Norrin Radd (Earth-616)

One of the noblest and most tormented cosmic entities in the universe, the Silver Surfer treasures freedom above all else, but has often sacrificed his liberty for the greater good. He was born Norrin Radd on the planet Zenn-La, part of an extremely long-lived and technologically advanced humanoid race which had created a worldwide utopia devoid of crime, disease, hunger, poverty, and want of any kind. His father named him after revered scientist Norrin Konn, the man responsible for raising Zenn-La from barbarism to utopia. Norrin Radd's mother Elmar, ill-suited to this stifling environment, eventually killed herself.Urged on by his atypically ambitious father Jartran, Norrin was raised as a grimly intellectual youth, encouraged to seek knowledge, advancement and achievement rather than the aimless hedonism which had come to dominate Zenn-Lavian society; however, a disgraced Jartran would later commit suicide himself after he was accused of idea theft (though not before he had taken a new lover and fathered another son, Fennan, unknown to Norrin). Despite his lifelong lover Shalla-Bal, Norrin grew into a restless soul who longed for challenge and struggle, immersing himself in histories of Zenn-La's adventurous ancient past.

Norrin's life changed forever when a menacing alien spacecraft pierced Zenn-La's long-neglected defense systems. Convincing a Council of Scientists member to provide him with a spaceship, Radd soon confronted the invader, Galactus, who intended to consume Zenn-La; Radd offered to become his herald and seek out new worlds for him to sate his hunger in exchange for Galactus sparing Zenn-La. Galactus agreed, transforming Radd into a silver-skinned, cosmic-powered super-being patterned after an adolescent fantasy plucked from Norrin's memories. Known thereafter as the Silver Surfer because of the silvery flying board he rode, Radd departed Zenn-La with Galactus.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Currently, the Silver Surfer is one of the most powerful beings in the universe, and the most powerful of the Heralds of Galactus. He was deemed to be an Alpha Plus by the Galadorian Spaceknight Ikon, and potentially an universal-level threat by the Nova Corps. Thanks to Galactus, he possesses the following abilities:

The Power Cosmic: The Silver Surfer was endowed with the Power Cosmic, which is the core from which his abilities manifest from. This power was granted to him by Galactus, and amplified during the Annihilation event. The Power Cosmic is a source of ambient cosmic energy permeating the universe that makes possible the channeling and manipulation of energy. Based on cumulative evidence from beings with similar magnitudes of power and his own feats, the Surfer's maximum power output ranges from the casual planetoid/planet and planet level, to the level of a compact star,and plausibly, by employing his ability to channel cosmic energy, and by assimilating another being into himself, to solar system level without getting overloaded (presumably still accounting for a solar system's destruction on his own power). The Silver Surfer has also regularly faced opponents such as Thor and Beta Ray Bill, who destroyed a gigantic star-dwarfing portal as an extreme high-end feat.

Energy Absorption and Manipulation: The absorption of electromagnetic energy is the base of the Surfer's life and power. The Silver Surfer has complete control of the four fundamental forces of the universe, reaching nearly any effect he desires. As a result, the Surfer can absorb, manipulate and discharge tremendous amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The Silver Surfer has claimed several times to hold enough power to easily shatter planets. The Surfer's incredible powers also surpass Nova while he held the entirety of the Nova Force and Quasar, with sufficient force to casually destroy planets, and a large fraction of a structure whose size easily dwarfed Earth. Upon utilizing his ability to channel vast amounts of cosmic energy, and by merging his essence with another being as means of connection with the Uni-Lord, he could destroy an entire solar system. Currently, at maximum, his beams are capable of almost killing Ravenous, equaling Thanos,[and hurting Thor who was wearing Asgardian armor.

Additional abilities include:

Erecting force fields, phasing through solid matter,using the build-up of energy within himself to increase his strength, creating stable black holes, creating a compact star while extremely weakened, creating solid energy often in the forms of a cocoon or barrier,restabilizing and recharging a star, accelerating the evolution of lifeforms on a planet-wide scale, seeing the past by peeling back the layers of time, time travel, trans-dimensional travel, bestowing limited cosmic powers to others, telepathically reading minds, casting illusions,temporarily animating the inanimate and sharing a portion of his power and consciousness with it, and emphatically influencing human emotion and sensation. The Surfer also possesses the ability to suppress or absorb the powers of other beings, making them temporarily or permanently unable to use them, as he did once with the Hulk. He can heal living beings, even if they are near-death. He cannot, however, raise the dead.

