In this Sunday's episode of "Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors," Spidey meets the mysterious duo of Cloak and Dagger! Who are these two? Are they friends or foes? Learn more about Cloak and Dagger's history from the comics before seeing them in their premiere in "Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors" this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. ET on Disney XD!
Name: Cloak/Tyrone Johnson and Dagger/Tandy Bowen
First Appearance: SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #64
Powers: Despite Cloak and Dagger having similar experiments performed on them, their powers are opposite of one another.
Cloak can manipulte Darkforce energy to teleport himself and anyone inside his cloak to a different dimension and back again. This allows him to bring foes to another dimension and leave them there, while friends can come along for the ride and back again, essentially creating an interdimensional shortcut that can teleport with.
Dagger's powers are tied a "life-force" that lets her throw daggers of light that drain power from anyone she hits. She can also use this energy to detoxify people and her athletic abilities make her very agile. Together, the two complement each other in their abilities to manipulate the light and the darkness.
Origin Story: Tyrone grew up in a rough neighborhood in South Boston, Massachusetts and struggled with a stutter. Ths stutter prevented him from being able to call for help when his friend needed it, so he ran away to New York City.
Feeling unloved by her self-centered mother and abandoned by her father, Tandy ran away from a small town in Ohio to New York City with dreams of being a dancer. She befriended Tyrone when he stopped a mugger from trying to steal her purse, and, both being alone in the big city, struck up a friendship.
Tyrone and Tandy were offered food and shelter, and being runaways, were in need of both. Unfortunately, this was just a trap. The Maggia was testing a new drug that was stronger and more addictive than heroin, and Tyrone and Tandy were their next test subjects. Luckily, the duo were the first to survive the powerful drug and it also granted them their powers over light and dark.
Because of their time on the streets and that they got their powers from a drug, Cloak and Dagger concentrated most of their efforts on street level crime like muggers and drug dealers, but have still been involved in bigger events. During Civil War, Cloak and Dagger were contacted by Captain America to help transport other heroes who opposed to Superhuman Registration Act, which they were happy to do.
During Dark Reign, Dagger was contacted by Norman Osborn to join his team of Dark X-Men. Knowing that he could erase her criminal record, both her and Cloak accepted. Feeling uneasy about siding with Osborn, Cloak and Dagger left and joined the mutants on Utopia.
Keep watching "Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors" every Sunday on Disney XD to learn more about Cloak and Dagger!