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Ripclaw is a Native American cyborg. He is an expert in hand to hand combat and possesses a superhuman healing factor and the ability to commune with the spirit world, allowing him to shape-shift.

Ripclaw (real name Robert Bearclaw) develops an ability to assume certain animalistic attributes, such as the teeth and claws of a bear. This physical transformation defies any kind of scientific analysis, but seems to involve some sort of manipulation of unstable molecules.

He can also enter the spirit world. This communion with his ancestors seems to involve some sort of heightened sensitivity which allows him to sense things just beyond the physical boundaries of conventional defined reality.

Ripclaw eventually joins Cyberdata as a S.H.O.C.