From: [a--om--e] at [jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu] (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Canonical List of Fast-Growing Comic Characters
Date: 20 Jan 1995 17:17:54 -0500

(No, this and the planet list are not FAQs.  I post them when I feel like it.)

[Last modified 1/20/95, posted 1/20/95]

This lists all the comic characters in mainstream comics who were aged fast
from infancy to adulthood (or variations on same).  Because aging to adulthood
is part of the way the genre treats clones, clones have extra restrictions: 1)
they must not be one-shot characters, and 2) they must not have memories of
the original.  Other omissions include characters who are merely re-aged (Mag-
neto), characters who can freely change back and forth (Captain Marvel), and
characters who are only mentally mature (Winter Moran).  Additions to the list
welcome and needed.

Aging by Temporal Displacement/Fast Dimensions:
Cable (X-Men)
Franklin Richards (Fantastic Four)
Magik (New Mutants)

Clones and Laboratory Creations:
Adam Warlock
Black Orchid
DNAgents (and the Recombatants takeoff in New Teen Titans)
Joshua's clones (early Warlord)
Killpower (Marvel UK)
Kismet (formerly known as Her.  Female counterpart to Adam Warlock.)
Madelyne Pryor (X-Men)
Matrix ("Supergirl")
Superboy (modern version)
Tuck (Deaths Head II)
Vril Dox (LEGION/REBELS)

Naturally Conceived, Technologically Aged:
Lydea Mallor (LEGION/REBELS)
"Namor's son" (Namor; he's _not_ Namor's son)
Validus (LSH.  Barely counts, but I'm being generous.)

Deanna Troi School of Instant Pregnancy:
Immortus (Ms. Marvel)

Other "reborn" characters:
Highfather (Great Darkness story in LSH)
"Junior" (Dreadstar)

Miscellaneous:
Amethyst (almost wouldn't count, except she stays adult later on)
Aria (LSH V4; aged from child to adult)
Arisia (Green Lantern; aged from teenager to adult)
Impulse (Flash)
Ken and Debbie's son (Starbrand)
Kwai (Blood Syndicate; aged from teenager to adult)
Lord Chaos (New Titans)
Power Girl's child (JLA; somehow I suspect this one gets added to the
    Deanna Troi category)
Rage (New Warriors; aged from teenager to adult)

Ones I Have No Idea:
Tember (Spelljammer)
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