New Warriors Roster and Powers

[Michael P]

Could someone be nice enough to detail for me the New Warriors roster that gets blowed up real good at the start of Civil War, and their powers? Thanks in advance.

Also, any powers they used to have, but don't anymore, would be appreciated.

[Expletive Deleted]

I think it's supposed to be the roster from the mini-series, minus Nova.

So that'd be Namorita, Speedball, Night Thrasher, Microbe, and Debrii.

[riotgear]

Could someone be nice enough to detail for me the New Warriors roster that gets blowed up real good at the start of Civil War, and their powers? Thanks in advance.

Also, any powers they used to have, but don't anymore, would be appreciated.

If you go to Marvel.com, they have improved their character bios on the site. It's a step in the right direction, if you ask me.

[Cowlander]

Didnt Debris leave at the end of the mini?

[Jack]

Didnt Debris leave at the end of the mini?Everyone left at the end of the mini. Except Night Thrasher, in what was an incredibly depressing scene.

Assuming that it is the roster from the mini (I don't know, I haven't looked at any previews), I can tell you about them some, whatever I can remember.

Night Thrasher - Dwayne Taylor - is basically black Batman, sad as it is to use a term like that. Rich parents are killed when he's young, he poured his fortune into training and battle armour. He also has low-level resistance to psionics, which was originally part of his training and later retconned to be a minor mutation. If Marvel are remembering that fact, and still considering it a mutation, then he may have lost it thanks to M-Day. Thanks to events detailed in the last mini, the Taylor Foundation has gone bankrupt, so he no longer has the superpower of being rich. He founded the New Warriors, recruiting Nova, Justice and Firestar (Speedy and Namorita just showed up).

Nova - Rich Rider - part of the Xandarian Nova Corps (it might not be Corps), so think GL. He was given a portion of the Nova Force, which grants him the powers of supersonic flight, superstrength, the ability to absorb and redirect energy and the emission of gravimetric pulses (which have hurt people like Thor, Iron Man and Gladiator). The amount of the Nova Force he's had has gone up and down over the years, and sometimes he didn't have the energy powers. His armour is capable of protecting him from space and supplying him with oxygen.

Speedball - Robbie Baldwin - got his powers from a freak accident at the lab where he worked as a kid. When he is hit (or hits something) hard enough, his body is switched with the "bubbles", which are from a universe of pure kinetic energy. Basically he can't be hurt, he bounces around a lot, he can absorb kinetic energy, creating more bubbles that he can shoot at people (so if you hit him, he hits back harder). He's completely immune to telepathy, even from people like Xavier, incredibly hard to hurt and... that's only because he doesn't know how to use his powers to their full potential. He is the incarnation of an entire universe of infinite kinetic energy, and each of the "bubbles" is really a moment in time, which means that Robbie is actually an incarnation of time itself. Of course, none of that is really remembered, so it doesn't matter much. He also has the power of Squirrel Girl being in love with him.

Namorita - a Sub-Mariner, just like her cousin. She's also a clone, with some of the DNA of the ancient Atlanteans, which is why on occasion she's blue and spiky and somewhat more powerful. Right now she's probably at her original power levels, so just think a female Namor.

Microbe - he can talk to germs. No, really. He's Dwayne's foster son, which is doubly sad when you realise that it was all his fault that Dwayne lost his fortune. Microbe is a mutant, and his father was a scientist working on a cure for cancer using bacteria designed to eat cancer cells and leave healthy ones alone. And it looked like he'd done it, except it was all Microbe's powers, and it only worked when he was there. NT lost everything because he was backing Microbe's dad. The applications of his powers are... well, varied.

Debrii - low level telekinetic. She can only move small, free objects. In other words... rubbish. She can move a lot of garbage at once, though, so she can do things like ride around on waves of it. She was added to the team by the network running the New Warriors tv show to bring conflict, so she was supposed to be a bitch.

Other NWs include: Justice, Firestar, Rage, Silhouette, Darkhawk, Alex Power, Turbo, Scarlet Spider, Timeslip, Dagger, Hindsight Lad and Bandit.

[Haunt]

Everyone left at the end of the mini. Except Night Thrasher, in what was an incredibly depressing scene.


sooo...they all got back together to get blown up? :confused:

[Jack]

sooo...they all got back together to get blown up? :confused:Well, the NWs as a team are more like a group of friends than anything else. That's why the core of the team has always stayed basically the same while people like Turbo or Alex Power drift away. They've been the NWs on and off for such a long time that it's not ever a surprise to see them together.

It's really a shame to hear that they're being used the way I think they are in Civil War, because really by now they should be the best team in the MU. They've consistently been together for longer than any one other team. The Avengers and the X-Men are always jumbling up their ranks, but the New Warriors are basically always the same.

[StoneGold]

sooo...they all got back together to get blown up? :confused:
$$$

Second season got greenlit. Hey, it happened for the Simple Life.

[Slumber Hulk]

I don't think they all left the team as much as they hated the whole reality TV angle and quit the show. They are still going to work together.

The only thing you neglected in your character Biographies (which were pretty good) is that Speedball's pet cat also got hit in the lab and has the same powers.

I agree that they have been together consistently for a long time and work well together. Also, they were out hunting Nitro and other escapees from the Raft when the stuff hit the fan. They were trying to do what the avengers and others claimed they would go take care of but I guess they "never go around to it."

[Jack]

The only thing you neglected in your character Biographies (which were pretty good) is that Speedball's pet cat also got hit in the lab and has the same powers.Yeah, I knew that but I just didn't think to mention it. Much hijinks resulted.