Daken

Comics

Secret Wars, Comics: Shogun kidnaps him and he joins the Wolverines, later being taken to Jotunheim by Fang.

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