Trivia / New Warriors

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Issues #58 and 59 feature the team fighting alongside Israeli superheroine Sabra in order to protect then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from cybernetically-enhanced Palestinian terrorists before Sabra herself makes an attempt on the Prime Minister's life while under mind control. As the real Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist a year later, the issues are now seen as being in incredibly poor taste and remained uncollected until 2024.
• Quietly Cancelled: The series was meant to have a tie-in miniseries to the Outlawed event. The character designs received intense criticism on the internet and the comic's release day came and went without any word from Marvel. Even when comicbook productions got restarted, the New Warriors mini series was mysteriously never relaunched. This came to a head when Champions (2020) #5 saw the official end of the Outlawed status-quo.
• What Could Have Been:
  • At the height of the New Warriors' popularity, Marvel strongly considered launching a spinoff series starring a West Coast Team. The idea was partly set up in the comics, with Night Thrasher looking at the large roster of team members & regular allies and considering splitting the team in two. This never ended up happening, as the series' readership dropped sharply when the comic-collection bubble burst in the mid-1990s.
  • Fabian Nicieza had wanted Squirrel Girl to join the team and develop a crush on Speedball. He left the book before this could happen, but was able to utilize the idea of a Speedball/Squirrel Girl romance years later in one of the I (Heart) Marvel one-shots.
  • There was a serious attempt to make a New Warriors sitcom set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which would've starred Squirrel Girl and Mr. Immortal alongside Night Thrasher, Microbe, Debrii, and Speedball. The show was originally developed for Freeform, even getting as far as having a pilot; while executives reportedly liked the pilot, Freeform ultimately wound up passing on the series, and after it was shopped around to a few other networks, the series was scrapped. (Although it's still possible that it could be revived on Disney+ in future.) The only leftover was the casting of Milana Vayntrub as Squirrel Girl carrying over to the Marvel Rising projects.
  • The 2020 relaunch of the series as part of the Outlawed storyline. The mini-series would have reunited Night Thrasher, Justice, Silhouette, Speedball and Namorita to recruit a group of young heroes to train in the wake of the passing of Kamala's Law. However, after Marvel stopped production of comics temporarily as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the Outlawed-related titles were temporarily shelved. As of December 2021, this is the only title not to have been printed. Many believe that the critical thrashing the title got due to its out-of-touch new heroes, with the worst being the characters Snowflake and Safespace - psychically linked twins who had cryokinetic powers and psychic shields respectively - who were named after terms used to mock left-leaning demographics as oversensitive. Not helping things was that Snowflake would have been Marvel's first non-binary superhero and was roundly criticized for being designed in a tone-deaf and insensitive manner. Kibblesmith would later use B-Negative in Darkhold: Blade, as an alternate-universe character, but his 616 counterpart is still unaccounted for.

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