Changes: Kole Weathers (New Earth)

Kole Weathers was a test subject of her father's, Professor Abel Weathers, who was paranoid about an impending nuclear holocaust. Attempting to find a way for humanity to survive the fallout through forced evolution, he grafted his daughter with Promethium. Instead of evolving, Kole found herself with the ability to create and control silicon crystal.

Kole was kidnapped by the mad sun Titan, Thia. For two years, Thia forced Kole to use her powers to construct a crystal prison in which Thia could contain important prisoners. Thia eventually came into conflict with the Teen Titans which led to the death of the goddess and Kole's freedom. Lilith, a member of the Titans who precognition, warned Kole of an ominous portent regarding her future if she returned to Earth and tried to persuade her to remain on Mount Olympus. Kole declined, electing to reclaim her life on Earth.

Back on Earth, Kole tried to reunite with her parents, only to find that her father's experiments had produced a house full of crystalline and insectoid monstrosities. When the Titans came to confront him, he had them captured and attempted to subject them to the same experimentantion. Kole helped them to escape, and in the ensuing conflict, Abel and his wife Marilyn transformed themselves into insects before caused the lab to self-destruct. Having nowhere else to go, Kole chose to follow the Titans to New York City, though she never officially joined

Kole was believed to be killed during the collapse of the multiverse by the Anti-Monitor's shadow demons while trying to protect Robin and the Huntress,^[1] but Kole mysteriously resurfaced a few years later, where she assisted the Team Titans against a pack of vampires.^[2] Her powers had developed the ability to teleport at will and sense events happening miles away. She also commented that she wasn't anything "alive". After helping the Team Titans in several battles, Kole vanished again.

Kole's death was confirmed when teen successor to the line of Brother Blood created a team of zombie combatants made up of the resurrected deceased members of the Titans. Among those within Blood's ranks was Kole. When Blood's control over these undead Titans was broken by Kid Eternity who power was the source of the resurrections, Kole and the others decomposed. ^[3] A statue of Kole was erected in the Hall of Fallen Titans in Titans Tower, alongside Hawk and Dove, Aquagirl and others.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Crystal Generation: Kole had the power to "spin" crystal, which was used to create silicon crystal into independent masses. Anything from a crystal sculpture to a safety slide. She was known to encase people in crystal, effectively immobilizing them. It was not clear what happened to the crystal she spun, whether it just eventually disappeared or remained in existence was never established.
- Flight: Kole had the ability to fly, but it is unclear whether this also comes from the experiments which gave her her powers, or granted to her during her tenure as Thia's slave. Kole even transported herself on a crystal carpet.

Notes

Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

Trivia

Kid Eternity once summoned Kole's spirit to use her crystals to open the door to the Hall of Records in Hell to examine the terms of Kid Devil's pact with Neron.^[4]
Kole's death in Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 was spoiled two weeks in advance in Who's Who #12.

External Links

Footnotes

Teen Titans member

This character is or was primarily a member of the younger superhero team known as the Teen Titans, in any of its various incarnations. This template will categorize articles that include it into the "Teen Titans members" category.

