Reavers (Marvel)

Reavers is a comic supervillain teams that features in Marvel Comics.

History

They later assembled under Lady Deathstrike where they intended to purge the last enclave of Mutants at Utopia. To do this, they kidnapped Gateway and threatened to kill his entire tribe unless he cooperated with them as they wanted to use his powers to open a portal to their target. As they prepared, they were attacked by Wolverine's black ops X-Force team who killed most of them except for two Reavers that went through the portal to Utopia though they were killed by Psylocke before they could complete their plans. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #5.1)

The Reavers managed to get a bunker buster that they kept in their camp in the Australian Outback as they intended to drop it on a gathering of Mutants. This saw Hope and Cable being sent to disarm the warhead before it could kill any innocents. (Cable and X-Force v1 #15)

Lady Deathstrike later came to learn that Wolverine was seemingly still alive and she gathered the Reavers for the task of murdering him. They came to learn that he resided in a town in Canada called Killhorn Falls located in the Northwest Territories. This led to the Reavers arriving where they began killing people in the town and taking others hostage. Old Man Logan arrived to save the town people where he seemingly killed the Reavers one by one and heavily damaged Lady Deathstrike forcing her to flee. (Old Man Logan v2 #7)

Whilst investigating Reaver activity, Hope Summers travelled to an isolated town in Arizona believing it was only a few of them but had inadvertently stumbled on a hive leading to her capture. She was rescued by the arrival of the time-displaced Jean Grey who along with other X-Men defeated the Reaver presence in the area. (Jean Grey v1 #2) Donald Pierce and some of the Reavers were then captured by General Callahn of O*N*E who intended to use them to produce advanced technology for his forces. This allowed agents to be armed with advanced equipment that was to be used in the arrest of Mutants. A number of Reavers remained freed where they were desperate to remain free and escape capture. Havok and Warpath found these Reavers where he proposed an alliance with them against their mutual enemy that was O*N*E. (Astonishing X-Men v4 #15) The two sided with one another against their common enemy with the Reavers requesting access to Havok's mind as Bastion had implanted something there that O*N*E wanted and was believed as a means of locating their kidnapped comrades. The X-Men and Reavers struck at the O*N*E facility where Donald Pierce was freed whereupon he activated the technology they took from Havok's mind that allowed them to merge their cyborg bodies with any technology. This allowed them to commandeer O*N*E Sentinels who were then turned on the X-Men as the Reavers attacked their former allies. (Astonishing X-Men v4 #16)

Overview

Certain members engaged in bio-mechanical engineering as they grafted cybernetics onto people. (Jean Grey v1 #2)

It was said that Reavers never travelled alone. (Old Man Logan v2 #6)

They maintained massive underground Reaver hives that housed hundreds of their number. (Jean Grey v1 #2)

Members

• Donald Pierce :
• Lady Deathstrike :
• Junk Heap :
• Pretty Boy :
• Bonebreaker :
• Skullbuster :
• Wade Cole :
• Angelo Macon :
• Murray Reese :
• Skullbuster :
• Josh Foley :
• Muzzle :
• Bombhead :

Notes

• The Reavers were created by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri where they made their first appearance in Uncanny X-Men v1 #229 (May, 1988).
• Writer Matthew Rosenberg on his Astonishing X-Men run commented in an interview on the Reavers that, "The Reavers are sort of the perfect antagonists for the X-Men in some way. They are this other idea of human evolution, one based in technology. They modify themselves to become something post-human. But where the X-Men are a sort of family, the Reavers are a gang. So I love that juxtaposition. But for our story, where we find some X-Men who are down on their luck and have had a fall from grace, we see the same thing in the Reavers. They are broke, they are desperate, and they’re leadership has been caught by the government. So what we end up with is a group of antagonists who are not as far removed from the X-Men as one might think."

Alternate Versions

• In X-Men: Blue v1 #33 (2018), an alternate possible dystopian future was shown where the Reavers existed. It was shown that they had unleashed the Reaver Virus that resulted in a cybernetic contamination resulting in unrest and conflict. The Avengers and the X-Men failed to stop it with Magneto along with his Brotherhood standing to protect Mutants leading to many dying in the process.

In other media

Television

• In X-Men, the Reavers appeared as antagonists in the 1990s animated television series where they appeared in the two-part episodes "Out of the Past" with them being led by Lady Deathstrike.

Films

• In Logan, the Reavers appeared as antagonists in the live-action film where the were mercenaries sent by Alkali-Transigen to eliminate their cloned Mutant experiments and were led by Donald Pierce who was dispatched to eliminate X-23.

Appearances

• Uncanny X-Men v1:
• Uncanny X-Force v1:
• Secret Avengers:
• Cable and X-Force v1:
• Old Man Logan v2:
• Jean Grey:
• Astonishing X-Men:
• X-Men: Blue:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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