Dion Warren

* Season 1
* Season 2

**Dion Warren** is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Nicole Warren) of Raising Dion. He is portrayed by Ja'Siah Young.

## Summary

Dion is a young boy who “starts to manifest several magical, superhero-like abilities.” While his special abilities are “exciting and cool, it’s also something he knows scares his mom, Nicole.”

## Biography

### Pre-series and Season 1

Dion is the son of Mark and Nicole Warren. He was born after his father had gone to Iceland to watch the Aurora Event, and got superpowers. He passed these on to Dion.

When Dion was three years old, he and his dad almost got into a car crash because Mark's own powers began to manifest while he was driving, causing his hands to become intangible. Mark would also occasionally take Dion to his work at Biona. Here, Dion grew fond of a green fish in the fish tank in the lobby, which he dubbed Greeny.

On August 12, 2017, Mark got killed by The Crooked Man while in New Orleans, leaving Dion fatherless. Afterwards, he and his mom had to move to a different apartment, meaning Dion had to leave his old friends, including his best friend Andre Patel, behind. Following Mark's death, Mark's friend Pat Rollins became a loyal friend to Nicole and a substitute father for Dion.

The move also meant Dion had to go to a new school, where he had trouble making friends. Only Esperanza Jimenez befriended him, but Dion didn't appreciate her efforts and would rather be friends with cooler kids like Jonathan, Chris, and Steffi. It was around this time that his own powers began to manifest, which led to several predicaments since he couldn't control them. Nevertheless, Dion tried to use his powers to become a hero under the name Mind Mover. When he spotted a child in a stroller lose her stuffed toy, he used his power of teleportation to try and return it to her, but almost got hit by a car. He narrowly avoided getting killed by teleporting away.  He got better control after Nicole gave him Mark’s old watch, and convinced him that it would help the wearer stay focused. This watch was almost stolen at school by Jonathan, and when Dion accidentally used his powers to fight back, it got him in trouble with his racist principal ,Mr. Campbell.

When Pat took Dion to BIONA for a day, Dion was saddened to learn that Greeny had passed away. When he spotted lab L5, and the test animals held there, he used his powers to get Suzanne Wu’s keycard so he and Pat could enter the lab. In the lab, Dion used his powers to heal a fox, and free a hermit crab from his cage so he could take the animal home as a pet, naming him Pinchy. He also accidentally caused a citywide blackout when trying to shut down BIONA’s power. .

To give Dion a chance to see his old friends again, Nicole arranged for Dion’s eighth birthday party to be held at the house of Tasha Patel, along with Andre’s birthday. The party didn’t turn out well for Dion when first Jonathan, Chris, and Steffi didn’t show up, and later he got mocked for his Reptile Repo cake. During the party, Suzanne Wu found out Dion had powers when she saw him using his telekinesis to summon his inhaler.

After Nicole met Charlotte Tuck, a woman who like Mark had gotten powers from the Aurora Event, and whom Mark had saved from The Crooked Man, she convinced Charlotte to help train Dion. Charlotte taught Dion how to turn himself invisible, like her. Dion in turn told Charlotte that she could be a hero if she wanted to, restoring her confidence. .

When Dion learned from Pat that he had healed a fox, he tried to use his healing powers on Pat to cure the latter’s migraine. It backfired and Dion himself got sick, to the point he had to be hospitalized. While in the hospital, his powers caused the equipment in his room to malfunction. He was cured when Pat used Mark’s data to find out what might be wrong, and learned that Dion needed 4 times the normal amount of iodine, which Kat gave him. By this time, however, the hospital had called CDC to quarantine Dion, and BIONA used this opportunity to forcefully take him from the hospital and bring him to L5. They only let him go after Nicole promised to give Suzanne Wu all of Mark’s research data in return.

