Richard Palance (Earth-616)

Pandemic
Name	Richard Palance
Current Alias	Pandemic
Aliases	Pan
Affiliation and Relationships
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	6′ (1.83 m)
Weight	199 lbs (90.26 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Black
Unusual Features	Tattoos
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human and former mutate/artificial mutant, using the Strain 88 Virus.
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Occupation	Geneticist, chemist
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Mike Carey, Humberto Ramos
First	X-Men (Vol. 2) #194 (December, 2006)
First	X-Men (Vol. 2) #194 (December, 2006)

My aims are modest -- but for you, the end will be the same result!

—Dr. Palance[source]

History

Pandemic and Rogue

Origin

Doctor Palance's expertise in genetics was sought out by Charles Xavier regarding Rogue's condition when she first joined the X-Men. 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 wasn't completely sure Strain 88 would work, so he used Rogue as a test subject.

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. 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.

However, he was later asked for help by Beast on creating a cure for after M-Day. He declined though, saying the X-Men ruined his life work so why should he help them.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Former Powers

Power Absorption: Pandemic was able to absorb the powers of Mutants via physical touch. Pandemic himself is not a Mutant, and was only capable of absorbing Mutant powers due to splicing the DNA of the X-Man Rogue with with a virus to give himself her power absorption abilities.

From the over 300 Mutant abilities Pandemic was known to possess were:

• 17 forms of Invulnerability: Obtained from 17 unknown Mutants.
• Power Absorption: Obtained from Rogue.
• Telekinesis and Telepathy: Obtained from Jean Grey.
• Teleportation: Obtained from Nightcrawler.
• Transmutation: Obtained from Alchemy.
• Solar Radiation Manipulation: Obtained from Sunfire.
• Transitional Omni-morph Husking: Obtained from Husk.
• Cold Generation, Ice Generation, and Ice Manipulation: Obtained from Iceman.
• Thermo-Chemical Energy Field Propulsion: Obtained from Cannonball.
• Psionic Biokinesis: Obtained from Chamber.
• Plasma Generation: Obtained from Havok.
• Optic Blasts: Obtained from Cyclops.
• Regenerative Healing Factor: Obtained from Sabretooth.

Abilities

A genius at genetics and chemistry.

Weaknesses

Megalomania.

Former Weaknesses

• Because Pandemic's power is derived from a virus, his can lose his power by curing him of the virus, which happened when Sabretooth's healing factor did just that.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Lab equipment, devices with the 88 virus.

See Also

• 5 appearance(s) of Richard Palance (Earth-616)
• 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Richard Palance (Earth-616)
• 5 mention(s) of Richard Palance (Earth-616)
• 3 image(s) of Richard Palance (Earth-616)
• 3 quotation(s) by or about Richard Palance (Earth-616)