Rocket (Raquel Ervin)

Rocket is a young North-American student, known as sidekick to Icon.

Overview

Rocket is a young North-American student, known as sidekick to Icon.
Rocket is a teenage super-hero in Dakota. In her private life she is an amateur writer, a high school student, and a single mother. Her idealism inspired the super-hero Icon, and he made her his sidekick. Icon gave her an Inertia Belt that allows her to manipulate kinetic energy.

Raquel Ervin was born in Paris Island, the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhood in Dakota. She yearned to become a writer ("just like Toni Morrison"), but lacked the motivation. That is, until she met Augustus Freeman IV, a stranded alien with superhuman powers. This occurred after her friends had convinced her to accompany them as they went to rob Freeman's home during the "Big Bang". Raquel convinced Augustus to become the superhero Icon and to take her on as his sidekick, Rocket. While in costume, she wore a belt Hardware fashioned out of Icon's escape pod's inertia winder, which allowed her to manipulate kinetic energy.

Rocket is a taskmaster for the weekly mission Find Some or Fear Some in Dakota City.
Rocket is an ally in the Shock: Meta-Therapy Clinic alert and the Shock: The Terrorium raid.

Rocket was created by Dwayne McDuffie , Denys Cowan and Mark Bright and first appeared in Icon #1 in May, 1993.
Rocket is the first and only so far superheroine that's a teenage mom.

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