Strange Visitor

Strange Visitor

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caption="Superman" #149 (October 1999). Art by Ron Frenz
comic_color=background:#8080ff
character_name=Strange Visitor
real_name=Sharon Vance
publisher=DC Comics
debut="Superman" #149 (1999)
creators=Randall Frenz
Ron Frenz
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=Team Superman
aliases=Kismet
powers=Flight, control over electromagnetic fields, density control, empathy|

Strange Visitor aka Sharon Vance first appeared in "Superman" v2, #149 of October 1999, wearing Superman's old containment suit and soon discovered to be the cosmic entity, Kismet.

Fictional character biography

Because of a lightning strike on a plane, Kismet and Sharon Vance (Clark Kent's childhood friend from Smallville) became one entity known as the Strange Visitor. She had become a being of pure electromagnetic energy, and was drawn to the laboratories of Professor Emil Hamilton, who still had one of Superman's containment suits. Emil modified the suit to fit her since test results showed that her energy field was dissolving, and the suit would help her maintain solid form. Her memories were weak, and even though she easily uses her powers to magnetically levitate trains over destroyed tracks, destroy alien attackers with an electromagnetic pulse, and absorb the powers of a self-proclaimed "god of war", she still wasn't sure who she really was.

Even more disturbing was the fact that her emotional state was affecting her powers, and when she became angry or upset, her power levels surged to the point where her containment suit was almost unable to handle all of the energy. If the suit were to fail, she would lose her physical form. A battle with the Parasite restores her powers and her memories.

She later went on to become a hero in her own city. She fought Gorilla Grodd in New York, but was accused of attacking a "monkey".

In "Batman: Our Worlds at War" (Aug 2001) it is seen that a facillity under control of Lex Luthor is keeping tabs on her.

When the Imperiex fleet attacks Earth, Strange Visitor gives all of her powers to Superman. He defeats the powerful entity by cracking his armour and draining his energy, an act which ended her life while opening the way for Superman to vanquish Imperiex and save the universe.

Powers and abilities

Strange Visitor is connected to the Earth's geomagnetic field, and has the power to manipulate electromagnetic energies, which enables her to fire blasts of electrical energy from her hands or eyes, generate magnetic fields to move, lift, and manipulate metal objects, create force fields, steal energy from others, and even "read" an object's magnetic field. She also has the power fly at near light speeds, lower her density to walk through solid matter, and telepathically sense emotions.


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