Dr. Cecilia Reyes
Created by: Scott Lobdell and Carlos Pacheco
1st appearance: X-Men #65
Nationality: Puerto Rican
Team Affiliations: X-men
Legal Status: No criminal record
Weight: 137 lbs Height: 5’7
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown
Relatives: Unnamed mother (Deceased),Father (Deceased), Colonel Reyes (Brother)
(Alternate Reality children)- Miguel MCcoy (Son), Ciaran MCcoy (Son), Francesca McCoy (Daughter).
Skills and Abilities: Possesses advanced knowledge of the medical field thanks to PHD in medicine, capable street fighter.
Powers:Cecelia has the power to generate a life force generated/sustained Force field. Unlike most other force field generators she still feels all attacks on the surface of the force field since it’s an extension of her life force. Defensive use of her powers has demonstrated that she can extend the field to envelop others and block even point blank gunfire and laser blasts. Offensively she can shape the field into a variety of shapes and forms, limited only by her imagination. She has shaped it into spikes, a bat and a club on different occasions. Her powers are instantaneous meaning she does not need to mentally turn it on or off for it to work.
Also of note, using her powers causes her physical pain each and every time it is used.
Biography
Cecilia grew up in a poor community while in her native Puerto Rico. She was the second child of her family after older brother Miguel. One day she witnessed her fathers death outside the house and unable to save him he died in her arms. This traumatic event left the young Cecelia a very motivated young woman who dedicated her life to the study of medicine.This ambition and single minded drive allowed her to leave her life in Puerto Rico and pursue her dreams in the united states.
While studying her PHD she was approached by Professor X who tried to recruit her into his first squad of X-men though she declined, preferring to save lives as a doctor instead of as a hero. After she graduated she always feared that her status as a mutant would destroy the life she had made for herself.
During Operation Zero Tolerance her fears became a reality as the X-men were captured and all their files stolen. While at work a patient who had just died came back to life and attacked her as a prime sentinel. Iceman saved her and the two were joined by Sabra and Marrow to make a short lived X-men squad which ended Operation Zero Tolerance. She remained with the X-men for some time even dating the X-men’s Beast and befriending Storm and Maggott. After battling demons however she returned to the life of a doctor.
She would soon find that leaving the X-men didn’t mean a return to normalcy when Nightcrawler critically injured teleported into her office and pulled her into the battle with “The Neo”. With Nightcrawler injured she lashed out with her powers and killed the Neo leader Jaeger. Now hunted by his team and overwhelmed by the pain she suffered from using her powers she used the drug “kick” which enhanced her powers and numbed the pain. She saved many lives while using the drug and became addicted. After she was rescued she went “cold turkey” and kicked her addiction by sheer force of will. Unfortunately she would bear witness to the death of Colossus after he injected himself with the legacy Virus cure. This lead to her remembering how her father had died in her arms years before. Again she left the X-men but was captured by Weapon X and was reunited with Maggott. She managed to survive the ordeal and returned to medicine in China town.
With the creation of Utopia she has joined up with her fellow mutants.
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- Dr. Cecilia Reyes
March 23rd, 2011 at 3:23 am
[...] as well. We can keep our fingers crossed that newer sensations like Gentle or even obscure Dr. Cecelia Reyes will also [...]
June 3rd, 2011 at 8:15 pm
[...] Relatives Dr. Cecilia Reyes-McCoy (mother), Dr. Henry Phillip “Hank” McCoy (father), Francesca McCoy (sister), [...]
June 3rd, 2011 at 8:46 pm
[...] Relatives Dr. Cecilia Reyes-McCoy (mother), Dr. Henry Phillip “Hank” McCoy (father), Ciaran McCoy (Older [...]
June 3rd, 2011 at 8:53 pm
[...] Dr. Cecilia Reyes-McCoy (mother), Dr. Henry Phillip “Hank” McCoy (father), Francesca McCoy (sister), [...]
July 25th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
[...] he tracked Magneto’s clone to New York and briefly joined the x-men along with Marrow and Cecelia Reyes. After leaving he spent time with Generation X but never joined. He was captured by weapon x and [...]
August 2nd, 2011 at 12:35 am
[...] X-men team without the help of Xavier, or Cyclops which included fellow African Maggott and Cecelia Reyes a doctor. She also faced the shadow king [...]
August 11th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
[...] the defeat of bastion in America. She defeats her attackers and travels to America. In the states Cecelia and Iceman are still on the run from O.Z.T They crash at Archangel’s pad where they get [...]
