Valeria Richards - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

As Marvel Girl, Valeria Richards exhibited several superpowers, though the exact extent of her abilities is unknown. She inherited the ability of her mother to project force fields, using them for protection or as platforms to stand on and propel through the air. By wrapping the force fields tightly around her body, she could simulate superhuman strength for her punches and invulnerability. Valeria also indicated she had other abilities, such as neutralizing her brother Franklin's powers or "time-dancing", a method she and her adult brother Franklin occasionally used to travel through time. How Valeria first "time-danced" into the present was never explained, and her full retconned origin explained in Fantastic Four Vol. 3 #49 left the entire ordeal somewhat hazy.

In addition, Valeria von Doom showed an intelligence and aptitude for invention and technology rivalling that of Doctor Doom or Mister Fantastic. She did not inherit her mother's ability to turn invisible naturally, but she did design a gadget to turn herself invisible. Valeria also used an armored costume that mixed elements of the Fantastic Four's uniform and Doctor Doom's armor. She could summon the armor on command, apparently through the metallic paint of Doom's mask on her fingernails.

Reborn as Valeria Richards, Valeria is currently a toddler. In Fantastic Four vol. 3 #63 (January 2003), she was tested for superpowers by her father, Mister Fantastic, and found to have no superhuman abilities. In Fantastic Four: The Wedding she is seen to complete a Rubik's Cube with her father saying that she will be playing chess by the time she is two. It was recently revealed that she is, in fact, already incredibly intelligent, nearly at the level of Reed. However, she is hiding her intelligence from her family as she has calculated that at this point, it would cause far too much of a divide between her family. Although Sue would be proud of her, it would alienate Valeria from her, and after eighty-two months, it would inadvertently drive a wedge between Reed and Franklin, whom she said would become estranged from the family. However, she has since dropped the ruse, as she's later shown as the proud creator of a very advanced AI-based toy which Reed and Franklin plan to sell to Disney.

In Marvel Knights 4 Johnny Storm travelled to an alternate future and was saved from Doombots by a grown-up Valeria. She had a superior version of her mother's invisibility powers, allowing her to shield someone's bio-electric aura, kinetic energy, heat energy, and other evidence of their existence.