History
Selena Slate was the lab assistant to Dr. Charles Warren Fong. Fong was working on an experiments with light using a synthetic diamond. Slate conspired with her boyfriend, Garth, to steal the diamond. Both of their attempts to steal the diamond were disrupted by Sleepwalker, who had become addicted to the light generated through the diamond. Grasping the diamond while it was still irradiated with light, Slate became empowered as Spectra.[1]
After Civil War[]
After the Civil War, she was listed as a potential recruit for the Initiative.[2]Attributes
Powers
- Energy Form
- Light Manipulation: Spectra could manipulate and generate beams of light in different colors of the spectrum, with each color possessing its own property.[citation needed]
- Light Constructs: Her red light could be used to create constructs like a battering ram or ramp.[citation needed]
- Illusions: Her green light allowed her to cast holographs.[citation needed]
- Cold Generation: Her blue light could freeze things.[citation needed]
- Heat Generation: Her yellow light could burn things.[citation needed]
- Telepathy: Her white light allowed her to read people's minds and hypnotize others.[citation needed]
- Energy Projection: Another variation of her green light could form lasers.[citation needed]
- Paralysis: Her purple light could strike people's cerebral system to paralyze them.[citation needed]
- Emotion Inducement: Her orange light caused Sleepwalker to be attracted to her.[citation needed]
See Also
- 6 appearance(s) of Selena Slate (Earth-616)
- 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Selena Slate (Earth-616)
- 4 image(s) of Selena Slate (Earth-616)