Reptil
Reptil is a male comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Humberto Lopez
His parents were noted to had been palaeontologists where he accompanied them during their digs and looked at the various fossils they had uncovered. On one such expedition, he found a piece of crystallized bone when a rockslide had started and his powers from the mystical relic first activated allowing him to run to escape the disaster. A year ago, his parents were on another dig when they vanished and believed dead leading to Humberto staying with his grandfather. Lopez intended to become a superhero with his newfound abilities so he could search for his parents as he believed they were still alive. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1)
One day, he was approached by superpowered individuals where he attacked them only to find out that they were with the 50-State Initiative. They came to recruit Reptil for a mission to stop the villainous Stegron who was striking at various locations throughout the country. This saw him going to Camp Hammond where he underwent testing and training before being sent on the field on an Avengers team under Tigra. Reptil was desperate to prove himself as a hero as he thought that this would help him find his parents. Using his powers, they came to discover that Stegron was in South Dakota where they battled him but the Dinosaur Man managed to defeat the heroes with ease. Humbertro was injured during the fight but made a quick recovery due to his superhuman physiology. Reptil was down from the defeat but Tigra came to keep his spirits up leading to him joining the team again as they confronted Stegron who was attacking a S.H.I.E.L.D. regional base in Wyoming. With Stegron distracted in the fight, Reptil was able to turn some of the dinosaurs in his army against him and helped in defeating the Dinosaur Man. They then discovered Stegron's true motivation which was to find Moon-Boy and rescue him as he had been taken from the Savage Land by S.H.I.E.L.D. for study. His kidnapping meant that his companion Devil Dinosaur had fallen into a depression and was going to die from starvation with Stegron looking to re-unite the pair. Reptil felt what S.H.I.E.L.D. was doing was wrong and managed to convince Tigra to allow him to free Moon-Boy in secret where he helped take him back to the Savage Land with the help of Ka-Zar. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1)
Reptil continued to try and push his powers to their limits, but remained unable to fully transform into a dinosaur until he lost control during a battle with Mentallo. Wasp theorized Reptil's repressed emotional turmoil was preventing him from accessing his full potential. During a one on one conference with Jessica Jones, Reptil finally began to discuss some of his emotional problems surrounding his parents and Osborn. He was then chosen to be the leader of the superhero class at Avengers Academy. (Avengers Academy v1 #6)
While the Avengers Academy temporarily closed during the war between the Avengers and X-Men, Reptil and White Tiger travelled to Florida to meet with Jennifer Kale of A.R.M.O.R. to receive insight about their magical artifacts. (Avengers Academy v1 #34)
Reptil was among the sixteen young super heros kidnapped by Arcade to battle to the death in his new Murderworld. (Avengers Arena v1 #1) To prevent suspicion, Arcade made Repitl's disappearance look like he had left to search for his parents. (Avengers Arena v1 #13)
Humberto slowly recovered as he, Hazmat, and X-23 trekked to Arcade's safe zone until Hazmat accidentally set off a Trigger Scent bomb. Reptil and Hazmat narrowly escaped X-23's rampage. (Avengers Arena v1 #6)
Reptil collapsed on a safe zone beach with Hazmat. The pair remained there for two weeks while Reptil recovered. It wasn't until Nico's spell sent Nara, Anachronism, Bloodstone, Cammi, and X-23 to their location, that the pair left, deciding to aid in battling to stop Apex and Arcade. (Avengers Arena v1 #11)
Lopez acquired near-fatal injuries rescuing his fellow Murder World survivors from Hazmat's nuclear detonation. (Avengers Arena v1 #18)
Later on, Reptil, fully recuperated from the radiation, was shown sparring with Striker after having joined Leonardo da Vinci's new program intended to take the place of the now-defunct S.H.I.E.L.D. (Invincible Iron Man v1 #600)
Later on, the Earth came under attack from an army of Symbiotes headed by their god Knull. He came to envelop the planet with the parasites with New York City coming under attack with Reptil being among the heroes attempting to save the people. During this time, he was helping a woman get back to her home on Staten Island with Spider-Man helping him. In this time, they found a ferry that was under attack from a Symbiote dragon where the two decided to help the people on it. This involved Humberto turning into a giant aquatic dinosaur where he dragged the creature into the waters though was injured in the fight but this allowed Spider-Man to create an electric harpoon to destroy the monster. The two heroes then continued working together as they fought the Symbiote dragons that were attacking the city. (King in Black: Spider-Man v1 #1)
