Talk:Young Avengers (Earth-515)/@comment-5927539-20141116172901/@comment-912145-20141116193732

Here's your early inside scoop. Again this is early in development, so this could be altered later:

1) Teddy Altman/Kamala Khan = I was looking into more teen superheroes who fit the bill of being inspired by prominent Avengers. I believed Kamala Kahn fit the bill perfectly in Earth-616. I thought she would add diversity to the team, but then I realized her powers were too close to Teddy's.  Then it dawned on me.  I had all intentions of making Teddy Genderqueer (most likely gender fluid) in Nexus, so why not fuse Teddy and Kamala using each as the character's male and female egos.  This then opened up the codename Ms Marvel to give to the Nexus Version of the current Miss America. I thought America Chavez had a powerset that fit the Carol Danvers/Capt Marvel bill, and I thought naming her after Ms Marvel was better than Miss America who wasn't an Avenger. 2) Wiccan being inspired by Black Knight = I wanted each character to be partially inspired in aesthetics and abilities from 2 Avengers. I did not think Thor worked for Billy's second following Scarlet Witch. I then thought Black Knight would be a good fit because his color scheme is black/blue/red like Billy, Black Knight has a magical/fantasy to him which goes well with Billy's mage side, and I thought it'd be cool to give Billy's costume an armor element like I did for the nexus version of Scarlet Witch.

3) Japanese Iron Lad = I wanted to distance Nexus Iron Lad from the Kang the Conqueror connection, and I wanted to add more diversity to the team. So he's actually a nexus version of Wiz Kid who takes on the Iron Lad identity.  I thought Wiz Kid was a good fit due to his genius intellect and technopathic abilities.

4) Shield Maiden = She is still an enigma. She originated from the fact that I wanted a member that patterned themselves off of Thor.  So I thought Thor Girl was an obvious choice, but I then realized I didn't like most things about her.  I didn't like that she was an alien, I thought the name Thor Girl is campy, and I wanted to make her more unique such as having her own Norse myth based weapon (right now Tyrfing) instead of just a Mjolnir copy.  Her codename originated from the warrior women of Norse mythology.  They were similar to the Valkyrie except they were mortal.  So she will either be a heavily altered version and for our purposes Nexus Thor Girl, possibly our Nexus Angela, or maybe just a Nexus original character that is based off of a Norse mythological character that has yet to be used in Earth-616