History ComicBook / NewWarriors

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: Some see the team as being part of this.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Some have described the team as "Marvel's ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''".

* RedOniBlueOni: Nova, Night Thrasher, and Namorita are red in different ways (Nova was quite the impulsive, hot-headed guy in the 90s, while Thrasher was NinetiesAntiHero, and Namorita is ProudWarriorRaceGuy), while Speedball, Marvel Boy, and Firestar are blue also in different ways (Speedball was the laidback fun guy with a sort of slacker exterior, Marvel Boy was the more serious and introspective guy of the team, Firestar was the more serious and introspective girl of the team, well okay, Marvel Boy and Firestar are kinda BirdsOfAFeather).

* RedOniBlueOni: Nova, Night Thrasher, and Namorita are red in different ways (Nova was quite the impulsive, hot-headed guy in the 90s, while Thrasher was NinetiesAntiHero, Namorita is ProudWarriorRaceGuy), while Speedball, Marvel Boy, and Firestar are blue also in different ways (Speedball was the laidback fun guy with a sort of slacker exterior, Marvel Boy was the more serious and introspective guy of the team, Firestar was the more serious and introspective girl of the team, well okay, Marvel Boy and Firestar are kinda BirdsOfAFeather).

* RedOniBlueOni: Nova, Night Thrasher, and Namorita are red in different ways (Nova was quite the impulsive, hot-headed guy in the 90s, while Thrasher was NinetiesAntiHero, Namorita is ProudWarriorRaceGuy), while Speedball, Marvel Boy, and Firestar are blue also in different ways (Speedball was the laidback fun guy with a sort of slacker exterior, Marvel Boy was the more serious and introspective guy of the team, Firestar was the more serious and introspective girl of the team, well okay, Marvel Boy and Firestar are kinda BirdsOfAFeather).

* Dwayne Taylor / '''Night Thrasher''', an orphaned African-American who uses his parents' inheritance to create a gadget-equipped suit (and a skateboard) and organize the group to avenge the murder of his parents, sort of an urbanized Batman. Created specifically for the series.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** There are a number of instances in the first volume where the Warriors must either let the villains go or walk away from a fight due to lack of sufficient evidence of the villains' wrongdoing or the heroes needing to avoid having to answer for the laws they have broken themselves. One such example is the New Warriors' first battle with Psionex, a team of supervillains created by Genetech. The New Warriors are forced to accept a ceasefire from the leaders of Genetech as the Warriors broke into their building first. In addition, creating superpowered beings isn't illegal and the New Warriors can't actually prove that Psionex are villains.
** The series acknowledges how difficult it is to be on a super team when you live in a different city from the rest of your teammates. Speedball lives in Springdale, Connecticut while the rest of the team is in New York and is often late for meetings as a result. This does prove advantageous when his lateness allows him to avoid getting captured along with the other five Warriors in their first battle with Psionex.
*** Speedball's focus story in the fourth annual reveals that his superhero activities have impacted his school work to the point he is at risk of being held back.
** [[spoiler:Arnold Astrovik's continued abuse of his superpowered teenage son who is showing more of a willingness to stand up to him ultimately results in his death.]]

* NoEndorHolocaust: Subverted in the explosion that killed the original team and set up ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.

A further revival miniseries was intended as part of the teen-hero-centred ''ComicBook/{{Outlawed}}'' event in 2020, but never materialised due to the COVID-19 pandemic and intensely negative fan reaction to publicity for the new characters intended to be introduced in it.

* Richard "Richie" Rider / '''Comicbook/{{Nova}}''', whose origin resembles that of [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]]: inheriting the powers of a dying alien member of the Nova Corps. First appeared in his original solo comic, which ran in the mid-to-late '70s, languished in obscurity before Thrasher restored his powers and recruited him for the Warriors, and has since had three ongoing solo series of varying success.
* Robert "Robbie" Baldwin / '''ComicBook/{{Speedball}}''', an attempt by Franchise/SpiderMan co-creator Creator/SteveDitko to create [[FollowTheLeader another character]] whose struggles with friends, family and school are complicated by his superpowers, albeit with more wackiness. He possesses the ability to redirect kinetic energy, which he uses mostly for bouncing. The team series kept the family problems but recast him as the mostly-ineffectual PluckyComicRelief, although he gets more competent as the series progresses.

