CANDY SOUTHERN

 

CANDY SOUTHERN

Real Name: Candace Southern

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #31, April 1967

Powers: No superhuman powers, Candace "Candy" Southern was a baseline human being. A skillful businesswoman, a witty charmer, and a natural leader, the highly athletic Candy was also a strong swimmer, an avid dancer, and a good tennis player. Agile, resourceful, and quick-thinking in times of crisis, Candy had completed a self-defense course at the learning annex and was familiar with firearms, though she avoided physical confrontations if possible. A dabbler in amateur architecture and computer programming, she helped design the original Defenders' expanded renovated headquarters and its high-tech security system.

A capable automobile driver and cook praised for mixing delightful blends of coffee, Candy had vast financial resources, especially when she and Warren Worthington III (Archangel) were a couple with access to both of their family fortunes. She also served as the chairwoman and vice president of Worthington Enterprises. They shared multiple residences worldwide, most notably their mountaintop Aerie in New Mexico, a Colorado mountaintop mansion, a penthouse apartment in upper Manhattan, and several residences in San Francisco. After her consciousness was assimilated into the collective intelligence of the techno-organic Earth-based Phalanx, she gained a techno-organic duplicate of her human body which presumably had the enhanced strength, shape-shifting, and matter assimilating capabilities typical of the Phalanx.