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Post by rberman on Mar 20, 2020 19:08:33 GMT -5
Marvel is trying to get some buzz with a new "social justice warriors" version of the New Warriors including non-binary-gendered siblings Snowflake and Safespace. This got me thinking about the long history of comic book siblings with mutually augmenting abilities. What others are there, and who was the first?  |
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Post by foxley on Mar 20, 2020 19:23:46 GMT -5
Zan and Jayna, the Wonder twins, first appeared in 1977.
Aurora and Northstar first appeared in 1979.
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Post by rberman on Mar 20, 2020 19:32:22 GMT -5
I originally thought of this topic recently while reading DC's 2013 series The Ravagers, in which Fairchild leads a team that includes Teen Titans Terra and Beast Boy as well as new characters like the siblings Thunder and Lightning.  |
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Post by foxley on Mar 20, 2020 20:43:52 GMT -5
Thunder and Lightning aren't strictly speaking new characters. The original Thunder and Lightning were brothers (rather than brother and sister) Gan and Tavis Williams who first appeared in New Teen Titans #32, and were occasional allies of the Titans thereafter. Thunder was able to control thunder that he manifests as rumbling noises which he can control to varying degrees. Lightning was able to release bolts of electricity and harness lightning. The two have a psychic link that allows them to communicate with each other. When they are together, they make rain.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 20, 2020 22:09:06 GMT -5
Hawk & Dove (Hank & Don Hall) by Steve Ditko, 1968.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 20, 2020 22:29:16 GMT -5
Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel, 1942, to be technical, when Billy's twin sister Mary was revealed and got her powers from Shazam.
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Post by rberman on Mar 20, 2020 22:41:12 GMT -5
Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel, 1942, to be technical, when Billy's twin sister Mary was revealed and got her powers from Shazam. Do their powers synergize? I'm not up on my Fawcett lore. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2020 23:41:25 GMT -5
Brother Voodoo and his ghost or spirit brother, forget his name - Jericho Drumm? Or maybe that was Brother Voodoo himself.
What about the Blood Brothers? I only remember them vaguely as villains who acted as henchmen for some higher-up bad guy in Starlin's Captain Marvel, not sure where they first appeared or what their powers were, whether they augmented one another or whatever.
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Post by MWGallaher on Mar 21, 2020 4:32:53 GMT -5
Brother Voodoo and his ghost or spirit brother, forget his name - Jericho Drumm? Or maybe that was Brother Voodoo himself. What about the Blood Brothers? I only remember them vaguely as villains who acted as henchmen for some higher-up bad guy in Starlin's Captain Marvel, not sure where they first appeared or what their powers were, whether they augmented one another or whatever. In that vein, Quality Comics' Golden Age feature Captain Triumph and Simon and Kirby's 1950's era Fighting American also had superpowers thanks to the spirits of their dead brothers. Oh, and Daniel Drumm was the dead brother whose spirit augmented Jericho Drumm's Brother Voodoo in Marvel's Bronze Age series. |
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Post by rberman on Mar 21, 2020 7:20:47 GMT -5
Brother Voodoo and his ghost or spirit brother, forget his name - Jericho Drumm? Or maybe that was Brother Voodoo himself. What about the Blood Brothers? I only remember them vaguely as villains who acted as henchmen for some higher-up bad guy in Starlin's Captain Marvel, not sure where they first appeared or what their powers were, whether they augmented one another or whatever. In that vein, Quality Comics' Golden Age feature Captain Triumph and Simon and Kirby's 1950's era Fighting American also had superpowers thanks to the spirits of their dead brothers. Oh, and Daniel Drumm was the dead brother whose spirit augmented Jericho Drumm's Brother Voodoo in Marvel's Bronze Age series. Hm, that sounds sort of like how Firestorm is a living guy in symbiosis with a dead guy. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 21, 2020 8:22:11 GMT -5
Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel, 1942, to be technical, when Billy's twin sister Mary was revealed and got her powers from Shazam. Do their powers synergize? I'm not up on my Fawcett lore. Their powers came from the same source (though the Golden Age gave Mary a different group of deities and demigods from which they originated). However, there were stories that had them interrupted at the same source. In the Power of Shazam reveamp series, from Jerry Ordway, the use of power by more than one of the Marvel Family reduced the overall power of the rest. Captain Marvel was at his greatest level when alone in his super form. Then, when Mary transformed, it was somewhat reduced. Then, Cap Jr further reduced it when he manifested. |
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Post by The Captain on Mar 21, 2020 11:28:09 GMT -5
What about the Blood Brothers? I only remember them vaguely as villains who acted as henchmen for some higher-up bad guy in Starlin's Captain Marvel, not sure where they first appeared or what their powers were, whether they augmented one another or whatever. The Blood Brothers first appeared in Iron Man #55, which was, of course, the same issue that also introduced both Drax and Thanos. Their powers were of the generic "super-strength and high invulnerability" variety, with the catch being that the individual strength of one Brother was reliant on his (its?) proximity to the other. In a later Iron Man story (#88-89), Tony figures this out and defeats them, with the help of Daredevil, by separating them by 100s of miles, thus weakening them to the point that they are easily beaten individually by the heroes. |
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Post by rberman on Mar 21, 2020 11:45:06 GMT -5
Claremont introduced the Strucker siblings, together known as Fenris, in X-Men #194-200. They became the lead characters on the X-Men based TV show "The Gifted" recently.  |
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Post by electricmastro on Mar 21, 2020 13:21:01 GMT -5
The Triple Terror (aka the Brandon triplets) from United Features’ Tip Top Comics #54 (October, 1940):  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 21, 2020 13:45:22 GMT -5
There's also Collective Man...  ..who's actually quintuplet brothers Sun, Chang, Ho, Lin, and Han Tao-Yu:  |
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