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NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of the PRIDE from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The mainstream version can be found here: The Pride.
“ | "Yeah, we're more than a charity organization." "We think of each other like family." "A... pride." |
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~ Catherine and Geoffrey Wilder, and Tina Minoru: members of the PRIDE. |
The PRIDE (Promoting Resilience, Independence, Dedication and Excellence) are the main antagonists of Marvel's Runaways. While it is publicly a charity organization based in Los Angeles, it is a front as its members are some of the richest and prominent families in the city, who serve the mysterious cosmic entity known as Magistrate. They are all also parents of the Runaways. This organization consists of about 13 members.
History[]
Creation[]
PRIDE was founded under the influence of Jonah whose purpose was to unearth his spaceship. In exchange for vast resources he allocated, which enabled the different members of PRIDE to successfully launch their respective businesses, Jonah demanded that they performed rituals which would revive him once his condition would worsen. Thanks to Jonah's gifts, Geoffrey Wilder created a construction company, Victor Stein launched the company Nemo, Dale and Stacey Yorkes founded the biotech firm Synnergy, supported by the investments of Tina and Robert Minoru who also built the company Wizard. As for Leslie Dean, she oversaw the development of the Church of Gibborim.
All these organizations were connected to PRIDE, which appeared as a charity devoted to social work and improving the life of the inhabitants of Los Angeles. PRIDE had a considerably good reputation in Los Angeles as a charity, attracting many young people who wanted to work for the organization. As such, PRIDE employee Wendy claimed that it was easier to be admitted into Harvard University than to get a job or an internship in PRIDE.
Marvel's Runaways[]
Season 1[]
In order to revive Jonah for the fifteenth time, Leslie Dean selected Destiny Gonzalez, a young member of the Church of Gibborim, as the next victim. PRIDE held the ritual as usual and sacrificed her, unaware that their children were actually witnessing the whole event. However, unbeknownst to them, the Dematerialization Box they had been using was experiencing malfunctions Victor Stein was not able to fix in time. While all the other members had left, Stein discovered, much to his horror, that Gonzalez was still alive inside the Box. Therefore, Stein murdered her to cover up for his mistakes and dropped her body in the ocean.
However, Gonzalez's corpse was ultimately stranded back on the beach and found by the Los Angeles Police Department, thus implying that PRIDE would need to perform another sacrifice. Stein attempted to kidnap someone else to be sacrificed, but the brain tumor he was suffering from made him hallucinate that he had indeed abducted someone whereas the van he drove to the Wilder Mansion was actually empty. The members of PRIDE still believed that Stein had the right idea and both Stein and Robert Minoru went to find another victim, although they failed to kidnap Murray, a homeless man who resisted them.
It was ultimately Geoffrey Wilder who found the final victim. Indeed, as the Crips had kidnapped his son Alex, one of them, Andre Compton, was heavily wounded in the confrontation between the Crips and the Wilders. Before he died from his wounds, Geoffrey brought back Compton to the Church of Gibborim Executive Office where PRIDE performed the ritual instead of doing it the Wilder Mansion. This successfully restored Jonah.
PRIDE held a gala in Wizard Headquarters which was initially meant as a fundraising event for the school they pretended to build on the PRIDE Construction Site. However, the event soon went south when Victor Stein publicly revealed that he had discovered his wife Janet Stein had an affair with Robert Minoru. Moments later, a violent headache due to his brain tumor caused Victor to faint. He was taken to a quiet room where the other members of PRIDE learned about his condition he had kept secret until then. In order to cure him, Jonah injected Victor with a serum which significantly improved both his condition and his personality. The serum was secretly kept by Dale Yorkes.
In order to support her husband and to diminish the tension within PRIDE, Janet chose to end her relationship with Robert. However, Victor quickly returned to his violent and brutal behavior. This led him to attack his own son Chase with the Fistigons, nearly killing him before Janet shot Victor with a gun provided by Robert. Unable to go to the police, Janet contacted the other members of PRIDE, except Leslie Dean, as they did not want Jonah to learn about the incident. Despite their best efforts, Victor fell into a coma.
Leslie ultimately learned about the situation by spying on her daughter Karolina, who had been informed by Chase, and went to the Stein Mansion. Refusing as well to contact Jonah, Leslie called her husband Frank Dean, who had obtained Healing Gloves from Jonah. However, Frank was unable to save Victor, who became clinically dead, prompting Tina Minoru to inform Jonah of the situation. As a result, Jonah also arrived to the Stein Mansion.
