Banshee (Marvel Comics)

Background

Full Name: Sean Cassidy

Powers & Abilities

• Acoustikinesis: He creates powerful sonic waves with his voice with which he could achieve various effects, often with the assistance of psionic abilities which function only in unison with his sonic abilities.
  • Sonic Scream: He has the ability to shatter solid objects with an incredibly loud and destructive sonic scream.
  • Flight: He has the ability to fly at subsonic speeds by using his voice to propel him through the air and ride via sound waves.
  • Sonar: He could use his sonic powers as a form of sonar (Sound Navigation and Ranging). By sending out a precise, pure note and listening to the returning, altered wavefront of the note, he could evaluate his surroundings in total darkness with varying degrees of resolution.
  • Sonic Shield: He could tighten sound waves around himself or others near him, making a barrier against outside attack.
  • Vocal Disorientation: He has the ability to change someone’s balance, by affecting their equilibrium using his sonic scream.
  • Vocal Trance: He has the ability to subtly influence people's subconscious mind by changing the tones and vibrations of his voice using hypersonic suggestions and persuasive abilities.
  • Vocal Unconsciousness: He has the ability to affect the fluid in someone’s ear causing the person to go unconscious.
  • Sound Immunity: Banshee's hearing and equilibrium were unaffected by his hypersonic abilities or other similar sound/sonic-based abilities.
  • Superhuman Vocal Stamina: He possesses superhuman stamina in his lungs, throat, and vocal cords.
• Gifted Detective:
• Seasoned Undercover Operative:
• Unarmed Combatant:
• Combat Strategist & Tactician:
• Excellent Marksman:
• Amateur Machine-Smith:
• Educator:
• Organizer:
• Lobbyist:
• Musician:

Equipment

• X-Uniform:
  • Banshee's Wings: Professor X developed a harness for Banshee's X-Uniform. Using the Harness and his sonic scream he is able to glide on air currents. Using the harness he is able to fly at subsonic speeds.
• Conventional Firearms:
• Explosive "Micro-Bombs":

Weaknesses

• His vocal cords were susceptible to injury from excessive strain in using sonic powers. He had also survived normally fatal throat wounds at the cost of his sonic powers temporarily.