Lian Watanabe

Lian Watanabe

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Full Name
Lian Watanabe

Current Alias
Star Brand

Affiliation
* Avengers (Formerly)

Occupation
* Adventurer

* Peacekeeper

Biographical Information

Age
Unknown

Race
Japanese

Species
Homo Superior (Mutant)

Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Relationships
* Dan Watanabe † - Grandfather
* Alan Watanabe - Father
* Rose Watanabe † - Mother
* Todd Watanabe - Brother
* Molly Mayne - Step Mother
* Julian Hayden - Adoptive Father
* Myrna Hayden - Adoptive Mother

Relationship Status
Single

Physical Description

Gender
Female

Height
5'3"

Weight
123 lbs (56 kg)

Hair Color
Green

Eye Color
Green

Power Grid

Intelligence
2

Strength
2 (4 when she heightens her strength by using telekinesis)

Durability
3

Speed
5

Energy Projection
7

Fighting Skills
3

While you're planning strategies, thinking about whether to call in the reserves, and generally acting like civilized men and women - he's already slicing your throat, thinking how good your blood will taste when it spatters against his tongue.Lian.
**History**Lian Watanabe was a young ignored but excellent student from college. When a strange anomaly affected the Superflow of Earth-616, she was given the power of the Star Brand during the White Event; her transformation caused her to annihilate the whole college. The Avengers later arrived to investigate the event, as guided by Nightmask and Captain Universe.
After she faced the Avengers, Lian Watanabe was taken by Nightmask to Mars, in order to seek for help to Ex Nihilo, in the meantime, he explained Lian what caused her powers and her purpose. On Mars, Ex Nihilo revealed the conflict of the White Event was caused by his attempts to make Earth sentient.
Nightmask teleported Lian and himself to Croatia, one of the places modified by Ex Nihilo, where strange creatures started forming a brain-like structure. The "brain" tied to absorb Nightmask, but was rescued by Lian, who accidentally killed the organism in the process, "killing the Earth." The Avengers arrived at the scene and tried to stop them, who fought back until Lian surrendered. As they were out of options, the heroes decided it would be better for the world to put Lian away from it, in Stark's Dyson Sphere under construction, in the company of Nightmask.
When Captain Universe sensed a new threat coming to Earth, she advised the Avengers to recruit him and Nightmask into the team, which they did. Lian aided the Avengers in the Builder war, even devastating an entire Builder fleet.
After the Avengers fell into S.H.I.E.L.D. authority, Lian and Nightmask left the team to investigate the decay of the universe. They returned to Earth when they received a message from Sunspot, inviting them to join his own Avengers team as there had been new progress on the research related to the Incursions.
Using A.I.M.'s resources, Sunspot managed to put into operation a machine capable of transporting individuals across the Multiverse, in hopes of finding the source of the decay of the Multiverse, and a group of them, the "Multiversal Avengers," embarked in said mission. Lian was among these heroes.
In their journey, the Multiversal Avengers arrived at the base of the Black Priests, whom they believed to be enemies, as they would destroy alternate Earths. After discovering their true motivation, that of saving the Multiverse, the Multiversal Avengers allied with the Black Priests and were informed of the true enemies they had to face, the Ivory Kings and Rabum Alal. While the Black Priests tried to find Rabum Alal, the Multiversal Avengers would set out to find the Ivory Kings (also known as the Beyonders).
The Avengers traveled across numerous universes, navigating the map left by the Mapmakers. After one last jump across universes that cost Nightmask's life, the Avengers found themselves face to face with a fissure in time and space. From it, two Beyonders emerged and demanded the heroes to fall back. Upon denying their request, the Avengers faced the Beyonders. During the fight, Lian was stabbed by one of the Beyonders, Lian used her last breath to unleash the energy within her and destroy it which also ended up spreading her cells over every living thing across the globe.

**Revival**When the universe came back to life, so did Lian and the rest of its inhabitants, with no memory of their temporary demise. After defeating Blizzard in China, she was offered membership by Sunspot in his New Avengers and was about to accept it, but Nightmask declined and instead, the two of them started attending college.
On the first day of college, they were attacked by mind-controlled Nitro, Graviton and Blizzard twice, and the second time almost cost Lian's life, because she was fighting the three of them on her own. Meanwhile, Adam was tracking the source of their control and found out the responses were the Eternity's children Explosion, Gravitation and Entropy. After taking away their control over the Earth criminals, he returned to Earth and both he and Lian attended their first college party.
The next day, Lian and Adam met with Kolobus, after Libra brought them together. Then, Kolobus helped them prevent the Kree Starbrand from killing Lian and destroying Earth, although, in the end, it was revealed that there's a fail-safe in the Starbrand power that causes them to become attracted to one another and kiss. Because of this, they call off the fight and Va-Sohn agrees not to attack any more worlds, as Lian would be there to "make things cosmically awkward". Therefore, Va-sohn and Joras-Kyl are returned to their homeworld to reconsider their options.
After a superhuman civil war, which started due to Thanos' arrival on Earth, and a looming Chitauri invasion, the idea to build a Planetary Defense Shield came up. After it was built, Lian was asked by Monica Rambeau to test it alongside other superheroes.
**Secret Empire**
When the Chitauri invasion arrived, heavy-hitter superheroes prepared to hold the line while Iron Man and Ironheart fixed the Planetary Defense Shield. Meanwhile, it was revealed the Shield's malfunctions were actually purposefully caused by Captain America, with superficial damage of Hydra's attack covering that up. Rogers activated the Shield. leaving Lian, Nightmask and the rest of the heroes in Earth's orbit exiled on the other side.
The Defense Shield was eventually brought down by the new Quasar Avril Kincaid, though it resulted in her death. Lian later joined the other heroes in ending Hydra's occupation of the United States.

