Legacy Virus: What is the reaction?

[Justin K.]

In recent issues of X-Force, the Legacy Virus has made it's comeback. It is known to cause a mutants powers to to go berserk and kill themselves. In the 90s, we had characters like Revanche, Infectia, Illyana, and Mastermind fall victim to this disease. Dream's End, Pyro fell Victim to it as well. In X-Force, it killed Beautiful Dreamer and Fever Pitch, and the reactions to that were quite huge. Main case in point:

The purpose of this thread is a What if... kind of situation. Basically, pick a mutant and predict how their powers will destroy them basically. Keep in mind, this is in no way a hate thread, but feel free to get creative. I'll start off with an example. Keep in mind, these examples were chosen randomly:

- Polaris: Magnetic powers go beserk, attract all metal around her; out of control magnet basically.
- Warpath: Senses are heightened to extremes, the smallest sound causing him great pain.

Have Fun!

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/9241/566534-0002_large.jpg

PS. You can use any mutant, Pre or Post M-Day too. Just makes things much more exciting.

[x_goalkeeper]

Cyclops.. his eyes lose ability to hold the optic beams and his head will explode?

[SayOcean]

how would that chick who changes the flowers colors power go beserk.....would she start changing everyones color and people go crazy.....you know waking up black or some other minority and such and kill her

[x_goalkeeper]

Wolverine and X-23 lose their healing power.. and I guess they would die easily from the adamantium?

[Justin K.]

Wolverine and X-23 lose their healing power.. and I guess they would die easily from the adamantium?

Even better, their healing factor is out of control, with flesh healing over the claws
and any other opening to the body, including the mouth, eyes, nostrils, etc.

[Leirus]

Or Moonstar !! The nightmares of all the people around coming to live and slaughtering them !!

[Justin K.]

Cyclops.. his eyes lose ability to hold the optic beams and his head will explode?

Or Moonstar !! The nightmares of all the people around coming to live and slaughtering them !!

We are off to a grim but great start
Good job!

[worstblogever]

Rogue, with her powers amplified, would suck everyone within a 100 ft. radius.





What?

[x_goalkeeper]

Even better, their healing factor is out of control, with flesh healing over the claws
and any other opening to the body, including the mouth, eyes, nostrils, etc.

that is very sickening but OK! :biggrin:

[darknessatnoon]

I think Husk would start to experience chafing.

[RickyD410]

Elixir would cause tumors to sprout out of everyone within a 100 ft radius.

Cannonball's energy wouldnt just shoot out from his legs... it would shoot out in every direction at once. It would break his body apart, and the blast would hurt everyone around him.

Madrox would not be able to stop making dupes. And every dupe he created would have a conflicted personality. All the dupes would start fighting with each other, creating a riot, and hurting anyone in the area.

[x_goalkeeper]

The Phoenix force burns away Jean..

[Jeremi]

In recent issues of X-Force, the Legacy Virus has made it's comeback. It is known to cause a mutants powers to to go berserk and kill themselves. In the 90s, we had characters like Revanche, Infectia, Illyana, and Mastermind fall victim to this disease. Dream's End, Pyro fell Victim to it as well. In X-Force, it killed Beautiful Dreamer and Fever Pitch, and the reactions to that were quite huge. Main case in point:

They've killed Fever Pitch? Me sad. :frown:

Anyway Maggott's worms eat anything that gets in their way and overcharges Maggott when they enter his body and he explodes in gory fashion.

[worstblogever]

Leech dies, but only after depowering the remaining mutants with X-Genes in one big last gasp.

[x_goalkeeper]

Surge would not die, but end up killing the Leper Queen :smile:

[psychic_therapy]

Telepaths would lose the ability to selectively read minds... and go crazy from all the psychic noice around them

[Raptor]

Gambit charges something over large perhasp a large building casuing a massive explosion killing millions.

Go crazy and say a city or continent, but I can't see the whole planet simply since the scale is a little much, but I could see a skyscraper easy.


