| “ | There was a crack, a boom, and Strider came in with a group, the teleportation contractor the PRT had been using recently. | ” |
Strider is a freelance hero.[3]
Appearance
Strider wears a blue and black uniform with a cap.[4]
Abilities and Powers
Strider specializes in mass teleporting,[3] apparently able to bring people to the east coast from as far away as Los Angeles, roughly three thousand miles. It is unknown if this was a single 'stride' or a series of continuous ones. He creates a muffled thunderclap of sound on both arrival and departure, and seems to have only a short cooldown time between teleports.[4] Being included in his teleport can be somewhat rattling if unexpected.[5]
After his death, Miss Militia described him as having been "our best mass teleporter".[6]
History
Strider delivered both Alexandria's and Eidolon's Protectorate teams to the Battle against Leviathan in Brockton Bay.[4] At the time, Dauntless described him as having only "recently" been contracted by the PRT.[2]
When a wave struck the command post, Legend shouted for Strider's assistance and Strider teleported everyone inside to the middle of a nearby road.[5] Later, when Leviathan momentarily disengaged from the fight and began traveling at extreme speeds through the floodwater, Strider was one of several capes executed in quick succession.[7] Presumably he was attempting to extract injured capes from the water and got caught unaware. His name was later engraved on a memorial honoring the fallen.[1]
Chapter Appearances
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rubbing my sleeves against my arms, I traveled around to the right, to the far side of the memorial, which faced the city.
[...]- Strider / Craig McNish
It was shorter than the other lists, the last list of names, so there was space at the bottom. - Extermination 8.8 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 There was a crack, a boom, and Strider came in with a group, the teleportation contractor the PRT had been using recently.
Strapping Lad, Young Buck, Chronicler and Exalt were in that group. Eidolon was head and shoulders above them all, and rose even higher as he took flight. - Heavens 12.none - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Strider – A freelance hero who specializes in mass teleporting. - Cast (spoiler free)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 With a sound like a muffled thunderclap, a half dozen people appeared in the center of the empty lot. When I saw who they were, I was awestruck. That wasn’t hyperbole or whatever, I was using the word awestruck in the original, zero-embellishment sense of the word.
Alexandria stood at the head of the crowd that had just arrived.
[...]
Her team – people I recognized but couldn’t necessarily name – followed behind her in a loose formation. Only one man in a blue and black uniform and cap stayed behind in the middle of the parking lot. He looked around for a few moments, then disappeared with a crack and a whoosh, smaller than the one that had brought the entire group there. - Extermination 8.1 - ↑ 5.0 5.1 “Strider!” Legend bellowed, over the noise and chaos, “Get us out of here!”
A voice sounding from the armband, female, synthesized, except I couldn’t make it out over the noise.
The air was sucked out of my lungs, and there was a noise like thunder. My entire body was rattled down to the core, and I thought I might have been struck by lightning. I was outside, I realized, on my hands and knees in what I first took to be the middle of a shallow river. - Extermination 8.2
- ↑ When I didn’t rise to the challenge, she said, “We’re having a strategy meeting in a matter of minutes. The first phase of the response will be teleporting in momentarily, but our best mass-teleporter died in the Leviathan attack, and the process is slow. I’ll be releasing the rest of the Undersiders to join you soon.” - Queen 18.4
- ↑ Extermination 8.5