| Super Young Team | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Final Crisis Sketchbook #1 (May 2008) |
| Created by | Grant Morrison (writer) J. G. Jones (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | Japan |
| Member(s) | Most Excellent Superbat Big Atomic Lantern Boy Crazy Shy Lolita Canary Shiny Happy Aquazon Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash |
TheSuper Young Team is a Japanesesuperhero team in theDC ComicsUniverse. The team first appears inFinal Crisis Sketchbook #1 (May 2008), and was created byGrant Morrison andJ. G. Jones.
The concept for the team emerged from the same pitchGrant Morrison made that contained the idea for theGreat Ten,[1] and they were first mentioned in52 #6. They are influenced by American superheroes andJapanese pop culture.[2]
The characters first appeared in Morrison'sFinal Crisis where they were revealed to be theFifth World incarnations of theForever People.[3] They are featured inFinal Crisis Aftermath: Dance, written byJoe Casey with art byChrisCross.[4][5] In that six-part series, their fame overwhelms them, causing judgement errors and loss of self-control.
Most Excellent Superbat (Heino) is the team leader. He wears a wildly stylized red and yellow uniform influenced by bothSuperman andBatman. According to him, his power is "being so rich he can do anything",[6] but he appears to use an array of gadgets, one of which can generate an energy-based exoskeleton, he also appears to have some training in the martial arts. His secret island base is called the "Most Serene Sanctuary" and contains asupercomputer he calls a "unified data field" which is only accessible when he meditated himself into a calmtheta rhythm state.[7]Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #1, the ghost of a being calling itself "Ultimon Alpha" recently appeared to him in a vision.[2][8][9]
By the end of the series, he revealed that he is indeed as rich as he claims when he actually buys Japan.[10]
Big Atomic Lantern Boy is Most Excellent Superbat's second in command. He wears a green outfit which is outfitted with anx-rayed circularporthole on his chest. The porthole displays his skeleton, and allows him to fire green force beams of different types of radiation. He is attracted to Shiny Happy Aquazon.[2][9]
Crazy Shy Lolita Canary is a winged heroine in a Japaneseschoolgirl uniform, and is physically small enough to fit in someone's hand. She possesses a sonic scream (always "Sumimasen" - "Excuse me") similar to that possessed byBlack Canary except that it appears to be a strong modulated-mixture of multiple voices.[2]
Shiny Happy Aquazon is the daughter of Junior Waveman (Riki Kimura) - a founding member ofBig Science Action - and the genius daughter of Senior Waveman Otomo.[7] She has the ability to create hard water constructs likeMera, the wife ofAquaman. She also is attracted to Sonic Lightning Flash.[2][3][9] InFinal Crisis Aftermath: Dance #4, her father who is now Senior Waveman Kimura invites her to become a member of Big Science Action.[7]
Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash is a youngspeedster whose real name is Keigo, with a round helmet and giant athletic shoes. He is capable of running up to 500 mph.[2][3]
The group recruits Sunny Sumo, a powerful wrestler with self-healing abilities and the potential to resist mind control. The original Sumo,Sonny Sumo, had assisted the Forever People in their original series, but had been stranded in ancient Japan where he lived out a peaceful life; the Sunny Sumo who joined the Super Young Team was a refugee from Earth-51, escaping before it was destroyed.[11]
The Super Young Team has a vehicle called the Wonder Wagon, which is a car capable of powered flight, similar to theNewsboy Legion's Whiz Wagon.