Plague (Earth-616)

Pestilence
Name	Unrevealed
Current Alias	Pestilence
Aliases	Plague
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Horsemen of Apocalypse, Morlocks
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5′5″ (1.65 m)
Weight	130 lbs (58.97 kg)
Hair	Grey-haired (Plague), Brown (Pestilence)
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Mutant, later amplified by Apocalypse in his Celestial Ship
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Death	New York City
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Base of Operations	Apocalypse's Celestial Ship; The Alley, Manhattan, New York
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Chris Claremont, Paul Smith
First	Uncanny X-Men #169 (January, 1983)
First	Uncanny X-Men #169 (January, 1983)
Death	X-Factor #25 (October, 1987)
Death	X-Factor #25 (October, 1987)

 Wonderful ta be in the tunnels, again, hidden... but with my presence known... felt -heh-heh-! Listen ta me, humans... you fools, who sneer at mutants. Hear me, cowards! Ole Pestilence'll show you what you've got to be scared of! 

—Pestilence

History

Plague

Plague was a mutant who had the ability to magnify and spread disease. As a Morlock, she served Callisto loyally. Plague's touch was potent enough to make Kitty Pryde fatally ill even in her intangible state.

Plague was present during the massacre of the Morlocks by the Marauders and was terrorized by Sabretooth, who was unaware of her abilities. One touch and Creed was weakened and might have died if not for his healing factor. Apocalypse arrived and saved Plague from the massacre, stating that he had plans for her to serve him as the Horseman Pestilence.

After being transformed into Pestilence, she, War, and Famine battled X-Factor in Central Park and were defeated by Iceman. After the fourth Horseman, Death, was revealed, Apocalypse had the Horsemen battle each other, to find the leader and Death beat them all.

After Apocalypse teleported X-Factor on his Celestial Ship, they battled the Horsemen again and, after their defeat, the Horsemen were sent into Manhattan to incite chaos. X-Factor and the Power Pack battled the Horsemen and Lightspeed knocked Plague off her flying steed, whereupon she fell to her death.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Virus Touch: Plague can produce a bio-hazardous agent from her body that acts as a crippling virus in the bodies of other people. The virus is incredibly potent -- even glancing contact with her skin or a few molecules of the virus clinging to Kitty Pryde's intangible form were enough to cause infection. The virus causes physical weakness, fainting, nausea, fever, and delirium. It can be treated, but will otherwise be lethal to anyone infected.

Paraphernalia

Transportation

• Flying Steed: Pestilence utilized a robotic flying steed as one of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse.

See Also

• 13 appearance(s) of Plague (Earth-616)
• 6 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Plague (Earth-616)
• 5 minor appearance(s) of Plague (Earth-616)
• 5 mention(s) of Plague (Earth-616)
• 14 image(s) of Plague (Earth-616)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Plague (Earth-616)