Pandemic (comics)

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Pandemic
Cover art for X-Men #195. Art by Humberto Ramos
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	X-Men #195 (January 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 character, primarily an X-Men villain, created by Mike Carey in his recent X-Men run.

[edit] History

He 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 - he was at one time a physician to the X-Men. 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.

He makes a small appearance in the early stages of X-Men: Endangered Species where he was among the nine supervillains Beast asks for help in reversing the effects of Decimation.

[edit] 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 (cryokinesis), Cannonball (thermochemical energy generation) and 17 kind of invulnerability until he absorbed Sabretooth's healing factor, which ironically cured the virus in his veins.