 **Psionic Entity**  | After Lian was killed, her body into energy and dissolved it into every living creature on the Earth, her consciousness actually continued to exist on the Astral Plane, evolving into a psionic being and was no longer restricted by the boundaries of the physical world and even is capable of exploding her body by reversing it back into psi-energy. * Lian learned to rebuild her body from psionic energy, and also to reverse the process, thereby effectively becoming immortal, because her consciousness continued to exist on the Astral Plane and thus she can easily create another body for herself if needed.

* Along with learning to rebuild her physical form, Lian's heightened state of existence has allowed her to possess people. While possessing someone, she can explore their mind from the inside.
 **Psionic Energy Manipulation**  | Lian is able to manipulate psionic energy for various purposes. * Lian is able to absorb psionic energy from other living beings or psi-attacks, and use it to amplify herself. She is able to almost instantly siphon psionic energy from a few dozen psychics without any effort, that left them all unconscious on the brink of death.

* Lian is able to make psionic energy solid and shape it to any suitable form.

* Lian is able to pull the astral projections of other telepaths into the physical world, making them semi-solid.

* Lian is able to form psi-armor around herself, that greatly increased her strength and durability. While armored she was able to counter-force Thor's strength, push the Hulk miles away with just one punch, and withstand the grip strength of Thanos during an intense battle. She was also able to form psionic armor around other people.

* Lian can shape psi-energy into various weapons like hammers, scythes, claws, lashes, etc.

* Lian is able to create perfect replicas of normal matter by materializing psionic energy. She's created a psionic construct of the arm for a wounded soldier, that looked, felt and worked like a real arm; the copy was so perfect that even a professional doctor could not determine that it wasn't real. These psionic constructs are independent from Lian and continue to exist even without any support from her, they cease to exist only if Lian decides so.

* Lian later vastly improved this power and was able to create an entire human body out of psi-energy, that even had the consciousness, memories and temper of a real person.
 **Telepathy**  | Lian is considered one of the the world's most powerful telepath (being equal to only Nathaniel Grey also known as X-Man). Nate was able to converse telepathically, read minds of dozens of people simultaneously, read thoughts across vast distances, surface scan up to several millions minds to find a specific person,, etc. She herself said that telepathy is her sixth sense and her most important one. * Lian is capable of forging psi-links to travel in astral form alone or with others.

* She can utilize her telepathy in a number of defensive ways, such as Mind Cloaking; giving her the ability to mask herself and her abilities from being deteted, even by powerful telepaths like Charles Xavier and Exodus.

* By tweaking the basic senses of others, Lian has able to make herself completely imperceptible, even by those with superhumanly acute senses. She is also able to psionically conceal her own life-signs, to convince everyone around her and even high-tech equipment that she was dead. She is able to hide herself and others from the sensors of Prime Sentinels,and even from Cerebro, which is extremely difficult, thought to be impossible, for even the strongest of mutants to accomplish.

* Lian can protect her mind and others from mental intrusions, illusions, mind control, mind manipulation, etc. Her telepathic defense is so great that even while inexperienced and weakened, she easily blocked such powerful telepaths as Charles Xavier. Even when her telepathy is non functional, Lian is able to sense when someone tried to read her mind and trace it back to the telepath. She is also able to see through illusions created by powerful telepaths like Emma Frost. Lian can escape from illusions created by such technical specialists like Mysterio. Her mental defense is so impervious, that it even protected her from being affected by Sentry's powers, as she was apparently the only person on the planet who kept her memories about the Sentry, when the entire world was made to forget about him.

* After Lian studied and absorbed the memories of Sunspot about the teachings of the Askani, she learned how to thoroughly protect her mind from intrusions and overcome psi-dampers placed on her powers. She also created a special automatic psionic defense mechanism that rerouted the synaptic links and neural relays in her brain every time someone tried to read, manipulate, mentally intrude or control her mind; making all attempts eventually ineffective.

