Cecilia Reyes

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Dr. Cecilia Reyes
Cecilia Reyes
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceX-Men (vol. 2) #65 (June 1997)
Created byScott Lobdell (writer)
Carlos Pacheco (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoCecilia Reyes
SpeciesHuman mutant
Team affiliationsX-Men
Weapon X
New Mutants
Notable aliasesForcefield
Abilities
  • Ability to create a psioplasmic bio-field
  • Capable medical doctor
  • Capable medical surgeon

Cecilia Reyes is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Scott Lobdell and Carlos Pacheco, the character first appeared in X-Men (vol. 2) #65 (June 1997). She belongs to the subspecies of humans called mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities.

Raised in the

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. Cecilia Reyes was briefly a member of the X-Men
and often works to assist them.

Publication history

Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Carlos Pacheco, she first appeared in X-Men (vol. 2) #65 (June 1997).[1]

Fictional character biography

Cecilia Reyes decided to become a doctor when her father was gunned down in front of her as a child, and she was unable to do anything to help him.[2] The X-Men tried recruiting her when it was discovered that she was a mutant, but Reyes had no interest in being a superhero.[3] She preferred to pursue her trauma surgeon career.[4]

Operation Zero Tolerance

When she was targeted by Operation: Zero Tolerance, a government-backed anti-mutant task force, she was forced to join forces with the X-Man Iceman and other mutants to escape New York City and track down Bastion, leader of Operation Zero Tolerance.[5]

After meeting with problems with racism and both encouragement from

Marrow. She was eventually sucked into the N'Garai dimension, to be experimented upon, but her force field saved her from the cutting instruments. She escaped with the rest of the X-Men and the civilians they had saved.[7]

Reyes was tempted by the Shadow King by offers of a new life, but managed to resist the villain's offer.[8] Reyes did not find costumed adventuring suitable for her, and left to set up her own medical practice.[volume & issue needed]

Later, she was caught up in the X-Men's battle with the Neo, a villainous group of mutants who claimed to have evolved beyond the level of other mutants. Reyes was trapped in the Neo's fortress below New York City and used a street drug called Rave to make her mutant powers more destructive, ensuring her survival. The X-Men rescued her, and the telepathic Professor X helped her kick her addiction to Rave during a detox period back at the X-Mansion.[volume & issue needed]

Reyes last appearance with the X-Men was at the time when Beast discovered the cure to the Legacy Virus. She was the one to discover Colossus dead after injecting himself with the cure. Reyes attempted to revive him, but was unsuccessful.[volume & issue needed]

Neverland

Later, she was seen as a prisoner at a mutant

Agent Zero destroyed the camp, and her death was later confirmed in the letter column of New Excalibur #1. Mike Marts contradicted this in an interview on uncannyxmen.net, stating that if Cecilia would be dead they would show it on panel, and therefore Cecilia was not yet considered deceased at that time.[10]

In

O*N*E security on the Xavier School grounds, with the purpose of finding out the fate of his sister.[volume & issue needed
]

Return

After M-Day and her escape from Neverland, Cecilia volunteers at local homeless shelters as well as working out of her apartment. According to

Kiden Nixon is following her, she calls up Beast to ask a favor.[11] Later when Cecilia returns with groceries, she finds the teens have left.[12]

Sometime after these events, Cecilia moves to the X-Men's new base of operations; Utopia. When Magneto decides to bring back Shadowcat as a good will gesture, Cyclops asks specifically for her to help treat him of any injuries he might have suffered.[13]

The Five Lights

After the events of

Hope Summers could arrive to help.[14]

X-23

Gambit and X-23 arrive in New York City following a lead from London. Gambit is injured, with his wounds reopening later on. They visit Cecilia at her apartment, and she agrees to give Gambit stitches, but is perturbed at being disturbed and admits she left Utopia to avoid such "stupidity". X-23 picks up the scents of her friends from NYX in the apartment, and asks where they are. Cecilia states that she gave them permission to stay there before she went to Utopia, but they were gone by the time she returned. X-23 leaves to pursue a lead, and the city is soon rocked by a mysterious earthquake. Cecilia and Gambit help rescue and treat quake victims. Cecilia then accompanies Gambit as he searches for X-23, eventually finding her recovering in the care of the Future Foundation.[15]

Fear Itself

During the "Fear Itself" storyline, Cecilia is added to a team of X-Men opposing the "worthy" empowered Juggernaut in the form of Kuurth: Breaker of Stone. She is instructed by Cyclops to protect a mob of anti-mutant protesters following Kuurth's attack.[16]

Astonishing X-Men

Although she is still more comfortable healing humans than fighting superhumans, Cecilia Reyes is part of the new team composed by

Karma, whose mind has been taken over Ms. Hatchi for yet unknown reasons. She is also carrying on a romantic relationship with Gambit.[17]

Dawn of X

In the new status quo for mutants post House of X and Powers of X, Professor X and Magneto invite all mutants to live on Krakoa and welcome even former enemies into their fold. Cecilia Reyes becomes something of a medical expert on mutant biology, running medical operations, autopsies and the like.[18][19][20] She is also approached by Prodigy of X-Factor with a suggestion to build a body farm to study the effects of decomposition on mutant bodies.[21]

Powers and abilities

Cecilia can generate a force field described as a "psioplasmic bio-field" around her body.[22] This force field provides superhuman durability, increasing her resistance to energy and physical attacks. She can shape or expand it to protect those nearby. 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. She can create spikes which could punch through a human body.[23] Under the effects of the mutant-enhancing drug Rave, Cecilia is able to use her force field offensively, as a blade to attack enemies. The field can be raised consciously and in her initial appearances, shown triggered by any external force used against it.

