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who is this guy with green cape

What you mean Icon? That’s the man. One of maybe three people who can make superman not look so “super”.

And to anybody reading this I apologize for my absence, I’m forever coming soon. I want to maintain this blog with quality so I would rather make y’all wait when busy instead of half doing it in my little free time.

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Puerto Ricans are black folks that know a lover’s language… Name: Cecilia Reyes Aliases: Dr. Cecilia Reyes Origin: Brooklyn, New York Affiliations: X-Men, Weapon X Created By: Scott Lobdell and Carlos Pacheco Publisher: Marvel Comics First Appearance: X-Men vol.2 #65 (June 1997) Biography/Story Line: Cecilia was born into a poor family in a bad neighborhood. She has Puerto rican heritage. When she was just six years old, she witnessed her dad gunned down and killed. She held him in her arms as he died. Cecilia made a vow that one day she would do something. Reading her brother’s science textbooks that night, she knew that she wanted to become a doctor, so that she could help other people. Thanks to her stubbornness, Cecilia spent nineteen years studying and made her way out of her poor neighborhood and went to medical school, eventually becoming an intern doing her residency at Our Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Bronx - all the while keeping her mutant powers a secret. During her time trying to become a doctor, Cecelia hadn’t had a date for three years and hadn’t kissed someone in four and a half years. She was approached by Professor Xavier, who invited her to come to his school, train her powers, and then go on to join the X-Men, but Cecilia could not accept herself as a mutant. She didn’t want to be involved in mutant affairs in any way; she wanted to save lives as a doctor. The Professor left, promising to keep her status as a mutant secret. For all her early life she was afraid people would discover she was a mutant. During Operation: Zero Tolerance where many mutants were being captured, killed and being turned into Sentinels, Cecilia pretended to be a mutant hater, being careful not to expose herself. However, during the arrival of a gunshot victim Cecilia was unable to save the man’s life and declared him dead. The man, however, was not dead, and he transformed into a Prime Sentinel and began to assault Cecilia, revealing her mutant status to all her co-workers and friends. Thankfully, Cecilia’s powers saved her from the assault, with her psioplasmic bio-field protecting her from every attack, though she still would feel every gut-wrenching blast. The Sentinel found a way to negate her force-field, but Cecilia was saved by the timely arrival of Iceman. However, Cecilia was not pleased to see Iceman and hit him out of anger because Xavier did not keep his promise, and that the X-Men had dragged her into what she perceived to be their self-fulfilling war games. While he took Cecilia to the Morlock Tunnels to hide from their pursuers, Iceman explained to her that this incident was beyond Xavier and the X-Men, and convinced her that the only way to survive was to follow him, and perhaps the X-Men could make a new tomorrow for her. Knowing that her lifelong goal of being a doctor was gone, Cecilia reluctantly agreed to accompany Iceman - on her own conditions. She demanded the absolute truth from Iceman, even making him reveal his secret identity of Bobby Drake to her. During the action, Cecilia quickly proved to be a feisty character, with sarcastic comments and rude one-liners. Her and Iceman were then again attacked by a Prime Sentinel, but were saved by Detective Charlotte Jones. However she lead them into a trap set up by Bastion, who was holding Charlotte’s son hostage, with Marrow´s help the police station lost its power supply. Later, Charlotte saw the error in her deal and defended Cecilia and Iceman, resulting in her getting shot. Not only did Cecilia tend to Charlotte’s wound, but during the battle with the Sentinels, she also covered Iceman’s back by taking any attack aimed at him with her shield, despite the pain this caused her. At the police station entrance they were cornered but finally saved by Sabra, who eventually joined them. Eventually Operation: Zero Tolerance was destroyed, but Cecilia was left with no direction. Iceman invited Marrow and Cecilia back to the mansion. There she used everyone abilities to save Cyclops life by removing a bomb from his abdomen. After the surgery Cyclops invited her into the X-Men. She declined, but still remained at the mansion until she could find somewhere else to live. During this time, she put up a tough and sarcastic attitude towards everyone, though actually Cecilia began to make some friends among the X-Men. A slip of the tongue even led to mild flirtations with the Beast, much to Cecilia’s embarrassment, though he took it with humor. They both were interested in medicine and physiology, as well as how Marrow’s bone-growth worked. Cecilia even placed a friendly wager as to when Beast would cure the Legacy Virus. She then tried to get her job back at the Hospital. However because of her revelation of being a mutant, many families didn’t want her to operate on their loved ones. Cecilia was then found by the injured Daredevil, who was watching Cecilia and felt he could trust her to help with his gunshot wound. While treating Daredevil, the hero told Cecilia that she should use her gift. He reasoned that, as a doctor, she could only save one person at a time, whereas as a mutant she could save thousands in an instant. Later that day, the injured villain Pyro was brought in and Cecilia was put in charge of the case, Pyro had no control over his powers with high risk to burn the hospital and people around him, so Cecilia used her powers to treat Pyro. However, during recovery, Pyro tricked Cecilia into loosening his straps that the police put on him, she trusted him and he escaped, resulting in Cecilia losing her job. Fired after only one day, Cecilia returned to the X-Men for good it seemed. Cecilia had to deal with feelings of inadequacy as part of the X-Men. And these fears were shown to light one day when the X-Men were attacked by a dimensional race. Using an old costume once worn by the Wasp, Cecilia helped prove to herself that she was valued by defeating the attackers, even if it was accidentally. When the X-Men were attacked by the Shadow King, he tried to corrupt the newer X-Men tempting them with their secret desires. He offered Cecilia a new future with her own operating room and the knowledge of the world’s best surgeons. Still, she was concerned about her fellow X-Men’s fate, and had not yet reached a decision when the Shadow King was eventually defeated by Storm and Psylocke. Afterward, Cecilia took charge of helping the injured people of Storm’s village, thus redeeming herself for letting herself be tempted. Time passed and, with Xavier missing and the school still barren, several X-Men began going their separate ways and leading their own lives. Cecilia was one of those X-Men. She opened up her own small practice in Salem Center, so she could pursue her own dream while still helping out the X-Men every now and then. For example, she would house sit at the mansion when the X-Men were away on a mission. On one occasion, she aided Wolverine in defending some Japanese agents from the mob. During this adventure, Cecilia even stood up to the Silver Samurai, and made him listen to reason rather than to resort to violence. Cecilia continued her work as a medical work, but one day an injured Nightcrawler arrived at her work. He had been shot by the Neo. Nightcrawler apologized for bringing her back into the life of the X-Men. But they were attacked by Jaeger. As Nightcrawler was weakened by much blood loss, Cecilia had to confront Jaeger by herself. During the battle, Cecilia used her field in offensive ways that she never did before. Not thinking and only reacting, she was able to extend her force field out and knock Jaeger away. However, the skilled Jaeger was still too much for her and she was easily defeated, leaving the injured Nightcrawler alone against the Neo. Right as Jaeger was about to kill Nightcrawler, Cecilia lashed out with her powers and spikes extended from her field, impaling Jaeger. Cecilia was left heartbroken, for as a doctor she pledged to save lives, not take them. On the run from the Neo, the two former X-Men found themselves hiding in an illegal infirmary, where Cecilia continued treating his wounds. All the while, Nightcrawler comforted Cecilia about her killing Jaeger, and suggested she start training in the use of her powers. Their solitude was cut short by a gunfight between Detective Charlotte Jones and the drug dealer Delgado. Protecting Charlotte from gunfire with her force-field, Cecilia noticed some vials of the performance enhancing drug after the combatants left, and picked them up, not wanting them to fall into the wrong hands. After a brief rest, Nightcrawler and Cecilia returned to the church where Nightcrawler had been attacked in order to help some innocents trapped inside, but they were found by the Neo. With Nightcrawler too injured to fight, Cecilia needed an edge against the Neo, and decided to take one of the vials of Rave. The drug worked, and Cecilia ferociously fought, using her powers in ways she never believed possible, defending herself and Nightcrawler until the X-Men arrived. The two groups fought each other to a stalemate, and eventually one of the Neo began to seal up all entrances and exits of the building, forcing the X-Men to retreat. However, just as they were about to leave, Cecilia realized Detective Jones was still missing and still somewhat influenced by the drug, she volunteered to stay behind to find her. Cecilia was trapped inside the Neo’s complex for a couple of weeks, during which she discovered that Detective Jones and Delgado had somehow been merged into a monstrous creature by one of the Neo, with Delgado as the dominant personality. Cecilia spent much time chasing the Delgado creature, so it wouldn’t kill anyone. All the while she searched, she was also avoiding the Neo, especially their leader Domina, who wanted Cecilia dead, as she was the widow of Jaeger. To do all this, Cecilia consumed more and more Rave, causing her to become addicted to the drug. By the time her supply had almost run out, Cecilia began to lose control of her powers, but fortunately at that point the X-Men performed a rescue mission, freeing both her and Charlotte Jones from the Neo’s hideout. Cecilia stayed at the mansion to deal with her drug problem, but it was harder then expected. She began a detoxification program for her addiction to Rave. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done, as Cecilia had to go cold-turkey in order to beat her problem. Due to the physical addiction, Cecilia’s powers began to lash out wildly to cope with the pain and urge to use Rave. Nightcrawler locked himself in the Danger Room with Cecilia to help the out of control woman, in hope that the exertion and use of her powers would burn the toxins in her system. However, Cecilia became so wild that she began to punch holes in the Danger Room and even destroyed the control booth with her force-field spikes. At that point, Xavier himself entered the Danger Room and risking his own life, he approached Cecilia to calm her down and remind her of her own courageous nature. Though Cecilia had a long journey to go till she would be totally normal, with Xavier’s help she made the first step to beat her addiction. Eventually, Cecilia was well enough to walk around the mansion without any power troubles. It was during this time that the Beast finally came up with a cure for the Legacy Virus, making use of the research of the late Moira MacTaggert. However, for the cure to be released into the atmosphere, it required the life of the person who would inject the cure into him- or herself. While the X-Men rejoiced, Cecilia noticed that Colossus was somber. Cecilia confronted Colossus and she learned about Illyana Rasputin and how she had succumbed to the Legacy Virus. Ever since, Colossus had felt guilty for letting her die. Realizing that Colossus would inject the cure into himself instead of waiting for an alternative to be found, Cecilia tried to stop him, but Colossus knocked her out with narcotic gas. When Cecilia came around, she found Colossus dying on the lab floor. Although she did her best to save him, Colossus passed away. After Colossus’ death, Cecilia left the X-Men, it was unknown what she did next but the next time Cecilia did resurface, she was as a prisoner in Neverland, the mutant concentration camp set up by the Weapon X program. There, she was reunited with her former teammate Maggott, who had also been captured. Whereas Maggot was branded for death and ultimately killed, Cecilia was among those prisoners who were kept alive to be experimented on. For weeks, Cecilia did her best to keep the other camp inmates alive, many of them being exhausted after interrogation and torture. It is unknown how she escaped after the Camp was shut down. Much later Cecilla turned up in Nyx. She was working as a doctor in Chinatown. She also works voluntarily at a homeless shelter. Kiden Nyxon and Bobby Soul take Tatiana to see her after they escape from the hospital. She treats their injuries and offers her home as a temporary place for them to rest while she goes out for a bit. Unsure of her motives, Kiden follows her. She phones Beast for a favor. Over-hearing the conversation Kiden returns to the others and informs them. When Cecilia returns home, they have left. She still keeps a photo frame of her and Beast showing she may still have feelings for him, and later shows she still maintains contact with him by calling him. Later Cecilia appears in Utopia with the X-Men. When Magneto was revealed to be trying to bring back Kitty Pryde, Cecilia was called in by Cyclops to tend to Magneto to check he wasn’t going to die. After she is brought home, Magneto collapses and Cecilia rushes to his aid, but he had already fallen into a coma. After Second Coming, Cecilia accompanies Psylocke to Mexico to help one of the new mutants that emerged due to Hope’s return. It is here that Cecilia is confirmed to still have her mutant powers and not have been affected by M-Day. The boy they find is in a state of panic. Cecilia tries to calm him by giving him a sedative. She speaks to the boys parents and tries to convince them to let her take him to the X-Men for further help. It is then that the boy vanishes, although Psylocke can still sense his presence in the room. Psylocke uses her psychic powers to forcefully tap into Cecilia Reyes force field abilities to seal off the room while Hope continues in to help him. After this, Cecilia begins to act as the islands doctor. During the Quarantine crisis, where mutants were being poisoned, Cecilia treated the victims of the disease, in-particular Wolverine who was suffering the most due to his Adamantium bones. Later, she is also attacked by the Hellverine. Cecilia has left Utopia and has returned to New York where she is now working at a local hospital. It is also revealed that she has grown close to the X-Man, Gambit in recent months. While the two are relaxing at his apartment, they are visited by Wolverine and Northstar, and the group is subsequently attacked by a group of unknown assailants and the newest incarnation of the Marauders. Powers/Skills: A skilled surgeon, Force Field Generation
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Puerto Ricans are black folks that know a lover’s language… Name: Cecilia Reyes Aliases: Dr. Cecilia Reyes Origin: Brooklyn, New York Affiliations: X-Men, Weapon X Created By: Scott Lobdell and Carlos Pacheco Publisher: Marvel Comics First Appearance: X-Men vol.2 #65 (June 1997) Biography/Story Line: Cecilia was born into a poor family in a bad neighborhood. She has Puerto rican heritage. When she was just six years old, she witnessed her dad gunned down and killed. She held him in her arms as he died. Cecilia made a vow that one day she would do something. Reading her brother’s science textbooks that night, she knew that she wanted to become a doctor, so that she could help other people. Thanks to her stubbornness, Cecilia spent nineteen years studying and made her way out of her poor neighborhood and went to medical school, eventually becoming an intern doing her residency at Our Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Bronx - all the while keeping her mutant powers a secret. During her time trying to become a doctor, Cecelia hadn’t had a date for three years and hadn’t kissed someone in four and a half years. She was approached by Professor Xavier, who invited her to come to his school, train her powers, and then go on to join the X-Men, but Cecilia could not accept herself as a mutant. She didn’t want to be involved in mutant affairs in any way; she wanted to save lives as a doctor. The Professor left, promising to keep her status as a mutant secret. For all her early life she was afraid people would discover she was a mutant. During Operation: Zero Tolerance where many mutants were being captured, killed and being turned into Sentinels, Cecilia pretended to be a mutant hater, being careful not to expose herself. However, during the arrival of a gunshot victim Cecilia was unable to save the man’s life and declared him dead. The man, however, was not dead, and he transformed into a Prime Sentinel and began to assault Cecilia, revealing her mutant status to all her co-workers and friends. Thankfully, Cecilia’s powers saved her from the assault, with her psioplasmic bio-field protecting her from every attack, though she still would feel every gut-wrenching blast. The Sentinel found a way to negate her force-field, but Cecilia was saved by the timely arrival of Iceman. However, Cecilia was not pleased to see Iceman and hit him out of anger because Xavier did not keep his promise, and that the X-Men had dragged her into what she perceived to be their self-fulfilling war games. While he took Cecilia to the Morlock Tunnels to hide from their pursuers, Iceman explained to her that this incident was beyond Xavier and the X-Men, and convinced her that the only way to survive was to follow him, and perhaps the X-Men could make a new tomorrow for her. Knowing that her lifelong goal of being a doctor was gone, Cecilia reluctantly agreed to accompany Iceman - on her own conditions. She demanded the absolute truth from Iceman, even making him reveal his secret identity of Bobby Drake to her. During the action, Cecilia quickly proved to be a feisty character, with sarcastic comments and rude one-liners. Her and Iceman were then again attacked by a Prime Sentinel, but were saved by Detective Charlotte Jones. However she lead them into a trap set up by Bastion, who was holding Charlotte’s son hostage, with Marrow´s help the police station lost its power supply. Later, Charlotte saw the error in her deal and defended Cecilia and Iceman, resulting in her getting shot. Not only did Cecilia tend to Charlotte’s wound, but during the battle with the Sentinels, she also covered Iceman’s back by taking any attack aimed at him with her shield, despite the pain this caused her. At the police station entrance they were cornered but finally saved by Sabra, who eventually joined them. Eventually Operation: Zero Tolerance was destroyed, but Cecilia was left with no direction. Iceman invited Marrow and Cecilia back to the mansion. There she used everyone abilities to save Cyclops life by removing a bomb from his abdomen. After the surgery Cyclops invited her into the X-Men. She declined, but still remained at the mansion until she could find somewhere else to live. During this time, she put up a tough and sarcastic attitude towards everyone, though actually Cecilia began to make some friends among the X-Men. A slip of the tongue even led to mild flirtations with the Beast, much to Cecilia’s embarrassment, though he took it with humor. They both were interested in medicine and physiology, as well as how Marrow’s bone-growth worked. Cecilia even placed a friendly wager as to when Beast would cure the Legacy Virus. She then tried to get her job back at the Hospital. However because of her revelation of being a mutant, many families didn’t