{"id":1375,"date":"2024-04-05T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2024-03-31T02:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T06:21:14","slug":"marvel-character-highlight-37-nova-richard-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/2024\/04\/05\/marvel-character-highlight-37-nova-richard-rider\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Character Highlight #37: Nova (Richard Rider)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name<\/strong>: Richard Rider<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alias<\/strong>: Nova Prime, Kid Nova, Nova #11249-44396, the Human Rocket, Quasar<a href=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nova.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1376\" src=\"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nova.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nova.png 400w, https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nova-190x300.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliation<\/strong>: Nova Corps, Guardians of the Galaxy, United Front, New Warriors, Defenders, Champions of Xandar, Secret Avengers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special abilities:<\/strong> Access to the Nova Force; energy projection and absorption; superhuman strength, speed, durability, agility, and reflexes; ability to exert influence over gravitational forces and open wormholes; regenerative healing factor; and, flight<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>: Richard Rider, a high schooler in New York, is selected as the successor to the last surviving member of the Nova Corps, Rhomann Dey. Rider then takes on the uniform of the Corps and travels the galaxy fighting villains of the Marvel universe and teaming with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor and Spider-Man. He later joins a few of his fellow villains and travels to Xandar to help the Xandarians against the Skrulls. When the Skrulls are defeated, he gives up his powers and returns to Earth. He later regains his powers and takes on Annihilus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relationships<\/strong>: Namorita, ex-girlfriend; Robert Rider, Nova, brother<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Versus appearance<\/strong>: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appearances in other media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video games:<\/strong> Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Marvel: Future Fight, Marvel Puzzle Quest (Sam Alexander version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Richard Rider Alias: Nova Prime, Kid Nova, Nova #11249-44396, the Human Rocket, Quasar Affiliation: Nova Corps, Guardians of the Galaxy, United Front, New Warriors, Defenders, Champions of Xandar, Secret Avengers Special abilities: Access to the Nova Force; energy projection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/2024\/04\/05\/marvel-character-highlight-37-nova-richard-rider\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,452,22,128,459,458,72,460],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marvel-character-highlight","tag-comics","tag-issue-48","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-character-highlight-2","tag-nova","tag-richard-rider","tag-staff","tag-xandar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/TheStrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}