SPECTRUM

Real Name:

Monica Rambeau

Universe/Timeline:

Marvel Universe

Status:

Active

Additional Status Info:

AVENG.E.R.S.

Category:

Science-Based Mutate

Alias:

Captain Marvel II, Photon II, Pulsar IV, Daystar.

Nationality:

American

First Appearance:

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16

Powers & Abilities:

dimensional interface enables her to transform into electromagnetic energy, allowing flight, light speed, invisibility, intangibility, projection of light, heat, electricity, radiation, energy absorption and duplication, holographic shape-changing, photographic memory, etc.

Affiliation:

Avengers, The Mighty Avengers, Ultimates (616), NextWave, Secret Avengers (Civil War), Queen's Vengeance, Strikeforce II, Thunderbolts, AVENG.E.R.S.

Avengers Membership:

Probationary membership as of Avengers (1st series) #227. Full status granted in #232.

Notes:

Monica Rambeau became Photon II in Avengers Unplugged #5, Pulsar in New Thunderbolts #9, and Spectrum in Mighty Avengers (2nd series) #1.

Monica's powers originally came from contact with an extra-dimensional energy grid. In NextWave #1, however, she was shown using her powers as a young girl. Much of NextWave's continuity was called into question, though, and years later Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #6-7 explained that their foes, the Beyond Corporation, were actually a Beyonder "debaser unit" running NextWave through extreme distortions to reality. This seemed to be the answer for "errors" like young Monica. In Monica Rambeau: Photon #4, the issue was raised again and suggested that Monica suppressed her powers as a child until the energy grid forced them to the surface. It's possible, under these new facts, she could have been a latent mutant.

Last Updated:

3rd December 2024 by Monolith