Metrowoman (character)

Metrowoman, aka Aaliyah Maverick is a superheroine and the titular main protagonist of the animated series, Metrowoman. Initially started out having a normal life with her mother until she started developing superpowers during infancy as she later learns that she's not entirely human but rather she is only half human, and half Arkanian. After learning of her father and accepting her heritage, she decides to use her gifts for good and becomes Neo Meridian City's resident superhero, the Woman of Might, Metrowoman.

Her voice is provided by Aimee Carrero/Adria Arjona.

Note : This character article is under the ownership of Dino-drones.

Early Life
Aaliyah Maverick was born on the planet Arkan as an infant a year after her birth by her Arkanian father Caelem and her human mother Vivian. When Arkan was invaded by the Drakon Empire, young Aliyah was sent to Earth with her mother Vivian to safety by her father Caelum, prior to his and the destruction of Arkan at the hands of the Emperor of the Empire, Drakhanus.

Aaliyah had a normal and average childhood like other children, although she did showed signs of her powers, which made her mother very proud but secretive.

Hero of NMC
As a 16-yr old teenager, Aliyah had graduated early from college and Vivian had moved to Neo Meridian City for a fresh start while traveling there with Aliyah's best friend Paige West. There she her new best friend Paige West, Zoe Cheng, Bennett and stumbles upon Trent Driscoll, whom she develops a crush on, Farmer Hebner, and later Madilyn Silas, the new CEO of Silas Industries after the passing of her mother, Ophelia. On their second night camping in the woods, Aliyah, Paige and her new friends were hanging out getting to know one another encountered three Drakon scouts, Luger, Zand'r and Zargus, who were feasting upon one of Hebners cattle. Luger was about the shoot Paige with his blaster when Alicia threw a rock to gain his attention then causes him, and the other two to go after her. C was and enraged shoot beams from her eyes at him. Alana faints from the overwhelming experience where was taken to D.A.W.N.

There, she meets up with her mother reveled to be DAWN's chief Scientist. She then was given the tour of DAWN's HQ

Physical Description
Aliyah Maverick is a beautiful young woman of average height in her late teens with a slender frame, sporting an athletically well-muscled hourglass build. She has brown eyes. tawny tanned, high cheekbones, arched eyebrows, brick red lipstick and long flowing dark bluish black hair reaching midback w/h a single shorter strand which hangs between her eyes and forehead. She is considered to be very attractive due to her curvaceous and busty appearance, ripped broad shoulders, lean sculpted arms, visible biceps, toned abs, long muscular, yet shapely well-toned legs and heart-shaped buttocks. Aaliyahs face is more angular and refined with her head similar to that of an adult's in proportion to her body for her age as well do her buxom breasts.

Measurements: 35-27-34

Aliyah:
She wears a pair of glasses, a blue short-sleeve top, loose jeans and white sneakers w/h neon blue stitching. Aliyah wears her hair in various styles such as tail braids. wrapped ponytail, braided crown, side braid to bun ( sometimes tucked in), two buns on top of each other, braided crown from both sides. While in her superhero persona, her hair is loose.

Metrowoman:
She is dressed a form-fitting platinum white long-sleeved bodysuit which was created by her father many years ago. The long sleeves end after the wrist bone, thus leaves her hands bare. The suits' neckline is squared and plunged, which highlights her collar bone and reveals a massive amounts of visible cleavage. A pair of blue boots with a slight heel and the tops come to a twin pointed notch at the middle of her shins with a silver trim. She also has a long blue cape drapes over her shoulders that reaches down to her calves and its tucked in at the neckline. On the middle of her torso below her cleavage touching the neckline is a sigil of silver, pentagonal diamond emblem rimmed with a blue border and containing a blue capital metallic 'M' inside on the front while an all silver "M" pattern copied on the cape. The pattern is copied on the back of her cape, but in all silver. The cape flutters beautifully in the wind when she is flying.

Her toned musculature of her shoulders, arms, bicep/triceps, slim waist, defined abs, legs, calves, buttocks are highlighted and accentuated throughout her suit. Her hair is wavier. In season 2 she now has shown a single curled strand hanging between her eyes.

The suits synthetics act as a second layer of skin and it’s made from Arkanian materials that is incredibly resistant to damage and tear, making the suit just as invulnerable as Aliyah, and such as, it's elastic and stretchable. It was created by her father and was originally planned to be her 18th birthday gift by her mother. She wears the suit underneath her street clothes, which lends itself to easy transference between the two personalities. However, the purpose of this convention outside of fiction is largely dramatic, allowing Maverick to commences the iconic shirt rip and reveals her cleavage and the familiar "M" insignia when called into action. Then. To do so, she must go to seclude areas such as alleyways, dark rooms and places out of public.

Personality
Aaliyah is kindhearted, caring, selfless, intelligent, courageous, compassionate, optimistic strong-willed heroine that has a strong sense of justice, honor and good morals. She grew having a normal and interested in understanding helping those in need. She lives by a moral code that she'll never takes a life not kill, no matter what.

