Pity

Pity's powers and abilities

Powers/Abilities: Pity has superhuman strength, speed, endurance, and agility, all comparable with Spider-Man (Class 10). She is a swift and savage fighter, capable of holding her own or taking the advantage against Spider-Man. She would murder if her master so ordered, or if it became necessary in order to complete a mission for him, though she did try to avoid killing others unless absolutely necessary.

    She apparently nullifies Spider-Man's spider-sense. In addition, she can generate a total blackness through which no light or any other form of detection can pass. She could spread this field over several floors of a building. She can also make the field so small that it might only appear to shadow someone's face so they could not be recognized by a security camera.

    As she has sometimes arranged it so that certain people can see in this blackness while others cannot, it may be that she is actually psionically affecting her victims. Nonetheless, the field she generated appeared completely opaque to those both within and without. This blackness may or may not be associated with the Darkforce.

    In fact, Pity can also generate beams of bright light and warmth. However, all of her life the Gentleman had forbidden her from using this power which might inspire hope.

    In addition, Pity--through her facial expressions and behavior when following the orders of the Gentleman--tends to inspire great sympathy from those around her, making them wish to assist her or to resist fighting her. It has been speculated that this is an actual low-level psionic ability of hers, although this is uncertain.

    Under the direction of the Gentleman, Pity had virtually no will of her own. She existed only for his will, at the expense of her own at all costs. She would deprive herself of food and water for days on end if he so instructed. Under his command, she remained mute--though she had no physical disability--for her entire life. It was only after his death that she began to try to speak. The Gentleman had no actual psionic or other type of power over her, but had just brutally conditioned her to behave so.

    Each of her cheeks were marked with a vertical, linear scar, which the Gentleman had placed as a symbol of his ownership of her.