Arcanna
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Arcanna is a superheroine (based on Zatanna) and a member of the Squadron Supreme.
Various incarnations of Arcanna
Arcanna I is a mother with four children and a husband. Arcanna II is a scientist and author from Earth-712.Squadron Supreme I
The origin of Arcanna's magical abilities is still unknown. Arcanna originally worked as a medium before becoming a professional crime fighter. Phillip Jones her husband stayed home to raise their children Drusilla, Katrina and Andrew.
Midway through Squadron Supreme: The Utopia Project, Arcanna discovered she was pregnant. Fearing that the other members of the Squadron would curtail her duties as they had during her previous pregnancies, she kept her condition a secret. She went into labor during the climactic battle with Nighthawk's group, and at the end of the series she gave birth to her son, Benjamin Thomas Jones.
In Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe, Arcanna switched places with Moonglow in order to go on a mission in which she had been forbidden to participate. It was as Moonglow that she encountered Quasar and the Avengers in the mainstream Marvel Universe.
In Squadron Supreme: New World Order, Arcanna's son Benjamin, having gained vast powers and calling himself Mysterium, informed her she that the Squadron Supreme was going down a road without her, and she retired from adventuring to be with her family.
Supreme Power II
In Part III: High Command, Arcanna Jones is introduced as a scientist and author of Quantum Physics: The New Reality. She has the ability to perceive and influence parallel quantum dimensions. She is what physicists described as "the ultimate observer", and can see all the quantum possibilities and choose which will become reality. To explain this, Arcanna evokes the Schrödinger's cat paradox, which asserts if a cat in a box has a 50% chance of being killed, it is neither alive nor dead (or both alive and dead) until the box is opened and the cat is observed.
She came to General Richard Alexander in hopes of finding the source of her power in order to eliminate it.
Arcanna, Dr. Emil Burbank, Raleigh Lund and Al Gaines are ordered to apprehend or destroy Hyperion. During the ensuing fight, Hyperion's eye-beams, Nuke's radiation blast, and Arcanna's own quantum alterations create a brief and unexplainable skip in reality. All five initially think they are in an alternate reality, but it is revealed to be their own reality four years in the future.
Arcanna shares abilities with Marvel's own Scarlet Witch and DC's Zatanna.
External links
- http://www.bright.net/~jackbohn/sq_suprm/arcanna.htm
- [Marvel Directory entry]
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