Daken

Comics

Modern, Comics: During the Siege of Asgard he escapes arrest by killing and replacing a soldier.

Comics

Akihiro, known as Daken and later Fang and Hellverine, is Wolverine's mutant son, raised in Japan and shaped by the warlord Romulus into a manipulative killer. He served the Dark Avengers, ruled Madripoor's underworld, died and returned several times, and on Krakoa reformed through X-Factor, the Marauders and Alpha Flight. Killed by Sabretooth, he was revived by the demon Bagra-ghul as Hellverine and later joined Cable's X-Force.

Timeline 15 events

  1. Modern · Comics: The warlord Romulus cuts the infant from his murdered mother Itsu and leaves him with a wealthy Japanese couple.
  2. Modern · Comics: After his adoptive parents plan another child, he tells his mother he killed the new baby and is cast out, then taken in by Romulus.
  3. Modern · Comics: Norman Osborn recruits him to play Wolverine on the Dark Avengers.
  4. Modern · Comics: During the Siege of Asgard he escapes arrest by killing and replacing a soldier.
  5. Modern · Comics: He seizes control of Madripoor's criminal underworld and meets X-23 there.
  6. Modern · Comics: He fakes his own death by blowing himself up at the Jean Grey School.
  7. Modern · Comics: Wolverine drowns him after the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants tries to turn Evan Sabahnur into Apocalypse.
  8. Modern · Comics: The Apocalypse Twins revive him as a Horseman of Death.
  9. Secret Wars · Comics: Shogun kidnaps him and he joins the Wolverines, later being taken to Jotunheim by Fang.
  10. Fresh Start · Comics: Soteira soldiers kill him in Arizona while he hunts for Wolverine with Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike.
  11. Fresh Start · Comics: He is welcomed through the gateway to the mutant nation of Krakoa.
  12. Fresh Start · Comics: He joins the new X-Factor under Northstar to find Aurora's body and returns it to Krakoa.
  13. Fresh Start · Comics: Sabretooth kills and dismembers him in the Arctic base, and his death is permanent without Krakoa's resurrection protocols.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: The demon Bagra-ghul resurrects him as the new Hellverine.
  15. Fresh Start · Comics: Dragged to Hell on Genosha, he binds Bagra-ghul to his own will and escapes Mephisto's control.

parent of

Wolverine (Logan)

allied with

X-23 (Laura), Wolverine (Logan), Aurora, Northstar, Boom Boom

enemy of

Wolverine (Logan), Sabretooth (Victor Creed, Earth-41578 variant), Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Milbury), Sebastian Shaw

travels to

Asgard, Madripoor, Jotunheim, Genosha

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026