Reavers (comics)
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In the fictional X-Men universe the Reavers are a team of criminal cyborgs. The most significant team of Reavers were dedicated to the destruction of the mutant X-Men, and a number of them especially wanted to take revenge on one particular X-Man, Wolverine.
The first of the Reavers to encounter any of the X-Men was Donald Pierce, the former White King of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club, who bears bionic arms and legs. Once, when Wolverine broke into the Club's Manhattan mansion, he severed Pierce's cyborg arm from the rest of his body. Months later, Pierce rebelled against the rest of the Inner Circle, which was dominated by mutants led by Black King Sebastian Shaw. Pierce abducted Shaw's aide Tessa and held her captive. However, Pierce was thwarted by Professor Charles Xavier and his new team, the New Mutants. Tessa regained her freedom, and Pierce was expelled from membership in the Inner Circle.
Three other members of the Reavers, Cole, Macon, and Reese, were formerly mercenaries employed by the Inner Circle. On the same night that he first met Pierce, Wolverine also encountered a squad of Hellfire Club mercenaries who had been sent to find and kill him. Wolverine lashed out at three of them--Cole, Macon, and Reese--with his adamantium claws, leaving the three of them severely wounded. The Inner Circle then had the three men converted into cyborgs. Cole, Macon, and Reese took Wolverine prisoner when the Inner Circle attacked the X-Men's Westchester County headquarters months later, but Wolverine overcame the three men once more.
Lady Deathstrike had herself transformed into a cyborg by the other dimensional being called Spiral, in an attempt to gain the means to kill Wolverine, as adamantium had been bonded to his bones in a process stolen from her father, Lord Dark Wind. She then led Cole, Macon, and Reese in an unsuccessful attempt to slay Wolverine in Manhattan.
After the X-Men expelled them from their Australian base, which they then co-opted for their own use, the Reavers engaged in a series of battles with them, but were unsuccessful in expelling them before Psylocke forced almost the entire team of X-Men (herself included) to travel through the Siege Perilous, mystically rebirthing them elsewhere with no memory of their real lives. When Wolverine returned from a leave of absence in Madripoor to find the X-Men gone, he was taken by surprise, captured, tortured and crucified by the Reavers and survived only with the aid of Jubilee.
More recently, Donald Pierce put together a new group of Reavers, composed of young anti-mutant humans, who included Elixir, who was unaware of his mutancy at the time. They were defeated by the New Mutants. Pierce himself had the skin decayed from his body by Wither and was turned over to the police, while Elixir saved Wallflower's life with his healing power and was expelled and beaten by the group as a result. The group later broke Pierce out of prison and made another attempt on Elixir's life, but were defeated by the surviving core members of the original New Mutants team.
Known Members
First Team:
- Donald Pierce
- Lady Deathstrike
- Cole (deceased)
- Macon (deceased)
- Reese (deceased)
- Bonebreaker (deceased)
- Skullcruncher (deceased)
- Pretty-Boy (deceased)
New Line-Up:
- Elixir (quit)