Susan Storm Richards is a founding member of the Fantastic Four. She like the other founding members acquired her powers by flying into outer space with her later husband Reed Richards. Their ship was insufficiently shielded and the quartet was bombarded by cosmic rays. Upon crashing back on Earth their powers manifested immediately.
The Invisible Woman's career has involved space travel, dimensional travel even time travel. She is one of if not the most experienced human female super heroes (She was even a super villain for a short time). She has been not only a member of the Fantastic Four but a member of the Avengers as well. She has gone from being essentially a damsel in distress with the power to turn invisible to being leader of the Fantastic Four who could not only turn invisible but thanks to her force field powers, could engage in combat with beings as powerful as the Hulk (depending who's writing and who's comic book it is she is in).
I could write paragraph upon paragraph of her history but I won't. That's not what this blog is about.
Description
Susan Storm is a beautiful woman with blue eyes and blond hair. She often wears some variation of the typical blue and white costume with the Fantastic Four logo on it. Her hairstyles frequently vary.
Powers
The Invisible Woman can render herself
or parts of herself invisible (invisible to ultraviolet and infrared
as well) at will. She can also render other people or objects
invisible up to a forty thousand cubic feet volume (a little under
half the volume of an Olympic size pool). She does this by mentally
bending light around herself and/or wants to make invisible. There
are a number of explanations for how she and others see while she
makes them invisible. One explanation is that she directs enough
undistorted light to their eyes to retain her full range of vision
while at least in one issue of Fantastic Four Reed notices that when
she renders herself and others invisible they see by using cosmic
rays in place of visible light.
A variation of this ability is her
power to render artificially made invisible targets visible again
provided the target wasn't rendered invisible by magical or psionic
means. This power also permitted her to render invisible energies
visible as when she rendered the energy field Terrax the Tamer used
to levitate Manhattan into outer space visible so as not to panic the
inhabitants. It should be noted that she's only done this once so it
may not be something she can routinely do. Also it should be noted
that this seems to demonstrate that her power to render things
visible surpasses her power to render things invisible. This could
also be the means by which she makes it possible to see cosmic rays
while they are invisible.
She can also mentally create psionic
fields of invisible force. These are drawn from hyperspace (as
suggested by Marvel Universe Wiki). She manipulates these fields for
a variety of effects. Usually she generates incredibly durable (can
absorb repeated attacks from super beings like the Hulk, Gladiator
and Blastaar) invisible force fields around herself or other targets.
She can vary the texture and strength of the fields from hard and
unyielding to as soft and yielding as foam rubber. She uses “softer”
fields to cushion impacts which has the benefit of reducing the
psionic backlash she experiences from powerful attacks on the psionic
fields which can cause her mental or physical pain. She can shape the
force fields into invisible constructs like simple geometric shapes
like cones, spheres, cubes or variations of them like barriers,
columns, domes, ramps and pointed projectiles. She can create
constructs as small as a marble to as large as 100 feet in diameter.
Her hollow constructs such as domes can extend up to several miles in
area.
She can generate and manipulate
multiple psionic force fields simultaneously.
She can weaponize the force fields by
generating force behind them and shaping them into weapons like
battering rams, cannon balls or darts or even as shock waves. By
creating a force field within an object and expanding it she can
cause her target to explode. In combat with the proper use of her
force fields she is a match for most super strong characters of
“class 100” strength.
She can also use her force fields as a
method of travel. She can create animated constructs such as ramps,
stairs, slides and columns enabling her to simulate levitation and
flight. She has used an invisible force column to get to the top of
the Baxter Building when the power was out and she couldn't access
the teams private elevator.
Although she often gesticulates while
using her powers, she can use them while holding perfectly still.
If I was Invisible Woman
If I was the Invisible Woman I would do a number of things before even deciding how I would use her power set. I would develop a fighting style similar to that of “earth bending” from Avatar the Last Air Bender/Legend Of Korra (of course substituting the force fields for actual “earth”). That would include figuring out how to use the psionic feed back feature of the force fields as a sensory capacity. I would also learn some basic engineering to be able to reinforce the force field constructs beyond their natural capacity. I would also get in the habit of rendering visible ambient infrared and/or ultraviolet light in case I find myself without light. One of the biggest things I would learn to do is to shape a force field into an invisible glider so I can have an alternative method of travel.
Now with this power set I would become a “Super Laborer/Jack of All Trades”. I would hire myself out to anyone/s who could make use of my powers. As much as possible I would avoid combat jobs. I would concentrate on the prevention of destruction and the building of things.
The power to render things invisible becomes easily a method of finding broken pipes, mold and electrical faults without having to rip walls and floors open. It also provides a non-invasive way of diagnosing illnesses and breaks in a body, human or otherwise without unnecessary X-rays or CT-scans. I would even go so far as help the police when they are on a raid. Finding where things are hidden or people are waiting to ambush them. It would also be good for archaeology.
I won't lie. I would spend a lot of time in various states of invisibility. For the first few months of having the power my most common use of it would be to pretend I teleported away when I leave a room or building. Once out of a building I would make an invisible bridge to walk up so there would be no trace of me walking away. Of course as often as not I'd only pretend to leave or at least only when there was information to be learned. But still mostly I would walk around appearing to be missing parts. One day headless, another day no limbs and another only a floating head.
The invisible psionic force field power would be the power I would use the most. I would use it for protection purposes of course. Providing cover for those in physical jeopardy and creating pathways for them to evacuate from. For myself personally I would most often use it for “air bridges” making it look like I can walk on air or even on water. “Work wise” I would more often use it to put out fires and to reinforce buildings before they collapse in a fire or a landslide or cave in. In instances where I couldn't prevent a cave in or if people where trapped underwater I would make a snorkel with it making sure the trapped people would be getting fresh air.
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