Things start to go wrong for O.G. (Elvin Haliday, formerly known as Rage), Night Thrasher and Silhouette. The police are not only arresting O.G and his gang, they nearly arrested Night Thrasher as they claim that they don't need his help. It seems that the police are still anti-vigilante.
This whole thing is confusing. Instead of O.G., who is the real bad guy? Maybe it's the corrupt system or whatever. Who knows what it would be in this shitty writing....
[Real-deal, O.G. "Triple D." That's all right here, right now, on "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives." So, I'm here in Allston, Massachusetts, eh, about three miles from downtown Boston.]
"I've gotten More Love from strangers, than I ever did from family." I won't forget the ones who was there for me when I stumbled a few times here and there I won't forget you and for all you haters out there haters hate winners so that's all all you do is motivate me you just motivate me more you give me motivation the more you hate the more motivation you give me that's all I got to say KABISH!!!"
Just as Dwayne Taylor was supposed to discuss with his colleague about shutting down Taylor Foundation company, he sees a group of kids running off with stolen goods from a robbery spree. Dwayne tries to take down one of the kids but fails to stop him and he is nearly arrested by the police. Even though things were cleared up by his colleague, the police were still suspicious of Dwayne but they let him go. Then, Dwayne goes to the safehouse to put on his Night Thrasher armor and just before he could do that, Silhouette talks to him. And a shot of the old New Warriors photo makes me sad.
Later that night, Dwayne Taylor (now in Night Thrasher armor) comes out to look for the little robbers and he finds them congregating in the sewers. Unfortunately, Dwayne gets ambushed by a muscular man who calls himself O.G. and fights him. Dwayne fights him to a stand-still until he unmasks O.G. and it turns out that O.G. is Elvin Haliday, a.k.a Rage all along! Elvin Haliday has apparently turned bad because he is angry with Dwayne for leaving him and his friends for unspecified reasons. Elvin beats Dwayne up to unconsciousness and orders for him to be taken outside.
Night Thrasher v2 #1, 2024
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Even though I don't like the idea of Elvin turning bad, I can't blame him for that since the New Warriors had been screwed over in the recent years. Rage had been through a lot of misfortune like losing Dwayne in Civil War (though he came back from the dead a few years later), his New Warriors team getting slandered a lot, arrested and thrown into prison to get beaten to near-death by inmates in Nick Spencer's Captain America: Sam Wilson comic, being venomized and poisonized to near-mindlessness in Venomized storyline, and lastly, that Outlawed fiasco for the New Warriors. So I can't blame him for being angry with the world. Though I believe that Elvin Haliday may be brainwashed here.