Cosmo the Spacedog

Background

Full Name: Cosmo the Spacedog

Powers & Abilities

• Telekinesis: Cosmo is an incredibly gifted telekinetic, and is capable of amazingly precise use of his telekinesis.
• Telepathy: Ability to read and manipulate the minds of others and even higher order animals. Cosmo has demonstrated the following specialized uses:
  • Telepathic Defense: He can manifest his telepathy in a number of defensive ways.
    • Telepathic Cloaking: He can mask his presence and the use of his abilities from being detected by other psions and psychic entities. He can extend these defenses to others around him as well. Cloaking via telepathy is not perfect and powerful telepaths may notice and 'see through' this ability.
    • Psionic Shield: He can erect a psychic screen for the protection of himself and of others' minds from psionic or energy-based attacks.
  • Telepathic Illusions: He can create realistic and very detailed illusions and cause others to experience events which are not actually occurring.
    • Telepathic Camouflage: He can alter the apparent physical appearance of himself and others by altering what those around them perceive. He may do this by masking allies to an extent that they may be unrecognizable by the enemy or that their very presence goes altogether undetected.
  • Telepathic Manipulation: He can manipulate others' minds with ease, achieving a variety of effects.
    • Mind Control: He can control the thoughts and actions others to a certain extent. Cosmo demonstrates this when he forces Adomox to give an antidote to Nova and Rocket.
    • Mental Paralysis: He can induce temporary mental or physical paralysis. He was skilled enough to make a Cancerverse-version of the Hulk stroke out by reaching into its mind.
    • Mental Amnesia: Ability to erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
    • Mental Sedating: He can telepathically 'sedate' a target's mind so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as he continues to 'sedate' them. Together with Mantis and Moondragon, he was able to calm an enraged Thanos.
  • Psionic Blast: He can project psionic force bolts, which have no physical effects but rather attack a target's mind so as to cause them pain or loss of consciousness, induce a stroke, or simply turn them brain-dead.
  • Mental Detection: He can sense the presence of other sentient entities, including powerful psions, within a small but as yet undefined radius of oneself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such beings.
• Extended Longevity: Cosmo is decades older than the normal maximum life expectancy of a dog, and does not appear to age physically.

Equipment

• White Spacesuit: Insulated and has a dome visor, and sometimes includes small compartments.
• Tesseracted Storage Crystal Chip: Built in a lab on Knowhere, Cosmo wears it on his collar. This finitely-powered hardware can store the entire population of Knowhere in an instant.

Weaknesses

• Certain poisons can dampen Cosmo's powers.
• Psychic Overload: When Adam became the Magus for an instant to attack a powerful telepath, the presence of the powerful psychic entity caused a nosebleed for both Cosmo and Mantis.