Powers and Abilities
Black Alice has the ability to temporarily usurp the magical powers of any being, even ones as powerful as the Spectre, gaining all its skills and power and leaving it powerless in turn. The limit to the distance at which she can steal power of a target being is unknown, but potentially limitless as she borrows Alan Scott's abilities during the prison breakouts while he was in space.
When she steals a being's power, her clothing partially transforms to somewhat resemble that of her target. In Birds of Prey #118, she apparently steals some of Etrigan the Demon's magic, including the compulsion to speak in rhyme. She has even shown the ability to steal the powers of two beings simultaneously. In the Helmet of Fate miniseries, she takes the powers of two heroes of her choice while in school and exudes magical abilities of her own, possibly indicating a growing level of control over her powers. During the Reign in Hell storyline, she loses much of this power, and at the end, is left a shrivelled, addled wreck of the sorceress she used to be, traumatized by her experience in Hell, though later stories do not show her significantly reduced.
She has taken the powers of the following:
- Doctor Fate
- Zatanna
- A member of the Marvel Family
- Spectre
- Wonder Girl or Wonder Woman
- Felix Faust
- Misfit
- Raven
- Giganta
- Alan Scott
- Etrigan the Demon
- Phantom Stranger
- Blue Devil
- Johnny Thunderbolt
- Jeannette
- Nightshade
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