Chase Stein

## Relationships

* Family
* Allies
* Enemies

Janet Stein (mother)
Victor Stein (Father)

Alex Wilder
Nico Minoru
Karolina Dean
Molly Hernandez
Old Lace

PRIDE (formerly)

**Chase Stein** is a character in *Marvel's Runaways.*

He is a former player of the Atlas Academy lacrosse team and the son of PRIDE members Victor and Janet Stein. Interested in technology and engineering, Stein created the custom made gauntlets Fistigons due to him and Alex Wilder being the only non-Superpowered members of the Runaways. He teamed up with his friends and formed the Runaways.

## Family

### Victor Stein

At the time Chase was born, Over the years, Victor became verbally abusive of both his wife and son due to his career taking off and putting him under a lot of pressure. After Victor was diagnosed with a brain tumor, it grew worse. However Chase got in shape and learned how to fight back to defend himself and develop a hatred for Victor.

### Janet Stein

Chase has a closer and warmer relationship with his mother than Victor. However, wherever Chase insulted his dad, Janet had to remind him that Victor was still his father, with Mrs Stein attempting to keep peace between them, but failing.

## Friends

### Alex Wilder

Chase and Alex have been childhood best friends, along with Amy, Nico, Molly, gerts and Carolina. However, theyhad a rivalry since before the series. The former blamed the latter for Amy's death because he never showed up at her funeral. Since the years growing apart, Alex initially sees Chase as nothing more then a stuck up jock. However, he wanted to reconcile with Chase and the other Runaways.

They were forced to work together after 2 years of being a part and later learned to get along. At one point, Chase believed that Alex would eventually betray the team when in a manner of irony, Chase would even he was a member of PRIDE. Chase came to Earth then that if they didn't come home soon, pride would never let them go. Alex and the other Runaways refused to accept Chase's offer to return home because they never forgave him for his betrayal.Chase was even convinced that if he got Alex alone, he would agree with him about handling PRIDE. However, this didn't take.

## Enemies

### Jonah

Chase strongly despises Jonah, mostly because he is responsible for most of the sacrifices his parents committed. Knowing how to manipulate his host's son, Jonah took advantage of Chase's love for his father, by pretending to be a dying man in order for Chase to come home. Things grew more complicated for Chase because Jonah was using the former's father as a host, so had to be careful not obliterate him.

After the subconsciousness of Chase's mother Janet was uploaded in Stein's healing algorithm, Chase wanted Jonah gone for the terrible crimes he did and for being indirectly responsible for his mother's apparent demise

## Trivia

* In " The Last Waltz", Chase continuously defends their parents despite all the terrible things they had done. This foreshadows his eventual betrayal to the team and how he returns to Victor and Janet at the end of the episode.
* Both Chase and Alex are the only male members of the original line of the Runaways
* Chase is the oldest member of the Runaways.
* Chase is the only member of the Runaways to not have a siblin. However he does see Molly Hernandez as the little sister he never had
	+ Alex has a stepbrother (Xerxes Davis)
	+ Nico had a sister (Amy Minoru)
	+ Karolina has at least three siblings (an unnamed half-sister and half-brother and Elle Dean.
	+ Gertrude and Molly have each other as adopted siblings