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Welcome back to top 10 nerd.
We're coming at you today with a part two of our top 10 teenage superheroes list.
Some of these heroes have grown up into, well, bigger heroes, while others have stayed young,
but regardless, they've all got quite interesting histories.
So let's jump in!
10 Bucky Barnes Starting off our list is Cap's young sidekick,
Bucky Barnes.
Before he became the Winter Soldier, Bucky made his debut as Steve Rogers' almost inseparable
sidekick, who also was a member of the Young Allies.
Bucky is introduced to us as an orphan whose father was killed during training for World
War 2 and now resides at army's camp, almost acting as their mascot.
Bucky befriends Steve Rogers, and as stories of Captain America start to circulate, becomes
enthralled with the hero.
He stumbles upon Steve changing into his Cap uniform one day, and convinces Steve to let
him be his sidekick, despite only being 15; a thing that the Us military justified by
saying he was a symbol to rally the youth of America.
Still got him killed though.
Sort of.
9 Violet from the incredibles Moving away from mainstream comics and into
blockbuster movies, Violet is a superhero teen from the 2004 disney pixar film, The
Incredibles.
Violet is capable of generating impact resistant force shields, and more importantly, becoming
invisible.
How thematically fitting for a teenager.
All Violet wants to do is disappear, but over the course of the film, she overcomes her
struggle with her lack of confidence, learning that she can be powerful if she only believes
in herself.
Her younger siblings also have super powers; her brother Dash has super speed, and Jack
Jack, who has a wide range of shape shifting abilities.
8 Nova When we first meet Sam Alexander, he's a
15 year old living in Arizona who doesn't believe his father's drunken claims that
he was a Nova Centurion.
But after his father disappears and he's visited by Rocket Raccoon and Gamora, he puts
on his dad's helmet and becomes Nova, a part of the Nova Corps who are an intergalactic
police force.
Wonder why that sounds familiar.
First appearing in 2011's Marvel Point One issue 1, Nova was created by Jeph Loeb and
Ed McGuinness, and the character would eventually go on to become a member of the Avengers after
an invitation is extended to him from Thor.
And, for those of you wondering, the original Nova was created in 1966, and goes by the
name of Richard Rider.
7 Donna Troy Donna Troy was initially created to help make
Wonder Woman more 'family friendly' after the fallout from Fredric Wertham's Seduction
of the Innocent.
DC introduced the series Impossible Tales that featured Diana's younger self, called
Wonder Girl, going on adventures with her mother.
By 1961 though, Wonder Girl became separate from Wonder woman, and in 1965 became a member
of the teen titans.
Wonder girl wouldn't get her own origin story until 1969, which featured her as an
orphan being rescued by Diana, then brought to paradise island where she was endowed with
Amazon powers, and adopts the secret identity of Donna Troy.
6 Jubilee First introduced in 1989, Jubilee would become
the youngest member of the X-Men, and a bit of a sidekick to Wolverine.
Jubilee was the daughter of two wealthy chinese immigrants, and was a promising gymnast, with
many thinking she had potential to be in the Olympics one day.
Her parents were assassinated, causing her to be sent to an orphanage, which she didn't
like one bit.
She ran away, and upon being chased by security at the Hollywood Mall for stealing, she discovered
that she had pyrotechnic energy blast abilities.
After the X-Men, she would join the Generation X team, a group of teenage mutants who were
mentored by Banshee and Emma Frost.
Since 2011's Curse of the Mutants storyline, she's been a vampire, bitten by Xarus, the
son of Dracula.
So, I guess that's a thing, eh?
5 Hulkling Hulkling was created in 2005 by Allan Heinberg
and Jim Cheung, making his debut in Young Avengers #1.
Hulkling aka Teddy is the hybrid offspring of Captain Marvel and Princess Anelle - the
former Kree, the latter Skrull, but was raised on earth by his nurse when the Skrull Emperor,
his grandfather, sentenced him to die as a baby.
His lineage gave him some impressive shape shifting, healing and super strength abilities.
Most notable for his romantic relationship with Wiccan, Teddy has become one of the more
popular lgbtq characters in comic books, especially amongst younger readers.
4 Starfire Kory first appeared in DC Comics Presents
#26 in 1980, and her aesthetic is roughly based off the the concept of Red Sonja in
outer space.
A Princess from the planet Tamaran, Kory was enslaved by her jealous sister after being
exiled from Tamaran and betraying their planet by selling secrets to their enemies.
She eventually fled to Earth where she joined the Teen Titans, becoming one of their staple
characters in 1980 with The New Teen Titans, alongside Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Beast
Boy, Cyborg and the member who formed the group this time around, Raven.
DC Rebirth has her still as a member of the Teen Titans.
Because apparently age is just a number for Starfire.
Kinda odd though.
3 Superboy There's a handful of characters who operate
under the name Superboy, so today, we're going to be focusing on the first who appeared
in 1944 in More Fun Comics number 101.
Prior to his debut, Jerry Siegel had pitched the idea of a Superboy, a mischievous prankster,
but DC editor Mort Weisinger thought a character like that would cheapen Superman's image.
But this changed in 1944 when they took a new approach, wanted to give young readers
a more relatable character in the Superman franchise, similar to Batman's side kick,
Robin the Boy Wonder.
2 Jason Todd Back in 1983 we were introduced to Jason Todd
- a strawberry blonde clone of Robin who then died his hair black when he got his own Robin
costume.
Then, in 1988 we got a new and improved Jason Todd!
Except this one was was edgy.
He was a street kid.
He met Batman when he was trying to steal the Batmobiles' tires.
And he was kind of into murder.
Everyone hated him.
So much so that DC editor Dennis O'Neil decided to pull a publicity stunt and let
readers call in to vote on whether or not he should die.
I think we all know how that turned out.
1 Aqualad There's been two teens to take up the mantle
of Aqualad.
And since one is a big fan favourite and the other is one of the founding members of the
Teen Titans in 1964, we decided that we're talking about both.
The first Aqualad, Garth, made his first appearance in Adventures Comics #269 in 1960, and was
Aquaman's kid sidekick.
He formed the teen titans with Dick Grayson and Wally West in the Brave and the Bold #54,
and were joined by Donna Troy, eventually to get their own spin off in 1966.
The second, Jackson Hyde, has been a bit more popular with fans.
He first appeared in Brightest Day #10 in 2010, which coinciding with Aqualad's appearance
in the Young Justice animated series, although the two being slightly different from one
another.
Since DC Rebirth, Jackson has appeared as a gay teenager, although not too much about
the character has been revealed yet.
There we have it friends!
Who is your favourite teenage superhero?
Which ones should we talk about next time?
Let us know in those comments below.
Thanks for watching guys!
I'll catch you all in the next one.
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