Anthony Lupus

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Anthony Lupus is the name of a DC Comics werewolf.

[edit] History

Anthony Lupus first appeared in Batman #255. He is a former Olympic Decathlon champion who suffered from severe headaches until he met Doctor Achilles Milo, who used a drug to treat them — which turned him into a werewolf. Milo discovered that Lupus suffered from lycanthropy and, with a serum derived from Alaskan Timber wolf, sent it into overdrive, transforming him into a full werewolf with the full moon. To get the cure, he'll have to kill Batman. After Batman defeated them, Lupus was last seen in Alaska hunting wolves in search of a cure. He later returned in Detective Comics #505 when Batman went to Alaska to capture him so that he can give his sister, Angela, a much-needed bone marrow transplant. However, catching him wasn't easy since Anthony Lupus sees Alaska as a place where his werewolf form is at home.

There were some theories that Lupus had appeared in "The Lupus Affair," which was an untold encounter featuring John Constantine.

[edit] Other media

In Batman: The Animated Series, Anthony Romulus is somewhat based off of Anthony Lupus.

Anthony Romulus was an Olympic athlete in Gotham City, and had instant celebrity status. He mingled with the rich, and spent a fortune. He entered a decathlon, and, desperate to win, begged the infamous underworld doctor Dr. Achilles Milo, to make an untraceable steroid. The main ingredient was a type of wolf estrogen (taken from two Alaskan Timber Wolves), that melded with Romulus' immune system, turning him into what resembled a werewolf. Milo used this to blackmail the wealthy Romulus; if he wanted the cure, he would have to be Milo's henchman, stealing anything and killing anyone Milo wanted.

Romulus eventually ran afoul of Batman, and the cure is destroyed during the second encounter, leaving him forever stuck as this werewolf-like creature. Batman and Romulus fought on top of a building until lightning struck him and Batman knocked him into a river with a crane. The police were unable to find his body. Romulus has since never returned to Gotham City and what had happened to him remains a mystery.

The comic book based on the animated series though, brought back Romulus and Tygrus alongside of Man-Bat when they are used by the recently escaped Dr. Emile Dorian to capture Catwoman in "House of Dorian."

Anthony Romulus was voiced by Harry Hamlin, while the werewolf vocals (credited as Werewolf FX) were done by Frank Welker.