THE HOST

 

THE HOST

Real Name: Unknown

First Appearance: Mystique (Vol. 1) #7, December 2003

Powers: The Host is a mutant capable of storing all manner of microscopic organisms (including germs, bacteria, and viral agents) in her body. She can sense their presence in her vicinity, distinguish between different kinds, and compel them to be drawn in through her mouth.

Her body is immune to any and all detrimental effects of the pathogens she hosts, and the physiological alterations that make this possible also give her enhanced strength, endurance, reflexes, and durability; she can rip the bumper off of a car, and shrug off a head-on collision in minutes. The Host can also expel the viruses and diseases she sustains through her mouth. Her range is apparently limited to coughing distance, but she contains a wide variety of different plagues from all over the world, capable of inflicting any number of symptoms on her victims. She can also cure her victims virtually instantaneously if she calls the pathogens back to her before they succumb.