[1] Crisis on Infinite Earths #12

[2] Team Titans #8

[3] Teen Titans (Volume 3) #30

[4] Teen Titans (Volume 3) #68

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 | Identity                = Secret
 | Alignment               = Good
-| Affiliation             = Formerly [[New Teen Titans]], Formerly [[Gods of Olympus]]
+| Affiliation             = [[New Teen Titans]], [[Gods of Olympus]]
 | Relatives               = Abel Weathers (father, possibly deceased); Marilyn Weathers (mother, possibly deceased)
 | Universe                = Earth-One; New Earth
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 | Citizenship             = American
 | MaritalStatus           = Single
-| Occupation              = Former Olympian security guard
+| Occupation              =
-| Education               =
+| PlaceOfBirth            =
+| PlaceOfDeath            =
-| Origin                  = Gained her powers when her mad father tried to save her by turning her to crystal.
-| PlaceOfBirth            = Unknown
-| PlaceOfDeath            = Unknown
 | Creators                = Marv Wolfman; José Luis García-López
-| First                   = New Teen Titans Vol 2 #9
+| First                   = New Teen Titans Vol 2 9
-| Last                    = Teen Titans Vol 3 #32
+| Death                   = Crisis on Infinite Earths Vol 1 12
+| HistoryText             =
-| HistoryText             = Professor Abel Weathers, paranoid of an impending nuclear holocaust, was attempting to find a way for humanity to survive the fallout through forced evolution. One of the test subjects in his experiments was his sixteen-year-old daughter, Kole, whom he grafted with Promethium. However, instead of evolving, she found herself with the ability to create and control silicon crystal.
+'''Kole Weathers''' was a test subject of her father's, Professor Abel Weathers, who was paranoid about an impending nuclear holocaust. Attempting to find a way for humanity to survive the fallout through forced evolution, he grafted his daughter with [[Promethium]]. Instead of evolving, Kole found herself with the ability to create and control silicon crystal.
-Kole was then kidnapped by the mad sun Titaness, Thia. For two years, Thia forced Kole to use her powers to construct a crystal prison in which Thia can hold important prisoners. Thia eventually came into conflict with the [[Teen Titans]]... which ultimately lead to the death of the goddess and Kole winning her freedom. [[Lilith]], a member of the Titans who has the power to tell the future, sensed the "dark clouds of destruction" around Kole and warned her that she would face a "grim future" should she return to Earth and invited her to remain in [[Mount Olympus]]. Kole declined, electing to reclaim her life on Earth.
+Kole was kidnapped by the mad sun [[Titans of Myth|Titan]], [[Thia (New Earth)|Thia]]. For two years, Thia forced Kole to use her powers to construct a crystal prison in which Thia could contain important prisoners. Thia eventually came into conflict with the [[Teen Titans (New Earth)|Teen Titans]] which led to the death of the goddess and Kole's freedom. [[Lilith Clay (New Earth)|Lilith]], a member of the Titans who precognition, warned Kole of an ominous portent regarding her future if she returned to Earth and tried to persuade her to remain on [[Mount Olympus]]. Kole declined, electing to reclaim her life on Earth.
-Now back on earth, Kole tried to reunite with her parents, only to find that her father's experiments had produced a house full of crystalline and insectoid monstrosities. When the Titans came to confront him, he had them captured and attempted to subject them with the same experiments. Kole helped them to escape, and in the ensuing conflict, Abel and his wife Marilyn transformed themselves into insects and caused the lab to self-destruct. Having nowhere else to go, Kole chose to go with the Titans to [[New York City]], though she never officially joined (this fact seems to be contradicted in other later sources such as The Secret Origins of the Teen Titans in which Dick Grayson lamented how Kole was a "Titan for such a short time").
