Spectrum

Would-be painter Carla Paisley’s singular lack of talent earned her only a despised day-job in her family’s electron­ics firm and endless critical mockery. Angry and embittered, Carla salvaged a multi-hued “Color Wheel” from a crashed flying saucer and became the scourge of Freedom City's art community as Color Queen, until The Star Knight (A’Lan Koor) returned the Wheel to its planet of origin in 1977.
De-powered and even more resentful, Carla eventually settled down with the infamous and equally dour art critic Armand Chazen (who was briefly the museum-wrecking villain known as the Philistine), and together they raised a son on pure disdain. In addition to becom­ing the ultimate contrarian, Armand II inherited the chro­matic powers his mother’s Color Wheel once possessed.
Spectrum is now a despoiler of art and archenemy of joy, using his powers to ruin works others love and appreciate simply because they’re popular and thus unworthy of his impossibly narrow standards. He remains at large, a rancor­ous, self-important threat to the legacy and heritage of hu­manity.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Born a mutant due to his mother’s prolonged exposure to the alien Color Wheel’s radiation, Spectrum innately wields that device’s prismat­ic-beam powers, with each ray’s hue producing a different effect. Black saps a victim’s physical strength, while ultraviolet renders anything it touches invisible. Infrared burns with laser heat, and orange remotely moves physical objects. White blinds targets, and violet forms hard-light constructs (such as the slides Spec­trum uses for transportation). Blue (despair), green (jealousy), indigo (love), red (hate), and yellow (fear) induce various emotional states. In addition, Spec­trum emanates a rainbow aura which makes targeting him more difficult. His vision range also extends beyond the human norm.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Spectrum is normally insufferably snobby, condescend­ing, belittling, and rude. When his artistic sensibilities are offended, a great petulant anger erupts.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Spectrum clashes most frequently with Johnny Rocket, and despises him as a foe and temperamental opposite.