want her to operate on their loved ones. Cecilia was then found by the injured Daredevil, who was watching Cecilia and felt he could trust her to help with his gunshot wound. While treating Daredevil, the hero told Cecilia that she should use her gift. He reasoned that, as a doctor, she could only save one person at a time, whereas as a mutant she could save thousands in an instant. Later that day, the injured villain Pyro was brought in and Cecilia was put in charge of the case, Pyro had no control over his powers with high risk to burn the hospital and people around him, so Cecilia used her powers to treat Pyro. However, during recovery, Pyro tricked Cecilia into loosening his straps that the police put on him, she trusted him and he escaped, resulting in Cecilia losing her job. Fired after only one day, Cecilia returned to the X-Men for good it seemed. Cecilia had to deal with feelings of inadequacy as part of the X-Men. And these fears were shown to light one day when the X-Men were attacked by a dimensional race. Using an old costume once worn by the Wasp, Cecilia helped prove to herself that she was valued by defeating the attackers, even if it was accidentally. When the X-Men were attacked by the Shadow King, he tried to corrupt the newer X-Men tempting them with their secret desires. He offered Cecilia a new future with her own operating room and the knowledge of the world’s best surgeons. Still, she was concerned about her fellow X-Men’s fate, and had not yet reached a decision when the Shadow King was eventually defeated by Storm and Psylocke. Afterward, Cecilia took charge of helping the injured people of Storm’s village, thus redeeming herself for letting herself be tempted. Time passed and, with Xavier missing and the school still barren, several X-Men began going their separate ways and leading their own lives. Cecilia was one of those X-Men. She opened up her own small practice in Salem Center, so she could pursue her own dream while still helping out the X-Men every now and then. For example, she would house sit at the mansion when the X-Men were away on a mission. On one occasion, she aided Wolverine in defending some Japanese agents from the mob. During this adventure, Cecilia even stood up to the Silver Samurai, and made him listen to reason rather than to resort to violence. Cecilia continued her work as a medical work, but one day an injured Nightcrawler arrived at her work. He had been shot by the Neo. Nightcrawler apologized for bringing her back into the life of the X-Men. But they were attacked by Jaeger. As Nightcrawler was weakened by much blood loss, Cecilia had to confront Jaeger by herself. During the battle, Cecilia used her field in offensive ways that she never did before. Not thinking and only reacting, she was able to extend her force field out and knock Jaeger away. However, the skilled Jaeger was still too much for her and she was easily defeated, leaving the injured Nightcrawler alone against the Neo. Right as Jaeger was about to kill Nightcrawler, Cecilia lashed out with her powers and spikes extended from her field, impaling Jaeger. Cecilia was left heartbroken, for as a doctor she pledged to save lives, not take them. On the run from the Neo, the two former X-Men found themselves hiding in an illegal infirmary, where Cecilia continued treating his wounds. All the while, Nightcrawler comforted Cecilia about her killing Jaeger, and suggested she start training in the use of her powers. Their solitude was cut short by a gunfight between Detective Charlotte Jones and the drug dealer Delgado. Protecting Charlotte from gunfire with her force-field, Cecilia noticed some vials of the performance enhancing drug after the combatants left, and picked them up, not wanting them to fall into the wrong hands. After a brief rest, Nightcrawler and Cecilia returned to the church where Nightcrawler had been attacked in order to help some innocents trapped inside, but they were found by the Neo. With Nightcrawler too injured to fight, Cecilia needed an edge against the Neo, and decided to take one of the vials of Rave. The drug worked, and Cecilia ferociously fought, using her powers in ways she never believed possible, defending herself and Nightcrawler until the X-Men arrived. The two groups fought each other to a stalemate, and eventually one of the Neo began to seal up all entrances and exits of the building, forcing the X-Men to retreat. However, just as they were about to leave, Cecilia realized Detective Jones was still missing and still somewhat influenced by the drug, she volunteered to stay behind to find her. Cecilia was trapped inside the Neo’s complex for a couple of weeks, during which she discovered that Detective Jones and Delgado had somehow been merged into a monstrous creature by one of the Neo, with Delgado as the dominant personality. Cecilia spent much time chasing the Delgado creature, so it wouldn’t kill anyone. All the while she searched, she was also avoiding the Neo, especially their leader Domina, who wanted Cecilia dead, as she was the widow of Jaeger. To do all this, Cecilia consumed more and more Rave, causing her to become addicted to the drug. By the time her supply had almost run out, Cecilia began to lose control of her powers, but fortunately at that point the X-Men performed a rescue mission, freeing both her and Charlotte Jones from the Neo’s hideout. Cecilia stayed at the mansion to deal with her drug problem, but it was harder then expected. She began a detoxification program for her addiction to Rave. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done, as Cecilia had to go cold-turkey in order to beat her problem. Due to the physical addiction, Cecilia’s powers began to lash out wildly to cope with the pain and urge to use Rave. Nightcrawler locked himself in the Danger Room with Cecilia to help the out of control woman, in hope that the exertion and use of her powers would burn the toxins in her system. However, Cecilia became so wild that she began to punch holes in the Danger Room and even destroyed the control booth with her force-field spikes. At that point, Xavier himself entered the Danger Room and risking his own life, he approached Cecilia to calm her down and remind her of her own courageous nature. Though Cecilia had a long journey to go till she would be totally normal, with Xavier’s help she made the first step to beat her addiction. Eventually, Cecilia was well enough to walk around the mansion without any power troubles. It was during this time that the Beast finally came up with a cure for the Legacy Virus, making use of the research of the late Moira MacTaggert. However, for the cure to be released into the atmosphere, it required the life of the person who would inject the cure into him- or herself. While the X-Men rejoiced, Cecilia noticed that Colossus was somber. Cecilia confronted Colossus and she learned about Illyana Rasputin and how she had succumbed to the Legacy Virus. Ever since, Colossus had felt guilty for letting her die. Realizing that Colossus would inject the cure into himself instead of waiting for an alternative to be found, Cecilia tried to stop him, but Colossus knocked her out with narcotic gas. When Cecilia came around, she found Colossus dying on the lab floor. Although she did her best to save him, Colossus passed away. After Colossus’ death, Cecilia left the X-Men, it was unknown what she did next but the next time Cecilia did resurface, she was as a prisoner in Neverland, the mutant concentration camp set up by the Weapon X program. There, she was reunited with her former teammate Maggott, who had also been captured. Whereas Maggot was branded for death and ultimately killed, Cecilia was among those prisoners who were kept alive to be experimented on. For weeks, Cecilia did her best to keep the other camp inmates alive, many of them being exhausted after interrogation and torture. It is unknown how she escaped after the Camp was shut down. Much later Cecilla turned up in Nyx. She was working as a doctor in Chinatown. She also works voluntarily at a homeless shelter. Kiden Nyxon and Bobby Soul take Tatiana to see her after they escape from the hospital. She treats their injuries and offers her home as a temporary place for them to rest while she goes out for a bit. Unsure of her motives, Kiden follows her. She phones Beast for a favor. Over-hearing the conversation Kiden returns to the others and informs them. When Cecilia returns home, they have left. She still keeps a photo frame of her and Beast showing she may still have feelings for him, and later shows she still maintains contact with him by calling him. Later Cecilia appears in Utopia with the X-Men. When Magneto was revealed to be trying to bring back Kitty Pryde, Cecilia was called in by Cyclops to tend to Magneto to check he wasn’t going to die. After she is brought home, Magneto collapses and Cecilia rushes to his aid, but he had already fallen into a coma. After Second Coming, Cecilia accompanies Psylocke to Mexico to help one of the new mutants that emerged due to Hope’s return. It is here that Cecilia is confirmed to still have her mutant powers and not have been affected by M-Day. The boy they find is in a state of panic. Cecilia tries to calm him by giving him a sedative. She speaks to the boys parents and tries to convince them to let her take him to the X-Men for further help. It is then that the boy vanishes, although Psylocke can still sense his presence in the room. Psylocke uses her psychic powers to forcefully tap into Cecilia Reyes force field abilities to seal off the room while Hope continues in to help him. After this, Cecilia begins to act as the islands doctor. During the Quarantine crisis, where mutants were being poisoned, Cecilia treated the victims of the disease, in-particular Wolverine who was suffering the most due to his Adamantium bones. Later, she is also attacked by the Hellverine. Cecilia has left Utopia and has returned to New York where she is now working at a local hospital. It is also revealed that she has grown close to the X-Man, Gambit in recent months. While the two are relaxing at his apartment, they are visited by Wolverine and Northstar, and the group is subsequently attacked by a group of unknown assailants and the newest incarnation of the Marauders. Powers/Skills: A skilled surgeon, Force Field Generation
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Puerto Ricans are black folks that know a lover’s language… Name: Cecilia Reyes Aliases: Dr. Cecilia Reyes Origin: Brooklyn, New York Affiliations: X-Men, Weapon X Created By: Scott Lobdell and Carlos Pacheco Publisher: Marvel Comics First Appearance: X-Men vol.2 #65 (June 1997) Biography/Story Line: Cecilia was born into a poor family in a bad neighborhood. She has Puerto rican heritage. When she was just six years old, she witnessed her dad gunned down and killed. She held him in her arms as he died. Cecilia made a vow that one day she would do something. Reading her brother’s science textbooks that night, she knew that she wanted to become a doctor, so that she could help other people. Thanks to her stubbornness, Cecilia spent nineteen years studying and made her way out of her poor neighborhood and went to medical school, eventually becoming an intern doing her residency at Our Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Bronx - all the while keeping her mutant powers a secret. During her time trying to become a doctor, Cecelia hadn’t had a date for three years and hadn’t kissed someone in four and a half years. She was approached by Professor Xavier, who invited her to come to his school, train her powers, and then go on to join the X-Men, but Cecilia could not accept herself as a mutant. She didn’t want to be involved in mutant affairs in any way; she wanted to save lives as a doctor. The Professor left, promising to keep her status as a mutant secret. For all her early life she was afraid people would discover she was a mutant. During Operation: Zero Tolerance where many mutants were being captured, killed and being turned into Sentinels, Cecilia pretended to be a mutant hater, being careful not to expose herself. However, during the arrival of a gunshot victim Cecilia was unable to save the man’s life and declared him dead. The man, however, was not dead, and he transformed into a Prime Sentinel and began to assault Cecilia, revealing her mutant status to all her co-workers and friends. Thankfully, Cecilia’s powers saved her from the assault, with her psioplasmic bio-field protecting her from every attack, though she still would feel every gut-wrenching blast. The Sentinel found a way to negate her force-field, but Cecilia was saved by the timely arrival of Iceman. However, Cecilia was not pleased to see Iceman and hit him out of anger because Xavier did not keep his promise, and that the X-Men had dragged her into what she perceived to be their self-fulfilling war games. While he took Cecilia to the Morlock Tunnels to hide from their pursuers, Iceman explained to her that this incident was beyond Xavier and the X-Men, and convinced her that the only way to survive was to follow him, and perhaps the X-Men could make a new tomorrow for her. Knowing that her lifelong goal of being a doctor was gone, Cecilia reluctantly agreed to accompany Iceman - on her own conditions. She demanded the absolute truth from Iceman, even making him reveal his secret identity of Bobby Drake to her. During the action, Cecilia quickly proved to be a feisty character, with sarcastic comments and rude one-liners. Her and Iceman were then again attacked by a Prime Sentinel, but were saved by Detective Charlotte Jones. However she lead them into a trap set up by Bastion, who was holding Charlotte’s son hostage, with Marrow´s help the police station lost its power supply. Later, Charlotte saw the error in her deal and defended Cecilia and Iceman, resulting in her getting shot. Not only did Cecilia tend to Charlotte’s wound, but during the battle with the Sentinels, she also covered Iceman’s back by taking any attack aimed at him with her shield, despite the pain this caused her. At the police station entrance they were cornered but finally saved by Sabra, who eventually joined them. Eventually Operation: Zero Tolerance was destroyed, but Cecilia was left with no direction. Iceman invited Marrow and Cecilia back to the mansion. There she used everyone abilities to save Cyclops life by removing a bomb from his abdomen. After the surgery Cyclops invited her into the X-Men. She declined, but still remained at the mansion until she could find somewhere else to live. During this time, she put up a tough and sarcastic attitude towards everyone, though actually Cecilia began to make some friends among the X-Men. A slip of the tongue even led to mild flirtations with the Beast, much to Cecilia’s embarrassment, though he took it with humor. They both were interested in medicine and physiology, as well as how Marrow’s bone-growth worked. Cecilia even placed a friendly wager as to when Beast would cure the Legacy Virus. She then tried to get her job back at the Hospital. However because of her revelation of being a mutant, many families didn’t want her to operate on their loved ones. Cecilia was then found by the injured Daredevil, who was watching Cecilia and felt he could trust her to help with his gunshot wound. While treating Daredevil, the hero told Cecilia that she should use her gift. He reasoned that, as a doctor, she could only save one person at a time, whereas as a mutant she could save thousands in an instant. Later that day, the injured villain Pyro was brought in and Cecilia was put in charge of the case, Pyro had no control over his powers with high risk to burn the hospital and people around him, so Cecilia used her powers to treat Pyro. However, during recovery, Pyro tricked Cecilia into loosening his straps that the police put on him, she trusted him and he escaped, resulting in Cecilia losing her job. Fired after only one day, Cecilia returned to the X-Men for good it seemed. Cecilia had to deal with feelings of inadequacy as part of the X-Men. And these fears were shown to light one day when the X-Men were attacked by a dimensional race. Using an old costume once worn by the Wasp, Cecilia helped prove to herself that she was valued by defeating the attackers, even if it was accidentally. When the X-Men were attacked by the Shadow King, he tried to corrupt the newer X-Men tempting them with their secret desires. He offered Cecilia a new future with her own operating room and the knowledge of the world’s best surgeons. Still, she was concerned about her fellow X-Men’s fate, and had not yet reached a decision when the Shadow King was eventually defeated by Storm and Psylocke. Afterward, Cecilia took charge of helping the injured people of Storm’s village, thus redeeming herself for letting herself be tempted. Time passed and, with Xavier missing and the school still barren, several X-Men began going their separate ways and leading their own lives. Cecilia was one of those X-Men. She opened up her own small practice in Salem Center, so she could pursue her own dream while still helping out the X-Men every now and then. For example, she would house sit at the mansion when the X-Men were away on a mission. On one occasion, she aided Wolverine in defending some Japanese agents from the mob. During this adventure, Cecilia even stood up to the Silver Samurai, and made him listen to reason rather than to resort to violence. Cecilia continued her work as a medical work, but one day an injured Nightcrawler arrived at her work. He had been shot by the Neo. Nightcrawler apologized for bringing her back into the life of the X-Men. But they were attacked by Jaeger. As Nightcrawler was weakened by much blood loss, Cecilia had to confront Jaeger by herself. During the battle, Cecilia used her field in offensive ways that she never did before. Not thinking and only reacting, she was able to extend her force field out and knock Jaeger away. However, the skilled Jaeger was still too much for her and she was easily defeated, leaving the injured Nightcrawler alone against the Neo. Right as Jaeger was about to kill Nightcrawler, Cecilia lashed out with her powers and spikes extended from her field, impaling Jaeger. Cecilia was left heartbroken, for as a doctor she pledged to save lives, not take them. On the run from the Neo, the two former X-Men found themselves hiding in an illegal infirmary, where Cecilia continued treating his wounds. All the while, Nightcrawler comforted Cecilia about her killing Jaeger, and suggested she start training in the use of her powers. Their solitude was cut short by a gunfight between Detective Charlotte Jones and the drug dealer Delgado. Protecting Charlotte from gunfire with her force-field, Cecilia noticed some vials of the performance enhancing drug after the combatants left, and picked them up, not wanting them to fall into the wrong hands. After a brief rest, Nightcrawler and Cecilia returned to the church where Nightcrawler had been attacked in order to help some innocents trapped inside, but they were found by the Neo. With Nightcrawler too injured to fight, Cecilia needed an edge against the Neo, and decided to take one of the vials of Rave. The drug worked, and Cecilia ferociously fought, using her powers in ways she never believed possible, defending herself and Nightcrawler until the X-Men arrived. The two groups fought each other to a stalemate, and eventually one of the Neo began to seal up all entrances and exits of the building, forcing the X-Men to retreat. However, just as they were about to leave, Cecilia realized Detective Jones was still missing and still somewhat influenced by the drug, she volunteered to stay behind to find her. Cecilia was trapped inside the Neo’s complex for a couple of weeks, during which she discovered that Detective Jones and Delgado had somehow been merged into a monstrous creature by one of the Neo, with Delgado as the dominant personality. Cecilia spent much time chasing the Delgado creature, so it wouldn’t kill anyone. All the while she searched, she was also avoiding the Neo, especially their leader Domina, who wanted Cecilia dead, as she was the widow of Jaeger. To do all this, Cecilia consumed more and more Rave, causing her to become addicted to the drug. By the time her supply had almost run out, Cecilia began to lose control of her powers, but fortunately at that point the X-Men performed a rescue mission, freeing both her and Charlotte Jones from the Neo’s hideout. Cecilia stayed at the mansion to deal with her drug problem, but it was harder then expected. She began a detoxification program for her addiction to Rave. