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. Created by writer
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and artist
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, he first appeared in ''
Dynamo 5 Dynamo 5 is a comic book superhero team created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, which appears in an eponymous series published by Image Comics. The team first appeared in ''Dynamo 5''  #1 (Jan. 2007). The monthly series end ...
'' #1 (January 2007). For the first 24 issues of the series, the character possessed
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, and went by the codename Scatterbrain. In issue #25 of the series (October 2009), the character, whose powers had been erased in the previous issue, obtained different powers. Now possessing the power of flight, he goes by the codename Ramjet.
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. ''
Dynamo 5 Dynamo 5 is a comic book superhero team created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, which appears in an eponymous series published by Image Comics. The team first appeared in ''Dynamo 5''  #1 (Jan. 2007). The monthly series end ...
'' #25 (October 2009),
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Publication history

Following the assassination of Captain Dynamo, the much-beloved superhero protector of Tower City, his widow, former government agent posing as a now-retired investigative reporter
Maddie Warner Madeline Warner is a comic book character, the mentor and leader of the superhero team Dynamo 5, who appears in the monthly series of the same name by Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber, Warner first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (January ...
, discovered from his personal effects that he had been unfaithful to her countless times. Despite her devastation at this discovery, Warner realized that without a full-time protector, Tower City would be vulnerable to Captain Dynamo's legion of
supervillain A supervillain, supervillainess or supercriminal is a major antagonist and variant of the villainous stock character who possesses Superpower (ability), superpowers. The character type is sometimes found in comic books and is often the primary ...
enemies. She used her skills and the information she discovered to track down five people who could be Dynamo's illegitimate children.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #1, January 2007, Image Comics Gage Reinhart was the fifth of Captain Dynamo's children Warner contacted. Reinhart is a 17-year-old Eastbridge, Texas high school football star who led his division in tackles for the entire season, and is the darling of both his female schoolmates and college scouts. Faerber has described Reinhart as "a popular, arrogant jock who never gave a damn about what anyone thought - until he can literally hear those thoughts. And he may not like what he hears." Gathering all five of the children together, Warner exposed them to the same unidentified radiation that gave Captain Dynamo his powers forty years earlier, unlocking their powers. Reinhart inherited his father's
telepathy Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic ...
. Reinhart takes the codename Scatterbrain, and works to protect Tower City with his newly discovered brothers and sisters. Reinhart is often instrumental in the team's confrontations with its adversaries. One month after gaining his abilities, Reinhart and his siblings fought the paramilitary organization known as The Veil. Although he and the team acquitted themselves well against that foe,
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was kidnapped during the fracas, and brought to The Veil's base. It fell upon Reinhart to use his telepathy to track Visionary via his brainwave pattern, which led to Visionary's rescue. Reinhart was subsequently crucial to the team's victories against Voltage,Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #5, July 2007, Image Comics and a thief using the Winterbourne Institute's strength-amplifying Strong-Suit.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #0, February 2009, Image Comics Despite his telepathy's usefulness, however, Reinhart has laments the adverse side-effects that his powers and his involvement in the team has had on his life. His inability to fully control his telepathy, his tendency to pick up the thoughts of others that he finds hurtful, and the manner in which new aspects of it may suddenly evolve unexpectedly, have been a source of irritation to him, often causing him to long for a more empowering ability like his sister
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's flight.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #2 (Second Printing), May 2007, Image Comics The difficulty in finding time for both his high school career and his superheroics leads to some sleeplessness, and tension between him and Maddie Warner. Reinhart also comes to blows with his brother Spencer (
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) over Spencer engaging in a romantic embrace with a schoolmate of Reinhart's while Spencer, a
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, was impersonating Reinhart when Reinhart was in a coma. Spencer was given this mission by Maddie Warner in order to quell suspicion on the part of Reinhart's family, who are unaware of his life as a superhero, but Reinhart saw this act as an invasion of privacy on Spencer's part, though Spencer wonders if it is motivated by
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because the girl in question was black. Spencer apologizes to Reinhart, and confesses that, having grown up in foster homes, and having never had a real family or popularity in school, his experience with Reinhart's family opened his eyes to what he had missed all his life, and got carried away. Sympathetic to Spencer's feelings, Reinhart forgave him.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #9-10; November 2007 - January 2008, Image Comics In ''Dynamo 5'' #24 and 25 of the series, the team was attacked by their other half-sibling, the
supervillain A supervillain, supervillainess or supercriminal is a major antagonist and variant of the villainous stock character who possesses Superpower (ability), superpowers. The character type is sometimes found in comic books and is often the primary ...
Synergy, who used a weapon to erase the team's abilities and capture them. The team freed themselves, and used the weapon to restore their powers, but they manifested different abilities than the ones they previously had. Reinhart, who gained the power of flight, donned an armored suit and took the codename Ramjet. In the ''Dynamo 5 Holiday Special 2010'', it is established that Reinhart began a romantic relationship with War Chest, a reformed supervillain turned government agent,Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5 Holiday Special 2010'' (2010), Image Comics whom Reinhart had first battled in ''Dynamo 5'' #0.


