Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

Night Thrasher
Dwayne Taylor and Silhouette Chord. Art by Mark Bagley.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Thor #411 (December 1989)
Created by	Tom DeFalco (writer) Ron Frenz (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Dwayne Michael Taylor
Team affiliations	New Warriors Taylor Foundation Folding Circle
Partnerships	Midnight's Fire Silhouette
Abilities	Excellent acrobat Skilled martial artist and computer hacker Immunity to telepathy Wears advanced body armor

Night Thrasher is a fictional character, a superhero published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Thor #411 (December 1989), and was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz.

Night Thrasher is the founder and leader of the New Warriors, and head of the Taylor Foundation. Although he possesses no superhuman powers, he has trained himself extensively in many martial arts, and is adept at building technological devices.

In X-Men vol. 2 #29 and X-Force vol. 1 #32, it is revealed that Night Thrasher has ties to the Hellfire Club, a mysterious group of aristocrats and adversaries of the X-Men.

Night Thrasher had two legal guardians when he debuted in the New Warriors' origin issue: Andrew Chord and Tai. Chord has not been seen since mid-volume 1, and Tai died in issue #25 after revealing her plans to use the New Warriors to gain immeasurable power. It is assumed that Night Thrasher has simply outgrown his need for a legal guardian (in the letters page for New Warriors #39 it was stated that Dwayne was 19 years old).

Dwayne Michael Taylor led a hard life. As a child in New York City, he saw his wealthy parents slain before his very eyes. This event drove him to hone himself into a human fighting machine in the pursuit of vengeance. Over time, this desire for revenge later evolved into an obsessive desire to punish all wrongdoers.

He was unable to fully remember the exact circumstances of his parents' deaths, and was unable to remember the face of their killer; he assumed that this was due to his mind trying to block the memory. Later in life he discovered that the entire circumstances of his parents' death and his own rearing by his guardian Chord and an elderly Asian woman named Tai, had in fact all been orchestrated by Tai herself.