Jonah, who needed Victor alive as he was the only one able to work on the Dematerialization Boxes used during PRIDE's rituals, explained that they had to sacrifice someone to revive him. Jonah ordered Janet to sacrifice herself as he held her accountable of the situation. Janet objected, claiming that she had tried to manage Victor's harsh personality for years without anyone actually helping her. As she suggested to sacrifice someone else, like Yorkes, an argument erupted within PRIDE, which annoyed Jonah who threatened to kill everyone of them as well as their children.
This worsened the situation as Yorkes, who refused that his children were put in harm's way, drew a gun and aimed it at PRIDE, suggesting that he would be in favor of sacrificing Tina, who he greatly disliked. Yorkes was ultimately disarmed by Geoffrey Wilder and Jonah decided to end the argument, once again ordering Janet to put herself into the Dematerialization Box; or instead Jonah would sacrifice her son Chase. Janet eventually complied, but Robert refused that she sacrificed herself and decided to give his life instead. Before he could do so, however, Tina destroyed one of the Boxes with the Staff of One, rendering the sacrifice impossible. Although he was upset by this, Jonah decided to keep Victor's body in the remaining Box while he would search for another solution.
Frank Dean was informed by her daughter Karolina, who trusted him as he was not a member of PRIDE, about the fact that the Runaways knew about PRIDE's secret activities. Instead of helping the Runaways, Frank reported this to Jonah, who therefore learned that his whole plans were in danger. This, combined with the other ordeals PRIDE had had to face in recent times, including ones they had created themselves, prompted Jonah to summon a PRIDE meeting in the Church of Gibborim Executive Office.
During the meeting, the members of PRIDE were confronted about their recent choices: Leslie Dean choosing not to inform him when Victor Stein was dying, the Yorkeses and Wilders hiding Molly Hernandez from him, and Dale Yorkes keeping his serum for analysis. Jonah revealed that their children knew about the rituals and that they had to stop them. The members of PRIDE quickly figured out that the Runaways were headed to the PRIDE Construction Site, where they found their children trying to sabotage the whole enterprise. Although they insisted that everything they had done was for their children's sake, the Runaways refused to listen to them and declared war upon them. On this occasion, PRIDE discovered that some of the Runaways had superhuman abilities: Hernandez displayed a superhuman strength, Gert Yorkes had a telepathic link with a dinosaur created by the Yorkeses and Karolina seemed to be one of the Being of Lights mentioned in the Book of Gibborim.
As the children refused to follow their parents, Jonah joined the confrontation and began attacking the Runaways, despite several members of PRIDE urging him not to. They watched helpless as most of the Runaways escaped, leaving only Karolina to fight against Jonah. Jonah won the confrontation and captured Karolina while the members of PRIDE unsuccessfully looked for their children.
Season 2[]
PRIDE was informed by Detective Flores that the LAPD had found and arrested their children, prompting PRIDE to go to the District 27 West Side Station to get them back. However, it turned out that the LAPD had arrested the wrong teenagers, meaning that the Runaways were still at large, and PRIDE decided that they would no longer count on the police to find them. They thus went to the PRIDE Headquarters, much to the staff's surprise, and delivered a speech claiming that they remained dedicated to the charity's main cause. Once in a meeting room, Tina and Robert Minoru revealed the command center they had implemented in the PRIDE Headquarters, which became PRIDE's main base of operations to organize the search for the Runaways and planning the assassination of Jonah.
PRIDE's first action was to go to Graciela Aguirre, who had claimed on wHiH World News that she had evidence against PRIDE regarding their involvement in the Runaways' disappearance. Along with the Minorus, Dale and Stacey Yorkes went to Aguirre's house in an attempt to retrieve the video tape in her possession, but she refused to hand it over and attempted to destroy it, causing her to be murdered by Tina. PRIDE reclaimed the fragments of the tape and managed to access its nonetheless: a recording of Gene and Alice Hernandez indicating that the drill PRIDE had realized on the PRIDE Construction Site under Jonah's directions could cause massive earthquakes across California.
Divisions began to arise among PRIDE since some members had actually encountered the Runaways but had failed to convince or force them to return home: indeed, Tina Minoru had given the Staff of One back to her daughter Nico during a confrontation at the Minoru Mansion, which had enabled the Runaways to rescue Alex Wilder from a kidnapping attempt orchestrated by Geoffrey Wilder. However, despite the arguments erupting when all those events were revealed, PRIDE kept working together, especially since the Runaways were no longer wanted for murder thanks to Catherine Wilder's efforts, who had framed Darius Davis for the crime and murdered him as well.
This enabled PRIDE to gain some time to focus on their other objective of assassinating Jonah. Dale and Stacey Yorkes required Leslie Dean's help to access the PRIDE Construction Site in order to test a serum they had developed against Jonah. Much to the Yorkeses' satisfaction, the serum proved to be effective on a tissue sample taken from into the hole, giving PRIDE hope that they could efficiently use it against Jonah. However, an earthquake immediately occurred afterwards, prompting the Yorkeses to leave. On their way, they also saw Jonah along with Karolina Dean on the dig site, which left them puzzled as to why they were here.
