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Posted: 07-Nov-2012 at 4:45am |
1) As BC said, there isn't much comparison between Dazzler and Sue. One controls light; one controls an invisible form of energy. 2) It's just the nature of their development. The Technarch are independent entities who utilize a techno-organic virus as part of their physiology; the Phalanx are essentially that virus brought to life, assimilating the sentience of its victims in a manner that unifies ALL infected by the virus. It would be interesting to compare Earth to another planet where Phalanx developed under a more diverse viral outbreak. After all, the Earthborn Phalanx were ALL derived from the familial transmode viruses of Magus and Warlock, linking them all "biologically". Would a Phalanx outbreak remain unified in a collective if the planet's Phalanx were derived from multiple, unrelated Technarchs and their transmode viruses? Couldn't say. 3) The Technarch transmode virus is radically more contagious than Cable's T-O virus. Cable typically cannot spread his virus to others without exchanging biological fluids internally, such as his blood transfusion to Post or the liquification and filtering of his biological material and Deadpool's. The transmode virus, on the other hand, can be spread by a single touch.
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Posted: 07-Nov-2012 at 5:23am |
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1.) Thanks, I was always under the impression that Sue refracts light to make herself invisible.
2.) The other explanation I've read is that the Phalanx develop into a collective consciousness when living organisms get infected with the transmode virus, but never get drained of their lifeglow.
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Posted: 07-Nov-2012 at 1:17pm |
1) The hyperspace energy Sue generates does refract light, yes. However, she has never demonstrated an immunity to lasers or E.M. energy-based assaults while invisible because of this, if that's what you're looking for. Sue's energy seems incapable of refracting focused light-based attacks.
On the other hand, she may have a resistance to flashes or blinding attacks while invisible. Because Sue's entire body refracts light, including her eyes, her optic nerves are no longer receiving visible light. Her cosmic physiology adapted to this by allowing her to receive and interpret wave infractions from the invisible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Reed once explained this means she can still see distinct shapes, but not colors.
So if Dazzler or Jubilee or someone fires off a flare at Sue, and that energy discharge only flares in the visible spectrum of light, then Sue would be unaffected by it.
2) Well, that is the explanation for how the Phalanx develop in the first place, but it doesn't really explain why incompletely-drained virus infectees develop a collective in the first place.
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Posted: 17-Nov-2012 at 4:45pm |
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Can Sue's powers work like those mirrors they use in interrogation rooms?
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Posted: 17-Nov-2012 at 5:21pm |
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You mean transparent on one side, but opaque or reflective on the other? No. If Sue makes a wall invisible, she can see through it, and anyone on the other side can see her looking in as well.
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Posted: 19-Nov-2012 at 12:48pm |
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That's what I thought.
How do the energy absorption/rechannelling abilities of Bishop, Emplate, Skullfire and Prism differ?
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Posted: 19-Nov-2012 at 8:48pm |
Bishop is probably the most "standard" of the four when it comes to energy redirection. He can absorb most kinds of energy, including kinetic, electromagnetic, and psionic. His system works best with active and directed energy signatures, like bio-blasts, laser guns, or electrical power lines. Ambient radiation, sunlight, static electricity...he picks up little to any charge from those sort of passive energies. He also cannot fully overcome solid-based kinetic assaults. Pure kinetic energy blasts or concussive explosions, he's fine with. Bishop can absorb some of the kinetic energy from projectile assaults like bullets or crossbow bolts, but not enough to prevent them from penetrating his flesh. He's also still vulnerable to blunt force trauma or pressure based attacks, like being choked to death. Prism can handle both passive and active energy signatures, but only in the electromagnetic spectrum. He can absorb ambient light and amplify it for a blinding glare, or focused energy blasts that he can redirect at his attackers. Prism cannot redirect kinetic or psychokinetic assaults, however, leaving him highly vulnerable to those kind of attacks. Emplate feeds on the mutant bio-energy latent in bone marrow, using transference "mouths" in his palms to extract the nourishment for him. This makes his system somewhat capable of absorbing mutant bio-energy if he makes contact with it in other ways as well. Emplate is therefore capable of absorbing kinetic, electromagnetic, or psionic energies, so long as they are BIO-kinetic, BIO-electromagnetic, etc. As long as the energy signature is being produced by a mutant's powers, he can potentially absorb and redirect it. He could not absorb fire from laser guns, or tasers, or even non-mutant superhuman energies. Skullfire's powers started off as an electrical energy siphon. Unlike the other characters on this list, he didn't need to wait for someone to shoot him first -- Tim could actively drain nearby electrical systems or generators in order to power up. He did not seem capable of absorbing non-electromagnetic energies during his lifetime, but after his physical body was destroyed, Skullfire demonstrated a wide variety of new energy manipulating abilities when he was reborn as a living energy entity. This happened at the very end of 2099, though, so these abilities weren't fully chronicled.
