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"Young Ultimates": SHIELD training post-human minors?
FACT: Peter Parker is currently the subject of SHIELD monitoring. He is effectively being forced to join the Ultimates when he turns 18.
INFERENCE: If SHIELD can insist that a high-profile teenage superhero with a (relatively) loving and stable home environment must join the Ultimates, then chances are, they are probably eyeing other super-powered adolescents with less-than-satisfactory home-lives, offering them food and shelter, in exchange for training, loyalty, and service to the nation -- a kind of "reserve corps" for the Ultimates.
So who might be included on this list of under-18 super-soldiers? I would place Ultimate versions of the (616) New Warriors at the top of this list. Some possible recruits:
Angelica Jones (a.k.a. Firestar; pyrokinetic; "white trash" background; puts up intellectual front to over-compensate for lower-class upbringing; idolizes Black Widow, who is the group's trainer)
Robbie Baldwin (a.k.a. Speedball; quantum motion; "emo boy"; whiny; patterned after Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes, or Chris Carraba/Dashboard Confessional)
Dwayne Taylor (a.k.a. Night Thrasher; martial arts skills; rides a tricked-out "segway"; orphaned heir of a nanotech development firm; spoiled rich kid with 'bling-bling' sensibilities; resembles a teenage version of The Rock or Vin Diesel)
Other choices:
Sam Guthrie (a.k.a. Cannonball; flight and invulnerability; "hayseed"/country boy; polite 'southern gentleman' attitude often causes his more urbane team-mates to assume that he's a simpleton)
Barnell Bohusk (a.k.a. Beak; bird-like appearance; razor-sharp talons; limited flight; ineffectual Dutch punk rocker with an inferiority complex the size of a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet)
FACT: Peter Parker is currently the subject of SHIELD monitoring. He is effectively being forced to join the Ultimates when he turns 18.
INFERENCE: If SHIELD can insist that a high-profile teenage superhero with a (relatively) loving and stable home environment must join the Ultimates, then chances are, they are probably eyeing other super-powered adolescents with less-than-satisfactory home-lives, offering them food and shelter, in exchange for training, loyalty, and service to the nation -- a kind of "reserve corps" for the Ultimates.
So who might be included on this list of under-18 super-soldiers? I would place Ultimate versions of the (616) New Warriors at the top of this list. Some possible recruits:
Angelica Jones (a.k.a. Firestar; pyrokinetic; "white trash" background; puts up intellectual front to over-compensate for lower-class upbringing; idolizes Black Widow, who is the group's trainer)
Robbie Baldwin (a.k.a. Speedball; quantum motion; "emo boy"; whiny; patterned after Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes, or Chris Carraba/Dashboard Confessional)
Dwayne Taylor (a.k.a. Night Thrasher; martial arts skills; rides a tricked-out "segway"; orphaned heir of a nanotech development firm; spoiled rich kid with 'bling-bling' sensibilities; resembles a teenage version of The Rock or Vin Diesel)
Other choices:
Sam Guthrie (a.k.a. Cannonball; flight and invulnerability; "hayseed"/country boy; polite 'southern gentleman' attitude often causes his more urbane team-mates to assume that he's a simpleton)
Barnell Bohusk (a.k.a. Beak; bird-like appearance; razor-sharp talons; limited flight; ineffectual Dutch punk rocker with an inferiority complex the size of a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet)
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