August 11th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
[...] attacks the police officers in the basement before making her way upstairs. Cecilia and Iceman get attacked by the prime sentinels. They can escape but a firefight between the cops [...]
August 11th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
[...] above. A flashback shows how Sabra saved them from the ambush in last X-men #68. Both Marrow and Cecilia question why Sabra is even there. When they press the issue she subdues them both. Marrow kills a [...]
August 11th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
[...] obviously angry Joseph flies off. He settles into a walk on the grounds, where he finds Maggott and Cecilia Reyes. Joseph remembers how the young mutant Maggott called him friend in Antarctica and decides he will [...]
August 12th, 2011 at 12:59 am
[...] of a late 90′s villain Crux and even Angel Salvadore in new warriors had the same Mo! As for Cecelia Reyes? she shows up in an equally useless capacity like Gentle just to remind us that their are blacks on [...]
August 14th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
[...] Cecilia returns to the mansion to get a memory dump from jean (Sounds dirtier than it is) and decides to perform an operation in order to save Scott’s life (and to prevent them all from going Boom!). She quickly dispatches the team. Cannonball rushes off and returns with antibiotics from a drugstore. Storm boils some water in the woods while Marrow taunts her….and pisses her off. With everything on hand Cecilia then uses Wolverine’s middle claw as a scalpel to open Scott up (I’m sure Wolvie loved gutting Scott like a trout!). [...]
August 14th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
[...] takes Beasts girlfriend Trish (The glory hog) back to Manhattan (where she belongs), while Dr. Reyes flirts with Beast (accidentally mind you) much to her embarrassment (There is that chemistry [...]
August 15th, 2011 at 12:00 am
[...] murderer has been autopsying the victims (merry Christmas indeed) Back at the mansion an exhausted Cecelia Reyes is creeped out by the vast emptiness of the mansion, when she approaches her bedroom, Marrow burst [...]
August 16th, 2011 at 12:00 am
[...] story opens with the beautiful Dr. Reyes rising for a day of adventure and action….aww wait…..no make that a day of trying to get her [...]
September 19th, 2011 at 1:07 am
[...] for black characters in the marvel universe in recent years. Despite strong characters like Storm, Cecelia Reyes and Gentle all have gone decidedly under the radar and when used……just plain terribly. [...]
September 25th, 2011 at 12:45 am
[...] few of these x-men books in hopes that I’ll get some entertaining stories and Storm, Gentle, Cecelia will get proper spotlight. Oh and let’s not forget we still don’t know where MAGGOTT [...]
September 29th, 2011 at 12:02 am
[...] on another note we still have no idea what will become of the other black x-men such as Gentle, Cecilia Reyes, Bling, Prodigy and Cipher? and c’mon its about time Bishop came back in some capacity! Share [...]
December 14th, 2011 at 12:17 am
[...] X-23. The new roster will include Warbird, Northstar, Gambit, Iceman Kama and home girl Cecilia Reyes. Nothing was stated about Cecelia’s role in the book other than: Liu spoke briefly on the [...]
January 14th, 2012 at 12:12 am
[...] and starts bleeding out when the bouncing blue billiard known as beast arrives on the scene with Cecelia in tow (or in arm a la Tarzan and Jane). Cecilia is horrified over her new costume (he did get it [...]
January 14th, 2012 at 2:00 am
[...] the N’gari unlike the more magically inclined Rutai last seen in X-men #75 battling Maggott and Cecelia and X-men Black sun can open the Carins without them being broken geeky knowledge 101 at the Black [...]
January 16th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
[...] he tracked Magneto’s clone to New York and briefly joined the X-men along with Marrow and Cecelia Reyes. He was instrumental in saving the mansion along with Reyes when a nanite bomb was removed from [...]
February 17th, 2012 at 2:27 am
[...] Dig Deeper into Cecilia Reyes here! [...]
March 29th, 2012 at 1:30 am
[...] with his boyfriend, Bryan. They unpack until Wolverine calls Northstar away on a mission. Elsewhere Cecilia Reyes is looking for a place to stay besides the empty room in Gambit’s apartment. They get cosy until [...]
August 3rd, 2012 at 2:22 am
[...] to survive. During Operation Zero Tolerance her son was captured and she almost betrayed Iceman and Cecelia Reyes to them before a change of heart. The team would defeat the leader of OZT and return her son to [...]
June 19th, 2013 at 12:57 am
[…] and has a history with Pavel Rasputin grandson of Colossus. Also making an appearance is an older Cecelia Reyes-McCoy wife of Beast and mother of his children, Miguel, Francesca and […]