Marvel Comics/Cassandra Nova

**Cassandra Nova** (Cassandra Nova Xavier) is the Mummudrai of Charles Xavier.

## Powers and Abilities

**Genetic Replication:** Cassandra Nova is able to copy the DNA of sentient beings and use it to construct a physical body for herself.

* **Genetic Manipulation:** She can manipulate the DNA of others, breaking it down at the molecular level.
	+ **Power Augmentation:** After analyzing the DNA of another mutant, Cassandra Nova is able to selectively evolved the existing genetic traits and catalyze the untapped genetic potential of latent mutants. Once begun, the procedure is irreversible and can often result in unpredicted side effects.
* **Power Mimicry:** By duplicating the genome of a being with superhuman powers, she can access the full spectrum of their powers, including latent ones.

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

**Accelerated Regeneration:** Cassandra Nova regenerates and heals hundreds of times faster than a normal human. Due to her 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 her eyes or large portions of flesh; and limbs, such as her feet and arms after they have been completely severed.

**Telepathy:** Cassandra Nova can read minds and project her thoughts into the minds of others within a vast, potentially limitless, radius.

* **Telepathic Cloaking:** She can mask her presence from being detected by others. Her abilities can, at times, go undetected or be counteracted by other, more powerful, telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psionic 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.
* **Psychic Possession:** She has the ability to possess the mind of another and use that being's body as her own.
* **Personality Manipulation:** She has the ability to alter the minds and personalities of others by force of will.
* **Psychic Shields:** She has the ability to erect psychic shields for protection of herself and others' minds.
* **Illusion Casting:** She can create illusions to make herself seem to be invisible, look like someone else, or make others experience events that are not truly happening.
* **Paralysis Inducement:** She has the ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
* **Memory Erasure:** She can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
* **Psychic Blasts:** She can project psionic force bolts that have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause pain, unconsciousness, or brain death.
* **Astral Projection:** She can project her astral form from her body onto astral or physical planes. In the physical plane, she can only travel over short distances from her body.
	+ **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.
* **Psychic 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 also possesses telekinetic abilities that enable her to levitate and manipulate objects, living beings, and energy psionically.

* **Levitation:** She can levitate herself telekinetically.
* **Forcefield Generation:** She can project a telekinetic shield capable of withstanding missile blasts.
* **Force Blasts:** By focusing her mental energy at a specific target, she can release devastating force blasts.