Arcanna
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Arcanna is a fictional superheroine in the Marvel Comics Universe and a member of the Squadron Supreme.
The original 1970s character (loosely based on DC's Zatanna) does not come from "mainstream" Marvel universe (so-called Earth-616), but from Earth-712.
From 2003-2005, Marvel published the 18-issue Supreme Power series, which presented an out-of-continuity re-imagining of the Squadron Supreme with the character rebooted. Arcana had a different history and had powers similar to that of Marvel's Scarlet Witch.
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[edit] Squadron Supreme (Earth-712)
The origin of Arcanna's magical abilities is still unknown. Arcanna originally worked as a medium before becoming a professional crime fighter who captured criminals for profit. Phillip Jones was her husband who stayed home to raise their children Drusilla, Katrina and Andrew. She later accepted an offer of membership into Squadron Supreme, making her the fifth recruit.
Midway through Squadron Supreme: The Utopia Project, Arcanna discovered she was pregnant. Fearing that the other members of the Squadron would curtail her duties as they had during her previous pregnancies, she kept her condition a secret. She and her family moved into Squadron City, the Squadron's new headquarters. She went into labor during the climactic battle with Nighthawk's group. At the end of the series she gave birth to her son, Benjamin Thomas Jones.
In Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe, Arcanna switched places with Moonglow in order to go on a mission in which she had been forbidden to participate. It was as Moonglow that she encountered Quasar and the Avengers in the mainstream Marvel Universe.
In Squadron Supreme: New World Order, Arcanna's son Benjamin, having gained vast powers and calling himself Mysterium, informed her she that the Squadron Supreme was going down a road without her. She retired from adventuring to be with her family.
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In Part III: High Command, Arcanna Jones is introduced as a scientist and author of Quantum Physics: The New Reality. She has the ability to perceive and influence parallel quantum dimensions. She is what physicists described as "the ultimate observer", and can see all the quantum possibilities and choose which will become reality. To explain this, Arcanna evokes the Schrödinger's cat paradox, which asserts if a cat in a box has a 50% chance of being killed, it is neither alive nor dead (or both alive and dead) until the box is opened and the cat is observed. She had come to General Richard Alexander in hopes of finding the source of her power in order to eliminate it.
Arcanna, Dr. Emil Burbank, Raleigh Lund and Al Gaines are ordered to apprehend or destroy Hyperion. During the ensuing fight, Hyperion's eye-beams, Nuke's radiation blast, and Arcanna's own quantum alterations create a brief and unexplainable skip in reality. All five initially thought they were in an alternate reality, but it was revealed to be their own reality four years in the future.
She was originally meant to be on a covert operations team, but that changed after Hyperion informed reporter Jason Scott of the project and gave him a list of the super-humans working for the government. She now works for Squadron Supreme. Arcanna now wears a costume that is an update of the old Squadron Supreme version.
Arcanna shares abilities with Marvel's own Scarlet Witch and DC's Zatanna.
