HistoryEdit
Origin
Photon was an Acuran on board a ship with the Katellan Kh'ambt, his bitter rival, and they crash-landed on Earth. Photon was offered sanctuary in exchange of his knowledge of Acuran technology.[2] The government decided both Kh'ambt and Photon needed to join the superhero team Youngblood in order to cover up the alien discovery.[3]
1992
On March 1992, Photon was assigned to Youngblood's home team alongside Shaft, Chapel, Diehard, Bedrock, and Vogue. One day, Youngblood was assembled in Washington, but Photon arrived late, which earned him a scolding from Shaft. Photon did not participate in that night's mission.[4]
A week later,[5] Photon received an alert informing him there was a breakout going on at The Pentagon, but he was too busy to attend to the matter. After that crisis was over, Youngblood were immediately tasked with flying to Germany to assist the Away Team, a mission Photon did agree to take part in.[2]
After flying for ten hours, Photon and the Home Team found the Away Team knocked out in a G.A.T.E. International laboratory where the they had been called to supervise the transport of a super-soldier named Jonathan Taylor Prophet. Prophet was the only remaining combatant against an army of robotic soldiers called Disciples of Doom, who were arriving through a portal from the planet D'khay. Also present were the Berzerkers, a group of freedom fighters from D'Khay. Shortly after, the tyrant ruler of D'Khay, Darkthornn, also joined the fray.[1] Darkthornn knocked Photon unconscious, and by the time he woke up, Away Team member Psi-Fire had used his psychic powers to force Darkthornn to retreat back to his home planet.[6]
Later, Photon was called to stop a being who was approaching Earth's atmosphere alongside Diehard, Bedrock, Combat, and Sentinel. The being identified himself as Supreme, but Combat couldn't believe he was the legend who had helped his people, so he attacked him. Supreme engaged in battle against Youngblood, ending with a collision with Diehard equal to a 500 megaton explosion. After that, Sentinel admitted they had acted hastily and requested Supreme to allow them to escort him to a conference on Earth. There, scientists ran tests and determined he was the real Supreme. Sentinel offered him a contract to join Youngblood, but Supreme was disgusted at the government's genetic engineering of superhumans and flew away from the building, something Sentinel took as a "no."[7]
1993
In 1993, Brahma, Cougar, Photon, Riptide and Sentinel were sent to Antarctica to investigate a CIA monitoring station that had mysteriously gone offline. They found it ruined, with the staff missing, when they were attacked by a group of large barbarians. Youngblood followed the men through a tunnel that led them to Arcadia, an alternate Earth. Youngblood let themselves be captured to find the missing CIA agents, and they were led before Arcadia's ruler, Tyrax, who intended to execute them. Youngblood were rescued by the appearance of a group of rebels, led by Kanan, who helped them get the missing CIA agents and escape back to Earth right before the mystical portal closed.[8]
Character Powers and Equipment
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ParaphernaliaEditEquipmentPhoton counts with a universal translator.[5] |
Appearances, Images, and Quotes Edit
- Quotations by or about Photon
Trivia Edit
In Youngblood's original pitch for Teen Titans, Photon was supposed to be a Khund transplant, along with Combat.[9]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Youngblood #4
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Youngblood #3
- ↑ Youngblood Trading Cards, 1992. https://web.archive.org/web/20230721003043/https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/78726/cid/5587846?PageIndex=1
- ↑ Youngblood #1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Brigade #2
- ↑ Youngblood #5
- ↑ Supreme #1
- ↑ Youngblood Yearbook #1
- ↑ https://swoproductions.com/2021/01/05/jabs-deep-dive-image-comics-youngblood-contd/