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Sabretooth

Victor Creed, Creed, Slasher, El Tigre, Der Schlächter

Current Status

Deceased

Affiliation

X-Men, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Team X, Marauders, X-Factor, Weapon X, God of the Hunt

First Official Appearance

Iron Fist #14 (Aug. 1977)

First Appearance Together

X-Men, Volume 1 #6

Powers & Genetics

Regenerative healing factor Superhuman senses, strength, stamina, agility, and reflexes Resistance to telepathic assault and control Retractable claws Fangs

Universe

Marvelverse, Earth 616

X-Men Forever, Earth-161

New Exiles

OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

The following characters are also associated with Sabretooth:

Wolverine

Genevieve Darceneaux

The Marauders

Henri LeBeau

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Sabretooth is the classic sociopath brought to a murderous turn by his abusive childhood. When Victor's mutation first manifested, Victor killed his brother. His father would attempt to purge his remaining son of his demons by pulling out his canine teeth and locking him in the basement of the family home. One day Victor chewed off his own hand in order to break free. He then murdered his father and rescued his dying Mother by taking her to the hospital. After escaping his family home he took a murderous trail that lead down decades of killing. Working with Black Op groups, military groups, mafia and anyone else that would pay him. This trail finally came to the group, Weapon X, which turned him into the ultimate killing machine.

HISTORY BREAKDOWN

Remy and Sabretooth happened on to one another for the first time almost by chance. Both were hired to find the same object and bring it to their employer. The item was L'etroile du Tricherie. A priceless necklace stolen by a con artist named Genevieve Darceneaux. Sabretooth was hired by the original owner whom Genevieve stole it from. Remy was working for his guild as a test of his skills. Gambit decided he wanted to steal the jewel his way and use his skills of charm to con the con artist out of the necklace, against his brother, Henri's wishes. Sabretooth gave Remy the opportunity to enter into Genevieve's life. When Creed attacked Genevieve in an alley, Remy was there to rescue the damsel in distress creating a bond with the young woman. Victor stalked the young Cajun and his new girlfriend treating the job more as a game of cat and mouse then just a simple retrieval of stolen goods. When Gambit reached the end of his con, getting the necklace and abandoning his prey, Sabretooth made his move. Creed kidnapped Genevieve Darceneaux and Henri LeBeau. Sabretooth used the two hostages as bait to lure Remy and the necklace to him. Once there Victor gave Remy the choice of who he wanted to save in exchange for the necklace. Remy made his choice resulting in the lose of the necklace and the death of Genevieve Darceneaux.

Sabretooth crossed paths with Gambit again when being recruited for Sinister's Marauders. It was not a happy reunion, but somehow Remy managed to get the job done and keep his neck. Not aware of the true intentions of the Marauders, Remy lead the group into the tunnels the Morlocks inhabited. Upon finding a man Sabretooth killed in the sewers, Remy realized the real reason the group had come. Gambit was told to leave, but he did not. Instead Remy tried to stop the deadly mutants. Sabretooth put an end to Gambit's interference by clawing him through the abdomen. Remy was unable to stop the massacre, but managed to escape with his life and a young girl named Marrow.

Years later, after Gambit had joined the X-Men, the two meet again. Remy was a captive along with the rest of the X-Men in Fenris' Berlin lab. Sabretooth appears to taunt his long time enemies only to find Remy had joined “the side of the angels”. After making it very apparent they had a past he injuries Remy to make a point before leaving.

During confinement by the X-Men, Sabretooth was out to sabotage the rehab process as much as he could. One outlet for that displaced rage was towards Remy. Knowing that the Cajun had told none of the X-Men about any of his past indiscretions gave Creed ammunition. He baited Rogue with the information when the couple came to check in on him. Rogue returned alone wanting to know what Creed had to offer. Sabretooth told Rogue everything about the con in Paris that lead to the death of Genevieve. After the story was told, Rogue confronted Gambit about the past. Gambit was concerned about just what Sabretooth had told her, but was relieved to find it was only about the past in Paris and not about the Marauders. Remy decided to give Victor a warning to shut his mouth and stop interfering with his personal life.

After an epic fight with his arch-enemy, Wolverine, Sabretooth became badly wounded by an adamantium claw to the head. The injury caused memory lose and a complete personality change. Creed became a charge of the X-Men in an attempt for help with his condition, even though most of the X-Men disagreed on taking in their former enemy. Remy was not happy with having the mutant in the mansion again. The Cajun did not agree with giving the Sabretooth a second chance we he himself did not feel he deserved one himself. Remy decided to try and jog Victor's memory by shoving holographic images of the Creed's victims in his face, forcing him to remember his past. Gambit hoped to prove to the X-Men that their enemy had not changed at all and was still the psychopath they all knew him to be. Though the torture was stopped by Storm and Gambit was sent away before he assaulted Creed further, the treatment had lasting effects. Creed began to remember his past and his true personality began to show through.

Later, Xavier decides to disband the X-Men, but a suspicious Remy breaks his way back in to the mansion and copies computer files revealing that Xavier disbanded the team because he has reason to mistrust at least one of the team members. Gambit fears that Xavier may be returning to his Onslaught form or that another mutant threatens his family. To find out the truth he needed Sinister's help, but lacked the present knowledge to find one of the doctor's lab. Remy had to get the help of the only other Marauder that had not been cloned, Sabretooth, since the cloned team members are programed to self destruct if they betray Sinister. Gambit, along with his side kick, Courier, track down Sabretooth in the Andes mountains where the dying mutant is being taken care of by the Blood Tigers. In bad condition, due to the adamantium being taken from his body by Apocalypse, Creed makes a deal with Remy opposed to fighting with the younger mutant. Sabretooth would lead them to Sinister's lab in Tasmania in return for Gambit finding a way to restore the adamantium skeleton that Creed's body had become accustomed to. Creed keeps up his end of the deal, leading the trio to the lab, where Remy gets the information he needs. Later, to keep up his end of the deal, Gambit decided to get adamantium for Creed from an unlikely source, stealing an adamantium stomach that was going to be implanted into Judge Buechler, a dear friend of Daredevil. Gambit was not the only one out to stop the surgery. Constrictor had his own plans to get the adamantium stomach for his current employer in return for his girlfriend. Gambit made a deal with all parties, he returned the stomach to the judge, healed Constrictor's employer of his stomach problems (glass imbedded from poisoned food) and Constrictor gave up his adamantium coils to lace Sabretooth's skeleton once more.

Even though Remy and Victor managed to work together well during their previous meeting, there was no long term truce between the pair. Sabretooth attacked the mansion when he was running with the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He made a be-line for the then blind, Gambit and Mindee, one of the Cuckoo sisters. Mindee used her telepathy to be Remy's eyes so that he could properly aim his charged cards at Creed.

ALTERNATE UNIVERSES

Sabretooth and Gambit have a different history in the New Exiles universe. Sabretooth is the leader of the New Exiles team and recruits that universe's Gambit to join his team of jumpers.

In the alternate universe of X-Men Forever Gambit and Sabretooth are team mates on the X-Men team. They are often placed together in sub teams and work closely together even though they butted heads in the beginning of the series.