Editing Graydon Creed (section)

==Fictional character biography==
Posing as German spy Leni Zauber, [[Mystique (character)|Mystique]] seduced freelance assassin [[Sabretooth (character)|Victor Creed]] (Sabretooth) 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 learned that he was the son of two mutants who had abandoned him as an inconvenience, he grew resentful of all mutants and that resentment colored his outlook for the rest of his life.<ref>''Sabretooth'' #1-4 (August - November 1993)</ref>

In his adult years, Graydon formed a group called the [[Friends of Humanity]], dedicated to opposing mutant civil rights by committing acts of [[terrorism]] against peaceful mutants and mutant sympathizers, and using the acts of violent mutants such as [[Magneto (Marvel Comics)|Magneto]] to rally support for their cause.

===Upstarts===
Creed also came to join the [[Upstarts (comics)|Upstarts]], a group of wealthy and powerful individuals who had been brought together by [[Selene (comics)|Selene]] and the [[Gamesmaster (comics)|Gamesmaster]] with the sole purpose of killing mutants for points in a twisted game. After learning of his parents' identities, Creed sought to kill them as part of the Upstarts' game. Disguised as the armored '''Tribune''', Creed hired assassins to kill his mother and had his father implanted with a bomb. His father managed to remove the device and confronted his son, who callously stabbed Sabretooth's assistant, [[Birdy (character)|Birdy]], a mutant telepath whom Sabretooth employed to keep his homicidal rages in check.

During the Upstarts' self-professed "Younghunt", Creed was blackmailed into revealing the location of the Upstarts' prisoners by the New Warriors, who threatened to expose Creed as a mutant collaborator and the son of mutants.<ref>''[[The New Warriors]]'' #45 (March 1994)</ref>

===Death===
Graydon Creed runs for president on an anti-mutant platform with the support of [[Operation: Zero Tolerance]].<ref>''[[Uncanny X-Men]]'' #323 (August 1995)</ref><ref>''Uncanny X-Men'' #334 (July 1996)</ref><ref>''[[X-Men (comic book)|X-Men]]'' (vol. 2) #45</ref> On the eve of the election, Creed is assassinated during a campaign speech.<ref>''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' #130 (January 1997)</ref> 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 (Irene Adler)|Destiny]].<ref>''[[X-Men Forever]]'' #2 (February 2001)</ref>

===Resurrection===
In ''[[X-Force (comic book)|X-Force]]'', the [[Purifiers (Marvel Comics)|Purifiers]] recover Graydon Creed's corpse, which [[Bastion (comics)|Bastion]] reanimates using the [[Transmode Virus]].<ref>''[[X-Force (comic book)|X-Force]]'' (vol. 3) #3 (June 2008)</ref> During the ''[[X-Men: Second Coming|Second Coming]]'' storyline, Graydon Creed is killed by [[Hope Summers (comics)|Hope Summers]].<ref>''X-Force'' (vol. 3) #28 (September 2010)</ref> In the "[[Hunt for Wolverine]]" storyline, Creed returns as a zombie before [[Lady Deathstrike]] kills him.<ref>''[[Hunt for Wolverine]]: Claws of a Killer'' #3 - 4 (September - October 2018)</ref>