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Posted: 20-Nov-2012 at 1:59am |
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Prism has processed Cyclops and Havok's energy signatures, neither of which are in the EM spectrum right?
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Posted: 20-Nov-2012 at 2:25am |
Not purely, but their blasts function most like electromagnetic energy, in that they aren't kinetic or psionic. Cyclops generates an exotic form of pure force that does not create heat while affecting molecules, as kinetic activity does. It's beam-like qualities behave more like electromagnetic energies than anything else. Havok's blast is either plasma, or plasma-inducing, depending on how he wields it. His powers are a bit trickier, since they do behave according to Einsteinian properties as they create heat, but they OVER-stimulate molecules to shift solids directly into a plasma state instead of liquid or gas, causing an explosive or disintegrating reaction. The plasma-inducing beam itself is an exotic form of energy like Cyclops's blast, with electromagnetic beam-like qualities Prism could absorb. The actual plasma created by Havok's power is a highly-energetic state of matter that radiates ionized particles in an charged state, or basically the formation of electromagnetic fields. Basically, if it's not applied force, or psionic / thought energy, an energy will likely behave or be classified as electromagnetic in nature, even if it doesn't specifically adhere to the qualities of Microwaves, X-Rays, or what have you.
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Posted: 21-Nov-2012 at 2:41pm |
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Thanks.
1.) Could the Scrambler choose the effect his ability had on people? I mean, was it a random toss up each time? Or could he choose to neutralize someone's power instead of making it go haywire?
2.) How fragile was Prism? Marvel Girl killed him the first time around by telekinetically slamming him into a wall and shattering him.
3.) Are there PD's on Sleepwalker characters (Bookworm, Spectra, Psyko, Chain Gang et. al)?
4.) Are Gambit's cards converted from solid matter to pure energy when he tosses it and hurls it away?
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Posted: 26-Nov-2012 at 4:43am |
1) Yes, he could choose. 2) Fragile as glass, it seems. 3) Nelson Gruber electronically recreated the synaptic patterns produced by Rick Sheridan's brain waves when he and Sleepwalker were bonded, and when his computer overloaded Gruber absorbed the energies of the Mindscape those patterns represented. As Bookworm, he could summon psychic energy from the Mindscape and shape it into constructs that manifested as anything he read from the printed page. The speed at which he summoned multiple constructs in a row indicated that Bookworm was not actually reading each book he utilized for his powers...merely focusing on the concepts the book represented. Although he chiefly used books to focus his power, it's likely anything that stimulated his imagination could potentially summon the psychic energy necessary for his constructs. The constructs he formed were animated and even lifelike in their activities -- projections of King Arthur or Amazon warriors acted as Bookworm imaginated they would, even after he left the immediate area and they operated without him. He could direct the actions of his constructs as well, commanding them to attack a particular opponent. The Chain Gang received their powers after escaping from prison. At Intertek Advanced Energy Delivery Systems, they attempted to sever the chain and shackles that linked them together on their work crew. Instead, the energy projector at the lab charged the chain with tremendous power, and through the chain empowered the Chain Gang as well. The chain was the source of the Gang's power -- if they removed it, or the chain was broken, the entire group lost their powers. If the chain was broken, one of the gang could hold the broken pieces together, and the Chain Gang's powers were partially restored for as long as the broken links touched. Master Link developed superhuman strength and resistance to physical injury. Weak Link was a siphon for living energy. By touching another lifeform, including humans and dogs, he could drain away their lifeforce. This increased his own life energies and could weaken his victims to the point of death. Missing Link was a teleporter. He could instantaneously transport through space over short distances, apparently never covering more than a mile or so in a single jump, and needing time to recharge between jumps. He could teleport alone or with the entire Chain Gang. When he teleported alone, he somehow remained connected to the chain as he jumped, providing he didn't jump further than the chain's length. Uplink had the most nebulous of powers. He was sensitive to energy frequencies. This allowed him to eavesdrop on radio and police frequencies from a distance, and both sense and override the electronic locks for a bank vault. When Sleepwalker's enemy Cobweb trapped the Chain Gang in the mind of Rick Sheridan's girlfriend Alyssa, Uplink demonstrated psychic powers as well. He could read Alyssa's mind and flip through her memories. He could also control her mind while she was awake, planting irresistable compulsions in her thoughts that drove her to carry out various actions without questioning why. Whether Uplink was capable of this sort of psychic assault on a mind he wasn't trapped inside is unknown. Selena Slate transformed into Spectra after making contact with a synthetic diamond being used for experiments in light. She could transform into an energized state, generating a shifting spectrum of light colors from her body, as well as plumes of light-charged mist that wrapped around her body. Although