Guido turns into a tub of muscle something akin to a four armed octopus.

Siryn can't speak without sonic waves emanating, somethign akin ot Black Bolt.

Hellion falls over dead realizing telekinesis is overdone and shoots himself...erm... ok lemme retry. Maybe something like the disintegration effect from Jean in X3 (yes the movie was an abomination but hte effect looked cool.)

Magneto subconsciously tips the magnetic poles of hte earth casuing catastrophic tsunamis etc.

Storm permanently effects hte earth's weather patterns fo the worse. Maybe casuing an ice age.

That's all I care to postulate on at this time.

[x_goalkeeper]

Madrox's dupes are still connected to him :eek:

[x_goalkeeper]

Magma would burn or melt herself in her fire form?

[Justin K.]

Marrow: bone growth is out of control, she trapped within' her bones.

Shadowcat: can't stop phasing and eventually fades into nothing; disappears.

Sunfire: Basically this (http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-02/nuclear-bomb-badger.jpg)

[lockerogue]

Emma and Xavier would cause everyone's and their own heads to explode.

[x_goalkeeper]

Emma and Xavier would cause everyone's and their own heads to explode.

Jean Grey and Cassandra Nova too? :smile:

[The Thunderbird]

Jean Grey and Cassandra Nova too? :smile:
As much as I like Jean, I find it very intriguing what would happen if the Leper Queen injects her with the Virus and makes her explode like Beautiful Dreamer.

[lockerogue]

Jean Grey and Cassandra Nova too? :smile:

I forgot those. Jean would do the same thing in combination with her telekinetic abilities.

[ProfeZZor X]

I'm guessing Iceman would starve to death. Although he's already surpassed absolute zero degrees before, so I would be inclined to believe that he wouldn't have control over his own temperature or surrounding heat gradients (like with Sunfire or during Manifest Destiny), therefore, every time he tries to nurish his body, food would instantly freeze over... Much like how the Mutant X Iceman was, only much more out of control.

[psychic_therapy]

I'm guessing Iceman would starve to death. Although he's already surpassed absolute zero degrees before, so I would be inclined to believe that he wouldn't have control over his own temperature or surrounding heat gradients (like with Sunfire or during Manifest Destiny), therefore, every time he tries to nurish his body, food would instantly freeze over... Much like how the Mutant X Iceman was, only much more out of control.

I was going to think one up for Bobby too.

His ice blasts go out of control and he dies of dehydration.

[ProfeZZor X]

I was going to think one up for Bobby too.

His ice blasts go out of control and he dies of dehydration.

His entire composition is confined in one ice crystal molecule, which is pretty much indestructible. However the human aspect of him may still need basic needs... Or at the very least nutrients. Then again sea water has nutrients in it, as does freshwater, so in effect all he has to do is find either, and extract nutrients that way... I'm just phishing for plausibilities, but I can see that happening, seeing that he's been doing a lot of experimentation with his abilities in recent years.

Another way would be for him to freeze to death, but seeing that he's fully in control of his abilities, that's not going to happen. Then there's the opposite, in the case that he disipates into a mist form and is unable to coalesce into a solid form again. Then his molecules would be so dispursed and spread out, that It'd be next to impossible to reform.

[Justin K.]

- Colossus: Steel becomes too hard and dense and basically becomes a statue.
- Mystique: Lose control of shifting abilities and eventually becomes like a blank manakin in the end.
- Guido: The smallest things that touch him cause his muscle growth to lose control; gross mess.

[x_goalkeeper]

Armor's armor would go inward instead of outward, and crush her to death?

[AdamYJ]

They went to the effort of getting rid of the Legacy Virus only to bring it back a few years later? :confused: Anyone get the feeling the x-books waffle over these things a lot?

[Justin K.]

They went to the effort of getting rid of the Legacy Virus only to bring it back a few years later? :confused: Anyone get the feeling the x-books waffle over these things a lot?

