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Power Pack

Power Pack

First Appearance
Power Pack #1 (May, 1984 release; August, 1984 cover)
Creators
Louise Simonson, June Brigman
HQ
Bainbridge Island
Members
Alex Power, Julie Power, Jack Power, Katie Power, Franklin Richards
Rallying Cry
None
Paraphenalia
Starship Friday
Aliases
None

The Power Pack is a superhero team of children in the Marvel Universe.

Origin[]

When the Power siblings (Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie) found their parents were kidnapped by aliens, a good alien named Whitey gave the children his powers so they could save the day. After doing so, they decided to continue using their powers as the superhero team Power Pack. Don't be confused with the X-Men or the Teen Titans.

History[]

Power Play[]

Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Power were four normal kids whose father, James Power, had discovered a revolutionary new power source that was efficient and ecologically safe. However, James was unaware that the power source had the potential to destroy the planet. The alien Aelfyre Whitemane took notice of this, as his world had also been destroyed by the very same device. The alien race known as the Zn'rx were also aware of the device and shot down Aelfyre's ship before he could warn James Power, in the hopes that he complete and it they could take it for themselves.

The Power kids discovered Aelfyre and explained his situation and how their father was in danger. He also told them that he was dying that that his race, which has fantastical powers, can transfer their powers upon death. Aelfyre then transferred his powers to the four children, giving each of them different powers.  Alex gained the power to alter gravity, Julie discovered she could fly at high speeds, Jack could control the density of objects, and Katie gained the power to absorb and control energy.  The four children decided to defeat the Zn'rx (or Snarks) and became a superhero team: the Power Pack. The gang used secret identities and used codenames: Alex became Gee, Julie became Lightspeed, Jack became Mass Master and Katie became Energizer.  Together, they used Whitemane's ship, the Starship Friday, as a base and mode of transportation.

Together, the kids used their powers and defeated the Snarks and rescued their parents.  They decided to continue hiding their superpowered lives as the Power Pack secret from their parents and friends for their own safety, a fact that would sometimes cause them feelings of guilt.  The Power Pack later encountered the villain The Bogey Man, a former employee of their father whom blamed the Power Pack for his own personal misfortune. The Bogey Man stole a suit of armor but was defeated by the Power Pack, the Warriors Three (three heroic Asgardian heroes) and the New Mutants.

The family eventually moved to New York City where they had to juggle their personal problems as well as battling supervillains in their alter egos. In the city, they continue to train in team work and using their powers and encounter the android the Dragon Man, a hypnotic alien snake named Snake-Eyes and the mutant outcasts the Morlocks, as well as meeting the superheroes Spider-Man, Cloak and Dagger and the X-Men. During this time they fought powerful villains including the dark elf Kurse, as well as Sabretooth during the "mutant massacre", in which many of the Morlocks, a group of outcast living in the sewers of New York, were attacked and killed by assassins. They also befriended Franklin Richards, child of the superheroes Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four (and through them, befriended Richards). The Power Pack also met and became friends with Kofi Whitemane, cousin to Aelfyre, who travelled to Earth to save them from the Snarks, feeling that their connecting to Aelfyre made them his blood cousins.

As their adventures went on, events would occur that would result in team members swapping powers (and as a result, changing codenames). The Powers' parents eventually learned the truth about the kids dual identities, resulting in mental strain over their children risking their lives as heroes.

Powers & Abilities[]

Paraphernalia[]

Equipment[]

  • Power Pack Uniforms: Each member of Power Pack was given a costume made of unstable molecules by the Smartship Friday. Franklin Richards was later given a costume by Friday as well. With the verbal command, "Costumes On," the costume will appear, replacing any existing clothes. The costumes are maintained when not in use by residents of an alternate reality known as Elsewhere. In addition to summoning, alterations to the costumes can be made by contacting the Elsewhere tailors with notes left in the pockets. Alterations include space worthy costumes and underwater ones as well. Notices also need to be left in the pocket to transform the costumes to indicate the powers possessed by its member. Additional accessories can also be added that become part of the permanent costume until the kids express a desire to alter them again. The pockets of each costume are portals to Elsewhere. Therefore, the kids can hold a significant amount of stuff in the pockets of their costumes without creating a bulge or weight. The limits of the Elsewhere tailors have yet to be expressed.[citation needed]

Transportation[]

  • Kymellian Smartship Friday

Members[]

