Scalphunter
 

<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/scalphunter.jpg" align=left alt="Scalphunter">Real Name: John Greycrow
Other Aliases: Grey Crow
First Appearance: <i>Uncanny X-Men #210</i> (in shadow), <i>X-Factor (1st series) #10</i> (fully)
Group Affiliation: None, formerly Marauders
Known Allies: Apocalypse, Sabretooth, Gambit, Claire De Luc, formerly Mr. Sinister
Major Enemies: X-Men, formerly X-Man, X-Factor I
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 175 lbs
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Grey

Scalphunter, a Native American, is a member of the Marauders, a band of assassins who were gathered together by the mutant thief Gambit at the request of the enigmatic mastermind known as Mister Sinister. He originally fought in World War II for the United States, but had to be exceuted for murdering his fellow officers. He was shot by a firing squad and was believed killed. He escaped after being alive, and was found by Sinister, who recruited him.

Sinister first sent the Marauders to murder the entire population of the underground mutant community known as the Morlocks. In the course of this mutant massacre, the Marauders clashed with the mutant adventurers known as the X-Men and the original X-Factor team.

Subsequently, the X-Men thwarted the Marauders' attempt to assassinate Sinister's former pawn, Madelyne Pryor, in San Francisco.

Later, Sinister sent the Marauders to battle the X-Men during the time of the demonic invasion of New York City known as the "Inferno". The Marauders were all killed during the "Inferno", but Sinister possesses the ability to clone them thanks to samples of their DNA.

The Marauders later clashed with the dimensionally-displaced young mutant known as Nate Grey after they attempted to assassinate Sinister's former servant, Threnody. Scalphunter's clone was killed in this conflict.

Scalphunter was one of the still-powered mutants living in tents on the Xavier Institute lawn after almost all mutants were depowered on M-Day. However, when Apocalypse came, he chose to serve him. When Havok warned him, Fever Pitch, and Skids that they were in way over their heads, Scalphunter replied that Apocalypse had explained it all to them and was on their side.

Scalphunter is a mutant with the ability to construct firearms at a superhuman rate from the numerous components attached to his costume. Scalphunter is an extraordinary master of conventional firearms, and has been known to use a wide variety of weapons including pistols, rifles, shotguns, laser guns, and miniature cannons.

Scalphunter is also a formidable hand-to-hand combatant. According to "X-Men: the 198 Files", he has the ability to regenerate even after death.

APPEARANCES:
Cable '99 Annual
Gambit (3rd series) #7-9
House of M #6
Power Pack (1st series) #27
Uncanny X-Men #210-211, 215, 219, 221-222, 240-241
Weapon X (2nd series) #13-14, 26-28
X-Factor (1st series) #10
X-Man #13, 18-19
X-Men (2nd series) #183-184
X-Men: The 198 #5
X-Men: The 198 Files (threat level rating: high)

OUT OF CONTINUITY APPEARANCES:
X-Men & Power Pack #4

Not sure of this but I believe he used the alias "John Riverwind".

yes he did

When and why?

Not sure.

I'll scurry through my back issues and get back to ya ;)

*edit

Ok, as far as the Wolverine Encyclopedia is concerned his name is John Riverwind, though that was thrown into doubt when he was named Gray Crow in Gambit #7 and that issue of Uncanny (I've forgotten the number, its the one where Rogue goes up to a bar while still confused with Gambit's memories and tells the waitress to say hello to Gray Crow for her).

Uncanny X-Men 324. Her name was Claire DeLuc. Gambit and Gray Crow used to work at that bar in Millstone with her.

The Wolverine Encyclopedia gave real names to Harpoon, Blockbuster, and Scalphunter which have never been used in the comics. They are Kodiak Noatak, Michael Baer, and John Riverwind respectively.

Actually the X Men attacked the Marauders during Inferno.

I don't think Vertigo died there and Malice and Sabretooth did not die...

General question about the cloning of them....when they get cloned are they the "same" as before with all of their previous memories including their latest death, or are they clones who are uniquely different like Madelyne Pryor? If they are uniquely different, shouldn't all Maruaders have seperate entries for each incarnation or would that be too impractical

The Marauders are probably cloned with a set of brain wave patterns and memories implanted during the process, so they have all their previous memories up until the last time Sinister updated his brain wave archives.

But they wouldn't be the same people would they? The first Scalphunter died long ago. This would just be a clone with memories not of its own. Just like Jean, the original, and Madelyne, the clone, would not be considered the same.

I've argued this before doc, it's futile ;)

Creating a separate entry for each clone would be horribly impractical. For all intents and purposes, they're still the same character, just in a new body.

Madelyne was different because Sinister specifically bred her for certain duties, and establish a history for her blank slate of her mind. She was DESIGNED to be different. The Marauders cloning process is more like reincarnation than anything else: same person, same memories, new body.

I guess we can't win them all, Smash ;)

I suppose that's fair enough X Fan :)

Just to be picky.
I always presumed that his hair was black.
In all the issues I have of him it is.
Though it says here he has brown hair.
Nothing major.

Regarding Uncanny 324
I always wondered what she meant by that Gray Crow remark. Was it ever established how he and Remy knew each other?

Yeah, Mr Sinister just got better at cloning after the Madelyne clone got out of hand...

Well, yeah. Remy helped form the Marauders, and led them to the Morlock tunnels.

It was also strongly hinted at that they had a previous friendship, prior to Gambit gathering the Marauders. This was in the Gambit solo series #7, that Smash mentioned earlier. Not much was stated as to how they knew each other, though.

in sinsters list Weapon X (2nd series) #13-14

Sinster says that his powers are A healing factor and markmernship. He then got the wired body bits whichs i belive are cybernectic inplants.

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I imagine Mister Sinister cloning the Marauders like the 6th Day movie, No?

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Exactly. Besides from Malice, who lacks a body, the only Marauder Sinister can't clone anymore is Sabretooth, as the real Creed destroyed the genetic material Sinister used to clone him.

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additional appearances:
House of M #6 (captain of SHIELD)

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Scalphunter's bio has been updated to include "X-Men" (2nd series) #183-184.