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Richard Palance was a geneticist whom Charles Xavier came to for help regarding Rogue's condition when she first came to the X-Men. Instead of helping her, he engineered a virus based off her powers to in order to gain immortality by absorbing other people's lives. The X-Men fought and were almost defeated by him until he absorbed Sabretooth's power of healing, which ousted the virus from his body.