+Back on Earth, Kole tried to reunite with her parents, only to find that her father's experiments had produced a house full of crystalline and insectoid monstrosities. When the Titans came to confront him, he had them captured and attempted to subject them to the same experimentantion. Kole helped them to escape, and in the ensuing conflict, Abel and his wife Marilyn transformed themselves into insects before caused the lab to self-destruct. Having nowhere else to go, Kole chose to follow the Titans to [[New York City]], though she never officially joined <!--this fact seems to be contradicted in other later sources such as The Secret Origins of the Teen Titans in which Dick Grayson lamented how Kole was a "Titan for such a short time". -->
-Kole was apparently killed during the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]] by the [[Anti-Monitor]]'s shadow demons while trying to protect [[Earth-Two]]'s [[Richard Grayson (Earth-Two)|Robin]] and the [[Helena Wayne (Earth-Two)|Huntress]]. <ref>{{c|Crisis on Infinite Earths #12}}</ref> ''Note: The Crisis of Infinite Earths rewrote the origins of [[Donna Troy (New Earth)|Donna Troy]], in which Thia and her fellow Titans of Myth played a major role, which means Thia never kidnapped Kole and thus how Kole met the Titans has been nullified. There has yet to be an updated origin for Kole.''
+Kole was believed to be killed during the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|collapse of the multiverse]] by the [[Anti-Monitor (Antimatter Universe)|Anti-Monitor's]] shadow demons while trying to protect [[Richard Grayson (Earth-Two)|Robin]] and the [[Helena Wayne (Earth-Two)|Huntress]],<ref>{{c|Crisis on Infinite Earths Vol 1 12}}</ref> <!-- Note: The Crisis of Infinite Earths rewrote the origins of [[Donna Troy (New Earth)|Donna Troy]], in which Thia and her fellow Titans of Myth played a major role, which means Thia never kidnapped Kole and thus how Kole met the Titans has been nullified. There has yet to be an updated origin for Kole. --> but Kole mysteriously resurfaced a few years later, where she assisted the [[Team Titans]] against a pack of [[Vampires|vampires]].<ref>{{c|Team Titans Vol 1 8}}</ref> Her powers had developed the ability to teleport at will and sense events happening miles away. She also commented that she wasn't anything "alive". After helping the Team Titans in several battles, Kole vanished again. <!-- It was later suggested that this was not in fact the real Kole, but a puppet created by [[Henry Hall (New Earth)|Monarch]]. However, when an organization called [[One-Thousand, The|The 1000]] did a data search on all the Titans, living and dead, Kole's file read "Data Inconclusive", which added some doubt to her final fate.-->
+Kole's death was confirmed when teen successor to the line of [[Sebastian Blood IX (New Earth)|Brother Blood]] created a team of [[Zombies|zombie]] combatants made up of the resurrected deceased members of the Titans. Among those within Blood's ranks was Kole. When Blood's control over these undead Titans was broken by [[Christopher Freeman (New Earth)|Kid Eternity]] who power was the source of the resurrections, Kole and the others decomposed. <ref>{{c|Teen Titans Vol 3 30}}</ref> A statue of Kole was erected in the Hall of Fallen Titans in Titans Tower, alongside [[Henry Hall (New Earth)|Hawk]] and [[Donald Hall (New Earth)|Dove]], [[Tula (New Earth)|Aquagirl]] and others.
-After her seeming death, Kole mysteriously resurfaced a few years later, where she assisted the [[Team Titans]] against a pack of vampires. <ref>{{c|Team Titans #8}}</ref> Her powers had somehow been upgraded with the ability to teleport from place to place at will and sense events happening miles away. She also hinted that she isn't anything "alive". After helping the Team Titans in several battles, Kole vanished again. It was later suggested that this was not in fact the real Kole, but a puppet created by [[Henry Hall (New Earth)|Monarch]]. However, when an organization called [[One-Thousand, The|The 1000]] did a data search on all the Titans, living and dead, Kole's file read "Data Inconclusive", which added some doubt to her final fate.
-Kole's death was confirmed however, only a few years later. The teen successor to the line of [[Sebastian Blood IX (New Earth)|Brother Blood]] created a team of zombie combatants made up of the resurrected deceased members of the Titans. Among those within Blood's ranks was Kole. When Blood's control over these undead Titans was broken by [[Christopher Freeman (New Earth)|Kid Eternity]] (whose powers Blood had tapped to bring them "back to life"), they seemed to simultaneously decompose and vanish as they were returned to the afterlife. <ref>''[[Teen Titans Vol 3 30|Teen Titans (Volume 3) #30]]-[[Teen Titans Vol 3 31|31]]''</ref>
