Saturn Girl - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

Saturn Girl's powers in her initial Silver Age appearances appeared to be great: she could summon distant people; probe human, electronic, and animal minds; "push" weakened minds, and even directly control others' thoughts and emotions. In later years, her abilities were portrayed more conservatively: her telepathy was used most often for communication or sensing surface thoughts, while her ability to influence and probe minds was usually limited to minds that had already been weakened in some way, such as by fatigue or a villain's mind control.

Saturn Girl post Zero Hour was again able to alter, manipulate, and read minds. She could communicate mentally, as well as cast illusions and maintain them indefinitely, including pseudo-tactile contact, while the illusions could display a personality different from her own and she would be aware of all interactions the illusory figure was involved in at all times.

The extent of her powers after the "Threeboot", though unknown, is substantially more limited. Although she's retained the "soothing" effect of her powers from her Pre-Crisis incarnation, she is unable to probe shielded minds, and must concentrate to exert direct influence on an opponent's brain (such as disrupting an opponent's amygdala). Her mother, (a United Planet ambassador) seems more skilled than her daughter, able to instinctively sense when Imra is using her telepathy. Titanians may choose an "open broadcast" system of communication, enabling everyone, even non-telepathic as a species, to "hear" their thoughts, or a "closed broadcast", creating a sort of "astral plane" in which they can "speak" completely undetected and in absolute privacy. Imra is able to modulate her telepathic voice in various modes, including a "telepathic scream", overwhelming and compelling as a voiced one.

As described by Princess Projectra, Titanian telepathy involves mostly the control of the higher brain functions, and Imra is powerless against mental attacks dealt directly to her subconscious, or her id urgings.

The current (V6) version of Imra has also demonstrated a telekinetic (TK) ability, using this power to shatter a window blocking her path to her two sons. She also is seen holding back a collapsing building column from crushing some people apparently with some form of telekinetic force. In addition she is later seen to apparently telekinetically "catch" or at least levitate a very large block of falling masonry about to crush another group of people.

The (V6) version is essentially a continuation of "Silver Age" Saturn Girl so its possible telekinesis is either something Imra learned how to do over the passing years, possibly by studying with Tellus who is both an Esper and a TK, or perhaps its an ability that took some time to manifest in Imra. Titanians generally only have various degrees of ESP abilities with the notable exception of Saturn Queen (Eve Aries).

A TK ability is consistent with the animated Legion of Superheroes version of Saturn Girl who exhibited a Thought Blast ability capable of destroying robots, which clearly had to be a telekinetic force. Furthermore Imra also directly exploded or at least caused to explode a group of energy weapon satellites, also consistent with some form of TK.

Its also possible she has always had a TK ability and perhaps more; it has been at the very least implied (especially after Zero Hour), that Imra is vastly more powerful than she herself, or in some cases her trainers/teachers are comfortable with. Some of her "weaknesses" and "limitations" may be psychologically self imposed. Also, one of her professors, Dr. Aven is known to have telepathically planted "psychic circuit breaker" suggestions in her mind when she was younger to limit her abilities.