* Lian can easily overcome psi-shields created by other powerful telepaths, such as Charles Xavier,and even shields created by joint efforts from several telepaths. With little concentration, Lian can break down psi-shields.

* Lian is able to create realistic illusions, that cause people to see and experience events, that are not actually occuring in reality. Her illusions can fool even Prime Sentinels and trap a technical specialist in illusions. With this, Lian can affect a few thousand or even tens of thousands of people at the same time.

* Lian's illusions can help her disguise herself and others, by altering her appearance to the perceptions of those around her,or make himself and others mentally invisible. However her camouflage can be broken, if she does something physically superhuman.

* Lian is powerful enough to telepathically broadcast her semi-real image halfway around the world from Switzerland to New York. Through this projection, she could see, hear and talk like a normal person, but had no tangible form.

* Lian is capable of overriding a person's will, and telepathically control their thoughts and actions. She was powerful enough to control a few dozen people at the same time. She can control even those with a well-documented history of resistance to mind control, such as Magneto.

* Sometimes, Lian is able to control people by just simple verbal commands almost akin to that of Purple Man.

* Lian can implant strong thoughts and feelings in the minds of others, which caused a corresponding physical response of the body. She was able to instantly freeze Venom, just by reminding him, that it has happened to him in the past.

* Lian is able to "brain-freeze" one or more people, effectively stopping their physical and mental activity for a while.

* Lian is able to read the memories of those around her, and project herself into a person's memories or place others into her memories to explore it from the inside. She can read memories of several people simultaneously and combine them to form a full picture. She has been able to read the entire life story of a person.

* At first Lian was capable of instantly erasing the memories of her self from the minds of a dozen people. Later he developed this power to an even greater degree.

* Lian is able to place psychic implants in the minds of others, that replaced their memories with false ones. She can also make these implants deadly, so that if they were removed the person could die.

* Lian is able to project someone's memories in order for them to be visually seen.

* Lian is able to remind herself as well as other people of the memories that they forgot.

* Lian is able to flood the minds of others with an abundance of information of traumatic memories of their past, which overloaded their consciousness, emptying their mind and soul, and placing a person into a coma-like state.

* Lian is able to temporarily put the memories of one person into the mind of another, including her own.

* Lian can absorb information, memories, knowledge and skills from others and use it as her own, and even absorb the entire consciousness of a person.

* By reading the deep subconscious of a person, Lian is able to restore their fractured and/or lost memories.

* Lian is able to create a permanent mental link with another person which allowed them to share thoughts, memories and feelings, and she is able to sense the whereabouts of said person.

* Lican can project stunning bolts of psionic energy, which she can also will them to carry no physical effects, but cause pain to the victim's mind or render them unconsciousness.

* Lian is capable of intuitively translating and learning new languages, including alien languages.

* Lian is capable of sensing dimensional rifts and/or anomalies, sense if someone traveled between realities and see the Spiral of Realities.

* Lian is also a powerful precog and retrocog. She is able to see visions of the future during a trance or through precognitive dreams. By displacing herself into a time-stream, it allows her to see every version of every possible future, as well as past and present events.

* Lian can read residual thought imprints left on objects touched by people. By touching the object Lian is able to see past events that happened with this object and around it, days and even decades ago. Sometimes she doesn't need to touch an object, only enter the room to see what happened there many years ago. Psychometry also allows her to see the possible future of an object.

* Lian is able to find any person by isolating their psi-signature on the Astral Plane and tracing it all around the globe.

* Lian can also place a special "tracer" on a chosen person, which allowed her to track that person's movements.

* Lian is able to manipulate dreams of others.
 **Immense Telekinesis**  | Lian is the most powerful telekinetic on Earth (being equal to only Nathaniel Grey also known as X-Man). Lian is capable of very fine control over objects down to the molecular and even subatomic level. She can telekinetically move the chemicals in someone's brain around. She can disassemble and reassemble complex devices within minutes. On larger scales, Lian can levitate vast weights, but her upper limit remained undisclosed.

* By telekinetically levitating herself, Lian is able to fly at amazing speeds. Her maximum speed is unknown, but Lian was able to fly across the Atlantic from London to the Massachusetts overnight. Later her speed drastically increased, exceeding hyper-sonic speeds many times over, as she was able to fly out of the planet's atmosphere in a matter of seconds. Lian can also remotely levitate other people.

* Lian is able to create nigh impenetrable protective force shields, that could protect her from virtually anything known to man. Her force fields activate instinctively, sometimes she isn't even aware of it. She can also form shields around dozens of people simultaneously.

* Normally her force fields are skin-tight, but she can also expand them to form spherical shields to extend protection to several people at the same time, cover vast areas, or hold oxygen to breathe in inhospitable environments.

