WYRE
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human mutate Occupation:
Adventurer; Group Membership: Secret Empire (Former)
Affiliations: Alpha Flight, (Aurora, Diamond Lil, Guardian (Heather
Hudson), Northstar, Puck, Sasquatch), Beta Flight (Goblyn, Mannikin, Pathway,
Persuasion, Shaman (Michael Twoyoungmen), Talisman (Elizabeth Twoyoungmen),
Witchfire), General Jeremy Clarke, Weapon X (Garrison Kane), Weapon Omega/Wild
Child/Wildheart (Kyle Gibney); Enemies: The Breed, Carcass, Mr. Farrell, Goddess (indirectly, through
Witchfire), Robert Hagen, the Hardliners (Reginald Tork, numerous others
unidentified), Khaos, Master of the World (Eshu), Rok, Various unidentified demonic
minions of Carcass and Witchfire; Known Relatives: The Breed (his genetically engineered "children")
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Currently unrevealed; First Appearance: Alpha Flight I#114 (November, 1992)
Powers/Abilities: Wyre possesses superhuman strength, speed, agility
and tracking abilities, enhanced fighting skills, razor-sharp claws and
evidently has some sort of healing factor. He can manipulate the synthetic wire
on his chest, shoulder, and back (which are attached to his central nervous
system) into tendrils with razor-sharp tips that can be uses to skewer or
ensnare others, as well as to help him climb, etc.. He doubtless has many other
abilities that have yet to be revealed, possibly including an age suppression
factor. Wyre appears to have burn scars covering his face and body, possibly he
was badly burned when he destroyed the Empire's base. If that is the case, why
his healing factor didn't fix this is unknown.
Height: 5' 11" History: (Alpha Flight I#117 (fb)) - Wyre was an assassin, their best, so good, in
fact, that they decided to use his DNA on kidnapped people (presumably mutants)
to create a group of unstoppable killing machines. Wyre acknowledged that one of
his "children", the young mutant Kyle Gibney, code-named Wild Child, was the
"Best" of the Breed, "The realization of their sick, twisted dreams." Wyre
watched like a proud father as Kyle slashed anything and anyone they put before
him. (Alpha Flight I#114 (fb)) - Following a test where Wild Child slaughtered
some hapless vagrants plucked from the streets in 36.02 seconds -- the fastest
time yet -- the Secret Empire's Number Six suggested they move on to something
more challenging. Wyre agreed that Wild Child was magnificent...like father,
like son. (Alpha Flight I#117 (fb)) - One day however, Wyre came to a horrible
realization, "I knew, deep in my gut, that I had helped create abominations.
Erred against God and man!" He turned against the Secret Empire, slaughtering
everyone he could get his hands on at their Canadian complex, destroying all
records of their work in a pitiful and misguided attempt to atone for his sins,
and collapsed, sobbing, in the wreckage. But some of The Breed had escaped, and
he felt forced to hunt them down, one by one, trying to protect them from their
own pain and the world from their violence. But still one eluded him, Wild Child
always slipped away... (Alpha Flight I#116 (fb) - BTS) - At some point Wyre encountered Garrison
Kane, the future Weapon X. (Alpha Flight I#114) - Twelve years later...Kyle Gibney, now known as Weapon
Omega of Alpha Flight, was camping in the woods after repeated squabbles with
his teammates over his past as Wild Child. Wyre finally saw his opportunity, and
moved in for the kill, ambushing him and blasting him with his hand weapon. (Alpha Flight I#115) - Wyre brutally attacked Kyle, (who had no memory of who
Wyre was, or even his own past), battling him, chasing him and taunting him to
try to bring out the savage Wild Child to justify killing him. Wyre finally
overpowered Kyle, and caught him in his hairs, but hesitated when Kyle, doubting
his own right to live and fearing a reversion to Wild Child, begged him to end
his life, free him from it all. As Wyre hesitated, Alpha Flight arrived, and
Aurora and Sasquatch attacked him. Wyre fled into the woods, to await his next
chance. (Alpha Flight I#115 - BTS) - Garrison Kane (Weapon X) was hired by the
Canadian government to track Kyle and protect him from Wyre. (Alpha Flight I#116) - Kane had seen the tapes of what Wyre had done to the
Secret Empire (some tapes had survived Wyre's destruction of the compound). Kane
intended to kill Wyre to protect Kyle, seeing no other alternative. (Alpha Flight I#116 / Alpha Flight I#117 (fb)) - As Kyle, Nemesis and Kane
battled the villain Rok in the sewers beneath Montreal, Wyre arrived, evidently
fought his way through the Children of the Night (though this wasn't shown, he
may have just snuck in unnoticed while they were fighting Kane), and shot Kyle
with a mercy (tranquilizer) bullet. (Alpha Flight I#117 (fb)) - Wyre then
blasted a large chunk of ceiling onto Kane, Rok and Nemesis (they all survived). (Alpha Flight I#117) - Wyre explained to Kyle why he was hunting him, that he
didn't want to, as each time he killed one of the Breed it was like killing a
piece of himself; but he wanted to free Kyle and the others from the misery and
madness he'd helped inflict on them. The two fought, and Kyle finally lost
control, just as Wyre had expected. As he tried to kill him, however, Kyle
gained the upper hand, but his humanity resurfaced, and he spared Wyre's life.