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done, as Cecilia had to go cold-turkey in order to beat her problem. Due to the physical addiction, Cecilia’s powers began to lash out wildly to cope with the pain and urge to use Rave. Nightcrawler locked himself in the Danger Room with Cecilia to help the out of control woman, in hope that the exertion and use of her powers would burn the toxins in her system. However, Cecilia became so wild that she began to punch holes in the Danger Room and even destroyed the control booth with her force-field spikes. At that point, Xavier himself entered the Danger Room and risking his own life, he approached Cecilia to calm her down and remind her of her own courageous nature. Though Cecilia had a long journey to go till she would be totally normal, with Xavier’s help she made the first step to beat her addiction. Eventually, Cecilia was well enough to walk around the mansion without any power troubles. It was during this time that the Beast finally came up with a cure for the Legacy Virus, making use of the research of the late Moira MacTaggert. However, for the cure to be released into the atmosphere, it required the life of the person who would inject the cure into him- or herself. While the X-Men rejoiced, Cecilia noticed that Colossus was somber. Cecilia confronted Colossus and she learned about Illyana Rasputin and how she had succumbed to the Legacy Virus. Ever since, Colossus had felt guilty for letting her die. Realizing that Colossus would inject the cure into himself instead of waiting for an alternative to be found, Cecilia tried to stop him, but Colossus knocked her out with narcotic gas. When Cecilia came around, she found Colossus dying on the lab floor. Although she did her best to save him, Colossus passed away. After Colossus’ death, Cecilia left the X-Men, it was unknown what she did next but the next time Cecilia did resurface, she was as a prisoner in Neverland, the mutant concentration camp set up by the Weapon X program. There, she was reunited with her former teammate Maggott, who had also been captured. Whereas Maggot was branded for death and ultimately killed, Cecilia was among those prisoners who were kept alive to be experimented on. For weeks, Cecilia did her best to keep the other camp inmates alive, many of them being exhausted after interrogation and torture. It is unknown how she escaped after the Camp was shut down. Much later Cecilla turned up in Nyx. She was working as a doctor in Chinatown. She also works voluntarily at a homeless shelter. Kiden Nyxon and Bobby Soul take Tatiana to see her after they escape from the hospital. She treats their injuries and offers her home as a temporary place for them to rest while she goes out for a bit. Unsure of her motives, Kiden follows her. She phones Beast for a favor. Over-hearing the conversation Kiden returns to the others and informs them. When Cecilia returns home, they have left. She still keeps a photo frame of her and Beast showing she may still have feelings for him, and later shows she still maintains contact with him by calling him. Later Cecilia appears in Utopia with the X-Men. When Magneto was revealed to be trying to bring back Kitty Pryde, Cecilia was called in by Cyclops to tend to Magneto to check he wasn’t going to die. After she is brought home, Magneto collapses and Cecilia rushes to his aid, but he had already fallen into a coma. After Second Coming, Cecilia accompanies Psylocke to Mexico to help one of the new mutants that emerged due to Hope’s return. It is here that Cecilia is confirmed to still have her mutant powers and not have been affected by M-Day. The boy they find is in a state of panic. Cecilia tries to calm him by giving him a sedative. She speaks to the boys parents and tries to convince them to let her take him to the X-Men for further help. It is then that the boy vanishes, although Psylocke can still sense his presence in the room. Psylocke uses her psychic powers to forcefully tap into Cecilia Reyes force field abilities to seal off the room while Hope continues in to help him. After this, Cecilia begins to act as the islands doctor. During the Quarantine crisis, where mutants were being poisoned, Cecilia treated the victims of the disease, in-particular Wolverine who was suffering the most due to his Adamantium bones. Later, she is also attacked by the Hellverine. Cecilia has left Utopia and has returned to New York where she is now working at a local hospital. It is also revealed that she has grown close to the X-Man, Gambit in recent months. While the two are relaxing at his apartment, they are visited by Wolverine and Northstar, and the group is subsequently attacked by a group of unknown assailants and the newest incarnation of the Marauders. Powers/Skills: A skilled surgeon, Force Field Generation
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Puerto Ricans are black folks that know a lover’s language… Name: Cecilia Reyes Aliases: Dr. Cecilia Reyes Origin: Brooklyn, New York Affiliations: X-Men, Weapon X Created By: Scott Lobdell and Carlos Pacheco Publisher: Marvel Comics First Appearance: X-Men vol.2 #65 (June 1997) Biography/Story Line: Cecilia was born into a poor family in a bad neighborhood. She has Puerto rican heritage. When she was just six years old, she witnessed her dad gunned down and killed. She held him in her arms as he died. Cecilia made a vow that one day she would do something. Reading her brother’s science textbooks that night, she knew that she wanted to become a doctor, so that she could help other people. Thanks to her stubbornness, Cecilia spent nineteen years studying and made her way out of her poor neighborhood and went to medical school, eventually becoming an intern doing her residency at Our Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Bronx - all the while keeping her mutant powers a secret. During her time trying to become a doctor, Cecelia hadn’t had a date for three years and hadn’t kissed someone in four and a half years. She was approached by Professor Xavier, who invited her to come to his school, train her powers, and then go on to join the X-Men, but Cecilia could not accept herself as a mutant. She didn’t want to be involved in mutant affairs in any way; she wanted to save lives as a doctor. The Professor left, promising to keep her status as a mutant secret. For all her early life she was afraid people would discover she was a mutant. During Operation: Zero Tolerance where many mutants were being captured, killed and being turned into Sentinels, Cecilia pretended to be a mutant hater, being careful not to expose herself. However, during the arrival of a gunshot victim Cecilia was unable to save the man’s life and declared him dead. The man, however, was not dead, and he transformed into a Prime Sentinel and began to assault Cecilia, revealing her mutant status to all her co-workers and friends. Thankfully, Cecilia’s powers saved her from the assault, with her psioplasmic bio-field protecting her from every attack, though she still would feel every gut-wrenching blast. The Sentinel found a way to negate her force-field, but Cecilia was saved by the timely arrival of Iceman. However, Cecilia was not pleased to see Iceman and hit him out of anger because Xavier did not keep his promise, and that the X-Men had dragged her into what she perceived to be their self-fulfilling war games. While he took Cecilia to the Morlock Tunnels to hide from their pursuers, Iceman explained to her that this incident was beyond Xavier and the X-Men, and convinced her that the only way to survive was to follow him, and perhaps the X-Men could make a new tomorrow for her. Knowing that her lifelong goal of being a doctor was gone, Cecilia reluctantly agreed to accompany Iceman - on her own conditions. She demanded the absolute truth from Iceman, even making him reveal his secret identity of Bobby Drake to her. During the action, Cecilia quickly proved to be a feisty character, with sarcastic comments and rude one-liners. Her and Iceman were then again attacked by a Prime Sentinel, but were saved by Detective Charlotte Jones. However she lead them into a trap set up by Bastion, who was holding Charlotte’s son hostage, with Marrow´s help the police station lost its power supply. Later, Charlotte saw the error in her deal and defended Cecilia and Iceman, resulting in her getting shot. Not only did Cecilia tend to Charlotte’s wound, but during the battle with the Sentinels, she also covered Iceman’s back by taking any attack aimed at him with her shield, despite the pain this caused her. At the police station entrance they were cornered but finally saved by Sabra, who eventually joined them. Eventually Operation: Zero Tolerance was destroyed, but Cecilia was left with no direction. Iceman invited Marrow and Cecilia back to the mansion. There she used everyone abilities to save Cyclops life by removing a bomb from his abdomen. After the surgery Cyclops invited her into the X-Men. She declined, but still remained at the mansion until she could find somewhere else to live. During this time, she put up a tough and sarcastic attitude towards everyone, though actually Cecilia began to make some friends among the X-Men. A slip of the tongue even led to mild flirtations with the Beast, much to Cecilia’s embarrassment, though he took it with humor. They both were interested in medicine and physiology, as well as how Marrow’s bone-growth worked. Cecilia even placed a friendly wager as to when Beast would cure the Legacy Virus. She then tried to get her job back at the Hospital. However because of her revelation of being a mutant, many families didn’t want her to operate on their loved ones. Cecilia was then found by the injured Daredevil, who was watching Cecilia and felt he could trust her to help with his gunshot wound. While treating Daredevil, the hero told Cecilia that she should use her gift. He reasoned that, as a doctor, she could only save one person at a time, whereas as a mutant she could save thousands in an instant. Later that day, the injured villain Pyro was brought in and Cecilia was put in charge of the case, Pyro had no control over his powers with high risk to burn the hospital and people around him, so Cecilia used her powers to treat Pyro. However, during recovery, Pyro tricked Cecilia into loosening his straps that the police put on him, she trusted him and he escaped, resulting in Cecilia losing her job. Fired after only one day, Cecilia returned to the X-Men for good it seemed. Cecilia had to deal with feelings of inadequacy as part of the X-Men. And these fears were shown to light one day when the X-Men were attacked by a dimensional race. Using an old costume once worn by the Wasp, Cecilia helped prove to herself that she was valued by defeating the attackers, even if it was accidentally. When the X-Men were attacked by the Shadow King, he tried to corrupt the newer X-Men tempting them with their secret desires. He offered Cecilia a new future with her own operating room and the knowledge of the world’s best surgeons. Still, she was concerned about her fellow X-Men’s fate, and had not yet reached a decision when the Shadow King was eventually defeated by Storm and Psylocke. Afterward, Cecilia took charge of helping the injured people of Storm’s village, thus redeeming herself for letting herself be tempted. Time passed and, with Xavier missing and the school still barren, several X-Men began going their separate ways and leading their own lives. Cecilia was one of those X-Men. She opened up her own small practice in Salem Center, so she could pursue her own dream while still helping out the X-Men every now and then. For example, she would house sit at the mansion when the X-Men were away on a mission. On one occasion, she aided Wolverine in defending some Japanese agents from the mob. During this adventure, Cecilia even stood up to the Silver Samurai, and made him listen to reason rather than to resort to violence. Cecilia continued her work as a medical work, but one day an injured Nightcrawler arrived at her work. He had been shot by the Neo. Nightcrawler apologized for bringing her back into the life of the X-Men. But they were attacked by Jaeger. As Nightcrawler was weakened by much blood loss, Cecilia had to confront Jaeger by herself. During the battle, Cecilia used her field in offensive ways that she never did before. Not thinking and only reacting, she was able to extend her force field out and knock Jaeger away. However, the skilled Jaeger was still too much for her and she was easily defeated, leaving the injured Nightcrawler alone against the Neo. Right as Jaeger was about to kill Nightcrawler, Cecilia lashed out with her powers and spikes extended from her field, impaling Jaeger. Cecilia was left heartbroken, for as a doctor she pledged to save lives, not take them. On the run from the Neo, the two former X-Men found themselves hiding in an illegal infirmary, where Cecilia continued treating his wounds. All the while, Nightcrawler comforted Cecilia about her killing Jaeger, and suggested she start training in the use of her powers. Their solitude was cut short by a gunfight between Detective Charlotte Jones and the drug dealer Delgado. Protecting Charlotte from gunfire with her force-field, Cecilia noticed some vials of the performance enhancing drug after the combatants left, and picked them up, not wanting them to fall into the wrong hands. After a brief rest, Nightcrawler and Cecilia returned to the church where Nightcrawler had been attacked in order to help some innocents trapped inside, but they were found by the Neo. With Nightcrawler too injured to fight, Cecilia needed an edge against the Neo, and decided to take one of the vials of Rave. The drug worked, and Cecilia ferociously fought, using her powers in ways she never believed possible, defending herself and Nightcrawler until the X-Men arrived. The two groups fought each other to a stalemate, and eventually one of the Neo began to seal up all entrances and exits of the building, forcing the X-Men to retreat. However, just as they were about to leave, Cecilia realized Detective Jones was still missing and still somewhat influenced by the drug, she volunteered to stay behind to find her. Cecilia was trapped inside the Neo’s complex for a couple of weeks, during which she discovered that Detective Jones and Delgado had somehow been merged into a monstrous creature by one of the Neo, with Delgado as the dominant personality. Cecilia spent much time chasing the Delgado creature, so it wouldn’t kill anyone. All the while she searched, she was also avoiding the Neo, especially their leader Domina, who wanted Cecilia dead, as she was the widow of Jaeger. To do all this, Cecilia consumed more and more Rave, causing her to become addicted to the drug. By the time her supply had almost run out, Cecilia began to lose control of her powers, but fortunately at that point the X-Men performed a rescue mission, freeing both her and Charlotte Jones from the Neo’s hideout. Cecilia stayed at the mansion to deal with her drug problem, but it was harder then expected. She began a detoxification program for her addiction to Rave. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done, as Cecilia had to go cold-turkey in order to beat her problem. Due to the physical addiction, Cecilia’s powers began to lash out wildly to cope with the pain and urge to use Rave. Nightcrawler locked himself in the Danger Room with Cecilia to help the out of control woman, in hope that the exertion and use of her powers would burn the toxins in her system. However, Cecilia became so wild that she began to punch holes in the Danger Room and even destroyed the control booth with her force-field spikes. At that point, Xavier himself entered the Danger Room and risking his own life, he approached Cecilia to calm her down and remind her of her own courageous nature. Though Cecilia had a long journey to go till she would be totally normal, with Xavier’s help she made the first step to beat her addiction. Eventually, Cecilia was well enough to walk around the mansion without any power troubles. It was during this time that the Beast finally came up with a cure for the Legacy Virus, making use of the research of the late Moira MacTaggert. However, for the cure to be released into the atmosphere, it required the life of the person who would inject the cure into him- or herself. While the X-Men rejoiced, Cecilia noticed that Colossus was somber. Cecilia confronted Colossus and she learned about Illyana Rasputin and how she had succumbed to the Legacy Virus. Ever since, Colossus had felt guilty for letting her die. Realizing that Colossus would inject the cure into himself instead of waiting for an alternative to be found, Cecilia tried to stop him, but Colossus knocked her out with narcotic gas. When Cecilia came around, she found Colossus dying on the lab floor. Although she did her best to save him, Colossus passed away. After Colossus’ death, Cecilia left the X-Men, it was unknown what she did next but the next time Cecilia did resurface, she was as a prisoner in Neverland, the mutant concentration camp set up by the Weapon X program. There, she was reunited with her former teammate Maggott, who had also been captured. Whereas Maggot was branded for death and ultimately killed, Cecilia was among those prisoners who were kept alive to be experimented on. For weeks, Cecilia did her best to keep the other camp inmates alive, many of them being exhausted after interrogation and torture. It is unknown how she escaped after the Camp was shut down. Much later Cecilla turned up in Nyx. She was working as a doctor in Chinatown. She also works voluntarily at a homeless shelter. Kiden Nyxon and Bobby Soul take Tatiana to see her after they escape from the hospital. She treats their injuries and offers her home as a temporary place for them to rest while she goes out for a bit. Unsure of her motives, Kiden follows her. She phones Beast for a favor. Over-hearing the conversation Kiden returns to the others and informs them. When Cecilia returns home, they have left. She still keeps a photo frame of her and Beast showing she may still have feelings for him, and later shows she still maintains contact with him by calling him. Later Cecilia appears in Utopia with the X-Men. When Magneto was revealed to be trying to bring back Kitty Pryde, Cecilia was called in by Cyclops to tend to Magneto to check he wasn’t going to die. After she is brought home, Magneto collapses and Cecilia rushes to his aid, but he had already fallen into a coma. After Second Coming, Cecilia accompanies Psylocke to Mexico to help one of the new mutants that emerged due to Hope’s return. It is here that Cecilia is confirmed to still have her mutant powers and not have been affected by M-Day. The boy they find is in a state of panic. Cecilia tries to calm him by giving him a sedative. She speaks to the boys parents and tries to convince them to let her take him to the X-Men for further help. It is then that the boy vanishes, although Psylocke can still sense his presence in the room. Psylocke uses her psychic powers to forcefully tap into Cecilia Reyes force field abilities to seal off the room while Hope continues in to help him. After this, Cecilia begins to act as the islands doctor. During the Quarantine crisis, where mutants were being poisoned, Cecilia treated the victims of the disease, in-particular Wolverine who was suffering the most due to his Adamantium bones. Later, she is also attacked by the Hellverine. Cecilia has left Utopia and has returned to New York where she is now working at a local hospital. It is also revealed that she has grown close to the X-Man, Gambit in recent months. While the two are relaxing at his apartment, they are visited by Wolverine and Northstar, and the group is subsequently attacked by a group of unknown assailants and the newest incarnation of the Marauders. Powers/Skills: A skilled surgeon, Force Field Generation
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Puerto Ricans are black folks that know a lover’s language…

