Monolith's Power Descriptions

 

Dazzler can convert sound into various projections of visible light.

 

Monica can physically transform herself into any wavelength and frequency across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. Interestingly enough, some experiments with the Black Knight in the 80's showed she could transform into other kinds of particles as well, such as neutrinos, but this fact has been virtually forgotten since.

 

Binary channeled the power of a star, or white hole, and so could access any emission by that star. So she could not manipulate electromagnetism to the extent that Captain Marvel could, because Carol was only channeling what the star was putting out. If her star was high on visible light emissions and low on emissions in the high-frequency range, like gamma rays and x-rays, the same applied to Carol's projection abilities.

 

Once the star collapsed on itself, Carol's powers as Warbird and later Ms. Marvel again changed to match her new condition. She now fires "generic" blasts of stellar energy which are a weaponized form of electromagnetic radiation not limited to any particular area of the spectrum, carrying a concussive force charge. She can absorb any form of directed electromagnetic energy (provided she's prepared for it).

 

The Flash was once confronted with an enemy who set up your standard death-trap scenario with Wally's twin children, plaving him in situation where he had to save one child but let the other one die. After a moment's pause, Flash let loose with a master plan he had conceived during those few micro-seconds to save them both. Later that night, though, Wally confessed to his wife that he had experienced relative weeks of time to think during those few micro-seconds after the villain's ultimatum, and had actually chosen between his children in that span before coming up with his alternative plan.

 

2) No, it was purely a bio-energy generating effect.

 

3) Iceman constantly freezes and refreezes his ice sheath from moment to moment. After all, the skin-tight ice would crack and splinter off every time he moved, or even breathed otherwise.

 

4) AoA Rogue had no control over her powers. AoA Magneto was able to manipulate his own bio-magnetic field to cancel her power's effect when they touched, but she couldn't touch anyone else, even their son.

 

5) Doubtful. Cortez has never exponentially augmented powers to such a degree.

 

Hope Summers is uniquely connected to the mutant race in ways that no one fully understands yet. Her very presence in our timeline has allegedly triggered the rebirth of the mutant gene in humanity, despite the reality-altering mandate of the Scarlet Witch that prevented new mutants from being born or manifesting. The new mutanity in fact seem unable to develop their powers properly without Hope. Post-Decimation new mutants (or "Lights") experience only partial development of their powers, or are unable to control their abilities consciously, until Hope makes physical contact with them and causes their mutation to fully manifest. Additionally, Hope is capable of demonstrating the abilities of any pre- or post-Decimation mutant. The limits of this power are unknown, partly because Hope seems to prefer relying on the combat skills Cable taught her than on super-powers. Whether or not she can manifest the abilities of mutants without meeting them first, or the powers of Decimated mutants, is unknown. Other unusual occurrences around Hope include her touch purging Rogue of Strain 88 and all psychic templates when she was a baby, the unnaturally strong loyalty she breeds in others (particularly the Lights), and of course her heavily implied connection to the Phoenix Force.

 

Laurie Tromette is specially designed for high-speed flight. She is capable of achieving supersonic propulsion under her own power, and her shifting crystalline skin can adapt itself to the experience. The extent of these adaptions are unknown, but appear to include biological flaps and aerilons that control the wind flow around her, giving her stunning reflexes and aerial maneuverability, as well as protection from high-velocity wind resistance and air friction.

 

Gabriel Cohuelo is a time-shifter able to shift into a relativistic faster rate of speed. His initial uncontrolled burst of mutation aged him several years and made him invisible by vibrating his body outside the realm of perception by the human eye. Since being stabilized by Hope, Gabriel functions like a standard speedster. Compared to his environment, Gabriel can move at supersonic speeds. He maintains full agility, dexterity and perception while moving at relativistic speeds, allowing him to change clothes faster than the eye can follow, search an entire building in moments, etc. As Doctor Nemesis demonstrated with his usual bedside manner, Gabriel cannot engage in typical super-speed feats such as running across water, straight up vertical inclines, creating whirlwinds by spinning, vibrating through matter, etc -- he only APPEARS to be moving at super-speed from our perception, but the universe around him, including gravity, will affect him just the same.

 

Idie Okonkwo is capable of thermal transference, creating equally hot and cold effects by exchanging heat energy from one location to another. She can "generate" cold by siphoning heat out of her environment and into her body, enabling her to freeze liquids, shatter solids, and create frost, snow and ice. This heat energy can then be redirected out from her body to melt nearby targets or induce combustion and flame. Idie typically acts as a direct conduit, creating cold and heat simultaneously in different areas. She appears to have only a limited capacity for storing heat energy in her body for any real length of time.

