Night Thrasher
Night Thrasher is a comic book character that first appeared in Thor #411
Leader of the group, New Warriors. After dying due to an explosion by Nitro, the original Night Thrasher was replace by his brother Donyell Taylor.
Early Life
Night Thrasher's parent's were killed in front of him when he was very young. He started to hate lawbreakers, and began to train in the martial arts in order to punish them. He forgot about how his parents died and the face of their killer. He later learned that his parents had been killed as part of a plan orchestrated by an elderly Asian women named Tai. During the day, he ran the Taylor Foundation. By night, he trained and began to patrol the streets. Dwayne met two other vigilantes, Silhouette and Midnight's fire, and the three began to try to lessen the gang population in New York. Both vigilantes were the children of Dwayne's guardian, Andrew Chord.
Later Life
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. Night Thrasher traveled to learn martial arts skills. He discovered a plot by the Hand against Iron Fist, and he brought back the team to save Iron Fist. He rejoined the team at the end of the volume. Dwayne retired, but stayed 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 him. 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 biologist's son) in Nitro's explosion. That event 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.Abilities and equipment
Due to tampering with his mind by Tai, Dwayne was immune to telepathic probes. Emma Frost herself could not scan his mind. He has trained in the martial arts with numerous tutors. He was able to gain a near-victory in unarmed combat against Punisher. Punisher only won by switching to his weaponry again. Dwayne was also a skilled acrobat and a genius level inventor with skills eclipsing most engineers.
Variations of his armor came with titanium spring-loaded blades in the forearms, adamantium-laced garrote wires, surface-to-surface missiles, compartments concealing hand-weaponry. His favorite weapon was a Uzi sub-machine pistol. He also carried with him explosives, plastique, napalm gel, cordite packs, magnesium flares, smoke capsules, incendiary packs, spur jacks and ball bearings.
| Super Name: | Night Thrasher |
| Real Name: | Donyell Taylor |
| Aliases: |
Donyell Taylor Dwayne Taylor Tony Stark |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | Thor #411 |
| Appears in: | 181 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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