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)
He was then chosen to be the leader of the superhero class at Avengers Academy. (Avengers Academy v1 #6)
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)
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 hem though Humberto wanted to be a hero among the Avengers. (Avengers Academy v1 #6) 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)
Hank Pym taught him to know his capabilities and what he could accomplish in any given situation. (King in Black: Spider-Man 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. Another talent he had was a form of empathy with dinosaurs where he could understand them but he was not able to control their behaviour. (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
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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)
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