* Vance Astrovik / '''Justice''', originally called Marvel Boy. The alternate past version of Major Victory from both Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy teams. A mutant with telekinetic powers; he and Firestar dated and were engaged.

Other members include Rage, a super-strong angry young Black teenager [[YoungerThanTheyLook in an adult man's body]]; Silhouette, a paraplegic girl with darkness powers who fights crime on crutches; Turbo, actually a guy and a girl who shared the superpowered Torpedo costume between them; Hindsight Lad, a nerdy JokeCharacter; Microbe, who could make people sick, and a few others. The most famous non-original members include ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}, [[Comicbook/CloakAndDagger Cloak & Dagger]], both the Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker incarnations of the ComicBook/ScarletSpider, and [[ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick Slapstick]].

The first series started in 1990, thrived during the comics industry's boom years following, limped through the market's contraction and finally ended in 1996. Firestar and Justice "graduated" to the ranks of Comicbook/TheAvengers, while the rest of the cast went their separate ways.

At the same time, a new group led by someone in a Night Thrasher costume began calling themselves "New Warriors" and striking at the government that passed the SuperRegistrationAct. However, with the exception of Night Thrasher (who was revealed to be Dwayne's stepbrother Donyell Taylor, a.k.a. Bandit), every member of the team was a former member of the Comicbook/XMen depowered following the events of ''ComicBook/HouseOfM''. With a lack of trust between Night Thrasher and the rest of the team, due to Night Thrasher secretly working to resurrect the original Night Thrasher and using the rest of the team as a distraction on numerous occasions, the former X-Men eventually tired of his leadership and disbanded after a trip to an alternate future where the original Night Thrasher had been resurrected, manuevered his way into office as Head of S.H.I.E.L.D., stole the Iron Man armor for himself (Tony Stark took the Night Thrasher identity) and banished the majority of the superheroes to the Negative Zone.

Eventually, the former New Warriors who had joined the Initiative, along with the surviving Scarlet Spiders, left after they felt the Initiative was becoming corrupt and needed someone to regulate them to stop an abuse of power, adopting the name '''Counter Force''' until the current New Warriors team disbanded, at which point they recruited the second Night Thrasher and briefly took the New Warriors name back, before Tigra and Gauntlet joined them and renamed the group the '''Avengers Resistance''' in the wake of ComicBook/NormanOsborn [[Comicbook/DarkReign taking control]] following ''Comicbook/SecretInvasion''. This team operated until the events of ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'', when they mounted an attack on the former Initiative training camp to keep Osborn's back-up occupied whilst the ComicBook/NewAvengers and ''Secret Warriors'' fought the ComicBook/DarkAvengers. After their victory, the Avengers Resistance disbanded. A new team wouldn't reform until phase 2 of ''Comicbook/MarvelNOW'', when Speedball (who had retaken the mantle following Osborn's deposition and imprisonment, and became an instructor at the Comicbook/AvengersAcademy until ''Comicbook/FearItself''), Justice (who was also part of Avengers Academy and left along with Speedball), and the second Nova, Sam Alexander, all find themselves being thrown into the Second Evolutionary War. The new team consists of founding members Speedball and Justice, and new members Nova II, Scarlet Spider, Hummingbird, Sun Girl, Haechi, and Water Snake.

During Comicbook/MarvelNOW the [[ComicBook/NewWarriors2014 series received a relaunch]] written by Creator/ChristopherYost and drawn by Marcus To. Speedball and Justice from the original series returned, with some new recruits like the latest versions of ComicBook/{{Nova}} and Comicbook/ScarletSpider as well.

** Bandit (to the X-Men's Comicbook/{{Gambit}}) and Chord (to the X-Men's Comicbook/{{Cable}}; they even worked together once as mercenaries).
** The original Night Thrasher bears a distinct similarity to Franchise/{{Batman}}. As he was a character created by market research conducted in 1989, it's perhaps unsurprising that the result was "Batman-Punisher-Skateboard." (Fabian even referred to him as "Bat Punisher" in his pitch.)

* TrueLoveIsBoring: To be fair, Fabian Nicieza (the man who made Justice and Firestar a couple in the first place) said that he had always planned to split them up, but simply left the book before he was able to. Nonetheless, later authors had the pair get engaged and used them as an introspective of what it's like to be young would-be newlyweds working as [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]. However, eventually, the two characters wound up back in the hands of Nicieza, who promptly broke them up.