Name: Cecilia Reyes

Aliases: Dr. Cecilia Reyes

Origin: Brooklyn, New York

Affiliations: X-Men, Weapon X

Created By: Scott Lobdell and Carlos Pacheco

Publisher: Marvel Comics

First Appearance: X-Men vol.2 #65 (June 1997)

Biography/Story Line: Cecilia was born into a poor family in a bad neighborhood. She has Puerto rican heritage. When she was just six years old, she witnessed her dad gunned down and killed. She held him in her arms as he died. Cecilia made a vow that one day she would do something. Reading her brother’s science textbooks that night, she knew that she wanted to become a doctor, so that she could help other people. Thanks to her stubbornness, Cecilia spent nineteen years studying and made her way out of her poor neighborhood and went to medical school, eventually becoming an intern doing her residency at Our Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Bronx - all the while keeping her mutant powers a secret. During her time trying to become a doctor, Cecelia hadn’t had a date for three years and hadn’t kissed someone in four and a half years.

She was approached by Professor Xavier, who invited her to come to his school, train her powers, and then go on to join the X-Men, but Cecilia could not accept herself as a mutant. She didn’t want to be involved in mutant affairs in any way; she wanted to save lives as a doctor. The Professor left, promising to keep her status as a mutant secret. For all her early life she was afraid people would discover she was a mutant.

During Operation: Zero Tolerance where many mutants were being captured, killed and being turned into Sentinels, Cecilia pretended to be a mutant hater, being careful not to expose herself. However, during the arrival of a gunshot victim Cecilia was unable to save the man’s life and declared him dead. The man, however, was not dead, and he transformed into a Prime Sentinel and began to assault Cecilia, revealing her mutant status to all her co-workers and friends. Thankfully, Cecilia’s powers saved her from the assault, with her psioplasmic bio-field protecting her from every attack, though she still would feel every gut-wrenching blast. The Sentinel found a way to negate her force-field, but Cecilia was saved by the timely arrival of Iceman. However, Cecilia was not pleased to see Iceman and hit him out of anger because Xavier did not keep his promise, and that the X-Men had dragged her into what she perceived to be their self-fulfilling war games. While he took

Cecilia to the Morlock Tunnels to hide from their pursuers, Iceman explained to her that this incident was beyond Xavier and the X-Men, and convinced her that the only way to survive was to follow him, and perhaps the X-Men could make a new tomorrow for her. Knowing that her lifelong goal of being a doctor was gone, Cecilia reluctantly agreed to accompany Iceman - on her own conditions. She demanded the absolute truth from Iceman, even making him reveal his secret identity of Bobby Drake to her.

During the action, Cecilia quickly proved to be a feisty character, with sarcastic comments and rude one-liners. Her and Iceman were then again attacked by a Prime Sentinel, but were saved by Detective Charlotte Jones. However she lead them into a trap set up by Bastion, who was holding Charlotte’s son hostage, with Marrow´s help the police station lost its power supply. Later, Charlotte saw the error in her deal and defended Cecilia and Iceman, resulting in her getting shot. Not only did Cecilia tend to Charlotte’s wound, but during the battle with the Sentinels, she also covered Iceman’s back by taking any attack aimed at him with her shield, despite the pain this caused her. At the police station entrance they were cornered but finally saved by Sabra, who eventually joined them. Eventually Operation: Zero Tolerance was destroyed, but Cecilia was left with no direction.

Iceman invited Marrow and Cecilia back to the mansion. There she used everyone abilities to save Cyclops life by removing a bomb from his abdomen. After the surgery Cyclops invited her into the X-Men. She declined, but still remained at the mansion until she could find somewhere else to live. During this time, she put up a tough and sarcastic attitude towards everyone, though actually Cecilia began to make some friends among the X-Men. A slip of the tongue even led to mild flirtations with the Beast, much to Cecilia’s embarrassment, though he took it with humor. They both were interested in medicine and physiology, as well as how Marrow’s bone-growth worked. Cecilia even placed a friendly wager as to when Beast would cure the Legacy Virus.

She then tried to get her job back at the Hospital. However because of her revelation of being a mutant, many families didn’t want her to operate on their loved ones. Cecilia was then found by the injured Daredevil, who was watching Cecilia and felt he could trust her to help with his gunshot wound. While treating Daredevil, the hero told Cecilia that she should use her gift. He reasoned that, as a doctor, she could only save one person at a time, whereas as a mutant she could save thousands in an instant. Later that day, the injured villain Pyro was brought in and Cecilia was put in charge of the case, Pyro had no control over his powers with high risk to burn the hospital and people around him, so Cecilia used her powers to treat Pyro. However, during recovery, Pyro tricked Cecilia into loosening his straps that the police put on him, she trusted him and he escaped, resulting in Cecilia losing her job. Fired after only one day, Cecilia returned to the X-Men for good it seemed.

Cecilia had to deal with feelings of inadequacy as part of the X-Men. And these fears were shown to light one day when the X-Men were attacked by a dimensional race. Using an old costume once worn by the Wasp, Cecilia helped prove to herself that she was valued by defeating the attackers, even if it was accidentally. When the X-Men were attacked by the Shadow King, he tried to corrupt the newer X-Men tempting them with their secret desires. He offered Cecilia a new future with her own operating room and the knowledge of the world’s best surgeons. Still, she was concerned about her fellow X-Men’s fate, and had not yet reached a decision when the Shadow King was eventually defeated by Storm and Psylocke. Afterward, Cecilia took charge of helping the injured people of Storm’s village, thus redeeming herself for letting herself be tempted.

Time passed and, with Xavier missing and the school still barren, several X-Men began going their separate ways and leading their own lives. Cecilia was one of those X-Men. She opened up her own small practice in Salem Center, so she could pursue her own dream while still helping out the X-Men every now and then. For example, she would house sit at the mansion when the X-Men were away on a mission. On one occasion, she aided Wolverine in defending some Japanese agents from the mob. During this adventure, Cecilia even stood up to the Silver Samurai, and made him listen to reason rather than to resort to violence.

Cecilia continued her work as a medical work, but one day an injured Nightcrawler arrived at her work. He had been shot by the Neo. Nightcrawler apologized for bringing her back into the life of the X-Men. But they were attacked by Jaeger. As Nightcrawler was weakened by much blood loss, Cecilia had to confront Jaeger by herself. During the battle, Cecilia used her field in offensive ways that she never did before. Not thinking and only reacting, she was able to extend her force field out and knock Jaeger away. However, the skilled Jaeger was still too much for her and she was easily defeated, leaving the injured Nightcrawler alone against the Neo. Right as Jaeger was about to kill Nightcrawler, Cecilia lashed out with her powers and spikes extended from her field, impaling Jaeger. Cecilia was left heartbroken, for as a doctor she pledged to save lives, not take them.

On the run from the Neo, the two former X-Men found themselves hiding in an illegal infirmary, where Cecilia continued treating his wounds. All the while, Nightcrawler comforted Cecilia about her killing Jaeger, and suggested she start training in the use of her powers. Their solitude was cut short by a gunfight between Detective Charlotte Jones and the drug dealer Delgado. Protecting Charlotte from gunfire with her force-field, Cecilia noticed some vials of the performance enhancing drug after the combatants left, and picked them up, not wanting them to fall into the wrong hands.

After a brief rest, Nightcrawler and Cecilia returned to the church where Nightcrawler had been attacked in order to help some innocents trapped inside, but they were found by the Neo. With Nightcrawler too injured to fight, Cecilia needed an edge against the Neo, and decided to take one of the vials of Rave. The drug worked, and Cecilia ferociously fought, using her powers in ways she never believed possible, defending herself and Nightcrawler until the X-Men arrived. The two groups fought each other to a stalemate, and eventually one of the Neo began to seal up all entrances and exits of the building, forcing the X-Men to retreat. However, just as they were about to leave, Cecilia realized Detective Jones was still missing and still somewhat influenced by the drug, she volunteered to stay behind to find her.

Cecilia was trapped inside the Neo’s complex for a couple of weeks, during which she discovered that Detective Jones and Delgado had somehow been merged into a monstrous creature by one of the Neo, with Delgado as the dominant personality. Cecilia spent much time chasing the Delgado creature, so it wouldn’t kill anyone. All the while she searched, she was also avoiding the Neo, especially their leader Domina, who wanted Cecilia dead, as she was the widow of Jaeger. To do all this, Cecilia consumed more and more Rave, causing her to become addicted to the drug. By the time her supply had almost run out, Cecilia began to lose control of her powers, but fortunately at that point the X-Men performed a rescue mission, freeing both her and Charlotte Jones from the Neo’s hideout.

Cecilia stayed at the mansion to deal with her drug problem, but it was harder then expected. She began a detoxification program for her addiction to Rave. Unfortunately, this was easier said than done, as Cecilia had to go cold-turkey in order to beat her problem. Due to the physical addiction, Cecilia’s powers began to lash out wildly to cope with the pain and urge to use Rave. Nightcrawler locked himself in the Danger Room with Cecilia to help the out of control woman, in hope that the exertion and use of her powers would burn the toxins in her system. However, Cecilia became so wild that she began to punch holes in the Danger Room and even destroyed the control booth with her force-field spikes. At that point, Xavier himself entered the Danger Room and risking his own life, he approached Cecilia to calm her down and remind her of her own courageous nature. Though Cecilia had a long journey to go till she would be totally normal, with Xavier’s help she made the first step to beat her addiction.

Eventually, Cecilia was well enough to walk around the mansion without any power troubles. It was during this time that the Beast finally came up with a cure for the Legacy Virus, making use of the research of the late Moira MacTaggert. However, for the cure to be released into the atmosphere, it required the life of the person who would inject the cure into him- or herself. While the X-Men rejoiced, Cecilia noticed that Colossus was somber. Cecilia confronted Colossus and she learned about Illyana Rasputin and how she had succumbed to the Legacy Virus. Ever since, Colossus had felt guilty for letting her die. Realizing that Colossus would inject the cure into himself instead of waiting for an alternative to be found, Cecilia tried to stop him, but Colossus knocked her out with narcotic gas. When Cecilia came around, she found Colossus dying on the lab floor. Although she did her best to save him, Colossus passed away.

After Colossus’ death, Cecilia left the X-Men, it was unknown what she did next but the next time Cecilia did resurface, she was as a prisoner in Neverland, the mutant concentration camp set up by the Weapon X program. There, she was reunited with her former teammate Maggott, who had also been captured. Whereas Maggot was branded for death and ultimately killed, Cecilia was among those prisoners who were kept alive to be experimented on. For weeks, Cecilia did her best to keep the other camp inmates alive, many of them being exhausted after interrogation and torture. It is unknown how she escaped after the Camp was shut down.

Much later Cecilla turned up in Nyx. She was working as a doctor in Chinatown. She also works voluntarily at a homeless shelter. Kiden Nyxon and Bobby Soul take Tatiana to see her after they escape from the hospital. She treats their injuries and offers her home as a temporary place for them to rest while she goes out for a bit. Unsure of her motives, Kiden follows her. She phones Beast for a favor. Over-hearing the conversation Kiden returns to the others and informs them. When Cecilia returns home, they have left. She still keeps a photo frame of her and Beast showing she may still have feelings for him, and later shows she still maintains contact with him by calling him.

Later Cecilia appears in Utopia with the X-Men. When Magneto was revealed to be trying to bring back Kitty Pryde, Cecilia was called in by Cyclops to tend to Magneto to check he wasn’t going to die. After she is brought home, Magneto collapses and Cecilia rushes to his aid, but he had already fallen into a coma.

After Second Coming, Cecilia accompanies Psylocke to Mexico to help one of the new mutants that emerged due to Hope’s return. It is here that Cecilia is confirmed to still have her mutant powers and not have been affected by M-Day. The boy they find is in a state of panic. Cecilia tries to calm him by giving him a sedative. She speaks to the boys parents and tries to convince them to let her take him to the X-Men for further help. It is then that the boy vanishes, although Psylocke can still sense his presence in the room. Psylocke uses her psychic powers to forcefully tap into Cecilia Reyes force field abilities to seal off the room while Hope continues in to help him.

After this, Cecilia begins to act as the islands doctor. During the Quarantine crisis, where mutants were being poisoned, Cecilia treated the victims of the disease, in-particular Wolverine who was suffering the most due to his Adamantium bones. Later, she is also attacked by the Hellverine.

Cecilia has left Utopia and has returned to New York where she is now working at a local hospital. It is also revealed that she has grown close to the X-Man, Gambit in recent months. While the two are relaxing at his apartment, they are visited by Wolverine and Northstar, and the group is subsequently attacked by a group of unknown assailants and the newest incarnation of the Marauders.