PRIDE arrived in the evening on the PRIDE Construction Site, learning from Jonah and Leslie that at least some of the Runaways were already on the site, down into the hole. As Jonah decided to proceed to the launch nonetheless, PRIDE saw Karolina Dean fly out of the hole with Chase Stein and Molly Hernandez. They were quickly followed by Nico Minoru using the Staff of One to get out of the hole as well, and later by Alex Wilder and Gert Yorkes, thus reuniting PRIDE and the Runaways in the same place for the first time since the teenagers had fled.
PRIDE then witnessed in silence as Jonah asked Karolina to come with him on a journey into space, but they immediately reacted when a tremor shook the dig site, causing PRIDE to call out Jonah's lies about the seismic hazards. With Jonah deciding to leave Karolina behind and to further proceed to the launch, both PRIDE and the Runaways attempted to stop him. Although Tina Minoru realized she could no longer use the Staff of One, the combined efforts of the Steins and the Yorkeses using the weapons they had created were enough to damage the ship and cause its destruction. However, it also greatly angered Jonah, who emitted a powerful shockwave, knocking the members of PRIDE and the Runaways several meters away.
PRIDE then saw Jonah move towards them in a threatening way, but before they could actually defend themselves, Jonah was seemingly killed by Nico using the Staff of One imbued with Anti-Gibborim Serum. With this successful victory obtained by allying with their children, PRIDE attempted to convince the Runaways to return home, but they then fell asleep because of a spell cast by Nico. When they awakened, the Runaways were gone, meaning that it was still up to PRIDE to look for them. They also called Detective Flores so he would collect and dispose of Jonah's body.
In parallel of the weapons development, Victor Stein managed to convince his son Chase to peacefully return home by confessing that he was sick again, unaware that his condition was actually due to his possession by the Magistrate. While Chase discovered the public face of PRIDE in the PRIDE Headquarters, PRIDE tried to appease its divisions, especially due to Tina Minoru's recent imprisonment at the Yorkes Residence. In order to put an end to it, Victor used the fact that he had successfully got his son back as credit in order to take leadership of PRIDE and determine how the organization would work from now on.
PRIDE eventually decided to use Chase's return to their advantage. Despite his reluctance, they welcomed him into the ranks of PRIDE, assuring that they would do their best to avoid hurting the Runaways and promising that the teenagers could take the reins of the charity if they peacefully came back like Chase had done. Chase was convinced by the arguments and agreed to join PRIDE and to be a go-between for PRIDE and the Runaways.
PRIDE immediately gave its new member Chase Stein a difficult assignment: convincing the Runaways to follow his path and peacefully return home so that the families could be reunited. Despite his doubts about his chances of success, PRIDE alerted Chase that he was the only one for this task and that he had to succeed. Otherwise, PRIDE would launch a massive assault on the Runaways to force them back home, using the weapons they had designed against the teenagers.
Therefore, Chase called Alex Wilder to set up a meeting with the Runaways. Although they ranged from heavily reluctant to strongly opposed to the idea, the meeting occurred in a neutral location, but Chase, despite warning his teammates about PRIDE's weapons and the fact that they could upset the Synnergy Serum on them, failed to convince them. He was thus forced to leave his former teammates and called PRIDE to inform them of his failure.
This prompted PRIDE to take the conflict to the next level by directly confronting the Runaways. A massive manhunt, based on armed PRIDE Drones, was initiated and coordinated by Tina Minoru, while the other members of PRIDE patrolled the city in their car, ready to drive to any location Tina would indicate to look for their children. Tina failed to hit the teenagers with the Multidirectional Tranquilizer Darts shot by the drones, which caused the Runaways to split up, being chased by their different parents and triggering several conflicts in Los Angeles.
However, PRIDE only got very few results in this endeavor, due to both the Runaways' resistance and the fact that some of its members were possessed by Gibborim. As such, Catherine and Geoffrey Wilder ended up arrested by the LAPD after being framed for a murder by their son Alex. Tina and Robert Minoru confronted their daughter Nico at the PRIDE Headquarters, and although they initially defeated her, a powerful outburst of dark energy enabled Nico to defeat her parents, heavily wounding her father in the process.
Among PRIDE's targets, only Gert Yorkes and Karolina Dean were actually captured. Nevertheless, Gert was actually taken far from both PRIDE and the Runaways by her father Dale Yorkes, who had grown to fear his wife Stacey's newly violent personality, actually due to the personality of the Magistrate's Wife resurfacing. As for Dean, although she thought to be confronting Victor Stein and received the assistance of Xavin, she was actually abducted by Jonah, who possessed Victor. Back at the Stein Mansion, Jonah also attacked Chase and Janet Stein, capturing them both so that they and Dean could be used as vessels for the Gibborim family.
