Damian Kilgrave (Earth-616)

Damian Kilgrave is a mutant with the ability to absorb kinetic energy and use it to influence his own physical and mental potential.

Powers and abilities
Kilgrave is an extremely powerful mutant with the ability to absorb energy - mostly kinetic energy - and storing it inside his body, but with the ability of expelling it or wielding it physically and mentally to augment his own capabilities. For example, he can absorb energy to augment his speed, strength, stamina and durability to beyond superhuman levels. This means that, though he doesn't look superhumanly strong in comparison to the likes of Colossus, he possesses incredible physical capabilities. His speed enables him to run at nearly one hundred and ten miles per hour, and gives him reflexes enough to catch a projectile blade in mid-flight. His physical strength means that he can punch massive holes in walls, break bones and even combat the strength of the Juggernaut.

His durability such that he can endure being struck by, including not only direct physical blows, but also the impact of bullets and throwing weapons, and less successfully, concussive energy beams; notably Cyclops' optic blasts. By absorbing successive blows from an opponent, Kilgrave can surpass the physical abilities of said opponent and then overpower them. He is sometimes shown to be capable of absorbing the cutting, piercing and thrusting energy from a blade. His powers can enable his body to withstand cutting from adamantium, but only for a short time.

Kilgrave's energy absorption also drastically enhances his mental capabilities. This means that his nervous system and capacity for reaction are extraordinarily enhanced. It stupendously increases his speed of thought and the amounts of information that his brain can contain at a time. Kilgrave also, as a result, possesses superhuman senses of smell, hearing and sight. His olfactory system is ridiculously precise, enabling him to smell certain scents at long distances and able to differentiate one from another easily. He is also able to process information about his environment in a matter of seconds, even when falling from a great height. This means that he can solve virtually any logical problem that he is confronted with simply through observation.

As a result of his powers, he possesses a variety of skills and talents. He is a genius and a polymath: he is extremely intelligent, an expert in psychology, business, law, politics, biology, physics, mathematics and mechanics. Charles Xavier remembers him as a brilliant student of his by many accounts. He has multiple doctorates which he acquired throughout his life. He is also a natural strategist, with an affinity for cunning and creating elaborate traps for his opponents. Interestingly, if, for any reason, he is stripped of his powers, he is still a physically strong and athletic man in the peak of human condition, as he regularly does physical exercise to prepare for such an eventuality.

Kilgrave is an expert martial artist, having studied, mastered and perfected Kung Fu, Jujitsu and Taekwondo. In a fight, he will either utilize his pure strength and power, or he will subtly target pressure points in his opponent's body and also use their strength and momentum against them. He also practices multiple meditation techniques to remain in a certain state of mind. His combat skills are the reason that very few people who know him are brave enough to defy him.

Kilgrave's most advantageous talent as a result of his powers is his incredible brainpower. The fact that his thoughts process so quickly means that he has an extremely eidetic memory, and never forgets anything at all. He is capable of creating a 'memory palace' where he stores all information that he comes across, which is why he does not forget anything. Kilgrave's memory palace is extremely precisely detailed and elaborately designed, and the location it is based on is the Pentagon itself.