Legion (Marvel Comics)
The mutant ability to absorb a person's psyche into his as an alternate personality, and manifest their superhuman abilities when they are dominant, including:
- Telepathy
- Telekinesis
- Pyrokinesis
- Time travel
- Reality warping
Legion (David Charles Haller) is a Marvel Comics character, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz.
David is the mutant son of Charles Xavier and Israeli Holocaust survivor Gabrielle Haller. He has severe mental illness, including a form of dissociative identity disorder (more commonly known as multiple personality disorder), with each of his personas controlling one of his many superpowers.
His stories typically revolve around bitterness towards his father, and in Legion Quest, a misplaced attempt to redeem himself in his father's eyes.
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