Along with Esperanza, and later Jonathan, Dion participated in the annual Stem Stars Competition. The three came up with The Storm Killer; a device that could theoretically weaken a storm by cooling it with liquid nitrogen. When Pat revealed himself to be the Crooked Man and killed Charlotte, Nicole took Dion to their cabin at the lake to keep him safe. Not wanting to let his friends down, Dion teleported back to the science fair. Both Nicole and Pat followed him there. When Dion learned the truth about Pat, the two got into a fight, which Dion eventually won when Mark's ghost stunned the Crooked Man, and Nicole helped him with an improvised lightning rod. After defeating Pat, Dion was briefly reunited with Mark, who warned him the Crooked Man was not gone yet.

### Season 2

In Season 2, set two years after the events of Season 1, Dion has formed the Triangle of Justice with Esperanza and Jonathan, though his heroics consist mostly of him doing minor chores around the neighborhood with his powers. He, along with several other Powered people, has been taken in by Biona to train his abilities in their new facility. In "ISSUE 201: A Hero Returns", Dion has just been assigned a new trainer, Tevin Wakefield, whom he quickly gets along with.

In "ISSUE 201: A Hero Returns", Esperanza ropes Dion and Jonathan into participating in the school musical, which Dion is not too thrilled about but agrees to for Esperanza. Around the same time, Brayden Mills, who is now posessed by the Crooked Energy, makes his way to Atlanta and gets himself enrolled in McKoy Park Elementary as part of the Crooked Energy's revenge scheme against Dion. Brayden reveals to Dion that he too has powers, and Dion is thrilled to meet another kid his age who is powered. The two begin to hang out, until Dion realizes that Brayden is trying to make him to bad things, like using his powers for personal gain or for revenge.. Dion thus breaks off the friendship.

Besides the situation with Brayden, Dion also gets to deal with two more setbacks; the unexpected return of Pat Rollins, and his mom getting infected by the parasetic plant that the Crooked Energy created in a sinkhole just outside the school. Her infection slowly begins to transform her into one of Braydens Plant Monsters and she has to go into quarantine. In "ISSUE 205: You vs. Me", in an attempt to take Dion's mind of things, Tevin and Kat take him to the cabin, but Brayden follows them there. He tries to make Tevin kill Dion, and when that fails he attacks Dion with a flock of crows. Dion is able to fight off Brayden by using his powers to enter Braydens memory of his life on the farm, and free the young version of Brayden who was trapped in this memory.

Following the camping trip, Dion learns of Nicole's condition, and that even with the serum Biona had made for her, she won't have long to live. The two decide to make the most of the time they have left. Meanwhile, the Crooked Energy fully takes over Brayden and has him attack Dion at school, but Dion is once again able to fight him off with help of Esperanza and Jonathan..

On the night of the musical, The Crooked  Energy put his final plan in motion and attacked the school with his army of Plant Monsters, challenging Dion to face him. Dion thus gave up his role in the musical to fight the Crooked Energy, backed up  by Nicole, Tevin and Janelle Carr. They soon found themselves overwhelmed, but Nicole was able to reach Brayden and have him fight back against the Crooked Energy. Brayden thus rejected the energy, which retreated into the Sinkhole to try and make more monsters. Dion followed him there and, with the last of Biona's serum, was able to destroy the plant that caused the infection, restoring all the infected people back to normal and saving Nicole.

Two days after these events, Dion made himself a new Mind Mover costume, and continued to be his neighborhoods' hero.

In a post-credits scene at the end of "ISSUE 208: Who You Are", set at some unspecified time in the future, a now adult Dion, wearing a professional superhero costume, confronts Pat Rollins and his robot army.

## Personality

Dion is “curious, playful, and intelligent”. He has a good sense of justice and wants to use his powers to do the right thing.

He has a love for animals, and cannot stand it to see them in pain.

In Season 2, Dion, now 10 years old, is now more mature and has a better grip on his powers, notably his teleportation abilities. Dion is now more cautious, not wanting to be embarrassed by his mother. When anyone references his mannerisms from when he was 7 years old, he is shown cringing. This is shown when Dion tells Tevin he used to sing for his mom whenever she was sad and when Tevin asks why he stopped, Dion tells Tevin that it was too babyish for him.

