Chase Stein

"What kind of charity meeting is this?"

- Chase Stein

Chase Stein is a lacrosse-playing, high school heartthrob. While many write him off as a dumb jock, Chase exhibits flashes of untapped brilliance in engineering, not unlike his wildly successful father’s.

Biography
Chase Stein was born to Janet and Victor Stein. Growing up he grew to loathe his father due to the immense pressure put on him in regards to succeeding in school. Despite him not being universally successful in school. He has demonsrated an interest and talent in the field of engineering. Growing up, Chase's main group of friends were the children of his parents' associates, the Pride. However, after the death of Amy Minoru the friends went there seperate ways with Chase growing closer to the players on his lacrosse team.

Runaways Season 1
Chase is shown to be a very popular boy in highschool, ignoring or even insulting his former friends. Chase initially harshly rejects Alex Wilder's attempt to reunite their friend group. Because he gets a C in spanish, his father berates him leading him to seek out his teacher in an effort to get a better grade. His former friend, Gert Yorkes over hears this and offers to tutor him to which he agrees. They decide to meet at a cofee shop that night. During the same day, his friends inform him of a party that night. At the party Chase finds his friends attempting to take advantage of an unconciouss Karolina Dean. Upon waking her up they decide to leave and go to Alex Wilder's house after all.

Abilities

 * Expert Engineer

Equipment

 * Fistigons: To be added

Family

 * Victor Stein - Father
 * Janet Stein - Mother

Allies

 * Runaways
 * Alex Wilder
 * Nico Minoru
 * Karolina Dean
 * Gert Yorkes
 * Molly Hernandez
 * Amy Minoru †
 * Old Lace

Enemies

 * Pride
 * Catherine Wilder
 * Geoffrey Wilder
 * Frank Dean
 * Leslie Dean
 * Tina Minoru
 * Robert Minoru
 * Dale Yorkes
 * Stacey Yorkes

Trivia

 * In the comics, Chase Stein was also known as Talkback. He had a telepathic link to Old Lace when Gert Yorkes transfered the link to him. He also had energy-conjuring gauntlets, boots, and telescopic x-ray goggles.

Behind the Scenes

 * Owen Szabo and Michael H. Barnett were stunt doubles for Gregg Sulkin in the role of Chase Stein.