Wyre finally let out all of his grief, shame and guilt over what he had done,
and collapsed in tears as Kyle forgave him, "something an animal could never
do". With Wyre no longer a threat to Kyle, Kane had no further reason to kill
him, and left him in peace. (Alpha Flight I#118 - BTS) - Wyre was taken into custody by Alpha Flight, and
brought to their HQ. (Alpha Flight I#118) - Wyre sat alone in a cell at Alpha Flight HQ, staring
quietly. Kyle entered, demanding to know answers to his past. Wyre's response
wasn't shown, but as Kyle was told of his origin later in the same issue by
General Clarke, I assume he didn't say anything. (Alpha Flight I#119) -A radical anti-mutant group known as the Hardliners
(under the orders of the near-immortal creature known as the Master, alias
Joshua Lord) stormed Alpha HQ while most of the team was gone, defeated
Persuasion and Witchfire, and then attacked the helpless Mannikin, who was
trapped in a cocoon-like thing after an attack by the Jackal Man, unable to
defend himself. (Alpha Flight I#120 (fb)) - Wyre released himself from his cell and planned
to escape, but then learned of the Hardliners assault. (Alpha Flight I#119 /
Alpha Flight I#120 (fb)) - Wyre confronted the Hardliners, informing them that
they had "missed one." (Alpha Flight I#120) - Wyre kicked some Hardliner butt
and saved Mannikin's life, holding them off until the main team arrived to drive
them off. As soon as the threat was dealt with, Wyre witnessed Mannikin's
"rebirth". When the rest of Alpha Flight returned, he described it in this way
"It was like a birth! Only so...Ah! I don't have the words." asked why he had
saved Mannikin's life, Wyre stated "I wished..to turn destructive...into
constructive." Kyle, standing nearby, smiled at Wyre's new outlook on life... (Alpha Flight I#122 (fb) - BTS) - Wyre broke out of another detention cell
(the fourth in as many days) and participated in a training exercise with Beta
Flight (Goblyn, Persuasion, Witchfire). (Alpha Flight I#122) - The Infinity
Crusade began... Guardian (Heather Hudson) interrupted the training session but
agreed to give Wyre his own quarters and allow him to remain free, since they
couldn't cage him anyway. Soon thereafter, Witchfire turned into a more demonic
form due to the influence of her father, Belasco, and she attacked Wyre and
Persuasion. (Alpha Flight I#123 (fb) - BTS) - Blasted by Witchfire, Wyre was
burning like a comet as he fell nearly 300'. However, his wires reached out and
found purchase on Department H's sheer face, slowing his descent. (Alpha
Flight I#123) - Witchfire defeated most of Beta Flight, transformed Alpha HQ
into a hellish state, and filled it with demons. Recovering, Wyre, prepared to
confront Witchfire anew. (Alpha Flight I#124) - Wyre attacked Witchfire,
skewering her with his tendrils, but Guardian (Heather Hudson) ordered him to
stop so she could try to reason with the possessed creature. Wyre argued that
Witchfire was beyond help, but he let her go when Guardian ordered him to follow
her instructions or he would have no place with Alpha Flight. Eventually,
Witchfire was convinced to oppose Belasco, and the demons were driven out...for
now. Wyre admitted that he had been wrong about Witchfire. (Alpha Flight
I#125) - Wyre, Box (Madison Jeffries), Diamond Lil, and Nemesis were recruited
by Michael Twoyoungmen (Shaman) into a strike force that entered the realm of
Carcass, an agent of Khaos, and successfully battled the armies of the dead.
