Monolith's Power Descriptions

 

All together, I don't think Courier is capable of the wild shapechanging seen by the likes of Morph and Apocalypse. His power seems to be an extreme form of people who can wiggle their ears. His molecular awareness allows him to feel the individual molecules of his body like we can feel the surface of our skin. He can manipulate his mass, but it is a slow and involved process which involves him consciously focusing on each portion of his body he wishes to alter, and slowly molding it into a new state.

 

2) The hot knives probably contained more concentrated heat striking a target at the moment of impact, but sustained application of atomic flame to a target would quickly raise its temperature to higher than the hot knives produced.

 

3) Magneto can manipulate a wide variety of substances using trace amounts of iron found within them, providing there's enough present to create a magnetic field (Polaris once levitated celery, for instance). He can also manipulate microscopic clouds of magnetic dust and filiments, wrapping them around a non-ferrous material to levitate and manipulate it indirectly. Finally, any form of energy with an electromagnetic component was potentially vulnerable to his manipulation.

 

4) He was able to both send and receive thoughts by the time he served with Weapon X. Jono could project sensations as well as thoughts, conveying his true nature on a little girl so that she wouldn't be scared of him, letting her "feel" that he's a good man. Similarly, he once used his powers to broadcast Spider-Man's spider-sense, allowing everyone in range to experience the same warning signal of incoming danger Spider-Man was feeling.

 

Inter-dimensional teleportation seems to be the most common, whether through the psionic plane, Brimstone Dimension, Limbo, Darkforce Dimension, pocket dimensions, or whatever. Folding space is also used by gravitational characters, like Moonstone or Baron Zemo when he wielded the moon gems, warping space to connect two distant points. Another form of teleportation is to convert an object into speed-of-light or faster-than-light particles, projecting it along a transmission beam through space to reach a new location almost instantaneously.

 

Sue's force fields are hyperspace energy which vibrates at frequencies outside the human range of vision, so presumably Valeria's were as well.

 

Valeria is actually the restored version of her past self via the negation of her future self's development. Sue Richards originally miscarried her second child shortly after Secret Wars. After the teenaged Valeria von Doom appeared, it was eventually revealed Franklin had subconsciously saved his unborn sister by displacing her into an alternate timeline, where she eventually grew into adulthood. She was later reverted BACK to a fetal state and placed inside Sue's womb again, after which she was born with the assistance of Victor von Doom.

 

So current Valeria is basically what would happen if Cable was reduced back to infancy to be raised by Cyclops again. But give the realty altering voodoo tossed around by Franklin while saving the baby, and then again with Abraxas and Roma when she was reverted to infancy, it wouldn't be safe to assume ANYTHING about her development at this juncture. And, as stated, baby Valeria was tested for super-powers, and the tests came back negative.

 

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oops, just saw that Monolith also referenced the wikipedia entry.  

 

 

As for her force fields, though, they were treated as nothing more than a slight variation on Sue's. In #23, Reed commented directly on their similarity. When referring to the protective ability of their force fields, he said, "Allowing for the girl's age, in strength and intensity, this aspect of their powers is virtually identical."

 

Frankly, at this point, the whole "space/time force fields" thing sounds like an invention of the internet, like Cordelia Frost being the world's most powerful empath. Someone came along, read the same pages above, and decided that if Valeria had time powers, then ipso facto her force fields must be time-based, too. Then the misinformation spread like wildfire through the internet (as it is known to do).

 

But just because she may have one temporal powers doesn't mean all her powers are, especially for a second generation superhuman. We've seen alternate Valeria before with both elastic and invisible force powers, so there's precedent for her having two different sets of abilities.

 

The issue itself stated Val's importance was because Roma kept her in "the heart and soul of Eternity". And when Galactus was restored, she turned to Franklin and said "Good job, kiddo", not "WE did it!" Her powers (space/time or otherwise) were not involved in that situation, and it is unsupported speculation to assume they were.

 

I'm sorry, marhawkman, but you are remembering things incorrectly. There is no panel that talks about Val and time/space barriers...not one that anyone has been able to find or reproduce. And we're not talking about decades of issues to comb through -- Valeria von Doom appeared in only about a dozen issues. Insisting that is still out there without evidence is how wrong information gets preserved unnecessarily.

 

The Time-Keepers or the Time-Twisters are the last living creatures to be born before the end of the universe. The infinitely bureaucratic Time Variance Authority accumulated vast amount of time energy through their work, storing it as a "pension plan" for their retiring employees to draw upon. At the end of time, the last surviving manager of the TVA known as He Who Remains used the pent up temporal energy to create three hyper-evolving lifeforms to survive into the next universe and pass on the knowledge of the current one. He miscalculated, however, and created the vicious Time-Twisters who rampaged through the timestream. Thor and Jane Foster travelled to the end of time prior to the Time-Twisters birth and convinced He Who Remains to abort their creation. He agreed, and after Thor departed he went on to create the more benevolent Time-Keepers.

 

The act represents the last divergence in the timestream of the universe: in one alternate reality, the Time-Twisters were aborted and the Time-Keepers came to prominence, while in the other the Time-Twisters emerged as planned. The Twisters and Keepers are therefore locked in an eternal struggle for control of time itself, each attempting to manipulate the timestream to ensure one "final future" or the other gains prominence at the end of time, and determine which trio will pass on to the next universe. By manipulating the flow of events in all the alternate realities and possibilities leading up to the end of time, they influence which of the two final outcomes of the universe is more likely.

 

Both the Keepers and the Twisters are embodiments of massive amounts of temporal energy, giving them god-like powers over time. They can travel through eras at will, transporting to any point in time, space, and variant dimensions. They can "freeze" time relative to themselves, in order to passively observe a particular moment in time, and allow other beings to exist in that frozen moment with them. By shifting partially out of synch with a specific time zone, they become virtually undetectable by all manner of senses or contact. The Keepers and Twisters can manipulate the flow of time on a given person or object, causing them to unnaturally age into dust or revert to an earlier stage in their lives. They have also demonstrated a variety of other skills such as cross-dimensional telepathic observation and communication, projection of energy as destructive blasts or protective fields, levitation, etc.