Sharon Vance (New Earth)

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Strange Visitor

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Real Name

Sharon Vance

Current Alias

Strange Visitor

Aliases

Kismet

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Good

Affiliation

Team Superman

Universe

New Earth

Base Of Operations

Metropolis

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Status

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Super-Hero

Origin

Origin

Creators

Randall Frenz, Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema

First appearance

Superman v.2 #149

History

Because of a lightning strike on a plane, Kismet and Sharon Vance (Clark Kent's childhood friend from Smallville) became one entity known as the "Strange Visitor". She had become a being of pure electromagnetic energy, and was drawn to the laboratories of Professor Emil Hamilton, who still had one of Superman's containment suits. Emil modified the suit to fit her since test results showed that her energy field was dissolving, and the suit would help her maintain solid form. Her memories were weak, and even though she easily uses her powers to magnetically levitate trains over destroyed tracks, destroy alien attackers with an electromagnetic pulse, and absorb the powers of a self-proclaimed "god of war", she still wasn't sure who she really was.

Even more disturbing was the fact that her emotional state was affecting her powers, and when she became angry or upset, her power levels surged to the point where her containment suit was almost unable to handle all of the energy. If the suit were to fail, she would lose her physical form. A battle with the Parasite restores her powers and her memories.

She later went on to become a hero in her own city. She fought Gorilla Grodd in New York, but was accused of attacking a "monkey".

When the Imperiex fleet attacked Earth, Strange Visitor gave all of her powers to Superman. He defeated the powerful entity by cracking his armor and draining his energy, an act which resulted in Strange Visitor's death, but opened the way for Superman to vanquish Imperiex and save the universe.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Electromagnetism: Strange Visitor is connected to the Earth's geomagnetic field, and has the power to manipulate electromagnetic energies, which enables her to fire blasts of electrical energy from her hands or eyes, generate magnetic fields to move, lift, and manipulate metal objects, create force fields, steal energy from others, and even "read" an object's magnetic field.

• Intangibility: Strange Visitor could lower her density to walk through solid matter.

• Flight: Strange Visitor possessed the ability to fly at near light speeds.

• Empathy: Strange Visitor possessed the ability to tepathically sense emotions.
  

Abilities

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• No special notes.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• Discuss Sharon Vance (New Earth) on the forums

• Appearances of Sharon Vance (New Earth)
• Character Gallery: Sharon Vance (New Earth)
  
• Images featuring Sharon Vance (New Earth)

Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• Strange Visitor at Wikipedia.org
  
• Strange Visitor at DCU Guide
  

Footnotes

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