunting
trip that led to Paul turning into the Wendigo. The Hulk makes it
to the cave where Marie and Georges are located and Marie feeds him.
She then uses the Vapors of Slumber to knock the Hulk out and puts
him on the alter used for the process. Marie uses more potions to
call the Wendigo to the cave also. The Hulk wakes up early and seeing
the Wendigo, attacks him. The two creatures fight each other, blow
for blow, until a new foe jumps into battle: Wolverine.
The Incredible Hulk #181: Wolverine
jumps into the battle and attacks the Hulk first. Since his claws
won't break the Hulk's skin, he goes after the Wendigo. Thinking that
Wolverine is now his friend, he helps
him in fighting the Wendigo and they manage to knock him out. Wolverine
attacks the Hulk then and as they are fighting, Marie and Georges
drag the unconscious Wendigo back to the cave and use the Vapors of
Slumber to keep him knocked out. Georeges continues to beg her to
change her mind. Marie uses a Spell of Subjagation and knocks the
Hulk and Wolverine out. Marie tries
to pull the Hulk back to the cave to start the transfer process but
the Hulk turns back into Bruce Banner. Georges, not wanting to transfer
the curse to an innocent man, runs away. He runs back into the cave,
meaning to end this someway. Bruce turns back into the Hulk and as
the Hulk and Wolverine continue to
fight, Marie runs back to the cave where she is greated by the Wendigo.
The Wendigo points into the cave where she sees her brother and she
realizes Georges took the curse onto himself. Marie asks him why and
he tells her that he did it because he loves her. The last bid of
his mind dissolves and the Wendigo turns around and escapes into the
forest. Marie, with everything that has occured to her, loses her
mind.
The Incredible Hulk #272: Walter Langkowski, aka Sasquatch,
tracks through the northern woods of Canada. While camping earlier,
he heard screams and found a vehicle with all the occupants murdered.
He recognized footprints in the snow as the Wendigo and he decided
he had to stop it. Bruce Banner, who landed in the northern woods
after being transported from space, stumbles upon a cabin. He goes
in and finds three skeletons and when he tries to escape, he finds
the Wendigo outside. THe Wendigo grabs him but before anything can
happen, the Wendigo is pulled back. He looks to see Sasquatch holding
back the Wendigo and Sasquatch tells him to run but then is distracted
when he recognizes Bruce. Wendigo pulls loose and starts attacking
Sasquatch. Bruce sees it happening and turns into the Hulk, except
this time Bruce's mind is in control.
A flashback shows how a group of four trappers were trapped in a cabin
and after running out of food, Francois Lartigue kills his companions
and eats them, thereby turning into the Wendigo. Sasquatch figures
his Alpha Flight teammate can reverse the curse, but first they have
to subdue him. The Hulk and Sasquatch work together and manage to
knock the Wendigo unconscious.
Captain Marvel (Vol 3) #2: Marlo and
another woman are tricked into going into the woods with Larry, who
says he will direct them in a movie. When the Hulk stumbles onto their
campsite, Captain Marvel comes flying in and the two start to fight.
When the other woman goes to tell Larry what is happening, Larry kills
her without a thought. Captain Marvel changes back into Rick Jones
during the fight and surprises the Hulk as they are standing in a
lake. Suddenly the Wendigo appears from under the water and grabs
Rick.
Captain Marvel (Vol 3) #3: Marlo runs
through the woods and comes across the body of the other woman and
sees that someone has taken multiple bites out of her arm. Cut back
to the Wendigo, who is holding Rick so that he can't change back to
Captain Marvel. The Hulk tells the Wendigo to put Rick down and Rick
says that the Wendigo won't understand anything. But then the Wendigo
tells Rick to be quiet which surprises him. Wendigo says that the
creature is a curse and anybody can manipulate a curse if given the
right counterspells. Suddenly, Captain Marvel causes the bands to
discharge energy and the Wendigo to release him. As the Hulk and Wendigo
fight, Rick changes back into Captain Marvel who joins the fight against
the beast. Elsewhere in the Northern Canadian woods, two hikers come
across a man laughing that the curse is over. Marlo
gets close to the fight and the Wendigo says hello to her and Marlo
recognizes Larry. Larry/Wendigo tells how he studied the Wendigo curse
for years and went to various mystical people to learn how to control
the curse. Larry/Wendigo tries to convince the Hulk to join him instead
of fighting him but the Hulk suckers him and throws him across the
woods. Captain Marvel has a vision and sees Larry/Wendigo holding
Marlo but then realizes it hasn't happened yet. The Hulk goes after
Larry/Wendigo but reverts back into Bruce Banner. Larry/Wendigo jumps
at him but Captain Marvel fires a blast at him just in time. Larry/Wendigo
grabs Marlo and threatens to kill her unless
Captain Marvel gives him his Negabands. Marlo
decides to make Larry/Wendigo kill her so that Captain Marvel will
not give up the bands. She pulls Larry's/Wendigo's earring out to
make him mad and throws it into the water. Unknown to her though,
the earring was the mystic talisman which allowed him to control the
Wendigo. The curse reverts back to the person who it was taken from.
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