DC Comics: 6 Most Powerful Werewolves, Ranked

The DC Universe is vast, containing not only superheroes, but Gods and ordinary people, alien races, and entities of great power. Mythical creatures, like werewolves, fit right in. The first recorded appearance of a werewolf in a DC Comic was in 1936 when Doctor Occult battled Mrs. Daniels and her Wolf Cult of werewolves. Doctor Occult was also the first vampire slayer in DC Comics, defeating a nest in the same year.

Werewolves are not too common in the DC Universe, but there are several that are ongoing characters, and a few with great power who are able to control their transformations to make the best use of that power. These werewolves are the most powerful, and how they use that power determines just how big a threat they are and how dangerous to humans they can be.

6 Anthony Lupus

Anthony Lupus was an Olympic decathlon champion, who suddenly started suffering blinding headaches. After seeing several doctors with no useful diagnosis, Lupus consulted Professor Achilles Milo, a scientist, and doctor with a shady reputation. The Professor diagnosed Lupus with lycanthropy and gave him a serum that completed the transformation into a full werewolf.

Anthony Lupus is a highly trained athlete, add to that the abilities of a werewolf such as super-human strength, hearing, reflexes, and sense of smell, making Lupus a formidable foe. The biggest problem is focusing those abilities as Lupus becomes mindless after his transformation.

5 Scratch

Zack is a 15-year-old boy who one day noticed a growth on his arm. It kept growing until it took over his entire body, turning him into a werewolf. Frightened, he runs off and is taken in by Sage, a similar outcast, and her two adopted children. Zack has a lot of trouble controlling his wolf persona, at first losing his personality in it, and then having his werewolf transformation be incomplete, ie: his upper body is a werewolf while his legs are still a boy’s.

As a werewolf, he grows several feet and gains muscle, but lacks some of the experience to fully use that strength to the best of his abilities. By the end of his solo title, he’s made some strides in gaining control over his transformation and strength. As a werewolf, Zack is very powerful, but he’s still very young.

4 Warren Griffin (Creature Commandos)

Pvt. Warren Griffin was wounded in WW2, and while in the hospital, was discovered to have Lycanthropy. After some experimentation by the Project M team of doctors led by Doctor Mazursky, Griffin was able to transform into a werewolf. At first, he had no control over when and where that would happen, but after many difficult and trying weeks, he was able to gain a measure of control over his transformations.

Much like the Universal Wolfman movies, most of Griffin’s adventures take place in the 1940s. Griffin fought WW2 as part of the Creature Commandos, alongside Pvt. Elliot “Lucky” Taylor (Frankenstein), and Sgt. Vincent Velcoro (vampire), under the command of Lt. Matthew Shrieve.

3 Kyle Abbot

Kyle Abbot is a shapeshifter, able to transform into a werewolf and still maintain his mind and reason. He was an agent of Ra’s al Gul and a member of Intergang, where many other members were also shapeshifters. He was behind some of the translating of the Crime Bible -a bible based on treating crime as a religion- and form a cult around it, ‘The True Believers’ which he also leads.

His wolf powers give him super-human strength as well as enhanced senses, and he is an excellent hand-to-hand combat fighter and skilled in the use of weapons. He uses these skills as the bodyguard of Whisper O’Dare of the highly secretive League of Assassins.

2 Bigby Wolf

Bigby Wolf, AKA ‘The Big Bad Wolf’ is the wolf of every modern and ancient fairy tale, from Little Red Riding Hood to the Three Little Pigs, and has the ability to assume a human form and a hybrid wolfman form as well. He gathers strength from the telling and retelling of his fairy tales, which fuels his immortality. He can talk to and control the wind and communicate with wolves, who will usually defer to him.

As the fables say, Biggy has the power of being able to huff and puff and blow things down. He keeps the law as Sheriff of Fabletown and has a PI office out in the human world in his human form. He’s an extremely competent detective, using his wits and his canine senses to solve crimes.

1 Lar-On

There are two versions of Lar-On, New Earth, and Prime Earth. The first Lar-On is a Kryptonian scientist, who is infected with a disease that turns him into the kind of animal he most identifies with. For Lar-On, it was a Kryptonian version of a wolf. In this mindless form he kills his wife. While there were extenuating circumstances, Lar-On is incurable and dangerous in his wolf form, he was committed to the Phantom Zone until such time as a cure can be found.

Lar-On is not only a werewolf, but he has all the power under a yellow sun any Kryptonian would. Add to that the mindless strength of a werewolf, and you have an incredibly dangerous beast that nearly bested Superman in combat. The 2nd Lar-On was a citizen of Argo City on Prime Earth whose exposure to Red Kryptonite turned him into a werewolf. He was as equally dangerous as the first Lar-On, with similar destructive superpowers. He too ended up in the Phantom Zone.

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