Warp
32 years ago - Emil La Salle is born.
17 years ago - 15-year-old Emil La Salle is sent to a juvenile detention facility for burglary.
15 years ago - 17-year-old Emil La Salle becomes a professional burglar.
10 years ago - 22-year old Emil La Salle goes to prison for burglary.
5 years ago - 27-year-old Emil La Salle is paroled & returns to his career as a burglar, working with Intergang.
4 years ago - 28-year-old Emil La Salle, while working with Intergang, is struck by the energy feedback of stored Boom Tube energy. He is unable to stop teleporting, losing his matter cohesion until he is trapped in an experimental teleport device inside The Brain's secret lab. The Brain stabilizes him, making him his latest henchman as they begin to rebuild the Brotherhood of Evil.
I actually happen to really like Warp, if only because he represents a rare occasion when a character's utility in the story seems to perfectly mimic his in-continuity utility. We, the readers, might not really know or care all that much about him, but I actually get the distinct sense that his teammates actually don't know or care that much about him either. His whole deal is that he just happens to have one of the most useful power sets there is, and that's exactly the sort of thing the Brain would exploit.
Warp's StoryWarp was one of the new additions to the Brotherhood of Evil introduced in New Teen Titans #14, and like the others he really wasn't much of a complete character... he was just a costume design with some superpowers. Unlike some of those characters he's never really gotten that much further development; he was just a career thief that was given teleportation powers.
But man, those powers are useful. He's made several appearances in lots of different comic series entirely because having a dedicated teleporter on the team works so well... and it just seems so perfect for the Brotherhood of Evil to have this guy on their team. We're actually using the introduction of Warp as the impetus for a whole new chapter in the Brotherhood of Evil. He doesn't need to be all that unique a character, because his main role is to support this esoteric group of baddies. |