Leslie Dean (Earth-616)

Leslie Dean
Name	Unrevealed
Current Alias	Leslie Dean
Aliases	The Colonists (with her spouse)
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Pride
Relatives	Spouses: Frank Dean (husband, deceased) Children: Karolina Dean (daughter)
Marital Status	Married
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Blonde
Unusual Features	Skin and hair turn iridescent when his powers are active
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Exiled Majesdanian criminal
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Majesdane
Place of Death	Marine Vivarium, Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, California
Cause of Death	Drowned/crushed as punishment by Gibborim
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	Majesdanian
Occupation	Actress
Base of Operations	Formerly Hollywood, California; Majesdane
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Brian K. Vaughan, Adrian Alphona
First	Runaways #1 (April, 2003)
First	Runaways #1 (April, 2003)
Death	Runaways #17 (August, 2004)
Death	Runaways #17 (August, 2004)

 VERMIN! You think you've beaten us? We haven't even used a fraction of our strength against you. Once the kid gloves come off, your parents will annihilate you. We bought you children into this world... 

—Leslie Dean

Leslie Dean is a Majesdanian criminal posing as a human actress, the mother of Karolina Dean, wife of Frank Dean, and a founding member of The Pride.

History

Origin

The Majesdanian known as Leslie Dean was exiled from her homeworld, along with her husband, because of their criminal activity. After their conviction, the couple came to Earth, adopted human names and identities, and began working as actors in Hollywood.

Leslie and Frank Dean being summoned by the Gibborim

The Pride

While working on as actors on the daytime soap opera General Hospital, Frank and Leslie were summoned by the Gibborim to be the "The Colonists" in the Pride with promises of power, wealth, and eternal life.

Three years after the formation of the Pride, Janet Stein became pregnant and the other Pride members decided to conceive children and pass the Gibborim's reward of eternal life to their children.

Leslie and Frank Dean battling Namor the Submariner

As members of the Pride, the Deans assisted in ruling the Los Angeles underworld, sacrificing to the Gibborim, protecting their turf, and disposing of threats to their power for a quarter of a century.

The Deans were often tasked with managing extraterrestrial matters. Fifteen years before their deaths, the Deans prevented a Skrull invasion of Earth led by Prince De'zean. In exchange for sparing Earth, the Dean provided the Skrulls with the coordinates to Majesdane. To seal the pact, the Dean offered their only daughter's hand in marriage, believing that the Skrulls would never be able to collect. With the information about Majesdane, the Skrulls began a fifteen-year-long war that resulted in the destruction of Majesdane.

The Hayes' and Deans conspiring together

Eighteen months before their deaths, Leslie and Frank began to conspire with Gene and Alice Hayes to betray and murder the other Pride members. As mutants and aliens, they had a shared disdain for humans. It was the discovery of this plot that led Alex Wilder to begin scheming to save his parents and the Minoru family that eventually led to his death and the deaths of the Pride.

Leslie and Frank died in the Marine Vivarium with the other members of the Pride during the failed Rite of Thunder.

Posthumous

After their deaths, Karolina met Prince Xavin, who revealed her parents' scheming with the Skrulls. Karolina chose to wed Xavin in hopes of ending the war her parents started. Unfortunately, a small disagreement at Karolina's wedding quickly escalated and resulted in the complete destruction of Majesdane. Because of the destruction of Majesdane, the Light Brigade came to Earth seeking vengeance on Karolina for her parents' war crimes.

After their deaths, a former Pride associate, Marcus Roston, began selling an addictive street drug called Heat Pills to the elites of Hollywood. Heat Pills were synthesized using Majesdanian blood samples from Leslie and Frank Dean. Daken, the son of Wolverine, became addicted to Heat Pills when he came to L.A. planning to fill the power vacuum left by the absence of the Pride.

Attributes

Powers

• Majesdanian physiology

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Abstract
• Ring of the Abstract (formerly)
• Majesdanian Compass (formerly)
• Majesdanian Restraints (formerly)

Transportation

• Shuttlecraft
• Leapfrog (formerly)

Notes

• Leslie and Frank's true Majesdanian names have yet to be revealed.
• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Leslie Dean's maiden name was revealed to be Ellerh. However, because Dean is already an alias, it is unlikely that this name has anything to do with Leslie in the Prime Marvel Universe.

Trivia

• Leslie and Frank are vegan.
• Leslie and Frank are familiar with the Shi'ar Empire.

See Also

• 17 appearance(s) of Leslie Dean (Earth-616)
• 12 minor appearance(s) of Leslie Dean (Earth-616)
• 14 mention(s) of Leslie Dean (Earth-616)
• 35 image(s) of Leslie Dean (Earth-616)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Leslie Dean (Earth-616)
• 3 item(s) used/owned by Leslie Dean (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Leslie Dean on Wikipedia.org