## In other continuities

* In the comic, Dion can be shown practicing his powers in the woods with Nicole, like using energy blasts on some old cans. He only appears at the beginning of the story since the bulk of the comic focusses on how Nicole met Mark and Mark got his powers. It is notable how in the comic, Dion’s eyes glow yellow when he uses his telekinesis; something that doesn’t happen in the tv-series.
* In The short film, Dion is played by Nyri Haywood. Throughout the film, he is seen doing things like trying to telekinetically take an ipad, which Nicole forces him to put back, teleport, turn invisible, and fire lightning (which he uses to pretend he’s emperor Palpatine from Star Wars).

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## Powers and Abilities

* **Ion Manipulation:** Dion’s primary power allows him to create, shape, and manipulate ions (atoms in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons, giving the atom a net positive or negative electrical charge). This allows him to control matter that surrounds him on a molecular level.
	+ **Power Creation:** Because Dion is still a child in development, his powers are constantly growing, and he spontaneously manifests or creates new ones unintentionally and some of them intentionally.
		- **Telekinesis:** Dion is able to control objects and move matter with his mind. This ability originally tended to react to Dion's subconscious, occasionally appearing to act almost like a separate entity to Dion himself, responding to his emotions and desires, as well as the need to protect him from harm. This ability, therefore, is not always triggered by conscious effort and could even target and affect objects that aren't in Dion's direct line of sight, provided that he at least subconsciously knows the location of the target relative to himself and, presumably, if he is in the object's immediate proximity. This was demonstrated by the fact that Dion caused a bag of chips to float out of the kitchen and into his room over to him, until this was noticed by his mother, who caught it before it reached Dion. His power can also affect matter that is in a liquid or gaseous state, as it inadvertently froze his falling cereal bowl and milk in mid-air as if it was suspended in time and generated powerful winds strong enough to snap trees while at the lakehouse with his mother. Dion demonstrates this power in all continuities.
			* **Levitation:** When he was ill, Dion demonstrated the ability to manipulate the ions that surrounded his body in order to levitate, though this was done while he was sleeping and not out of conscious effort. While spinning in an office chair, Dion started levitating up into the air, until he was interrupted by nicole.
		- **Aerokinesis**: Dion created a powerful storm while he was on a boat, but then he made a log hit him. In "ISSUE 201: A Hero Returns", when Tevin asked Dion if he has intangibility as one of his powers, Dion created a mini-tornado since he didn't know what Tevin meant with his question. In "ISSUE 208: Who You Are", he used this ability again to combat Brayden and his army.
		- **Teleportation:** Dion is able to teleport via ions, seamlessly merging into surrounding energy and appearing anywhere else with a nearby energy-source. He briefly lost this ability after he nearly got hit by a car because of it, but regained it eventually. In Season 2, Dion is shown to have full control of his teleportation abilities, teleporting with ease and efficiently using it to combat Tevin's attacks. He also had this power in the short film.
