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| caption = Norrin Weismeyer aka Wannabe in Freshmen Yearbook 1 pg08 |
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| caption = Norrin Weismeyer aka Wannabe in Freshmen Yearbook 1 pg08 |
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| comic_color = background:#80ff80 |
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| comic_color = background:#80ff80 |
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| character_name = Wannabe/The Scarlet Knight |
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| character_name = Kenneth Weismeyer |
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| publisher = [[Top Cow Productions]] |
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| publisher = [[Top Cow Productions]] |
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| debut = Freshmen #.1 June 8, 2005 |
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| debut = Freshmen #1 |
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| creators = Seth Green<BR>Hugh Sterbakov<BR>Andrew Pepoy |
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| creators = [[Seth Green]]<BR>Hugh Sterbakov<BR>[[Andrew Pepoy]] |
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| alliance_color = background:#ffc0c0 |
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| alliance_color = background:#ffc0c0 |
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| alter_ego = Kenneth Weismeyer |
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| alter_ego = The Scarlet Knight |
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| alliances =[[Freshmen (comics)|Freshmen]] |
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| alliances = [[Freshmen (comics)|Freshmen]] |
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| aliases = Norrin |
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| aliases = Norrin<br />Wannabe |
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| powers = He uses "Armor and utility belt" |
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| powers = None |
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'''Kenneth "Norrin" Weismeyer''' is a [[fiction]]al college student who is obsessed with comic book superheroes. He is featured in the [[Top Cow Productions]] [[comic book]] series [[Freshmen (comics)|Freshmen]]. |
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'''Kenneth "Norrin" Weismeyer''' is a [[fiction]]al college student who is obsessed with comic book superheroes. He is featured in the [[Top Cow Productions]] [[comic book]] series [[Freshmen (comics)|Freshmen]]. |
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==Early life== |
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==Early Years== |
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As a little boy his father would read him classic adventures of the [[silver age of comic books]] and soon he was buying comics himself weekly. He has one older sister and his father and mother are happily married and living in [[Pittsburgh]] working as a steelworker and a dog trainer.<ref>Freshmen Yearbook</ref>
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Born in [[1987]], Kenneth Weismeyer never discovered a love for comics—it was born with him. His father taught him to read from the classic adventures of the [[Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]], and soon he was bagging, boarding and trolling a paper route to pay for his weekly addiction. He dubbed himself "Norrin" after his favorite comic book hero, also an outcast, and took to broadcasting his proud geekhood with stickers, t-shirts and hats. |
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Norrin's middle-class upbringing outside Pittsburgh was frustratingly uneventful. The son of a steelworker and a dog trainer, Norrin dreamed of a bigger future—a calling that would cast him into the role of hero. For a short time, he thought he was the target of a secret hoax where he was transported to another dimension and everyone around him was an alien performing as his acquaintance. And then there was a month-long excavation in the woods behind his house, where he was sure evil aliens had begun burrowing to the Earth's core. |
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==Freshmen== |
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===Vol. I=== |
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==D.W. Freese College== |
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In his first year in college he met Annalee Rogers and fell in love for her. After going to a frat party and later going out for pizza, he misses the explosion of the ax-cell-erator and the super powers people exposed to it consequently develop.<ref>Freshmen #1</ref> Although he himself has no powers, he talks the other freshmen into becoming superheroes and fighting criminals.<ref>Freshmen #2</ref> To compensate for his lack of supernatural abilities, he has developed a suit of armor and various comic-inspired [[gadget]]s, like a [[grappling hook]] launcher and special [[goggles]].<ref>Freshmen #3</ref> |
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Older, wiser, but no less a comic fan, Norrin attended D.W. Freese College in [[2005]] hoping to raise his grades and transfer to [[USC]] for film school. He had put his dreams of adventure behind him, until his fellow students housed in the Boughl Science Building were infused with superpowers upon the explosion of a machine called "the Ax-Cell-Erator." Finally answering the call of duty, Norrin had taken his self-imposed leadership very seriously. He constructed a suit of armor with various comic-inspired weapons, planning to strike fear in the hearts of villains everywhere. But one of his first moves was to break his own nose with his grappling hook launcher. He hoped to somehow gain the respect of his hostile teammates, who simply would not take their calling seriously, and his unrequited love, [[Annalee Rogers]]. |
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After the team's first field assignment is successful he becomes team leader. However their second field assignment is not and Seductress is critically injured by Rob the frat guy and his Hulking Frat Guys. He blames himself for Seductress injuries, and allows Rob the frat guy and his Hulking Frat Guys to take him to see Dr. Theodore Tomlinson in hopes of getting his own superpowers.<ref>Freshmen #4-5</ref> He betrays the team and helps Dr. Tomlinson in spreading a disease to millions. He is talked out of releasing the deadly virus by his teammate, Annalee Rogers.<ref>Freshmen #6</ref> |
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===Vol. II=== |
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After the Christmas break and much soul searching and starting a working-out regime Norrin takes the new superhero name "The Scarlet Knight". Norrin meets Annalee's father and started to see a man who looks like Mr. Fiddesticks an old story book character of Norrin's childhood. Norrin starts dating a woman named Amy.<ref>Freshmen II #1-3</ref> |
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