Elixir (Marvel Comics)

**Joshua "Josh" Foley**, also known as **Elixir**, joined the Reavers, an anti-mutant group led by Donald Pierce before he manifested his own mutant powers. Discovering that he was a healer by healing one of his fellow Reavers, he tried to hide his true nature until he felt compelled to heal the mortlaly-injured Laurie Collins. When the Reavers discovered that Josh was a mutant, they rejected him and retreated. His parents eventually signed him over to Moonstar's care, who is now his legal guardian.

## Powers

Elixir is an Omega-class mutant and an Omega Level Healer. He was stated to be a "general threat" by the O\*N\*E at the time of M-Day, but was orange-flagged and allegedly reclassified by the O\*N\*E after he began to use his powers offensively.

**Biokinesis:** Elixir is capable of controlling the biological structure of his own and other people's bodies down to the genetic level. He can produce biomolecular energy at will to affect any organic matter he touches. Because of his control over his own biology, Elixir has proven to be difficult to treat medically. He usually passes out after pushing his powers too far and remains in a coma for some time. Dr. Nemesis guessed that, during these times, his DNA reboots itself.

Elixir was scared that he only "scratched the surface" of what he can do, and this fear turned out to be true as his abilities gradually evolved from healing simple scratches to simultaneously healing dozens of people, resurrecting himself and others, and manipulating life forces. Initially, he needed to touch his targets to affect them but later learned to use his powers without physical contact and on several targets at the same time.

* ***Healing:*** One of the primary facets of his ability, Elixir is able to heal physical damage done to his body or the bodies of others. Initially, Elixir was capable of basic healing, having successfully healed broken bones, severe burns, and even a mortal stabe through the chest. After gaining Beast's knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, and biology, Elixir has demonstrated increased mastery of his powers. He has regrown Prodigy's heart, sedated an enraged Wolfsbane and cleansed her body of drugs, and cured X-23 of the Legacy Virus. Before his death, he was unable to heal M-Pox, but after his rebirth, he simultaneously cured several mutants.
	+ ***Mental Healing:***He is capable of repairing lost cerebral functions.
	+ ***Instant Regeneration:*** After his rebirth, Elixir learned to heal himself almost as soon as he was wounded.
	+ ***Resurrection:*** Elixir can bring people back from the dead. This ability has expanded radically since his rebirth to the point where he was able to affect 16 million deceased mutants on Genosha at once, and although it quickly drained him of energy and he passed out, Monet and Magneto speculated that Elixir was fully capable of resurrecting them all.
		- ***Virtual Immortality:*** Although Elixir can die, he is able to resurrect himself.
* ***Life Force Manipulation:*** At first, Elixir only possessed the ability to sense life forces, such as when he was able to feel DJ dying. Later on, he learned how to transfer life force from one person to another, as he did with Wolfsbane and her unborn child. After his rebirth, Elixir demonstrated the ability to control, manipulate, and absorb the life forces of other living creatures.
* ***Genetic Detection:*** Elixir is able to detect abnormalities in living beings; he detected techno-organic cells in Angel's body, sensed Emplate in Monet's body, and even sensed the effect of magical inversion on Sabretooth. When Elixir began to cure the M-Pox, he felt that the disease was afraid of him.
* ***Death Touch:*** He can use his abilities to harm others, cause different types of illness, induce swelling, and even organ failure. He managed to kill William Stryker just by touching him for a few seconds and almost annihilated Wither's body. His control over this ability is now so refined that he was able to not only give Vanisher a brain tumor while healing his injuries, but even shape the tumor into the X-Men logo. As with his healing capabilities, his ability to inflict harm has expanded after his rebirth, and he now can lethally harm people with rapid regenerative capabilities.
* ***Power Activation:***He can reactivate suppressed mutant abilities.

**Dichromatimorphic Skin:** After Elixir used his powers to heal himself, his skin turned a golden color. This is possibly due to him activating a secondary mutation within himself. His skin normally remains golden, but if he uses his powers to damage or kill, his skin turns a deep metallic black, and Prodigy theorized that it also alters his neurochemistry. This appears to be an involuntary reaction, and it has been stated that Elixir has a hard time converting from black to golden.

## Abilities

**Human Biology:** Due to the psychic data transfer by the Stepford Cuckoos using the knowledge of Beast, Elixir now possesses genius-level understanding of human anatomy, physiology, and biology.

## Weaknesses

**Emotional Instability:**Following his death at the hands of the Dark Riders and later self-resurrection, Elixir has become dangerously emotionally unstable. Attempts to utilize his healing abilities at Magneto's direction to cure mutants afflicted with M-Pox resulted in his lashing out in madness at those around him with his death touch, severely injuring and nearly killing several innocent people before he could be subdued.