Powers/Skills: A skilled surgeon, Force Field Generation

This is one that blurred the lines a little, but he wanted to be the hero. Shoutout to all my military folks and all my fellow tattoo wearers, keep being heroes… Name: Tattooed Man Aliases: Mark Richards, Ink, Sun-Chained-In-Ink Origin: Liberty Hill Affiliations: Formally with U.S. Marines and Titans, Honorary member of Justice League and the Society Created By: Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver Publisher: DC Comics First Appearance: Green Lanturn vol. 4 #9 (April 2006) Biography/Story Line: Richards was a former U.S. Marine who went missing after his helicopter crashed during the Subsonic Wars in Southern Modora. The bodies of his fellow soldiers were found dead and marked in tribal tattoos. Richards’ body was never found by the US government and he was presumed dead. In truth he was found by Kril Tribe of Modora and was tortured for months until they welcomed him into their group. They then taught him the art of Sin Grafting, the art of burning sins into ones own flesh. With this a man could take the sins of another unto himself and unburden the another of his sins. Somehow this Sin Grafting also gave Richards the ability to bring those Sin Grafts, or tattoos to life. With his new found power he went to Gotham City where he was hired to kill a couple of men he felt were sinners. Richards has a wife named Michelle, a son Leon and a daughter named Laurel. Richards was in Gotham for at least a month and had killed at least four men. Batman feeling that Hal Jordan had dealt with the last tattoo man, Abel Tarrant, called in the Green Lantern for help. The pair tracked Richards to a motel when he has just accepted a contract from Tobias, to kill Harvey Dent. Hal surprises him and fights his tattoos while Batman fights the man. Richards being a former Marine is able to hold his own against the Batman, but he can’t keep the battle going on two fronts and Batman is able to connect with a right hook, knocking him out. Later on, Richards became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. When the members were being exiled to Checkmate’s prison planet, Richards was among the members who fled to the Hall of Justice seeking refuge. when the Earth was being held by the Anti-Life Equation, Richards hid his family from Darkseid’s Justifiers. While doing so, he was able to save the life of Black Lightning, a Justice League member, who was being pursued by the Justifiers. In turn, Black Lighting saved Richards’ family, giving them time to get away; though he himself was caught in the process. Black Lightning left Richards a mission - deliver a message to Green Arrow and carry “The Circuit” with him. As Richards complied, his actions made it possible to break Darkseid’s control over Earth. He was therefore awarded honorary membership in the JLA. Mark returns home to Liberty Hills, but now he considers himself a hero. He breaks up a bank robbery and stops a high profile counterfeit ring. But then a member of the DED Boyz named Diamond is killed, a crooked police Chief named Halstead wants to pin it on Mark. Mark doesn’t want to believe it but two of his tattoos have “broken free”, Kabuki Dan a Ronni Samaria and Altera, a hot demon chick who is in love with Mark. Mark tries to find Diamonds real murderer but the trail points back at Mark’s son Leon. Leon has been pledging the Avenue Reds, the DED Boyz rival gang. When Mark tries to confront him, they are attacked by Slipknot and Cannon, two hired goons working for Mister S. Mark tries to fight them but when they threaten Leon, Mark has to let them go. Mark knowing full well that they would come back after Leon to get at him, turns Leon in for the murder of Diamond. Mark then tracks Cannon to the Potomac River Power Plant, but before he can get any information from him, Cannon is forced to blow himself up by the mysterious Mister S. In the process Cannon blacks out Liberty Hill, and after some soul searching Mark decides, even though the LHPD is looking for him,he has to help. While saving some hookers and crackheads from a fire Mark passes out. He wakes up to see Mister S, who is really Devon, Mark’s thought to be dead little brother from a car crash. Devon tortures Mark and finds out how Mark got his powers, and tells Mark how he got his powers to control minds. He then makes Mark pass out again and this time Mark wakes up in a church. This is where Mark does some more soul searching and realizes he must turn himself in. His tattoo of Kabuki Dan had killed Diamond and he had been in control. While in jail Roy Harper of the Justice League explains that due to the charges and the fact that Mark isn’t giving the JLA any answers he is no longer a Justice League member. Mark later gets out of jail, with the help of a lawyer named Ahmad Strurges, and goes after Devon. He finds Devon has made himself the leader of the DED boyz and the Avenue Reds and was planning on burning Liberty Hill to the ground. Mark with the help of Kabuki Dan and Altera destroy Slipknot’s arm and almost kill Devon. Mark then takes control of the new DED Boyz and Avenue Reds and puts Crim$o in charge. He then is willing to listen to the proposal from Deathstroke. Not long after Slipknot had killed his son, Leon, Mark’s wife blames him for the death of their only son, and Deathstroke is there to tell him she’s right. Deathstroke points out that Slipknot is a loose end that Mark couldn’t tie up and as a result Leon is dead. But Deathstroke promises that he can get Mark, Slipknot’s head on a platter, all he has to do is join Deathstroke’s new team. Deathstroke calls the new team Titans, but it also goes by Villains for Hire. It consist at first of Mark, Cheshire, Osiris, Cinder and Deathstroke. There first mission is to kill the newest Atom, Ryan Choi. Although Mark isn’t the one to give Ryan the death blow his involvement will haunt Richards for a while. Next Richards and Cheshire steal a set of digital schematics from Deftech Industries, where they run into to some of Drago’s crew but Mark is able to make them an escape route. The next mission is more complicated, the team thinks they are trying to assassinate Lex Luthor, but they are really there to flush out the real assassin, Facade. Mark is with the street level team when Cinder blows up Lex’s limo. He is later in the sewer with Osiris when Facade, disguised as Deathstoke attacks. Mark is able to cut Facade in two with a tattoo blade. This doesn’t stop Facade but when the real Deathstroke shows up he is able to use an EMP bomb on Facade shorting it out. Sometime between that mission and the next Mark has a talk with Cinder about how she had that look of a death wish during their last battle, showing that he really cared about the young girl, but they are interrupted by Osiris. The next mission Mark and Cheshire go undercover to Elijah’s drug lab under the Mojave Desert, but when Cheshire learns that Elijah is harvesting young children for his drug “bliss” she blows the cover and Mark has to help her fight their way out. Luckily Deathstoke and the rest of the team, including its newest member Arsenal, show up but so does Elijah’s team, the Dominators. Mark and Dj Molecule go toe to toe but it’s not until Deathstroke helps that Mark can beat the energy blasting enemy. While on a mission with Villains for Hire, to break Allegra Garcia out of Arkham Asylum, Mark gets a face full of Fear Toxin from the Scarecrow. He sees his dead son Leon blaming him for his death. Luckily Batman shows up and gives Mark the antidote. But when its time to leave Mark still turns his back on the hero and goes with Deathstroke. The next day back at the Labyrinth, the team’s base, the Villains for Hire start to turn on Deathstroke, but he has a solution. He has tracked down Slipknot and has him as a prisoner for Mark. This enrages Mark and he storms off to find the locked up Slipknot, but when he gets to the room, Slipknot has escaped. Slade says he did this for Mark, because he’d never forgive himself if he killed a man in cold blood. Slipknot and Mark have a fight that takes them through the Labyrinth and they end up in the Holo-thought room, that Mark has programmed to look like Liberty Hill. Here in front of Holo generated people Mark beats Slipknot to an inch of his life. Then Mark uses his barbwire tattoo to decapitate Slipknot, he then tells Slade he’s done and leaves the team, even though Slade promises he’ll be back. Later while Deathstroke, Cheshire, Cinder and Arsenal are off at Drago’s secert lair, Mark heads back to Liberty Hill where the residents seem afraid of him. Then he runs into Crim$o and learns that his old gang has been keeping the people of Liberty Hill in line through fear and strong arm tactics. Once Mark gets back to Hit Red Gym he plans on telling his crew to stop their tactics but Vixen interrupts. Vixen thinks that Mark would be a perfect fit for her new team she is developing but now that she sees what his crew has done in his name, she isn’t so sure. The two have a clash of ideals. Mark thinks the League has gotten too big and that it doesn’t worry about the little guy, like his crew and the people of Liberty Hill. Vixen believes that the League does but that it takes time to help, and that is why she is forming the new team. Vixen threatens to take Crim$o to jail for what he has done but this escalates things, and Vixen is forced to fight Mark’s crew. Mark then steps in and fights Vixen directly. He feels the system is broken but she feels people like him and his crew are what is breaking it. Vixen attempts to be the better person and tries to walk away, but Mark’s crew tries to stop her. Mark realizing that Vixen might be right stops them and after she leaves Mark follows. He knows he has some unfinished business with Deathstroke and his old team. When Mark returns to the Labyrinth he finds the team gone but runs into Doctor Impossible, who shows him the Methuselah Machine. Then Mark sees Dr. Sivana who explains that machine can make it so a man can become immortal and that it is powered by DJ Molecule. The Doctor then gives Mark a teleportation device so he can help Slade get the final piece. Mark is shocked by all that’s happening but he goes anyway. Mark teleports to Kahndaq, in the middle of fight between the Villains for Hire and the Justice League, lead by Ray Palmer. Slade orders Mark to take down Supergirl, but Mark objects demanding he wouldn’t kill again. Slade convinces him he won’t have to kill and that they’d be even if he did this one last request. Mark agrees and uses his black magic tattoos on Supergirl bringing her within rage of Slade’s kryptonite sword. The battle is quickly halted when Isis, back from the dead, kicks everyone out of her country. Back in the Labyrinth after Slade heals his son Jericho with the Methuselah machine he explains that the machine could bring back the teams dead loved ones. Mark, Cheshire and Osiris what to use the machine, but Cinder and Arsenal believe it to be wrong. The team fights but when Cinder sacrifices herself to destroy the machine everyone has to escape the Labyrinth before it blows up. Outside Mark informs everyone he is going back to Liberty Hills and they should all leave him alone. Powers/Skills: Master Tactician, Expert Combatant, Military Training, Marksman and the ability of Body Art Animation
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This is one that blurred the lines a little, but he wanted to be the hero. Shoutout to all my military folks and all my fellow tattoo wearers, keep being heroes… Name: Tattooed Man Aliases: Mark Richards, Ink, Sun-Chained-In-Ink Origin: Liberty Hill Affiliations: Formally with U.S. Marines and Titans, Honorary member of Justice League and the Society Created By: Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver Publisher: DC Comics First Appearance: Green Lanturn vol. 4 #9 (April 2006) Biography/Story Line: Richards was a former U.S. Marine who went missing after his helicopter crashed during the Subsonic Wars in Southern Modora. The bodies of his fellow soldiers were found dead and marked in tribal tattoos. Richards’ body was never found by the US government and he was presumed dead. In truth he was found by Kril Tribe of Modora and was tortured for months until they welcomed him into their group. They then taught him the art of Sin Grafting, the art of burning sins into ones own flesh. With this a man could take the sins of another unto himself and unburden the another of his sins. Somehow this Sin Grafting also gave Richards the ability to bring those Sin Grafts, or tattoos to life. With his new found power he went to Gotham City where he was hired to kill a couple of men he felt were sinners. Richards has a wife named Michelle, a son Leon and a daughter named Laurel. Richards was in Gotham for at least a month and had killed at least four men. Batman feeling that Hal Jordan had dealt with the last tattoo man, Abel Tarrant, called in the Green Lantern for help. The pair tracked Richards to a motel when he has just accepted a contract from Tobias, to kill Harvey Dent. Hal surprises him and fights his tattoos while Batman fights the man. Richards being a former Marine is able to hold his own against the Batman, but he can’t keep the battle going on two fronts and Batman is able to connect with a right hook, knocking him out. Later on, Richards became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. When the members were being exiled to Checkmate’s prison planet, Richards was among the members who fled to the Hall of Justice seeking refuge. when the Earth was being held by the Anti-Life Equation, Richards hid his family from Darkseid’s Justifiers. While doing so, he was able to save the life of Black Lightning, a Justice League member, who was being pursued by the Justifiers. In turn, Black Lighting saved Richards’ family, giving them time to get away; though he himself was caught in the process. Black Lightning left Richards a mission - deliver a message to Green Arrow and carry “The Circuit” with him. As Richards complied, his actions made it possible to break Darkseid’s control over Earth. He was therefore awarded honorary membership in the JLA. Mark returns home to Liberty Hills, but now he considers himself a hero. He breaks up a bank robbery and stops a high profile counterfeit ring. But then a member of the DED Boyz named Diamond is killed, a crooked police Chief named Halstead wants to pin it on Mark. Mark doesn’t want to believe it but two of his tattoos have “broken free”, Kabuki Dan a Ronni Samaria and Altera, a hot demon chick who is in love with Mark. Mark tries to find Diamonds real murderer but the trail points back at Mark’s son Leon. Leon has been pledging the Avenue Reds, the DED Boyz rival gang. When Mark tries to confront him, they are attacked by Slipknot and Cannon, two hired goons working for Mister S. Mark tries to fight them but when they threaten Leon, Mark has to let them go. Mark knowing full well that they would come back after Leon to get at him, turns Leon in for the murder of Diamond. Mark then tracks Cannon to the Potomac River Power Plant, but before he can get any information from him, Cannon is forced to blow himself up by the mysterious Mister S. In the process Cannon blacks out Liberty Hill, and after some soul searching Mark decides, even though the LHPD is looking for him,he has to help. While saving some hookers and crackheads from a fire Mark passes out. He wakes up to see Mister S, who is really Devon, Mark’s thought to be dead little brother from a car crash. Devon tortures Mark and finds out how Mark got his powers, and tells Mark how he got his powers to control minds. He then makes Mark pass out again and this time Mark wakes up in a church. This is where Mark does some more soul searching and realizes he must turn himself in. His tattoo of Kabuki Dan had killed Diamond and he had been in control. While in jail Roy Harper of the Justice League explains that due to the charges and the fact that Mark isn’t giving the JLA any answers he is no longer a Justice League member. Mark later gets out of jail, with the help of a lawyer named Ahmad Strurges, and goes after Devon. He finds Devon has made himself the leader of the DED boyz and the Avenue Reds and was planning on burning Liberty Hill to the ground. Mark with the help of Kabuki Dan and Altera destroy Slipknot’s arm and almost kill Devon. Mark then takes control of the new DED Boyz and Avenue Reds and puts Crim$o in charge. He then is willing to listen to the proposal from Deathstroke. Not long after Slipknot had killed his son, Leon, Mark’s wife blames him for the death of their only son, and Deathstroke is there to tell him she’s right. Deathstroke points out that Slipknot is a loose end that Mark couldn’t tie up and as a result Leon is dead. But Deathstroke promises that he can get Mark, Slipknot’s head on a platter, all he has to do is join Deathstroke’s new team. Deathstroke calls the new team Titans, but it also goes by Villains for Hire. It consist at first of Mark, Cheshire, Osiris, Cinder and Deathstroke. There first mission is to kill the newest Atom, Ryan Choi. Although Mark isn’t the one to give Ryan the death blow his involvement will haunt Richards for a while. Next Richards and Cheshire steal a set of digital schematics from Deftech Industries, where they run into to some of Drago’s crew but Mark is able to make them an escape route. The next mission is more complicated, the team thinks they are trying to assassinate Lex Luthor, but they are really there to flush out the real assassin, Facade. Mark is with the street level team when Cinder blows up Lex’s limo. He is later in the sewer with Osiris when Facade, disguised as Deathstoke attacks. Mark is able to cut Facade in two with a tattoo blade. This doesn’t stop Facade but when the real Deathstroke shows up he is able to use an EMP bomb on Facade shorting it out. Sometime between that mission and the next Mark has a talk with Cinder about how she had that look of a death wish during their last battle, showing that he really cared about the young girl, but they are interrupted by Osiris. The next mission Mark and Cheshire go undercover to Elijah’s drug lab under the Mojave Desert, but when Cheshire learns that Elijah is harvesting young children for his drug “bliss” she blows the cover and Mark has to help her fight their way out. Luckily Deathstoke and the rest of the team, including its newest member Arsenal, show up but so does Elijah’s team, the Dominators. Mark and Dj Molecule go toe to toe but it’s not until Deathstroke helps that Mark can beat the energy blasting enemy. While on a mission with Villains for Hire, to break Allegra Garcia out of Arkham Asylum, Mark gets a face full of Fear Toxin from the Scarecrow. He sees his dead son Leon blaming him for his death. Luckily Batman shows up and gives Mark the antidote. But when its time to leave Mark still turns his back on the hero and goes with Deathstroke. The next day back at the Labyrinth, the team’s base, the Villains for Hire start to turn on Deathstroke, but he has a solution. He has tracked down Slipknot and has him as a prisoner for Mark. This enrages Mark and he storms off to find the locked up Slipknot, but when he gets to the room, Slipknot has escaped. Slade says he did this for Mark, because he’d never forgive himself if he killed a man in cold blood. Slipknot and Mark have a fight that takes them through the Labyrinth and they end up in the Holo-thought room, that Mark has programmed to look like Liberty Hill. Here in front of Holo generated people Mark beats Slipknot to an inch of his life. Then Mark uses his barbwire tattoo to decapitate Slipknot, he then tells Slade he’s done and leaves the team, even though Slade promises he’ll be back. Later while Deathstroke, Cheshire, Cinder and Arsenal are off at Drago’s secert lair, Mark heads back to Liberty Hill where the residents seem afraid of him. Then he runs into Crim$o and learns that his old gang has been keeping the people of Liberty Hill in line through fear and strong arm tactics. Once Mark gets back to Hit Red Gym he plans on telling his crew to stop their tactics but Vixen interrupts. Vixen thinks that Mark would be a perfect fit for her new team she is developing but now that she sees what his crew has done in his name, she isn’t so sure. The two have a clash of ideals. Mark thinks the League has gotten too big and that it doesn’t worry about the little guy, like his crew and the people of Liberty Hill. Vixen believes that the League does but that it takes time to help, and that is why she is forming the new team. Vixen threatens to take Crim$o to jail for what he has done but this escalates things, and Vixen is forced to fight Mark’s crew. Mark then steps in and fights Vixen directly. He feels the system is broken but she feels people like him and his crew are what is breaking it. Vixen attempts to be the better person and tries to walk away, but Mark’s crew tries to stop her. Mark realizing that Vixen might be right stops them and after she leaves Mark follows. He knows he has some unfinished business with Deathstroke and his old team. When Mark returns to the Labyrinth he finds the team gone but runs into Doctor Impossible, who shows him the Methuselah Machine. Then Mark sees Dr. Sivana who explains that machine can make it so a man can become immortal and that it is powered by DJ Molecule. The Doctor then gives Mark a teleportation device so he can help Slade get the final piece. Mark is shocked by all that’s happening but he goes anyway. Mark teleports to Kahndaq, in the middle of fight between the Villains for Hire and the Justice League, lead by Ray Palmer. Slade orders Mark to take down Supergirl, but Mark objects demanding he wouldn’t kill again. Slade convinces him he won’t have to kill and that they’d be even if he did this one last request. Mark agrees and uses his black magic tattoos on Supergirl bringing her within rage of Slade’s kryptonite sword. The battle is quickly halted when Isis, back from the dead, kicks everyone out of her country. Back in the Labyrinth after Slade heals his son Jericho with the Methuselah machine he explains that the machine could bring back the teams dead loved ones. Mark, Cheshire and Osiris what to use the machine, but Cinder and Arsenal believe it to be wrong. The team fights but when Cinder sacrifices herself to destroy the machine everyone has to escape the Labyrinth before it blows up. Outside Mark informs everyone he is going back to Liberty Hills and they should all leave him alone. Powers/Skills: Master Tactician, Expert Combatant, Military Training, Marksman and the ability of Body Art Animation
