TRANCE

 

TRANCE

Real Name: Hope Abbott

First Appearance: New X-Men (Vol. 2) #12, June 2005

Powers: Trance has the mutant ability to project her consciousness as an electromagnetic energy form. She leaves her body in a comatose "trance" while her mind travels freely in an intangible energy state. This projected state can levitate and fly, pass harmlessly through solid matter, and travel at extraordinarily high speeds. She also possesses a "bio-sting", a disruptive energy that can be produced on contact or as a pulsed ray from her insubstantial hands, causing bio-electrically based pain and damage to people and objects.

Trance's powers later evolved in other areas. She can perceive certain unique spectra or energy fields, reading emotional auras, heat signatures, and the presence of inter-dimensional doorways or phenomena. These perceptions are accessible even in her physical form. Trance's body and powers are also somewhat reactive to spatial fields. If she is being teleported, her power may disrupt the transport in mid-jaunt, causing her to reappear somewhere other than intended. She can also access residual dimensional displacements, sending her wraith-form through to another dimension by passing through the spot where a displacement recently occurred.