Bedlam

Bedlam's powers and abilities

Powers/Abilities: Bedlam can mentally control other beings, immobilizing them or forcing them to fight or perform whatever actions he commands. Bedlam can apparently also control the minds of others, although he typically prefers to take control of their voluntary motor abilities, despite the conscious mental resistance of his victim/pawn; he sometimes telepathically communicates with his victims while controlling their forms.



He has great difficulty controlling minds without conscious thought, such as the mind of Wolverine when he is in a berserker fury, the mind of Madison Jeffries when submerged deep within a mechanical form, or the brain-damaged Freakout.

Bedlam can cause a victim great psychic pain or perhaps even destroy their minds.

Bedlam can enhance or reduce the mental and/or psychic abilities of others.

Bedlam has extensive telekinetic abilities. He can form shields, redirect rapidly moving missiles, destroy high-flying aircraft, and generate explosive force sufficient to devastate a large building, such as Alpha Flight's Tamarind Island mansion. He could further create an immense building (acres in scale) in the remote Arctic, either by summoning materials from distant locations or by gathering existing local mineral ore. He could swiftly reconfigure materials into machinery, including climate control within his facility.

Bedlam apparently had the knowledge to mutate or create artificial lifeforms (see comments)

Sociopathic, Bedlam will readily kill others as he sees fit, although he perfers to control/manipulate them if possible. Though powerful enough to swiftly overpower even multiple foes, he often pauses to taunt his foes and reveal his plans.



Relatively new/inexperienced with his powers and perhaps somewhat limited by his own insanity, Bedlam sometimes failed to appreciate he could telekinetically manipulate/imprison someone he could not mentally control.

He wore a uniform and helmet that appeared to be metal, presumably affording him further degree of resistance to injury.