her powers were innate, she carried the diamond to enhance and focus her abilities. Spectra was capable of flight and could project different forms of light offensively. She could generate blinding flashes of light, coherent laser beams, manipulate temperature to create intense heat or cold, and induce a neural jolt that caused tremendous pain to living creatures. Spectra could also warp light to cast illusions and bend visual patterns to make objects appear off center from where they actually sat. Her solid light constructs could form as battering rams, razor spikes, nets, etc. Jeremy "Romeo" Roscoe was a serial killer who tried to kill a captive Mindspawn named No'gskak during an escape. The knife he stabbed in the creature somehow caused the two to merge into a single entity with the mind of Roscoe but the powers of a Mindspawn. As Psyko, Roscoe had abilities very similar to Sleepwalker, including superhuman strength, durability, warp-vision, and warp-based levitation. He could also forcibly induce madness in other people with his warp-vision. Psyko could create various kinds of madness, including hallucinations, uninhibited manic behavior, and outright psychosis. He could also direct the actions of his victims, making them highly susceptible to his suggestions. Psyko carried No'gskak's mind-rake, a Mindspawn weapon that ripped the mental energy from its victims on contact. His targets were reduced to a vegetative state while Psyko replenished his own strength by feeding off the mental energy the mind-rake absorbed. 4) No, normally his cards are merely "charged" with energy, making them explosive but still solid. When his powers were augmented during his first ongoing series, though, Gambit COULD overcharge matter to the point that it changed into pure energy before being destroyed.
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Posted: 24-Dec-2012 at 2:02am |
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Is there a description for the Luther Manning-Deathlok?
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Posted: 04-Jan-2013 at 3:31pm |
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Monolith,
Could you update Layla Miller (gauntlet), Husk, Kid Omega (psychic constructs), Mystique (after resurrection).
and a pd on Miss America Chavez.
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Posted: 06-Jan-2013 at 2:04am |
Luther Manning inhabited a relatively straight-forward cyborg body. Although his remaining flesh was in a dead, necrotizing state, the majority of his body was reconstructed using metal and plastic components. The reinforcement to his skeleton and muscles gave him mild superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reaction time. His artificial left eye provided variable visual modes, including telescopic, microscopic, infrared, and night vision capabilities, as well as advanced computer-guided targeting programs. He was still technically alive, and so required oxygen, food, water, and rest, although not to the same degree as before his cybernetic conversion. Deathlok's onboard computer system contained an advanced scanning suite that included thermal scans, motion and proximity sensors, and a storehouse of data on various subjects. The interactive intelligence ran on an internal modem, provided Deathlok with a "voice" in his head with intel updates, scanning alerts, and probability breakdowns for various possible tactical responses to a given scenario. He carried a helium-neon laser pistol and a metallic knife that magnetized to his cybernetic leg. In later incarnations, Deathlok removed the computer intelligence from his head and adopted a bulkier and more heavily-armored cybernetic frame. Called the Demolishor, Manning now had increased levels of strength and durability, and he employed modular cybernetic arms with different weapons such as laser cannons, combat blades, or a vulcan cannon. Husk and Mystique's abilities have not changed recently. Husk's powers are acting up, but an explanation hasn't been provided yet. Miss America Chavez's powers have not been fully revealed. She seems to possess strength, durability and flight thus far. The other updates have been made.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2013 at 3:47pm |
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Didn't Mystique get a power upgrade? She seems way more capable with her morphing. Growing wings, stretching limbs out ala Mr Fantastic etc.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2013 at 4:07pm |
Originally posted by J-style
Didn't Mystique get a power upgrade? She seems way more capable with her morphing. Growing wings, stretching limbs out ala Mr Fantastic etc.
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I think after her resurrection she did. But prior to it she was capable of those things, she just didn't use them very often.
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Posted: 14-Jan-2013 at 4:08pm |
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She's been doing those things for years. She grew wings back in X-Factor during Onslaught, and contracted her hands and wrists out of a set of handcuffs in the first arc of Mystique. She did claim her recent resurrection upgraded her powers enough to fool Wolverine's senses when morphed, though.
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Monolith, when Nightcrawler and Magik teleport, they are passing through an alternate dimension, namely the Brimstone dimension and Limbo. However, when Ariel and Vanisher teleport, how does their power work. I seem to have come up with the fact that because Ariel teleports through doors, I guess she connects the entrance and the exit like a wormhole by bringing those two doors together in space. If so, then how does vanishers power work. If not, how does Ariels power properly work.
