Meet the Team
David Alleyne (Prodigy)
- David was once part of a group of young X-men. He had the ability to absorb all the knowledge from the people around him. After he lost his powers on M-day he got a job answering the phone in a facility where he met Tommy Shepherd, which later led him into joining the Young Avengers. During his time fighting through the multiverse with the Young Avengers he came out as bisexual. David is from Chicago and grew up there with his younger sister Kim. Even before his powers, he was incredibly intelligent. He knows pretty much everything.
- Teddy grew up in New York with his mother, who he later learned wasn't his birth mother. His parents were Captain Mar-Vell and Princess Anelle. Teddy is half-kree and half-skrull giving him the ability to shape-shift and have super strength. He has the power the end the war going on between the Kree and Skrulls because of his parents. His birth name is Dorrek VIII. He was one of the few Young Avengers who were a part of Vision's fail-safe program in the beginning of the series. He is dating Billy Kaplan throughout all of the Young Avengers series. Teddy is also the sweetest of the Young Avengers and he loves messing with the bad guys they battle. He is known as the Shape-shifting alien hybrid guy.
- Kate grew up in Manhattan with her rich parents and her older sister Susan. After her mother died, she got closer to Susan. She even met the Young Avengers at Susan's wedding where she helped save their lives. Kate is an excellent archer and martial artist. She joined the Young Avengers with Cassie Lang after they both fought to be a part of the group. She loves being a feminist and helping people the best she can. She often fights with her best friend, Clint Barton. She is known as Not the Hawkguy or the better Hawkeye.
- Eli is the grandson of the original Captain America, Isaiah Bradley. He did not inherit his grandfather's supersoldier abilities, but still wanted to be one of the Young Avengers. When Nate came looking for his cousin, he told him that he found who he was looking for. Eli cares very much about his black culture and his people. He struggled for a while with not being able to be as strong as his grandfather. He is the leader of the Young Avengers from the middle of Volume one to the end of Children's Crusade. He has a lot of rage and sadness inside, but he loves all of his friends very much and loves being a hero to so many people.
- America was born in a dimension called Utopia which is just girls who are all deemed princesses and queens. It was created by the demiurge (Billy). As the universe -- save for Utopia -- was ending, America escaped and went to Earth in hopes of helping people and meeting Billy. She aged herself and then went back to the time before Billy became the demiurge. She ended up having to just protect him from Loki, who was plotting to either kill him or steal his powers. She loves fighting in battles and teasing her friends. She is the bridge between dimensions, being able to create them whenever she needs to. Because of the last two facts, she is known as the "interdimensional kicker of butt".
- Billy grew up in New York with his parents and his two younger brothers. He was bullied often for being gay and for being small. He discovered he had powers when he was being picked on but John Kesler. Billy nearly killed Kesler with his magic. He has lightning powers, and the ability to cast spells based off of what he wants, this gives him the ability to warp reality such as his mother. He later finds out that he has a twin brother named Tommy and that they are the sons of Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch. Billy is also a demiurge which means he created a universe and altered it. He loves reading comics and being a giant nerd with his boyfriend, Teddy Altman. He is known as the angsty chaos magic user.
- Cassie is the Daughter of Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant-Man. Her father is her favorite person in the world, and because of that she wanted to be a hero just like him. She used to have a heart defect before her father saved her life by finding the only doctor that could save her. She has the power to grow and shrink. She got her abilities from exposure to the Pym particles whenever she was hanging out with her dad as a little girl. She joined the Young Avengers after convincing them she was of value at the Avenger's Mansion with Kate Bishop. Cassie loves Taylor Swift, Daughtry, and Kenny Chesney. She is very strong, determined, and kind.
- In the Young Avengers comics Loki is not the actual Loki, he is a child copy. He is visiting Earth to kill Billy and steal his powers. He later joins the Young Avengers and helps them fight bad guys. He has an Instagram set up and posts pictures of himself and the team together. In the last issue of volume two he posts one last selfie with all of them. He is known as the God of Mischief.
- Nate is a young lad from the future who travels to the past after being visited by his future self. While is is searching for the Avengers he finds that they have disbanded, so he goes to the Avenger's Mansion, discovering a destroyed Vision. He investigates and learns about the fail-safe program that has the locations for a future Avengers team. Nate is a very anxious little guy with anger issues. In his future he is known as Kang the Conqueror. Kang has battled the Avengers many times with his Iron Suit. Nate loved being a Young Avenger, but eventually had to go back to his own time period so that the Young Avengers and regular Avengers could live. He knew he had to become Kang even though he thought of himself as good.
- Tommy grew up as an only child in Springfield, New Jersey. His parents got divorced when he was really young. Tommy has the power of super speed, and he can also create explosions. He was sent to juvie after he "accidentally" blew up his school. The Young Avengers found him in Juvie where they discovered that Tommy was not only Billy's twin, but was being experimented on. They later find out that they're the sons of Wanda Maximoff, and while Billy has Wanda's powers, Tommy has Pietro's. Tommy is very open with his sexuality and comes off as obnoxious. He is actually very fun loving and a huge dork.
- Noh-Varr is a Kree and first appears in the Young Avengers in Civil War when he is being brainwashed to capture the Runaways. Later in Volume two he hangs out with Kate and then joins the Young Avengers. He loves dancing to girlbands, and listening to music in general. He also loves showing off for whoever he is dating at the given time. He is known as the banished Kree music-lover.
- The Young Avengers Vision is not the same as the regular Vision. He has the same body, but the original Vision was long gone after Wanda killed him. So this Vision is basically his body with Nate's brain patterns. He is in love with Cassie, and hard at hiding it.