• Matter Manipulation: The Silver Surfer can alter matter by rearranging molecules. He can also change the state of matter, such as making solids into gas.Transmutation helps the Surfer escape traps and prisons, and can also be used to make an enemy's weapons inactive. He is able to bend his own molecular structure so as to transform himself to appear human.

• Superhuman Strength: The Surfer possesses enormous superhuman strength. Though the exact magnitude remains vague, the Surfer has often been shown to fight evenly with people who can lift far in excess of 100 tons. He can also channel the build-up of energy within himself to increase his strength to incalculable levels. He managed to pulverize diamonds with no effort, stopped a charging Rhino, and when in a weak state he even managed to overcome and defeat the Abomination with little effort.The Surfer also forcefully redirected a starship's path and launched it into the outer solar system, and it was stated that it would continue on its straight-line path for centuries.He escaped from Quasar's construct, broke out of a planet that Michael Korvac formed by using nearby asteroids, physically subjugated a dwarf star thrown on him by an enhanced Deadpool and easily redirected it into outer space, and using his speed and strength, the Surfer shattered through several Vibranium walls that exploded on contact to save Nova.When he was extremely weakened, he still managed to pull the Galactus Incubator out of the young living planet Ego, and then throw it a few light-years away, and throw Stormbreaker out of a black hole.The Surfer's potential strength was once said to rival the Hulk's limitless rage-enhanced strength.

• Invulnerability: The Silver Surfer's silvery "skin" was designed to easily withstand the rigors of deep-space travel, and thus far, it has proven to be virtually indestructible. Among things that include simple blunt force, like withstanding a punch from She-Hulk without flinching back when the She-Hulk's power level was still just class 75, and not far above class 100 as it is today. The Silver Surfer can withstand even the most extreme conditions, like the crushing pressures of a black hole. He is not bothered by the friction associated with atmospheric re-entry, and has withstood plunges into stars, and supernovas unharmed. He also routinely weathers the stresses associated with high-speed travel through space and hyperspace.

• Soul Manipulation and Soul Resistance: By channeling his cosmic power, Silver Surfer can enter the Astral Plane, which he describes as the source of his power and where he was able to destroy the soul of an enemy. He is also immune to soul absorption, has withstood the Soul Stone, has more than enough spare life force, and not even the stealing tongue of the Wraith Queen mind managed to effect the Silver Surfer, and most impressively he has resisted being absorbed by Mephisto. Mephisto did manage to steal Silver Surfer’s soul once, but the Surfer managed to recover it.The only time Silver Surfer's soul was completely taken away was by Thanos who owned the Infinity Gauntlet and used the Soul Stone. Although the Soul Stone failed to absorb Silver Surfer's soul, although Thanos was later able to use the Soul Stone to remove the souls of the Silver Surfer and Drax the Destroyer after the stone was placed within the gauntlet.

• Godlike Stamina: The Surfer's highly enhanced musculature generates no fatigue toxins, body stress, or even sweat, granting him inexhaustible physical stamina, which allows him to fight other beings for prolonged periods of time before tiring, if he even gets tired.

• Flight Speed: Prior to his upgrade, the Silver Surfer was one of the fastest beings in the universe, but he was greatly outmatched by the Runner of the Elders of the Universe. Currently, he is faster than Beta Ray Bill and Nova. The Silver Surfer can travel at speeds faster than light. He can enter Hyperspace when he exceeds the speed of light, although he is also able to accelerate and achieve faster than light speeds without accessing hyperspace. For example of his speed, Dracula's hurricane wasn't enough to knock him off balance or slow him down, he has used his speed to easily destroy Warships, traveled light years in just 1 second, quickly traveled half a million light years, left Earth and traversed half the galaxy in search of food for Galactus to consume in mere seconds, in just moments, the Surfer flew out of a galaxy, and in a few minutes the Surfer traveled from Earth to halfway across the universe following a call echoing through creation. His speed has been described as “distorting space-time, flying from one side of the universe to the other. Finally, his mind and body can be used at these speeds as well, making the Surfer extremely reactive and agile. The Surfer has searched the entire planet for Namor in less time than it took for Doctor Strange to finish a sentence, visited and analysed every planet in numerous galaxies in a matter of hours, is able to dodge lightning bolts, and has several times reacted in the space of a microsecond,and even in the range of a nanosecond.

• Cosmic Self-Flight: Silver Surfer can fly without his Cosmic Surfboard, projecting cosmic energy through his hands in a manner similar to Iron Man's repulsors.

