Does Gambit have a visible energy signature?

That does raise a good question, though. I mean they draw some kind of
bubblish thing around most telekinetics powers when they're used, but
you assume the other charcters cant actually see it.
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dbexodus <DBExodus RemoveThis @gmail.com> writes
 >That does raise a good question, though. I mean they draw some kind of
 >bubblish thing around most telekinetics powers when they're used, but
 >you assume the other charcters cant actually see it.

It seems to depend on the characters; there have been a couple of
stories where people have been able to see the energy symbols. (Those
purple butterflies which used to appear when Psylocke made telepathic
contact with somebody are apparently visible, for example.)

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Paul O'Brien wrote:
 > In message <1106956707.319285.25200.RemoveThis@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 > dbexodus <DBExodus.RemoveThis@gmail.com> writes
  >> That does raise a good question, though. I mean they draw some kind
  >> of bubblish thing around most telekinetics powers when they're used,
  >> but you assume the other charcters cant actually see it.
 >
 > It seems to depend on the characters; there have been a couple of
 > stories where people have been able to see the energy symbols. (Those
 > purple butterflies which used to appear when Psylocke made telepathic
 > contact with somebody are apparently visible, for example.)

Yup, people used to talk to the butterfly when it floated in front of them
as if it were Betsy herself.

Xavier made a comment at one time about "psionic ionisation", which seems to
refer to the "sparkly bits" when psi powers are used, but I think the
indication was they weren't always visible.Perhaps it depends on the
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It seems like Betsy is the psychic where all here power usage is
visible. The butterfly, the psychic knife must have been visible to
people, otherwise it jsut looks as if shes hitting them in the head,
and then when she went telekinetic people saw her katana.
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Brian Doyle wrote:
 > Paul O'Brien wrote:
  > > It seems to depend on the characters; there have been a couple of
  > > stories where people have been able to see the energy symbols.
(Those
  > > purple butterflies which used to appear when Psylocke made
telepathic
  > > contact with somebody are apparently visible, for example.)
 >
 > Yup, people used to talk to the butterfly when it floated in front of
them
 > as if it were Betsy herself.

But she did that deliberately - go look at Uncanny 213 (IIRC - the Alan
Davis issue of the Mutant Massacre anyway) where her "butterfly" form
as she's "looking" round the tunnels isn't visible until she
deliberately makes it visible to the X-Men.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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