-Furthermore, Kole has a statue in the "hall of fallen Titans" at Titans Tower, alongside the original Hawk and Dove, the original Aquagirl and others.
-Kole makes a brief cameo in Teen Titans #68 when Kid Eternity summons her spirit to use her crystals to open the door to the Hall of Records in Hell to examine the terms of Kid Devil's pact with Neron.<ref>''[[Teen Titans Vol 3 68|Teen Titans (Volume 3) #68]]-[[Teen Titans Vol 3 68|68]]''</ref>
-| OtherMedia              = [[Image:Kole animated.jpg|frame|left|Kole as she appears on the Teen Titans cartoon]]
-Kole appears in the ''[[Teen Titans (TV Series)|Teen Titans]]''  episode bearing her name, alongside Gnaark, her caveman partner. Her powers are much different than in her comic incarnation. Rather than creating crystal, she literally transforms herself into it, and is directly used as a melee weapon by Gnarrk in her crystal form. She lives underground with Gnarrk and becomes friends with the Titans. In the episode, Dr. Light wanted to use her as a tool to focus and enhance his light powers, but she was saved by the Titans and Gnarrk. They both become honorary Titans, but Kole believed she would be safe from the Brotherhood of Evil, as no one knew about her. Unfortunately, the Brotherhood used the communicator Robin gave her to listen in on her conversation and locate her. They later sent Billy Numerous and Gizmo to attack her and Gnarrk. She, Gnarrk and Cyborg (who had gone to rescue her) escaped, and joined in the final battle against the Brotherhood of Evil. She is voiced by [[Actors#Tara Strong|Tara Strong]].
-|Powers                   =
-'''[[Crystal Generation]]''': 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 known to encase people in crystal, effectively immobilizing them. It is not clear what happens to the crystal she spun, whether they just eventually disappear or they remain in existence has never been established (she once spun a crystal bridge to transport herself and Jericho from Manhattan to Titan's Tower in the East River, what happened to that bridge is subject to debate).
-Kole also has the ability to fly, but it is unclear whether this also comes from the experiments which gave her her powers, or granted to her during her tenure as Thia's slave. Later in the Titan Titans comics, Kole is seen transporting herself on a crystal carpet. Only once had Kole been seen moving through crystal (or at least the crystal she spun herself).
+| Powers                   =
+* {{Crystal Generation}}: Kole had the power to "spin" crystal, which was used to create silicon crystal into independent masses. Anything from a crystal sculpture to a safety slide. She was known to encase people in crystal, effectively immobilizing them. It was not clear what happened to the crystal she spun, whether it just eventually disappeared or remained in existence was never established.
+** {{Flight}}: Kole had the ability to fly, but it is unclear whether this also comes from the experiments which gave her her powers, or granted to her during her tenure as [[Thia (New Earth)|Thia's]] slave. Kole even transported herself on a crystal carpet.
 | Abilities               =
+| Strength                =
-| Strength                = Kole possesses the strength level of a woman her age, size and weight who engages in moderate, regular exercise.
 | Weaknesses              =
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-| Notes                   = {{multicont Earth-One}}
-* It would seem that the status of Kole, both her [[Post-Crisis]] origin and her current status, are likely to remain in dispute. Until DC chooses to address this issue in greater detail, what is written above are the current facts.
+| Notes                   =
+{{multicont Earth-One}}
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+* [[Christopher Freeman (New Earth)|Kid Eternity]] once summoned Kole's spirit to use her crystals to open the door to the Hall of Records in [[Hell]] to examine the terms of [[Edward Bloomberg (New Earth)|Kid Devil's]] pact with [[Neron (New Earth)|Neron]].<ref>{{c|Teen Titans Vol 3 68}}</ref>
+* Kole's death in {{c|Crisis on Infinite Earths Vol 1 12}} was spoiled two weeks in advance in [[Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol 1 12|''Who's Who'' #12]].
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+*[https://www.titanstower.com/kole/ Kole article at Titanstower.com]
+*[https://www.dcuwiki.net/w/Kole_%28Kole_Weathers%29 Kole bio at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe]
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