Contents 1 HistoryEdit 1.1 Origin 1.2 Young Avengers 1.3 Civil War 1.4 Meeting Captain Marvel 1.5 Secret Invasion 1.6 The Siege 1.7 Children's Crusade 2 Powers and AbilitiesEdit 2.1 Powers 3 NotesEdit 4 TriviaEdit 5 LinksEdit 5.1 Discover and Discuss 5.2 Footnotes

HistoryEdit

Origin

During the Kree-Skrull War, the Super-Skrull kidnapped Captain Marvel, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch and presented them to the Skrull Emperor. While the heroes later escaped, the Emperor's daughter, Princess Anelle, conceived a child with Mar-Vell. At birth, the child was immediately exiled and grew up on Earth as Theodore "Teddy" Altman. The Empress ordered her child's nurse to protect Teddy. She posed as a human working in real estate and raised him as a single mother.^[1]

On Earth, Teddy used his powers mainly in an effort to fit in with his high school classmates, particularly the class president and basketball team captain, Greg Norris. Fitting in for Teddy included using his shapeshifting to provide access to New York City high life by impersonating various superheroes and celebrities. Finally, when Greg coerced him into breaking into the ruins of Avengers Mansion, Teddy decided that some things were more important than fitting in, and rather than let Greg loot the mansion, he ended the friendship.^[2]

Young Avengers

Teddy was one of the people listed in the Avengers Fail-Safe Program compiled by the Vision to be used to form a new team of superheroes in the event of the destruction or disbanding of the Avengers. Iron Lad, a younger version of Kang the Conqueror, found Teddy using the Vision’s Fail-Safe Program and requested his help in preventing his future self from returning him to the future. Teddy joined the Young Avengers and adopted the super-hero identity of the Hulkling. He began dating his teammate Wiccan.^[3][4]

Teddy's life changed again when the shape-shifting extraterrestrial known as the Super-Skrull showed up, claiming that Teddy was a Skrull. The Super-Skrull was surprised to learn that Teddy had super strength and wondered "perhaps the rumors about his father are true."^[5]

The Super Skrull followed the Young Avengers to the home of Wiccan, where Teddy's mother was waiting for him. The Super-Skrull released a device designed to turn Teddy into his true form, trying to prove to him his Skrull heritage. But the device didn't change Teddy's physical appearance. Instead Ms. Altman, who was also caught in the device's beam, turned into a Skrull. When the Super Skrull accused her of being a traitor to her race, she responded by saying that the Empress ordered her to protect Teddy. Before she could say much else, the Super-Skrull killed her and kidnapped Teddy.^[1]

The Super-Skrull broadcasted to all Skrull worlds that he had located Dorrek VIII, though Teddy insisted that he's not a Skrull. Kl'rt insists that he and revealed the truth about his past. He insists that he must return to his people so that they may reunite the Skrull Empire. Kree soldiers then arrived to help Teddy, stating that the Kree looked after their own. A battle then erupted between the Kree and the Skrull, both claiming Teddy as their own. The only solution that Teddy saw to end the war was surrender. It was settled that Teddy would spend half an Earth-year with the Kree and the other half with the Skrull, at which time he would declare his ultimate allegiance, while also being able to make scheduled visits to Earth. However "Teddy" was the Super-Skrull disguised as him, therefore the real Teddy stayed on Earth.^[1]

Civil War

During the Civil War, S.H.I.E.L.D. arrested the Young Avengers. However, Falcon and Captain America intercepted the S.H.I.E.L.D bus which was transporting the prisoners, and Wiccan teleported the team out of the situation, into the Resistance Fighters base of operations.

