Chris Kent (comics) - Powers & Abilities

Powers & Abilities

Chris has developed some of Superman's powers. His abilities are less powerful than the ones of the average Kryptonian, but the limits have not been measured. He has exhibited eight Kryptonian abilities so far:

• Flight: He flies in the Fortress of Solitude and at the Kent farm.
• Heat Vision: He burns General Zod's hand when he attempts to harm Lois Lane.
• Telescopic Vision: He is able to combine this power with his x-ray vision to watch the main screens in the Batcave from afar.
• X-Ray Vision: He is able to combine this power with his super vision to watch the main screens in the Batcave from afar.
• Invulnerability: He arrives on Earth unharmed, and a bus falls on him during the Bizarro attack. However he has stated that he isn't as invulnerable as other Kryptonians.
• Superhuman Strength: He is able to lift objects hundreds of times his own weight, including a heavy, old style, console television in the Metahuman Affairs lab as a child. He then, later, exhibited a greater degree of strength when he caught the Daily Planet globe as it fell during the Bizarro attack. He has stated that he is not as strong as other Kryptonians.
• Superhuman Mentality: He is able to memorize a dictionary within an hour and learn the English language.
• Vortex Breath: He is able to use this power to slow the falls of several cars, allowing Superman to catch them.

As Nightwing, he has also demonstrated additional abilities due to his birth in the Phantom Zone:

• Tactile Telekinesis: He is able to dismantle objects similarly to Conner Kent. He also displays the skill in a more traditional sense, such as moving objects without actually touching them. While this is considered base telekinesis, he seems to manifest this power through hand gestures instead of this ability emanating from pure thought. Also, while he is moderately powerful in this area, he lacks any fine skill; generally using it as a "blunt instrument" of destructive power. The use of his power is usually accompanied by a dark purple display of lighted bands emanating from his hands.
• Resistance to Kryptonite: He does not feel the effects of Kryptonite exposure as severely as other Kryptonians and can withstand its effects for much longer periods of time, an ability he has used offensively and defensively in combat. It is not known if prolonged exposure to Kryptonite would eventually kill him or not.

He is also immune to the effects of the Phantom Zone, because he was born there. He has a solid body within the zone and apparently ages normally while all other inhabitants are timeless and phantoms. For the same reason however, while living outside the Zone, he ages in sudden, debilitating, growth spurts, in which several years pass to him in mere minutes. Jax-Ur, in his guise of Dr. Pillings, attached a device to Chris' arm that keep the growth spurts at bay.

His recent merging with the Nightwing entity has granted him further abilities which include:

• Teleportation: he is able to merge with shadows and cross distances. The exact distance he can teleport remains unknown, but he was able to teleport or absorb a faulty artificial sun into the Phantom Zone
• Creation of Shadow Constructs: Chris displays this ability in the most rudimentary form, creating dark creatures, shadow shields, etc. His exact limitations are also unknown.
• Omniscience: The Nightwing has stated that he sees and knows everything that occurs in shadows or darkness. So far he was able to detect his sibling deity who was hiding in his own shadow and sense that Jay Garrick was in danger of being killed.