#livewires

[storygirl000]

how does this keep happening to me

[foundfamilyhq]

Should Gothic Lolita from Livewires join the tumblr found family?

Yeah!

Nope!

Voting ended onJul 3, 2025

[transistoradio]

Roughs and inks by Adam Warren and finished colors by Ryan Kinnaird for the cover of Livewires #2 (of 6) (2015).

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365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

Team Supplemental - The LiveWires

Project Livewire was founded by SHIELD as a means of testing a next generation of android operatives. These androids were based on the long-standing SHIELD automaton, the Life Model Decoys (LMDs), and the LMD successors, the Mannites. The androids of Project Livewire combined the super-human abilities of the Mannites with the human appearance of the LMDs.

Most of the work for Project Livewire was done by David Jenkins, the assistant chief designer of the project.   Jenkins utilized self-creating artificial intelligence algorithms to create a series of deadly androids who bare the resemblance of human teenagers.  Jenkins became something of a fatherly figure to these androids and they unexpectedly developed sentience and a sense of free will.  

Jenkins came to realize that the project was far too effective and concluded that it would only be a matter of time before these weapons would be misused in terrible ways.  As such, he altered the main programing of the androids, ordering them to kill everyone involved in Project Livewire and then hunt down and destroy any similar such ‘black operations’ programs.  

Jenkins himself was killed in the slaughter and five of the Livewire androids survived the massacre.  They went on to follow through on their programing, searching out and terminating rogue actors using advanced android technology for the purposes of evil.  

The member of the Liveries include the following:

Stem Cell

Stem Cell is the tech specialist. She has a nano-factory where a human stomach would be. She uses this to quickly manufacture any technology that her teammates might need.  Stem Cell has become the leader of the squad and she wears Dr, Jenkins’ glasses as a homage to their fatherly figure.  Her nano-factory has allowed Stem Cell to rebuild and recreate each of her teammates if and when they are injured or destroyed in action.  

Gothic Lolita

Although she is slim and lithe in stature, Gothic Lolita is the actually the primary muscle of the team.   She possesses significant super strength and durability with a library of different fighting styles loaded into her memory bank. Her code-name and look are both in reference to the fashion style popular in Tokyo at the time of her creation.

Hollowpoint Ninja

The laconic Hollowpoint Ninja is the team's infiltration agent.  He is a master swordsman and sniper and has the ability to turn invisible along with noise bafflers that make his every move entirely silent.  

Social Butterfly

Social Butterfly's role is to extract information from targets. She uses a variety of means to achieve this purpose. These include micromanagement of her facial expressions and body language, subliminal vocal clues, artificial pheromones, and force field-induced direct brain manipulation.

Cornfed

Cornfed looks like a big farm boy and seems to be the team's muscle, but he is actually in charge of all mechanical repairs. He can usually be found behind the scenes giving support and coordinating the team's missions.

Homebrew

Homebrew was the team's tech specialist before Stem Cell. He was killed in action and his source code was corrupted making it so he could not be regenerated.  With his death, the team activated Stem Cell to fill his role.

The team first appeared in the pages of Livewires #1 (2005).  

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Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda #6 [Textless] (2020)

Art by: David Nakayama

[marvellfashion]

The Livewires' Gothic Lolita if possible

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While I knew before of Cornfed through TV Tropes and Idioms, I never really took a big interest in him, I never checked him, I even forgot about his existence, until @thecolorfulpolicechild reminded me of his existence.

And thank you, dear, thank you! Look at this big beautiful man! Shirtless! For several panels!  And treated in the same sexy way as his more “conventional-good-looking” partner! (I think the “robots that aren’t robots” are all supposed to be good looking people, or at least designed to be good-looking). 

Little spoiler, don’t bother searching for him after issue 4. He’s still there but you certainly won’t see his big belly again... 

(PS: Yes, I kept the pictures where he is side by side with his thin partner as such for comparison)

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Black Panther & the Agents of Wakanda #6 (2020)

written by Jim Zub art by Scot Eaton, Sean Parsons, & Marcio Menyz