The only difference is Yost and Kyle are handling it well
Even if it seems redundant, it's being handled well

Also, Mimic: Sensitive to every mutant on the planet, Mimic powers grow and he is eventually overpowered due to his power increase.

[Wind-Breaker]

M would become so perfect that she would ascend to godhood and leave her mortal form

Storm would destroy the world with the extreme natural disasters

Xavier, Emma, or Sinister would lobotomize every living thing

Vanisher...would just plain vanish?

[Justin K.]

Anole, or Rachel Grey, whatever suits your preferences

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/d/d4/Godzilla_(Marvel).jpg

[alf_to_the_rescue]

Stacey X - Makes herself and other nearby lucky people orgasm til they cum to death.

[Justin K.]

Selene- Drains everyone's life forces around her in a certain radius, and drains herself of her own life force.

[Perfection/Emma 2]

Martinique Jason: Looses control of her illusion powers as she creates living demons from her nightmares that kills any living thing 2000 feet near her including herself

Iceman; Freezes everything to absolute zero for every step he takes until his body and blood become a giant non living block of ice

Wolfbane: Becomes a zoombie like creatures with blood and flesh all around her body "similiar to the dogs in Resident Evil" and she she attacks anyones and kills them, they come back to life as a flesh eating zoombie

[Justin K.]

Vanisher: Simply vanishes forever.

[Valeria Kementari]

Have you ever seen The Day after tomorrow? Picture that all over the planet and that's what would happen if Ororo died of Legacy Virus :(

[ReboundTerminator]

Wolverine and X-23 lose their healing power.. and I guess they would die easily from the adamantium?
not easily but slowly. wolvie has lost his healing factor several times and he gets lead poisoning

[Justin K.]

not easily but slowly. wolvie has lost his healing factor several times and he gets lead poisoning

Adamantium poisoning actually, not lead...
I don't think the Virus would cause him to lose his healing
but overstimulate it, though that's just my assumption...

[Filthy Mutie]

Wolverine and X-23 would de-age until they're too small for their own adult-sized adamantium implants and become piles hairy, slimey metal sticks.

[SayOcean]

Stacey X - Makes herself and other nearby lucky people orgasm til they cum to death.
Sign me up for that death

[7thangel]

adding to wolverine's and x-23's over stimulating healing factor, their sense go into overdrive to the point of insanity. in one scenario, due to the smell from the environment, others and themselves, they continually flay off their flesh and parts only for them to heal and grow back rapidly. in logan's case, for eternity

[Daniel Mengsk]

Surge would not die, but end up killing the Leper Queen :smile:

I'm sorry x_goalkeeper, I just found out who the Leper Queen is and I think that she's hot! Well, not as hot as Cassie Nova, but still..... :wink:

Storm: her powers would go haywire and burn away the atmosphere. Ororo would take the entire planet with her in death; I know, sad but true.

[ProfeZZor X]

Dazzler - With her light powers out of control, she'd go blind, and eventually vaporize herself.. That is, if her hightened sensitivity to noise didn't kill he first.

Northstar - With the ability to travel at or beyond the speed of light, he'd probably blink himself out of this reality, and starve himself on the other side, or die from old age from not knowing how to get back to this reality.

[7thangel]

rachell will revert back into r'chell and become relevant again
hellion's douchiness will spread and affect the entire world, dane cook will become king of earth

[Mr_Hellfire]

I imagine the more powerful the mutant, the bigger the explosion.
Jean would likely be a repeat of the Big Bang.

I imagine this would be true for other omegas as well.

[Justin K.]

- Gamemaster: Since he is tapped into the mind of everyone on Earth, I imagine the results would be deadly, killing everyone on Earth.

[ZNOP]

Jean Grey with the legacy Virus? It would most likely be as Mr_Hellfire described... "I imagine the more powerful the mutant, the bigger the explosion. Jean would likely be a repeat of the Big Bang. I imagine this would be true for other omegas as well."

Only, unlike the other "Omega Mutants" out there. Jean Grey would actually get to enjoy the next universe.

[Justin K.]

