Cecilia Reyes
| Dr. Cecilia Reyes | |
|---|---|
 Cecilia Reyes | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men (vol. 2) #65 |
| Created by | Scott Lobdell Carlos Pacheco |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Cecilia Reyes |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | X-Men Weapon X |
| Abilities | Force field generation |
Cecilia Reyes is a Marvel Comics character who was briefly a member of the X-Men and often works to assist them. Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Carlos Pacheco, she first appeared in X-Men vol. 2 #65 (June 1997).
Raised in the Bronx, she is Latin American (originating from Puerto Rico) medical doctor specializing in trauma surgery. She has the mutant ability to project a force field around her body. Unlike most X-Men, she has no interest in superheroics, and desires only to live an ordinary life, having been forced into the team by circumstance.
Fictional character biography
When Cecilia Reyes is targeted by Operation: Zero Tolerance, a government-backed anti-mutant task force, she joins forces with [Iceman (comics)|Iceman]] and other mutants to escape New York City.[1] Soon after, she uses her medical skills to save Cyclops' life and officially becomes a member of the X-Men.[2] When she is kidnapped by interdimensional demons called N'Garai, she escapes with the other civilians who had been abducted. [3] When offered a new life by the Shadow King, Reyes chooses to remain who she is.[4]
She is taken prisoner at a mutant concentration camp called Neverland.[5] There was some debate about her survival[6][7] until she is shown alive and volunteering in a homeless shelter.[8] She is asked to aid the X-Men again when they move to Utopia,[9] and goes to Mexico with Psylocke in search of a new mutant named Gabriel.[10] She returns to New York City, where she helps care for victims of an earthquake[11] and protects anti-mutant protesters from the Juggernaut.[12] Reyes becomes romantically involved with Gambit and rejoins the X-Men team.[13]
Powers and abilities
Cecilia can generate a force field, described in her first appearance as a "psioplasmic bio-field" around her body which provides resistance to energy and physical attacks, and can shape or expand it to protect those nearby; however, impacts on the force field cause Cecilia pain. She also has shown the ability to wield her forcefield as a blunt force, pushing others out of her way. In X-Men (vol. 2) #100, she created spikes which could punch through a human body. While under the effects of the mutant-enhancing drug Rave, Cecilia is also able to use her force field offensively, forming it into a blade that can be used to attack enemies. The field can be raised consciously, but in her initial appearances, it is triggered by any external force used against it. While effective against external force, her field still leaves her vulnerable to attacks of insufficient force, such as gas, as seen when Colossus rendered her unconscious with a gas weapon.
Cecilia is also a capable medical doctor and surgeon.
Other versions
In Days of Future Now, Cecilia survived the death camp Neverland and tried to help Wolverine to change the past to prevent "Days of Future Now" from ever happening. While watching over him, she was shot in the back by a Fantomex who was under the control of Sublime.
In X-Men: The End, she also had survived Neverland and has married Beast and they have three children (two boys and one girl), Ciaran, Francesca & Miguel McCoy.
References
- ^ X-Men vol 2 #69
- ^ "X-Men" #70 v2 (December 1997)
- ^ X-Men #75 (vol. 2, June 1998)
- ^ X-Men #78 (vol. 2, August 1998)
- ^ Weapon X: Days of Future Now #3
- ^ letter column of New Excalibur #1
- ^ Interview with Mike Marts at uncannyxmen.net; November 29, 2005
- ^ NYX: No Way Home #4
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #522
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #527
- ^ X-23 #13-14, 16
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #541
- ^ Astonishing X-Men 48-53
External links
- Cecilia Reyes at the Marvel Universe wiki
- Cecilia Reyes at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- World of Black Heroes: Cecilia Reyes Biography
- UncannyXmen.net Spotlight On Cecelia Reyes
