Inhuman of The Day
May 18th - Hood
Also known as ‘The Creeping Death,’ Hoound is a Dire Wraith and member of the Universal Inhumans (one of a number of different alien species whom the Kree had subjected to the same Terrigenic experiments as Earth’s Inhumans). As part of a Celestial Prophecy, the regents of these diverse cosmic Inhumans came together and chose Black Bolt of Attilan as their king and leader.
As a member of The Light Brigade (a group of warriors made up of Universal Inhumans) Hooud and her comrades among The Light Brigade were sentenced to be sacrificed, an offering to the cosmic gods meant to anoint the creation of the Court of The Universal Inhumans. The Light Brigade stepped through the portal of Elldrac. Rather than sending them to oblivion, however, Elldrac chose to spare The Light Brigade and instead transported them to the Negative Zone. Whiled in the Negative Zone, Hoound and the Light Brigade were captured by the forces of the despot, Annihilus.
Annihilus forced Hooud and her fellow comrades among The Light Brigade to fight in the gladiatorial arena against the Arthrosian champions. Hooud and her colleagues were killed numerous times in the arena and each time, Annihilus used his Cosmic Control Rod to resurrect them so that they might fight, and die, again.
When Human Torch of The fantastic Four was captured, he teamed up with the Light Brigade and together they engineered an escape. They managed a surprise attack on Annihilus and The Human Torch was able to wrestle free the Cosmic Control Rod, which he then used to create a portal to The Baxter Building on Earth.
Hooud possesses transformational abilities and can alter her physical shape and appearance, even to the extent of increasing and decreasing her own mass. Following the disbanding of the Court of the Universal Inhumans, Hoound traveled with her queen to NovaHala in the Centauri System where The Universal Inhumans established a new refuge.
