Spyne (Earth-616)

Spyne
Name	Unrevealed
Current Alias	Spyne
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Dark Riders
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: White
Hair	Bald
Unusual Features	Purple skin with yellow plating; claws; fangs; tail
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Mutant
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	British
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Jeph Loeb, Steve Skroce
First	Cable #17 (September, 1994)
First	Cable #17 (September, 1994)
Death	Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 4) #5 (March, 2016)
Death	Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 4) #5 (March, 2016)

History

Spyne was one of the mutant members of the Dark Riders. A cannibalistic carnivore, Spyne views his adversaries as a meal more than anything else. Spyne was first seen with the Dark Riders as they hunted down the team's former member Foxbat in Alexandria, Egypt. Later, Spyne was amongst those Dark Riders that hunted Caliban in the Morlock tunnels and clashed with Cable, Storm, and Domino. Spyne was able to disarm Cable, but Cable defeated him with his telekinetic powers.

After clashing with Cable and his allies once more in Egypt, whereupon their leader was revealed to be Cable's son Tyler, calling himself Genesis, Spyne and the Dark Riders captured Faye Livingstone, a woman who once had a romantic history with Mister Sinister. The Dark Riders then captured Jean Grey for Genesis.

After the events with Mister Sinister, Spyne took part in breaking Cyber out of a Scottish dungeon and took them to their rebuilt fortress in Egypt where the villain was stripped of his adamantium in a process that killed him. When the feral X-Man Wolverine infiltrated their fortress, the Dark Riders captured him and attempted to use Cyber's former adamantium skin to bond to Wolverine's bones, recently removed of its original adamantium by Magneto.

When fellow X-Man Cannonball interfered with Genesis's plans for Wolverine, Spyne and the others started to beat up on Cannonball. This allowed Wolverine to break free from the bonding process, and both he and Cannonball fled to Apocalypse's resurrection chamber, where the Dark Riders pursued them. In the ensuing battle, Spyne was killed by Wolverine just as he was prepared to attack Cannonball. Wolverine then used Spyne's severed tail to ensnare and kill his fellow Dark Rider Deadbolt.

Spyne, along with several other Dark Riders, was later resurrected by Selene by the Transmode virus.

Much later, Spyne and the Dark Riders resurfaced and began hunting down mutant healers. This led to a battle between the Riders and Magneto's X-Men. Magneto managed to defeat the Dark Riders, and killed all of them by detonating explosives around them.

Attributes

Powers

Reptilian body with claws, fangs, and tail.

See Also

• 17 appearance(s) of Spyne (Earth-616)
• 2 minor appearance(s) of Spyne (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Spyne (Earth-616)
• 12 image(s) of Spyne (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Spyne on Wikipedia.org
• The Unofficial Handbook to the Marvel Universe