Starro was a giant mind-controlling intergalactic starfish and leader of the Starro Collective, a race of alien starfish from Earth 3.
History
Seeking refuge from the Overlords of Oa, the Starros invaded Earth, possessing several of its super-powered inhabitants, forcing six individuals to band together to stop the invasion. Eventually, the Collective was killed by the individuals.[1][2][3]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Alien Physiology
- Superhuman Strength: Although not as strong as Ultraman, Starro can lift several hundred thousand tons.
- Reproduction: The Starro Collective can asexually reproduce countless miniature Starro's to latch onto and enslave the minds of planetary populaces in a brief amount of time.
- Regeneration: Despite its immense resilience, Starro probes are still susceptible to physical injury if dealt enough damaging force.
- FTL Flight: A fully grown Starro is capable of wingless flight in both outer space and atmospheric environments.
- Self-Sustenance: Barring its need to feed on foreign power sources, the Starro species can survive indefinitely in the vacuum of space without nourishment nor rest for decades to centuries on end.
- Telepathy: The Starro Collective were very adept mentalists, being able to influence minds via psionic affectation with or without latching onto a waiting host.
- Infection: Starro's main means of conquering worlds is through the repetitive self-generated duplication of smaller cast-off's created from its own body. To which these 'Control Stars' would fly about or flop across the ground before latching onto an indigenous life-form's face or stick to the back of their cranial area to establish in-depth neuropsychic control over an unwitting host.
- Mind Control: They/it can, besides control individual targets via his parasites, mentally influence a sizable crowd of ordinary humans with relative ease via parasitic offspring.
- Invulnerability: A fully grown Starro is impervious to most conventional forms of attack. Any Gunfire, missiles, and similar weapons are ineffective against a Starro, including nuclear weapons.
- Decelerated Aging: Starro's race can life millions of years without fear of time catching up to them.
Weaknesses
Related
- 5 Appearances of Starro (Earth 3)
- 11 Images featuring Starro (Earth 3)
- Quotations by or about Starro (Earth 3)
- Character Gallery: Starro (Earth 3)
Footnotes