Marvel long lost sidekicks, the New Champions

[Ultimate Captain America]

Do we know if the guy with the thunderbolt is the sidekick of Carol? Perhaps he's the sidekick of Ms. Marvel

[classicgmer]

Sometimes you can have too many teen heroes.

Especially when there's very limited success with the ones you already have.

[Lonewolf36]

Do we know if the guy with the thunderbolt is the sidekick of Carol? Perhaps he's the sidekick of Ms. Marvel

Cadet makes me think Captain Marvel.

[Digifiend]

Is that really their backstory? Okay. Marvel was lacking a teenage team right now, and I doubt this is the one to fill the void.

We don't know yet, but it wouldn't be surprising, given that the last two storylines were a one issue team-up with Spider-Boy, whose origin was that he was erased from continuity and recently restored without anyone knowing him, and of course Jessica's own son being given similar treatment in the previous arc, kidnapped and memory of him erased. There's a theme there, it'd make sense if the Assembly are in the same boat as Gerry, except without the villainous brainwashing.

I'm still hoping the reason they called them the Assembly and not New Champions like on the solicits, is because they do plan to relaunch Champions. NYX isn't actually a team, more like five interconnected solo stories, so now she's off the main X-Men teams, Kamala's available to re-establish her team.

Do we know if the guy with the thunderbolt is the sidekick of Carol? Perhaps he's the sidekick of Ms. Marvel

The variant cover was on Captain Marvel, not Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant. Plus he has a Hala star as well as the thunderbolt. Definitely Carol's. Kamala didn't receive a cover in that variant set, though Miles did, so it wasn't because she herself is young.

And Lonewolf's right. A Ms. Marvel sidekick would probably be Kid Marvel or something similar. No military rank.

[Ultimate Captain America]

Cadet makes me think Captain Marvel.

"Cadet" makes me think of Nog from Deep Space 9, but that's just me.

[Lonewolf36]

I was thinking Alpha Flight Station cadets.



https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Dante_Cruz_(Earth-616)

[Ultimate Captain America]

I was thinking Alpha Flight Station cadets.

[alanyoung909]

So who do we have so far?

ULTIMATE X-MEN (Earth-6160)
1. Maystorm (Storm counterpart)

THE ASSEMBLY (Earth-616)
2. Cadet Marvel (Captain Marvel counterpart)
3. Hellrune (Thor counterpart)
4. Liberty (Captain America counterpart)
5. Moon Squire (Moon Knight counterpart)
6. Titan (Hulk counterpart)

My best guess would be that these New Champions variant covers were an artist-led initiative to design new characters.
The writers could then choose whichever designs they found most interesting to use in their stories.

Momoko took Maystorm with her to Ultimate X-Men.

Foxe is using some of them as members of The Assembly, which is obviously a Hydra programme of some sort.
Either the Assemblers were wholly manufactured by Hydra, or they were human kids transformed into "superheroes".

We'll have to wait and see if any of the other designs pop up anywhere.

[H-E-D]

I loved Fantasma, the roller derby sailor scout Ghost Rider by Luciano Vecchio. But I don’t imagine she’d fit in with Ben Percy’s Ghost Rider stuff at the moment.


From what I remember when the covers were rolling out, the artists were given rough pitches for character concepts but were otherwise given free rein.

[Photon Torme]

A Champions line up
Instead of Black Widow- Silhouette
Instead of Herc- Let’s say Thor’s son, Magni.
Instead of Ghost Rider- Hellcat association and affinity for the Supernatural gets spooky sometimes
Instead of Angel- Let’s say Wolverine
Instead Iceman- Let’s say Nightcrawler
Instead of Darkstar- let’s say Northstar
Instead of The great Bill Foster- Let’s use Blue Marvel
And also Instead of Iceman- Let’s say Jack Frost

[Digifiend]

This thread isn't about the 1970s team...

[Lonewolf36]

This thread isn't about the 1970s team...

Also Red Widow is a sidekick to Black Widow and would better make an age appropriate young Champion.



https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ava_Orlova_(Earth-616)

[Digifiend]

I think Marvel's forgotten she exists.

[Riv86672]

Also Red Widow is a sidekick to Black Widow and would better make an age appropriate young Champion.



https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ava_Orlova_(Earth-616)

^^^Never heard of her before! Cool.

[Lonewolf36]

I think Marvel's forgotten she exists.

I think you are right!