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Alex Power
Alex Power
Alex as Zero-G
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Alex is a founder and the leader of Power Pack. He has the power of controlling gravity. Currently, he is one of the younger members of Reed Richards' Future Foundation.
- All Your Powers Combined: During his tenure as a New Warrior, he took all his siblings' powers.
- Aloof Big Brother: On occasion, especially when he gets tired of his siblings' childishness or his Big Brother Instinct gets out of hand.
- Big Brother Instinct: It's not a heavily emphasized part of his character, but he does have a protective streak towards the others.
- Breakout Character: While Julie probably has him beat for solo appearances, Alex has received a fair bit of attention away from Power Pack. He was briefly part of the New Warriors, and later became a key member of the Future Foundation.
- Character Catchphrase: "Gee!" in the early comics. It led to his superhero codename "G," later expanded to "Zero-G."
- Gravity Master: The power he started out with.
- Mr. Fanservice: The Marvel Legacy one-shot has him shirtless for several panels, revealing his Heroic Build.
- Standardized Leader: In every appearance of the Pack, up until he goes into the Multiverse.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The reaction of his siblings when he took their powers.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: As Powerpax.
Julie Power
Julie Power
Julie as Lightspeed
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Julie Power, known as Lightspeed of the superhero group Power Pack. A bright and intelligent girl who is fascinated by all the world has to offer.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the original series she's described as "strawberry blonde," but — probably thanks to the limited color techiques of comics in the 1980s — generally comes across more as a redhead. The all-ages series consequently makes her a redhead. Some of her later appearances, like in Future Foundation and the 2020 series, has her as straight up blonde.
- Airplane Arms: Julie typically does this while flying with her Velocity powers.
- Bookworm: She loves to read. This trait was most prominent in the early parts of the original series, but shows up on occasion in her later appearances too.
- Breakout Character: Post-2000, Julie has received by far the most attention of the four Power siblings. After moving to California and trying to make it as an actress, she appeared, sans siblings, in both Runaways and Avengers Academy, where she came out as bisexual and got romantically involved with Karolina. After they broke up, she joined Alex in the Future Foundation, and began dating Rikki Barnes.
- Characterization Marches On: She went from being the one that studied the most to wanting to be an actress, and eventually she flunked out of college.
- Cool Big Sis: Katie (and to some extent Jack) certainly thinks so.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: When she flies, she leaves a rainbow trail.
- Flight: Her main power, and she can do it at super sonic speeds.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: While never an outright genius, Julie was consistently depicted as very bright in the original Power Pack comic; she was an excellent student, had a lot of book-smarts and was always at the top of her class in school. When she reappeared as a teenager in Comic Book/Runaways she appeared to have Took a Level in Dumbass, being a lot more scatterbrained and coming across as a borderline Dumb Blonde at times. It was eventually revealed, in the Loners miniseries, that this was an act she'd put on in order to fit in better and to distance herself from her old life. It took an Armor-Piercing Question from Katie during a phone call to get her to drop the act.Katie: You know, I think you're letting that whole dumb blonde act go to your head. You used to be the smart one, Julie. The responsible one. You're my older sister... don't you think it's time you started acting the part again?
- Straight Gay: You wouldn't know she was bisexual until she came out of the closet as an older teen. Apparently, Alex had no idea until she told him in a backup feature in Fantastic Four (2018) — then again, he had been in space for a while and was a little out of the loop.
- Super-Speed: Her power that leaves behind a rainbow streak. Quit snickering, bronies.
Jack Power
Jack Power
Jack as Mass Master
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Jack Power was a founding member of the superhero team Power Pack.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: To Alex and Julie. To Katie, he's an annoying older sibling.
- Bratty Half-Pint: The clearest example in the series. If one of the Power siblings acts out, causes trouble or does something thoughtlessly mean, it's usually Jack. Unlike many examples of this trope, though, he has a lot of moments where he feels bad afterwards and tries to make amends.
- Casanova Wannabe: In the all-ages series, he's discovered girls but doesn't have much luck with them.
- Deadpan Snarker: His snark isn't always the most sophisticated, but he tries.
- Hollywood Density: His power to either shrink to the size of an ant to turning into a cloud.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a grouchy brat who can be a real pain in the neck to everyone, but he's also genuinely heroic and will go out of his way to help those in need.
- Momma's Boy: Jack, who arguably loves being a superhero the most, decides in the 2000 series to quit in order to take care of their sick mom.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "You're about to be clobbered by the 60 lb Jack hammer!"
- Out of Focus: In the Pack's modern appearances, Jack gets the least focus. Julie is the Breakout Character who appears in several books, Alex is a major player in the Future Foundation, and Katie gets the occasional Day in the Limelight, but we don't really see a whole lot of Jack.
- Punched Across the Room: Jack's signature move when he was Counterweight.
- Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: His suit is designed to turn into a cloud with him. If he doesn't have it on, he'll end up naked.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's got a very high opinion of himself but isn't always the best at backing it up. This is especially prominent in the all-ages series.
Katie Power
Katie Power
Katie as Energizer
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Katie is the youngest of all four Power siblings. She has the power to disintegrate objects and zap it back in energy bolts.
- All Girls Like Ponies: This was one of her character traits in the All-Ages series. She even rode on Beta Ray Bill.
- The Baby of the Bunch: They even call her "baby" in the original series. When Franklin joins, she calls him baby since she is no longer the youngest.
