Wildman was one of the many people infected by the bloodline parasites than survived their attack and developted superhuman abilities because the reaction of their metagene. In the case of Wildman, he gained the ability to grow to inhuman proportions.

Searching to gain some benefits from these new powers, Wildman attacked the New York JLI embassy to make himself a rep as a badass supervillian. However he choose a bad night to attack, because most of the team were off-duty and only J'onn J'onz was on guard, accompanied with new bloods Joe Public and Geist who were searching from some tips about the superhero bussiness.

When Loose Cannon joined the fight, the three new bloods take their strenghs against Wildman, making him fall in the river. Since then, Wildman has no reappered.