Geiger (comics)

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caption=Geiger.
Art by Stefano Caselli.
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character_name=Geiger
real_name=Delilah Dearborn
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publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Doc Samson #1" (Jan 1996)
creators=Dan Slott
Ken Lashley
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powers=Can mimic the powers of any gamma-powered beings in her immediate vicinity| Geiger is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. She first appeared in "Doc Samson #1" (Jan 1996), created by Dan Slott .

Fictional character biography

Delilah "Dee Dee" Dearborn was a student at Empire State University who gains superhuman powers from an accident with a gamma accelerator at the school. Doc Samson mistakes her for a murderer and they fight. She later helps him track and confront the real killer.

Initiative

Geiger is seen at the military base Camp Hammond, as an official recruit for the , which is a super-human military draft. She is introduced to Camp Hammond along with Ant-Man, Crusader, Melee, Geldoff, Dragon Lord, Red Nine, and Diamondback. ["Avengers: The Initiative" #8]

She was one of the trainees that attacked KIA and were defeated. ["Avengers: The Initiative" #10]

Powers and abilities

Due to a Gamma radition accident, Geiger has the ability to mimic the powers of any gamma-powered beings in her immediate vicinity, potentially making her as strong as the Hulk, as intelligent as the Leader, etc. However, she has little control over these powers, a downside exacerbated by the fact that she also takes on personality aspects of whoever she is mimicing as well.

References

External links

*http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/geigerpw.htm