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This is one that blurred the lines a little, but he wanted to be the hero. Shoutout to all my military folks and all my fellow tattoo wearers, keep being heroes… Name: Tattooed Man Aliases: Mark Richards, Ink, Sun-Chained-In-Ink Origin: Liberty Hill Affiliations: Formally with U.S. Marines and Titans, Honorary member of Justice League and the Society Created By: Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver Publisher: DC Comics First Appearance: Green Lanturn vol. 4 #9 (April 2006) Biography/Story Line: Richards was a former U.S. Marine who went missing after his helicopter crashed during the Subsonic Wars in Southern Modora. The bodies of his fellow soldiers were found dead and marked in tribal tattoos. Richards’ body was never found by the US government and he was presumed dead. In truth he was found by Kril Tribe of Modora and was tortured for months until they welcomed him into their group. They then taught him the art of Sin Grafting, the art of burning sins into ones own flesh. With this a man could take the sins of another unto himself and unburden the another of his sins. Somehow this Sin Grafting also gave Richards the ability to bring those Sin Grafts, or tattoos to life. With his new found power he went to Gotham City where he was hired to kill a couple of men he felt were sinners. Richards has a wife named Michelle, a son Leon and a daughter named Laurel. Richards was in Gotham for at least a month and had killed at least four men. Batman feeling that Hal Jordan had dealt with the last tattoo man, Abel Tarrant, called in the Green Lantern for help. The pair tracked Richards to a motel when he has just accepted a contract from Tobias, to kill Harvey Dent. Hal surprises him and fights his tattoos while Batman fights the man. Richards being a former Marine is able to hold his own against the Batman, but he can’t keep the battle going on two fronts and Batman is able to connect with a right hook, knocking him out. Later on, Richards became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. When the members were being exiled to Checkmate’s prison planet, Richards was among the members who fled to the Hall of Justice seeking refuge. when the Earth was being held by the Anti-Life Equation, Richards hid his family from Darkseid’s Justifiers. While doing so, he was able to save the life of Black Lightning, a Justice League member, who was being pursued by the Justifiers. In turn, Black Lighting saved Richards’ family, giving them time to get away; though he himself was caught in the process. Black Lightning left Richards a mission - deliver a message to Green Arrow and carry “The Circuit” with him. As Richards complied, his actions made it possible to break Darkseid’s control over Earth. He was therefore awarded honorary membership in the JLA. Mark returns home to Liberty Hills, but now he considers himself a hero. He breaks up a bank robbery and stops a high profile counterfeit ring. But then a member of the DED Boyz named Diamond is killed, a crooked police Chief named Halstead wants to pin it on Mark. Mark doesn’t want to believe it but two of his tattoos have “broken free”, Kabuki Dan a Ronni Samaria and Altera, a hot demon chick who is in love with Mark. Mark tries to find Diamonds real murderer but the trail points back at Mark’s son Leon. Leon has been pledging the Avenue Reds, the DED Boyz rival gang. When Mark tries to confront him, they are attacked by Slipknot and Cannon, two hired goons working for Mister S. Mark tries to fight them but when they threaten Leon, Mark has to let them go. Mark knowing full well that they would come back after Leon to get at him, turns Leon in for the murder of Diamond. Mark then tracks Cannon to the Potomac River Power Plant, but before he can get any information from him, Cannon is forced to blow himself up by the mysterious Mister S. In the process Cannon blacks out Liberty Hill, and after some soul searching Mark decides, even though the LHPD is looking for him,he has to help. While saving some hookers and crackheads from a fire Mark passes out. He wakes up to see Mister S, who is really Devon, Mark’s thought to be dead little brother from a car crash. Devon tortures Mark and finds out how Mark got his powers, and tells Mark how he got his powers to control minds. He then makes Mark pass out again and this time Mark wakes up in a church. This is where Mark does some more soul searching and realizes he must turn himself in. His tattoo of Kabuki Dan had killed Diamond and he had been in control. While in jail Roy Harper of the Justice League explains that due to the charges and the fact that Mark isn’t giving the JLA any answers he is no longer a Justice League member. Mark later gets out of jail, with the help of a lawyer named Ahmad Strurges, and goes after Devon. He finds Devon has made himself the leader of the DED boyz and the Avenue Reds and was planning on burning Liberty Hill to the ground. Mark with the help of Kabuki Dan and Altera destroy Slipknot’s arm and almost kill Devon. Mark then takes control of the new DED Boyz and Avenue Reds and puts Crim$o in charge. He then is willing to listen to the proposal from Deathstroke. Not long after Slipknot had killed his son, Leon, Mark’s wife blames him for the death of their only son, and Deathstroke is there to tell him she’s right. Deathstroke points out that Slipknot is a loose end that Mark couldn’t tie up and as a result Leon is dead. But Deathstroke promises that he can get Mark, Slipknot’s head on a platter, all he has to do is join Deathstroke’s new team. Deathstroke calls the new team Titans, but it also goes by Villains for Hire. It consist at first of Mark, Cheshire, Osiris, Cinder and Deathstroke. There first mission is to kill the newest Atom, Ryan Choi. Although Mark isn’t the one to give Ryan the death blow his involvement will haunt Richards for a while. Next Richards and Cheshire steal a set of digital schematics from Deftech Industries, where they run into to some of Drago’s crew but Mark is able to make them an escape route. The next mission is more complicated, the team thinks they are trying to assassinate Lex Luthor, but they are really there to flush out the real assassin, Facade. Mark is with the street level team when Cinder blows up Lex’s limo. He is later in the sewer with Osiris when Facade, disguised as Deathstoke attacks. Mark is able to cut Facade in two with a tattoo blade. This doesn’t stop Facade but when the real Deathstroke shows up he is able to use an EMP bomb on Facade shorting it out. Sometime between that mission and the next Mark has a talk with Cinder about how she had that look of a death wish during their last battle, showing that he really cared about the young girl, but they are interrupted by Osiris. The next mission Mark and Cheshire go undercover to Elijah’s drug lab under the Mojave Desert, but when Cheshire learns that Elijah is harvesting young children for his drug “bliss” she blows the cover and Mark has to help her fight their way out. Luckily Deathstoke and the rest of the team, including its newest member Arsenal, show up but so does Elijah’s team, the Dominators. Mark and Dj Molecule go toe to toe but it’s not until Deathstroke helps that Mark can beat the energy blasting enemy. While on a mission with Villains for Hire, to break Allegra Garcia out of Arkham Asylum, Mark gets a face full of Fear Toxin from the Scarecrow. He sees his dead son Leon blaming him for his death. Luckily Batman shows up and gives Mark the antidote. But when its time to leave Mark still turns his back on the hero and goes with Deathstroke. The next day back at the Labyrinth, the team’s base, the Villains for Hire start to turn on Deathstroke, but he has a solution. He has tracked down Slipknot and has him as a prisoner for Mark. This enrages Mark and he storms off to find the locked up Slipknot, but when he gets to the room, Slipknot has escaped. Slade says he did this for Mark, because he’d never forgive himself if he killed a man in cold blood. Slipknot and Mark have a fight that takes them through the Labyrinth and they end up in the Holo-thought room, that Mark has programmed to look like Liberty Hill. Here in front of Holo generated people Mark beats Slipknot to an inch of his life. Then Mark uses his barbwire tattoo to decapitate Slipknot, he then tells Slade he’s done and leaves the team, even though Slade promises he’ll be back. Later while Deathstroke, Cheshire, Cinder and Arsenal are off at Drago’s secert lair, Mark heads back to Liberty Hill where the residents seem afraid of him. Then he runs into Crim$o and learns that his old gang has been keeping the people of Liberty Hill in line through fear and strong arm tactics. Once Mark gets back to Hit Red Gym he plans on telling his crew to stop their tactics but Vixen interrupts. Vixen thinks that Mark would be a perfect fit for her new team she is developing but now that she sees what his crew has done in his name, she isn’t so sure. The two have a clash of ideals. Mark thinks the League has gotten too big and that it doesn’t worry about the little guy, like his crew and the people of Liberty Hill. Vixen believes that the League does but that it takes time to help, and that is why she is forming the new team. Vixen threatens to take Crim$o to jail for what he has done but this escalates things, and Vixen is forced to fight Mark’s crew. Mark then steps in and fights Vixen directly. He feels the system is broken but she feels people like him and his crew are what is breaking it. Vixen attempts to be the better person and tries to walk away, but Mark’s crew tries to stop her. Mark realizing that Vixen might be right stops them and after she leaves Mark follows. He knows he has some unfinished business with Deathstroke and his old team. When Mark returns to the Labyrinth he finds the team gone but runs into Doctor Impossible, who shows him the Methuselah Machine. Then Mark sees Dr. Sivana who explains that machine can make it so a man can become immortal and that it is powered by DJ Molecule. The Doctor then gives Mark a teleportation device so he can help Slade get the final piece. Mark is shocked by all that’s happening but he goes anyway. Mark teleports to Kahndaq, in the middle of fight between the Villains for Hire and the Justice League, lead by Ray Palmer. Slade orders Mark to take down Supergirl, but Mark objects demanding he wouldn’t kill again. Slade convinces him he won’t have to kill and that they’d be even if he did this one last request. Mark agrees and uses his black magic tattoos on Supergirl bringing her within rage of Slade’s kryptonite sword. The battle is quickly halted when Isis, back from the dead, kicks everyone out of her country. Back in the Labyrinth after Slade heals his son Jericho with the Methuselah machine he explains that the machine could bring back the teams dead loved ones. Mark, Cheshire and Osiris what to use the machine, but Cinder and Arsenal believe it to be wrong. The team fights but when Cinder sacrifices herself to destroy the machine everyone has to escape the Labyrinth before it blows up. Outside Mark informs everyone he is going back to Liberty Hills and they should all leave him alone. Powers/Skills: Master Tactician, Expert Combatant, Military Training, Marksman and the ability of Body Art Animation
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This is one that blurred the lines a little, but he wanted to be the hero. Shoutout to all my military folks and all my fellow tattoo wearers, keep being heroes… Name: Tattooed Man Aliases: Mark Richards, Ink, Sun-Chained-In-Ink Origin: Liberty Hill Affiliations: Formally with U.S. Marines and Titans, Honorary member of Justice League and the Society Created By: Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver Publisher: DC Comics First Appearance: Green Lanturn vol. 4 #9 (April 2006) Biography/Story Line: Richards was a former U.S. Marine who went missing after his helicopter crashed during the Subsonic Wars in Southern Modora. The bodies of his fellow soldiers were found dead and marked in tribal tattoos. Richards’ body was never found by the US government and he was presumed dead. In truth he was found by Kril Tribe of Modora and was tortured for months until they welcomed him into their group. They then taught him the art of Sin Grafting, the art of burning sins into ones own flesh. With this a man could take the sins of another unto himself and unburden the another of his sins. Somehow this Sin Grafting also gave Richards the ability to bring those Sin Grafts, or tattoos to life. With his new found power he went to Gotham City where he was hired to kill a couple of men he felt were sinners. Richards has a wife named Michelle, a son Leon and a daughter named Laurel. Richards was in Gotham for at least a month and had killed at least four men. Batman feeling that Hal Jordan had dealt with the last tattoo man, Abel Tarrant, called in the Green Lantern for help. The pair tracked Richards to a motel when he has just accepted a contract from Tobias, to kill Harvey Dent. Hal surprises him and fights his tattoos while Batman fights the man. Richards being a former Marine is able to hold his own against the Batman, but he can’t keep the battle going on two fronts and Batman is able to connect with a right hook, knocking him out. Later on, Richards became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. When the members were being exiled to Checkmate’s prison planet, Richards was among the members who fled to the Hall of Justice seeking refuge. when the Earth was being held by the Anti-Life Equation, Richards hid his family from Darkseid’s Justifiers. While doing so, he was able to save the life of Black Lightning, a Justice League member, who was being pursued by the Justifiers. In turn, Black Lighting saved Richards’ family, giving them time to get away; though he himself was caught in the process. Black Lightning left Richards a mission - deliver a message to Green Arrow and carry “The Circuit” with him. As Richards complied, his actions made it possible to break Darkseid’s control over Earth. He was therefore awarded honorary membership in the JLA. Mark returns home to Liberty Hills, but now he considers himself a hero. He breaks up a bank robbery and stops a high profile counterfeit ring. But then a member of the DED Boyz named Diamond is killed, a crooked police Chief named Halstead wants to pin it on Mark. Mark doesn’t want to believe it but two of his tattoos have “broken free”, Kabuki Dan a Ronni Samaria and Altera, a hot demon chick who is in love with Mark. Mark tries to find Diamonds real murderer but the trail points back at Mark’s son Leon. Leon has been pledging the Avenue Reds, the DED Boyz rival gang. When Mark tries to confront him, they are attacked by Slipknot and Cannon, two hired goons working for Mister S. Mark tries to fight them but when they threaten Leon, Mark has to let them go. Mark knowing full well that they would come back after Leon to get at him, turns Leon in for the murder of Diamond. Mark then tracks Cannon to the Potomac River Power Plant, but before he can get any information from him, Cannon is forced to blow himself up by the mysterious Mister S. In the process Cannon blacks out Liberty Hill, and after some soul searching Mark decides, even though the LHPD is looking for him,he has to help. While saving some hookers and crackheads from a fire Mark passes out. He wakes up to see Mister S, who is really Devon, Mark’s thought to be dead little brother from a car crash. Devon tortures Mark and finds out how Mark got his powers, and tells Mark how he got his powers to control minds. He then makes Mark pass out again and this time Mark wakes up in a church. This is where Mark does some more soul searching and realizes he must turn himself in. His tattoo of Kabuki Dan had killed Diamond and he had been in control. While in jail Roy Harper of the Justice League explains that due to the charges and the fact that Mark isn’t giving the JLA any answers he is no longer a Justice League member. Mark later gets out of jail, with the help of a lawyer named Ahmad Strurges, and goes after Devon. He finds Devon has made himself the leader of the DED boyz and the Avenue Reds and was planning on burning Liberty Hill to the ground. Mark with the help of Kabuki Dan and Altera destroy Slipknot’s arm and almost kill Devon. Mark then takes control of the new DED Boyz and Avenue Reds and puts Crim$o in charge. He then is willing to listen to the proposal from Deathstroke. Not long after Slipknot had killed his son, Leon, Mark’s wife blames him for the death of their only son, and Deathstroke is there to tell him she’s right. Deathstroke points out that Slipknot is a loose end that Mark couldn’t tie up and as a result Leon is dead. But Deathstroke promises that he can get Mark, Slipknot’s head on a platter, all he has to do is join Deathstroke’s new team. Deathstroke calls the new team Titans, but it also goes by Villains for Hire. It consist at first of Mark, Cheshire, Osiris, Cinder and Deathstroke. There first mission is to kill the newest Atom, Ryan Choi. Although Mark isn’t the one to give Ryan the death blow his involvement will haunt Richards for a while. Next Richards and Cheshire steal a set of digital schematics from Deftech Industries, where they run into to some of Drago’s crew but Mark is able to make them an escape route. The next mission is more complicated, the team thinks they are trying to assassinate Lex Luthor, but they are really there to flush out the real assassin, Facade. Mark is with the street level team when Cinder blows up Lex’s limo. He is later in the sewer with Osiris when Facade, disguised as Deathstoke attacks. Mark is able to cut Facade in two with a tattoo blade. This doesn’t stop Facade but when the real Deathstroke shows up he is able to use an EMP bomb on Facade shorting it out. Sometime between that mission and the next Mark has a talk with Cinder about how she had that look of a death wish during their last battle, showing that he really cared about the young girl, but they are interrupted by Osiris. The next mission Mark and Cheshire go undercover to Elijah’s drug lab under the Mojave Desert, but when Cheshire learns that Elijah is harvesting young children for his drug “bliss” she blows the cover and Mark has to help her fight their way out. Luckily Deathstoke and the rest of the team, including its newest member Arsenal, show up but so does Elijah’s team, the Dominators. Mark and Dj Molecule go toe to toe but it’s not until Deathstroke helps that Mark can beat the energy blasting enemy. While on a mission with Villains for Hire, to break Allegra Garcia out of Arkham Asylum, Mark gets a face full of Fear Toxin from the Scarecrow. He sees his dead son Leon blaming him for his death. Luckily Batman shows up and gives Mark the antidote. But when its time to leave Mark still turns his back on the hero and goes with Deathstroke. The next day back at the Labyrinth, the team’s base, the Villains for Hire start to turn on Deathstroke, but he has a solution. He has tracked down Slipknot and has him as a prisoner for Mark. This enrages Mark and he storms off to find the locked up Slipknot, but when he gets to the room, Slipknot has escaped. Slade says he did this for Mark, because he’d never forgive himself if he killed a man in cold blood. Slipknot and Mark have a fight that takes them through the Labyrinth and they end up in the Holo-thought room, that Mark has programmed to look like Liberty Hill. Here in front of Holo generated people Mark beats Slipknot to an inch of his life. Then Mark uses his barbwire tattoo to decapitate Slipknot, he then tells Slade he’s done and leaves the team, even though Slade promises he’ll be back. Later while Deathstroke, Cheshire, Cinder and Arsenal are off at Drago’s secert lair, Mark heads back to Liberty Hill where the residents seem afraid of him. Then he runs into Crim$o and learns that his old gang has been keeping the people of Liberty Hill in line through fear and strong arm tactics. Once Mark gets back to Hit Red Gym he plans on telling his crew to stop their tactics but Vixen interrupts. Vixen thinks that Mark would be a perfect fit for her new team she is developing but now that she sees what his crew has done in his name, she isn’t so sure. The two have a clash of ideals. Mark thinks the League has gotten too big and that it doesn’t worry about the little guy, like his crew and the people of Liberty Hill. Vixen believes that the League does but that it takes time to help, and that is why she is forming the new team. Vixen threatens to take Crim$o to jail for what he has done but this escalates things, and Vixen is forced to fight Mark’s crew. Mark then steps in and fights Vixen directly. He feels the system is broken but she feels people like him and his crew are what is breaking it. Vixen attempts to be the better person and tries to walk away, but Mark’s crew tries to stop her. Mark realizing that Vixen might be right stops them and after she leaves Mark follows. He knows he has some unfinished business with Deathstroke and his old team. When Mark returns to the Labyrinth he finds the team gone but runs into Doctor Impossible, who shows him the Methuselah Machine. Then Mark sees Dr. Sivana who explains that machine can make it so a man can become immortal and that it is powered by DJ Molecule. The Doctor then gives Mark a teleportation device so he can help Slade get the final piece. Mark is shocked by all that’s happening but he goes anyway. Mark teleports to Kahndaq, in the middle of fight between the Villains for Hire and the Justice League, lead by Ray Palmer. Slade orders Mark to take down Supergirl, but Mark objects demanding he wouldn’t kill again. Slade convinces him he won’t have to kill and that they’d be even if he did this one last request. Mark agrees and uses his black magic tattoos on Supergirl bringing her within rage of Slade’s kryptonite sword. The battle is quickly halted when Isis, back from the dead, kicks everyone out of her country. Back in the Labyrinth after Slade heals his son Jericho with the Methuselah machine he explains that the machine could bring back the teams dead loved ones. Mark, Cheshire and Osiris what to use the machine, but Cinder and Arsenal believe it to be wrong. The team fights but when Cinder sacrifices herself to destroy the machine everyone has to escape the Labyrinth before it blows up. Outside Mark informs everyone he is going back to Liberty Hills and they should all leave him alone. Powers/Skills: Master Tactician, Expert Combatant, Military Training, Marksman and the ability of Body Art Animation
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This is one that blurred the lines a little, but he wanted to be the hero.

