Slingshot (comics)
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| Slingshot | |
 Slingshot, from Dynamo 5 #1. Art by Mahmud A. Asrar. |
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| Publication information | |
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| Publisher | Image Comics |
| First appearance | Dynamo 5 #1 March 2007 |
| Created by | Jay Faerber Mahmud A. Asrar |
| In story information | |
| Alter ego | Olivia Lews |
| Species | Superhuman |
| Team affiliations | Dynamo 5 |
| Abilities | Flight |
Slingshot (real name Olivia “Livvie” Lewis) is a fictional comic book superhero, a member of the superhero team Dynamo 5, which appears in the monthly series of the same name from Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, Slingshot first appeared in Dynamo 5 #1 (January 2007).
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[edit] Character history
Following the assassination of Captain Dynamo, the much-beloved superhero protector of Tower City, his widow, former government agent posing as a now-retired investigative reporter Maddie Warner, discovered from his personal effects that he had been unfaithful to her countless times. Despite her devastation at this discovery, Warner realized that without a full-time protector, Tower City would be vulnerable to Captain Dynamo’s legion of super-villain enemies. She used her skills and the information she discovered to track down five people who could be Dynamo’s illegitimate children.
Olivia “Livvie” Lewis was the second of Captain Dynamo’s children that Warner contacted. Gathering all five of the children together, Warner exposed them to the same unidentified radiation that gave Captain Dynamo his powers forty years earlier, unlocking their powers. Livvie inherited her father’s ability of flight, took the codename Slingshot, and works to protect Tower City with her newly discovered brothers and sisters.[1]
[edit] Personality and family life
Livvie's biological mother passed away when Livvie was young enough to require her husband, Neil Lewis, Livvie's adoptive father, to learn how to cook.[2] Livvie's father is a high-priced Washington DC lawyer, and she is a junior at Georgetown University. Livvie is also a driven activist who is involved with half a dozen different volunteer organizations and extracurricular activities, which include working as a reporter for G.U.'s campus newspaper, The Hoya, and volunteering at a clinic, though her workaholic nature leaves less time for her boyfriend Derrick than he’d like.[3]
In Dynamo 5 #4, Neil received a phone call that disturbed him. He told Livvie that it was a wrong number, though she was not satisfied with this explanation[4], and it was later revealed to be part of a plot some persons who learned of Livvie's superhuman abilities. These people kidnapped Neil, and would only release him if Livvie would free a witness from F.L.A.G. custody who was set to testify at a trial. Sensing that the kidnappers did not know about Livvie's siblings, the entire Dynamo 5 team managed to snatch the witness from F.L.A.G. custody, and free Neil Lewis. They discovered, however, that the witness was a murderer with a "death touch" that could kill people by merely touching them with his hands. He revealed that he decided to testify against his employers when he was caught, and these employers were the men who kidnapped Neil Lewis. Although Livvie's siblings were outraged at learning that they freed a murderer, Livvie was satisfied to have freed her father.[5][6]
As a member of Dynamo 5, Slingshot is dedicated and attentive.[7] She is respectful and reserved towards Maddie Warner, usually referring to and addressing her as "Ma'am",[8] or "Mrs. Warner", and eschewing profanity in her presence.[9] She finds Warner's writings as a journalist to be "brilliant", and objects to her brother Spencer's view that this deference is an attempt on her part to "suck up" to Warner.[7] She is not completely deferential to Warner, however. For example, she angrily refused to comply with Warner's order that she and her siblings stay in Tower City to protect it after she learned of her father's aforementioned kidnapping.[6]
[edit] Powers
Slingshot has the superhuman ability to defy gravity, and fly under her own power. The top speed and altitude she can achieved unaided is currently unknown, but she is able to use this ability to be an effective fighter in battles. In one encounter with the reptilian monster known as Whiptail, she was able to fly around the creature fast enough to create a miniature tornado, causing it dizziness, without suffering any ill effects herself.[10] Although she did not inherit her father’s superhuman strength, her flight ability may include the ability to generate extra thrust completely apart from this, since she is able to carry another person while in flight.[11] She also uses the speed she can generate while in flight to knock out an opponent with the impact of a single punch. Whether this is a physiological adaptation that exists as part of her flight power, or a result of reinforced gloves, is unclear.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ Dynamo 5 #1.
- ^ Neil's name was revealed in Dynamo 5 #10; Page 19. The passing of Livvie's mother was established in Dynamo 5 #4; Page 11.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #1; Page 20.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #4; Page 11-12.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #10; Pages 19 & 20.
- ^ a b Dynamo 5 #11
- ^ a b Dynamo 5 #2; Page 11.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #1; Page 12.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #2; Page 6.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #2; Pages 16 & 17.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #1; Page 4.
- ^ Dynamo 5 #1; Page 10.
