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. Instead of helping her, he used her DNA spliced with a virus to give himself her power absorption abilities. Drunk on power, he realized that he could attain immortality by absorbing other people's lives, then creating the Strain 88 Virus to do so. At first, he was not completely sure Strain 88 would work, so he used Rogue as a test subject. (X-Men v2 #194) Soon the X-Men located him and fought him, in which he revealed he had over 300 powers absorbed. Defeated, all hope was thought lost until Cable threw Sabretooth at Pan, knowing he would absorb Creed's powers. (X-Men v2 #195) But Pan was unaware of Sabretooth's healing factor, and thus the virus was expunged from his system and rendered him completely powerless when he absorbed them. When Lady Mastermind realized he was the one responsible for her being comatose for over a year, she then left his mind stuck in an illusion. (X-Men v2 #196)
Sometime later, he came to be one of many scientists consulted by Beast for help in reversing the effects of M-Day on Mutants who had been largely depowered as a result. (X-Men v2 #200) He would decline to help McCoy in finding a cure as he felt that Mutants had ruined his life's work and wanted no part in aiding them. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #488)
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
- In Age of X: Alpha v1 #1 (2011), an alternate version of Pandemic appeared in the setting of the Age of X reality set on Earth-11326 in the Multiverse.
Appearances
- X-Men v2: (2007)
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
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