* Robert "Robbie" Baldwin / '''Speedball''', an attempt by Franchise/SpiderMan co-creator Creator/SteveDitko to create [[FollowTheLeader another character]] whose struggles with friends, family and school are complicated by his superpowers, albeit with more wackiness. He possesses the ability to redirect kinetic energy, which he uses mostly for bouncing. The team series kept the family problems but recast him as the mostly-ineffectual PluckyComicRelief, although he gets more competent as the series progresses.

* DieOrFly: Night Thrasher recruits Nova this way. Nova is less than thrilled.
** Not helped by the fact that [[HowDidYouKnowIDidnt Night Thrasher was pretty much making a lucky guess]]. Later he gives us the data he was working off of, and there was only a ''thirty-five percent chance'' that Nova's powers could be reactivated.

* TotallyRadical: Among other criticisms leveled at the new 2020 line-up, pretty much all of them are this. In particular the DaywalkingVampire B-Negative, who is supposed to be obsessed with music from TheNineties but dresses like Creator/DavidBowie.

In a later revival, the team was deprived of their funding, forcing them to star in a RealityShow in order to make ends meet. Whilst filming an episode of their reality show, the team entered a fight with several supervillains in Stamford, Connecticut. One of the villains, Nitro[[note]]A former Captain Marvel villain[[/note]], caused an explosion which killed the majority of the team, their camera crew and destroyed several city blocks, including an Elementary School. The New Warriors became the face of superhero negligence and were the catalyst of ''ComicBook/CivilWar''. Speedball survived, but with an [[{{Wangst}} extreme]] case of SurvivorGuilt. The very term "New Warrior" became an insult amongst people who hated Supers, much to the annoyance of the former team members and the majority of the team was forced to register under the Super Human Registration Act & receive formal training; the exceptions being Justice[[note]]Instructor for the Initiative[[/note]], Nova[[note]]Off-world dealing with Nova Corps business[[/note]], Firestar[[note]]Retired[[/note]] and Speedball[[note]]Assumed the identity of Penance and placed on the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} roster[[/note]].

Other members include Rage, a super-strong angry young Black teenager [[YoungerThanTheyLook in an adult man's body]]; Silhouette, a paraplegic girl with darkness powers who fights crime on crutches; Turbo, actually a guy and a girl who shared the superpowered Torpedo costume between them; Hindsight Lad, a nerdy JokeCharacter; Microbe, who could make people sick, and a few others. The most famous non-original members include ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}, [[Comicbook/CloakAndDagger Cloak & Dagger]], the ComicBook/ScarletSpider, and [[ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick Slapstick]].

During Comicbook/MarvelNOW the [[ComicBook/NewWarriors2014 series received a relaunch]] written by Creator/ChristopherYost and drawn by Marcus To. Speedball and Justice from the original series returned, with some new recruits like the latest ComicBook/{{Nova}} and Comicbook/ScarletSpider as well.

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The Scarlet Spider when he was a member.

* Robert "Robbie" Baldwin / '''Speedball''', an unsuccessful attempt by Franchise/SpiderMan co-creator Creator/SteveDitko to create [[FollowTheLeader another character]] whose struggles with friends, family and school are complicated by his superpowers, albeit with more wackiness. He possesses the ability to redirect kinetic energy, which he uses mostly for bouncing. The team series kept the family problems but recast him as the mostly-ineffectual PluckyComicRelief, although he gets more competent as the series progresses.

* {{Expy}}: Bandit (to the X-Men's Comicbook/{{Gambit}}) and Chord (to the X-Men's Comicbook/{{Cable}}; they even worked together once as mercenaries) The original Night Thrasher bears a distinct similarity to Franchise/{{Batman}}. As he was a character created by market research conducted in 1989, it's perhaps unsurprising that the result was "Batman-Punisher-Skateboard." (Fabian even referred to him as "Bat Punisher" in his pitch.)

Other members include Rage, a super-strong [[AngryBlackMan angry young Black teenager]] [[YoungerThanTheyLook in an adult man's body]]; Silhouette, a paraplegic girl with darkness powers who fights crime on crutches; Turbo, actually a guy and a girl who shared the superpowered Torpedo costume between them; Hindsight Lad, a nerdy JokeCharacter; Microbe, who could make people sick, and a few others. The most famous non-original members include ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}, [[Comicbook/CloakAndDagger Cloak & Dagger]], the ComicBook/ScarletSpider, and [[ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick Slapstick]].