  • Zero-G / Alex Power (leader)
    • Gravitikinesis: Zero-G can negate the force of gravity on himself and on other living beings and objects through anti-gravitons. (Gravitons are subatomic particles which carry the force of gravitational attraction.
      • Gravity Manipulation, Acceleration Manipulation, Density Manipulation, Energy Manipulation: Upon taking all the three Kymellian powers from his siblings and retaining his own powers, Alex became Powerpax and later Powerhouse. With all four powers, he was quite a bit more powerful, and was able to utilize all of the talents, powers, and skills that the four siblings had created over the years, and manifested powers like Flight at faster than the speed of sound, shrinking and growing in size, transforming into a gaseous cloud form, utilizing his rainbow trail as a solid platform or binding apparatus, disintegrating objects and releasing energy, and manipulation of gravity. He also had a more powerful healing factor. All of these powers, except his share of the healing factor and his original Gravity powers were lost when he decided to return them to his siblings, becoming Zero-G once more.
      • Gravitational Energy Manipulation
      • Gravity Telekinesis
      • Gravitational Downfall
      • Gravity Increase
      • Gravity Negation
    • Energy Manipulation: After he and his siblings switched powers for the first time, Alex gained the powers formerly held by his sister Katie, which allowed him to disintegrate objects and absorb energy from them before projecting if forward as "Power Balls" of incredible destructive force. Alex was, possibly due to his age, far more concerned with the lethal potential of these powers than Katie was. Alex was also the first to discover that absorbing excessive amounts of energy caused him great pain and made it harder for him to release it. Eventually, Alex lost these powers after trading with his siblings again, gaining the Density powers held by his brother Jack and his sister Julie.
    • Density Manipulation: After he and his siblings switched powers once more, Alex gained the Density Manipulation powers that were previously possessed by his brother Jack as Mass Master and his sister Julie as Molecula. He took the name Mass Master and utilized the same powers his brother and sister had, such as turning into a gaseous cloud form, shrinking while gaining strength and durability, creating density force fields, and growing to greater heights than he could achieve naturally. He also refined the power himself, being the first sibling to use the powers to become a liquid. He eventually switched powers with his siblings again, regaining his old gravity powers and becoming Zero-G.
    • Power Burrowing; able to borrow the powers of his siblings if they don't resist the process
    • Physical Force Power Link
  • Energizer / Katie Power
    • Gravitational Energy Manipulation:
      • Energizer can project "power balls" of force from her chest, which carry great destructive impact. In order to amass enough energy to form the "power balls," Energizer must disintegrate an object and absorb the released energy into herself. Apparently Energizer does not convert all of the matter she disintegrates into energy, or create nuclear reactions within it; if she did, she would release far more energy than she has so far. Probably she disintegrates matter by severing the bonds holding its molecules together. Energizer prefers to derive energy by disintegrating solid objects or liquids; gases, except in impractically large amounts, could not give her sufficient energy. When charged with energy, Energizer's body often glows with crackling power. At first she had little control over her power, and would accidentally fire power balls on becoming angry or frightened. Moreover, the power balls would fly off in all directions from her chest. With practice and determination, however, Energizer has since learned how to fire the power balls when she wishes to, and in the specific direction she wishes. There are undefined limits to the amount of time she can contain certain amounts of energy within her body, and she sometimes may be forced to release power balls simply to rid herself of excess energy.
      • Through practice with the Morlock Erg, Energizer has learned how to absorb energy fired at her and then use it to create power balls. It is as yet unclear whether she can do this with all forms of energy or not. Energizer's power is limited by the amount of energy she can absorb. She can easily absorb and release enough energy to destroy several steel beams at once, as she did when she caused a building under construction to collapse upon the being known as Kurse. Straining to her utmost limit, Energizer once absorbed tremendous amounts of mystical energy from the enchanted hammers of Thor and Beta Ray Bill, and released it upon Kurse. It was enough power to stun that being, who was then over twice as strong as Thor, into unconsciousness. Presumably as Energizer grows bigger, she will be able to surpass her present limits in utilizing her power.
      • Energy Transmutation
  • Lightspeed / Julie Power
    • Self-Propelled Flight: Julie can fly at supersonic speeds while creating a stream of refracted light. After regaining her powers from her sister Katie, Julie learned how to hover in the air without accelerating.
      • Speed: Julie's maximum speed is at least 800 mph, faster than the speed of sound. She has been shown creating sonic booms when flying.
      • Tracing
        • Rainbow Trail: Julie also emitted a distinct rainbow colored trail while flying. She eventually learned to manipulate this trail so that she could stand on it, use it to cushion the falls of others, and even as a hammock.
    • Teleportation: The second manifestation of Julie's Acceleration powers, which manifested after Julie had a strong desire to be in two places at once. This power allowed her to traverse great distances, seemingly without effort. She teleports in a flash of pink light.
    • Limited Invulnerability: Lightspeed has survived direct energy blasts from Ultron, which previously disintegrated Marianella Mancha, meaning that Julie may have been able to draw on the powers of her siblings even though they were not nearby. Previous incidents have demonstrated a sharing and linking of these powers when the siblings are in proximity to each other.
    • Density Control: (formerly) After switching powers with her siblings, Julie gained her brother Jack's density control powers. This allowed her to manifest the powers that were originally used by Jack, such as the ability to become a super-dense cloud that allowed her to fly and avoid attacks. She could also shrink down to 8 inches in height which made her nearly invulnerable to assault. In addition to the previously established powers, Julie refined the Density Control powers by learning to create density shields which allowed her to protect herself and others from attack. Julie could also increase her size while retaining the same mass, but this power exhausted her the longer she used it. Julie and her siblings eventually had their powers switched again, and she regained her acceleration powers.
    • Velocity Manipulation
  • Mass Master / Jack Power
    • Density Manipulation: Primarily, Jack has the ability to control the density of the molecules of his body. He can disperse his molecules into a dense, cloud-like form, or reduce the space between them until he is a small, highly resistant 8" size. He has also shown the ability to materialize a portion, or just a part of his body, such a his upper body while his lower half is in cloud form. During the "Peer Pressure" Miniseries, Jack revealed that he could now form density fields in the form of shields or force-fields. When his sister Julie had the powers as Molecula, she discovered that she could also assume an 8' form that was nearly intangible, but Jack has never shown this degree on control. Julie was also the first to use a force-field as a shield but Jack was more innovative in his use of the force-field as more than just a shield. As Counterweight, Jack had the gravity manipulation powers, and as Energizer, he had the energy absorption/projection powers.
    • Cloud Mimicry
  • Tattletale / Franklin Benjamin Richards
  • Kofi Whitemane
    • Horse Physiology
    • Gravity: Cast anti-gravity fields over a distance to levitate matter
    • Density: Generate molecular density field by compressing matter from the atmosphere into a nigh-impenetrable barrier
    • Energy: Explosive plasma bolts fired from his hands.
    • Acceleration: Teleportation of himself and others in a rainbow of light.

In other Media[]

Appears in a episode of Super Hero Squad Show

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