Powers and Abilities
Chen Lu was a normal human until exposed to excessive amounts of radiation, which changed his skin coloring to an iridescent green, and allows him to manipulate radiation across the microwave spectrum. Abilities include radiation emission as heat, "hard" radiation (inflicting opponents with nausea, dizziness, and radiation poisoning), and hypnotic light. He can also absorb nuclear radiation without harm and convert it to energy for personal use such as strength enhancement or to cauterize wounds, create force fields, and emit electromagnetic radiation to deactivate machinery. He has shown the ability to leave behind "radiation pills", i.e. infusing a single individual with enough radiations to give him severe radiation poisoning and let the contamination spread in a large population.
While it was briefly implied that his radioactive makeup and some further enhancements of his powers had left him radioactive and unable to have contact with unshielded people, he later reveals to have always been in full control of his abilities. Even so, during his tenure in the Dark Avengers Norman Osborn had his original costume replaced with a customized radiation suit, hiding his oriental features and quelling every lingering fear about his radioactive makeup.
Chen Lu holds a Ph. D. in nuclear physics.
Igor Stancheck has the same powers as Chen Lu.
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