Vance Astrovik
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Vance Astrovik, aka Justice, is a fictional mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He possesses the superhuman power of telekinesis. Astrovik has been affiliated with the New Warriors and The Avengers, and had previously used the codename of Marvel Boy.
The Vance Astrovik character is a source of confusion, as in an alternate timeline he became a founding member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, calling himself Vance Astro. Marvel has treated this as a separate character, and the two have even met on occasion. Furthermore, Marvel has published an identically named, but completely unrelated character known as Justice in their New Universe imprint.
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[edit] Character biography
Vance Astrovik was born in Saugerties, New York. He was visited as a teenager by his time traveling future self, Major Vance Astro of the Guardians of the Galaxy, an astronaut who had volunteered for an experimental space flight and consequently been lost in space in cryogenic suspension for a thousand years. The elder Vance Astro convinced his younger self to not become an astronaut. Due to the vagaries of time travel in the Marvel Universe, this did not create a paradox, but instead made the Guardians' future world into a parallel timeline, to which they later returned. Although Major Vance Astro had not had a chance to fully develop his telekinesis in his time in NASA, the younger Astrovik now had the opportunity to hone his power. Astrovik soon became the costumed crimefighter Marvel Boy.
[edit] New Warriors
Marvel Boy applied for membership in the Avengers, but was rejected. He eagerly jumped at the chance to help found a team of minor teenage superheroes, the New Warriors, led by the new hero Night Thrasher. He had many intense times during this early period, such as a fight against the White Queen and her Hellions, undergoing unwilling dentistry (i.e., torture) by the immortal villain Gideon and almost being "eaten" by a dimensional portal that ripped through all of time and space.
He and Firestar soon became romantically involved. However, this romance soon was put on hold. Vance's father was an abusive alcoholic and this finally drove Vance over the edge. In one burst of his ever-growing superpowers, he assaulted his father and unintentionally killed him. Despite being defended by Foggy Nelson, Vance lost, partly because the prosecutor managed to demonstrate in court that Vance could now telekinetically stop the smoke from a blank round.
He served his time at the superhuman restraint facility known as the Vault. Vance was shown enjoying the occasional free walkabout on the long road-trip to the Vault, joking and playing around with the officers. Vance's mis-adventures continued inside the Vault as he campaigned for rights for the super-powered prisoners; such as allowing a plant-based villain the simple delight of a pot of flowers in his cell.
After his time in the Vault, he adopted the codename Justice. He spent some time in a leadership role with the New Warriors and talked marriage with Firestar. This hit a snag as she learned her microwave powers might render her infertile.
[edit] The Avengers
A mystical incident had caused all those who were once Avengers to be targeted by creatures and monsters. Vance and Angelica accompanied their friend Rage, who had been an Avenger, to a meeting at Avengers Mansion. They willingly helped out in various ways before Morgan LeFay attacked, altering reality. Vance and Angelica were caught up in the literal mystical maelstorm and were turned into super-powered enforcers under the command of LeFay.
However, several Avengers managed to break free of the control, based on their deep belief in the team itself. Vance found himself coming to his senses too and joined the resistance.
After the threat of LeFay was ended and the two proved themselves by defeating Whirlwind on their own, they managed to become Avengers. Vance made some rookie mistakes, but proved himself when he came up with a way to defeat the current plans of the current form (or forms) of the villain Ultron, despite a broken leg. Vance and Angelica then spent some time undercover investigating the Triune Understanding, a cult-like movement with seemingly good intentions but a villainous leadership.
After the House of M ended, Justice and Firestar were unaffected by the global depowerment of mutants and thus retained their powers.
Various relationship problems soon ended their engangement.
[edit] Civil War/The Initiative
In She-Hulk (vol. 2) #8 (July, 2006), Justice and former teammate Rage learned that people were hunting down former New Warriors members because of the deaths caused by Nitro in Civil War #1. They both sought out the legal services of Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk) in protecting the allies of the New Warriors. They eventually discovered that former New Warriors member Carlton LaFroyge, a.k.a. Hindsight, was responsible for the persecution and exposure of their teammates.
Hindsight operated a website outing the identities of the twenty or so remaining Warriors, and he was also operating a death pool. Both Rage and Justice refused to go along with the proposed super-human registration act. This is further evidenced when in Civil War #4, they join Captain America's Secret Avengers as a result of the death of Bill Foster.
After the Civil War, Justice was recruited by Iron Man to head the youth outreach arm of The Initiative superhero training program. where he is the counselor for the camp and he has shown a certain interest in M.V.P.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Justice has the power of telekinesis, which allows him to move, lift, and manipulate matter using only the power of his mind. By using his powers to lift himself, he can levitate and fly at high speed. He can also channel his powers into concussive psionic force blasts, or focus his telekinetic powers into psychic shields to protect himself and others. Justice is quite adept at using his powers. He has shown the ability to hold a large number of people in individual telekinetic energy "tendrils" and detect when a person is lying though said tendril, like a lie detector would. Initially, Justice's telekinesis was limited in its scope and using them at the peak level of his power would cause him headaches and nosebleeds. However, after the conclusion of the Forever Yesterday storyline (New Warriors Vol. 1 #11-13), in which Justice was temporarily aged into adulthood, his powers increased dramatically and he was no longer hindered by the physical symptoms he had once suffered from.
[edit] Trivia
- Vance Astrovik once joined a professional wrestling league with the Thing.
- During the Time and Time Again crossover Vance was sent back in time and met his abusive father Arnold as a teenager. Vance learns that Arnold had been physically abused by his own father Jerry. Vance learns that his grandfather beat Arnold for being gay much like Arnold beat Vance for being a mutant.
- Vance Astrovik's power of telekinesis is different than his alternate timeline counterpart, Vance Astro's powers.
