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Banshee
Sean Cassidy
A mutant whose sonic scream provides both an attack and, at lower frequencies, flight.
Powers
Key issues
Milestone appearances — first appearance, death, return, team change. These are the issues the collector market actually prices.
- debut · 1967
The X-Men #28 Marvel Comics
First appearance, initially as an antagonist under mind control - key · 1975
Giant-Size X-Men #1 Marvel Comics
Joins the all-new X-Men team
On screen
Canonical productions only. Parody and fan work is classified and excluded — Wikidata makes no such distinction, so without it these lists fill with material that is not canon.
| Performer | Production | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Caleb Landry Jones | X-Men: First Class | 2011 |
Has appeared with
Every character who has shared a production with this one. Wikis are organised by character, not by encounter, so this question is close to unanswerable elsewhere — it exists here only because co-occurrence is recorded at the moment an appearance is.
| Character | Where | Shared |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Frost | X-Men: First Class | 1 |
| Sebastian Shaw | X-Men: First Class | 1 |
Commonly got wrong
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Commonly believed Banshee and Black Canary have the same power.
Actually Both scream, but they are different companies and different mechanisms. Banshee's sonic scream also enables flight and sonar; Black Canary's Canary Cry is purely offensive. Neither is a version of the other.
The feat ledger
Uses lower-frequency sonics for flight and higher ones as a weapon, from one ability
A focused sonic scream shatters stone and armour
Rides his own sonic output to fly, rather than by wings or levitation
Last updated 2026-09-06 · machine-readable version