• Superhuman Agility: Silver Surfer has greater agility, balance, dexterity, flexibility, equilibrium and bodily coordination than that of an Olympic-level athlete. But Silver Surfer rarely shows this ability. While flying, he easily dodges bullets and anti-aircraft missiles from military planes, dodges Kree blaster fire, dodged Cyborg Superman's laser beams at point-blank range, and even managed to coordinate his body to avoid a barrage of laser beams coming from several spacecraft simultaneously.

• Cosmic Awareness: His cosmic sense can allow him to comprehend rules of the universe others would find incomprehensible, as well as being able to sense energy concentration anywhere in the universe, sense a human trapped in a falling capsule,read the spark of electrons and surge of chemicals in people, feel the culture of Earth being stolen, and being able to sense that Mephisto was up to something. He can also determine the nature of new energy sources, locations, and determine the nature of an energy source and who the beings who created it were. Silver surfer can sense pure consciousness, and sensed Galactus rising 93 million miles away from the sun. Silver Surfer was able to sense the weakness of Gladiator. While in a state of powerlessness, he stated he could've sensed Johnny Storm's death from halfway across the universe. Silver Surfer was able to sense the deaths of billions of beings being killed by Thanos. His Cosmic Awareness can also see as far back as the previous universe as he saw Galactus' origin.He also managed to feel an imbalance in the Power Cosmic, and the High Evolutionary with the Silver Surfer's Power Cosmic was surprised with how much cosmic awareness the Surfer had and how much knowledge he gained so quickly and was able to use the cosmic awareness to find and call out to Galactus' ship across the universe.

• Cosmic Senses: The Silver Surfer has certain cosmic-energy enhanced perceptions which enable him, through concentration, to become aware of the patterns of energy anywhere in the world. These abilities allow him far-ranging vision (in space he can see people clearly over a light year away), the ability to see subatomic particles, superhuman hearing, the ability to detect fields, traces, and concentrations of pure forms of energy and discern their natures.The Surfer learnt quite a lot of Earth culture due to his cosmic senses, and he also found the greatest ice cream in the universe,felt billions of beings on a planet, and was able to detect new life forms and determine their abilities.Currently the abilities of the Surfer surpass even those of Stardust.

• Cosmic Sight: Silver Surfer's vision is improved, allowing him to see farther than a normal human. He can change vision between visible spectra,infrared vision, can see signatures / paths of psionic energy,adjusts his vision to continuous brightness, and can see all things up to the “nanoscopic scale”. He can see through illusions, as strong as the Stranger's, a cosmic entity that is of the same class as Galactus.He can see beyond sub-atomic levels. He is able to detect and track Thanos' teleportation path, which is so advanced that the Surfer describes him as a rival to Galactus' level of technology, he can perceive dimensional things that mortals cannot, and can see what's in the universe even if it is billions of light-years away while keeping its clarity perfectly.

• Cosmic Vision: Can perceive time as one, watching the past, present, and future at once, and can project this effect for others to see.

• Cosmic Hearing: Silver Surfer is capable of hearing sounds from a far greater distance than any human. Silver Surfer can know that the person he's talking to is a Skrull in the form of a human just from hearing their heartbeat, and can hear whispers from Earth while on the moon, as well as being able to “hear heartbeats from a light year away”.

• Cosmic Self-Sustenance: The Silver Surfer does not need to eat or breathe since he absorbs life-maintaining cosmic energy directly through his skin.

• Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite his invulnerability, Silver Surfer can be injured, but can heal and regenerate immediately using the Power Cosmic. He healed immediately after being eaten by eagles (Silver Surfer does it intentionally to experience "life and death ..."), fixed his severed hand, restored his arm after being cut off,upon the return of half of his cosmic essence, was instantly healed and at maximum power, and healed from being cut up multiple times when the Cosmic Power was being restored to him. He has managed to fully recover from complete atomic destruction during his battle with Uni-Lord. He can exist without his body; and turn into air and/or snow and can reform himself.

• Healing: Like his regenerative healing factor, Silver Surfer is able to quickly heal others by concentrating Cosmic Power in their bodies, thus stimulating the healing processes. He managed to heal a bullet wound, healed Carla from multiple bullet wounds, healed Syrrh from a blaster wound,[ and healed the massive blaster wound of a creatures.The Silver Surfer managed to heal a Watcher, offered Alicia Masters, a blind woman, a one-touch view of the world, although not permanent, temporarily modified the chemistry of a drug-addicted woman's body to remove drugs from her system, and cured thousands of plagues at the molecular level. Even if Silver Surfer cannot raise people from the dead, he can heal people who are on the verge of death.

