SPECTRA

 

SPECTRA

Real Name: Selena Slate

First Appearance: Sleepwalker #13, June 1992

Powers: Selena Slate was a laboratory assistant who was transformed into a superhuman being after making contact with a synthetic diamond being used for experiments in light. She can now 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 is 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 manipulate 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.