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History of the NW (part 9)

Before we talk about what happened to the Warriors during Evan Skolnik’s run, I better introduce you to the three (or four) heroes who joined the team before Skolnik became the Warrior’s writer.

First of all, there’s Turbo. Turbo is a name shared by two people: Mike Jeffries and Michiko ‘Mickey’ Musashi.

You see, Mike found an old superhero suit that had once been used by the superhero Torpedo. Not aware of this, Mike gave it to his best friend Mickey so that she could use it as a Halloween costume. But they both quickly learned that the suit could make the person wearing it capable of flying at high speed as well as creating powerful wind gusts. The two friends decided to share the suit. Mike was a comic nerd, so he wanted to become a superhero. But Micky was not as interested in superheroics and just liked using the suit for transportation and to get to exotic places in no time. So they took turns in using the suit.

Unfortunately, Mike sucked at using the suit, so when the Warriors asked Turbo to join the Warriors, they were only interested in Micky who could actually use it without endangering others as well as herself. Tough break, Mike:(

Alex Power was the oldest child of Dr. James Power, a physicist who worked for the United States government on a means of producing large quantities of energies cheaply through combining matter and anti-matter. An alien named Aelfyre Whitemane (nicknamed “Whitey”) learned of the doctor’s discovery and intended to stop it. Whitemane knew that a device such as Dr. Power’s would (despite good intentions) trigger a chain reaction that would destroy the Earth.

Because inventions that actually BENEFITS mankind is not allowed in the Marvel Universe:P

Moreover, he knew that Power’s device was sought by alien Z’nrx, nicknamed “Snarks,” who intended to use it to conquer inhabited worlds.

When Snarks captured Dr. Power and his wife Margaret, intending to force him to reveal the secret of his device, Whitemane saved the Powers’s children, Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie, from being captured, but he himself was fatally wounded in the process. Dying, Whitemane transferred four of his superpowers into each of the four Power children, and asked them to use their new abilities to save their world. Alex received the power to control gravity, and called himself Gee. The kids rescued their parents, and destroyed Dr. Power’s dangerous matter/anti-matter machine, thereby saving the Earth from destruction. The four children have since continued to have adventures as the team Power Pack.

Some time later, Alex was contacted to help save the New Warriors from the Sphinx. For this adventure he was convinced to absorb the powers of his siblings and help the Warriors as Powerpax. After the adventure, he returned his siblings powers and promised not to steal them again. But soon after the Warriors needed his help again, and he broke his promise. This time, however, he realized how dangerous it was for children to be superheroes, and decided not to give his siblings their powers back.

,.. OR he didn’t give them back their powers because he wanted to be in a teenage superteam.

Why not? Older brothers can be jerks!

And then there’s Carlton LaFroyge AKA Hindsight. Carlton is most likely the LEAST liked New Warrior ever.

... And he is my favorite member of the team:)

Carl was Robbie Baldwin’s neighbor who by accident stumbled across a scrapbook identifying Robbie as Speedball. Carl was a huge fan of everything superhero related, so he promised Robbie not to reveal his secret if he was allowed to join the team. Robbie and the Warriors grudgingly agreed, but mostly ignored Hindsight Lad. And when they actually talked to him, they usually just insulted him.

Then again, blackmailing your way into a team is not a good way to make a first impression:)

Despite Carl’s lack of powers as well as the Warriors’ lack of faith in him, Carl proved to be surprisingly useful with his talents for tactics and tech.

Anyway, Skolnik’s run on the New Warriors started at issue 54 where the Warriors traveled to some fictional desert country where there’s war going on, innocent people gets hurt and everything sucks (there’s a lot of those in Marvel), but they are short on team members since Night Thrasher and Rage are out doing there own thing (Thrash had his own solo series where Rage was his sidekick). It ends in a disaster when they face the evil dasterdly basterdly villain team called the Soldiers Of Misfortune.

Yep, ridicules 90′s name. And their leader is the most 90est of all 90′s villains: Protocol.

Seriously, LOOK at this guy:

Wow. I mean, just.. WOW!

I’ve seen some silly 90′s bad guys, but this one takes the cake.

He is big, naked, has spikes and claws, AND he doesn’t have a penis. That’s probably why he is so evil.

Anyway, most of the Warriors ended up getting caught by Protocol. Except for Nova who calls in Hindsight and asks him for his help with locating the Soldiers of Misfortune as well as getting Alex and Turbo to help saving the rest of the team.

Skolnik’s run on the Warriors was not the best stories ever written, but it was still pretty damn good... or as good as it could be with all the ridicules 90′s stuff going on in the Marvel U. He obviously did his homework on the Warriors when he took over the titles and made several references to past stories and even tied up old knots from Fabian Nicieza’s run. AND he made Hindsight relevant to the plot by shoving us that even though Carlton could only help from the sideline, he still did his part for the team. You could call him the Jarvis of the New Warriors.

Anyway, Nova and the reserve Warriors finds the submarine where all the other Warriors are stashed in and saves them... except for Namorita who has been brainwashed and now only serves Protocol.

After a daring escape from the submarine, Nova was kinda pissed at Night Thrasher for not being around when they actually needed him. The other Warriors agreed, and Thrash and Rage were kicked out of the team.

... which is kinda weird when you think about it. After all, the New Warriors are actually Thrash’s team. He pays for everything, including their headquarter, transportation and other resources.

That’s all for now. I’m Waezi2, and thanks for wasting time with me.

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