There are different mannerisms and personalities of both identities of Aaliyah Maverick and Metrowoman:

However, Aqliyah shows faint signs of anger whenever her friends or other people are harmed
 * In in her civilian persona, she acts mild-mannered and her usual self, awkward to deflect suspicion off her.
 * As Metrowoman, she acts more mature, serious, heroic, gentle, boldly confident and noble with a witty sense of humor. She is also braver and confident. She is shown to be flirtatious toward handsome young men, such as Trent Driscoll.

Powers and abilities
Upon touching the Diadem since infancy, Aliyah's cellular and bone structure have become more dense, resilient and more biologically effective than ordinary human tissue. It grant her vast superhuman abilities.

Powers

 * Super Strength: Metrowoman can perform tremendous feats of strength such as lift a loaded truck, bend steel or smash through walls of concrete several feet thick and stop a moving train and crush diamonds with her bare hands. She has been shown to lift heaviest of objects like vehicles, cargo containers, boulders, debris and trees, going head-to-head with any adversary.
 * Thunderclap
 * Super Speed: She is capable at moving, reacting, running, swimming and flying at incredible superhuman speeds. Able to run across water and lava.
 * Agility
 * Reflexes
 * Super Stamina: Metrowoman is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time, but still require food, drink and sleep.
 * Flight: Metrowoman has to the ability to levitate and fly through the air often at supersonic speeds, much faster than she's on foot. She's able to chase a homing missile.
 * Invulnerability: Alana's body is impervious to physical injury, temperature, atmosphere re-entry and all forms of o conventional weaponry, with bullets simply bounce off her even with the soft parts of her body. She's also impervious to edged and piercing weapons and blunt objects as shown of Shadrakh's sword instantly shatters on contact. This makes her immune to all toxins, illnesses and diseases on Earth and beyond.
 * Nigh durability: However, she can be knocked back heavier ordinance like missiles, cannons and artillery shells can knock her back. Energy blasts can be more effective to her, including Arkanite. She is also very sensitive to electricity, high voltage electric currents causes her great deal of pain and discomfort (courtesy of Terawatt) and can be temporally blinded by high concentrated lasers. Metrowoman can also survive take Nuclear strikes
 * Longevity:
 * Superhuman senses: Aliyah's super sensitive ears can
 * Heat vision: Metrowoman can project blue beams of intense energy from her eyes, hot enough to melt through stone and penetrate steel.
 * X-Ray vision:
 * Telescopic/Microscopic vision.
 * Super Breath: She can breath and exhale powerful gusts of strong gusts of wind. It's capable of freezing things in place.
 * Super Leaping: Metrowoman uses the muscles of her legs to leap across tall buildings in a single bound and vast distances without having to fly.
 * Atmosphere Adaption: Alicia can breath and exhale gusts of air the vacuum of space without even requiring oxygen. But she can't breath underwater
 * Accelerated Healing: Metrowoman can heal her minor injuries at an accelerated rate instantly in a mere split second.

Skills and Abilities

 * Genius-Level Intellect
 * Indominable Will: Free of corruption and temptation, she is very optimistic and never gives up no matter how bad situation become.
 * Master Combatant: From her childhood, Aliyah was trained in basic self defense classes before her powers reawakened h-2-h combat and martial arts.
 * Gymnastics:
 * Flexibility:
 * Swimming:
 * Perfect Memory

Weaknesses

 * Arkanite: The main weakness of Metrowoman. An amber yellow/orange amber crystalline xenomineral which is the fragmented remains of her destroyed birth planet of Arkan at the hands of the Drakon Empire. Following Arkan's destruction, its sharps has scattered throughout the galaxy and some made its way to Earth. This emits a hazardous radiation that's deadly to her physiology which weakens her within a close proximity. The effects cause immediate physical pain such as severe muscle soreness, headaches, fatigue and loss (or near loss) of consciousness, sometimes usually to the point of collapse. It also reduces her ability to fly. Once the Arkanite is removed or disposed of, she'll slowly regain her strength in moments..
 * Physical Limitations: Metrowoman may be a formidable fighter. However, there are weights she cannot lift she is known to strain or struggle when lifting heavier objects like huge parts of buildings, large heavier structures, holding up a damaged bridge, pushing a huge warship or a even To'kustar.

Equipment

 * Metro-suit:

Trent Driscoll
Upon meeting Trent, Aliyah she developed an un consumed crush on him.

Inspirations/Influences

 * Superman/Clark Kent (DC Comics): Alien physiology
 * Supergirl/Kara Zor-El (Elseworld's finest): Suit aspects and physique.
 * Elisa Maza (Gargoyles): Skin tone, facial likeness, hair color and hair strand
 * Viper (Jackie Chan Adventures): Skin tone, angular jawline, brown eyes.
 * Vex'ahlia (The Legend of Vox Machina)
 * Jetstream/Josie DeMarco Stronghold (Sky High 2005): exposed cleavage, costume aspects and cape
 * Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Avengers Assemble; S2) (Marvel Comics): Short Hair strand
 * Max Steel (2013 version): Half-alien heritage
 * Silver Sentry (TMNT 2003): Costume color scheme

Trivia

 * Her costume and appearance has similarities with Jetstream/Josie Stronghold from Disney's 2005 movie, Sky High.