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Name: Margaret Power
Occupation: Freelance illustrator, homemaker
Identity: Margaret Power does not use a dual identity
Legal
Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Other
Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia
Marital Status:
Married
Known Relatives: James (husband), Roy Craig (father), Alex,
Jack (sons), Julie, Katie (daughters)
Group Affiliation: Parent of
POWER PACK
Base of Operations: New York City
First Appearance:
POWER PACK #1 History: Little is known about the early life
of Margaret Power before she married Dr. James Power and gave
berth to the group of pre-adolescent heroes known as Power
Pack. When her physicist husband developed the designs for
a matter-antimatter converter as an alternate source of energy,
Margaret Power was kidnapped with her husband by the reptilian
race of Z'nrks, known as "Snarks". Having learned
of the invention, and realizing its destructive capabilities,
the Snarks hoped to extract its design from Margaret Power's
husband, for use as a weapon. Power was rescued unharmed by
her four children, having received super powers from an extraterrestrial
sorcerer, a Kymellian called Aelfyre Whitemane, nicknamed
"Whitey". She retained no knowledge of having been
kidnapped.
Shortly thereafter, the Power family moved to New York City. There,
weeks later, Margaret Power sustained several serious injuries
as the result of an accidental encounter with a rampaging
menace called Kurse. She was transported to the hospital by
the entity known as the Beyond, who was originally responsible
for reanimating the crippled Kurse. Power was hospitalized
for several weeks, but fully recovered.
During her recovery, however, Power suffered a second great trauma
when all four of her children disappeared while claiming to
be sledding in Central Park. The team; as Power Pack, had
actually become embroiled in a second attack from the Snarks,
the goal of the alien race this time being to steal the Kymellian
powers which the children possessed. The children escaped
their captors and returned to their parents days later, with
their Kymellian allies. However, anticipating that the Power
parents would not be able to accept the truth about their
children, and their association with aliens, the Kymellian,
Lord Yrik Whitemane, altered the brain patterns of the Power
parents. The reprogramming made the Powers highly susceptible
to any suggestion from their rationale presented by their
children to the adult Powers. One side effect of the reprogramming
was the chance of an emotional backlash which could emotionally
cripple the parents if they were ever violently confronted
with a truth which different from the children's professed
version.
Such a violent confrontation occurred during the period of chaos
in Manhattan which was known as Inferno, when the Power parents
were confronted with their children's identities as Power
Pack. Unable to accept, under Whitemane's programming, that
their children had lied to them, the Powers became emotional
wrecks, breaking periodically into uncontrollable hysterics.
The parents belief in their children's infallibility was later
restored by the children with the aid of the New Mutants.
Using the solid illusion casting abilities of the mutant,
Danielle Moonstar, the children convinced their parents that
the New Mutants had replaced, the children with realistic
duplicates of themselves, and the Power children themselves
had never possessed any extraordinary abilities. This reaffirmation
of the status quo reestablished the parents' belief in their
children, and restored the parents' emotional stability. However,
it is unclear what the final result would be if the Powers
are ever again violently confronted with the truth before
this reprogramming is removed or altered.
Height: 5 ft. 7 in.
Weight: 137 lbs.
Eyes: Grey
Hair:
Strawberry blond Strength Level: Margaret Power possesses
the normal human strength of a woman her age, height, and
build who engages in minimal regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: None
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