Powers and Abilities
Jericho can possess a person after making eye contact with them; his body turns insubstantial and enters the subject. While he is in possession, Jericho has access to all of that host's powers including physical, mental, and magical, and is also able to tap into their memories. Jericho's victims stay conscious and may even express themselves vocally, but they are not able to control the actions of their bodies as directed by Jericho. If the person was unconscious, Jericho could use their voice to speak, albeit with their accent and could only use the words they knew. Jericho sometimes used the American manual alphabet letter "J" as his Sign name in order to signal to his allies that he has taken possession of a person.
However, this power is most effective on human or meta-human bodies; when Jericho once possessed Superman when the hero's mind was briefly transferred into the body of a crippled, angry scientist who used Superman's body to vent his rage against the world, he was unable to maintain control of the Kryptonian brain for long, although it was still long enough to allow the Titans to reverse the transfer. He is skilled in hand to hand combat and able to hold his own against his father.
Jericho's power depends on eye contact with living beings; if he is blinded, or the being he attempts to possess is not a natural creature, his power fails (in this way, he was tricked by his teammate Cyborg during a training exercise, when the latter closed his natural eye and Jericho failed to take possession by attempting to contact his artificial eye (Jericho has since overcome this limitation and was able to control Cyborg through his electronic eye). Jericho has also shown the ability to regrow his gouged out eyeballs: this feat apparently came with the price of a still impaired vision, but the return of his possession ability in their full capacity.
When possessed by the spirits of Azarath, Jericho had a powerful lion soul self and healing ability and was a criminal mastermind.
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