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The Intruders were formed as a replacement of the Outlaws, a team of super-powered ex-criminals who worked as mercenaries for Silver Sable. After disbanding them, Sable decided to create a new team of superhumans, the Intruders, led by Outlaws veteran Sandman, who had continued working for her; and with the participation of Paladin, another former Outlaw, the human-tiger hybrid Man-Eater, and the enigmatic bruiser Fin. After putting them to the test in Kentucky tracking a Pit-Viper, the Intruders began operating in Somalia facing rebels and collaborating with Sable's main team in the Wild Pack against the Somali mutants Bio-Genes and against Hydra. During that mission in Somalia, Wild Pack member Battlestar sympathized with Bio-Genes member Lightbright and offered him a position working for Sable; Lightbright would later join the Intruders.

The Intruders participated in mercenary missions around the world organized by Silver Sable International, sometimes working in tandem with the Wild Pack, and occasionally some of their members were sent on solo missions. The group however was eventually dismantled, possibly when Sandman was manipulated into becoming a criminal again, and its members went their separate ways.

History

Origin[]

Silver Sable, leader of the international mercenary operation Wild Pack, had founded an elite mercenary team made of people with superpowers, the Outlaws,[1][2][11] and later used superhumans within the Wild Pack directly.[11] Shortly after disbanding the Outlaws[1][2] and just after an encounter with Priapus while searching for the Vatsayana's Tryst,[12] Sable decided to create a new team of superhuman operatives,[11] which would become known as[7] the Intruders.[11][5]

Sable recruited the Sandman, a former supervillain and former member of the Outlaws,[13][12][1][2] to be the Intruders' field commander[1][2][14] after the Sandman had briefly resigned to work with competitor mercenary team Next Wave, only to return soon afterward.[13] The Sandman, appreciative of Sable's vote of confidence on him, decided to go the extra mile and prove himself in the job, even if he was unsure of his skills as a leader.[12] When he had left Next Wave, the Sandman had resigned along fellow mercenary the Fin,[13] an enigmatic bruiser with superhuman strength[1][2] who had already impressed Sable in a previous encounter.[15] Sable's other recruits for the Intruders included Paladin, a superhuman, well-trained mercenary who had already worked with Sable, both in the Outlaws and otherwise;[16][17][1][2] and the Man-Eater,[12] a human-tiger hybrid merge of an archeologist and a tiger,[1][2][6] both victims of terrorist organization Genesis Coalition experiments, who had been rescued by the Wild Pack in a previous operation.[1][2][18][19] The Man-Eater was the last member to join the original Intruders,[6] and had been training with the Pack since his rescue.[18][20]

First missions[]

For their first mission,[12][1][2] the Intruders were sent to Kentucky[1][2][18][7] tracking down the nihilistic criminal Viper, which Sable had been hired to capture; but at that time Viper resorted to many decoy doppelgangers called Pit-Vipers.[7][16][17][1][2] The Intruders chased and captured a fake Viper and her followers in the forest, and the Sandman reported to Sable that[7] they had succeeded in capturing an imposter[13][1][2][18] and obtained information that brought them closer to the real one.[7] Paladin participated actively in the mission[16][17] but failed to impress his associates.[7]

