Dazzler Character Review
Dazzler (Alison Blaire) is a Marvel Comics superheroine, usually associated with the X-Men. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men (February 1980).
A mutant with the ability to convert sound vibrations into light and energy beams, Dazzler was originally developed as a cross-promotional, multi-media creation between Casablanca Records and Marvel Comics until the tie-ins were dropped in 1980. The Character was created by a committee of Marvel staff, principally writer/editor Tom DeFalco and illustrator John Romita, Jr - More about Dazzler Character Review...keep reading !!
Despite the fact that Dazzler was originally commissioned as a disco singer, the character shifted to other musical genres, including rock and adult contemporary. She starred in a self-titled solo series in the early 1980s which lasted forty-two issues, a Marvel Graphic Novel titled Dazzler: The Movie, a four-issue limited series co-starring The Beast titled Beauty and the Beast, and later joined the cast of the X-Men. She was briefly a member of the spin-off group Excalibur but has since re-joined the X-Men. Dazzler was ranked 83rd in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
A mutant with the ability to convert sound vibrations into light and energy beams, Dazzler was originally developed as a cross-promotional, multi-media creation between Casablanca Records and Marvel Comics until the tie-ins were dropped in 1980. The Character was created by a committee of Marvel staff, principally writer/editor Tom DeFalco and illustrator John Romita, Jr - More about Dazzler Character Review...keep reading !!
Despite the fact that Dazzler was originally commissioned as a disco singer, the character shifted to other musical genres, including rock and adult contemporary. She starred in a self-titled solo series in the early 1980s which lasted forty-two issues, a Marvel Graphic Novel titled Dazzler: The Movie, a four-issue limited series co-starring The Beast titled Beauty and the Beast, and later joined the cast of the X-Men. She was briefly a member of the spin-off group Excalibur but has since re-joined the X-Men. Dazzler was ranked 83rd in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
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Powers and Abilities (Dazzler)
Dazzler is a mutant
with the ability to transduce sonic vibrations which reach her body
into various types of light. This ability seems to operate over a great
range of frequencies, including the audible spectrum, and a great
variation of sound pressure levels regardless of the complexity,
dissonance, or randomness of the sound. Sounds as different as a car
crash and a symphonic passage both produce convertible incoming acoustic
vibrations.
Dazzler prefers utilizing the sound of music, particularly that which
is rhythmically sustained. Not only is music more pleasant to her ears,
but the steady beat of contemporary music provides a more constant
source of sound to convert. The precise means by which this conversion
process works is as yet unknown. Dazzler has been shown to create a
"null space" of sound in a certain radius of her person, as a result of
"pulling" the sound in her area to her person, to either protect a crowd
of people or to supercharge her power reserves.
Left undirected, Dazzler's light will radiate from her body in all
directions, producing regular flashes of white light. By conscious
control over the light she produces, she can control its direction,
frequency (color), amplitude (intensity), and duration.
Dazzler can produce numerous effects. She can create simple patterns
out of rays of light or combinations of patterns which produce
trance-like effects in her targets. She can create a pulse of light on
the order of several thousand watts
of power, which temporarily blinds people with its brilliance. She can
create a chaotic cascade of sparkling lights and colors that severely
upsets other people's equilibrium, or a pulsating strobe-light effect.
Dazzler can generate a coherent beam of light, approximating a laser
beam. Dazzler has polarizing eyes and cannot be blinded or dazzled by light. With effort, she can create holograms of human beings and other
three-dimensional beings and objects. She can also use light energy to
generate flight.
She generally directs lasers from a single finger when she requires
precision. She most often uses her hands for directing her light
effects, but she could also use other parts of her body. Since studying
with the X-Men, she has become adept at directing her blinding strobe
light blast from her eyes.
The most powerful manifestation of her laser abilities are a
concentrated stream of solid photons she usually fires from her index
finger but can emit from her entire body. The beam is extremely powerful
and as a consequence uses a great deal of her energy reserves. She has
also demonstrated the ability to stretch the electromagnetic spectrum to
produce devastating microwave energy. She has since learned how to produce these blasts without draining herself, while still providing them with considerable power. When Galactus enlisted her to retrieve his wayward herald Terrax
from the heart of a black hole he had her exposed to unimaginable
sounds, including the explosion of an entire galaxy, to boost her to
sufficient levels.
Since the events of Dazzler: The Movie, Alison's body can store sound energy for future discharge as light. Thanks to Professor X,
Dazzler's costume contains devices that enable her to store sonic
energy more efficiently and to gauge and focus the light she generates
with greater skill. She has also demonstrated on at least one occasion
the ability to expel the stored sound into a devastating wave of sonic
energy that destroyed her foe Dust.
Dazzler is immune to the injurious effects of her light transducing
abilities. Her ability to transduce sound also protects her from being
deafened by loud sounds; In Necrosha
X: Dazzler, it was indicated that her ears are highly developed
allowing her to detect sounds on frequencies that others cannot
register. In X-Treme X-Men, Vol. 2, No. 4, she demonstrates the ability to use sound waves for echolocation before absorbing them for energy.
Dazzler is a highly skilled athlete, and has become an excellent
hand-to-hand combatant thanks to her training with the X-Men, and with
the Gladiators. In addition, she is a talented singer, actress, and dancer. She is also
a highly accomplished roller skater and can move at high speed; she
occasionally wears a pair of roller skates which magnetically adheres to
her boots.
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
- In the early 1980s, screenwriter Gary Goddard was commissioned to write a script for a film based on Dazzler to star Bo Derek. The project fell though, and Goddard instead wrote the film Tarzan, the Ape Man for Derek.
- In the film X2: X-Men United, her name appears on a list of names Mystique scrolls through on Stryker's computer while looking for Magneto's file.
- Dazzler was also rumored to make a cameo appearance in X-Men: The Last Stand and portrayed by Canadian country singer Beverley Mahood. Mahood didn't get a chance to film any scenes as her character was ultimately cut out of the final script.
- Marvel Studios announced in 2009 that properties including Doctor Strange, Ka-Zar, Luke Cage, Dazzler, and Power Pack were among those being considered for development.
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