Shoutout to all my military folks and all my fellow tattoo wearers, keep being heroes…

Name: Tattooed Man

Aliases: Mark Richards, Ink, Sun-Chained-In-Ink

Origin: Liberty Hill

Affiliations: Formally with U.S. Marines and Titans, Honorary member of Justice League and the Society

Created By: Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver

Publisher: DC Comics

First Appearance: Green Lanturn vol. 4 #9 (April 2006)

Biography/Story Line: Richards was a former U.S. Marine who went missing after his helicopter crashed during the Subsonic Wars in Southern Modora. The bodies of his fellow soldiers were found dead and marked in tribal tattoos. Richards’ body was never found by the US government and he was presumed dead. In truth he was found by Kril Tribe of Modora and was tortured for months until they welcomed him into their group. They then taught him the art of Sin Grafting, the art of burning sins into ones own flesh. With this a man could take the sins of another unto himself and unburden the another of his sins. Somehow this Sin Grafting also gave Richards the ability to bring those Sin Grafts, or tattoos to life. With his new found power he went to Gotham City where he was hired to kill a couple of men he felt were sinners.

Richards has a wife named Michelle, a son Leon and a daughter named Laurel.

Richards was in Gotham for at least a month and had killed at least four men. Batman feeling that Hal Jordan had dealt with the last tattoo man, Abel Tarrant, called in the Green Lantern for help.

The pair tracked Richards to a motel when he has just accepted a contract from Tobias, to kill Harvey Dent. Hal surprises him and fights his tattoos while Batman fights the man. Richards being a former Marine is able to hold his own against the Batman, but he can’t keep the battle going on two fronts and Batman is able to connect with a right hook, knocking him out.

Later on, Richards became a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains. When the members were being exiled to Checkmate’s prison planet, Richards was among the members who fled to the Hall of Justice seeking refuge.

when the Earth was being held by the Anti-Life Equation, Richards hid his family from Darkseid’s Justifiers. While doing so, he was able to save the life of Black Lightning, a Justice League member, who was being pursued by the Justifiers. In turn, Black Lighting saved Richards’ family, giving them time to get away; though he himself was caught in the process. Black Lightning left Richards a mission - deliver a message to Green Arrow and carry “The Circuit” with him. As Richards complied, his actions made it possible to break Darkseid’s control over Earth. He was therefore awarded honorary membership in the JLA.

Mark returns home to Liberty Hills, but now he considers himself a hero. He breaks up a bank robbery and stops a high profile counterfeit ring. But then a member of the DED Boyz named Diamond is killed, a crooked police Chief named Halstead wants to pin it on Mark. Mark doesn’t want to believe it but two of his tattoos have “broken free”, Kabuki Dan a Ronni Samaria and Altera, a hot demon chick who is in love with Mark.

Mark tries to find Diamonds real murderer but the trail points back at Mark’s son Leon. Leon has been pledging the Avenue Reds, the DED Boyz rival gang. When Mark tries to confront him, they are attacked by Slipknot and Cannon, two hired goons working for Mister S. Mark tries to fight them but when they threaten Leon, Mark has to let them go. Mark knowing full well that they would come back after Leon to get at him, turns Leon in for the murder of Diamond.

Mark then tracks Cannon to the Potomac River Power Plant, but before he can get any information from him, Cannon is forced to blow himself up by the mysterious Mister S. In the process Cannon blacks out Liberty Hill, and after some soul searching Mark decides, even though the LHPD is looking for him,he has to help. While saving some hookers and crackheads from a fire Mark passes out. He wakes up to see Mister S, who is really Devon, Mark’s thought to be dead little brother from a car crash.

Devon tortures Mark and finds out how Mark got his powers, and tells Mark how he got his powers to control minds. He then makes Mark pass out again and this time Mark wakes up in a church. This is where Mark does some more soul searching and realizes he must turn himself in. His tattoo of Kabuki Dan had killed Diamond and he had been in control.

While in jail Roy Harper of the Justice League explains that due to the charges and the fact that Mark isn’t giving the JLA any answers he is no longer a Justice League member. Mark later gets out of jail, with the help of a lawyer named Ahmad Strurges, and goes after Devon. He finds Devon has made himself the leader of the DED boyz and the Avenue Reds and was planning on burning Liberty Hill to the ground.

Mark with the help of Kabuki Dan and Altera destroy Slipknot’s arm and almost kill Devon. Mark then takes control of the new DED Boyz and Avenue Reds and puts Crim$o in charge. He then is willing to listen to the proposal from Deathstroke.

Not long after Slipknot had killed his son, Leon, Mark’s wife blames him for the death of their only son, and Deathstroke is there to tell him she’s right. Deathstroke points out that Slipknot is a loose end that Mark couldn’t tie up and as a result Leon is dead. But Deathstroke promises that he can get Mark, Slipknot’s head on a platter, all he has to do is join Deathstroke’s new team. Deathstroke calls the new team Titans, but it also goes by Villains for Hire. It consist at first of Mark, Cheshire, Osiris, Cinder and Deathstroke.

There first mission is to kill the newest Atom, Ryan Choi. Although Mark isn’t the one to give Ryan the death blow his involvement will haunt Richards for a while. Next Richards and Cheshire steal a set of digital schematics from Deftech Industries, where they run into to some of Drago’s crew but Mark is able to make them an escape route.

The next mission is more complicated, the team thinks they are trying to assassinate Lex Luthor, but they are really there to flush out the real assassin, Facade. Mark is with the street level team when Cinder blows up Lex’s limo. He is later in the sewer with Osiris when Facade, disguised as Deathstoke attacks. Mark is able to cut Facade in two with a tattoo blade. This doesn’t stop Facade but when the real Deathstroke shows up he is able to use an EMP bomb on Facade shorting it out.

Sometime between that mission and the next Mark has a talk with Cinder about how she had that look of a death wish during their last battle, showing that he really cared about the young girl, but they are interrupted by Osiris.

The next mission Mark and Cheshire go undercover to Elijah’s drug lab under the Mojave Desert, but when Cheshire learns that Elijah is harvesting young children for his drug “bliss” she blows the cover and Mark has to help her fight their way out. Luckily Deathstoke and the rest of the team, including its newest member Arsenal, show up but so does Elijah’s team, the Dominators. Mark and Dj Molecule go toe to toe but it’s not until Deathstroke helps that Mark can beat the energy blasting enemy.

While on a mission with Villains for Hire, to break Allegra Garcia out of Arkham Asylum, Mark gets a face full of Fear Toxin from the Scarecrow. He sees his dead son Leon blaming him for his death. Luckily Batman shows up and gives Mark the antidote. But when its time to leave Mark still turns his back on the hero and goes with Deathstroke.

The next day back at the Labyrinth, the team’s base, the Villains for Hire start to turn on Deathstroke, but he has a solution. He has tracked down Slipknot and has him as a prisoner for Mark. This enrages Mark and he storms off to find the locked up Slipknot, but when he gets to the room, Slipknot has escaped. Slade says he did this for Mark, because he’d never forgive himself if he killed a man in cold blood.

Slipknot and Mark have a fight that takes them through the Labyrinth and they end up in the Holo-thought room, that Mark has programmed to look like Liberty Hill. Here in front of Holo generated people Mark beats Slipknot to an inch of his life. Then Mark uses his barbwire tattoo to decapitate Slipknot, he then tells Slade he’s done and leaves the team, even though Slade promises he’ll be back.

Later while Deathstroke, Cheshire, Cinder and Arsenal are off at Drago’s secert lair, Mark heads back to Liberty Hill where the residents seem afraid of him. Then he runs into Crim$o and learns that his old gang has been keeping the people of Liberty Hill in line through fear and strong arm tactics. Once Mark gets back to Hit Red Gym he plans on telling his crew to stop their tactics but Vixen interrupts.

Vixen thinks that Mark would be a perfect fit for her new team she is developing but now that she sees what his crew has done in his name, she isn’t so sure. The two have a clash of ideals. Mark thinks the League has gotten too big and that it doesn’t worry about the little guy, like his crew and the people of Liberty Hill. Vixen believes that the League does but that it takes time to help, and that is why she is forming the new team.

Vixen threatens to take Crim$o to jail for what he has done but this escalates things, and Vixen is forced to fight Mark’s crew. Mark then steps in and fights Vixen directly. He feels the system is broken but she feels people like him and his crew are what is breaking it. Vixen attempts to be the better person and tries to walk away, but Mark’s crew tries to stop her. Mark realizing that Vixen might be right stops them and after she leaves Mark follows. He knows he has some unfinished business with Deathstroke and his old team.

When Mark returns to the Labyrinth he finds the team gone but runs into Doctor Impossible, who shows him the Methuselah Machine. Then Mark sees Dr. Sivana who explains that machine can make it so a man can become immortal and that it is powered by DJ Molecule. The Doctor then gives Mark a teleportation device so he can help Slade get the final piece. Mark is shocked by all that’s happening but he goes anyway.

Mark teleports to Kahndaq, in the middle of fight between the Villains for Hire and the Justice League, lead by Ray Palmer. Slade orders Mark to take down Supergirl, but Mark objects demanding he wouldn’t kill again. Slade convinces him he won’t have to kill and that they’d be even if he did this one last request. Mark agrees and uses his black magic tattoos on Supergirl bringing her within rage of Slade’s kryptonite sword.

The battle is quickly halted when Isis, back from the dead, kicks everyone out of her country. Back in the Labyrinth after Slade heals his son Jericho with the Methuselah machine he explains that the machine could bring back the teams dead loved ones.

Mark, Cheshire and Osiris what to use the machine, but Cinder and Arsenal believe it to be wrong. The team fights but when Cinder sacrifices herself to destroy the machine everyone has to escape the Labyrinth before it blows up. Outside Mark informs everyone he is going back to Liberty Hills and they should all leave him alone.

