Arcanna
Arcanna is a
superheroine (based on
Zatanna) and a member of the
Squadron Supreme. But
J. Michael Straczynski's version displays powers similar to that of Marvel's
Scarlet Witch.
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 and her famly moved into
Squadron City, the Squadron's new headquarters. 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.
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.
Her was to be on the covert operations team. But after
Hyperion informs Jason Scott of the project and gives him a list of the super-humans working for the government. She now works for Squadron Supreme. Wearing a costume that a updated version of she old Squadron Supreme one.
Arcanna shares abilities with Marvel's own
Scarlet Witch and DC's
Zatanna.
*http://www.bright.net/~jackbohn/sq_suprm/arcanna.htm
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Two Images of Arcanna
