

Lykos met the geneticist Professor Charles Xavier while Lykos was still studying to be a doctor. Hence, he constructed devices through which he could drain his patients' life energies into himself. Lykos became a hypnotherapist, but his need for life energy increased as he became an adult. So Karl Lykos set off for medical school, vowing to become wealthy so he could marry Tanya. Anderssen refused to let her marry Karl because of his lack of financial means. Īs Karl grew older he fell in love with Tanya, but the stern Dr. However, he killed none of them, merely leaving them temporarily weakened. Karl kept his condition a secret, even after he found himself forced to drain energy from other human beings. His first unintentional victim was his dog Jager, whom he drained of energy simply by touching him. Karl discovered that he needed to drain life energy from other living beings to survive. įor reasons that have never been explained, the pteranodon bites somehow changed Karl, apparently altering his genetic structure. Anderssen allowed Karl to live with him and Tanya after Karl's father died.

Grateful to Karl for saving Tanya's life, Dr. Anderssen used his medical skills to save Karl's life. Traumatized by their experience, neither Karl nor Tanya remembered the pteranodons, and Dr. Apparently, the pteranodons had traveled to Tierra del Fuego through natural subterranean tunnels.) Karl drove the pteranodons off with his walking stick, but not before he was severely bitten. (In actuality, these pteranodons were from the Savage Land, the tropical region in Antarctica where prehistoric creatures still live. Pteranodon Attack Īt one point during the trip Tanya became lost, and Karl found her in a cave being attacked by gigantic pteranodons, a form of flying reptile from the age of dinosaurs. Anderssen, and his daughter Tanya, who was about the same age as Karl. Along with them on the journey were a physician, Dr.

As a young boy, Karl Lykos went with his father on an expedition to Tierra del Fuego near the Antarctic Circle.
