Pandemic (Marvel)
Pandemic is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Richard Palance
A skilled geneticist, he had been a colleague of Professor Charles Xavier who would one day bring to him a Mutant named Rogue after wanting help with her powers. (X-Men v2 #194)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He wanted by the nickname of Pan to people. (X-Men v2 #194)
It was said that he gained an obsession with Rogue. Palance became sick with excitement after Professor Xavier first brought Rogue to him. (X-Men v2 #196)
Palance stated that he would be a kind of reverse Typhoid Mary. (X-Men v2 #194)
Powers and abilities
Originally, Richard Palance as an ordinary human being who came to be a skilled geneticist where he had been a colleague to the likes of Charles Xavier. (X-Men v2 #194)
As Pandemic, he had successfully duplicated Rogue's powers and came to wield them himself. Though he would claim that he only copied part of her precious gift but not the one he wanted the most. He would state that the addition of extra powers was simply a side effect of his experiment. (X-Men v2 #196)
He had a number of assistants working for him that aided him in his operations. Some of these included scientists and doctors capable of gene-splicing. Among his people included genetically engineered individuals who were referred to as the Plague Dogs. These individuals had their flesh monstrously mutated and was capable of changing shape where it could reform from injuries sustained to it. Certain Mutant powers was incapable of working on them because they were far removed from the human template. (X-Men v2 #194) They regarded themselves as a river of flesh able to merge and part where they claimed that they could not be hurt. (X-Men v2 #196)
His laboratory gained a gene bank holding samples from multiple Mutants that were stored safely there. (X-Men v2 #195)
Notes
- Pandemic was created by Mike Carey and Humberto Ramos where he made his first appearance in X-Men v2 #194 (February, 2007).
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- X-Men v2: (2007)
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