Sable was later hired[5] by the U.S. government[21] to ensure that a shipment of food[12] and medicine reached its destination in Somalia,[1][2][21][18] helping a population devastated by the war.[5] Sable took the Wild Pack and the Intruders to Somalia to protect the convoys,[5][12][18] hoping to use the assignment as a training mission for the Intruders,[1][2] who had just received their name.[5] When the convoys were threatened by armed rebels demanding the delivery of supplies and roads, Sable decided to let the Intruders handle it, so she could see them in action. Although the Man-Eater and Paladin sympathized with the motivations of the attackers, who acted out of necessity, the Intruders still defeated twenty-three enemies in forty-six seconds, with no casualties.[5] Paladin then aided in relief efforts,[16][17] until the Wild Pack received a signal[5] from a U.S. Marine compound under attack ten miles from Mogadishu,[5][21] and Sable ordered the Pack and Intruders to go help. They discovered that the attackers were[5] the Bio-Genes, Somalian mutants opposed to foreign interference in their country.[12][21] Led by the Sandman,[13] the Intruders participated in the battle against the Bio-Genes,[5][1][2][16][17] but the combat was interrupted by the arrival of forces from the terrorist organization Hydra who intended conquer Somalia in the name of the southern warlords.[5][1][2] During the three-way combat, Wild Pack's Battlestar saved Bio-Genes' Lightbright's life, after which he invited her to join them;[8][21] while the leader of the Bio-Genes, Leecher, briefly controlled the Fin and the Man-Eater's emotions before being defeated himself by Sable.[8] Sable then convinced the Bio-Genes[8] to join her against Hydra.[8][1][2][18] Sable entered the Hydra mothership and battled their commander, Baron Strucker, but she only won because the Fin and the Sandman followed and helped her.[8] With additional help from S.H.I.E.L.D.,[12] Hydra was expelled from Somalia.[8] Battlestar then offered Lightbright to join his team on a more permanent basis.[21][6]

On some occasions, individual Intruders carried out solo missions.[18][6][16][17] The Man-Eater was sent to South America to track down two terrorists; but when he entered their lair, they caused an explosion to cover their own escape through the jungle and to impair the scent-tracking capabilities of their pursuer. Still affected by his powers and about to succumb to savagery, the Man-Eater managed to capture one of the terrorists alive, although he killed the other one and threw him to the piranhas, and for a moment He considered devouring his prisoner; however, out of respect for the Intruders, the Man-Eater clung to his human ethics.[6]

On another solo mission and as part of the Intruders, [16][17] Paladin tracked down Jonathan Lee,[16][17][22] an accountant for Silver Sable International who had embezzled a fortune and escaped.[22][6] This operation took Paladin to Canada[23] and required several weeks of dedicated effort until Paladin captured Lee.[14]

Sable also had the Sandman occasionally participate in Wild Pack missions instead of leading the Intruders full-time;[13] one such mission took the Sandman and the Pack to San Francisco to track down Venom[22] but they failed to capture him and agreed to leave him alone. Meanwhile, Lightbright traveled to the Symkarian Embassy of New York City[6][1][2] to speak with the Wild Pack administration about her membership;[6] she also began a romance with Battlestar.[1][2][24][21][25] After the mission in San Francisco, the Sandman became closer with the Fin.[25][13] Eventually[1][2] and following these events,[6] Lightbright also joined the Intruders.[21][23]

The Wild Pack and the Intruders were next summoned to Beverly Hills, where a coalition of street gangs led by Latisha Arnold had driven the city's wealthy inhabitants from their homes.[23][12][18] Following Sable's specifications, the Sandman ordered the Intruders not to kill the gang members, although the Fin disliked the idea because the gang members were killing police officers, and the Man-Eater, who had known poverty, was aghast at the defeatist and suicidal attitude of those boys. Lightbright attempted to use her powers not to attack, but to convince the criminals to abandon their methods; yet she was unable to do so and adopted a more aggressive attitude.[23] When the Pack and the Intruders beat the gangs, crimelord Justin Hammer,[23][12] secretly bankrolling the operation,[18] sent a cadre of superhuman enforcers as reinforcement.[23][12] The Intruders went to help the Pack in a police precinct that Arnold had made into a stronghold, and there supervillain Blizzard used his cold powers to freeze the Man-Eater, although he was unable to stop the Fin with such an attack. The Fin also beat up the leader of the supervillains, Beetle.[26] Defeated,[12] the villains fled, and Sable defeated Arnold and his people.[26] The Sandman's leadership over the Intruders had once been successful,[12] and by then the Sandman began to feel attracted to Sable.[14]

Genesis Coalition[]