- Bratty Half-Pint: By no means as much as Jack... but she definitely has her moments.
- Cheerful Child: When she isn't being a Bratty Half-Pint, she's very clearly the sweetest, friendliest and most upbeat of the Power siblings.
- Cute Bruiser: With the Energizer powers, she packs a serious wallop, to the point where in the early parts of the original series she was the one who tended to get knocked out or made to sleep as a way of Holding Back the Phlebotinum — otherwise she'd defeat the bad guys in ten seconds flat.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: When in Bratty Half-Pint mode.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In the original series she was strawberry blonde like Julie, though the all-ages series turned her into a regular blonde like Alex. The 616 incarnation followed suit... until the 2020 series, where she's back to being strawberry blonde.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Franklin. The "Vitriolic" part was most prominent in the beginning, mainly because she was jealous that he was threatening to take her place as "the littlest superhero."
Other Members
Franklin Richards
Franklin Richards
Franklin is the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, also known as Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four. Franklin is an Omega-level mutant with reality-warping abilities; even at a young age he is one of the most powerful beings in the Universe.
- Adaptational Name Change: Or Adaptational Codename Change. In the 616-verse his Power Pack codename is "Tattletale," given to him by an annoyed Katie, while in the all-ages version it's "Smarty Pants." Which he thought of himself.
- Adaptational Wimp:
- Zig-Zagged in the 616 version. While he does still have his reality warping powers, he never uses them.
- Played straight in the all-ages version, where he specifically says that he doesn't have any powers at all. Instead he helps out as a tactician and with gadgets borrowed from his father.
- Character Catchphrase: "Oboy! My favorite!" Said about pretty much any kind of food.
- Composite Character: The all-ages version uses traits from his sister, mainly her intelligence and pragmatism, since he lacks the reality warping powers.
- Sixth Ranger: He's sort of a mix of this and a Guest-Star Party Member. He doesn't join the team until the end of issue #17 of Vol 1, and is absent from a lot of their adventures after that, but he is an official member of the Power Pack and, at the time, got more focus and development in their comic than he did in the Fantastic Four comic.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Katie. The "vitriolic" part was more pronounced in the beginning, with the "best buds" part getting more attention later on.
Kofi Whitemane
Kofi Whitemane
A young Kymellian ally of Power Pack, and a cousin of Aelfyre.
- Teleportation: So far, his only power, though as a Kymellian he has the potential to develop several more as he gets older.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Believes that his father cares more about his career as a diplomat than him. Not helped by the fact that Yrik has a very unapologetic "Not Now, Kiddo" attitude regarding children contributing to important issues. They eventually start to work things out and bond, though not without a few bumps along the way.
Allies
Aelfyre Whitemane
Aelfyre Whitemane
A Kymellian and the character who gave Power Pack their powers.
- Combo Platter Powers: Possessed all four of the abilities that he passed on separately to each of the Power children.
- Klingons Love Shakespeare: Became quite a fan of human literature during his time observing Earth; he names his Smartship after a Robinson Crusoe character, and dubs the Zn'rx species as "Snarks" in reference to The Hunting of the Snark.
Friday the Smartship
Friday the Smartship
Aelfyre Whitmane's Kymellian spacecraft, Friday was named after Robinson Crusoe's loyal companion from Whitey's favorite Earth novel. Like all other Smartships, Friday is sentient and capable of rational thought. She provided travel, knowledge & resources for Power Pack over the years.
- Ambiguous Gender: The Power kids tend to call Friday "she" or "he" depending on their own gender. Friday doesn't seem to have a preference.
- Sapient Ship: It's in the name, after all.
Antagonists
Bogeyman
Bogeyman
Douglas Carmody was a bigot that hated the Power Pack children. He was cast into Limbo and met the demon N'Astihr where he transformed Carmody into the Bogeyman when he consumed some of his flesh.
- Blob Monster: After being pushed into Limbo, N'astirh "chewed away" his humanity, turning him into a grotesque, barely human mass of mobile chalk-white slime that looked like animate semi-liquid fat.
- Cephalothorax: In his demon form, he's basically an oversized, demonic head with limbs jutting out of it.
- Deal with the Devil: More literally than most; he tries to bargain with N'astirh to sell him mutant children. It goes disastrously wrong for him when the New Mutants and the Power Pack team up to thwart his plan and end up throwing him into Limbo, where N'astirh turns him into a demon.
- Fantastic Racism: In the grand tradition of Marvel Comics, Mr. Carmody hates mutants with a passion. He hates them so much that he tried to make a Deal with the Devil with the lives of mutant children.
- Freudian Excuse: At the end of the three-part Inferno (1988) tie-in, whilst ranting at the Power Pack for the love their parents show them, he inadvertently hints that he suffered from emotionally Abusive Parents himself, which is part of his reason for hating the Power Pack.
- Hypocrite: Claims to be determined to fight mutants to protect the human race, but after becoming a demon, he also readily kills humans, usually for considering them "disgraces to the human race".
Queen Mother Maraud
Queen Mother Maraud
The Queen and Mother of the Snarks, she is coldhearted and brutal even to her loyal soldiers. She was an on-going & deadly enemy of Power Pack, usually scheming to steal their powers. Maraud was banished by Emporer Bhadsha, but remained a threat
Trash
Trash
Trash was an superhuman street gang who worked for the villain, The Garbageman, running drugs to his various crackhouses.
