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miles2099 [2012-02-25 17:20:36 +0000 UTC]

cool

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youngyatie [2011-01-14 07:55:16 +0000 UTC]

Being that i'm one of the creators of Psi, i'll break it down for u boys. Psi is your typical Telekinetic, but at full power he can shoot A telekinetic beam so powerful it rips through reality within a localized area ( NOT ALL OF REALITY!!). Psi has yet to realize his full potential. This just A brief profile I had Cahn put up for the character.

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Ebonstorm [2011-01-14 01:33:30 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful and amazing character art. Terrible character design.

Telekinesis is a good power and with some practice you can do ALMOST all of the things described here. However when you consider this character from a writing point of view, almost no writer would try and create a regular series based on him because he is so powerful, he disrupts the universe as he strides through it. He is where a character should be near the end of his character arc of existence, not at the beginning. Even if you wanted him to be powerful enough to get over the "Watered Down Black Superhero Syndrome" common to mainstream black heroes, you still want to make a character who can be challenged without risking the destruction of the planet to tell the tale. When your hero becomes on average more powerful than Superman, Thor, The Silver Surfer or Gladiator, you have done too much. An effective hero is both strengths and vulnerabilities. Without both, a writer simply cannot make a reader care enough to do anything with the character.

If I was redesigning him to write about, I might do something like this.

Telekinesis - Mastery level 5 of 5
1. Telekinetic movement - Lifting connected weights of no greater than 500 tons. Sufficient to move almost everything up to a 747, but not superscale structures such as buildings or space stations.
2. Telekinetic Disruption - disintegrate any matter exposed to telekinetic energy of a particular frequency or duration
3. Create protective barrier capable of providing life support for short periods of time. Resistant to bacterial or viral infection. Limited air supply.

While this particular hero is incredibly powerful by comic book standards he could still be written for without driving writers completely mad. He cannot fly, since it was not mentioned whether his TK was reflexive, so he could create structures to climb but not just fly himself out of the way. His telekinesis is both offensive and defensive but not ridiculously overpowered except for his lifting capacity. To make him interesting, he could have a limitation to his lifting strength inversely proportional to the range he is using his power. The further away something was, the less strength he could apply to it. Since it was not mentioned whether he had superhuman stamina, he could also suffer from feedback stress from the use of his powers, giving him another vulnerability a villain could exploit.

The quantum string and reality manipulation powers would make him incredibly powerful and irresponsibly destructive to any world he lived upon. Unless he was gifted with some sort of limited omniscience he potentially risked destroying reality every time he used his powers to alter matter at the atomic level (potentially releasing devastating energies exceeding that of nuclear weapons), to rip apart the space-time continuum, causing ruptures in the very fabric of gravity and space-time.

The power to manipulate dimensional barriers that separate reality, while really cool, does not easily fit into a character conception that would make any writer want to jump up and write about. If it was a spontaneous side effect of his powers being used, that might make him more interesting. He might have to limit his power use because it opened temporary portals to other space-times allowing animals, monsters or even other people into his space time.

It is not enough to give your heroes powers so great they can do anything, because as soon as they can do anything. There are no challenges worth interacting with. If you want to follow the career of a character with similar powers to a similar conclusion, seek out the comics of the superMAN from Tangent Comics. Eventually he grew so powerful, he could not effectively be written for and became a multidimensional despot.

All that I have written here is in my opinion. Having read comics for over 4 decades (42 years) I feel confident saying what I have outlined here. If your friend seriously wants to get into comic writing, I will be glad to help him develop metahumans that make for good reading and can still kick ass.

Thaddeus - My blog is called a Matter of Scale.

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SassyRaptor [2010-12-03 02:07:31 +0000 UTC]

Very awesome! Diggin the effects on this one!

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OGFitzRoy [2010-11-30 03:26:45 +0000 UTC]

He looks real dope. If Psi dis strong, I wanna see his enemies

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DarqueChyld [2010-11-30 02:36:09 +0000 UTC]

FREAKIN HOTNESS

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Levia-the-Dragon [2010-11-30 02:32:03 +0000 UTC]

Wait... he can tear apart reality? How does he not destroy the world on a regular basis?

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