Warren Peace is a major character in Sky High, and Will Stronghold's former "arch-nemesis" to Best Friend. He is a very feared student in the school, mostly because due to the fact that his father, Baron Battle, was a supervillain while his mother (whose name is never revealed) was a superheroine. Since Will's arrival, Warren followed him closely to avenge his father's arrest by The Commander's (Will's father) hands.
Background
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Pyrokinesis: Warren is a pyrokinetic, he can create and control fire. He showed various aspects of this ability including creating extreme heat in his hands to burn others, without flames, he can control the fire to create something as small as a candle flame from a fingertip, to flames covering his arms and most of his upper body. He can also throw fireballs, and he has excellent aim. Warren was only able to create fire from his hands and could extend the fire to his arms. It is unknown if he could create fire from the rest of his body or extend the fire to any other parts of his body. If he could, he may be able to coat his entire body in flames. While the flames burn, his clothes are unharmed.
- Superhuman Strength: Warren additionally possesses superhuman strength, effortlessly throwing a destroyed metal object over a barrier during Save the Citizen.
- Superhuman Durability: Warren possesses superhuman durability, though he isn't quite invulnerable. He was shown capable to be thrown through walls and into pillars by the super-strong Will Stronghold, breaking them with his body, and getting up again a moment later seeming no worse for the wear
Role in the film
Warren is already a feared student when the film begins. He continuously gives Will cold looks before bursting out on him when Will accidentally tosses a tray of food on him after Lash stretched out his arm to trip Will. During their fight, Warren prepares to burn Will's friends, which causes Will to tap into his previously dormant power of super-strength and a battle ensues in the cafeteria, almost destroying it. Luckily, Layla told Mr. Boy to do something before the fight and Mr. Boy jumped into action by telling Principal Powers a fight was happening. By the time Will uses the fire extinguisher to put out Warren's flames, Principal Powers shows up and takes him and Warren to detention in a specially designed detection room where their powers are neutralized.
Later on, Ethan and Zach accept Lash and Speed's challenge in the Save the Citizen game in Will's place, and Warren is forced to partner with Will. Lash wraps himself around Warren, only to be burned. Towards the end of the game, Speed creates an oxygen-sucking vortex around Warren, preventing him from creating his fire and nearly suffocating him. Will stops Speed and throws Warren at the citizen, winning them the game. But his hostility towards Will continues. That night, he meets Layla at the Paper Lantern Chinese restaurant where he works as a part-time employee and reveals he has a kind and caring side, and the two begin to form a friendship. Despite him being Will's enemy, he advises Layla to confess her romantic feelings to him and ask him to homecoming. When that fails, she asks him to be her homecoming date to make Will jealous. He accepts, but firmly refuses to rent a tux. Afterwards, Layla, Ethan, Zach, and Magenta begin to hang out with him at school, much to his dismay.
On the night before the dance, he bumps into Will at the Paper Lantern and tells him about Layla's feelings for him, though he also takes delight in pointing out that Will was being a jerk to his friends, so he does deserve getting the silent treatment from them. At homecoming, Warren uses his father's tux and meets up with Layla. He opens an escape in a vent for himself and the other four when Gwen reveals herself as Royal Pain and turns nearly everyone at the dance into infants with the Pacifier. In the battle against Royal Pain and her minions, he fights Speed, who uses his super-speed to keep Warren from attacking him. With Ethan's help, he manages to send Speed into a wall with a fireball. After the villains are defeated and everyone else is saved, Warren is seen dancing with a girl who controls ice. In the ending sequence, Will comments that arch-enemy Warren became his best friend and a part of their own superhero team.
Trivia
- Warren is one of the more complex people in the film. He can speak Chinese with no explanation on where he picked it up. He helped other students escape the Homecoming Ball when Royal Pain revealed herself, showing that he was concerned for the other students' welfare.
- His name is a play-on on the Leo Tolsky novel War and Peace.
- Warren’s height is 6’2”.
- He is sometimes mistaken for Jacob Black, portrayed by Taylor Lautner as the two look alike.
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