Molly Hayes
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Molly Hayes is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero, and a member of the Runaways. Molly first appeared in Runaways vol. 1 #1.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Molly Hayes is a 12-year-old mutant with the abilities of superhuman strength and durability. Her parents, Gene and Alice Hayes, are a doctor and a speech therapist, who are secretly telepathic mutants and members of a crime organization called the Pride. She has numerous cute animal hats and a fondness for "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs", a cereal from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Molly is also a fan of the mutant singer Dazzler.
When the other children of the Pride witness their parents' murdering a girl as part of a ritual sacrifice, they run away from home, determined to defy their evil legacy. They attempt to rescue Molly from her parents, and in the scuffle, she discovers her mutant powers. Molly admires other mutant superheroes such as the X-Men and X-Statix, and she sleeps with a Doop doll. She makes a superhero costume and declares her codename to be "Princess Powerful," but Chase Stein calls her "Bruiser".
Molly possesses superhuman strength and durability, and whenever she uses her powers, Molly's eyes gain a purplish pink glow that spreads across her entire body when she gets pumped up. Initially, Molly becomes extremely tired after she uses her strength and falls asleep, but later becomes capable of using her powers for extended periods of time without requiring sleep afterward. Among Molly's feats of strength are lifting a 60-meter-tall monster and tearing Cloak's supposedly unremovable cape from his body.
Molly and her friends are split up by California Social Services after their parents' deaths, and Molly stays at a local branch of X-Corp. Karolina Dean organizes a reunion, and the teenagers escape their new homes to regroup and fight the supervillains that fill the power vacuum in the Los Angeles crime world caused by their parents' deaths.
Molly has a crush on Wolverine until he threatens her and she throws him out of a building. After this encounter, the X-Men try to take Molly to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning to train. The two teams fight until Emma Frost decides they shouldn't force someone to come with them against their will. Later, Molly is knocked unconscious and wakes to find that she has been kidnapped by the Provost, who uses children to commit thefts. Molly organizes her fellow captives, defeats the Provost, and returns home. After Gertrude Yorkes is killed, Molly convinces the group's transport, the Leapfrog, to say that Gert is in Heaven. In the wake of Gert's death, Chase, who usually acts like a big brother toward Molly, becomes withdrawn; he is jealous, however, when Speed of the Young Avengers plays with Molly in much the same way.[1]
[edit] Concept
Brian K. Vaughan named Molly after his younger sister; Molly Hayes Vaughan. In the original pitch for the series, Molly's parents were Hollywood actors. This would eventually become the occupation of Karolina's parents. Her sibling-like relationship with Chase was also originally supposed to be with Gert.[2]
| Marvel Comics Runaways | |
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| Main characters | Karolina Dean • Molly Hayes • Victor Mancha • Nico Minoru Chase Stein • Alex Wilder • Xavin • Gertrude Yorkes • Old Lace |
| Villains | The Pride • Geoffrey Wilder • The Gibborim |
