Theodore Grant (Alternate Earth-2992)

Pro-boxing star Ted Grant, inspired by injustice, became a superhero to clear his name. Wildcat has served as a mentor to many younger heroes including Batman, Nightwing and Black Canary, and continues to serve as a mentor in the Avengers Base.

Early Life
Ted Grant heard about Gray Ghost, he was inspired by him and wished to become a hero himself. Henry Grant was a good man but a push over as well as a risk taker. He took it upon himself to make sure his son Ted would never be taken advantage. Henry taught Ted how to box and when he reached maturity, Ted had become a wildcat in the sport of boxing. Unfortunately, Henry's shortcomings left him penniless and he was unable to put Ted through college. Ted had no other choice but to take on the loading jobs in the Gotham warehouse district.

Wildcat
It was on one fateful night at the warehouse that Ted's life would change forever. One of the warehouse unloaders was being ambushed by a couple of thugs. Ted fights off the thugs and the unloader is astonished by how Ted is able to read each thug's move before they make it. The thugs run off in fear and Ted recognizes the unloader as Mike "Socker Smith" Muldoon, a washed up prize fighter. Muldoon decides to promote Ted as the next heavyweight champion of the world. After a string of knockouts in pro bouts, Ted was eventually hailed as Wildcat.

Five years later, Wildcat teaches a young Bruce Wayne the styles in boxing at the Kun-La temple.

Aiding Cyclops
Wildcat came upon Cyclops in the aftermath of his battle with Mister Sinister, seemingly at death's door once again. As Scott struggled to drag himself up, Ted told him to stop and reflect upon how he arrived here, and ask himself what it all meant. As Cyclops recalled his life up to that point, Wildcat tended to his wounds and when Summers mentioned his mission to retrieve the Inhuman Messiah, Grant understands the Omega-level power of Hope Summers overtook him.

As Scott laments that he will never be free, Wildcat asks him if he still hasn't figured out what all these events up until that time mean or why he is there. Helping Cyclops up, Wildcat laughs heartily as Cyclops contemplates Apocalypse in the future, saying they have wine for melancholy and tells Scott that after all he has endured, Batman owes him a favor, much to the Inhuman's confusion.