Voyager (comics)

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Voyager
Michael Allred (artist)
Laura Allred (colorist)
In-story information
Alter egoVa Nee Gast
SpeciesElder of the Universe
Team affiliationsAvengers
Elders of the Universe
Notable aliasesValerie Vector
Abilities

Voyager (Va Nee Gast), initially known by the alias Valerie Vector, is a

Michael Allred, and Laura Allred, the character first appeared in The Avengers #675 as part of the Avengers: No Surrender storyline. Voyager was presented as a "lost" founding member of the Avengers, but was subsequently revealed to be the daughter and ally of the Grandmaster, one of the Elders of the Universe, before truly defecting to the Avengers' side.[1][2]

Publication history

Concept and creation

The concept of a "lost founder" of the Avengers was suggested during the planning of

Justice League of America co-created by Mark Waid, one of the creators of Voyager; as a result, Waid was insistent that Voyager not be a "real" founder, not wanting to repeat his work on Triumph.[3] The similarity between the two was alluded to in Voyager's fictional backstory, in which she claims to have been erased from history while fighting "Victory, the Electromagnetic Man", a pastiche of Triumph and member of the Squadron Sinister.[4]

Voyager's powers of teleportation were suggested by Jim Zub as abilities that were not widely represented among the Avengers, as well as being useful as a plot device for the story of No Surrender.[3] Her name was suggested both to relate to her powers and allude to the naming conventions of the Elders of the Universe; other names considered included "Legacy", "Vector", "Apex", "Transit" and "Portal Princess".[5] Her design was created by Mike Allred and Laura Allred, and was specifically intended to fit alongside the designs of Marvel characters from the 1960s, the era which Voyager supposedly hailed from.[6]

Fictional character biography

A young Voyager and her father Grandmaster.

Va Nee Gast was the daughter of the Grandmaster, travelling the galaxy with him and gambling for the fates of planets. However, she came to resent her father for treating her as a playing piece in his games.[7]

When Earth was chosen as the battleground for a contest between the Grandmaster and his brother, the

Challenger, Voyager was secretly planted on the planet as the Grandmaster's "secret weapon",[7] using her newly-granted powers to implant false memories in order to adopt the guise of "Valerie Vector", a founding member of the Avengers who was lost fighting Squadron Sinister member Victory the Electronic Man.[4] When the truth of her identity was revealed by the Vision and Edwin Jarvis, Voyager turned on her allies and claimed the fifth "pyramoid" target of the contest for herself;[8] however, during the Avengers' defense of their headquarters against the Hulk, Voyager found herself moved by their bravery and heroism, leading her to aid them in restoring Earth to its proper place and in defeating the Challenger, whose anger had been provoked by the Grandmaster's duplicity.[9][10]

In the aftermath, the Avengers offered her membership, but she declined, feeling she had not truly earned it yet and vowed to return if the Grandmaster ever threatened Earth again. Wishing to make amends for her actions, Voyager took it upon herself to watch over the newly-imprisoned Challenger on the Far Shore of life and death, showing him the adventures of the Avengers in the hope that he would find the same inspiration in them that she did.[11]

Voyager returns in Avengers: No Road Home after the goddess Nyx is released from her imprisonment by the contest between the Grandmaster and Challenger, causing global night to fall across the universe.[12] Feeling responsible for Nyx's release, Voyager assembles a team of Avengers consisting of Spectrum, the Vision, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Hulk, Rocket Raccoon, and Hercules, but they are too late to stop Nyx from slaughtering the Olympian Gods.[13] Voyager sends the Avengers across dimensions to stop Nyx's children from reclaiming the three shards of her power, but is captured by Nyx in the process and enslaved by the powers of Oizys, goddess of misery.[14] Though Voyager is able to temporarily keep the shard kept in Omnipotence City away from Nyx by teleporting it, and the Scarlet Witch, through time to the Hyborian Age, Nyx follows them to the past and reclaims the shard.[15][16]

Voyager is freed from Oizys' control when Hercules overcomes his despair and offers her his aid, crushing Oizys to death in the process and allowing the Avengers and

One-Above-All, and allowing the Vision to enter the House and stop Nyx from rewriting creation in her image.[18] With Nyx defeated, Voyager returned to the Far Shore, only to discover that the Challenger had escaped his imprisonment and disappeared.[19]

Powers and abilities

Voyager has the ability to create portals that teleport herself and others through time and space with no apparent limitations on distance. She was able to take the Challenger to the Far Shore, the "furthest point of life and death."[11] She also transported the Avengers through time to the Hyborian Age.[15] However, use of these powers repeatedly or on large numbers of people is draining on Voyager. It required her to rest before using them again.[20][21] Her powers also extend to the ability to "travel" through memories.[22] She can implant new memories and altering existing ones.[7][23] Voyager is also able to fly through her quantum powers.[4]

Other versions

The fictional backstory that Voyager gave to the Avengers is true in the alternate reality of Earth-17122. On this Earth, Valerie Vector was the daughter of scientist Arthur Vector, who gained her quantum powers when she ran into the path of one of her father's experiments after hearing that her mother wanted a divorce. Voyager served as a superhero and Avenger for years until she was seemingly killed during a fight with the Squadron Sinister.[4][24]

Reception

Accolades

  • In 2019,
    CBR.com ranked Voyager 9th in their "10 Best New Avengers Of The Decade" list.[25]

In other media

Video games

References

  1. ^ Traves, Lindsay (2018-12-04). "Bad Gone Good: 10 Times Villains Took Became Heroes And It Worked (And 10 Times it Didn't)". CBR. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. ^ Iacobucci, Jordan (2022-03-28). "10 Avengers Who Deserve To Join The MCU, According To Reddit". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  3. ^ a b Avengers: No Surrender Writers Talk Hulk's Return & Voyager's True Identity
  4. ^ a b c d Avengers #676. Marvel Comics.
  5. ^ Avengers #687. Marvel Comics.
  6. ^ Avengers #685. Marvel Comics.
  7. ^ a b c Avengers #684. Marvel Comics.
  8. ^ Avengers #683. Marvel Comics.
  9. ^ Avengers #689. Marvel Comics.
  10. ^ Baggett, Christopher (2018-05-01). "10 Heroes Who Became Villains (And 10 Villains Who Became Heroes)". CBR. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  11. ^ a b Avengers #690. Marvel Comics.
  12. ^ Avengers: No Road Home #3. Marvel Comics.
  13. ^ Avengers: No Road Home #1. Marvel Comics.
  14. ^ Avengers: No Road Home #4. Marvel Comics.
  15. ^ a b Avengers: No Road Home #5
  16. ^ Avengers: No Road Home #6. Marvel Comics.
  17. ^ Avengers: No Road Home #8. Marvel Comics.
  18. ^ Avengers: No Road Home #9. Marvel Comics.
  19. ^ Avengers: No Road Home #10. Marvel Comics.
  20. ^ Avengers #677. Marvel Comics.
  21. ^ Stone, Sam (2019-09-11). "Valerie Vector: Who is the Avengers' Voyager?". CBR. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  22. ^ Shiach, Kieran (2018-03-14). "The Impact of Voyager's Origin on the Entire Marvel Universe". CBR. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  23. ^ Bacon, Thomas (2018-03-15). "A Marvel Avenger Revealed To Be Grandmaster's Child". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  24. ^ 'Avengers: No Road Home': Who is Voyager?
  25. ^ Allan, Scoot (2019-11-24). "The 10 Best New Avengers Of The Decade, Ranked". CBR. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  26. ^ Marvel Avengers Academy - "Voyager!"

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