After the operation in Beverly Hills, Paladin turned Lee in, also proving that crimelord Foreigner had been behind Lee's actions, and rejoined the other Intruders. By then, Sable was being harassed again by the Genesis Coalition.[14] When Sable discovered where the Coalition's secret lair was, she set out there with the Wild Pack in a Stealthcraft, and ordered the Intruders to follow her there; however, the Intruders had an unspecified problem with the Man-Eater that delayed their takeoff by 47 minutes, as reported by the Sandman.[4] By the time the Intruders were en route in a second Stealthcraft piloted by the Fin, Sable had made important discoveries in the lair of the Coalition and, as part of a convoluted plan, had allowed the Coalition to imprison her and the Pack. Sable transmitted orders in code, and Pack member Amy Chen contacted the Intruders to give them new orders: The Intruders were to set course for Bosnia to confront the Coalition invading forces there; and under no circumstances should they try to rescue the Pack. Lightbright, Paladin, and the Sandman worried about the Pack, admitting the possibility of the Coalition killing them, but the Sandman decided to obey Sable's orders.[9]

Upon arriving at the Bosnian battlefield, the Intruders observed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had the situation under control in the eastern sector, while in the western sector, several miles away, the activity was greater and the Intruders would have more enemies to fight.[9] There Paladin,[16][17] Lightbright and the other Intruders faced Coalition agents who were posing as Hydra agents[9][21] so that Hydra would be blamed for their actions;[9] and to their surprise, the Intruders found themselves allied with real Hydra agents led by the Baron Strucker, including System Crash,[9][13][18] because Hydra had taken issue with the Coalition impersonating them in such a crude attack on Bosnia. When Sable escaped from the Coalition and contacted the Intruders by radio, the Sandman told her that they had made an unusual alliance with Hydra; and Sable decided to approve it since they had to focus on the Coalition: If Hydra did not attack the Intruders or civilian targets, Sable ordered, the Intruders must let them escape.[9] Also during that battle, the Man-Eater demonstrated his animalistic brutality by killing and skinning one of the enemies,[9][18] in a way that even Paladin found brutal.[9]

The participation of the Intruders in the battle ruined the insane plan of Fritz Sablinova, one of the leaders of the Coalition, which could have ended the Coalition and Hydra, but at a very high cost in innocent lives. Sablinova died in that battle, knowing that the Coalition forces had been defeated in Bosnia. As for Hydra, one of Strucker's agents, Technospike, proposed staying in Bosnia longer to finish off the Intruders; but Strucker ordered an immediate retreat before S.H.I.E.L.D. reach that area, since his forces could not defeat the Intruders and S.H.I.E.L.D. at the same time. The Coalition was completely destroyed that day.[9]

Later activities[]

Soon afterward, the Sandman former teammate in the supervillain team Frightful Four, the Trapster, on parole, convinced the Sandman that he wanted to reform and join the Wild Pack.[13][27] Sable agreed to test the Trapster under the supervision of the Sandman.[27] When the Sandman discovered that the Trapster had not truly reformed and was attempting to manipulate the Sandman, the Sandman He beat the Trapster as punishment,[28][27] and returned him to prison.[27]

