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Pestilence

Real Name: Unknown
Affiliation: The Four Horsemen
Previous Affiliations: Morlocks
Aliases: Plague
Status: Deceased
Alternate-X Versions: None
Codename Etymology: Pronounced pĕs'tə-ləns [from Latin pestilentia "plague," noun of action from pestilentem "infected, unwholesome, noxious," from pestis "deadly disease, plague"]; A fatal epidemic.
Powers & History: Pestilence was originally Plague, an old Morlock woman with the ability to make a person ill through direct touch. As Plague, she once infected Kitty Pryde and Storm, causing Storm to fight Callisto for leadership of the Morlocks. During the Mutant Massacre, however, Apocalypse judged her worthy of survival and offered her the opportunity to escape, gain power, and one day, possibly get her revenge. Plague agreed, and was altered and enhanced to become Pestilence, a Horseman of Apocalypse. As Pestilence she may not have needed to be in physical contact with her target to have an effect. While she was given body armor of a sort and was more resilient as Pestilence than as Plague, she was still a fairly physically weak mutant. Pestilence died when she attacked Power Pack during the Horsemen's attack on Manhattan and fell from a great height, and was crushed by a piece of the Empire State Building's antenna on landing.
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