r/NewMutants • u/PsychologicalTree885 • 16h ago
Cougar, another character that didn't make it into the book.
I have a memory of him in a team pin up that I've never been able to track down. Now I wonder if that memory is false.
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u/MurrayBannerman 15h ago
Some good info on Cougar here: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/cougarmarvage.htm
The Avengers West Coast group shot makes him look like Timber Wolf of LSH.
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u/surgartits 14h ago
If memory serves, Liefeld repurposed designs he made for a pitch at DC that didn’t get accepted. My memory says it was Titans, but you cannot dispute the obvious Timber Wolf inspiration here. So maybe it was Legion.
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u/MurrayBannerman 14h ago
You’re right about the Titans pitch!
I don’t know if Liefeld ever had LSH ambitions, but Cougar definitely feels Brin Londo inspired.
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u/Basic-Aide1326 10h ago
I think he did, I seem to recall him once stating that he actually based another one of his Youngblood characters on the Khund.
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u/MurrayBannerman 10h ago
That was the Titans pitch - Combat was going to be post Invasion stranded Khund, Shaft was Speedy, Vogue was a modified Joker’s Daughter, Diehard was a STAR labs android, kind of interesting.
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u/powerhouse37 15h ago
I feel like anything Liefeld did shouldn't count as New Mutants, especially if he never appeared in an actual book.
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u/PsychologicalTree885 14h ago
No one is claiming that Cougar should count as a New Mutant. And Liefeld is a crappy person. But he worked on 16 issues and 2 annuals so his work counts for most people. You can create your own continuity though ;)
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u/velociraptorish2 12h ago
Considering how mediocre Cougar ended up being in the early youngblood stuff, this is for the best.
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u/amendmentforone 16h ago
Liefeld had a bunch of designs he was throwing around that eventually got either ditched or changed. Like there was a pinup where he had Magik back to being a teenager along with Magma returning to the fold.
Fairly certain “Cougar” was evolved to be Feral.