Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Info on Invisible Woman



HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CHRIS EVANS

I know today is the birthday of the hottest member (no pun intended) of the Fantastic Four, but for today, I'm going to concentrate on his character's equally hot sister... Susan Storm aka Invisible Woman.

Susan Storm-Richards is a Marvel Comics Super heroine. Under the codename of Invisible Woman, Sue Storm serves as a member of the Fantastic Four. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, she made her first appearance in Fantastic Four #1 – November 1961. Upon developing her power to project highly durable fields of energy, Sue Storm became the Fantastic Four's most powerful member, which only helped to increase her assertiveness, assuming the team's second-in-command.
Her power and strength is overshadowed only by her caring nature and compassion for others. The emotional backbone of her team, Sue is an important figure in the life of her children; Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards and her husband Reed Richards, as well as her younger brother Johnny Storm and best friends, Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters.

Powers

Sue can render herself wholly or partially invisible at will. She can also render other people or objects invisible, affecting up to forty thousand cubic feet of volume. She achieves these feats by mentally bending all wavelengths of light in the vicinity around herself or the target in question, and she somehow does this without causing any visible distortion effects; she also somehow directs enough undistorted light to her eyes to retain her full range of vision while invisible. Sue can also mentally generate a psionic field of invisible force apparently drawn from hyperspace, which she manipulates for a variety of effects. Most commonly, Sue generates near-indestructible invisible force fields around herself or other targets. She can vary the texture and tensile strength of her field to some extent, rendering it highly rigid or as soft and yielding as foam; softer variations on the field enable her to cushion impacts more gently, and are less likely to result in a psionic backlash against Sue herself (in rare cases, sufficiently powerful attacks on her psionic fields can cause her mental or physical pain).
Sue can shape her psionic force fields into invisible constructs, usually simple shapes such as barriers, columns, cones, cylinders, darts, discs, domes, platforms, rams, ramps, slides and spheres. By generating additional force behind her psionic constructs, Sue can turn them into offensive weapons, ranging from massive invisible battering rams to small projectiles such as spheres and darts. She can generate solid force constructs as small as a marble or as large as 100 feet in diameter, and her hollow projections such as domes can extend up to several miles in area. By forming one of her force fields within an object and expanding the field, Sue can cause her target to explode. She is capable of generating and manipulating multiple psionic force fields simultaneously.

Abilities

Sue has some modest experience and ability in the field of acting, and has recently taken up teaching. She is a capable unarmed combatant. She is renowned for her changing hairstyles (once said to match the Wasp's changing costumes).

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