Omega Girl

Omega Girl is an American mutant superhero. Over her short but eventful career she has been a member of Champions United and an agent of PRIMUS. She is now aligned with New Mars and serves as the red planet's ambassador to Earth.

## Biography

Belinda Hale

Originally hailing from Georgia, Omega Girl was a prominent hero in the Atlanta area. She came into personal conflict with several other heroes, however, and began to consider other options. She was originally courted by PRIMUS, but before making a decision regarding their offer, she was invited by the Champions to come to Chicago and "audition" for a spot on that team. She jumped at the chance for a change of scenery, and made her way north.

She was the obvious front runner of the four heroes who auditioned for the open slot on the Champions' roster, though Mentat was troubled by odd gaps in her memory when he surveyed her mind for potential treachery. Still, she excelled in combat and passed all psychological tests, and was Defender's personal pick for the team. Eventually, she was admitted to the Champions when it transitioned into the larger Champions United organization.

Omega Girl was tragically slain when the Contenders, taking extreme measures to thwart the Time Wizard's plans, attacked her with the aid of Nighthawk, Rankle, and several super-villains. She was later turned into an undead revenant by Hazel Clay, and finally resurrected entirely by the Alchemist. From that point on her relationship with the Contenders was very tense. Months later, when the Champions failed to take what she felt was adequate revenge against the Chinese agents who had booby-trapped Defender's jet, she resigned and applied instead to PRIMUS, who eagerly brought her aboard.

## Personality

Omega Girl, despite her generally heroic nature, is more jaded and cold-hearted than most of her teammates. She is one of those crime fighters who believes the best way to stop a killer for good is to kill him, and the best way to prevent him from killing at all is to get him first. Given her relatively high level of power for a novice hero, she often finds herself frustrated with the moral qualms of more experienced heroes, and takes any excuse to deal with a situation quickly even when patience will result in a less violent resolution. She does follow the law, if only begrudgingly, but at times her attitude is more appropriate for a super villain than an upstanding crime fighter.

Even so, Omega Girl is dedicated to fighting evil no matter the cost, and more than willing to throw herself into danger to save others. She hates seeing helpless people being threatened and will go to extreme lengths to protect the weak. This attitude would make her a perfect fit for the Contenders if she didn't hate them all so intensely.

## Powers

Omega Girl's powers come from her natural control of all forms of radiant energy and subatomic particles. This gives her abilities such as super-strength, flight, x-ray vision, and the ability to fire blasts of radiation from her hands. She can project large fields of radiation from her body, and also reverse the process to remove harmful radiation from the environment. This also allows her to start and extinguish large fires at will, a useful ability in disaster control.

Omega Girl can also exert control over the particles that make up her body, changing her mass or even converting herself into a gaseous form. This internal control is also the source of her incredible strength and resilience.

After Neutronium was defeated during the Contenders' confrontation with the Time Wizard, his gravity-controlling ring was given to Omega Girl by Cort. The Time Wizard's research seemed to indicate that Neutronium's ring and Omega Girl's mutant powers might function off the same principles, and Cort suspected that the ring might be of use to her. Though still a novice in the use of gravity-based powers, Omega Girl utilized them to great effect against Mechanon during a confrontation off the coast of Australia.

## Weaknesses

Omega Girl has no known weaknesses, though this might be simply because her powers are so rare that nobody has managed to figure them out yet. Nighthawk has speculated that she may be vulnerable to prolonged exposure to cold, though he had no way to test this effect on her when he had to fight her on short notice.