Season 3[]
Following their arrest, Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder faced imprisonment, but Catherine decided to take responsibility for her actions and confessed her sole accountability in the death of Darius Davis. Geoffrey was released, but Catherine was sent to prison where she ended up murdered by inmates instructed so by Tamar. Janet Stein also died after sacrificing herself to enable Chase Stein and Karolina Dean to escape from the Healing Algorithm, although her consciousness was preserved in the algorithm itself.
Through her possession of Tina Minoru, the Magistrate's Daughter instructed Wizard engineers to work on a platform which would enable the Gibborim to return to their home planet. However, their plans were foiled by the Runaways during the Battle at the Marine Vivarium Desalination Plant. As a consequence of Nico Minoru's spell, Victor, Tina and Stacey Yorkes were released from the Gibborim controlling them, but also found themselves trapped in the Dark Dimension until they managed to escape. Victor and Stacey then joined the Alien Abductee Anonymous to overcome their traumatic experiences.
Meanwhile, Dale Yorkes joined the Church of Gibborim, which had been restarted by Leslie Dean after she gave birth to her second child, Elle, who had been entrusted to Xavin.
Robert Minoru was revived by Morgan le Fay who had left the Dark Dimension thanks to Nico, and was enthralled by the witch so she could carry on her plans to take over the world through her Corvus phones. Robert eventually regained control of his actions thanks to Tina, but was finally killed by le Fay when she found out about it. Geoffrey, who had joined Wizard and started a new life with Tamar, also fell under le Fay's influence through a Crow Necklace, which caused him to briefly detain fellow PRIDE members Victor and Stacey, but the enchantment was broken when he was hit by a Lightforce sphere sent by Dagger.
PRIDE was reassembled by Geoffrey Wilder after learning that the Coven planned on sacrificing Molly Hernandez to enact the final phase of Morgan le Fay's plan. Despite lacking the superpowers of their children, the Runaways, they refused to ask them for assistance so they would not be put in harm's way because of PRIDE once again. Therefore, PRIDE went to the Olympic Grand Hotel, on the roof of which the ritual was supposed to happen, posing as CDC operatives. They managed to keep all customers of the hotel in lockdown to prevent them from being hurt, and were able to save Hernandez from the Coven. However, Wilder was heavily wounded in the process when Hernandez attacked him before Tina Minoru broke le Fay's enthralment.
PRIDE then took Hernandez to the Runaways' hideout, the Hostel, where several of them had already been earlier. Confirming that the war between PRIDE and the Runaways was definitely over, PRIDE put their talents in action to prepare for the upcoming battle against le Fay. Most notably, Victor Stein worked with his wife Janet's consciousness in the Healing Algorithm to create a disruption in the cell service and take down the Corvus phones, while Dale Yorkes was able to prepare a serum countering the effects of the phones thanks to Karolina Dean's DNA.
Among the members of PRIDE, only Stein and Tina Minoru took an active part in the battle, the former initiating the phone disruption to weaken le Fay while the latter blocked the arrival of le Fay's army before banishing the enchantress back to the Dark Dimension. The other members did not actually fought against the Coven, although they were briefly threatened by Bronwyn before being saved by Alex Wilder. Eventually, PRIDE survived the battle mostly unharmed, witnessing the death of a future Chase Stein and enabling them to return to their normal activities with the organization being purged of its criminal side.
Members[]
- Victor Stein - Leader of both PRIDE and founder and CEO of Nemo
- Leslie Dean - Former leader of both PRIDE and formerly the Church of Gibborim
- Tina Minoru - Co-founder and CEO of Wizard
- Geoffrey Wilder - Founder and CEO of Geoffrey Wilder Construction Inc.
- Dale Yorkes - Co-founder and CEO of Synnergy
- Stacey Yorkes - Co-founder and CEO of Synnergy
Former Members[]
- Magistrate - Founder and benefactor (possessing Victor Stein; presumably deceased)
- Frank Dean - Former leader of the Church of Gibborim and former movie actor (defected)
- Janet Stein - Victor's wife (deceased)
- Robert Minoru - Co-founder of Wizard (deceased)
- Catherine Wilder - Lawyer (deceased)
- Gene Hernandez - Geologists (deceased)
- Alice Hernandez - Geologists (deceased)
- Chase Stein - Victor and Janet's son (defected)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- While this version of The Pride consists is syndicate wealthy families, the mainstream comic book incarnation is a crime syndicate comprising of families with special abilities.
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