			* **Conjuration:** Warren was able to conjure his small, pet hermit crab to him. Dion has only showcased this ability once, but without a doubt he could sure pull it off again.
		- **Photokinesis:** Through ion manipulation, Dion can bend, shape and generate energy and light. He demonstrated this ability was when he created multiple bright orbs of color and particles similar to psychedelic effects. Later on, he managed to utilize ions to balls of energy capable of burning and setting fire to objects. He later fully unleashed this power into an energy blast powerful enough to face the Crooked Man in battle.  In season 2, he uses this power to generate energy balls during his sparring match with Tevin, and in the fight against Brayden’s army of Plant Monsters. A major difference between the comic and the tv-series is that in the comic these energy blasts are blue, while in the tv-series they are red in color.
			* **Invisibility:** Dion is able to use ions to refract light away from him to achieve invisibility; a technique he learned from Charlotte Tuck. In both the comics and the short film, Dion can only turn his body invisible and thus has to take off his clothes to achieve full invisibility. In the Netflix series, he has even less control over this power, as in "ISSUE 201: A Hero Returns" he told Tevin he could only make his hand invisible.
			* **Force-Field Manipulation**: While training with Charlotte Tuck, Dion used this ability to generate force fields to practice his physical combat.
		- **Matter Transmutation:** Dion can manipulate surrounding ion-based energy in order to alter the molecular structure of matter and reshape objects with physical contact. He demonstrated this ability by transmuting a Lego figure to make it look more like the Crooked Man.
		- **Healing/Regeneration:** Dion is able to manipulate the ions in his body to cure living beings, such as humans (Including Himself) and animals. He does this. However, this power has its limits, because doing so makes him reduce his own energy. He demonstrated his healing ability when he had successfully cured an arctic fox, but when he attempted it with Pat, it negatively affected Dion and made him severely ill. It is hypothesized that the larger and more physiologically complex the organism Dion is transferring energy, the more degenerating the effects will be on Dion, to the point of it being enough to kill him. In season 2, Dion was caught in an explosion, which shocked his mother. After a few minutes Warren was seen crawling out of the sinkhole looking completely fine, not a single scratch this was seen in "ISSUE 208: Who You Are",
		- **Telepathy:** Dion is able to go into the minds of others. He utilized this ability while in-combat with Brayden, entering his mind and also creating a mind-link with him. He was also shown using this ability to calm Brayden down in their last battle.
		- **Pyrokinesis:**  Dion can generate intense heat and fire from his body. He used this particular ability to free Nicole from Pat. He was shown using this ability to shoot fireballs while training with Tevin.
		- **Electrokinesis:** Dion is able to manipulate and generate electricity-like proton beams; he demonstrated this ability for when he created a ball of electricity, which could potentially burn and destroy objects. Dion uses his powers to disable the security cameras at Biona. He later fully unleashed this power into an electrical blast powerful enough to face the Crooked Man in battle.
		- **Flight:** In a post-credits scene at the end of "ISSUE 208: Who You Are", as Dion has now become an adult, he demonstrated that he possess the power to fly.

