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Before Speedball joined the New Warriors, he was an apprehensive, ridiculously uptight young man in the tiny town of Springdale. Following the accident that gave Speedball his powers, a bitter young lab assistant named Clyde became jealous of the young hero and plotted to gain powers himself. He tried a series of truly pathetic experiments to develop weapons that would give him superpowers. Not entirely a moron, he let others test these weapons out, giving rise to a surprising number of third- and fourth-rate "supervillains" in the quiet town of Springdale.

In time, Speedball defeated each of these so-called menaces and left town. Returning some years later, he found to his surprise that the lot of them had escaped. It seems that Clyde had sprung his flunkies in order to drain the power from Niels, a cat that had the same powers as Speedball (having been in the same lab accident). At the time, Speedball's powers were fluctuating, and even though he defeated the host of his old foes, Clyde (aka Rebound) managed to knock him out and planned to steal his powers as well as the cat. A hairball from Niels thwarted the entire plan, however, and the whole group wound up back in prison.

From left to right: Ahh, read the names yourself, you slacker.