The ninja trio discerned Victor's identity from a news article and kidnapped his cousin Sofia to lure him to Daredevil's fortress for vengeance. ![]() Believing Victor was using Shade's optic visor, its creator Nightshade (Tilda Johnson) sent a super villain Flashmob to retrieve it, but Victor fought them off with help from Cage and Iron Fist. ![]() The dishonored ninjas recognized Victor's fighting style as Iron Fist's and confronted Fist about it, alerting Fist to Victor's existence. When Daredevil (Matt Murdock) used Hand ninjas to police Manhattan, Victor saved a prostitute from Cornell Cottonmouth and three ninjas that sought to punish her. Cage having long since abandoned the soubriquet, Victor later marketed himself as Power Man, Spanish Harlem's hero for hire. Later, when teenage Victor was attempting reconciliation with now-reformed Shades, their old tenement building was destroyed in a super-hero battle between Daredevil (Matthew Murdock) and Bullseye, killing all present except Victor, who survived because Shade's energy-projecting visor shattered, embedding Victor's skin with bioelectric energy absorbing crystal shards which let him permanently absorb every resident's chi (life force) and erect a force field from Javier De Paz, former student at Iron Fist's School of Thunder, Victor absorbed mastery of K'un-Lun martial arts. ![]() Upon release, Shades became a costumed super-villain, frequently battled Heroes for Hire Power Man (Luke Cage) and Iron Fist (Danny Rand), and left Reina for another woman. While Reina Alvarez was pregnant with Victor, her criminal husband, "Shades," was imprisoned.
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