 

Teon Macik, physically, possesses superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, reaction time, leaping ability, resilience, and senses. He can apparently track by smell, detect pheromone indicators of mood and behavior, and possesses extraordinary hand-eye coordination. Mentally, Teon processes all information through a hyper-efficient form of primal survival instincts. He understands everything said or done around him, but only acknowledges them in terms of Fight, Flight, Mate, Eat, or other basic needs and urges. He's not a slave to his instincts, as demonstrated when he willingly put off his fight for dominance with Wolverine because it wasn't a good time, but defines his life by pure and simplified versions of the more complex animal behavior patterns most people operate under.

 

Kenji Uedo has become art, his body a living canvass that can be sculpted by his imagination in many ways. Although still outwardly human in most respects, Kenji's body is little more than a frame containing "raw materials" that he can shape at will. His body is animated and sustained by his powers alone now, making his skeletal structure and formerly vital internal organs irrelevant, and he likely no longer maintains even the illusion of them on the inside. This makes his mind difficult to read, although not impossible. Described as undifferentiated organo-techno mass, Kenji's body not only contains organic biology but also produces bio-mechanical components as a natural by-product of his physiology. Unlike techno-organics (who are composed of unique materials that have both organic and metallic physical properties), Kenji is more like a naturally-occurring cyborg, biologically producing hoses, cables, servos, plates, and scrapmetal patches on or inside his body at different points. Kenji has some form of mass-generating power, either through extra-dimensional access or rapid cellular reproduction, enabling him to dramatically increase the amount of materials in his body. During his activation, Kenji's hands were amputated, leaving him with unjulating tentacles in their place. His power would presumably allow him to recreate hands if he chose to, but he has not either as a form of penance or because it would require constant concentration to maintain them. He can cause his tentacles to grow in length and width, acting as prehensile spears or manipulators, and cause tentacles to grow forth from other areas of his body as well. Kenji can cause complex shapes to form out of his flesh, forming shapes like a constricting net, a staircase, razor blades, or lifelike sculptures. His expanding mass can significantly increase his strength in all or part of his body, and he can create an exo-frame around his core body that can grow to several stories tall. Kenji can increase the production of both bio-organic and bio-mechanical mass in his body, and production of the latter allows him to create working machines with moving parts out of his mass. He can form telescopic binoculars to improve his vision, helicopter rotors that allow him to lift off the ground and fly, and some form of biological furnace vents that presumably provided him with additional raw power. Kenji also possesses the ability to shield himself from psychic intervention, and shield others in the same way by connecting with them through his tentacles. He can also engage in psychic projection, creating three-dimensional multi-sensory displays and project them into the minds of other people through physical contact. Kenji actually circumvents the person's regular sensory impressions, causing them to essentially blackout and lose awareness of their surroundings in favor of his projections until his display ends. Kenji can also create bio-mechanical "bugs" that spawn from his mass, fly to a specific person, and inject them with a pre-recorded sensory display. Kenji cannot maintain his constructs once they are separated from his physical frame, preventing him from creating "lasting art" for future use. Therefore, his projection power can hold someone in a sensory display almost indefinitely so long as he retains contact, but the use of his "bugs" requires them to quickly reach their target and can only convey short messages before they disintegrate away from his body.

 

@Dr. House: Forge is bound by the laws of physics, whatever those happen to be in the Marvel Universe. In Mystique #1, he pointed out he was unable to build a perpetual motion machine, and thus break the laws of thermodynamics.

 

2) Marvel has wavered back and forth on that, but the general consensus seems to be "No".

 

3) Forge MAY have a working conscious knowledge of those disciplines, but his power doesn't rely upon them. I'm confident that Forge knows what Hooke's Law of Elasticity and the rules of Thermodynamics are, but even if he didn't his power would let him build a working hyperdrive out of what he finds in a dumpster.

 

4) Alchemy's power is touch based, while Chrome can project his effects from a distance. Chrome is capable of far more elaborate conversions that what Alchemy has been seen capable of as well. Alchemy creates straight element-to-element changes, while Chrome has created highly unusual concoctions such as living phorphorous, porous metal skins, animated rock lifeforms, etc.

 

The distinction I think the Handbook was trying to make about Forge is that he's an inventor: ask him to build something and he'll figure out how to build it. But if you ask him to come up with something new, like the hundred great ideas Stark, Richards and Pym brainstormed to create in Civil War, he couldn't do it (at least, not as an application of his power).