Additionally, Cecilia is a capable medical doctor and surgeon.

Reception

Critical reception

Marc Buxton of

token characters from marginalized groups often "exist solely as representations of their cultures. By focusing on Reyes' full self, NYX offered a twice-marginalized character—Latinx and Mutant—whose sense of self arose out of her choices rather than how she was born. By giving her agency, Liu's story expanded the way in which marginalized characters are written".[25]
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Accolades

  • In 2014, Entertainment Weekly ranked Cecilia Reyes 95th in their "Let's rank every X-Man ever" list.[26]
  • In 2014, BuzzFeed ranked Cecilia Reyes 49th in their "95 X-Men Members Ranked From Worst To Best" list.[27]
  • In 2017, Den of Geek included Cecilia Reyes in their "40 X-Men Characters Who Haven’t Appeared in the Movies But Should" list.[24]
  • In 2019,
    CBR.com ranked Cecilia Reyes ranked 10th in their "Ranking All The Members Of NYX" list.[28]
  • In 2020, Scary Mommy included Cecilia Reyes in their "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.[29]
  • In 2020,
    CBR.com ranked Cecilia Reyes 5th in their "Doctors Unite! The Doctors Of Marvel Comics" list[30] and 10th in their "10 Best Superhero Doctors In Marvel & DC" list.[31]
  • In 2022, Newsarama included Cecilia Reyes in their "20 X-Men characters that should make the jump from Marvel comics to the MCU" list.[32]
  • In 2022, Screen Rant included Cecilia Reyes in their "10 Best Doctors In Marvel Comics" list.[33]
  • In 2022,
    CBR.com ranked Cecilia Reyes 3rd in their "X-Men Who Deserve Their Own Spinoff Films" list.[34]

Other versions

In the Age of X-Man reality, Dr. Cecilia Reyes is the Medical Instructor of the 10th Year class within the Summers Institute Of Higher Learning, located in Winchester, NY.[35]

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.[volume & issue needed] While watching over him, she was shot in the back by a Fantomex who was under the control of Sublime.[volume & issue needed]

In

Beast and they have three children (two boys and one girl), Ciaran, Francesca & Miguel McCoy.[volume & issue needed
]

In other media

Dr. Cecilia Reyes appears in

Demon Bear
.

References

  1. ^ Elvy, Craig (2020-01-07). "New Mutants Cast, Character & Power Guide". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  2. ^ Chrysostomou, George (2020-08-25). "New Mutants: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Cecilia Reyes". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  3. ^ X-Men Vol 2 #66
  4. ^ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #9
  5. ^ X-Men (vol. 2) #69
  6. ^ X-Men (vol. 2) #70 (December 1997)
  7. ^ X-Men (vol. 2) #75 (June 1998)
  8. ^ X-Men (vol. 2) #78 (August 1998)
  9. ^ Weapon X: Days of Future Now #3
  10. ^ "Interview with Mike Marts at uncannyxmen.net; November 29, 2005". Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
  11. ^ NYX: No Way Home #4
  12. ^ NYX: No Way Home #5
  13. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #522
  14. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #527
  15. ^ X-23 #13-14, 16
  16. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #541
  17. ^ Astonishing X-Men (vol. 3) #48-53.
  18. ^ X-Men (vol. 5) #1. Marvel Comics.
  19. ^ Hellions (vol. 2) #1. Marvel Comics.
  20. ^ X-Force (vol. 6) #2, 8, 11-12. Marvel Comics.
  21. ^ X-Factor (vol. 4) #6. Marvel Comics.
  22. ^ Couto, Anthony (2017-06-29). "New Mutants Casts Alice Braga as Rosario Dawson Exits". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  23. ^ In X-Men (vol. 2) #100
  24. ^ a b Buxton, Marc (2017-02-03). "40 X-Men Characters Who Haven't Appeared in the Movies But Should". Den of Geek. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
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  26. ^ Franich, Darren; EDT, 2022 at 12:31 PM. "Let's rank every X-Man ever". EW.com. Retrieved 2022-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  27. ^ Perpetua, Matthew (28 January 2014). "95 X-Men Members Ranked From Worst To Best". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  28. ^ Howe, Nicholas (2019-09-16). "Ranking All The Members Of NYX". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  29. ^ "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic". Scary Mommy. 29 November 2021. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  30. ^ Wyatt, Liz (2020-08-14). "Doctors Unite! The Doctors Of Marvel Comics, Ranked". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  31. ^ Keller, Rich (2020-03-29). "10 Best Superhero Doctors In Marvel & DC, Ranked". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  32. ^ Marston, George (2022-11-03). "20 X-Men characters that should make the jump from Marvel comics to the MCU". gamesradar. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  33. ^ Etemesi, Philip (2022-05-26). "Doctor Strange 2: 10 Best Doctors In Marvel Comics". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  34. ^ Howe, Nicholas (2022-08-23). "X-Men Who Deserve Their Own Spinoff Films". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  35. ^ Age of X-Man - NextGen #1 (February 2019)
  36. ^ Kit, Borys (June 29, 2017). "Alice Braga Joins 'New Mutants' as Rosario Dawson Exits (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
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