The Runaways: Every Character Ranked Worst To Best

6. Alex Wilder

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Alex Wilder is a super genius and initially the leader of the Runaways in the team's first few adventures. He has a prodigious tactical mind which he is shown to initially waste on online video games at the start of his story.

Over the course of the team's first forays into super-heroics it is revealed that Alex is actually working with The Pride (the Runaways' parents' evil organisation), as he believes this to be the most logical thing to do. He eventually betrays the group but is killed along with The Pride in a confrontation with the Gibborim, the giant-like deities that facilitate The Pride's hold on Los Angeles.

Later on, a number of people Alex played video games with online, who follow him devoutly due to his service to their clan, try and carry out a ritual to revive him - but end up reviving his father instead.

Alex eventually does return to the physical world and forms a new Pride which comes into conflict with Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

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Gary has been reading Marvel Comics since he was 6 years old. Rather than retain knowledge on things such as Maths or Science - he chose to become a sponge for most things Marvel. He has a longstanding grudge against Iron Man he has harbored since Civil War(2006).