I don't know who out there remembers Rage from the Marvel Universe. He was a pretty forgetable character and it's probably for the best. A former New Warrior and Avenger, Rage was a thirteen year old gifted with super strength. So what was his major flaw other than barely being a teenager on the Avengers? Well come on, he's a young black kid named Rage; he's not exactly the most creative character.
However, I also don't think it'd take too much to clean him up. Basically you have to look at the whole "Rage" persona as his awkward teenage phase. You start up a series with him at seventeen, he's come across a teacher at his high school that's really sparked his imagination. He's becoming educated. He plans on returning to superheroics but not as Rage and he's thinking of waiting until after college. He still encounters people who want him to be Rage, some from his own neighborhood. They're channeling their rage into him. However he's come into a sort of zen state about his role in the world, in society.
The New York Jets would come and offer him a job on their football team. They basically offer him a forged identity and say he can make a lot of money and bring a championship to New York. He says no, because it's not the life he wants and, besides, it's cheating. There are a lot of people in his neighborhood that don't understand it. They feel he's betraying them in a sense, that he is not feeling a responsibility to his race.
The point is that he's developed his own sense of identity. He no longer feels "black rage" not because he doesn't identify as being black but because he's found the way to be a boon to his community is to be intelligent, to actually contribute to society at large. He volunteers at the local rec center, he studies after school, he works a part-time job at a nursing home where he's befriended a couple of the residents.
The run would start with him getting a job offer from the Avengers who basically need his muscle and they're willing to pay to get it. Rage convinces Iron Man to use his money to pay for him to get into a first rate college (the college interview would be a funny scene, when he reveals that he was an Avenger while in middle school) as well as giving some money to his neighborhood's rec center.
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