* Lian is able to fine-tune force fields for specific types of matter to either block said specific matter or allow only it through her shields. For example she has been able to stop oxygen from reaching a person, separate smoke from air, block pheromones from entering the body, etc. She even later stated that pheromones are ineffective against her since she sampled every possible chemical.

* Lian is also able to use force fields to protect herself from extreme temperatures.

* Lian can easily destroy the force fields of other powerful telekinetics

* Lian is able to deflect and/or redirect attacks, like projectiles, away from herself. Her control and power is so great and finely tuned, that instead of stopping an explosion like most telekinetics tend to do, she simply curved the energy of the shock-wave and the exploding shrapnel around her.

* Her mental fine motor skills were so acute that she could mentally manipulate dust and dirt to create realistic holograms.

* Lian can project telekinetic energy as powerful beams from her palms, eyes and entire body, hands or entire body, that could affect matter with concussive and/or explosive force. These blasts vary from a hard push, to punching through the walls, robotic bodies and up to total destruction.

* She is also able to create devastating omni-directional blasts of energy, powerful enough to instantly blow up a truck entire buildings. One of her strongest flares created a huge rift in the ground a few miles in size. Lian can potentially create so powerful a flare, that it would destroy half the planet.

* Lian phase through solid matter by mentally shifting her molecules around another object's as she moves forward. Lian can selectively phase only certain parts of her body, while the rest of her body remains solid. She can also phase other people and doesn't require physical contact to do so.

* Lian is able to telekinetically manipulate the various types of energy of the electromagnetic spectrum.

* Lian can use telekinesis to channel the Earth's magnetic field through the electro-current of her brain and generate electromagnetic pulses that disrupt electronics. She can channel enough energy to generate so devastating an electromagnetic pulse, that it affected an area of a few miles in size, and left behind a residual electromagnetic charge, powerful enough to disrupt electronics even a few hours later.

* She can also channel the electromagnetic field of the planet into directed discharges of high-voltage energy from her eyes, hands and entire body, and possibly even discharge lightning.

* He is able to control visible light for various effects and can create flashes of visible light, powerful enough to blind a group of people for a short time and also telekinetically deflect light around himself to become invisible.

* Lian carries ability to alter molecular and atomic structures in various substances. By hyper-agitating the molecules in clouds, Lian is able to bring forth rain and lightning. She is able to create whirlwinds and even create a vacuum.She can part the sea, control and shape snow and clouds. Lian is able to open and close fissures in the earth, cause and stop earthquakes, and even form hollow mounds of earth as protective 'armor'. Lian is able to ignite a subterranean gas pipeline, creating fire by igniting oxygen molecules in the air and then extinguish the flames, momentary incinerate a person and even several people at the same time. By agitating the motion of water molecules, she is able to heat and boil water around her enemy while both of them were underwater. She can disperse objects down to its sub-atomic molecular state.

* Lian is able to manipulate the gravitational field of the planet. She is able to negate gravity even on very huge objects, and she herself said that it didn't pose any challenge for her. She is also able to isolate the gravitational field around certain objects or people, and since objects are held on the surface of the planet by the gravitational field, while the planet is constantly moving in space, removing the field of gravity would cause objects to fly out the planet's atmosphere almost instantly.

* Lian has learned that she could use his telekinesis to transport herself and other people to any location and/or create portals for teleportation. He is also able to travel into other dimensions and realities. Lian has quickly learned how to control the ability of Interdimensional Teleporation and master it. Lian is also able to remotely teleport objects and people without requiring any physical contact and across vast distances. Lian even can teleport them into other dimensions or realities without transporting herself along. Lian can distort and/or destroy the dimensional barriers that separate dimensions and realities from one another, allowing residents of these dimensions travel to the main reality and vice versa.

* Lian can use telekinesis to enhance her own physiology. She can use telekinesis to increase her physical strength to such a degree that she was able to almost literally beat Hulk to death despite his ability to rapidly regenerate the cells of his body, lift large stones, leap to heights and distances greater than that of an ordinary human, etc. Combining telekinetically increased strength with her force fields, Lian is able to fight with those who's strength far surpasses her. She can even use her telekinesis to increase her running speed.

* She can heal herself and others, by using telekinesis at the molecular or subatomic level to cause the atoms in the body to rapidly bond together and repair; and/or using her telepathy to initiate 'psychic surgery' by instructing the brain to release higher amounts of regulatory chemicals to help the body facilitate the natural response of the metabolism to heal the body.

* Nate is able to manipulate the time-stream itself to achieve various effects such as Temporal Stasis, giving her the ability to stop or at least drastically slow down time in a specific area. She is able to travel in time to the past and the future. She has proved able to step out of time, and enter the "Planck Length" between moments. Within it he was able to see the time-stream, past and present events as well as future possibilities, and she was also able to manipulate both the time-stream and past, present and future events within it.