The Man-Eater suffered a chemical imbalance in his brain that left his human mind in the background, giving control of his body to the tiger's instinctive mind.[18][10][24][1][2] The Man-Eater escaped from the Embassy,[18][10] behaving terrifyingly in Manhattan for an hour.[10] Silver Sable's staff member Raul Quentino in communications attempted notify the Pack, but everyone was busy and no one picked up their calls.[10] The rampaging creature scared several people, causing them to notify the NYPD superhuman strike force Code: Blue to stop the Man-Eater,[10][18][1][2] after which Quentino managed to warn Silver Sable and Battlestar, who joined the chase; Quentino was later able to also warn the Man-Eater's companions, the Fin and the Sandman, who were sent as reinforcement.[10] After having attacked a mugger in Central Park, the Man-Eater was attacked in turn by Code: Blue, but he managed to escape, and instinctively went to Central Park Zoo, attracted by the smell of a tigress in heat.[10][18][1][2] Code: Blue recognized the insignia on the Man-Eater's belt, which linked him to Silver Sable agents. Sable and Battlestar ran into Code: Blue at the zoo, with Sable protesting when the police authorized the use of lethal force.[10] Battlestar insisted on helping the Man-Eater,[10][24] although the Man-Eater felt that he was losing or had already lost his human part.[10] With the help of the Sandman and the Fin,[10][1][2] Sable and Battlestar reached the bear pit without being able to be followed by the police,[10] and there Sable managed to incapacitate the Man-Eater with a taser-rod, and took him to the Symkarian Embassy,[10][1][2] threatening Code: Blue with a diplomatic incident if they prevented him from dealing with his own employee.[10] In the Following days, Quentino and Dr. Phil Newkirk[10][18] performed extensive tests on the Man-Eater[10][1][2] to diagnose the nature of the problem[18] and tried to control it, but they were not able to find a cure, which saddened the Man-Eater since he would have to live with memories that he knew were not his.[10][1][2][18]

When Amy Chen left the Pack to infiltrate her former female assassin guild, the Sandman collaborated with Chen to pretend she was murdering a maggioso (by impersonating the victim himself, and apprehending the real criminal for the bounty on his head in the process) because the Sandman was friendly with Chen and the other Pack members.[29] The Sandman also collaborated with the Pack on a mission in Mexico stopping graverobbers and briefly traveling through time.[30]

Silver Sable was then arrested and sent to prison due to a CIA conspiracy against her.[3][1][2][18] The Intruders were present in a meeting at the Embassy in which one of the Pack's managers, Mortimer, informed them of what had happened and Sable's orders: Sable asked that no one try to rescue her and that her people travel to Symkaria, lest the authorities may find reasons to arrest them too. The Sandman refused because he owed too much to Sable, but the topic was a matter of discussion. Several members of the Pack and the Intruders tried to move their contacts in favor of Sable, but she was finally freed by a move made by Mortimer;[3] the charges were dropped[1][2] but Sable became persona non grata in the U.S.[3] She decided to relocate her international operations to Symkaria, and left the Sandman in charge of the Intruders,[3][1][2][18] with the team based in the Symkarian Embassy[3] of New York.[3][1][2] The Sandman, who had a crush on Sable, followed her on a last solo mission in Japan,[31] after which Sable gathered the Pack and the Intruders in Castle Sable to notify them that she retired from active duty.[32] Thou personally devastated, the Sandman continued leading the Intruders.[33][1][2] With the team having a reputation, they had a full schedule of missions in the following times.[33]

In the last known mission of the Intruders,[33][1][2] they took a Stealthcraft[33] to try and retrieve a mysterious alien relic in Antarctica.[33][1][2] Paladin He observed the Sandman's sub-par mood and proposed to take the lead temporarily if the Sandman did not feel capable, to which the Sandman responded with a mocking threat.[33] It is unknown if his mission was successful or not.[1][2]

Dissolution and subsequent activities[]

The team may have disbanded after the villain Wizard manipulated the Sandman's mind and caused his criminal personality to take control,[1][2][13] causing the Sandman to allied again with the Wizard and the Trapster.[13] The Sandman then attempted to steal an alien artifact, but was defeated by the Wild Pack, who were protecting the same loot.[13][34]

The Man-Eater served on the Intruders until the team disbanded.[18] Paladin returned to solo mercenary work.[16][17] Lightbright was one of the few mutants to keep their mutant powers after M-Day. Following the passage of the Super-human Registration Act, Lightbright opposed registration[35][36][37] but was arrested with other rebels[36][37][38] and sent to Prison 42.[21][39] The Man-Eater[18] and the Fin registered.[18][2] The Man-Eater was immediately listed as a potential recruit for the Initiative while the Fin was not,[35] but later both were assigned to Vermont's Initiative team, the Garrison.[2][40]

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