Outcasts (Marvel Comics)

The Outcasts are three unrelated fictional groups of characters from the Marvel Universe.

Outcasts (Subterranea)

Outcasts
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Marvel Treasury Edition #25
Created by	Bill Mantlo Sal Buscema
In-story information
Member(s)	Boulder Digger Landslide Water Witch

The Outcasts are a fictional group of characters from the Marvel Universe.

Publication history

The Outcasts first appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #13 (1978). The superhuman members of the Outcasts first appeared in Marvel Treasury Edition #25 (1980), and were created by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema.

The Outcasts subsequently appear in The Incredible Hulk #263 (September 1981), ROM #28-29 (March-April 1982), Iron Man Annual #12 (1991), and Captain America #389-392 (August-September 1991).

Fictional biography

The Outcasts are people who are ugly, deformed, or disabled who believe themselves to be outcasts in human society and have therefore chosen to live under the Mole Man's rule in Subterranea. The Mole Man has granted superhuman powers to a number of the Outcasts.^[1]

The Mole Man has sent the superhuman Outcasts against a number of opponents, including Kala, Avalanche, the Dire Wraiths, and Iron Man.

Members

• Boulder ^[2] - has superhuman strength; current whereabouts is unknown.
• Digger ^[2] - he can slice through most substances with his clawed hands
• Landslide ^[2] - can induce shattering internal vibrations within a person or object by touching it
• Water Witch ^[2] - controls water with a wand (she was also a member of the Femizons briefly)

Outcasts (Mutates)

Outcasts
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Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #329

The Outcasts are a fictional group of characters from the Marvel Comics universe. They are animals and plant life that were mutated during the same gamma radiation explosion that mutated Bruce Banner.

Fictional biography

The Outcasts are animals mutated by radiation exposure outside of a Gamma Base and lived in Bruce Banner's old Desert Lab. They befriended the Rick Jones version of the Hulk until they were attacked by the Gamma Base.

Members

• Hulk (Rick Jones)
• Ech - a cactus
• Eeek - a little mammal
• Falco - a falcon
• Gil - a Gila monster
• Iggo - a rock creature
• Kir - a bat
• Kkk-Kkk - an ant
• Rattilore - a rattlesnake
• Sting - a scorpion
• Vult - a vulture

Outcasts (Mercenaries)

Outcasts
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Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Alpha Flight #122
In-story information
Type of organization	Mercenaries

The Outcasts are a fictional group of characters from the Marvel Comics universe who first appeared in Alpha Flight #122.

Fictional biography

The Outcasts are a group of post-World War II mercenaries and former partners of Puck.

Members

• Cleft
• Depth Charge
• Flagstone

Other versions

Age of Apocalypse

• Although unrelated, during the alternate timeline, the Age of Apocalypse, a group of travelling mutants disguised as an entertainment troupe was known as the Outcasts. This included Brute, Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde), Soaron (Kyle Lykos), Toad (Mortimer Toynbee), X-Man (Nate Grey) and Forge, who was the leader^[3]. Later recruits were Sonique (Theresa Rourke)^[4] and Essex^[5]. All but Sonique, Soaron and X-Man were slain by either Essex or Domino and her Marauders.

In other media

Television

• The mutate Outcasts were featured in the first season of The Incredible Hulk series.

References

1. ^ Marvel Treasury Edition #25
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Marvel Treasury Edition #25
3. ^ X-Man #1
4. ^ X-Man #2
5. ^ X-Man #3

External links

• Outcasts at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe