Turbo (comics)
Turbo | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | (I) New Warriors #28 (October 1992) (II) New Warriors #33 (March 1993) |
Created by | Evan Skolnick Dwight Coye James Brock |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | (I) Michiko "Mickey" Musashi (II) Michael Brent "Mike" Jeffries |
Team affiliations | (I) Avengers Academy Loners (I & II) New Warriors |
Notable aliases | (I) Torpedo Sue |
Abilities | (I & II) None: Suit grants:
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Turbo is the name of two superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Michiko "Mickey" Musashi debuted in New Warriors #28 (Oct 1992)[1] and her ally Michael "Mike" Jeffries in New Warriors #33.
Fictional character biography
The Torpedo armor
The Torpedo armor was a creation of the
However, Jones eventually decided to hide himself and his family from the people seeking the armor, and went to live in the town of Clairton,
Jones was eventually found and killed by the Wraiths.[5] Some of Jones' effects were passed on to his relative Phillip Jeffries, whose son Michael found the armor and gave it to his friend Michiko so she could use it as a Halloween costume. When Michiko donned the armor, it began broadcasting on a wavelength that allowed human scientists from the lab that developed the armor to track it and they attacked Michiko and Mike at a college costume party, where Michiko discovered the suit's abilities and fought off her attackers.[6]
The New Warriors
Mickey and Mike began sharing the armor, Mike wishing to be a superhero, while Mickey used it to travel the world. Although she considered heroism as a "ridiculous calling", Mickey did not wish to see innocent people hurt when she could have prevented it. This is one of the reasons which got her mixed up with the New Warriors: after a gang of weapon smugglers under the command of the mercenary Sea Urchin involved an innocent in their dealings, she set out to stop them and ran into the team, who were also tailing the criminals. Mickey helped the Warriors to bring them down, capturing the Sea Urchin.[7]
Mike encountered the Warriors as Turbo when
On one mission, the Warriors fought Volx, the queen of the Dire Wraiths, who recognized the Torpedo armor and desired it for the power-boost it would give her. She tracked the armor to Mike and killed him, absorbing his memories. Posing as Mike, she tricked the Warriors into giving her the armor, which she used in a plot to depower Earth's superhuman population, before she was ultimately killed by Night Thrasher.[9] Mickey pledged to be the sort of hero that Mike wanted to be in order to honor him.[10]
Mickey later met and fell in love with a young man named Dalton Beck, who turned out to be Firestrike, a member of the armored criminal team
Excelsior (Loners)
Deciding that she would do more good with her education in journalism than adventuring, Mickey retired the Torpedo armor. With the help of Phil Urich, she got a job at the Los Angeles Times newspaper (though she would later quit this job to relocate to New York for reasons unexplained[13]). She founded the group called Excelsior, a support group for retired teenage superheroes;[14] their lives were briefly the focus of the short-lived Loners miniseries.
Within the first issue of Loners; Mickey was talking with Phil regarding Julie Power's recent lapse in using her flying powers.[15] And in the second issue, Mickey was going on a date with Chris Powell after their latest support group meeting.[16]
Within the third issue; Mickey learns about Chris, Mattie and Johnny's involvement about the MGH Ring and the events leading to where Julie was stabbed by Hollow (originally known as
Within the fifth issue, Mickey was almost strangled by Nekra when she was saved by a mysterious girl who called herself "Namie". Although she was terrified of dying (since she was not wearing the Turbo suit at the time), Mickey was also angered by the facts that Julie revealed the truth that she was not a registered hero and that Chris refused to remove the Darkhawk amulet from himself. She was also surprised to learn that Phil harbored feelings for her and witnessing his attack on Chris, in which he grabbed the amulet and transformed into an alternate version of Darkhawk.[19]
Alongside Julie and the other members of the Loners, Mickey is eventually inducted into the Avengers Academy by Hawkeye after the school moves into the former headquarters of the West Coast Avengers.[20]
Powers and abilities
Mickey Mushashi and Mike Jeffries are both normal humans with no superhuman powers. As Turbo, they both wear a helmet and battle suit previously worn by the Torpedo, and invented by the second Torpedo, Michael Stivak, employing both Earth and Dire Wraith technology.
The Torpedo battle suit is commanded via cybernetic circuitry built into the cowl/headpiece and bonds to its wearer allowing for greater degrees of control depending on the wearer's individual body chemistry compatibility and skill in manipulating the cybernetic bond, determined by the degree to which his or her brain pattern interacts with its technology. Brock Jones, the suit's first heroic user and the third Torpedo, had a sufficient degree of compatibility and skill to access most functions of the suit. Mickey, however, possesses a far greater natural compatibility and this, combined with her greater length of time using the suit, has enabled her to access functions that Brock could not, such as the suit's limited ability to reconfigure itself cosmetically according to the wearer's wishes. The helmet and suit are both useless without one another.
The Torpedo battle suit allows Mickey to fly at speeds up to, and including,
Using the small nuclear-powered turbines built into the gauntlets and boots of the suit, Mickey is able to project a pulsed concussive force blast nicknamed a "Turbo Punch" which is essentially a jet-powered punch, enabling her to strike opponents or objects with a tremendous amount of force. Using a dual-fisted double Turbo Punch delivers force equal to a full-powered punch from a superhuman with Class 100 strength.[21] The wearer can regulate these hyper-punches so as to strike a person without causing serious injury. The wearer can also use these turbines to create blasts of high-speed air, projecting both wide wind gusts and narrow gusts and simulating concussive force.
Assisted by the power of the turbo jets, the suit is capable of providing the wearer with superhuman strength, as well. The level of superhuman strength conferred is again based on the wearer's compatibility with the suit and familiarity with its functions. Brock Jones was capable of lifting (pressing) approximately 1 ton; Mickey is able to optimally lift (press) 20 tons.[21]
Built into the suit's visor is a device able to detect Dire Wraiths (a divergent branch of the
Other versions
House of M
Mickey appears as a member of the Wolfpack, along with
In other media
The Michiko Musashi incarnation of Turbo appears in the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode "Family Matters", voiced by Erika Ishii.[23] This version got her costume from a yard sale after trying to find something to cosplay as. Upon realizing that the suit had powers, she decided to become a superhero, though she became estranged from her mother and gained an arch-enemy in Silvermane.[24]
References
- ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0.
- ^ ROM #22
- ^ Daredevil #126-127
- ^ ROM #21
- ^ ROM #50 (Jan. 1984)
- ^ The New Warriors #73
- ^ a b The New Warriors #28
- ^ The New Warriors Annual #3
- ^ The New Warriors #75
- ^ The New Warriors vol. 2 #0
- ^ The New Warriors vol. 2 #2
- ^ The New Warriors vol. 2 #6
- ^ War of Kings: Darkhawk #1
- ^ As revealed in Runaways vol. 2 #1
- ^ Loners #1
- ^ Loners #2
- ^ Loners #3
- ^ Loners #4
- ^ Loners #5
- ^ Avengers Academy #21
- ^ a b All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #11
- ^ House of M: Avengers #3-4
- ^ Erika Ishii [@erikaishii] (February 7, 2024). "I'm OVERJOYED to be Turbo in Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur! I've been a huge fan of the show and can't believe I got to join the stellar cast. AND to be the first to portray this canon Marvel character with a shiny new backstory!! Ahhh!! Thank you @DisneyMGDD team & @samriegel 🌙🦖" (Tweet). Retrieved February 7, 2024 – via Twitter.
- ^ Li, Annie J. (director); Halima Lucas (writer) (February 3, 2024). "Family Matters". Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Season 2. Episode 13. Disney Channel.