• Immortality: Due to his ability to sustain himself, the Silver Surfer is virtually immortal. He is approximately 13.7 billion years old due to having traveled back in time to a previous incarnation of the universe and simply waiting out until the present caught up with him.

• Size Manipulation: Silver Surfer is able to use the Power Cosmic to manipulate his size. Silver Surfer managed to shrink to sub-atomic size and enter the Microverse, and exit to return to normal size. The Silver Surfer even managed to shrink to such a small size that, to him, atoms were the size of "planets ...then solar system" to escape a black hole. Silver Surfer can change the size of other people and things, for example he managed to bring Metropolis and all its inhabitants back to their normal size.

• Teleportation: Silver Surfer has displayed the ability to teleport. Silver Surfer also showed that he is able to teleport others, for example he managed to teleport all the ones who were on Sanctuary, while they were inside a black hole.

• Portal Creation: Silver Surfer can create portals and gates in order to transport to another location. For example, he managed to create a portal, through which they passed "Three Billion Ships" to the new planet which they called “New Newhaven.”

• Dimensional Travel: Silver Surfer has shown the ability to teleport or travel through dimensions. Silver Surfer managed to enter in Mephisto's Realm - to save Shalla Bal, managed to travel in the dimension of the Other, and even managed to travel in the Singularity (a dimension that literally exist before the universe by flying into a quasar). Also Silver Surfer stated that he can resume his path to any plans of reality and existence he been to before.

• Intangibility: After reconstituting himself following his "death" battling Knull,the Silver Surfer became intangible. While he is unable to interact with physical objects, he can still affect them with his Power Cosmic and can merge with other living creatures in a manner similar to a symbiote.

• Astral Projection: The Surfer can project his astral form outside of his physical body, when in astral form he can perceive and interact with other beings made of spirit, even causing them harm. The Surfer claimed that he could not be harmed in the Astral Plane as it was the source of the Power Cosmic. The Surfer and Mephisto battle in their astral forms.

• Possession: When Silver Surfer is in astral form he can possess people. He has managed to possess Alicia Masters and give her the power to fight Agatha Harkness (who was possessed by Mephisto).

• Telekinesis: Using his cosmic power, Silver Surfer can lift objects with his mind. His telekinesis allows him to deconstruct weapons and objects, to throw massive space debris at both Aegis and Tenebrous, and surround and hold Millenius with nearby wreckage and send him to the core of a planet.

• Elemental Manipulation: Thanks to the Power Cosmic, Silver Surfer can manipulate the elements, these include:

• Pyrokinesis: Generate heat, as well as create and manipulate fire. Silver Surfer can raise the temperature of its flames to the point where it burns hotter than a Nova. 

Abilities

As Norrin Radd, the Surfer was a scientist, a dreamer, and something of a philosopher, skills which he sometimes finds quite useful. The Surfer, however, is only an average hand-to-hand combatant, depending almost entirely upon his cosmic powers in battle. However, he has shown mastery of Zenn-Lavian 'hypno disciplines' which allow him to hypnotize his enemies long enough to deal with them even when bereft of the Power Cosmic.[219] After his time on Sakaar, Surfer gained some combat experience, making him a more dangerous combatant than ever.[21] The Surfer has also eventually been recognized to normally hold back and not manifest his full power.

Physical Strength

Class 100+

Equipment

Cosmic Surfboard: When flying, the Silver Surfer uses a construct which resembles an earthly surfboard. This "board" is made with the same silvery material (The Galactic Glaze) that composes the Surfer's body, thus making the board indestructible. Few forces aside from the power cosmic itself can affect it, and if it is somehow damaged, the Surfer can easily repair it in an instant as well as being able to form additional boards from his body.[54][118] The board is psionically linked with the Surfer's mind in some unknown fashion, and it follows his commands instantly. It apparently taps cosmic energy in much the same fashion as the Surfer himself, and although the Surfer could theoretically use the power cosmic to fly without his board, the construct enables him to do so without expending any of his own energy. The Surfer generally limits his speed to Mach 10 (ten times the speed of sound) within the outer layers of a planet's atmosphere, can attain 99.99% the speed of light in regular space, and can exceed light-speed within hyperspace. The Silver Surfer is also able to trap living matter into his Surfboard for extended periods of time, or even destroy living matter within the board itself.

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