Lockjaw

Lockjaw is an Inhuman dog and a beloved member of the Inhuman Royal Family. He is a huge bulldog with prominent antennae on his head, capable of teleporting great distances in an instant. While officially answering to Black Bolt, Lockjaw is greatly fond of Crystal, and spends most of his time with her.

Biography

Exile from Attilan

In the early 1960s, King Black Bolt ruled Attilan peacefully and justly while his mad brother Maximus was imprisoned. Maximus fomented a revolt among the Alpha Primitives, led by the empowered Trikon, in an attempt to wreak havoc and allow him to usurp the throne. During the battle, Medusa was violently stricken with amnesia, and Black Bolt and Lockjaw sent the Trikon through a portal to the Negative Zone. Medusa wandered out of Attilan, conscious of little beyond her own name. Maximus's insurrection proved successful, as he banished the rest of the royal family from Attilan while making their ousting look like a voluntary abdication and self-imposed exile. The family spent the next several months searching for Medusa, their powers attracting unwanted attention in Europe. The young Crystal in particular grew restless without children her age to play with. Gorgon surreptitiously visited Maximus and negotiated the family's return on the condition that they bring back Medusa as well. Maximus and his loyal lieutenant the Seeker secretly planted a transmitter on Gorgon's person to spy on the family's doings. After the family had spent two years searching, Gorgon found Medusa outside Paris, France, but she fled from him due to an unconscious association with the Trikon.

Emergence

Medusa appeared in New York City as a member of the villainous team known as the Frightful Four, formed to combat the heroic Fantastic Four. The four proved a potent challenge to the famous heroes, but in the end, all but Medusa were captured and incarcerated. Medusa became an infamous figure, and her publicity drew the family to New York, where they hid in an underground base in the Bowery while Gorgon pursued her. The family's private meetings were transmitted in full to the Seeker, who arrived in New York shortly after the Frightful Four were defeated. Medusa naturally resisted Gorgon's pursuit, roping the Fantastic Four and (inadvertently) Dragon Man into the chase. Gorgon eventually made off with her, returning her to the hideout. Medusa's memory was restored, though it's unclear how—it's possible that being around her entire family triggered the return of her memories. The naïve Crystal soon granted access to the hideout to the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, thinking he was a fellow Inhuman. Gorgon recognized him and attacked, but Torch quickly fled through the ceiling, burning through it and exposing the hideout. He signaled for his teammates, who soon arrived and confronted the Inhumans.

Black Bolt returned from a brief excursion soon after, and the Inhumans and Fantastic Four fought. Mr. Fantastic fought Triton, ripping his robe and unwittingly forcing Triton to flee into the ocean. Almost immediately after diving in, Triton was found by the Seeker and abducted. Seeker and his men imprisoned Triton in a small aquarium in a secret base nearby. They also held the unconscious Dragon Man captive, having taken him from containment in the Baxter Building after assuming he was an Inhuman. Meanwhile, the other Inhumans discovered that Triton had been taken, and concluded that their hideout had been compromised. Afraid of the Seeker's pursuit, they fled to Attilan using Lockjaw's portal to confront Maximus directly. Crystal wanted to remain with Johnny, and Medusa supported giving her the chance to live as a human, but Karnak and Gorgon held her back, insisting that she remain to keep the family together. For his part, Black Bolt's electron energy had been expended, leaving him disabled. Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four arrived at Seeker's base as Dragon Man escaped, though they soon subdued him. Seeker left for Attilan with Triton in tow, but Mr. Fantastic planted a tracking device on his ship allowing the heroes to follow.

Maximus glad-handed the family, feigning peacefulness. He made his intentions known: namely, that he wished to make Medusa his queen. In an act of desperation, Black Bolt snatched the crown from Maximus's head and wore it himself, reclaiming his rightful title. They asked about Triton, and Maximus revealed a monitor showing him contained in water in another room. The Fantastic Four arrived outside, and Crystal ran out to them to greet Johnny. The other Inhumans came outside to separate them, escalating tensions between the two groups. Speaking on Black Bolt's behalf, Medusa told the Fantastic Four that the king would spare their lives if they left now and told no one of what they had seen. Mr. Fantastic tried to convince them to cease their isolationism and join Earth society at large. Meanwhile, Maximus retreated to an inner sanctum of the royal palace, revealing a huge, special weapon called the atmo-gun, which would vibrate the Earth's atmosphere in such a way as to kill all humans (but not Inhumans) on the planet. By using it, Maximus hoped to conquer the world upon reclaiming rule of Attilan.