Maximus Lobo is a fictional character, a

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appearing in

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s published by

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. His first appearance was in ''

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'' #417.

Fictional character biography

Maximus Lobo is part of a group of mutants that bears a striking resemblance to

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. He runs the company Lobo Technologies, which is a division of Worthington Enterprises owned by the veteran X-Man

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. In White Plains,

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, where Lobo Technologies is located, Maximus Lobo and more of his kind, the self-fashioned ''Dominant Species'', slaughtered a small group of humans, but spared the mutant girl who was present. When a team of

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went to investigate this murder, Lobo fought and defeated

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in a relatively short time. Lobo and the others then engaged the rest of the X-Men there and forced them to retreat. Lobo and his pack caught up to Archangel and

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, and tried to kill them off. There, he claimed to have killed Archangel's father. Lobo and his werewolves pursued the two mutants back to Lobo Technologies, where it was revealed that Lobo was planning to illegally sell

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products under the Lobo Technologies logo. When the rest of the X-Men arrived to help Archangel and Husk, Lobo created an explosion to cover his escape. Lobo and the Dominant Species later returned when the dimension-hopping

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teamed up with the X-Men to battle an alternate reality version of Havok. Lobo sought to sway the young lupine mutant named Nicholas Gleason to his cause. During the " Dark Reign" storyline, Maximus is revealed to have lost his mutant powers during the M-Day when

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researched him. His assessment to Norman Osborn stated that he would've made a good ally if he wasn't depowered. Maximus was later confronted by a vengeful Nicholas Gleason after the events of the

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.''Young X-Men'' #1. Marvel Comics.

Powers and abilities

Maximus Lobo is a lycanthrope able to assume a werewolf form with superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, reflexes, hyper-keen senses, and razor sharp claws and fangs. He also appeared to have some form of healing factor and extremely durable bones given his ability to survive attacks from Wolverine's adamantium claws. He bragged that his bones had evolved to be naturally stronger than adamantium.

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