Who is Wild Dog?
Wild Dog’s real name is Jack Wheeler. Not Rene Ramirez
Jack Wheeler was a high school football player who went to college with a degree in football. He dropped out due to an injury eventually enlisting in the Marines to continue his education. After most of his squad was killed by a terrorist bomb, he returned to the US and began taking night classes.
He met and started dating a fellow student named Claire. Wouldn’t you know it, they fell in love. Life looked happy until she ended being shot and killed while they were on a date. It was later that Jack found out that she was the daughter of a Chicago crime boss. She had left her family to start a new life for herself. Tragic.
Since Claire had named Jack as her sole beneficiary, her death made him a considerably wealthy man. He started using his new wealth to become the vigilante – Wild Dog.
He created a costume of camouflage pants, combat boots, a local college football jersey with a snarling red dog (it’s use to hide his body armor (duh), and a hockey goaltender mask. He would kill the gang leaders and the hitman who was tasked to kill Claire.
In the first issue of his series, he barges in on a hostage situation and kills all the criminals. He successfully rescues an endangered TV news reporter and is named “Wild Dog” after the SWAT captain orders his men to shoot the vigilante “like a wild dog in the street”.
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His actions in the beginning are mainly directed against terrorists.(Photo credit: diamondrock.blogspot.com)
He would take on Lobo to keep him from killing comic book editor Mike Carlin. Wild Dog was also seen fighting the Secret Society of Supervillains.
In an alternate timeline, accidentally created by Booster Gold, Wild Dog is part of a resistance group that is fighting Maxwell Lord. Lord would force Wild Dog to shoot himself.
Wild Dog has been recently seen in the DC Rebirth Green Arrow comics as leader of the Wild Dog militia.(Photo credit: CBR.com)
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