Dayton Ruhl
May 4, 2005, 02:40 pm
<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/marvel/thepride.jpg" align=left vspace=10 hspace=10 alt="The Pride (III)">Purpose: To assist the Gibborim in destroying the world, in exchange for twenty-five years of power and a shot at eternal life; To rule L.A. in secret
First Appearance: Runaways (1st series) #1
Disbanded: Runaways (1st series) #17 (all members apparently killed)
Former Members: Geoffrey Wilder, Catherine Wilder, Dr. Gene Hayes, Dr. Alice Hayes, "Frank Dean", "Leslie Dean", Robert Minoru, Tina Minoru, Dale Yorkes, Stacey Yorkes, Victor Stein, Janet Stein
Bases of Operations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Known Associates: Gibborim (sponsors), Alex Wilder, Various members of the LAPD, formerly Lieutenant Flores
Major Enemies: "Runaways"
Profile: The Pride was a six-family cadre of criminals made up of crime bosses, alien overlords, time-traveling despots, evil mutants, dark wizards and mad scientists, who secretly ran all the criminal operations in Los Angeles. They were successful until their children found out and put them out of business.
History: Twenty-some years ago, an ancient race known as the Gibborim summoned six couples to their underwater base, and offered them the power to rule L.A., and six individual shots at eventual eternal life. In exchange, they were to assist the Gibborim in destroying the world, which was to occur after twenty-five years of faithful service. They accepted, and everything went according to plan, until Mrs. Stein became pregnant.
Deciding it was more reasonable to guarantee immortality to a shared child than take a chance at missing out entirely, each couple had a baby, and seemingly agreed to give them the six spots. Years later, the children, now teenagers and ignorant of their parents' true standing, witnessed them kill a girl in the 'Rite of Blood', an arcane ceremony in accordance with their infernal agreement. Horrified by what they'd seen, the children ran away from home, taking various information and technology with them. The kids learned more about The Pride's past from the Abstract, a mysterious ancient book written in riddles.
After being found by one of their parents plants in the LAPD, the children took the fight to them and interrupted the 'Rite of Thunder', in which The Pride was going to offer up the soul of the girl they'd killed during the 'Rite of Blood'. As the kids prevented their parents from completing the ritual, the Gibborim decided it was time to destroy their Pride, in one last attempt to save their children, The Pride stayed to fight, giving their kids time to escape. It was presumed that they all perished in this final battle.
<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/marvel/thepride1.jpg" align=right vspace=10 hspace=10 alt="The Abstract">The Pride's most important tool was The Abstract, a book that speaks of the past and future, written in riddles and requiring a special ring to decode it. Each family had their own copy of the Abstract and two decoder rings.
Also among The Pride's arsenal were various daggers used in the Rites of Blood and Thunder, technologies invented by the Steins, alien metal used by the Deans to suppress their daughter's powers, and a defunct time machine belonging to the Yorkes'. Tina Minoru held the Staff of One until her daughter, Nico, absorbed it.
Appearances:
Runaways (1st series) #1-17
Runaways (2nd series) #25
Note: Not to be confused with Pride I (the animal men followers of Prime Evil), Pride II (a group of animal spirits that encountered Shanna the She-Devil) or Pride IV (this team's successors).
First Appearance: Runaways (1st series) #1
Disbanded: Runaways (1st series) #17 (all members apparently killed)
Former Members: Geoffrey Wilder, Catherine Wilder, Dr. Gene Hayes, Dr. Alice Hayes, "Frank Dean", "Leslie Dean", Robert Minoru, Tina Minoru, Dale Yorkes, Stacey Yorkes, Victor Stein, Janet Stein
Bases of Operations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Known Associates: Gibborim (sponsors), Alex Wilder, Various members of the LAPD, formerly Lieutenant Flores
Major Enemies: "Runaways"
Profile: The Pride was a six-family cadre of criminals made up of crime bosses, alien overlords, time-traveling despots, evil mutants, dark wizards and mad scientists, who secretly ran all the criminal operations in Los Angeles. They were successful until their children found out and put them out of business.
History: Twenty-some years ago, an ancient race known as the Gibborim summoned six couples to their underwater base, and offered them the power to rule L.A., and six individual shots at eventual eternal life. In exchange, they were to assist the Gibborim in destroying the world, which was to occur after twenty-five years of faithful service. They accepted, and everything went according to plan, until Mrs. Stein became pregnant.
Deciding it was more reasonable to guarantee immortality to a shared child than take a chance at missing out entirely, each couple had a baby, and seemingly agreed to give them the six spots. Years later, the children, now teenagers and ignorant of their parents' true standing, witnessed them kill a girl in the 'Rite of Blood', an arcane ceremony in accordance with their infernal agreement. Horrified by what they'd seen, the children ran away from home, taking various information and technology with them. The kids learned more about The Pride's past from the Abstract, a mysterious ancient book written in riddles.
After being found by one of their parents plants in the LAPD, the children took the fight to them and interrupted the 'Rite of Thunder', in which The Pride was going to offer up the soul of the girl they'd killed during the 'Rite of Blood'. As the kids prevented their parents from completing the ritual, the Gibborim decided it was time to destroy their Pride, in one last attempt to save their children, The Pride stayed to fight, giving their kids time to escape. It was presumed that they all perished in this final battle.
<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/marvel/thepride1.jpg" align=right vspace=10 hspace=10 alt="The Abstract">The Pride's most important tool was The Abstract, a book that speaks of the past and future, written in riddles and requiring a special ring to decode it. Each family had their own copy of the Abstract and two decoder rings.
Also among The Pride's arsenal were various daggers used in the Rites of Blood and Thunder, technologies invented by the Steins, alien metal used by the Deans to suppress their daughter's powers, and a defunct time machine belonging to the Yorkes'. Tina Minoru held the Staff of One until her daughter, Nico, absorbed it.
Appearances:
Runaways (1st series) #1-17
Runaways (2nd series) #25
Note: Not to be confused with Pride I (the animal men followers of Prime Evil), Pride II (a group of animal spirits that encountered Shanna the She-Devil) or Pride IV (this team's successors).