Full Name: Molly HayesBruiser (who prefers to be referred to by her alternative codename ‘Princess Powerful’) is the youngest and often the most naïve member of the Runaways. She didn’t leave with the others at first, since she didn’t witness the Rite of Blood where her parents helped commit murder, and the others felt she was too young to be placed in such a dangerous situation. Once her powers manifested and the kids realised just how much danger she was in, they decided they had no choice but to bring her into the team. Molly’s powers make her the team’s muscle, and she often does a lot of the fighting. Despite her age, she has a keen sense of right and wrong, and often realises things the older kids would never have thought of.
On a mission to help their acquaintance Cloak clear his name from an assault on his partner Dagger, the Runaways were tracked down by the New Avengers. Wolverine saw Molly in the grip of Father Lantom, a priest who was helping Cloak and Dagger, and attacked, not realizing that Molly was a mutant. Molly smashed him through a wall. Later, after returning to LA, Molly fell asleep while battling a dragon-like villainess near the Aqueduct and was captured by the Provost and his Artful Dodgers, other runaways whom he was training as pickpockets. The Provost had some small magical devices which he threatened to use to turn any of the kids who disobeyed him into stone. When Molly revealed her abilities, he forced her to rob a bank. She refused to become evil, but the other kids begged her for help against their captor. Molly brought back bags of coins and began to let Provost have it, literally banging him on the head, and the kids got his magic wand, which Molly then broke, turning the Provost to stone and freeing the kids. She returned to the Runaways' hideout - very tired.
After M-Day, the X-Men tried to convice Molly to join them at the Xavier Institute, where they felt she would be safer, but Molly refused, leading to an altercation with the premier mutant team. Eventually, they left Molly alone, respecting her wishes to remain with her friends.
Soon after, a new Pride had formed under a younger Geoffrey Wilder who had been brought to the present by internet friends of Alex. They had gained intel on the Runaways and used that to cause friction and fighting within the group and during the confrontation, they kidnapped Molly and bound her in an alien rope to keep her powers in check. Believing that she was to be a sacrifice to the Gibborim, Molly didn’t waste her breath telling him how she felt, a smarter side she had never shown to her friends, but was saved when Xavin posed as Nico, while the real Nico rescued her. After the battle was over, Molly was the most visibly upset to learn of the death of her close friend Gert.
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