Reignfire

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Reignfire is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Reignfire was a Mutant life form that was the subject of study by Dr. Joshua who was a geneticist dedicated to the study of mutation in higher lifeforms. Since the horrific circumstances of its birth, the organism was studied as part of Project Nineteen. Psi-talents came to determine that Nineteen possessed a rudimentary consciousness but lacked much in the terms of development. This was until Dr. Joshua was contracted by the External Gideon to run a series of experiments on Sunspot. These helped increase his ability to process heat and light where Dr. Joshua also introduced a sample of DaCosta's cell tissue to Nineteen. This was to see if the organism could replicate Sunspots photovoltaic but to the scientists amazement he came to find that Nineteen turned into a mirror image of Roberto DaCosta by using his genetics as a template. Shortly afterwards, Nineteen escaped where he came to set the laboratory on fire and killed five people. (X-Force v1 #80)

Intent on avenging the perceived wrongs that had been done to him because he was a mutant, Reignfire lifted the disjointed mutant terrorist organization from the disarray into which it had landed and recruited new members to its dwindling ranks. One of his first recruits was Dani Moonster, a former New Mutant who had recently been expelled from Asgard. Because of his physical similarity to Sunspot and the memories they shared, Reignfire tricked Moonster into believing he was actually Sunspot gone rogue, and used this belief to keep the otherwise benevolent Moonstar under his control. Another of his early recruits was the teleporting mutant woman Locus. With their help, Reignfire freed the rest of the MLF's former members, all of whom were in captivity: Wildside, Reaper, Forearm and Tempo. (X-Force v1 #26) Reignfire's first point of order as the leader of the new MLF was to stop Project: Wideawake—a deadly anti-mutant Sentinel program sponsored by the United States government—by eliminating its leader, Henry Peter Gyrich. Reignfire and the MLF kidnapped this prominent government official and prepared to kill him. Unfortunately for Reignfire, the mutant team X-Force, whose ranks included his genetic progenitor Sunspot, intervened and tried to save Gyrich's life. In the ensuing battle, Reignfire lost his soldier Tempo to defection, but convinced X-Force's Feral to join his ranks. As the battle progressed, Reignfire realized he had to cut his losses and escape. He dropped Gyrich from the sky and ordered Locus and Moonstar to execute him as he fell. Unfortunately, Sunspot intercepted these attacks and saved Gyrich's life—at the cost of creating a spatial feedback distortion that shunted both him and Locus to parts unknown. Reignfire, his mission having failed, fled with the remnants of the MLF. (X-Force v1 #28)

With Reignfire defeated, his remains were confiscated by S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jordan Holiday who also took Dr Joshua into custody. (X-Force v1 #80)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Originally, he came to be given the name of Nineteen. (X-Force v1 #80)

Powers and abilities

At first, Nineteen was an organism with a protoplasmic body that lacked any human characteristics and only possessed a rudimentary consciousness. A talent of the creature was the ability to replicate any genetic material introduced to it. Cell samples from Sunspot were introduced to him where Nineteen came to use it as a template for himself and gained DaCosta's photovoltaic ability. (X-Force v1 #80)

Their psychic link was so strong that even the prowess of strong telepaths were unable to completely sever it. (X-Force v1 #80)

Notes

• Reignfire was created by Fabian Nicieza and Mat Broome where he made his first appearance in X-Force v1 #26 (September, 1993).

Appearances

• X-Force v1: (1993)

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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