Justice (comics)
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- This article is about the Avengers member, Justice. For the Justice from Marvel's New Universe, see Justice (New Universe).
- This article is about the Avengers member, Vance Astrovik. For the alternate timeline member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, see Vance Astro.
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Vance Astrovik, aka Justice, is a fictional mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He possesses the superhuman power of telekinesis. Astrovik has been affiliated with the New Warriors and The Avengers, and had previously used the codename of Marvel Boy.
The Vance Astrovik character is a source of confusion, as in an alternate timeline he became a founding member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, calling himself Vance Astro. Marvel has treated this as a separate character, and the two have even met on occasion. Furthermore, Marvel has published an identically named, but completely unrelated character known as Justice in their New Universe imprint.
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[edit] Character biography
Vance Astrovik was born in Saugerties, New York. He was visited as a teenager by his time traveling future self, Major Vance Astro of the Guardians of the Galaxy, an astronaut who had volunteered for an experimental space flight and consequently been lost in space in cryogenic suspension for a thousand years. The elder Vance Astro convinced his younger self to not become an astronaut. Due to the vagaries of time travel in the Marvel Universe, this did not create a paradox, but instead made the Guardians' future world into a parallel timeline, to which they later returned. Although Major Vance Astro had not had a chance to fully develop his telekinesis in his time in NASA, the younger Astrovik now had the opportunity to hone his power. Astrovik soon became the costumed crimefighter Marvel Boy.
[edit] New Warriors
Marvel Boy applied for membership in the Avengers, but was rejected. Dejected, he jumped at the chance to help found a team of minor teenage superheroes, the New Warriors, led by the new hero Night Thrasher. In the Warriors, Marvel Boy became romantically involved with his teammate Firestar. However, Vance's father was an abusive alcoholic who beat and threatened both Vance and his mother regularly. Lashing out in anger with his powers, Vance killed his father and was arrested and convicted of manslaughter. He ultimately earned his freedom and adopted the new codename of Justice. As Justice, he led the New Warriors and was eventually proposed marriage by Firestar, although they learned that her microwave-based powers had a high chance of rendering her infertile.
[edit] The Avengers
The pair later joined the Avengers, becoming the forty-eighth and forty-ninth members of that group, although they eventually left the team and have occasionally resurfaced alongside the New Warriors. During their time on the team Hank Pym designed a suit for Angelica to wear that would use her powers to heal the damage they had previously caused and therby restore her fertility. After the House of M ended, Justice and Firestar were unaffected by the global depowerment of mutants and thus retained their powers.
Vance and Angelica have since ended their engagement. Vance realized that he was doing all of the work to prepare for the wedding. Vance felt that he was the "woman" in their relationship. Vance was shocked by Angelica's seeming lack of interest (and reluctance) in their wedding. Angelica said she was not ready to be a wife, and the two ended their engagement.
[edit] Civil War
In She-Hulk (vol. 2) #8 (July, 2006), Justice and former teammate Rage learned that people were hunting down former New Warriors members because of the deaths caused by Nitro in Civil War #1. They both sought out the legal services of Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk) in protecting the allies of the New Warriors. They eventually discovered that former New Warriors member Carlton LaFroyge, a.k.a. Hindsight, was responsible for the persecution and exposure of their teammates.
Hindsight operated a website outing the identities of the twenty or so remaining Warriors, and he was also operating a death pool. Both Rage and Justice refused to go along with the proposed super-human registration act. This is further evidenced In Civil War #4, they join Captain America's Secret Avengers as a result of the death of Bill Foster.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Justice has the power of telekinesis, which allows him to move, lift, and manipulate matter using only the power of his mind. By using his powers to lift himself, he can levitate and fly at high speed. He can also channel his powers into concussive psionic force blasts, or focus his telekinetic powers into psychic shields to protect himself and others. Justice is quite adept at using his powers. He has shown the ability to hold a large number of people in individual telekinetic energy "tendrils" and detect when a person is lying though said tendril, like a lie detector would. Initially, Justice's telekinesis was limited in its scope and using them at the peak level of his power would cause him headaches and nosebleeds. However, after the conclusion of the Forever Yesterday storyline(New Warriors Vol. 1 #11-13), in which Justice was temporarily aged into adulthood, his powers increased dramtically and he was no longer hindered by the physical symptoms he had once suffered from.
