Reavers

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Official Team Name

Reavers

Team Aliases

Unknown

Status

Active

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Bad

Universe

Earth-616

Base of Operations

formerly Cooterman's Creek

Affiliations

Team Leader(s)

Lady Deathstrike, formely Donald Pierce

Current Members

Unknown

Former Members

Bonebreaker, Pretty Boy, Skullbuster, Skullbuster II, Skullbuster III, Josh Foley, Wade Cole, Angelo Macon, Murray Reese, Sam Guthrie, Stanley & Ollie

Allies

Purifiers, Descendant

Enemies

Cable, X-Force (Cable team), X-Men, Hellfire Club, X-Force (Wolverine team)

Origin

Origin

Cyborgs

Creators

Chris Claremont, Marc Silvestri

First appearance

Uncanny X-Men #229
(May, 1988)

History

The first members of the Reavers came into being when the mutant villain Mastermind attempted to mentally control Jean Grey in a bid to join the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle. In the resulting confrontation with the X-Men, Wolverine fell victim to Leland's mass-increasing powers, ended up in the New York sewer system and was believed dead. However, Wolverine, very much alive, reentered the club through a secret sub-basement entrance, attacked a group of mercenaries sent to track him down - Wade Cole, Angelo Macon, and Murray Reese - and critically injured them with his claws. These men were eventually recovered and then converted to cyborgs, continuing to serve the Hellfire Club as a special task squad.

Their first assignment follwing their reconstruction was to take down the X-Men after Hellfire leader Emma Frost had switched consciousnesses with Storm, and later they assisted Donald Pierce in trying to kill the fledging New Mutants. However, in both cases they were defeated and eventually went underground for some time.

The first incarnation of the Reavers was a group of cyborgs operating from the Australian outback led by Donald Pierce. They were seemingly destroyed by the Sentinels on the order of the Upstart from the future Fitzroy^[1].

Lady DeathStrike made an oath to the Reverend William Stryker, creator of the Purifiers. She promised to him that in the mutant's darkest hours she would help his Purifiers. She recreated the Reavers. They caught up with Cable, just in time for the X-Force to attack. Lady Deathstrike took on X-23 and was seemingly killed. The other Reavers died, but not without killing Caliban first.

After being recomposed by Donald Pierce and gathered by Deathstrike, they assaulted Utopia, before being defeated by X-Force.

Reavers

• Lady Deathstrike - (Yuriko Oyama)
• Donald Pierce
• Bonebreaker - (Unrevealed)
• Pretty Boy - (Unrevealed)
• Cylla Markam
• Elixir - (Joshua Foley)
• Skullbuster - (Unrevealed)
• Wade Cole
• Angelo Macon
• Murray Reese

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Each team members' arsenal

Notes

• No special notes.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• 13 Reavers (Earth-616) Members
  
• 52 Appearances of Reavers (Earth-616)
• 9 Images that include Reavers (Earth-616)
• Team Gallery: Reavers (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Reavers (Earth-616)

Links and References

• None.
  

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