Although most mutants only develop a handful of abilities when their mutant genes activate, David’s dissociative mental state and unique ability to absorb the conscious minds of people near him means that he can keep adding different abilities to himself every time he absorbs the mind of a powered individual. However, each personality in his mind controls a different ability, including Jack Wayne (who controls telekinesis), Karami (telepathy), and Cyndi (pyrokinesis, the ability to manipulate fire). David himself only absorbs people’s minds.
He has many more powers, including teleportation, power negation, the ability to turn objects into salt, turning soundwaves into energy beams, spirit absorption, superstrength, and even reality manipulation. At the rare times when David can merge all of his personalities into one to become “Legion” he could even travel in time—which at one point accidentally leads to him creating an alternate timeline where Apocalypse ruled over the world during the Legion Quest and Age of Apocalypse storylines in the mid-’90s.
