Scanner otherwise known as Screener, is a mutant

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 in the Marvel Comics

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Fictional character biography

As a member of the Acolytes

Acolytes (comics)

The Acolytes is a team of comic book mutant supervillains in the Marvel Comics universe. The Acolytes followed the principles of the mutant Magneto, particularly the mutant right of superiority over normal humans. Some members of the Acolytes even worshipped him with a religious fervor and regarded...

, Scanner served as a scout that would survey the area before the others arrived, using her mutant ability to project an astral form to travel great distances. She was often seen as weak by the other Acolytes, and she lacked the confidence that the others had. During the Fall of Avalon

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, the Acolytes' space station, Scanner survived with teammates Unuscione

Unuscione

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, Cargill

Joanna Cargill

Joanna Cargill, also known as Frenzy, is a fictional character, a mutant superhuman in the Marvel Comics universe. She has been a member of supervillain groups, including the Alliance of Evil and the Acolytes, as well as the superhero team the X-Men....

, the Kleinstocks

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, by the help of Cyclops

Cyclops (comics)

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. After crashlanding in the Australian Outback, the group found the X-Men

X-Men

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's former base thanks to Scanner's scouting. Scanner requested to stay at the Xavier Institute but was declined. She served alongside the Acolytes in many of their other missions.

Scanner was one of the very few mutants to survive Cassandra Nova

Cassandra Nova

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's Sentinel attack on Genosha. Her activities since then are unknown. Recently, however, she was revealed to have been depowered along with 90% of the Earth's mutants thanks to none other than her leader's daughter, the Scarlet Witch

Scarlet Witch

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.

Powers and abilities

Scanner formerly possessed an array of psionic and bio-electrical abilities. She was able to sense the unique presence of mutant bio-rhythms, detecting them from at least a few hundred feet away. It is not clear if she could only detect mutants, or could detect all humans in her range and distinguish between powered and non-powered individuals. Scanner could also sense astral forms, seeing and hearing these psychic projections which are normally undetectable. She could release bio-electric feedback into an astral form on contact, forcing the person's consciousness to return to its physical body.

Scanner's primary ability was to assume an electro-transitional state, effectively becoming a living hologram. In this energy form, Scanner was able to travel at light speed across the planet's surface, was intangible, and normally undetectable to human senses. She communicated with others psionically in this state, and could become transparently visible to others at will.

Television

• Scanner first appears in the Wolverine and the X-Men episode "Greetings From Genosha." She is one of the many Acolytes of Magneto.