XMen 10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Sabretooth

X-Men: 10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Sabretooth

Sabretooth has been a long-time villain for Wolverine and the X-Men, but here are some facts that only comic book fans know about the villain.

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Sabretooth made his debut in Iron Fist #14, but he has since become one of the X-Men’s greatest villains, and more so a major nemesis for Wolverine. While he wasn’t in the first wave of Marvel villains, Sabretooth has been around for a long time, and comics stories painted him as a character with a long history in the Marvel Universe.

Although Sabretooth has also popped up in movies, some Marvel fans may be disappointed to learn that these appearances have not been as loyal to the comics and have altered some of the most important facts about him. But what things should fans know about him?

10 Sabretooth Is Over 200 Years Old

Most fans know that Wolverine is very old and has been around longer than even Captain America. Sabretooth is also old and is actually over 200 years old. His mutant powers offer him a healing factor that keeps him looking young despite never aging like others.

Sabretooth’s mutant powers manifested when he was a child. His father kept him caged for years, but he escaped, killed his father, and went on a rampage across Canada before finally settling down and trying to hide his true nature from the public.

9 Sabretooth Beats Up Wolverine Every Year On His Birthday

In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Sabretooth and Wolverine were brothers, but that is not how their history in the comics played out. Instead, Sabretooth learned his brother had died at Wolverine’s hands and he set out to find the murderer and seek vengeance.

He found Wolverine and then, on Logan’s birthday, he murdered his lover, Silver Fox. However, this was only the start. Sabretooth used to beat up his brother on his birthday every year. With his brother dead, Sabretooth transferred that yearly ritual on Wolverine, and he shows up every year on Logan’s birthday and beats him nearly to death.

8 Sabretooth Was An Avengers Member In 1959

Years before the Avengers formed for the first time and battled Hulk and Loki, there was another Avengers team. This was Avengers 1959, formed by Nick Fury. This Avengers unit was a black ops team to fulfill missions for the U.S. government.

Fury found Sabretooth, who was hiding out in Madripoor at the time and brought him into the team that also included Kraven the Hunter, Dominic Fortune, Namora, Bloodstone, Silver Sable, and Dum Dum Duggan. The storyline started in New Avengers #10 by Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Deodato, and Howard Chaykin.

7 Sabretooth Fought In Both The Korean And Vietnam Wars

Outside of working with Nick Fury and his Avengers team, Sabretooth continued to defend the United States. He served in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, bringing his unique skills and talents to the battlefields.

Sabretooth served with the American military in the Korean War before joining Fury, which is likely how he got on Nick’s radar. After working with the Team X group in the ’60s, Sabretooth joined American forces in the Korean war, but it was here that he continued to give in to his bloodlust and violent tendencies.

6 Sabretooth Was Almost A Member Of The All-New X-Men Team

When the original X-Men team was lost, Professor X tried to put together a new team to find and rescue them. This was known as the All-New X-Men and included Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Storm, Banshee, Sunfire, and Thunderbird.

However, there was a lot that fans didn’t know about this team. There was a team before this one that almost all died. Wolverine did not join from his own free will, as Professor X altered his mind. Finally, Sabretooth was supposed to be part, but he refused. In Weapon X: First Class #1 by Mark Sumerak and Tom Seeley, Professor X wiped his memory after his rejection.

5 Sabretooth Was Part Of The Morlock Massacre

One of the most devastating massacres in mutant history came during the Morlock Massacre in X-Men comics. While the death count was not as high as the later massacre on Genosha, this was the first event that saw mutants slaughtered in large numbers without remorse.

Mister Sinister planned out the killing with his Marauders. Gambit led them to the Morlocks without knowing their intentions, and then Sabretooth helped lead the charge, killing hundreds of Morlocks. Sabretooth ended up making the Morlock tunnels his new den after this.

4 Sabretooth And Mystique Have A Son

Sabretooth and Mystique have fought side-by-side multiple times, mostly when they worked with the strong Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. However, they also had a relationship in Germany while Sabretooth worked in Team X, and that was when it turned romantic.

Team X assigned Sabretooth to protect a German spy named Leni and the two ended up becoming intimate (which resulted in Leni gave birth to a child). That child grew up to become Graydon Creed, who became a leader of an anti-mutant hate group.

3 Sabretooth Was Once The Invisible King Of Asia

Sabretooth once went to Japan and, with Mystique, he began working for the villainous Hand. This was just a devious plan by the mutant. His goal was much higher and he led the Hand’s Japanese leader Azuma Goda to fall to Wolverine.

This was his plan, as he then went to meet with all East Asia’s crime lords and killed every single one of their representatives. This placed Sabretooth as the new “invisible king of Asia,” which he ruled over all the Asian crime syndicates with Mystique, Lord Deathstrike, and Silver Samurai by his side.

2 Sabretooth Turned Good After The Inversion

Sabretooth was a villain from the time he showed up in Marvel Comics to the moment the Incursion swapped heroes for villains for a short time. Sabretooth was one of the villains who turned good, but when things went back to normal, Iron Man ensured that Sabretooth remained a hero.

Feeling remorse after learning Wolverine died, Sabretooth wanted to make up for his past crimes. He turned himself over and agreed to serve out a prison sentence as restitution. After getting out of prison, Sabretooth joined the Avengers Unity Division and The X-Men.

1 Sabretooth Was Banished When Krakoa Was Formed

When Krakoa formed, it was a chance for all mutants to finally live together in peace and harmony. Professor X formed a governing body and they passed three laws that were in place to ensure the safety of mutants, the survival of Krakoa as a nation, and the mutant nation’s relationship with the rest of the world.

One of the three laws is that mutants can’t kill humans. Sabretooth broke this law almost immediately while on a mission with Mystique. Found guilty of the crime, The Quiet Council of Krakoa banished him to the depths of Krakoa where escape was impossible, a life sentence unless the council had need of him in the future.

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