Graydon Creed
Graydon Creed is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Brandon Peterson and first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #299. He is the "baseline human" son of Sabretooth and Mystique, making him the half-brother of Nightcrawler.
Fictional character biography
Posing as German spy Leni Zauber, Mystique seduced freelance assassin Victor Creed while he was in Germany on a mission. Mystique later gave birth to a normal human child—Graydon—whom she gave up for adoption, although she kept an eye on him. When Graydon learns that he was the son of two mutants who had abandoned him as an inconvenience, he grows resentful of all mutants.As an adult, Graydon forms the Friends of Humanity, a terrorist group dedicated to opposing mutant civil rights by committing acts of terrorism against peaceful mutants and mutant sympathizers.
Upstarts
Creed also joins the Upstarts, a group of wealthy and powerful individuals assembled by Selene and the Gamesmaster with the sole purpose of killing mutants for points in a twisted game. After learning of his parents' identities, Creed seeks to kill them as part of the Upstarts' game. Disguised as the armored Tribune, Creed hires assassins to kill his mother and has his father implanted with a bomb. His father manages to remove the device and confronts his son. Creed callously stabs Birdy, a telepathic mutant who Sabretooth had employed to keep his homicidal rages in check.During the Upstarts' self-professed "Younghunt", Creed is blackmailed into revealing the location of the Upstarts' prisoners by the New Warriors, who threaten to expose Creed as a mutant collaborator and the son of mutants.
Death
Graydon Creed runs for president on an anti-mutant platform with the support of Operation: Zero Tolerance. When a reporter from the Daily Bugle investigates Creed and discovers his parentage, Bastion kills the journalist to prevent the news from leaking out. Unbeknownst to Creed, the X-Men have infiltrated his presidential campaign, having Bobby Drake and Sam Guthrie operate undercover as his assistants.On the eve of the election, Creed is assassinated during a campaign speech. The miniseries X-Men Forever reveals that a future version of Mystique had fired the shot, having sworn to kill Graydon for his part in the Friends of Humanity's attack on Trevor Chase, the grandson of her lover Destiny.
Resurrection
In X-Force, the Purifiers recover Graydon Creed's corpse, which is resurrected by Bastion using the techno-organic virus taken from an "offspring" of Magus. Creed later makes his resurrection public, claiming that he had faked his death.During the Second Coming storyline, Graydon Creed, alongside Steven Lang, is killed by Hope Summers.
During the "Hunt for Wolverine" storyline, Sabretooth, Lady Deathstrike, and Daken battle a horde of zombies to retrieve a box that is suspected to have caused the zombie outbreak. Sabretooth discovers that one of the soldiers is a resurrected Graydon Creed. Creed attacks Sabretooth, only to be killed by Lady Deathstrike.
Sabretooth manages to retrieve Graydon Creed's soul from Hell, bringing him back to life. Creed goes on to join the anti-mutant organization Orchis and begins traveling the multiverse, intending to kill every alternate universe version of Sabretooth. Creed and Sabretooth battle Wolverine, but are both killed in battle with him.