Marvel Comics/Masque

Masque is a mutant who grew to loathe beauty in every form due to his own hideous appearance. In coalition with other outcast mutants who were unable to adapt to society due to their appearance, Masque helped to found the Morlocks.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Appearance Alteration: Masque possesses the ability to change the physical appearance of any other person by touch. This power is psionic in nature and allows Masque to rearrange the flesh of any organic substance. Modifying hair color, skin color, body structures, and several other features, Masque can alter the shape of a victim to any shape he can think of, including making them a copy of another person and replacing limbs with inhuman tentacles. Masque uses his power by shaping the flesh with his hands as if sculpting; he can also use his power mentally, however, with a single touch modifying the whole body of a victim instantly. The change is far from traumatic for his subjects, who adapt physically and mentally to their new forms rapidly. He can also use his powers in an offensive manner, attaching an enemy's limbs to their body or by closing their mouth and nose orifices to limit their combat prowess. His power also works on dead bodies as long as the corpse is relatively intact.
In addition to causing physical changes, he can also revert the changes he has caused, returning a subject to their previous appearance. There are other means to recover from Masque's influence; the mutant Forge successfully returned Masque's victims to their original appearances.
Masque's power has several limitations: he requires physical contact with his victims, people surrounded by forcefields are immune, and his powers do not affect the scent of a subject. People with superhuman senses allowing them to identify people by smell can identify whether they are meeting a person they know or an imposter that Masque disguised.
* Shapeshifting: Although Masque initially could not use his power to alter his own hideous appearance, he later evolved so that he could alter his own flesh. The new limits of his power were stated to be a secondary mutation by Professor X. Apparently, when Masque's body was pierced by Shatterstar's sword in a purportedly lethal strike, Masque instinctively altered his own internal organs to survive, and ever since, he has been able to modify his own body. He can modify his form to reduce his height, but the specific limits of his powers are still to be seen.
Category:Marvel Comics: Mutants
Category:Appearance Alteration
Category:Shapeshifting