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Kofi
Real
Name: Lord Kofi Whitemane Occupation: Student Identity: Kofi's existence is unknown to the general
populace of Earth. Legal Status: Citizen of the Kymellian civilization with
no criminal record, still a minor Place of Birth: The current home of the Kymellian race Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Lord Yrik Whitemane (father), Aelfyre
"Whitey" Whitemane (cousin, deceased), Byrel Whitemane
(great-uncle) Group Affiliation: Ally of Power Pack Base of Operations: The current home of the Kymellian
race First Appearance: POWER PACK #16
History: Lord Kofi Whitemane is a member
of the alien Kymellian race, who have built a peaceful,
benevolent civilization with highly advanced technology.
The Kymellians' principal source of energy is a process
that combines matter and antimatter. (The subatomic particles
composing antimatter have opposite charges to those of
the equivalent particles of matter itself. When matter
contacts antimatter, both are entirely converted into
vast quantities of energy) The first testing of this process
initiated a chain reaction that totally destroyed the
original Kymellian homeworld. Much of the Kymellian race
escaped in starships.
Recently, Kofi's cousin, Aelfyre Whitemane, nicknamed
"Whitey," a student of Earth's literature, learned
that the Earthman Dr. James Power had developed a matter/antimatter
converter that worked similarly to the Kymellians'. Whitemane
went to Earth to stop the converter from being used, believing
it would trigger a chain reaction that would destroy Earth.
The alien Z'nrx, whom Whitemane nicknamed "Snarks,"
sought the knowledge of how the converter worked, hoping
to use it as a weapon for conquering other worlds. Snarks
kidnapped Dr. Power
and his wife, but
Whitemane prevented the Sharks from abducting the Powers'
children, Alex, Julia, Jack, and Katie,
as well, at the cost of his own life. Dying, Whitemane
transferred a different one of his superhuman powers into
each of the four Power children and asked them to use
their new abilities to save Earth. The four children called
themselves the Power
Pack. They succeeded in thwarting the Sharks, rescued
their parents, and destroyed the matter/ antimatter converter.
The four children were then visited by Whitemane's grandfather,
Byrel, whom they came to regard as a kind of honorary
grandfather. Byrel, in turn, regarded the Power children
as if they were his own grandchildren.
Bhadsha, the Snark emperor, was dying, and the
various Snark queen mothers were planning for the wars
that would break out upon the emperor's death in order
to determine which of the queens' sons will become his
successor. Kofi's father, Lord Yrik Whitemane, a Kymellian
ambassador, was engaged in negotiations with the Snarks
to try to prevent the destruction that the forthcoming
civil wars in the Snark Empire would wreak on the Snark-ruled
worlds and others. Kofi was furious that his father cared
more about his ambassadorial work than about his son.
While on the Snark throneworld, Kofi learned that the
most ambitious of the queen mothers, Maraud, was sending
her son, the powerful High Snark Jakal, to Earth to capture
Power Pack to use them somehow in the upcoming battle
for the Snark throne. Kofi believed that Yrik would do
nothing to save the Power children for fear of jeopardizing
his negotiations with the Snarks. Therefore, Kofi, who
regarded the Power children as his "blood cousins,"
decided to save the children himself somehow, and traveled
to Earth using his father's sentient starship, the smartship
named Datta.
Jakal destroyed Datta but Kofi made contact with
Power Pack. Together Kofi and Power Pack defeated and
captured Jakal. Kofi remained on Earth a short time, but
eventually left to return to his father, with the Power
Pack, using Smartship
Friday, which had previously belonged to Aelfyre Whitemane,
and which had since aided Power Pack. Arriving on the
Snark throneworld, Kofi and the Pack were taken prisoner
by Maraud, who told them that she had imprisoned Yrik
as well. Kofi escaped, thinking he abandoned his friends,
but soon joined with them in rescueing the true Emperor
from the Queen Mother and Jakal. Kofi stowed away on his
father's ship returning the Powers to Earth, but was forced
to reveal himself when Cloak
and Dagger attacked his
father. Kofi saved his father from his "greatest
nightmare" (where his wife was killed protecting
Kofi,) and the two reconciled, leaving for the Kymellian
homeworld. They stopped only enough to help the Fantastic
Four return home.
Most recently, the Kymellian homeworld was destroyed
by the Queen Mother Snark, but the race found refuge on
a new planet, and Kofi resides there.
Height: 5 ft. Weight: Unknown Eyes: Pink Hair: Black
Strength Level: Kofi has the normal strength
of a Kymellian child of his age, height, and build who
engages in moderate regular exercise. It is not known
exactly how this strength compares to that of an Earth
human being, but it is probably roughly the same as that
of a human child of the same physical age, height, and
build.
Known Superhuman Powers: All Kymellians
are born with the potential to control energy, mass, acceleration,
and gravity in certain ways, but a Kymellian must spend
years of training to develop real skill in these abilities.
A Kymellian who does so is referred to by the Sharks as
a "sorcerer," although, in fact, the abilities
have nothing to do with sorcery
The only superhuman ability that Kofi is known
to have developed at this point is that of self-teleportation.
Only recently Kofi could travel no more than several feet
at a time by teleportation, but he has rapidly learned
how to teleport much longer distances at a time. However,
Kofi cannot yet even cover a mile in one teleportational
jump, and must therefore make several teleportational
"hops" to bridge such a distance. Presumably,
the amount of distance he can travel in a single teleporational
jump will increase as he grows in age and experience.
An unusual visible energy effect surrounds Kofi when he
begins or emerges from a teleportational jump.
It remains to be seen whether Kofi will eventually
develop other superhuman powers as well.
Like all Kymellians, Kofi has a nictating membrane
over his eyes which enable him to see clearly underwater.