Skills and Vampiric Attributes
Selene is proficient with many weapons, medieval and modern. She is well versed with both projectile and melee weapons. Modern firearms that she uses include the Walther P99 and a variety of fully automatic machine pistols. Selene is also an expert in unarmed combat. In all three films, she is seen jumping from a ledge of at least one hundred feet and landing without injury.
As a vampire, Selene frequently demonstrates superior physical abilities. She uses superhuman strength to pin Michael against a wall several feet off the ground with one hand to his throat, performs spectacular leaps, manhandles four police officers, strikes her enemies with tremendous force, kills younger vampires with just a few blows, and flips a van. She moves with incredible celerity, able to move between streets and run across hallways appearing as nothing more than a blurred image. She has superhuman stamina and healing, able to take a shotgun blast to the abdomen without flinching, recover after being burned by sunlight, and was slammed against stone walls—breaking the stones—but with hardly any effects. She also has the ability to hold her breath for extended periods of time, as Humans needed SCUBA to make an underwater dive in Underworld: Evolution.
After fortifying herself with Alexander Corvinus' blood, her abilities increase and she goes toe to toe with Marcus, the first Vampire, in his hybrid form. She also displays advanced healing capabilities, as she is able to withstand Markus' sending his wing talon through her chest and seemed to be completely unaffected by it. After she ingests Alexander's blood, she is also able to withstand direct sunlight. She is able to revive David, who had been killed in a fight with the Lycans, by feeding her blood directly to his heart. She is also powerful enough to battle a nearly-unbeatable Super Lycan. During her last fight with him, she shows her incredible strength by ramming her arm right through his chest, a feat previously unseen by vampires. Another example of her immense strength is shown when she shoulder checks a moving van, causing it to flip in a parking lot. She also possesses an immunity to werewolf bites that would be deadly to normal vampires.
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