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## Weaknesses

In most cases, the powers of Dion seem unlimited. But in some cases, such as telekinesis and healing, if he tries to push his powers too far, he can get sick or severely weakened and need medical assistance. It is known that he could even die doing this.

Because of how super-powered people like Dion have up to 4 times the normal iodine concentration in their bodies, going below that could be very dangerous, and potentially kill him. In these situations, he needs to receive iodine to restore him back to full health.

At first, Dion had great trouble controlling his powers, and ended up using them unintentionally; even in his sleep. He got a better grip on them after Nicole gave him Mark's old watch and convinced Dion that it would help him stay focused. Over the course of the series, the powers of Dion and its limits are constantly growing the more he uses them, so with practice and time, this weakness could disappear.

In Season 2, Dion is shown to have complete control over most of his abilities, notably his teleportation powers. He is also shown to know how to effectively use his powers to combat Tevin.

Dion has asthma and throughout season 1 occasionally needs an inhaler. This is somehow absent in season 2 however.

## Relationships

* **Mark Warren**: Mark is Dion's father, and the two were very close. Dion misses his dad, who would always call them before they slept, or send them videos of him talking to them.
* **Nicole Warren**: Nicole is Dion's mother, and very protective of him. Something Dion can't always appreciate, though he still loves her.
* **Kat Neese**: Kat is Dion's aunt and like Nicole protective of her nephew.
* **Pat Rollins**: For most of season 1, Dion is very close to Pat and looks up to him as a substitute father. Pat, in turn, helps Dion with his powers, using his wide knowledge of various comic book heroes. Dion's image of Pat is shattered however when he finds out Pat is The Crooked Man and the one who killed Mark. Dion is eventually forced to fight and seemingly kill Pat. When Pat returns in Season 2, Dion is openly hostile towards him.
* **Andre Patel**: Andre was Dion's best friend before he moved, but when they met again on their shared birthday party it became clear the boys had drifted apart. In particular, Andre no longer liked Reptile Repo while Dion still loves this game. He is not seen again in Season 2
* **Esperanza Jimenez**: Esperanza is the first friend Dion made after the move forced him to switch schools. At first, he didn't like her hanging out with him or coming over to his house. It got to the point he openly rejected her as a friend when his birthday party went south. When she stuck with him despite his harsh word and revealed she knew about his powers, Dion finally warmed up to her. He even got jealous when she became friends with Jonathan King after the latter was assigned to their science fair project. Their friendship was temporarily strained when Dion used his powers to try and help Esperanza walk, but she didn't like it. They made up however when Dion realized his mistake and apologized. As of Season 2, they are a close group of friends along with Jonathan, with Dion openly supporting Esperanza during her auditioning for the school musical.
* **Jonathan King**: Dion and Jonathan initially got off on a bad foot. Jonathan rejected all of Dion's attempts to befriend him with magic tricks, and even tried to steal Dion's watch. Only when Anthony Fry assigned Jonathan to Dion and Esperanza's group for the science fair project did he and Dion slowly become friends. Jonathan discovered Dion had superpowers when he saw Dion fight against the Crooked Man. In Season 2, he has become part of Dions' Triangle of Justice.
* **Chris and Steffi**: Like Jonathan, Dion tried to befriend Chris and Steffi. He even went with them to the skatepark after school, despite Nicole's orders for Dion to wait for her to pick him up, and tried to impress them with his moves (secretly helped by his powers). Dion stopped any effort to befriend them after they turned down his invitation to come to his and Andre's birthday party.
* **Tevin Wakefield**: Tevin is Dion's new trainer in Season 2. Suzanne Wu assigned him to Dion specifically because Dion needed a trainer that can keep up with him, and because she believes Tevin could be a good role model for Dion. Her choice of Tevin turned out to be the right one, as Tevin and Dion quickly bonded and Dion clearly looks up to Tevin.

## Trivia

* He is in second grade in season 1.
* In season 1, he is scared of Mary Poppins. In Season 2, he admits to have had nightmares about Voldemort and Thanos, but he is mostly scared of the Crooked Man now.
* His favorite game in season 1 is Reptile Repo. In Season 2 he is never seen playing this game, suggesting he outgrew it.
* Dion is shown to have the most powers in the series and could possibly be unlocking more.
* Before he settled on "The Mind Mover", other names that Dion considered for his superhero alter-ego where Goggleman, Broomface, Plunger, and Hammerhead.
* Dion came up with the name Crooked Man for Pat's villainous alter ego.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "‘Raising Dion’: Alisha Wainwright & Newcomer Ja’Siah Young To Star; Seith Mann To Direct & Exec Produce". *Deadline*. June 27, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
2. ↑ "Netflix Orders Black Superhero Family Drama ‘Raising Dion’ Co-Starring Michael B. Jordan From Charles D. King’s MACRO". *Deadline*. October 5, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 “ISSUE #105: Days of Mark's Future Past”. *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #5
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "ISSUE #102: Fortress of Solitude". *Raising Dion*. Season 1. Episode 2.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 “ISSUE 101: How Do You Raise a Superhero?
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 “ISSUE 103”. *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #3
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 “ISSUE 104”. *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #4
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "ISSUE #106: Super Friends". *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #6
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 “ISSUE #107: Why So Vomity?”. *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #7
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "ISSUE #108: You Won't Like Him When He's Angry". *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #8
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 “ISSUE 109". *Raising Dion*. Season #1. Episode #9
12. ↑ ISSUE 204: With Friends Like These
13. ↑ ISSUE 206: 36 Good Hours
14. ↑ ISSUE 203: Monster Problem
15. ↑ ISSUE 203: Monster Problem