- Siena Blaze: Destroys a lot of the Atmosphere in whatever region she's in.
- Longshot: His luck runs out.
- Mystique: shapeshifts into nothing; blank body with no face, no features, etc.
- Darkstar: Everlasting darkness around a large distance, disappearing and becoming one with the dark.

[Justin K.]

- Riptide: Becomes an uncontrollable twister, tearing everything, including himself, apart.
- Harpoon: Charging powers are out of control, energies emit from his body. Energies destroy him and everyone else around him, Mutant Massacre style.

[Justin K.]

- Dust: Crumbles into a pile of dust.
- Mercury: Melts away, into a puddle of what she was.
- Rockslide: Explodes one last time, pieces of him flying everywhere.
- Match: Big fiery explosion; See Fever Pitch.
- Surge: Big electric explosion.
- Hellion: Telekinetic explosion, knocking down everyone and everything in its path.
- Elixir: Legacy Virus enables death powers, kills everything around him.
- X-23: Senses enhanced to a point that wind causes pain. Body stops healing wounds.

[Brother Justin Crowe]

Anyway Maggott's worms eat anything that gets in their way and overcharges Maggott when they enter his body and he explodes in gory fashion.

Alternatively, they could eat their way through him.

Cecilia's personal forcefield stops her from being able to eat or breathe.

[ZNOP]

Cecilia's personal forcefield stops her from being able to eat or breathe.

Now, there's a character I miss:smile:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Ceciliareyes.jpg

That's some fine booty! Errr... Body:biggrin:

What?!? She's HOT!

[Valeria Kementari]

Storm =

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/valechan/X-MEN459_03a.jpg

[Justin K.]

They've killed Fever Pitch? Me sad. :frown:

Anyway Maggott's worms eat anything that gets in their way and overcharges Maggott when they enter his body and he explodes in gory fashion.

That would have made an awesome story if he had lived.

Maggott gets Legacy Virus, Maggotts go on a feeding frenzy, Maggott does what he can to avoid Eeny and Meany and have the other X-characters help fend them off, seeing they ate so much.

The story ending with a splat either way.

[harostar]

Rictor: His first appearance gives a pretty clear picture of his powers amped up and out of control. Triggering of a massive earthquake, and a grand mal seizure that would either end in a massive stroke or a heart attack. Those in his immediate vicinity would likely suffer internal injuries as the vibrations shatter bones and raise pressure on the blood vessels and internal organs, especially the brain.

Magma: Not only would her lava form burn everyone around her, but she'd likely trigger a massive tectonic upset. Earthquakes, followed by either eruption of any nearby mountains/volcanos or creation of new ones.

Sunspot: Massive discharge of all his stored up solar energy, akin to a nuclear device going off. Those not killed by the blast would likely get radiation poisoning.

Illyana: Damage to the barrier between dimensions that separates the world from Limbo. This would likely trigger another Inferno-ish flood of Limbo's creatures/influence and quite possibly random teleportation discs appearing/disappearing. Anyone caught in one would be sliced apart as it shuts with them partway into it.

Lila Cheney: Rift torn in space/time, creating a black hole or simply a leaving a portal open between.....say.....the vacum of space or a sun. Those nearby would probably be sucked into it.

Cypher: Akin to his portrayal in AoA, generates a massive "translation field". The flood of information overwhelms, driving some mad and causing others to stroke out as their brains overload.

Shatterstar: Absorbs all sound in his immediate vicinity, causing complete silence. This continues until he overloads, discharging the energy through every metal object in the area in a massive explosion.

Boom Boom: ....she goes boom. More seriously, a massive explosion. Pretty straight forward.

Wallflower: Pheromones cause everyone around her to go out of control, heightening emotions to a degree that destroys the mind. The wind would spread them, triggering all manner of out of control, extreme behaviors. Mindless violence, suicides, rapes, extreme euphoria, hysteria.

Dust: Loses her human form, becoming an out of control sandstorm that destroys everyone and everything in it's path.