When the Runaways tried to stay out of the conflict, they barely managed to escape from the government forces. Hearing of this development in the news, the Young Avengers decided to help the Runaways even though Captain America vetoed the plan. Wiccan used his magic to locate and teleport to the Runaways. However, the Runaways believed that the Young Avengers had come to capture them and a fight ensued until Patriot succeeded in convincing Nico Minoru to stop the hostilities. The two teams were later attacked by Marvel Boy, who captured Wiccan, Karolina, and Hulkling, and almost killed Xavin. The young heroes became the prisoners of the Warden, who proceeded to practice vivisection on the unconscious Teddy. The boys were rescued by Xavin, whose Skrull physiology allowed him to recover from Noh-Varr's attack. Billy came close to killing the Warden, but Teddy stopped him.^[6]

Teddy played a pivotal role in Captain America's plan for the final confrontation with Iron Man's forces, impersonating Yellowjacket in order to free the imprisoned heroes of Prison 42.

Meeting Captain Marvel

Shortly after the return of Captain Marvel, Teddy and Billy saw him battling giant robots on a broadcast in Times Square. Teddy quickly arranged a meeting with Captain Marvel to explain their biological relationship. Captain Marvel was shocked by the news because he never knew a child was conceived of his and Anelle's secret union. Captain Marvel needed to process and almost immediately departed. He return later that night to speak again with Teddy. The two discussed the Captain Marvel and Annelle's brief courtship, Teddy hearing stories of his father and Captain Marvel's cancer. Before separating the two agreed to meet again.^[7]

Secret Invasion

When the Skrulls invaded Earth, Hulkling joined the Young Avengers on the frontlines of the battle. Because of he is Skrull royalty, Hulkling attempted to speak with the Skrulls leaders. The Skrulls ignored him and swiftly took him out. He later became targeted for execution by the Skrull Queen because of his royalty. Before he could be executed, Xavin, a Runaway and a Skrull, intervened to save Hulkling's life.^[8]

The Siege

Hulkling along with the other Young Avengers helped rescue the fallen from Asgard during the Siege. Together, he and Wiccan also battled the Wrecking Crew.^[9]

Children's Crusade

After Wiccan powers overloaded and the Avengers decided to keep him under observation, Hulkling and the other Young Avnegers broke Wiccan out of holding and began the search for the Scarlet Witch. Accompanied by Magneto and Quicksilver, the team travelled to Transia and then to Latveria before discovering a depowered and amnesiac Wanda engaged to Doctor Doom. The rediscovery of Wanda did not go unnoticed though, as the Avengers soon arrived on the scene. A battle with Doom's Doombot army soon broken out and was only stopped by the arrival of Iron Lad.^[10]

Iron Lad teleported the Young Avengers and Wanda into the timestream. They all went into the past, and met reanimated Jack of Hearts, who is explode. After that Wanda remembered who she is, regained her powers and returned herself, the Young Avengers and Scott Lang into the present.^[11] She then finally confirmed that Billy and Tommy are indeed her reincarnated sons.^[12]

Wanda's increased powers were revealed to be the result of her gaining a connection to the life force itself. A ritual intended to undo the Decimation was interrupted by Patriot, leading to the powers being transferred to Doctor Doom. He intended to usher the world into utopia, a utopia in which he would rule. The Avengers and X-Men teamed up to defeat him, in the process, Stature was killed by Doom, and the villain escaped after losing his powers when they overloaded.

Iron Lad proposed to save Stature through the Timestream but Vision refused, ending with both of them battling each other and Iron Lad destroying Vision and then taking off to the timestream, even after Wiccan warned that this was the moment in time where he became Kang the Conqueror.

