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Gage Reinhart is a superhero, a member of the superhero team Dynamo 5, which appears books of the same name from Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, he first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (January 2007). For the first 24 issues of the series, the character possessed telepathy, and went by the codename Scatterbrain. In issue #25 of the series (October 2009), the character, whose powers had been erased in the previous issue, obtained different powers. Now possessing the power of flight, he goes by the codename Ramjet.〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #25 (October 2009), Image Comics〕 ==Publication history== Following the assassination of Captain Dynamo, the much-beloved superhero protector of Tower City, his widow, former government agent posing as a now-retired investigative reporter Maddie Warner, discovered from his personal effects that he had been unfaithful to her countless times. Despite her devastation at this discovery, Warner realized that without a full-time protector, Tower City would be vulnerable to Captain Dynamo’s legion of super-villain enemies. She used her skills and the information she discovered to track down five people who could be Dynamo’s illegitimate children.〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #1, January 2007, Image Comics〕 Gage Reinhart was the fifth of Captain Dynamo’s children Warner contacted. Reinhart is a 17-year-old Eastbridge, Texas high school football star who led his division in tackles for the entire season, and is the darling of both his female schoolmates and college scouts.〔 Faerber has described Reinhart as "a popular, arrogant jock who never gave a damn about what anyone thought - until he can literally hear those thoughts. And he may not like what he hears."〔Weiland, Jonah. ("Ain't Nothing but a Family Thing: Faerber Talks Dynamo 5" ), Comic Book Resources, December 20, 2006〕 Gathering all five of the children together, Warner exposed them to the same unidentified radiation that gave Captain Dynamo his powers forty years earlier, unlocking their powers. Reinhart inherited his father’s telepathy. Reinhart takes the codename Scatterbrain, and works to protect Tower City with his newly discovered brothers and sisters.〔 Reinhart is often instrumental in the team's confrontations with its adversaries. One month after gaining his abilities, Reinhart and his siblings fought the paramilitary organization known as The Veil. Although he and the team acquitted themselves well against that foe, Visionary was kidnapped during the fracas, and brought to The Veil’s base. It fell upon Reinhart to use his telepathy to track Visionary via his brainwave pattern, which led to Visionary’s rescue.〔 Reinhart was subsequently crucial to the team's victories against Voltage,〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #5, July 2007, Image Comics〕 and a thief using the Winterbourne Institute's strength-amplifying Strong-Suit.〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #0, February 2009, Image Comics〕 Despite his telepathy's usefulness, however, Reinhart has laments the adverse side-effects that his powers and his involvement in the team has had on his life. His inability to fully control his telepathy, his tendency to pick up the thoughts of others that he finds hurtful, and the manner in which new aspects of it may suddenly evolve unexpectedly, have been a source of irritation to him, often causing him to long for a more empowering ability like his sister Olivia's flight.〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #2 (Second Printing), May 2007, Image Comics〕〔〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #4; June 2007, Image Comics〕 The difficulty in finding time for both his high school career and his superheroics leads to some sleeplessness, and tension between him and Maddie Warner.〔 Reinhart also comes to blows with his brother Spencer (Myriad) over Spencer engaging in a romantic embrace with a schoolmate of Reinhart's while Spencer, a shape-shifter, was impersonating Reinhart when Reinhart was in a coma. Spencer was given this mission by Maddie Warner in order to quell suspicion on the part of Reinhart's family, who are unaware of his life as a superhero, but Reinhart saw this act as an invasion of privacy on Spencer's part, though Spencer wonders if it is motivated by racism because the girl in question was black. Spencer apologizes to Reinhart, and confesses that, having grown up in foster homes, and having never had a real family or popularity in school, his experience with Reinhart's family opened his eyes to what he had missed all his life, and got carried away. Sympathetic to Spencer's feelings, Reinhart forgave him.〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5'' #9-10; November 2007 - January 2008, Image Comics〕 In ''Dynamo 5'' #24 and 25 of the series, the team was attacked by their other half-sibling, the supervillain Synergy, who used a weapon to erase the team's abilities and capture them. The team freed themselves, and used the weapon to restore their powers, but they manifested different abilities than the ones they previously had. Reinhart, who gained the power of flight, donned an armored suit and took the codename Ramjet.〔 In the ''Dynamo 5 Holiday Special 2010'', it is established that Reinhart began a romantic relationship with War Chest, a reformed supervillain turned government agent,〔Faerber, Jay. ''Dynamo 5 Holiday Special 2010'' (2010), Image Comics〕 whom Reinhart had first battled in ''Dynamo 5'' #0.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ramjet (Image Comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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