SELENE

Publication Date: 
11th Aug 2022
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Real name

Selene Gallio

Aliases

Black Queen, Black Priestess,
Lady Selene, Selene Gallo

Height

5' 10"

Weight

130 lbs

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Black

First Appearance

New Mutants (1st series) #9

Known Relatives

Unnamed mother (deceased),
Marcus Domitus Gallio (husband,
deceased), Amara Aquilla / Magma
(alleged descendant)

Profession

None

Group affiliation

Externals,
X-Corporation,
Power Elite, Sisterhood,
Inner Circle, Hellfire Club,
Upstarts

Powers

• Psychic vampire who feeds
off the life energy of living beings to
rejuvenate herself and sustain her existence,
able to drain victims to the point of disintegration or partially drain them and exert mental domination over her victims for a time
• Possesses superhuman strength, speed, reaction time, and endurance when vitalized, can consciously alter her age to appear as an old woman, young child, or woman in her prime, or cast illusions to trade appearance with one of her dominated victims
• Telekinetic animation enables her to control inanimate materials, causing them to move and reshape themselves according to her whim, or exert pyrokinesis to ignite combustible materials or manipulate existing sources of flame
• Hypnotic power can induce momentary trances, allowing her to seemingly vanish while moving at super-speeds or rapidly approach her victims to get within absorption range, limited telepathic abilities outside the link she forges with victims
• Shadow transfiguration allows her to merge with darkness, becoming a semi-tangible wraith able to move through shadows and teleport between different areas of darkness