In the aftermath of the battles, the Young Avengers disbanded and stayed in low profile during the major events that transpired in the world (the Spider-Island infestation, the X-Men's Schism and the resurrection of the Human Torch. Wiccan stayed in a severe state of depression but Hulkling cheered him up proposing to him, but their moment of joy was interrupted by Ms. Marvel who called them to the Avengers Mansion. After a few words from Captain America all the remaining Young Avengers were officially named as full pledged Avengers.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Teddy is a hybrid of both Kree and Skrull. As a result of his hybrid nature, Hulkling has various powers and abilities of each race, including:

• Metamorphosis: Hulkling is a shapeshifter of remarkable ability. While he most commonly shifts into a teenaged version of the Hulk, he has also been known to impersonate well known superheroes such as the Human Torch, Mister Fantastic, and Tony Stark. In the heat of battle — or of the moment — he has evidenced a less refined style of shapeshifting: growing claws, extending his reach and growing wings in a protoplasmic manner.
  • Flight: Using his metamorphic powers, Hulking often grows wings strong enough to propel him into the air.
  • Subconscious Metamorphic Adaptation: Hulkling has shown the (subconscious) ability to adapt his body depending on his situation at the time. One being his body shifting biomass to protect vital organs, while the Warden of The Cube was attempting to vivisect him.^[13]
  • Healing Factor: ability to regenerate injured tissue and brain cells to an extraordinary degree.
• Superhuman Strength: Hulkling is much stronger than an average human, and stronger than even most Krees are because of his partial Skrull background. He is rumored to be above Strength Class 100.
  • Limited Invulnerability: Hulkling's skin can become much denser and thicker than any normal human's, giving him a very strong resistance to pain and injury.

Power Grid [14]
Intelligence	4
Strength	6
Speed	3
Durability	6
Energy Projection	2
Fighting Skills	3

NotesEdit

• Hulking and Wiccan are in a romantic relationship.
• Teddy the eldest son of Captain Mar-Vell, as Genis-Vell was artificially aged by his mother.
  

TriviaEdit

• Theodore "Teddy" Altman shares his name with Doctor Theodora "Teddy" Altman from ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Allan Heinberg, the creator of the Young Avengers, is one of the producers of Grey's Anatomy.
• Teddy once had a crush on his high school class president and basketball team captain, Greg Norris. Because of this crush, Teddy allowed Greg to convince him to engage in impersonating super-heroes for personal gain.^[2]
• When his powers first manifested, Teddy assumed he was a mutant.^[2]
• The Young X-Man Rockslide has said he'd like to take on Hulkling.^[15]

• Hulking is shown to be a member of the Initiative, along with Wiccan.^[16] However, it is later revealed most of the Young Avengers did not actually join The Initiative or even register. They were registered by their Earth-A counterparts; both Wiccan and Hulking are seen complaining about being registered to their "A Selves".^[17]

LinksEdit

• 69 Appearances of Dorrek VIII (Earth-616)
• 59 Images featuring Dorrek VIII (Earth-616)
• 3 Quotations by or about Dorrek VIII (Earth-616)
• Character Gallery: Dorrek VIII (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Dorrek VIII (Earth-616) 
• Young Avengers #1-Young Avengers #6
• Young Avengers Special #1
• Young Avengers #9-Young Avengers #12
• Young Avengers Presents #2
• Secret Invasion Runaways Young Avengers #1- #3
• Avengers: The Children's Crusade #1-Avengers: The Children's Crusade #9
• Young Avengers
• Wiccan
• http://www.gayleague.com/gay/characters/display.php?id=220

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Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Young Avengers #9- #12
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Young Avengers Special #1
3. ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade - Young Avengers #1
4. ↑ Young Avengers #1- #6
5. ↑ Young Avengers #9
6. ↑ Civil War: Young Avengers and Runaways #1- #4
7. ↑ Young Avengers Presents #2
8. ↑ Secret Invasion Runaways Young Avengers #1- #3
9. ↑ Siege: Young Avengers #1
10. ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade #1- #4
11. ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade #5
12. ↑ Avengers: The Children's Crusade #6
13. ↑ Civil War: Young Avengers and Runaways #4
14. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover Vol. 5
15. ↑ New X-Men Vol 2 #34
16. ↑ Avengers: The Initiative #1- #2
17. ↑ She-Hulk Vol 2 #21