Nico Minoru

"Some people hide behind makeup, others behind a smile. It's still hiding."

- Nico Minoru to Karolina Dean

Nico Minoru is a Wiccan and the daughter of Robert and Tina Minoru. After the death of her older sister, Amy Minoru, Nico crafted a goth appearance to isolate herself. Upon reuniting with her childhood friends, they discovered that their parents used PRIDE to cover up ceremonial sacrifices of the Church of Gibborim. While exploring her mother's office, Minoru found the Staff of One, a powerful tool of nanotechnology, which she believes that is magic due her Wiccan beliefs. She teamed up with her friends and formed the Runaways. Having been framed for Destiny Gonzalez's murder, and with no other choice, they are forced to run.

Death of Amy
Although the killer of Amy has yet to be discovered, we do know how she died. We are led to believe that Jonah killed her because he took care of Amy in a deceitful way of covering up the truth that he had black-mailed Tina Minoru into doing what he wishes.

Reunion
"Mom." "What are you doing in here?" "Borrowing some tights. Mine had a hole. I'm leaving." "You know the rules." "If Amy was here, she'd let me." But Amy is not here."

- Nico Minoru and Tina Minoru

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Rescue of Alex Wilder
"Show us the way to Alex." "So much for the magical Wiccan proclamations." "What is that thing?"

- Nico Minoru, Gert Yorkes, and Karolina Dean

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Infiltration into Wizard Headquarters
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Infiltration into the PRIDE Construction Site
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Running Away
"What do we do?" "We run."

- Nico Minoru and Alex Wilder

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Former Powers
"You are the only other person in the world that staff will work for. Other than me."

- Tina Minoru to Nico Minoru


 * Staff of One Manipulation: Upon activating the Staff of One with her blood, Nico Minoru is able to command it to create and unleash a variety of effects, making her the only other user besides her mother that can activate the staff.
 * Weather Generation: While holding the Staff of One, Nico unwillingly made it snow inside her mother's home office when she reminisced on one of her deceased sister's paper snowflakes.
 * Sensory Tracking: When Alex Wilder was kidnapped and Nico tried to find him, she asked the staff to lead her the way to him which it fulfilled by creating a series of lights that followed the heat signature of his kidnappers' car.
 * Barriers: During the Runaways' confrontation with Darius Davis, Nico created an invisible barrier using the Staff of One that slowed down the hail of bullets he unleashed causing them to lose kinetic energy and drop in midair. She also created a sound barrier around Tina to prevent her from being heard.
 * Earth Manipulation:Runaways1x09-78451.png By saying "Fill the hole," Nico caused sand to swarm around a hole dug up by PRIDE. However, Tina cancelled the command before it can be completed by summoning the staff back to her hand.
 * Sound Manipulation: By concentrating on what came to her mind first she was able to make her mother mute, her not being able to speak.

Equipment

 * Staff of One: A powerful tool of nanotechnology used by Tina Minoru, but was later stolen by Nico. The staff is designed to activate in response to Tina's DNA, meaning that Nico, as Tina's daughter, is capable of using it.

Family

 * Grandmother
 * Robert Minoru - Father and Situational Enemy
 * Tina Minoru - Mother and Situational Enemy
 * Amy Minoru † - Sister

Allies

 * Wizey - Assistant
 * Runaways - Teammates and Friends
 * Alex Wilder - Former Love Interest
 * Karolina Dean - Love Interest
 * Gert Yorkes
 * Chase Stein
 * Molly Hernandez
 * Old Lace
 * Vaughn Kaye

Enemies

 * Catherine Wilder - Ally turned Situational Enemy
 * Geoffrey Wilder - Ally turned Situational Enemy
 * PRIDE - Allies turned Situational Enemies
 * Leslie Dean
 * Dale Yorkes
 * Stacey Yorkes
 * Victor Stein
 * Janet Stein
 * Crips
 * Darius Davis
 * Eiffel - Former Classmate
 * Jonah

Trivia

 * In the comics Nico Minoru was also known as Sister Grimm, wielding the Staff of One. In another universe she is a prominent member of A-Force, an all female team of superheroes.

Behind the Scenes

 * Cassie Lee Minick and Mami Spéede were stunt doubles for Lyrica Okano in the role of Nico Minoru.