Voltage (2016 Film)

Voltage is a 2016 American Action Superhero Film, based off of the fictional comic book series of the same name on Disney Channel's Liv and Maddie, premiering in the theaters on June 25, 2016. The first of three installments of the Voltage Film Trilogy, the film stars Emilia McCarthy, Dylan Sprayberry, Jadin Gould, Emily Bett-Rickards, Rowan Blanchard, Phil Morris, Tom Welling, and James Spader as the Main Cast, and follows McCarthy as Tess Morgan, a smart cheerleader that was given the ability to control lightning and must now use her powers to stop an alien creature, while searching for secrets behind her father's disappearance.

Summary
When she was a four year old child, Tess Morgan witnessed her father, a scientist working on a secret project, disappear in a flash of light, and he was never found. Years later, a now sixteen year old Tess Morgan is a smart, straight A+ cheerleader and the most popular girl in High School, working an internship at the lab of Dr. John Deaton, working alongside her friends, Maddie, Wyatte, and Garrison, awaiting for the day she turns eighteen to enherit her father's company, T.E.S.S. Labs  (Technological and Engineering Scientific Studies Laboratories),  but her life is changed forever, when a bolt of lightning strikes her, and puts her in the hospital for nearly a year. Upon getting out of the Hospital, Tess tries to return to her normal life, but she realizes she can't, when she discovers that she has the ability to manipulate and generate lightning and electricity. Now, while trying to control her powers and keep them a secret from the world, Tess must use them when the city is attacked by an alien warlord, named Tetrax the Titan, who plans to to destroy the Earth. In her fight to defeat the Titan, Tess becomes known to the word as Sky Volt.


 * Emilia McCarthy as Lutessa "Tess" Morgan/Sky Volt, the daughter of the CEO of T.E.S.S. Labs, named after her, who witnessed her father vanish in a flash of light, spending her whole life searching for his secrets. As a 16 year old, Tess is very smart, with a passion for science, and is a popular cheerleader, and works alongside her friends as an intern at T.E.S.S. Labs, run by a friend of her fathers. After being struck by lightning, she is given the ability to manipulate and generate lightning and electricity. While hiding her powers from the world, except her friend Garrison, she used her powers to fight crime as Sky Volt.  Her Sky Volt uniform consists of a purple outfit with black bands running down lengthwise along her sides under her arms to her boots, outlined in a light sky blue.  She has dark purple gloves and boots, as well as a dark purple cape and hood.
 * Dylan Sprayberry as Garrison Manchester, Tess' best friend, classmate, and co-intern at T.E.S.S. Labs, but unlike Tess, he isn't at all popular and is thought of as an outsider to most of Tess' other cheerleader and football friends. Like Tess is incredibly smart, working alonsgside her at S.T.A.R. Labs under the mentorship of Dr. Deaton. After Tess was put in the hospital by the lightning, he visited her very often, and was there for her when she woke up. He is also the only person to know Tess' secret of being Sky Volt, and near the end of the film, discovers a shocking secret behind Tess' powers.
 * Phil Morris as Dr. John Deaton, Tess and Garrison's boss at T.E.S.S. Labs and mentor
 * James Spader as Tetrax, the Titan, an evil alien warlord, bent on taking over the world.