BLAQUESMITH

 

BLAQUESMITH

Real Name: Unrevealed

First Appearance: X-Men: Prime (Vol. 1) #1, July 1995

Powers: Blaquesmith’s mutation consisted of bulbous eyes, an ungainly frame, and yellowish skin. His mutant abilities included enhanced agility and reflexes, despite his awkward appearance and advanced age. He possessed an intuitive understanding of machinery that may have represented a passive ability. He was highly skilled at operating all known forms of technology, and could construct new devices with considerable speed and skill.

He demonstrated various mental mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis, giving him psychic communication, memory-altering, illusion-casting, mind-reading, levitation, and the projection of psionic force or force fields. He could also manipulate time, freezing people or objects in mid-motion or casting them across centuries or millennia of time.

AHAB

 

AHAB

Real Name: Roderick Campbell

First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual (Vol. 1) #23, July 1990

Powers: Ahab is the Earth-811 counterpart of Dr. Roderick “Rory” Campbell. He was bionically-enhanced in his native timeline with cybernetic limbs which augment his strength, durability, and reflexes. He can tap his own life-force to create psychic harpoons and key them to a specific target, disrupting their neural pathways in order to stun, paralyze or kill others. His harpoons can also transform his victims into Hounds keyed to their progeny's genetic "scent". Lastly, he can access a cross-temporal pocket laboratory and able to travel through space-time via that location. Becoming Famine after being genetically altered by Apocalypse gave him the ability to emaciate opponents by draining their life energy.

PHOENIX FORCE

 

PHOENIX FORCE

Real Name: Phoenix Force

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #101, October 1976

Powers: The Phoenix Force is a celestial elemental representing several universal constants. It is a symbol of rebirth, and acts as a conduit for all life essence in the universe. Whenever a living creature is born, its initial lifeforce is drawn from the Phoenix Force. When a creature dies, their lifeforce passes back into the Phoenix Force. Therefore, the Phoenix Force is constantly changing, as energy continually flows into and out of it as life and death occur. The Phoenix Force also represents change, and evolution in individual species. It acts throughout the universe to ensure evolution in some ways, but the extent of its desire or ability to act has not been codified. A Manifestation of the Phoenix occurs when it chooses a host to wield its power, often to ensure a particular evolutionary step is reached, or prevent evolution from being held back by outside forces. The Phoenix Force usually appears as an enormous hawk-like bird composed of cosmic flame, both by itself and during communion with a host. As an abstract being, the Phoenix Force's powers are virtually limitless. It can manipulate atoms and molecules in matter, generate any form of energy in virtually any conceivable amount, exist in hyperspace and any environment without harm, create space warps, drain energy from sources as great as a nova, and transform to pure energy at will.

Its first appearance in modern times was not a true Manifestation of the Phoenix. In actuality, it was the Phoenix Force acting selfishly, outside its "mission", desiring to experience mortality first hand instead of merely having communion with a human host. In this instance, the Phoenix created a body for itself that was an exact duplicate of Jean Grey's, but was unprepared for the sensations it experienced and became amnesiac, lost in the memories and personality it copied from Jean Grey, believing itself to be her. The full power of the Phoenix could not long be contained in mortal form, and so "Jean's" natural telepathic and telekinetic abilities were augmented to cosmic levels. "Jean" recognized that this power was too much for her, and tried to psychically dampen her own abilities to a manageable level after Phoenix saved the M'Kraan Crystal. However, Mastermind's influence on her mind loosened these barriers, allowing the Phoenix's full power to be released in the form of the Dark Phoenix. The real Jean Grey had a natural connection to the Phoenix Force as a result of her mutation, which is why the Phoenix was drawn to her in the first place. Years after being restored, Jean learned how to harness the power of the Phoenix herself, increasing her psionic powers beyond what they had been before and manifesting a Phoenix raptor as her power signature, although she still wasn't truly at pre-M'Kraan Phoenix levels. Finally, Jean experienced a genuine Manifestation of the Phoenix before her death, bringing her up to cosmic levels on her own for the first time, in order to prevent John Sublime's threat to natural evolution.

The Phoenix Force will augment the abilities of any mutant or superhuman it bonds with. Whether as a result of its connection with Jean Grey or some other reason, though, it also seems to bestow telepathic and telekinetic abilities on its hosts, even if they didn't have those abilities in the past.

MADAME SANCTITY

 

MADAME SANCTITY

Real Name: Tanya Trask

First Appearance: Askani'Son (Vol. 1) #1, February 1996

Powers: Madame Sanctity’s mutant powers include vast psionic and chronal abilities. Her primary power is time-shifting, allowing her to generate chronal energies that enable her to travel forward and backwards in time or control her temporal synchronicity. This allows her to phase in and out of sync with the timestream altogether (as was the case when her power first manifested). She is capable of displacing herself and others at least 2,000 years into the future and back again, and can travel in astral form. She possesses telepathy allowing to read minds within a seemingly limitless radius, create psionic illusions, assume mental control of a person’s mind and body, project her astral form, and project psionic energy bolts that affect the mind. She is also a powerful telekinetic who can manipulate matter with the energy of her thoughts, create force fields and fire concussive psionic force blasts. By using her telekinesis to levitate herself, Sanctity can fly at incredible speeds. She can sustain shields that can withstand Jovian atmospheric pressures, and even repel nuclear weapon attacks.

