| “ | You. I know you. You don't believe in regret. You hate moving backwards. And the one thing the two of us have never been... will never be -- is easy. | „ |
| ~ Cloak to Dagger. |
| “ | We're gonna be a team now...? So what do we call ourselves? | „ |
| ~ Dagger to Cloak. |
Cloak (real name Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (real name Tandy Bowen) are a fictional comic book superhero duo in the Marvel Comics Universe. Two runaways who both developed the powers to manipulate the elements of light and dark, the two decided to become vigilantes and to stop threats. Both have been allies to Spider-Man, Wolverine, and members of the X-Men and the Secret Avengers.
The dynamic duo were created by Bill Mantlo and Ed Hannigan, and first appeared in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 in March of 1982.
Biography[]
Tyrone "Ty" Johnson (Cloak) and Tandy Bowen (Dagger) met in New York City as runaways. Tyrone was a 17-year-old boy from Boston, Massachusetts with a debilitating stutter and ran away to New York City when his speech impediment prevented him from stopping his friend from stepping in front of a moving vehicle. Tandy was a 16-year-old girl from a privileged upbringing (born in Shaker Heights, Ohio) who ran away because her multi-millionaire supermodel mother was too busy with her career and social life to spend time with her daughter. When they met, Tyrone considered stealing Tandy's purse, only to be shamed when she kindly offered him money. A thief stole the purse and Tyrone retrieved it for her. Afterwards, they had dinner and became fast friends. When naïve Tandy accepted an offer of shelter from some strange men, wary Tyrone went along to protect her.
The two teens were soon forcibly delivered to criminal chemist Simon Marshall developing a new synthetic heroin for Silvermane and the Maggia, testing it on runaway teens with fatal results. Johnson and Bowen somehow survived injections of the drug, and they fled. During their escape, the drug turned them into superpowered beings (this is later retconned that they were both actually mutants and that the drug had simply awakened their latent abilities). Tyrone found himself engulfed in darkness and seized by a strange hunger which eased in the presence of Tandy glowing with a brilliant light. Trying to hide his newly shadowy appearance in a makeshift cloak, Tyrone began absorbing Marshall's thugs into his darkness while Tandy struck them down with daggers of light. The two teens dubbed themselves "Cloak & Dagger" and declared war on drug crime in combating drug-dealers and helping runaway children.
Later it was revealed that during this time, D'Spayre had manipulated these events from behind the scenes.
Portrayals[]
Television[]
- In Ultimate Spider-Man, they were voiced by Phil LaMarr (who voices Kotal Kahn in the Mortal Kombat series, and also voiced Samurai Jack in the titular animated series, Bail Organa in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and Static in Static Shock). and Ashley Eckstein (who also voiced Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels).
- In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they were portrayed by Aubrey Joseph and Olivia Holt (who also played Kim Crawford in Kickin' It, and Skylar Lewis in Girl vs. Monster).
- Both reprised their voices for the characters in Marvel's Spider-Man.
Video Games[]
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, they were voiced by Ahmed Best and America Young (who also voiced Howleen Wolf in Monster High).
Motion Comic[]
- In Wolverine versus Sabretooth, they were voiced by Adrian Holmes and Mariee Devereux.
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