Marvel Comics/Elixir

**Elixir** (Joshua "Josh" Foley) is a mutant from *Marvel Comics*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Biological Manipulation:** Elixir is capable of controlling the biological structure of his own and other people's bodies down to the genetic level. This power allows him to heal physical damage done to his body or the bodies of others, reactivate suppressed mutant abilities, repair cerebral functions, and alter the composition of his own molecules in certain ways. Because of his control over his own biology, Elixir has proven to be very difficult to treat medically.

He typically passes out after pushing his powers too far and remains in a coma for some time. Doctor Nemesis guessed that, during this time, his DNA reboots itself. Initially, he needed to touch his targets to heal or harm them, but he later learned to use his powers on several targets at the same time without touching them.

In opposition to his healing capabilities, Elixir can use his biological powers to harm others and cause different types of illness, such as swellings or organ failure. He managed to kill William Stryker just by touching him for a few seconds, harm the powerful demon Belasco, and almost instantly annihilate Wither's body. His control over his abilities are now so refined that he was able to not only give Vanisher a brain tumor while healing his inuries, but even shaped it into the X-Men logo. As with his healing abilities, Elixir's ability to harm has also expanded since his rebirth, and he is now able to harm people even with regenerative powers and invulnerability.

* **Healing:** At first, Elixir was capable of basic healing, having successfully healed broken bones, severe burns, and even a mortal stab wound through the chest. After gaining Beast's knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, and biology, Elixir has demonstrated increased mastery of his powers. He was able to regrow Prodigy's heart, sedate an enraged Wolfsbane to cleanse her body of drugs, and cure X-23 of the Legacy Virus. Before his death, he was not able to heal the M-Pox, but after his rebirth, he simultaneously cured several mutants.
	+ **Enhanced 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, M and Magneto speculated that Elixir was fully capable of resurrecting them all.
		- **Immortality:** Although Elixir can die, he is able to resurrect himself.
* **Life Force Manipulation:** At first, Elixir only possessed the ability to sense and detect life forces, such as when he was able to feel DJ dying, sensing his life bleeding out of him. 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.
	+ **Life Force Absorption**
* **Genetic Sense:** Elixir is able to detect abnormalities in living beings. He detected the techno-organic virus in Angel's body, Emplate in M's body, and even sensed the effect of magical inversion on Sabretooth. When he started to cure the M-Pox, he felt that the disease was afraid of him.
* **Death Inducement:** Elixir can kill through physical touch.
* **Disease Manipulation:** He can cause diseases and illnesses in other people, such as cancer.

**Abnormal Physiology:** After Elixir used his mutant powers to heal himself, his skin turned a golden color. This is possibly due to him activating a secondary mutation in himself. While Elixir's skin usually remains golden, it will turn a deep metallic black if he uses his powers to damage or kill. Prodigy theorized that this transformation also alters his brain chemistry. This appears to be an involuntary reaction, and it has been stated that Elixir has a hard time converting back to golden from black.

### Abilities

* **Gifted Intellect:** Due to the psychic data transfer by the Stepford Cuckoos using the knowledge of Beast, Elixir now possesses genius-level understanding of human and mutant biology, anatomy, genetics, physiology, and medicine.
	+ **Biology**
	+ **Anatomy**
	+ **Physiology**
	+ **Medicine**
	+ **Genetics**

### Weaknesses

* **Power Limitation:** Using his powers for extreme feats of biological manipulation can wear out his body, causing him to collapse. There have been a few times where his powers did not affect or only temporarily affected his enemies, such as Belasco and Hulk.
* **Mental Illness:** 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 powers on Magneto to cure mutants afflicted with M-Pox resulted in his lashing out in madness at others around him with his death touch, severely injuring and nearly killing several innocent people before he could be subdued.