Young Masters

The Young Masters are a fictional comic book anti-heroic team created by Paul Cornell and Mark Brooks. The team first appeared in Dark Reign: Young Avengers as the doppelgangers to the Young Avengers.

Publication history

Dark Reign: Young Avengers is a limited series written by Paul Cornell,^[1][2] with artist Mark Brooks,^[3] which introduces a new group of powered teens calling themselves the Young Masters, but controlled by Norman Osborn.^[4] The new team is a twisted version of the Young Avengers, much like the Dark Avengers are to the original Avengers. The Young Avengers confront them, agreeing to field test the new teens for membership into their group. The final decision by the Young Avengers to only allow a select few into their ranks results in a battle where Osborn's team of Dark Avengers are ultimately involved. The Young Avengers manage to defeat both Osborn's team and their teenage counterparts, causing Osborn to withdraw and the others to stand down. Escaping, the new team dub themselves the Young Masters (a play on the name of an older villain team, the Masters of Evil).

History

The team returned as the main characters for one story in Age of Heroes #2.^[5]

The Young Masters returned with Executioner and Egghead joined by new recruits Mako, Radioactive Kid, and a female Black Knight in a plot to target older villains for assassination. It was later revealed that they had a mysterious benefactor in the villain called Zodiac. No explanation was given for the absence of the other founding members of the group, but at the conclusion of the storyline Zodiac revealed that he only needed one of them to join him, and chose Egghead.^[6]

Big Zero, Enchantress, and Coat of Arms later appeared in the employ of Jeremy Briggs having grown tired of their lives as supervillains. They battle the students of the Avengers Academy in order to allow Briggs to complete his goal of depowering every superhuman on Earth and giving their powers to people who are worthy of receiving them.^[7]

Members

The original members of the new team were:

• Melter II – A superhuman who can cause objects to melt. His real name is Chris Colchiss and he is the team leader.
• Enchantress – She claims to be an Asgardian, and is Melter's girlfriend and uses magic. Her real nameis Sylvie Lushton.
• Executioner II – A vigilante with no super-powers. He is the son of Princess Python.^[8]
• Big Zero – A Neo-Nazi who can alter her size and who is in a relationship with Egghead. Her real name is Amity Hunter.
• Coat of Arms – A swordswoman whose magic coat grants her six arms
• Egghead – A robot who wants to understand humanity.

The Young Masters had some later recruits:

• Black Knight IV - A female incarnation of the Black Knight. She deserted the Young Masters.
• Mako - A test tube Atlantean who was grown from the cells of Attuma, Orka, Tyrak, and U-Man. Killed by Lady Bullseye.
• Radioactive Kid - A young criminal in a hazmat suit has demonstrated the ability to melt and mutate human flesh with a touch. His very flesh glows, and his eyes glow visibly through the visor of his suit.

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