Night Thrasher's Parent's were killed in front of his eyes when he was very young. He began to train as fighter, and started to hate and want to punish all lawbreakers. He forgot about how his parents died and the face of their killer. He later learned that his parents had been killed by a plan orchestrated by an elderly asian women named Tai. During the day, he ran his the Taylor Foundation, while at night, he trained and began to patrol the streets. Dwayne met two other vigilantes, Silhouette and Midnights fire, and the three began to try to lessen the gang population in New York.Both of them were the children of Dwayne's guardian, Andrew Chord.

Their partnership ended when Silhouette was paralyzed from the waist down by a bullet. Midnight's Fire blamed Dwayne, and began to try to draw Dwayne into a confrontation. Silhouette sided with Dwayne, distancing herself from her her brother's evil. It was because of the threat of Midnight's Fire that Dwayne built his power suit. Dwayne began to recruit member's for a new team (which he was basing off of the Fantastic Four, hiself taking the role of Reed Richards.) He Chose the supposedly depowered Nova to be "The Thing" in his new team. He abducted Nova and dropped him off of a building, hoping it would ignite his powers. It did, and Nova was (understandably) cautious of joining, but Night Thrasher's return of his powers made him join. Night Thrasher then recruited Firestar to take the part of the Human Torch, and Marvel Boy to take the part of Invisible Women. Almost immediatly afterwards, Terrax began reeking havoc in downtown New York City. When the newly formed team arrived at the scene, they discovered Speedball and Namorita fighting Galactus's former herald. The six were able to win by using unorthodox teamwork, but the glory was stolen by The Avengers. The six then became The New Warriors. The team became mildly successful, but during the time, Dwayne unraveled the strange conspiracy that was his life. Also, both Folding Circle and Tai's true role were revealed. Thrasher became the official guardian of Rage during this time.

Thrasher pretended to join the Folding Circle as a means to infiltrate it. He, however, neglected to tell his team about his plans, and he left the team. Dwayne became a slight ally to the Warriors, and the team's leader became disputable. At first, it was Namorita, and then it turned to Marvel Boy. Dwyane was returned to the team at the end of the volume.Night Thrasher disbanded the team, and traveled to learn martial arts skills. He discovered aplot by the Hand against Iron Fist, and he brought back the team to save Iron Fist. Afterwards, he left the team, but rejoined them at the end of the volume. Dwayne retired, but tayed semi-active at the Taylor Foundation. He began searching for a cure for cancer. It appeared that the cure had been found, but it turned out that the biologist who created the cure actually was using his mutant son to "command" the cure. The Taylor Foundation fell through, and the biologist died trying the cure on himself. Dwayne then adopted the biologist's son and announced that he was beginning a super hero reality T.V. show. Night Thrasher died along with Microbe (the biologists son) in Nitro's explosion. that started the Civil War.

New Warriors (vol. 4)

As of post-Civil War, a new team calling themselves the New Warriors have appeared.While most of these New Warriors are new to the team, the leader and recruiter has revealed himself to be Night Thrasher, who apparently did not perish at the Stamford incident that caused Civil War. It has not been revealed how he survived, but all descriptions in story and promotional materials indicate that this the original Night Thrasher that founded the New Warriors.

Dwayne was then replaced by his brother, Donyell Taylor, as Night Thrasher