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Dazzler
 Real name:
Alison Blaire
Former aliases: The Disco Dazzler
Identity: Publicly known
Occupation: Singer, actress, dancer, gladiator
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Place of birth: Gardendale, Long Island, New York
Marital status: Single
Known relatives: Carter (father, deceased), Katherine (alias Barbara London,
mother), Bella (grandmother), Lois London (step-sister), Nick Brown (step-father)
Base of operations: (current) "Mojoworld" (in another dimension), (former) New
York City; or mobile, usually in Los Angeles, California; later Professor
Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester County, New
York State
Group affiliation: (former) Gladiators, X-Men
First appearance: X-MEN (first series) #130
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 115 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Stength level: The Dazzler possesses the normal
human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in intensive
regular exercise.
Known superhuman powers: The Dazzler is a mutant with the superhuman ability to
transduce sonic vibrations which reach her body into various types of light.
This ability seems to operate over a great range of frequencies, including the
audible spectrum (35 to 16,500 cycles per second), and a great variation of
sound pressure levels regardless of the complexity, dissonance, or randomness of
the sound. For example, a car crash and a symphonic passage of equal duration
will both produce usable incoming acoustic vibrations.
The Dazzler, however, prefers utilizing the sound of music, particularly that
which is rhythmically sustained. Not only is music more pleasant to her ears,
but the steady beat of contemporary popular provides a more constant source of
sound to convert. The precise means by which this conversion process works is as
yet unknown, but it must involve a body-wide energy field that controls the
energy levels of the outer electron shells of her body in such a way as to cause
the cascaded release of photons.
The field thus operates in a similar fashion as the process that creates a laser
(Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
and apparently has the same efficiency as a laser (99.9 percent). The released
energy is far greater than the incoming kinetic energy and therefore must
involve another, unknown energy source as well. Left undirected, the Dazzler's
light will radiate from her body in all directions, producing regular flashes of
white light (white light is a mixture of all portions of the visible spectrum).
By conscious control over the light she produces, she can control its direction,
frequency (color), amplitude (intensity), and duration.
Apparently the Dazzler must consciously or subconsciously will the light to
leave her body. Otherwise, light would "leak" from her at all times, even when
she was asleep or unconscious. The Dazzler can produce numerous effects with the
light she converts from sonic vibrations. She can simply cause a bright glow all
about her body. She can create very simple patterns out of rays of light like
circles, squares, triangles, and stars. With effort, she can even create
holograms of human beings and other three-dimensional beings and objects. She
can create a pulse of light on the order of several thousand watts seconds of
power, which temporarily blinds people with its brilliance. She can create a
chaotic cascade of sparkling lights and colors that severely upsets other
people's equilibrium, or a pulsating strobe-light effect. By concentrating, the
Dazzler can generate a coherent beam of light, approximating a laser beam, with
which she can cut through virtually anything.
Her training with the X-Men, especially with Cyclops, has taught her how to
produce such laser-like beams with much less effort than it previously required
of her. She generally directs the laser from a single finger when she requires
precision in its use, since pointing aids her in defining its direction. But she
can also direct laser blasts from both hands at once when she wishes, for
example, to demolish a large structure.She most often uses her hands for
directing her light effects, but she could also use other parts of her body.
Since studying with the X-Men, she has become adept at directing her blinding
strobe light blast from her eyes. The Dazzler has also learned how to create a
protective force field about herself with laser light that can deflect or
vaporize oncoming projectiles. The Dazzler's potential to convert sound to light
is unlimited. Curiously, she cannot use her own unamplified voice as a source of
sound for her transduction abilities. The Dazzler's body, especially her eyes,
shields itself against any injurious effects of her light transducing abilities,
and against those of bright lights in general. Her ability to transduce sound
also protects her from being deafened by loud noises.
Other abilities: The Dazzler is a highly skilled athlete, and has become a good
hand-to-hand combatant thanks to her training with the X-Men; talented singer,
actress, and dancer; highly accomplished roller skater.
 History:
Alison Blaire is a mutant whose superhuman powers first manifested themselves in
her late adolescence. As an aspiring singer, Blaire was performing at a high
school dance when her ability to transform sound into light first surfaced. Upon
graduation she set out to make a name for herself in the entertainment world
using her light powers to create spectacular effects as she sang. She used the
stage name The Dazzler. Virtually no one knew that Blaire was a mutant; almost
everyone in her audiences assumed that her lighting effects were created through
technological means. Although Blaire had no intention of using her special
powers to fight crime on a regular basis, time and again she found herself using
them to thwart the criminal activities of gangsters and renegade superhumans.
Eventually Blaire moved to the Los Angeles area from New York City, and formed a
romantic and professional relationship with Hollywood celebrity Roman Nekoboh.
Nekoboh produced a motion picture (which was never released) featuring Blaire,
and persuaded her to reveal publicly that she was a superhumanly powerful mutant.
The revelation backfired, stirring up renewed public hostility against mutants.
Blaire was virtually blacklisted in the entertainment industry, and had to take
primarily low-paying obscure jobs in order to continue her singing career.
Blaire sought and received training in the use of her superhuman abilities from
the mutant X-Men. As a result, she is now far more adept in the use of her
powers than she was in the past. Dazzler has recently been spending her time in
the Mojoverse with her companion Longshot. The two have been placed as the
rulers there and are attempting to build their world into a much more fair and
hospitable place. When last seen, Dazzler had decided to take care of the X-Babies,
miniature versions of the X-Men created by Mojo.
Meaning that she wasn't around when Onslaught
took over the world. She was surprised by Psylocke and "joined" her Order of the
Phoenix. After the whole event, she returned to Mojoworld, but her relationship
was Longshot was severely damaged already and she felt she couldn't bare stay
with him any longer. She returned to Earth and found Betsy again, who needed
help to find Cerebro. She has been following Betsy almost blindly since then.
Now Dazzler finds herself in a future not her own, forcibly taken there by Roma, trying to make the best of it she
can.
In the Future she realized she had leadership
abilities, but she had barely no time to explore them. Now she finds herself
back in the present. A rising star in Madripoor, she will go to any lenghts to
regain her lost memory.
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