Liberty Legion - Liberteens (2007)

Liberteens (2007)

The Liberteens, whose name is a homophone of "libertine", is a young group of superhumans inspired by the Liberty Legion and formed as part of the Fifty State Initiative of government-sanctioned superhero teams. The group is first seen as the Pennsylvania-based Initiative team.

The team consists of:

• Their leader, The Revolutionary (inspired by The Patriot)
• Ms. America (inspired by Miss America)
• Blue Eagle (inspired by Red Raven)
• Iceberg (inspired by Jack Frost)
• 2-D (inspired by Thin Man)
• Whiz Kid (inspired by Whizzer), who had previously appeared as the super-speedster courier for the law firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway in She-Hulk vol. 2
• Hope (inspired by Blue Diamond)

In public, the Liberteens use "liberty"- and "America"-based puns. In private, the group is shown celebrating victory with debauchery, with the exception of the seemingly straitlaced leader, the Revolutionary, who is revealed to be a Skrull sleeper agent involved in preparations for that shape-shifting alien race's "Secret Invasion". During the invasion, upon the beginning of overt hostilities, a loosely organized band of Initiative members including the Liberteens join forces with the Skrull Kill Krew to identify and defeat the Skrulls within their own ranks, the Revolutionary among them. Afterward, Whiz Kid saved her fellow Initiative members from the Skrulls' poisonous gas, before succumbing to it herself.