ARGENT
Real Name: Toni Moretti
Class: Human / extraterrestrial (H'Sann Natall) hybrid
Occupation: Superhero
Group Affiliation: formerly Teen Titans, Titans
Known Relatives: unnamed parents
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: New Jersey
First Appearance: Teen Titans II #1 (October, 1996)
Powers: Argent generated silver plasma and could shape it into and form she could think of.
History: Toni Moretti was the result of a H'Sann Natall breeding program intended to create an advance race of Natall/human hybrid warriors to help the aliens conquer Earth. Tina's powers manifested as a teenager, and she and several others who were results of the breeding program rebelled against the Natall to become superheroes. Tina took the identity Argent as part of these new Teen Titans.
After the Teen Titans disbanded Argent joined the Titans.
(Titans #15) - Troia and the founding Titans went away on a camping trip to work out their differences. Argent was more than glad to see them leave for a bit, as she was sick of their constant arguing.
(Titans #17-19) - Starfire obtained a spaceship and went with the Titans to the Vegan System to help Starfire's brother Ryand'r. Ryand'r and the Tamaranians were fighting the Gordanians on Karna, and had the Titans split up to deal with three Gordanian military outposts. Argent and Flash easily overtook the outpost they were assigned, but learned that the Tamaranians were the invaders, not the Gordanians. The Gordanians had taken Tempest hostage, and Argent and the Titans went to rescue him, but Tempest said he wasn't going anywhere, he was trying to negotiate peace between the races. Just then the main Gordanian army arrived on the planet, and the Titans were forced to surrender. Thanks to Tempests' diplomacy the Gordanians and Tamaranians agreed to become allies, and the Titans returned to Earth.
(Titans #23, 24) - Troia came to Titans Tower, but Argent and the Titans no longer remembered her because of the manipulations of Dark Angel. Troia returned with the Titans of the Earth-Kingdom-Come hypertimeline. After a brief misunderstanding and fight between the two teams of Titans they started working together to go after Dark Angel. The Titans of Kingdom Come were risking damaging the fabric of reality by leaving their own hypertimeline, so they had limited time to work, and made up a cover story of being top-secret military agents. Tempest opened a portal to Dark Angel's netherworld and the Titans went in after her.
(Flash II #140) - Argent and the Teen Titans attended Linda Park's funeral.
(Day of Judgment #1) - On the way to a Titans meeting Argent and Damage were assaulted by demons, and after defeating them they joined the JLA and JSA in battling Asmodel / Spectre, who'd unleashed Hell on Earth, but they were quickly defeated.
(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - Argent and the Titans were among the superteams that attended Young Justice’s Justice for All rally in Washington. It was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged most of the heroes into children. Doiby Dickles pulled out an extraterrestrial aging gun to return the heroes to their proper age, but another of Klarion’s spells intercepted his shot. The result was that Argent and the other youthful heroes were aged to adulthood, but the other heroes remained children and young teens.
(JLA #41) - Argent was among the legion of heroes summoned by the JLA to quell worldwide outbreaks of warfare that were incited by Mageddon.
(Teen Titans III #32) - Superboy Prime confronted Superboy because he wanted to take his place, and was willing to kill him to do it. Argent and the Titans reservists were called in to combat Prime. There were casualties, but Flash Jay Garrick, Flash and Kid Flash took Prime out of action by running him into the Speed Force.
(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth’s heroes, including Argent, who’d responded to the Teen Titans emergency signal, appeared to take Superboy-Prime down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn’t at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he’d be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy’s death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible foir boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime.
(Titans II #2) - Trigon was bent on destroying every Titan, past and present, and the original Titans reformed to stop him. The Titans saved Argent from being killed by Trigon’s minions.
Comments: Created by Dan Jurgens
Argent received a profile in Sins of Youth Secret Files #1 under the Titans entry.
Argent had a cameo in Beast Boy #1.
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