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Yes, Ariel warps space to connect two distant points together temporarily. The mechanics of Vanisher's powers haven't been fully explained. They do seem to be extra-dimensional in nature -- he got displaced into another dimension on more than one occasion (X-Force #68, Bizarre Adventures #27) when trying to use his powers. It's a different dimension every time, though. My personal theory is that Vanisher's powers connect to somewhere like the Crossroads of all Realities the Hulk was lost in at one point, letting him occasionally tumble into any number of different worlds.
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Posted: 22-Jan-2013 at 9:58pm |
What powers does Ernst have? I dont think I've ever seen her use any powers on panel. Is looking like a 70 year old one of them? Thanx. Sorry if this was asked previously (but I didnt feel like sorting through 20 odd pages to find out).
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What powers does Ernst have? I dont think I've ever seen her use any powers on panel. Is looking like a 70 year old one of them? Thanx. Sorry if this was asked previously (but I didn't feel like sorting through 20 odd pages to find out). |
That's what the index on page 1 is for.  Ernst is basically the victim of a retcon, a hole that no one has bothered to close. She was supposed to be Cassandra Nova. When Grant Morrison left Nova, her consciousness was trapped in the shape-shifting body of the artificial Shi'ar Superguardian named Stuff and reduced to an infantile state so she could be psychically re-educated as a benefit to society. A few issues later, Morrison introduced Ernst, a student with the face of a 70-year old woman, but the body of a young girl and the mind of a girl even younger. She demonstrated superhuman strength, lifting enormous weights compared to her tiny body, but very limited reasoning ability and life experience. In Here Comes Tomorrow, Morrison's future-looking finale, Cassandra Nova was back and working with the X-Men. When teamed with Martha Johanssen, Cassandra remarked "Why of course you can still call me Ernst, dear." So Ernst was the regressed Cassandra Nova, her body was likely still the Superguardian Stuff, just morphed into a new humanoid state once her psychic tutelage progressed enough that the X-Men believed she could be incorporated into the student body. But then Morrison left. And Ernst and Cassandra Nova popped up in separate places. As I recall, Ernst's first post-Morrison appearance was New X-Men (2nd series) #23, just after M-Day. Cassandra Nova, of course, resurfaced in Astonishing X-Men where she manipulated Emma Frost (and later Kitty Pryde) into trying to release her from her prison in the X-Men's labs. Although not specifically named, the gooey blob thing Kitty believed was her rescued son was apparently Stuff, kept in storage all this time. But Ernst? No idea. If Ernst isn't Cassandra Nova, then she has no remaining origin. Just a weird little girl with a developmental disorder, an abundance of wrinkles, and deceptively powerful muscles.
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1.) Can you explain what the Genoshan Genengineer did to Storm during the mutate bonding process that allowed her to reverse Wipeout's effect and her own conditioning?
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Instead of actually putting Storm through the Mutate bonding process (which is typically permanent), Moreau created a second procedure that outwardly simulated the principles of the bonding process, but was only temporary in nature. The Mutate process normally involves some form of brainwashing, as the Mutates are rendered dociles and near-mindless, and so Moreau adopted those basic principles to create a behavioral trigger in Storm. When she was ordered to attack one of her teammates by Anderson, that trigger caused her Mutate programming to fall away, revealing her true nature. Whether the Genegineer also intended her to return to adult size is less clear -- this may have just been a coincidence. If not, though, a geneticist like Moreau could easily have interpreted and reverse-engineered what Nanny did to alter Storm, and rigged that reversal process to the trigger as well. Reversing Wipeout's power is a little trickier, but techno-babble will see us through to the end. The Genegineer likely had considerable records of Wipeout's powers and his power signature, and possibly even oversaw the original manifestation of Wipeout's abilities. This could have allowed him to analyze the power signature and locate a specific electromagnetic wavelength signature that could neutralize the neutralizing effect. Moreau then subliminally programmed Storm with the knowledge of this electromagnetic wavelength during her faux bonding process along with the other "brainwashing" so that she knew what wavelength to generate through her lightning powers when connecting with her friends.
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Thanks. Got more, as always.
1.) What are the similarities and differences between Boomer and Jubilee's powers? I remember in the X-Tinction Agenda, Tabitha commented about Jubilee's power is like hers.
2.) Did Dr. Nemesis, in the last Cable & X-Force issue, use his power (his intellect) to create his own version of the Pym Particles or were they exactly that to begin with?
3.) Does Madrox have a certain degree of control over the manner in which his clothing is duplicated (molecular-matter manipulation, perhaps?)? That trick with the Ren & Stimpy shirt from X-Factor #82 or 83 mad this come to mind.
4.) Amanda Mueller's longevity disqualifies her from being an External. But how is External mutant DNA different from the standard run-of-the-mill mutant DNA in the rest of the mutant population?
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And as a (semi) follow-up to the Madrox question, has it been explained what caused him to accidentally re-absorb Sean when he touched him? He's never had that problem with other dupes in the past.
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