Marvel Comics/Sage

**Sage** is a mutant who grew up in war-torn communities and was forced to learn to fight to survive encounters with both soldiers and local bandits.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Enhanced Cognition:** Sage is a mutant with astonishingly advanced intellectual capabilities forged from a mind that works in the same way as a supercomputer would.

* **Enhanced Memory:** Sage perfectly remembers everything she experiences. She can instantaneously retrieve every memory and any information she has perceived.
* **Enhanced Multitasking:** Sage is able to perform multiple tasks at once by allocating a portion of her brain to each task. For example, Sage can use her mind to replay a movie she had watched previously, play a game of Internet chess, and focus on battling an opponent without any one task distracting her from another.
* **Muscle Mimicry:** Sage can perfectly execute any skill she has had a single lesson in without the need for practice.

**Telepathy:** Trained by Professor X himself, Sage learned a great degree of telepathic talents that include mind reading and detecting minds.

* **Thought Projection:** Sage can project her own thoughts into the minds of others.
* **Astral Projection:** She can project her astral form from her body.
* **Illusion Manipulation:** Sage can cast realistic mental illusions.
* **Mental Resistance:** Sage is capable of creating her own unique psionic protection against outside mental influence. By erecting a psionic "firewall", Sage is effectively able to protect herself from direct mental attacks, probes, and detection while creating a defensive force that reflects any offensive mental action back at her attacker. This wall is effective in both directions, nearly eliminating her own psionic abilities while active.

**Biological Manipulation:** Sage has complete control over her personal physiology. She once consciously used her immune system to purge herself of mind controlling nanites. She also possesses limited control over the DNA of other beings.

* **Appearance Alteration:** Her alter self, Diane Fox, can alter her physical appearances to accomidate her own character.
* **Power Detection:** Sage can perceive the DNA in cells, living or dead, within close range. Combined with her innate analytical capabilities, Sage can understand a person's current and potential abilities.
* **Power Augmentation:** After analyzing the DNA of another mutant, Sage is able to unleash latent mutant powers or enhance existing ones. This process is irreversible and can often result in unpredictable side-effects. She can also restore mutant abilities lost due to injury.

**Flight (latent):** While under the influence of her alternate personality, Sage could fly and carry another person aloft while doing so.

**Enhanced Strength (latent):** Sage's alternate personality also demonstrated superhuman levels of strength, easily shattering iron manacles and knocking an opponent back flying with a single punch.

#### Former Powers

**Teleportation:** While she was merged with the Crystal Palace, she could teleport anywhere within the confines of the structure.

**Hologram Generation:** When she walked the grounds of the recreational rooms of the Crystal Palace, all manner of flora and fauna appeared, presumably of holographic origin. She could also create holographic opponents for her team to train against.

**Enhanced Intellect:** The Crystal Palace augmented her intelligence to super-genius levels.

### Abilities

* **Intellect:** Sage's mutant abilities make her one of the smartest people on the planet through raw computational power and perfect recall. This allows her to be an expert in every field that is well-documented or calculable, such as combat and technology, but less so for others, such as sociology or psychology.
* **Engineering:** Sage has displayed remarkable technical aptitude for electronics and mechanics, though she typically improves on existing designs rather than inventing new devices. Examples of this technological aptitude include miniaturizing the advanced technology of her sunglasses, familiarity with repairing the X-Men's Blackbird, and creating a solid-light version of an image inducer.
* **Computer Hacking:** Sage has access to countless digital records, both public and private. She claimed that she has access to any data network on the planet. Her more impressive feats include gaining full access to the surveillance systems of a multiversal alien invasion force and retrieving information from the "black box" of a deceased Celestial.
* **Multilingualism:** Sage is fluent in over 123 different languages.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** She is skilled in martial arts and is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant due to her having complete conscious control over her own body.
* **Armed Combat:** Sage is also self-taught in a wide range of firearms, which she can use with considerable skill and accuracy.
* **Intimidation:** Sage's cold demeanor and ability to detect lies through body language has proven so intimidating that thugs and soldiers quickly give up information.
* **Aviation:** Sage was seen to skillfully pilot the X-Men's Blackbird and a space-mech.
* **Medicine:** Sage has demonstrated capable medical knowledge on several occasions, such as when she treated Captain Britain after he was nearly killed by Rouge-Mort. She is also capable of identifying a type of wound by its blood splatter pattern, pinpoint a shooter's position from bullet holes, and determine causes of death from corpses.
* **Genetics:** Sage can identify all kinds of genetic material, including mutant, human, and alien. She has also changed the genome to a limited extent.
* **Willpower:** Sage was born with an indomitable will and was trained by Professor X to enhance it further. This has allowed her to resist being controlled by nanites, usurp possession, and prevent telepaths from reading or influencing her mind.

## Equipment

**Cybernetic Sunglasses:** Sage wears a pair of custom-built cybernetic sunglasses that function as a wireless broadband computer network. The shades provide an audio/video feed via a built-in computer system outfitted with miniaturized conventional microphones and cameras. They can also project a three-dimensional image into the visual field of the wearer that can be expanded to allow others to see as well. The shades provide input by means of an augmented reality iconographic keyboard and have an alternate visual input system for when Sage's hands are otherwise occupied. The shades also possess various sensors for detecting telepathic resonance patterns, tracking energy traisl, and analyzing electronic circuitry.