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| Pandemic | |
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 Cover art for X-Men #195. Art by Humberto Ramos |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men vol. 2 #188 (2006) (mentioned) X-Men vol. 2 #194 (2007) |
| Created by | Mike Carey Humberto Ramos |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Richard Palance |
| Species | Human Mutate |
| Team affiliations | Plague Dogs |
| Notable aliases | unknown |
| Abilities | He has the ability to copy other mutant's powers |
Pandemic (Richard Palance) is a fictional supervillan from the Marvel Universe was first mentioned in X-Men vol. 2 #188 (2006) and appeared in X-Men vol. 2 #194 (2007). He was created by Mike Carey and Humberto Ramos.
Fictional character biography
Dr Richard Palance was a geneticist who created a serum which allowed him to manifest the powers of many of the mutants he had worked with and treated over the course of his career. A former colleague of Charles Xavier, he became obsessed with creating the serum, although the serum worked in the manner of a virus, after being given a sample of Rogue's DNA. He then infected Rogue with the same virus, hoping to gain her powers for himself as well, but was defeated by Rogue's team of X-Men when Sabretooth tricked Pandemic into coming in contact with him, thus resulting in Pandemic absorbing Sabretooth's healing factor and his body thus automatically curing the virus.
He is later one of the scientist Beast requests help from in reversing the effects of Decimation, however he declines[1].
Powers and abilities
Pandemic could absorb mutant powers by touch due to a mutated virus within his body. He possessed over 300 super-powers including those of Rogue (power absorption), Jean Grey (telepathy and telekinesis), Nightcrawler (teleportation), Alchemy (elemental transmutation), Sunfire (pyrokinesis), Husk (omnimorphing), Iceman (cold and ice manipulation), Cannonball (thermochemical energy generation) and 17 types of invulnerability until he absorbed Sabretooth's healing factor, which ironically cured the virus in his veins.
References
- ^ X-Men: Endangered Species
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