Afterwards, Humberto had seemingly abandoned the life of being a superhero after his grandfather Vincente became unwell. To help care for him, the pair moved to his aunty Glo's place in Los Angeles as she was a doctor. Thus, he began to stay with them during a time when being a teenage superhero was illegal under Kamala's Law that made it grounds for arrest by C.R.A.D.L.E. to operate without registration or an older mentor. Whilst in town, they come under attack from a villain named Monolith who was looking to claim the amulet from Reptil thus forcing him to use his powers to fight him off and save innocent bystanders. During the battle, Eva came to discover she possessed superpowers and Monolith claimed that he knew that Humberto's parents were alive as well as knew their location. (Reptil v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He claimed that the name Reptil had been trademarked by his grandfather. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1)
As a young child, he often played with toy dinosaurs with his parents wanting him to be a palaeontologist like them though Humberto wanted to be a hero among the Avengers. (Avengers Academy v1 #6) He accompanied them on their varous digs where they uncovered many bones from their digs. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1) In fact, he wanted to be a hero to help people which was part of his desire to become an Avenger. (King in Black: Spider-Man v1 #1)
There were three people that were heroes to him with these being the White Tiger Hector Ayala, Hank Pym and Spider-Man. Humberto had said that Spider-Man had been an inspiration to him to be a superhero who looked after normal people. From him, Reptil learnt that saving people was more important than fighting people. (King in Black: Spider-Man v1 #1) He was also a big fan of Cloud 9 where him having her action figures and commemorative plates. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1)
Hank Pym taught him to know his capabilities and what he could accomplish in any given situation. (King in Black: Spider-Man v1 #1)
He came to feel that he struggled in controlling his anger which he believed got him into trouble. (Reptil v1 #1)
His aunty Glo was his mother's sister and she came to reside in Los Angeles. She had twin children that were a girl named Eva and a boy named Julian who were the same age as Berto. (Reptil v1 #1)
Whilst at Avengers Academy, Finesse embarked on a sexual relationship with Reptil with this happening in secret and she often snuck out of his room before any security sweep could find her. One night, he wanted to discuss their relationship as he felt that she was his girlfriend. However, she rejected any notion of it being anything more than sex between the two and decided to determinate their relationship as she believed Humberto could not handle their nightly trysts. (Avengers Academy v1 #6)
Powers and abilities
This piece of crystallized bone fragment allowed him to take on the abilities of different dinosaurs just by thinking about them. He could generate spikes on his back, grow wings to flow, change his legs to a raptors to run faster, grow claws or change his eyes to that of an Archaeopteryx for improved vision. The amulet glowed when he used it generated a weird form of energy that could not be identified. Initially, he could only shift one body part at a time and could not achieve full transformation into a dinosaur. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1) In one case, he grew stegosaurus scales around his neck to prevent his throat from being slit by a supervillains blade and then created the spikes on his back to help fight him. (Avengers Academy v1 #5)
Similar to other superhumans, he had a strong constitution allowing him to withstand injuries and survive attacks that normally killed an ordinary human being. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1)
He had a limited form of empathy with dinosaurs where he could sense their minds and understand their feelings. However, it was said he could only sense their feelings and was unable to control or influence their behaviour. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1)
Initially, he was untrained until he joined the 50-State Initiative where he underwent training at Camp Hammond. This included hand-to-hand combat, aerial manoeuvres, agility training, dealing with extreme heat, using his tail in battle and marksman ship where he could use Archaeoperyx eyes for improved accuracy. (Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1)
The fossilised amulet was supernatural in nature and made use of magic with it serving as a catalyst for his powers. (Avengers Academy v1 #6) It was created by the Hag of the Pits to empower her champion by giving them the strength to turn any of the prehistoric creatures on Dinosaur World. As the chosen one, he was expected to champion the creatures and protect their world at the cost of his own life. (Avengers Academy v1 #36)
Notes
- Reptil was created by Christos N. Gage and Steve Uy where he made his first appearance in Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1 #1 (May, 2009).
In other media
Television
- In The Super Hero Squad Show, Reptil appeared in the setting of the animated television series where she was voiced by actor Antony Del Rio.
Video games
Appearances
- Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil v1: (2009).
- Avengers Academy v1:
- Avengers Arena v1:
- Invincible Iron Man v1:
- King in Black: Spider-Man v1: (2021)
- Reptil v1: (2021)
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