Fictional character biography
The operations of Wild Pack and Silver Sable International drive the national economy of the fictional small European state of Symkaria. The name Wild Pack had been used by the mercenary squad led by Cable for some time, until a legal notice forced them to change it to Six Pack. [13]
The State of Symkaria is adjacent to Latveria, the nation ruled by Doctor Doom. [14] Silver Sable and Victor Von Doom have an annual diplomatic dinner at Castle Doom, situated in Doomstadt. Apparently, the friendship between the two states is deep-rooted and dates back to World War II. [15] [6]
The family of Silver Sable is composed of her father Ernst Sablinov, [6] her uncle Morty, [16] and the young cousin Anna, who Silver Sable calls her niece, orphaned daughter of an unnamed uncle. [17] [18] Silver's mother, Anastasia Sablinova, was killed in front of her by enemies of her father, who ran a Nazi-hunting group. [19] After this traumatic event, she was trained by her father to become a Nazi-hunting mercenary. [20] After her father's death, she became the leader of the Wild Pack, a team formed by Ernst to apprehend international criminals. [21] She also founded her own company, the Silver Sable International. [6] [4] Like her father's, Sable's squad originally focused on bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, but over time they started to accept other type of missions for profit. [22]
Silver was briefly married to the Foreigner, [23] an international assassin and the head of the 1400 Club, but they divorced after she discovered his attempt to kill the President of U.S. [24] After that, their relation varied between non-belligerent and attempts to kill one another. [25] [26]
Uncle Morty functions as Sable's assistant, organizing some missions and sometimes trying to influence her sense of judgement. [17] [27] Silver supports Anna's boarding school education. [17] When HYDRA agents took over Anna's school, Sable infiltrated it, rescuing the hostages with the help of Spider-Man, Sandman, and the Wild Pack. [17]
While hunting the international criminal Black Fox to recover valuable gems stolen by the thief, she was inadvertently thwarted by Spider-Man. [3] She was later hired by a South African government to neutralize the international terrorist Jack O'Lantern. [22] She enlisted Spider-Man's aid against the Sinister Syndicate, [28] and forms a first alliance with the Sandman. [29] Some time later, she joined forces with Spider-Man, Paladin, Solo, and Captain America to track down Sabretooth and the Red Skull, who masterminded a plot to put the United States against Symkaria. [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]
She later worked with Spider-Man to steal incriminating documents from a Maggia money launderer; soon after, she formed The Outlaws. [36] An intelligence mission in Iraq resulted in the death of a Wild Pack member, and she denied compensation to the slain man's family due to his negligence. [37] She devised an initiation test for the Prowler to join The Outlaws, while teaching him a lesson in humility in the process. [38] She hired The Outlaws to retrieve a Symkarian nuclear device in England and to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Canadian official. [39] [40] [41]
Sable's cordial diplomatic relationship with Doctor Doom once proved almost fatal when the annual dinner happened to fall on the time when Doctor Doom's castle had been overtaken by an alien impersonator during the Infinity War crisis. Although Silver noticed that the doppelgänger looked differently, she interpreted it as Doom's desires to change his look. [15] During the dinner, Sable's driver was killed by Doom's robots and a human butler was killed by the doppelgänger himself. [15] Sable protested the brutality and was attacked herself, leading to a chase throughout the castle. [15] The Silver Sable International's soldier came to rescue her, despite Sandman himself also having been replaced by another doppelgänger. [15] [42]
Silver has collaborated with various superheroes, including the aforementioned Spider-Man, [6] the Punisher, [43] Daredevil, [4] Luke Cage, [26] [44] Venom, [45] and Captain America. [23] Sandman was a mercenary working for Silver Sable as part of her Wild Pack for a long time, [46] heading The Intruders, the squad of superpowered mercenaries employed by Silver Sable International. [24]
Later, Sable was hired to protect Professor Wolfgang Hessler holed up in the Symkarian monastery of St. Eboars. Wolfgang knew of a powerful genetic weapon and, attacked by guilt, was working on a neutralizing agent to give to the world so the weapon would be useless. [47] For this mission, Silver Sable hired a new team formed by The Cat, Paladin, and what she thought was Nomad but turned out to be Madcap. The group fought the Heroes for Hire, who had been hired to take the Professor. [48] Sable's team had the upper hand until Deadpool freed his Heroes allies and Luke Cage turned out to be a traitor, sending the Professor off to the Master of the World. [47]
During the "Shadowland" storyline, Silver Sable ended up paired up with Misty Knight, Paladin, and Shroud when Daredevil's Hand ninjas secretly targeted members of the mafia. [49]
During the "Ends of the Earth" storyline involving one of Doctor Octopus' schemes, Silver Sable recovered Spider-Man and Black Widow after the Avengers are defeated by the Sinister Six. [50] She joined them in an attack on a Sahara facility controlled by Doctor Octopus, with the three defeating Sandman after Spider-Man's allies at Horizon Labs helped determine a way to identify the one particle of sand containing Sandman's consciousness. [50] She was apparently drowned by the Rhino in the final battle when Rhino pinned her to the ground in a flooding corridor in Doctor Octopus' base. [51] Even though Doctor Octopus' plan had been stopped, Rhino also decided to kill himself in the process after the loss of his own wife. [51] However, Madame Web later revealed to Spider-Man that Silver Sable did not perish in the fight within Doctor Octopus' underwater base. [52]
She was later seen with other dead people in a Peter Parker's post-mortem experience. [53]
She has later revealed to be alive, [54] as she requested Spider-Man's help in thwarting a recent coup of Symkaria organized by Norman Osborn. [55] Sable explained that she had survived her confrontation with the Rhino by using her suit to cloak herself, distracting him long enough for her to escape, using her apparent death to discreetly hunt down most of her enemies. [56] She also had a brief affair with Nightcrawler, and helped him and Mystique in taking down an Orchis facility run by the Vulture. [57]
During the "Venom War" storyline, Silver Sable did an Istanbul job with Dominic Fortune, who persuaded her to reactivate the Wild Pack. Liz Allan calls in Silver Sable and the Wild Pack to help deal with the Zombiotes that were unleashed by Meridius (a possible future version of Eddie Brock). When confronted by the Zombiotes in the Life Foundation building, Silver Sable activated the Lethal Protector mode on their special armbands, causing them to become possessed by their assigned Symbiotes. After Wild Pack member Navvab Tadjvar got bitten by a Zombiote, the Agony symbiote left him and set off his armband's kill switch that took out a lot of Zombiotes. Silver Sable is then possessed by the Agony symbiote as she gets a transmission from Meridius so as not to interfere. Silver Sable then quotes, "So that's what this feels like." [58]