Powers

Gage Reinhart has the superhuman power of flight. Whereas his sister
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wore a
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-type outfit to aid her maneuverability, Gage's natural aptitude at maneuvering makes this unnecessary. However, his ability to effect sudden stops and land properly is far inferior to hers, and thus he wears an armored suit that not only protects him from impact, but enables him to act as a human
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, from which his current codename is derived.
Maddie Warner Madeline Warner is a comic book character, the mentor and leader of the superhero team Dynamo 5, who appears in the monthly series of the same name by Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber, Warner first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (January ...
's ally, Tank, who built the armor, indicated to Reinhart that it could allow him to smash right through a building. He can reach
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speeds when flying. In his former identity of Scatterbrain, Reinhart was a
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who could read other people's minds. His power was both voluntary and passive. While he could use his power to deliberately read someone's mind, he could also involuntarily pick up the thoughts of those around him, even when he did not wish it. He could also use his telepathy to remotely track people whose minds he has read, by sifting through the
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patterns he could sense, which are apparently unique to each individual. During an electrical attack by the villain Voltage, Reinhart developed the ability to cease the attack by merely thinking about it, and rendered Voltage unconscious. It also briefly knocked Reinhart into semi-consciousness. Reinhart also had the ability to completely wipe out a person's memories, giving them total
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, as he did with his half-sister Synergy, though this act left him in a coma for a day or two,Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #7; September 2007 and the effect on Synergy (who possesses superhuman invulnerability) was reversed with the impact of a bullet to her head.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #20 (February 2009) During his coma, Reinhart discovered that he was also capable of
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, and was able to instantly transport his astral self to familiar locations by willing it. He appeared at his high school, where he was attacked by the telepathic villainess Brains. Brains claimed that the location was "her space" and "her private place", and engaged Reinhart in what was depicted as a physical altercation between their astral forms, but when Reinhart responded in kind, he inadvertently transported them to a featureless white location that he speculated was "his place", and was able to manifest his abilities according to his own imagination, multiplying his form several times, and attacking Brains en masse, forcing her to flee the astral plane, and bringing him out of his coma.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #9; November 2007 His telepathy rendered him immune to the
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created by the villain Doctor Chimera.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #19; January 2009 It also enabled him to affect technology keyed to a specific person's brainwaves, as when he disabled the Jessup-Poole Strong-Suit, which was keyed to its user's brainwaves, though the suit was later modified to prevent Reinhart from doing this. There were some limits on Reinhart's telepathy. He could not read someone's mind if they were unconscious, although he was able to enter
Maddie Warner Madeline Warner is a comic book character, the mentor and leader of the superhero team Dynamo 5, who appears in the monthly series of the same name by Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber, Warner first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (January ...
's mind when she was in a coma in order to communicate with her consciousness and pull her out of that state.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #17; October 2008 When Reinhart attempted to telepathically probe the mind of the
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Lipinski (aka Slaughterhouse), the experience was so emotionally traumatic for Reinhart that it briefly incapacitated him in the heat of battle. The government superhuman-monitoring agency F.L.A.G. has a manual and a course it requires for its agents who interrogate telepaths like Reinhart, in order to prevent the compromise of sensitive information, but its exact protocols have not been revealed. It does include maintaining a particular distance from telepaths like Reinhar, whose telepathy operates within a certain reception radius, but that radius has not been specified.Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #6; August 2007


See also

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