Powers/Skills: Master Tactician, Expert Combatant, Military Training, Marksman and the ability of Body Art Animation

No such thing as handicapped Name: Wildstreak Aliases: Tamika Bowden Origin: New York Affiliations: The Fantastic Four and Thunderstrike Created By: Tom DeFalco and Herb Trimpe Publisher: Marvel Comics First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual #26 (June 1993) Biography/Story Line: Tamika Bowden, a potential Olympic medal winner, was the victim of an unfortunate accident that confined her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Her father, a mechanical engineer who graduated with top honors from MIT, created an exo-skeleton for her so that she could walk gain. His creation worked so well that Tamika became stronger, faster, and more agile than she ever was. With her new abilities she wanted to go out in the world and make a difference, so she donned a costume and became the vigilante known as Wildstreak.  The main target of her vigilantism was a New York mob boss named Big John Buscelli. He was the man responsible for Tamika’s accident because of her father’s refusal to work for him, and now he was going to pay. Tamika felt that she had a duty to take him down in order to prevent any other innocent people from being maimed by him, and tracked Big John all the way to Florida. Buscelli already had other problems with a business associate, Emanuel King, scamming from one of his Florida operations, but King had recently acquired an ally in the alien symbiotic entity called Dreadface which he planned to use against Buscelli. Tamika arrived at King’s hotel, a front for the Buscelli money laundering operation, and began searching for evidence against him when she encountered a piece of the symbiote. Wildstreak’s initial contact with the symbiotic life form would have been disastrous if not for a timely intervention by one of the hotels other guests, the Thing (Benjamin Grimm). Ben almost immediately recognized the entity from their first meeting and saved Wildstreak’s life by running enough electric current into the portion of the alien to dissolve it into nothingness. In the meantime, Dreadface was planning to take over the world, and would eliminate anyone in his way including Emanuel King who turned on his partner. King only wanted to get out from under Buscelli’s rule and had no knowledge of the alien’s true goal, but Dreadface assaulted King and left him for dead. Wildstreak and the Thing found him, but it was too late to save him. Ben left to confront the alien while Wildstreak stayed with the dying man. King convinced Wildstreak to help him over to a statue on the hotel grounds, and once there, he activated the hotel’s self-destruct sequence. Knowing she couldn’t stop the inevitable explosion, Wildstreak raced to warn the Thing, and the two were saved because of the Thing’s teenage nephew from the future, Psi-Lord, as he shielded them from the blast with a psychic force field. The hotel was completely obliterated and Dreadface was seemingly destroyed. Back in New York, Big John Buscelli was dealing in illegal gun running, and Tamika was ready to put a wrench in the works. During a raid on one of his warehouses, Wildstreak found a large stash of guns and a former junior high school classmate by the name of Carl Washingtonwho was working for Buscelli. Washington had been selling guns to kids at the school that Kevin Masterson attended, and it almost led to Kevin being shot accidentally. Kevin’s father Eric, better known as Thunderstrike, began to investigate the situation as did the vigilantes Bloodaxe and Sangre. Wildstreak and Thunderstrike stumbled across one another and were at odds for a brief moment until a gunshot snapped them back to reality and reminded them who the real enemy was. Thunderstrike held off a group of armed thugs while Wildstreak tried to reason with Carl. Carl recognized Tamika and was going to betray her by exposing her secret identity to the people he worked for in order to get in their good graces. As the battery pack that allows her exoskeleton to function ran out of juice, Tamika sat crippled in the street powerless to stop her former classmate as he ran away. Carl Washington never got a chance to say anything to anyone for after he left Wildstreak lying helpless on the sidewalk, he was shot dead by Sangre. Refusing to comply with the Superhuman Registration Act, Wildstreak was recently hunted down and assaulted by Iron Man and Spider-Man. While in the custody of Mister Fantastic, of the Fantastic Four, Wildstreak was accidentally freed from her containment unit as she was being transported to the Negative Zone for imprisonment. She escaped both Reed Richards and the armed guards that were attempting to recapture her with the help of the Invisible Woman. Where Wildstreak will turn up next has yet to be revealed. Powers/Skills: exoskeleton and gauntlets that give advanced speed, strength and agility
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No such thing as handicapped Name: Wildstreak Aliases: Tamika Bowden Origin: New York Affiliations: The Fantastic Four and Thunderstrike Created By: Tom DeFalco and Herb Trimpe Publisher: Marvel Comics First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual #26 (June 1993) Biography/Story Line: Tamika Bowden, a potential Olympic medal winner, was the victim of an unfortunate accident that confined her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Her father, a mechanical engineer who graduated with top honors from MIT, created an exo-skeleton for her so that she could walk gain. His creation worked so well that Tamika became stronger, faster, and more agile than she ever was. With her new abilities she wanted to go out in the world and make a difference, so she donned a costume and became the vigilante known as Wildstreak.  The main target of her vigilantism was a New York mob boss named Big John Buscelli. He was the man responsible for Tamika’s accident because of her father’s refusal to work for him, and now he was going to pay. Tamika felt that she had a duty to take him down in order to prevent any other innocent people from being maimed by him, and tracked Big John all the way to Florida. Buscelli already had other problems with a business associate, Emanuel King, scamming from one of his Florida operations, but King had recently acquired an ally in the alien symbiotic entity called Dreadface which he planned to use against Buscelli. Tamika arrived at King’s hotel, a front for the Buscelli money laundering operation, and began searching for evidence against him when she encountered a piece of the symbiote. Wildstreak’s initial contact with the symbiotic life form would have been disastrous if not for a timely intervention by one of the hotels other guests, the Thing (Benjamin Grimm). Ben almost immediately recognized the entity from their first meeting and saved Wildstreak’s life by running enough electric current into the portion of the alien to dissolve it into nothingness. In the meantime, Dreadface was planning to take over the world, and would eliminate anyone in his way including Emanuel King who turned on his partner. King only wanted to get out from under Buscelli’s rule and had no knowledge of the alien’s true goal, but Dreadface assaulted King and left him for dead. Wildstreak and the Thing found him, but it was too late to save him. Ben left to confront the alien while Wildstreak stayed with the dying man. King convinced Wildstreak to help him over to a statue on the hotel grounds, and once there, he activated the hotel’s self-destruct sequence. Knowing she couldn’t stop the inevitable explosion, Wildstreak raced to warn the Thing, and the two were saved because of the Thing’s teenage nephew from the future, Psi-Lord, as he shielded them from the blast with a psychic force field. The hotel was completely obliterated and Dreadface was seemingly destroyed. Back in New York, Big John Buscelli was dealing in illegal gun running, and Tamika was ready to put a wrench in the works. During a raid on one of his warehouses, Wildstreak found a large stash of guns and a former junior high school classmate by the name of Carl Washingtonwho was working for Buscelli. Washington had been selling guns to kids at the school that Kevin Masterson attended, and it almost led to Kevin being shot accidentally. Kevin’s father Eric, better known as Thunderstrike, began to investigate the situation as did the vigilantes Bloodaxe and Sangre. Wildstreak and Thunderstrike stumbled across one another and were at odds for a brief moment until a gunshot snapped them back to reality and reminded them who the real enemy was. Thunderstrike held off a group of armed thugs while Wildstreak tried to reason with Carl. Carl recognized Tamika and was going to betray her by exposing her secret identity to the people he worked for in order to get in their good graces. As the battery pack that allows her exoskeleton to function ran out of juice, Tamika sat crippled in the street powerless to stop her former classmate as he ran away. Carl Washington never got a chance to say anything to anyone for after he left Wildstreak lying helpless on the sidewalk, he was shot dead by Sangre. Refusing to comply with the Superhuman Registration Act, Wildstreak was recently hunted down and assaulted by Iron Man and Spider-Man. While in the custody of Mister Fantastic, of the Fantastic Four, Wildstreak was accidentally freed from her containment unit as she was being transported to the Negative Zone for imprisonment. She escaped both Reed Richards and the armed guards that were attempting to recapture her with the help of the Invisible Woman. Where Wildstreak will turn up next has yet to be revealed. Powers/Skills: exoskeleton and gauntlets that give advanced speed, strength and agility
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No such thing as handicapped Name: Wildstreak Aliases: Tamika Bowden Origin: New York Affiliations: The Fantastic Four and Thunderstrike Created By: Tom DeFalco and Herb Trimpe Publisher: Marvel Comics First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual #26 (June 1993) Biography/Story Line: Tamika Bowden, a potential Olympic medal winner, was the victim of an unfortunate accident that confined her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Her father, a mechanical engineer who graduated with top honors from MIT, created an exo-skeleton for her so that she could walk gain. His creation worked so well that Tamika became stronger, faster, and more agile than she ever was. With her new abilities she wanted to go out in the world and make a difference, so she donned a costume and became the vigilante known as Wildstreak.  The main target of her vigilantism was a New York mob boss named Big John Buscelli. He was the man responsible for Tamika’s accident because of her father’s refusal to work for him, and now he was going to pay. Tamika felt that she had a duty to take him down in order to prevent any other innocent people from being maimed by him, and tracked Big John all the way to Florida. Buscelli already had other problems with a business associate, Emanuel King, scamming from one of his Florida operations, but King had recently acquired an ally in the alien symbiotic entity called Dreadface which he planned to use against Buscelli. Tamika arrived at King’s hotel, a front for the Buscelli money laundering operation, and began searching for evidence against him when she encountered a piece of the symbiote. Wildstreak’s initial contact with the symbiotic life form would have been disastrous if not for a timely intervention by one of the hotels other guests, the Thing (Benjamin Grimm). Ben almost immediately recognized the entity from their first meeting and saved Wildstreak’s life by running enough electric current into the portion of the alien to dissolve it into nothingness. In the meantime, Dreadface was planning to take over the world, and would eliminate anyone in his way including Emanuel King who turned on his partner. King only wanted to get out from under Buscelli’s rule and had no knowledge of the alien’s true goal, but Dreadface assaulted King and left him for dead. Wildstreak and the Thing found him, but it was too late to save him. Ben left to confront the alien while Wildstreak stayed with the dying man. King convinced Wildstreak to help him over to a statue on the hotel grounds, and once there, he activated the hotel’s self-destruct sequence. Knowing she couldn’t stop the inevitable explosion, Wildstreak raced to warn the Thing, and the two were saved because of the Thing’s teenage nephew from the future, Psi-Lord, as he shielded them from the blast with a psychic force field. The hotel was completely obliterated and Dreadface was seemingly destroyed. Back in New York, Big John Buscelli was dealing in illegal gun running, and Tamika was ready to put a wrench in the works. During a raid on one of his warehouses, Wildstreak found a large stash of guns and a former junior high school classmate by the name of Carl Washingtonwho was working for Buscelli. Washington had been selling guns to kids at the school that Kevin Masterson attended, and it almost led to Kevin being shot accidentally. Kevin’s father Eric, better known as Thunderstrike, began to investigate the situation as did the vigilantes Bloodaxe and Sangre. Wildstreak and Thunderstrike stumbled across one another and were at odds for a brief moment until a gunshot snapped them back to reality and reminded them who the real enemy was. Thunderstrike held off a group of armed thugs while Wildstreak tried to reason with Carl. Carl recognized Tamika and was going to betray her by exposing her secret identity to the people he worked for in order to get in their good graces. As the battery pack that allows her exoskeleton to function ran out of juice, Tamika sat crippled in the street powerless to stop her former classmate as he ran away. Carl Washington never got a chance to say anything to anyone for after he left Wildstreak lying helpless on the sidewalk, he was shot dead by Sangre. Refusing to comply with the Superhuman Registration Act, Wildstreak was recently hunted down and assaulted by Iron Man and Spider-Man. While in the custody of Mister Fantastic, of the Fantastic Four, Wildstreak was accidentally freed from her containment unit as she was being transported to the Negative Zone for imprisonment. She escaped both Reed Richards and the armed guards that were attempting to recapture her with the help of the Invisible Woman. Where Wildstreak will turn up next has yet to be revealed. Powers/Skills: exoskeleton and gauntlets that give advanced speed, strength and agility
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No such thing as handicapped

Name: Wildstreak

Aliases: Tamika Bowden

Origin: New York

Affiliations: The Fantastic Four and Thunderstrike

Created By: Tom DeFalco and Herb Trimpe

Publisher: Marvel Comics

First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual #26 (June 1993)

Biography/Story Line: Tamika Bowden, a potential Olympic medal winner, was the victim of an unfortunate accident that confined her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Her father, a mechanical engineer who graduated with top honors from MIT, created an exo-skeleton for her so that she could walk gain. His creation worked so well that Tamika became stronger, faster, and more agile than she ever was. With her new abilities she wanted to go out in the world and make a difference, so she donned a costume and became the vigilante known as Wildstreak. 

The main target of her vigilantism was a New York mob boss named Big John Buscelli. He was the man responsible for Tamika’s accident because of her father’s refusal to work for him, and now he was going to pay. Tamika felt that she had a duty to take him down in order to prevent any other innocent people from being maimed by him, and tracked Big John all the way to Florida. Buscelli already had other problems with a business associate, Emanuel King, scamming from one of his Florida operations, but King had recently acquired an ally in the alien symbiotic entity called Dreadface which he planned to use against Buscelli. Tamika arrived at King’s hotel, a front for the Buscelli money laundering operation, and began searching for evidence against him when she encountered a piece of the symbiote. Wildstreak’s initial contact with the symbiotic life form would have been disastrous if not for a timely intervention by one of the hotels other guests, the Thing (Benjamin Grimm). Ben almost immediately recognized the entity from their first meeting and saved Wildstreak’s life by running enough electric current into the portion of the alien to dissolve it into nothingness.

In the meantime, Dreadface was planning to take over the world, and would eliminate anyone in his way including Emanuel King who turned on his partner. King only wanted to get out from under Buscelli’s rule and had no knowledge of the alien’s true goal, but Dreadface assaulted King and left him for dead. Wildstreak and the Thing found him, but it was too late to save him. Ben left to confront the alien while Wildstreak stayed with the dying man. King convinced Wildstreak to help him over to a statue on the hotel grounds, and once there, he activated the hotel’s self-destruct sequence. Knowing she couldn’t stop the inevitable explosion, Wildstreak raced to warn the Thing, and the two were saved because of the Thing’s teenage nephew from the future, Psi-Lord, as he shielded them from the blast with a psychic force field. The hotel was completely obliterated and Dreadface was seemingly destroyed.

Back in New York, Big John Buscelli was dealing in illegal gun running, and Tamika was ready to put a wrench in the works. During a raid on one of his warehouses, Wildstreak found a large stash of guns and a former junior high school classmate by the name of Carl Washingtonwho was working for Buscelli. Washington had been selling guns to kids at the school that Kevin Masterson attended, and it almost led to Kevin being shot accidentally. Kevin’s father Eric, better known as Thunderstrike, began to investigate the situation as did the vigilantes Bloodaxe and Sangre. Wildstreak and Thunderstrike stumbled across one another and were at odds for a brief moment until a gunshot snapped them back to reality and reminded them who the real enemy was. Thunderstrike held off a group of armed thugs while Wildstreak tried to reason with Carl. Carl recognized Tamika and was going to betray her by exposing her secret identity to the people he worked for in order to get in their good graces. As the battery pack that allows her exoskeleton to function ran out of juice, Tamika sat crippled in the street powerless to stop her former classmate as he ran away. Carl Washington never got a chance to say anything to anyone for after he left Wildstreak lying helpless on the sidewalk, he was shot dead by Sangre.

Refusing to comply with the Superhuman Registration Act, Wildstreak was recently hunted down and assaulted by Iron Man and Spider-Man. While in the custody of Mister Fantastic, of the Fantastic Four, Wildstreak was accidentally freed from her containment unit as she was being transported to the Negative Zone for imprisonment. She escaped both Reed Richards and the armed guards that were attempting to recapture her with the help of the Invisible Woman. Where Wildstreak will turn up next has yet to be revealed.

Powers/Skills: exoskeleton and gauntlets that give advanced speed, strength and agility

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