One of the best outcomes of the death of Thunderbird of the X-Men was the introduction of his younger brother (also a.k.a. Thunderbird) in the Hellions.

This trainee team was one of my favorite villain groups of all time. Who was your favorite member?

Empath was a complete piece of shit, and fit perfectly as a foil for the New Mutants.  Thunderbird had a personality too. 

The others were totally just bleh, although Jetstream was a hottie. 

Which one is Jetstream? I can't picture any of them.

I liked Roulette.. but I'm always partial to blondes!

Funny Roulette has such a lead.  I voted for him (or her?) just because I don't know one Hellion from another and liked the name best.

Thunderbolt wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2015 at 8:27am:


Actually, I think Empath was really the only wicked one out of all of them. 

Catseye had a simple, elemental way of looking at the world (it was implied that she spent more time living a simple, animal-like existence in her cat form, which she considered her true form, than her human one).

Jetstream was a tad arrogant, but not particularly evil.  He had something of a sense of honor.

Tarot was essentially a slave to her tarot deck.  They never showed much personality for her outside of consulting her deck.  If her deck required her to support the schemes of her headmistress, Emma Frost, then she would do so.  By the same token, if it required that she aid the New Mutants, her supposed enemies, then she would do that as well (she reminded me of Two-Face, in that she was not entirely in control of her behavior).

Thunderbird could easily have been a hero (and, in fact, went on to become a hero in X-Force), had he not been consumed with rage over the supposed injustice of his brother's death.

As for Roulette, I don't remember her having a particularly distinctive personality.  I remember her powers (throwing energy discs that caused good or bad luck) more than her personality.

Empath was a total scumbag.