Abilities/Powers: Pepper is for all intents and purposes an average person. Without the Extremis enhancements active she is simply a personal assistant. Pepper isn't strong or particularly fast (although she's pretty good at running in heels). She doesn't know how to fight and she can't use weaponry. Pepper's strengths come in the form of her abilities as a personal assistant and her personality.
Pepper's strongest skill set is clerical, managerial, and organizational. She is the only person who can manage Tony Stark and the only one who can get him to do anything without force, coercion, or bribery.
Pepper is one of (it seems) the only people who Tony respects and trusts. She's oddly not afraid of anyone who is more powerful than she is. She's the sort of person who could (more than likely) stand down a God himself and still get him to file the right paperwork in triplicate. Pepper is fully capable of verbally dealing with anyone in power who she feels needs to be given a 'talking to'. Even when chastising someone she is able to (generally) maintain a professional decorum.
Pepper is capable of not only understanding, but also empathizing with others to a strong degree. She cares deeply for others and strongly wants to help any way that she can. In truth, sometimes Pepper becomes too attached to others and it is difficult for her to really pull away. While this is true she tries very hard to hide these feelings.
Pepper is capable of taking a lot of emotional stress before showing even the smallest crack in her professional face, and even then she does it with strength and dignity. It is only when she is with those she's most comfortable that she will show how truly emotionally stressed out that she is. This ability is also a strong liability for Pepper. She tends to keep everything so tightly inside of herself that when she finally does snap, it's to a degree that it is an intense and emotionally draining situation.
Pepper is extremely curious. This can be both good and bad. While being curious is good, she tends to not entirely realize when she is in danger (this also plays into her sense of duty as well). She will stay in a potentially dangerous situation in order to ensure the safety of others, or get closer to a dangerous object simply because she doesn't know what it is.
When not under the influence of the Extremis DNA recoding Pepper is not a fighter. She is more likely to run from a fight then to participate in it and is easily overpowered by others (Extremis not withstanding). To this end she often times needs saving from others when put in a dangerous situation. Because of this she tries very hard to stay out of situations that might endanger her (this doesn't work very well most of the time.)
Pepper recently joined the world of super beings when a man known as Aldrich Killian injected her with an experimental genetic rewriting process serum known as Extremis. The capabilities for Extremis are listed below and found on the Marvel Wiki.
Regenerative Healing: The Extremis virus imparts incredible restorative capabilities upon the host organism, which was its primary original intention. Superficial wounds close over and heal completely in a matter of seconds, and severed limbs can take minutes to regrow, although particularly extensive damage- such as when Tony shot an Extremis-enhanced soldier through the heart with a chest repulsor- would not be healed.
Exothermic Manipulation: Hosts of the Extremis virus are able to consciously raise the temperature of parts of their bodies. The effect can be controlled to the extent that it might only scorch skin, or increased to the point where it can cause steel to turn into a molten state.
Superhuman Strength: (Only when Extremis is active) The Extremis virus enhances the muscular power of the host considerably. The extent appears to vary within marginal limits, but most have demonstrated the ability to hoist the weight of a human male effortlessly in one hand and hurl such a weight across a room, as well as engage the Iron Man armors in battle without weapons.
Enhanced Agility:(Only when Extremis is active) The Extremis virus enhances musculature to become more powerful in its motion, granting the host marginally enhanced agility.
Even in cases where Extremis has bonded to the host (as in Pepper's case) there is a potential for the compound to become unstable and detonate the host subject. (This is known as going 'too hot'.)
Because the MCU has it as being a DNA altering serum akin to the supersoldier serum used on Steve Rodgers I feel that is it not likely for the serum to be cured. According to Maya she is a DNA recoder, this means that she is altering the DNA of the human body. Also, according to the website that I am using as a reference it states that Pepper has been stabilized, not cured. It should be noted that Pepper is not the sort of person to use her super powers if she can manage without them. More likely than not any use of her super abilities would be either in an accident or an emergency situation. In most situations she will rely on her more human abilities than anything else.
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Pepper's strongest skill set is clerical, managerial, and organizational. She is the only person who can manage Tony Stark and the only one who can get him to do anything without force, coercion, or bribery.
Pepper is one of (it seems) the only people who Tony respects and trusts. She's oddly not afraid of anyone who is more powerful than she is. She's the sort of person who could (more than likely) stand down a God himself and still get him to file the right paperwork in triplicate. Pepper is fully capable of verbally dealing with anyone in power who she feels needs to be given a 'talking to'. Even when chastising someone she is able to (generally) maintain a professional decorum.
Pepper is capable of not only understanding, but also empathizing with others to a strong degree. She cares deeply for others and strongly wants to help any way that she can. In truth, sometimes Pepper becomes too attached to others and it is difficult for her to really pull away. While this is true she tries very hard to hide these feelings.
Pepper is capable of taking a lot of emotional stress before showing even the smallest crack in her professional face, and even then she does it with strength and dignity. It is only when she is with those she's most comfortable that she will show how truly emotionally stressed out that she is. This ability is also a strong liability for Pepper. She tends to keep everything so tightly inside of herself that when she finally does snap, it's to a degree that it is an intense and emotionally draining situation.
Pepper is extremely curious. This can be both good and bad. While being curious is good, she tends to not entirely realize when she is in danger (this also plays into her sense of duty as well). She will stay in a potentially dangerous situation in order to ensure the safety of others, or get closer to a dangerous object simply because she doesn't know what it is.
When not under the influence of the Extremis DNA recoding Pepper is not a fighter. She is more likely to run from a fight then to participate in it and is easily overpowered by others (Extremis not withstanding). To this end she often times needs saving from others when put in a dangerous situation. Because of this she tries very hard to stay out of situations that might endanger her (this doesn't work very well most of the time.)
Pepper recently joined the world of super beings when a man known as Aldrich Killian injected her with an experimental genetic rewriting process serum known as Extremis. The capabilities for Extremis are listed below and found on the Marvel Wiki.
Regenerative Healing: The Extremis virus imparts incredible restorative capabilities upon the host organism, which was its primary original intention. Superficial wounds close over and heal completely in a matter of seconds, and severed limbs can take minutes to regrow, although particularly extensive damage- such as when Tony shot an Extremis-enhanced soldier through the heart with a chest repulsor- would not be healed.
Exothermic Manipulation: Hosts of the Extremis virus are able to consciously raise the temperature of parts of their bodies. The effect can be controlled to the extent that it might only scorch skin, or increased to the point where it can cause steel to turn into a molten state.
Superhuman Strength: (Only when Extremis is active) The Extremis virus enhances the muscular power of the host considerably. The extent appears to vary within marginal limits, but most have demonstrated the ability to hoist the weight of a human male effortlessly in one hand and hurl such a weight across a room, as well as engage the Iron Man armors in battle without weapons.
Enhanced Agility:(Only when Extremis is active) The Extremis virus enhances musculature to become more powerful in its motion, granting the host marginally enhanced agility.
Even in cases where Extremis has bonded to the host (as in Pepper's case) there is a potential for the compound to become unstable and detonate the host subject. (This is known as going 'too hot'.)
Because the MCU has it as being a DNA altering serum akin to the supersoldier serum used on Steve Rodgers I feel that is it not likely for the serum to be cured. According to Maya she is a DNA recoder, this means that she is altering the DNA of the human body. Also, according to the website that I am using as a reference it states that Pepper has been stabilized, not cured.
It should be noted that Pepper is not the sort of person to use her super powers if she can manage without them. More likely than not any use of her super abilities would be either in an accident or an emergency situation. In most situations she will rely on her more human abilities than anything else.