HYPERSTORM

 

HYPERSTORM

Real Name: Jonathan Reed Richards

First Appearance: Fantastic Four (Vol. 1) #404, September 1995

Powers: Hyperstorm’s mutation grants him linkage and access to the extra-dimensional realm of hyper-space. The dimension of hyper-space is accessible from Earth and its physical laws differ from Earth's in the following ways: First, it is possible to surpass the speed of light within hyperspace without directly violating Einstenian laws of relativity. Second, hyper-space is "warped" in comparison to Earth's dimension so that the distance between two points in hyper-space might be immensely shorter than the distance between the equivalent points in Earth's dimension. Lastly, hyper-space is the source of all energy in the universe. As such, Hyperstorm has control of the four basic fundamental forces of the universe (electromagnetism, gravitation, and the strong & weak nuclear forces). He can manipulate these forces so as to augment his physical strength, endurance, reflexes, and durability, increase or negate the effects of gravity, project and manipulate electricity, magnetic fields, heat energy, and explosive bursts, shape ambient energy in any manner he wishes, restructure matter at the sub-molecular level, and perform telepathic feats. His mutant power places him on par with some of the most powerful cosmic beings in the universe.

FRANKLIN RICHARDS

 

POWERHOUSE

Real Name: Franklin Benjamin Richards

First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual (Vol. 1) #6, November 1968

Powers: Franklin Richards is the son of Reed and Sue Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four). The cosmic radiation which altered the Richards' genes to give them superhuman abilities resulted in the development of an x-gene in their son's genetic structure. As a result, Franklin was born a mutant and, unlike most mutants, manifested his powers during childhood.

Franklin possesses phenomenal potential for mental powers, including telepathy, telekinesis, and reality altering. Early occasions showed Franklin capable of atomizing living beings with explosive psionic force, bestowing superhuman physical and psionic powers on other people ("Ego-Spawn"), and aging himself and his powers to adulthood on a whim ("Avatar"). After this last incident, the adult Franklin returned himself to childhood, placing psionic dampeners on his own mind to keep his abilities in check until he reached adulthood. A small fragment of his powers still managed to manifest itself through the dampeners, though, and it was during this period of time that Franklin was a member of the Power Pack as Tattletale. He began receiving precognitive visions in his dreams, as his unconscious mind began playing out scenarios based on upcoming events. These dreams varied in intensity and accuracy, but always represented something that was going to happen in the near future. He could also project his "dream-self", similar to an astral form. Tattletale would project his consciousness as a psionic representation of his physical body, visible to the naked eye and indistinguishable from his normal appearance. His "dream-self" was intangible and could travel anywhere he could conceive of in an instant. His mind was still active in his body while his "dream-self" was out, though: He could send his psi-form out on reconnaissance, and physically report to others what his "dream-self" was perceiving at another location.

His other powers began to manifest themselves far more frequently, however, and Franklin's psionic potential was beginning to rage out of control. His grandfather, Nathaniel Richards, removed him from our timeline and raised him in a parallel reality, sending him back to the Fantastic Four the instant after he left, only now as a teenager. Franklin, now called Psi-Lord, had full access to and relatively good control over his telepathic and telekinetic powers now, capable of performing all the standard feats associated with those abilities (read minds, communicate psionically, control or alter thoughts and memories, create illusions, project psionic force blasts or fields, levitate himself and other forms of matter, etc). He also used wrist braces which allowed him to access a full suit of psi-sensitive armor, normally stored in a pocket dimension. This suit was equipped with psi-sensitive materials that could dampen his psi-energy to safe levels if he got out of control, and harness his powers to channel them safely without risking an overload. The suit also contained a series of sensors capable of detecting energy signatures, psionic activity, dimensional transits, etc. At one point, though, Franklin's powers began to manifest uncontrollably, creating a series of pseudo-independent counterparts: Tattletale, Ego-Spawn, and Avatar. Eventually, his alternate timeline son, Hyperstorm modified the timeline to return Franklin to his correct age, effectively undoing Psi-Lord's existence.

Often considered to be the most powerful mutant ever born, his reality altering power is such that he can create entire universes at will. He can control their growth, shape their physical laws, conjure new elements to the universe (as Onslaught did with Franklin's powers when he created a second sun in the sky). He hasn't demonstrated absolute power over life and death, however, other than nurturing the development of life in his pocket universes. So while there were many, many people created by Franklin to inhabit the Heroes Reborn universe, he hadn't shown the ability to individually wish them in and out of existence. His reality-altering mutant ability is universal and omega-level as he can manipulate matter and energy, laws of physics, and has demonstrated control over memory and history.