Invisible Woman

Dr. Susan "Sue" Richards (née Storm), a.k.a. the Invisible Woman, is an American superpowered adventurer. She was a college student before she was exposed to high levels of cosmic radiation when boyfriend and scientist, Dr. Reed Richards, took her with her younger brother, Johnny Storm and pilot Ben Grimm, into space in the stolen rocket Marvel-1. The radiation mutated her and her friends, turning her invisible and allowing her to create forcefields. Together they became the Fantastic Four, a team of adventurers who explored space, time, and alternate dimensions and saved the world along the way from science-based threats.
== History ==
Susan Storm and her younger brother, Johnny, lived uneventfully on Long Island until their mother, Mary Storm, died in an automobile accident. Their father, Franklin Storm, a doctor, failed to save her. Despondent, he began to drink and gambled away the family fortune, eventually winding up in a penitentiary for murder after accidentally killing his loan shark. The children went to live with their Aunt Marygay Jewel Dinkins, who ran a boarding house. When Susan was in her late teens, she fell in love with one of her aunt's boarders, Reed Richards, who was working on his third doctorate at Empire State University. Sue later followed Richards to California, where she halfheartedly tried to break into show business.
Reed was working on an experimental faster-than-light rocketship called the Marvel-1 that he intended to use to explore an Earthlike planet named Spyre located 44 lightyears away. When the project lost its government funding, he decided to launch the prototype, certain that the flight would succeed and attract more funding, and Sue went along for her own reasons. Ben Grimm, a test pilot, took the controls. Johnny filled out the crew. When the rocketship passed through a storm of cosmic rays, it was hit with an unexpected intensity that caused the ship to crash back to Earth. The experience gave each of them superhuman abilities, and perhaps more importantly, it forged almost unbreakable bonds between them. They became the Fantastic Four, and Storm took the name Invisible Woman
== Personality ==
She is incredibly loyal and patient with her brilliant but absent-minded husband Reed Richards. Sue is deeply loving to her brother Johnny and best friend Ben.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Invisibility: The Invisible Woman has the mental ability to manipulate ambient cosmic energy for a variety of effects, including the rendering of herself and other objects invisible, and the construction of solid, invisible force fields. In an as yet unknown manner, cosmic energy interacts with the cells of her entire body in such a way as to produce a new form of energy with unusual properties. By a simple act of concentration, she can cause all wavelengths of visible, infrared, and ultraviolet light to bend around her without distortion; she also somehow directs enough undistorted light to her eyes to retain her full range of vision while invisible. An observer, unaware of the peculiar path light takes around her body, would have the sensation of seeing through her. The Invisible Woman can also mentally project the invisible energy produced within the cells of her body in order to render other people or objects invisible. The largest volume she can as yet turn invisible at a single time is approximately 40,000 cubic feet of volume (1,133 cubic meters), equivalent to a small swimming pool. While trapped inside Human Torch's body, Sue was able to make an invisible hole equivalent to the size of the moon on his body, noting she was shrinking in size.Sue is also shown to be able to turn a whole planet invisible by combining with her force field for an extended period of time. She has sufficient control over her power that she can turn parts of her body selectively invisible. She is also able to make objects that have been turned invisible by other sources visible by letting her own energy projection interfere with that other method of invisibility. Further, she can make energy that is not in the visual portion of the electromagnetic spectrum visible by a similar interaction. Sue can detect people or objects made invisible by means other than her own powers, and can restore those targets to a visible state at will. Sue is naturally and effortlessly invisible to radar equivalents.
Psionic Hyperspace Force Fields: While the cells of the Invisible Woman's body produce a certain energy manifestation, the cells of her brain produce a different, more potent manifestation. Through concentration, she is able to project an invisible field of psionic force drawn from Hyperspace, which she can manipulate into a number of relatively simple forms: rectangular planes, cylinders, globes, domes, cones, etc. The complexity of the shape is limited by her ability to imagine (mentally visualize) a particular form and keep it in sharp mental focus. The size of a given psionic force projection is also limited by her ability to imagine. The smallest force projection she can visualize and maintain is approximately 1mm in diameter, sufficient to block blood vessels or press on nerves without damaging the surrounding tissue; the largest solid force projection she can visualize and maintain is about 100 feet in diameter. She can project larger force-objects if they are hollow. For instance, she could visualize and project a dome 1 foot thick about a mile in diameter (5,280 feet) and a dome 1 inch in thickness she can project for about 3.2 miles. Small objects at high speeds become missiles; large objects at slow speeds become rams. She can make these objects grow or shrink as desired. At times, Sue is able to project a force field strong enough to cover the whole planet for an extended period of time. She can also create more complex constructs out of her force fields, such as stairs, weapons, and other complex objects. Sue can see her force fields through the interaction of ambient cosmic rays in the atmosphere with her unique optic structure, which also allows her to perceive objects rendered invisible by any method.
The Invisible Woman is able to use the projection of her psionic force to travel through the air. By projecting a basic geometric shape under her feet or surrounding herself in a spherical field and moving it under concentration, she can affect levitation with her force fields, as well as creating static pathways for her to walk on. These fields can easily support a hundred times the weight of three people plus the Thing. She is able to reach an average speed of about 25 miles per hour in levitation, until she becomes fatigued by the concentration, after about 4 hours.
== Appearances ==
* Fantastic Four: Transformania
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