Only once there did they learn that they had died as the price of entrance. (Alpha Flight I#126) - Wyre angrily attacked Shaman for his deceit until
Shaman revealed that their bodies were being held safely until their souls could
return. Wyre and the others futilely assaulted Carcass who warped reality (or
used illusionary assaults) against them. Chaos began to engulf all reality,
until Shaman weakened Carcass, and Wyre and the others joined forces to finish
off Carcass. This opened the pathway for Wyre and the others to return to their
bodies. (Alpha Flight I#128 - BTS) - The extradimensional demon known as the
Dreamqueen recognized the Master of the World, as a threat to her dominion, as
his rule would eliminate all free will, and all dreams. She determined to
undermine him, with Alpha Flight's help... (Alpha Flight I#128) - Wyre and all of Alpha Flight experienced a
dream/vision of "Earth-9418," a world ruled by the Master, a "perfect" world,
enabled by the passage of an anti-mutant law by the politician Robert Hagen and
enforced by his Hardliners. In this reality Wyre and Alpha Flight "died"
fighting the Master, but awakened from the dream that was something
more...perhaps, a prophecy. (Alpha Flight
I#129) - Wyre and the rest of Alpha Flight defeated the Hardliners and freed
Feedback. They were then confronted by the Master's agents, Omega Flight (Bile,
Brain Drain, Miss Mass, Sinew, Strongarm, and Tech-Noir). The Master himself then
appeared and revealed his alliance with a metallic Mac Hudson, the previous
Guardian, and Heather's husband, long thought dead. (Alpha Flight I#130) - Most of Alpha Flight was too distracted by the
revelation of Mac Hudson's survival and apparent betrayal (as well as their
premonition of the potential future), and Wyre was frustrated as he battled
Strongarm, knowing he couldn't take the entire team by himself. Ultimately
Guardian rallied the rest of Alpha Flight to take down Omega Flight, and Wyre
took out Bile, his synthetic wires proving immune to the diseases Bile
transmitted. Heather finally got through to Mac, and he regained his wits and
turned against the Master. Feeling betrayed, the Master lost the will to live,
and allowed himself to be seemingly destroyed. Comments: Created by Simon Furman, Pat Broderick and Bruce Patterson. Where Wyre has gone now is a mystery. It's possible he's
gone back to living in the wilderness, but nothing can be confirmed.
I truly felt sorry for Wyre. He discovered his conscience
too late to help the Breed and his other victims, and the guilt drove him to
madness. He sincerely believed he was helping the Breed by putting them out of
their misery. He said that he could still hear the screaming, see the blood and
broken bodies, that it could never be expunged. He was clearly traumatized by
what he had seen and done in his life, and felt beyond redemption. Hopefully
he's found some sense of peace with his past and hope for his future. Now that Wild Child has resurfaced as a part of the Weapon
X program, one wonders if Wyre will go after him again, hopefully he'll never
find out, as it would likely destroy him. Garrison Kane was also a member of the Weapon X program,
until his recent (apparent) death, as he betrayed the program and sacrificed his
life to save Cable. Alpha Flight has since been reinstated, but Wyre has yet
to be seen. Techno-Organic hair? That sounds more cybernetic than
mutant. It may be that he was augmented at some point in the past. It's also
possible that Wyre, like Wolverine and Sabertooth, is far older than he appears,
and ages at a slower rate than "normal" men. Wyre received an entry in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
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former assassin and
operative for the Secret Empire, mercy killer
formerly the Breed,
Dreamqueen, Mr.
Farrell, the Secret Empire
formerly Alpha Flight,
the Children of The Night, Nemesis, Weapon Omega/Wild Child/Wildheart,
Weapon X (Garrison Kane), Witchfire
formerly Department H Headquarters;
formerly Mobile throughout Canada;
formerly the Secret Empire's Canadian compound
Weight: 198 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Nothing is known of the history of the man known as Wyre before he came to work
for the Secret Empire.
Wyre stood with Alpha Flight as they watched a transmission
from the present-day Hardliners stating that they had kidnapped their young
mutant ally, Feedback (Albert Louis), and that they must battle the Hardliners
at a place of the Hardliners' choosing or Louis would be killed.
Alpha's celebration was short-lived, however, as the team was
shut down by the Government and General Clarke, leaving Wyre, Kyle and the
others high and dry.
Where is it stated that he is a mutant or that his "hair" is
techno-organic.
This character, Wyre , has no known connections to:
Head Shot: Alpha Flight I #115, p 14, pan 3
Full Body: Alpha Flight I #115, cover
Partial body shot: Alpha Flight I #117, p4, full panel
Alpha Flight I#114-120 (November, 1992 - May, 1993) - Simon Furman (writer), Pat Broderick (pencils), Bruce D. Patterson (inks), Rob Tokar (editor)
Alpha Flight I#122-124 (July-September, 1993) - Simon Furman (writer), Pat Broderick (pencils), Bruce D. Patterson (inks), Rob Tokar (editor)
Alpha Flight I#125 (October, 1993) - Simon Furman (writer), Jim Reddington (artist), Rob Tokar (editor)
Alpha Flight I#126 (November, 1993) - Simon Furman (writer), Dario Carrasco Jr. (pencils), Bruce D. Patterson (inks), Rob Tokar (editor)
Alpha Flight I#128-130 (January-March, 1994) - Simon Furman (writer), Dario Carrasco Jr. (pencils), Bruce D. Patterson, Ian Akin (#128, 130) & Frank Turner (#130) (inks), Rob Tokar (editor)
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