W.O.R.D. (superhero team)

W.O.R.D. (Worldy Overrated Racial Defenders) is a superhero team consisting of four racially diverse superheroes. In the Initial Era, they had their own comic title - W.O.R.D.
==Initial Era==
In the Initial Era, W.O.R.D. first appears in W.O.R.D. #1 (1992). Four different people (who were apparently friends) got zapped by a strange lightning storm and are given powers:
* An Asian man, San Dinh Shortz, is zapped while playing a video game. He is given the power to turn into a fire-breathing dragon. He takes the name Kenpo.
* A middle-eastern (or Indian?) man, Habib Alakazam, is zapped while touching a microwave in Store 94 and is given the power to heat food in his hands. He takes the name Burrito Man.
* An African American man, Leroy Pitch, is zapped while playing his boom box, and he's given the power to rap loudly. He takes the name M.C. Rap initially, but later becomes M.C. Jammer.
* A latino man, Marvin Cabomba, is zapped while in his low rider, and is given knowledge of weapons and fighting. He takes the name Sombrero.
Together, they form a superhero team, W.O.R.D. and elect Kenpo as their leader.
The W.O.R.D. comic book series only had one issue, so the full team was never seen in action, but Kenpo and Burrito Man did make appearances in other Vigilante Comics titles.
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