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# Powers & Abilities

## Powers

**Telepathy:** Braddock has developed powerful mental powers that allow her to interact with, affect and manipulate the minds of other sentient beings over distances. When she makes use of her telepathy a large butterfly-like image is usually cast over her face. She tends to use her telepathy in an aggressive manner against foes.

* **Psychic Knife:** Described as the focused totality of her psychic powers, Braddock can create psychic blades on her fists by intensely channeling and focusing her psychic powers. They are razor-sharp edges of pure mental energy which she plunges into the minds of her targets directly. Braddock often uses them to disrupt the minds of her foes by driving the glowing blade of mental energy into their skulls. They are potentially lethal. After having assumed the role of Captain Britain, Braddock apparently stopped wielding the psychic knives in her fights.
* **Psychic Blasts:** Being capable of projecting psychic force bolts which can affect a victim's mind and cause them pain, confusion, unconsciousness, or even death, Braddock sometimes combines her telepathy with her fighting skills against opponents.
* **Astral Projection:** By projecting her astral form from her body, Braddock can cast her consciousness onto astral planes or the physical plane. On the astral plane, she can mentally create psychic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment, including battles against other psychics. Under the influence of the Crimson Dawn her astral form was totally undetectable.
* **Telepathic Shadow:** With the telepathic suggestion of being ignored by others, Braddock can mask her presence from others. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well. Her abilities can go undetected and are very difficult to track, even by very powerful telepaths such as Shadow King.
* **Illusions:** Braddock can mentally fabricate illusory sensations, experiences, events and memories that have no factual correlation on the minds of others.
* **Mind Control:** By mentally imposing her will over the minds of others, Braddock is ultimately capable of controlling their actions as a puppeteer.
	+ **Paralysis:** More specifically, Braddock is able to induce temporary mental and physical paralysis.
	+ **Telepathic Amnesia:** Braddock can affect past memories of others and erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
* **Telepathic Detection:** Enhanced psychic senses enable Braddock to track other sentient beings in her immediate vicinity by their unique psychic emanations, especially if they pose a threat to her well-being. She also can scan large areas and track her vicinity, as well as detect the psyches of the inhabitants of a city to learn of their location and condition.
* **Telepathic Immunity:** After being resurrected by her older brother Jamie, Betsy Braddock exhibited immunity to certain psychic attacks such as mind reading and illusions. However, in some incidents, she has been shown to be prone to be affected by other telepaths

**Telekinesis:** Ever since exchanging abilities with Jean Grey, Braddock has been able to psychically manipulate and control the physical aspects of matter, allowing her to move and levitate objects and living beings. Although she can move objects from a distance and fly as other telekinetics do, she has shown little inclination to do either in combat situations. Her telekinesis are described to be robust, in the sense she found easier to use her telekinesis in forceful ways, usually by crafting energy weapons.

* **Telekinetic Weapons:** Braddock's telekinesis has great versatility, as she has used it to construct psychic weapons that damage a target either physically, mentally or both at some point. She has shown skill in using creating multiple types of psychic weapons that differ in size and power, which she uses in combat. Her telekinetic manifestations produce visible radiance in the physical world, which can be used as a makeshift light source in areas of darkness.
	+ **Telekinetic Sword / Katana:** Braddock can manifest a telekinetic sword composed of raw psychic energy at will, which functions to disrupt neural pathways or cut through matter with precision. Her telekinetic sword is strong enough to harm beings more powerful than herself. When inhabiting Kwannon's body, her sword usually manifested as a katana. After returning to her original body, she produced a sword more similar to a European knight's sword in its fashion, often used alongside a strong telekinetic shield.
	+ **Telekinetic Crossbow:** Showing more versatility when it comes to her psychic constructs, Braddock can create energy bows and arrows, which she uses to attack her targets from a distance.
	+ **Telekinetic Spiked Flail:** One manifestation of Braddock's telekinetic abilities was once spiked flail which she used to destroy a wall.

## Abilities

**Master Telepathic Combatant:** As a telepath, Braddock takes advantage of her powers in a fight, by, for instance, reading her opponents' movements seconds before they make them, giving her the opportunity to counter-attack faster. She can also use her telepathy to mask her presence from other people, humans and super-humans alike. She can create telepathic illusions to distract and incapacitate her enemies while fighting them. Braddock has declared she has fewer inhibitions about executing enemies if necessary

**Advanced Telekinetic Combatant:** As a telekinetic, Braddock can use her powers to augment her strength and speed, which made her fighting skills strong enough to outmatch other superhumanly strong opponents, like Sabretooth.

**Trained Pilot:** Braddock worked as a charter pilot, being experienced in controlling airplanes. On several occasions, she was tasked of piloting the X-Men Blackbird.

## Weakness

**Telepathy / Telekinesis Balance:** The strength and stability of Braddock's telepathic and telekinetic powers is said to depend on how much she is using the other, since using both at once makes it hard for her to focus and lowers the level of power.