What Marvel's New Mutants Look Like In The Comics

5. Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair

Wolfsbane XMen New Mutants
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Maisie Williams seems born for this role, as she makes the comic character come alive on the screen.

In The Comics

Rahne Sinclair is one of the first of the New Mutants we see in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants - she's running from a religious angry mob, naturally.

Wolfsbane has the mutant power of lycanthropic shape-shifting, allowing her to change from the form of a young girl to a werewolf and even fully into a wolf form.

Introduced as a jittery, frightened young woman, Sinclair is a religious, tortured girl broken by an abusive pastor and as such, struggling to fully control her powers.

The New Mutants Maisie Williams
20th Century Fox

In The Movie

Played by Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams, Williams seems to be a pretty faithful visual interpretation of the character. Aside from the slightly more feminine bangs added to her short, spiky hairstyle, she looks almost exactly like the character in the comics in terms of size, build and even the tortured and troubled look on her face.

While again we don't see her use her powers and have no idea from the teaser how her wolf forms will look, we do perhaps get a hint that the film version will similarly struggle with control of her abilities, when we see a scarred and bloody Dr. Reyes (more on that later).

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.