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Joyboy is one of a team of other-dimensional bounty hunters known as Technet.

Joyboy accompanied Gatecrasher and the rest of Technet to Earth to capture the mutant Rachel Summers (Earth-811), then known as Phoenix, on behalf of Saturnyne, during which Joyboy managed to briefly defeat Shadowcat by granting a twisted version of her desire to be solid which also made her swell up in size, making her enormously fat.[1] After they failed in the assignment, Technet based themselves on a disused pier in Brighton, England.[2] When they failed again to capture Phoenix and Saturnyne cancelled their contract, the Technet turned against Gatecrasher and sided with Excalibur. Much to Captain Britain's chagrin, they began living in the lighthouse with the team.[3]

Joyboy went missing on a "field trip" into London and was separated from his companions. [4] It was later discovered that he had been adopted by the Red Queen of the Crazy Gang.[5]

Attributes

Powers

  • Wish fulfillment: Joyboy has the power to telepathically read and grant an individual's greatest desire, but with a twist.[6] For instance, when Shadowcat was stuck in her phased state and longed to be solid, Joyboy made her corporeal but also made her gain weight, going from skinny to plump to enormously obese in minutes.[1] In another instance when a man showed that he admired his female boss, Joyboy made him look identical to her.
  • Levitation: Joyboy is able to hover in place and to move through the air to some degree, though this falls short of true flight.[1]

Weaknesses

Joyboy's powers last only as long as he is conscious, as evidenced during Technet's fight with Excalibur when Phoenix defeated him, which caused the enormously obese Shadowcat to return to normal within seconds.

While he does seem to be able to understand spoken English, Joyboy has never been observed to speak in a comprehensible language and is apparently limited to only infantile gibberish.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Cradle

Transportation

Joyboy levitates inside a cradle-like object. It is unclear whether the levitation is a property of the cradle itself, or of Joyboy's own doing.

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References

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