Kole

Kole
Kole José Luis García-López, artist.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The New Teen Titans vol. 2, #9 (June 1985)
Created by	George Pérez (artist) Marv Wolfman (writer)
In-story information
Alter ego	Kole Weathers
Team affiliations	Teen Titans
Abilities	Ability to morph entire physical body into solid silicon Deflect energy-based attacks Superhuman strength, endurance and durability Limited invulnerability

Kole Weathers is a fictional superheroine in DC Comics. She is a former member of the Teen Titans.

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 16-year-old daughter, Kole, whom he grafted with crystal and Promethium (a fictionalized version of the real-world element promethium). Instead of evolving to survive a nuclear fallout as her father intended, Kole found herself with the ability to create and control pure silicon crystal at will.

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 could hold important prisoners. Thia eventually came into conflict with the Teen Titans, which ultimately led to the death of the goddess and Kole winning her freedom. Lilith, a member of the Titans with limited precognition, 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 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 to the same experiments. Kole helped them to escape and in the ensuing conflict, the lab self-destructed. Abel, his wife Marilyn, and the rest of their test subjects emerged from the wreckage, transformed into insect forms which would allow them to survive a nuclear holocaust. Having nowhere else to go, Kole chose to go with the Titans to New York City. Though she never "officially" joined the group she was certainly considered a Titan by some members (evidenced later in stories such as The Secret Origins of the Teen Titans, in which Dick Grayson laments how Kole was a "Titan for such a short time").

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