Maximus Lobo is a fictional character

Fictional character

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, a mutant

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 in the Marvel Comics

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 Universe. His first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men #417.

Fictional character biography

Maximus Lobo is part of a group of mutants that bears a striking resemblance to that of werewolves. He runs the company Lobo Technologies, which is a division of Worthington Enterprises and owned by the veteran X-Man Archangel

Archangel (comics)

Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a fictional character, a comic book antihero in the Marvel Comics universe. Originally known as Angel and later Archangel, Worthington is one of the founding members of the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-creator Jack Kirby, he first appeared in...

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In White Plains, New York

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, where Lobo Technologies is located, Maximus Lobo and more of his kind, the self-fashioned Dominant Species, slaughtered a small group of humans, but spared the mutant girl who was present. When a team of X-Men

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 went to investigate this murder, Lobo fought and defeated Wolverine

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 in a relatively short time. Lobo and the others then engaged the rest of the X-Men there and forced them to retreat.

Lobo and his pack caught up to Archangel and Husk

Husk (comics)

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, and tried to kill them off. There, he claimed to have killed Archangel's father. Lobo and his werewolves pursued the two mutants back to Lobo Technologies, where it was revealed that Lobo was planning to illegally sell Stark Enterprises products under the Lobo Technologies logo. When the rest of the X-Men arrived to help Archangel and Husk, Lobo created an explosion to cover his escape.

Lobo and the Dominant Species later returned when the dimension-hopping Exiles

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 teamed up with the X-Men to battle an alternate reality version of Havok. Lobo sought to sway the young lupine mutant named Nicholas Gleason

Wolf Cub (comics)

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 to his cause.

Decimation and Post-Messiah Complex

Maximus lost his mutant powers during the M-Day

Decimation (comics)

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. Maximus was later confronted by a vengeful Nicholas Gleason

Wolf Cub (comics)

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 after the events of the Messiah Complex

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Powers and abilities

Maximus Lobo is a lycanthrope able to assume a werewolf form with superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, reflexes, hyper-keen senses, and razor sharp claws and fangs. He also appeared to have some form of healing factor and extremely durable bones given his ability to survive attacks from Wolverine's adamantium claws. He bragged that his bones had evolved to be naturally stronger than adamantium.