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| Kole | |
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 Kole as depicted inWho's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #12 (February 1986). Art byJosé Luis García-López. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The New Teen Titans (vol. 2) #9 (June 1985) |
| Created by | George Pérez (artist) Marv Wolfman (writer) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Kole Weathers |
| Species | Metahuman |
| Team affiliations | Teen Titans |
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Kole Weathers is a fictional character appearing inAmerican comic books published byDC Comics. She is a short-lived member of the Teen Titans who possesses the ability to generate crystals. Kole was introduced and killed during the events ofCrisis on Infinite Earths, and has rarely appeared since.[1][2][3][4][5]
Tara Strong voices Kole in the animated seriesTeen Titans.
Professor Abel Weathers, paranoid of an impendingnuclear holocaust, seeks to find a way for humanity to survive the fallout through forced evolution. One of the test subjects in his experiments is his 16-year-old daughter, Kole, whom he grafts with crystal andpromethium. Her father's experiments give Kole the ability to create and control crystal at will.[6][7][3][2][4][1]
Kole is kidnapped byTheia, who forces her to construct a crystal prison onMount Olympus for her use. Theia comes into conflict with the Teen Titans and is killed in the ensuing battle, with Kole being freed.Lilith Clay, a member of the Titans who possesses limitedprecognition, senses "dark clouds of destruction" around Kole. She attempts to prevent her from returning to Earth, but Kole refuses.[8] Kole is taken in byAdeline Kane and befriends Adeline's sonJoseph, who she briefly enters a relationship with.[6][7][5]
Kole attempts to reunite with her parents, only for her father to capture the Titans and attempt to experiment on them. In the ensuing conflict, Abel's laboratory is destroyed. Abel, his wife Marilyn, and their test subjects emerge from the wreckage, transformed into insectoid forms.[6][7]
During the 1985 eventCrisis on Infinite Earths, Kole attempts to save theRobin andHuntress ofEarth-Two from theAnti-Monitor's Shadow Demons. She fails and all three are killed by the demons, with their bodies never being found.[9][3][2][4]
During the 2005 eventInfinite Crisis, Kole is briefly resurrected and placed under the control ofBrother Blood, who forces her to battle the Teen Titans. She is defeated and returned to the grave along with the other undead Titans.[10][11]
In the 2006 storyline "One Year Later",Kid Eternity summons Kole from the afterlife to help locate the soul ofKid Devil's aunt Marla. After Kid Devil tells Kole that he had read about her in the Titans archives and thinks she is cool, she expresses gratitude and says she wishes that he could have been a member of the team while she was still alive. Kole returns to her resting place, leaving Kid Eternity and Kid Devil to continue on their own.[12]
Kole is resurrected following theDC Rebirth relaunch and appears inHeroes in Crisis (2019) as a patient at the Sanctuary therapy center.[13][14]
Kole has the power to "spin" crystal, which is to create silicon crystal into independent masses—anything from a crystal "sculpture to a safety slide". She is able to encase people in crystal, effectively immobilizing them.[3]
An alternate universe variant of Kole appears inTeen Titans: Earth One. This version was given powers by and formerly worked forNiles Caulder.[15]
A scientist named Abel Weathers experimented on his daughter Kole to find a way for humanity to survive a nuclear war. His experiments gave the 16-year-old girl the power to form and control silicon crystals...Kole joined New Teen Titans just to be a casualty in Crisis, and the character hasn't made much of an impact in any line-wide reboot since.
Kole was a young woman with the power to control and create crystals, which was actually the result of her mother trying to artificially jumpstart her evolution...Kole bravely sacrificed herself trying to save alternate versions of Huntress and Robin during Crisis on Infinite Earths. She was never truly resurrected, and her legacy is more as a dead Titan than an active one.
Kole Weathers can create constructs in silicon crystal at will. Creating swords, shields, or airplanes out of crystal is pretty cool, but she endured a lot to attain this power. Her membership in the Titans in the mid-80s came about due to her father experimenting on her to find a way to save humanity from the effects of nuclear war...The original version of her died in Crisis On Infinite Earths.
Given powers by her father so she could survive the nuclear holocaust he believed was coming, [Kole] would join up with the Teen Titans and basically become their Iceman, using her crystal generating powers much the same way as he used his ice ones. Her powers were pretty cool but she didn't last long on the team; she was killed during Crisis On Infinite Earths.
[Jericho] caught the attention of the crystal spinner Kole Weathers, who joined the Titans after stopping her father from turning everyone into bug hybrids. The attraction was mutual, and Kole and Jericho dated for a while. They might still be together today if Kole hadn't died in the line of duty in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
We begin with a page of nine small panels with nine different characters talking to the Sanctuary camera. The characters include Jason Blood, The Guardian, Firestorm, Guy Gardner, Mademoiselle Marie, Black Lightning, Dove, Kole, and Tim Drake.
