Cassandra Nova (Marvel Comics)

**Cassandra Nova Xavier**, also known as **Cassandra Nova**, is what the Shi'ar call "Mummudrai", the spirit that is equal and opposite of a person. However, due to the amazing genetic potential of Professor Charles Xavier, his Mummudrai was able to create a physical form, effectively a twin. While gestating in her mother's womb, Cassandra was recognized by Charles as an evil presence, and he preemptively tried to kill her with his nascent psychic abilities. Barely able to defend herself, Cassandra was miscarried and the doctors pronounced her stillborn. However, she had actually survived and spent the next decades as a growing mass of cells on a sewer wall, building a new body for herself and plotting revenge on her brother.

## Powers

**DNA Duplication:** Cassandra Nova is able to copy the DNA of sentient beings and use it to construct physical bodies for herself. She is also capable of accessing the full spectrum of latent mutant functions in the genomes that she duplicates.

* ***DNA Manipulation:*** She can manipulate the DNA of others, breaking it down at the molecular level.
	+ ***Jumpstart:*** After analyzing the DNA of another superhuman mutant, Cassandra Nova is able to selectively evolve their existing genetic traits and catalyze the untapped genetic potential of latent mutants. Once begun, the procedure is irreversible and can often result in unpredictable side-effects.

**Phasing:** She has the ability to pass through solid matter by passing her atoms through the spaces between the atoms of the object through which she is moving. In this way, she and the object through which she is moving can temporarily merge without interacting, and each is unharmed when Cassandra Nova has finished passing through the object.

**Metahuman Regeneration:** She regenerates and heals hundreds of times faster than a normal human. Due to her superhuman regenerative healing factor, she has been able to completely recover from injuries which would prove fatal to most humans, even those with superhuman abilities. She can regenerate organs, such as eyes or large portions of flesh, and limbs, such as feet and arms, that have been completely severed.

After copying the DNA of Charles Xavier, Cassandra Nova accessed the full spectrum of latent mutant functions in his genome, granting herself vast psionic powers, including:

**Telepathy:** She can read minds and project her thoughts into other minds within a vast, potentially limitless, radius.

* ***Telepathic Cloak:*** She can mask her presence from being detected by others. Her abilities can, at times, go undetecfted or be counteracted by other, more powerful, telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own abilities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well.
* ***Mind Control:*** She has the ability to control the minds of others upon mere concentration.
* ***Mind Possession:*** She has the ability to possess the mind of another and use that being's body as her own.
* ***Mind Alteration:*** She has the ability to alter the minds of others by force of will.
* ***Psionic Shield:*** She has the ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of her own and others' minds.
* ***Telepathic Illusions:*** She has the ability to create illusions to make herself seem invisible, look like someone else, or make others experience events that are not truly happening.
* ***Mental Paralysis:*** She has the ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
* ***Mental Amnesia:*** She can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
* ***Psionic Blasts:*** She can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and turning someone brain dead.
* ***Astral Projection:*** She can project her astral form from her body onto astral or physical planes. In the physical plane, she can only travel in astral form over short distances.
	+ ***Astral Manipulation:*** In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment.
* ***Mind Transferal:*** She is able to transfer both her mind and powers into other host bodies should her own physical body be somehow killed.
* ***Mental Detection:*** She can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small, but as yet undefined, radius of herself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.

**Telekinesis:** She possesses telekinetic abilities enabling her to levitate and manipulate living beings, inanimate objects, and energy to some extent. She can levitate herself or other people, project telekinetic shields capable of withstanding missile blasts, and release devastating force blasts by focusing her mental energy at a specific target.