Psych

Origin

Bashir hails from the corrupt European nation Zandia, where all super-villains can go to receive diplomatic immunity. As Psych he operates as an information broker, extorting and selling other villain secrets.

Powers

• Sage Force connection: As an avatar to the Sage Force, Bashir is directly linked to it and draws all of his power from it. The Sage Force is an energy field that radically enhances the minds of its conduits.
  • Psionics: By tapping into the Sage Force, Bashir can augment his mind, allowing to access a range of different psionic abilities.
    • Empathy: Bashir is able to use his powers to of empathy to understand and manipulate the emotion of others.
      • Fear inducement: Bashir can manipulate the fears of other individuals.
  • Energy Projection: Bashir was able to generate blasts of psionic energy.
  • Telepathy: Psych’s connection to the Sage Force gives him a strong telepathic mind. With his telepathy he is able to read a person’s mind to learn about their fears, history, secrets etc. He can also use his mind to project psionic attacks.
    • Illusion Casting: Psych can cast illusions in another person’s mind. He can do so on multiple minds at once.
    • Psychic Link: Psych can establish a psychic link between his mind and another. This allows him to communicate telepathically with people and also allows people to see his thoughts.
    • Mental detection: Negative Bashir was able to sense the Flash’s approach.
    • Mind Control: Psych used his telepathy to control the mind of Steadfast to use his powers in order to draw out the Black Flash.
  • Telekinesis: Bashir could move objects with his mind.

In Other Media

Psych appeared in season 7 of The Flash portrayed by Ennis Esmer. Bashir’s adoptive parents abandoned him while leaving the country for tax evasion, only to die in a plane crash. Turning his friends only to be rejected he became disenfranchised.

As the avatar of the Sage Force, Bashir became vengeful and appeared not to care about the destruction his powers caused.