Todays hero of the day goes out to the heroic rebels, The Runaways. With their parents all gathered at Alex Wilder's mansion for an annual gathering, Nico Minoru, Gertrude Yorkes, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, and Alex Wilder accidentally witnessed their parents performing the ritual sacrifice of a teenage girl. Scared of those they loved, the children banded together and became runaways. The shocked teenagers vowed to turn the tables on their evil parents. In order to get their children back, the Pride framed them for the murder of the innocent girl they had sacrificed. The runaways retreated to a subterranean hideout they called "the Hostel", a mansion buried during an earthquake.
Molly's parents were telepathic mutants who posed as a doctor and a speech therapist, both telekinetics. Molly is capable of lifting upwards of 100 tons. The upper limits of her powers have never been tested. Molly is seen toppling monsters as large as skyscrapers, tunneling through miles of rock and lift a car with ease. She also appears to have some-degree of invulnerability when her powers are active.
Molly's strength rapidly drains her endurance, often causing her to fall asleep after using her strength. She is now capable of using her powers at moderate levels for extended periods of time without falling asleep, but she still needs to rest afterwards and the greater the strength she uses, the more tired she becomes. Her youth may contribute to this.
Minoru has some magical aptitude, but she has never received proper training. So far she has relied on the Staff of One to work magic. After her encounter with Witchbreaker her abilities were augmented so that she can create smaller magical effects without the aid of the Staff. She can freely float, although this ability is not as useful as actual flight which requires a spell. In "Dead Wrong" she is seen moving objects with her mind to clean the Runaways new home.
With the Witchbreakers Staff Minoru can cast spells by invoking painful memories, thinking of an effect, and giving the spell a name. There are no "standard" spells; in fact, casting any spell a second time produces an unpredictable (and usually undesirable) effect. Minoru's spells can affect the elements (earth, air, fire, water), time and/or space, matter and/or energy, light, biological processes, and mental processes, and can apparently summon creatures from other dimensions; in short, the staff allows Minoru to do anything she can imagine, short of raising the dead. After the staff has expended a certain amount of power, it disappears inside Minoru again.
Chase Stein is the son of mad scientists Victor and Janet Stein. The two supposedly made a fortune from inventing a tool that removes stickers from CDs. Chase often comes across as being a dumb, obnoxious jock, but he is surprisingly street smart. Chase uses a pair of "Fistigons" after his first pair were destroyed. This new version can shoot electricity, missiles as well as fire. He occasionally uses a pair of rocket boots that he call the "Footsgons" and a switchblade to defend himself as well. He also uses X-Ray goggles, but those got destroyed. Chase has an empathic bond with Old Lace(his pet dinosaur), meaning that they share both emotions and pain. Chase can also command Old Lace to follow any order he gives. Old Lace was killed in a missle strike that destroyed their home. Chase also pilots their vehicle which is called Leapfrog, leapfrog doesnt fly, but it can leap at far distances, shoot rockets, blasts, and even move through time.
Karolina Dean is the daughter of Frank and Leslie Dean, two Hollywood actors who were secretly alien outcasts and members of a crime organization called the The Pride. Despite growing up with two famous parents, Karolina was untouched by Hollywood scandal and developed a strong moral compass. She had an interest in new age beliefs, and is a vegan. Karolina originally wanted to be an actress like her mother. Karolina has the ability to absorb solar energy to an unknown degree. Karolina's molecule emit solar radiation constantly in various colors. Her blood is deadly to vampires, and her physiology presumably differs from humans in other ways as well. She also appears to be stronger than an average human. Karolina is able to propel herself into the air at supersonic speeds, leaving a rainbow-like trail behind, the ability to projectile energy blasts of kinetic light by compacting it into her hands and create shields by compressing her energy around her.
Ultron met Marianella Mancha in a scrapyard where he was left after being defeated by the West Coast Avengers. Marianella was physically unable to have children, and her past as a drug mule prevented her from legally adopting a child. Ultron promised to give her a child as a "reward" for saving him, though he had ulterior motives. Marianella, a devout Christian, saw Ultron as a John the Baptist figure and followed his words. He used her DNA to begin work on a fully-grown cyborg that was programmed with false memories of a normal childhood. He then dubbed the cyborg "Victor" and gave it a deep-rooted love for super-heroes. H e tried to use Victor to infiltrate the Avengers and activate a progarm in him that would make him kill them all, though he ran into the runaways and they saved him from that fate. Victor Mancha is a cyborg, created from DNA from Marianella Mancha and the technology of Ultron. Ultron's nanite technology was so advanced that, over time, Victor's artificial parts would become identical to his human parts, making it nigh impossible to determine he was a once a cyborg. As a result, he possesses several computer related abilities, including, super intellegence, photographic memory, Computer interfacing, superhuman strength, durability, speed, agility, automated self-repair and electromagnetic manipulation which means he can fire high voltage electric blasts from his hands.
In case you missed the others previous:
Multiple Man http://www.ign.com/blogs/siphen.0/?p=398
Iron Fist http://www.ign.com/blogs/siphen.0/?p=357
Cloak and Dagger http://www.ign.com/blogs/siphen.0/?p=282