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Zsaji

Affiliation: None
Status: Deceased
Powers & History: Zsaji was a healer from an unknown alien race that the X-Men and other Earth heroes encountered on "Battleworld" during the so-called "Secret Wars." Her powers were to heal physical wounds of various sorts by touching her patient with her hands. Her healing ability was really a transfer of life energy from her to the patient, and she was left weakened in proportion to the damaged she healed. Her touch also included a side-effect that caused men she touched to become infatuated with her. This happened first with Human Torch II and then with Colossus, who had been injured by Wrecker's crowbar. Colossus could not control his feelings, though Zsaji spoke neither English nor Russian. Worse, Colossus was involved with Kitty Pryde at the time, but kept thinking of Zsaji when he tried to remember her.

Days after first meeting the Earth heroes, Zsaji was asked to heal the Wasp from a fatal laser shot. She failed, and the heroes mourned their loss. Later, however, Colossus found Zsaji coming out of the hut where Wasp lay. Zsaji was near death, and Colossus used a mid-linking vapor to discover that Zsaji had realized that Wasp was only in stasis, and returned to heal her when the effect faded. He revealed his feelings to her, and they were happy together for a short time.

Unfortunately, Colossus was summoned back to the battle against the Beyonder, and was killed along with the heroes when Doctor Doom usurped the Beyonder's power. Zsaji ran towards the explosion, and gave her life energy to put the corpses in a kind of stasis. Then she found Colossus, and managed to heal him, though at the cost of her own life. Her sacrifice was not in vain, as it allowed Colossus to revive Reed Richards, and together they resurrected all their fallen comrades (in no small part thanks to Doom's power and the Beyonder's urging of his subconscious). Zsaji, however, could not be similarly saved.
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