Rictor (born Julio Richter) is one of the X-23 experiments created by the Transigen Project. He is the oldest, and acted as a leader to the other children in the project. He also possesses the mutant ability of telekinesis.
Biography
Logan
Rictor was created along with Laura, Gideon, Bobby, Delilah, Jamaica, and Rebecca by Zander Rice as part of the Transigen Project. Rice used genetic samples from mutants to create new embryos that were carried by captured women. Transigen files list Dominic Petros as the genetic source for Rictor.
Rictor, Laura, and the other mutant children were supposed to become soldiers but were deemed failures after the creation of X-24. Rictor and most of the mutant children escaped to found Eden, a safe haven in North Dakota, while Laura was adopted by Gabriella Lopez.
When Laura and Logan finally reach Eden, Logan is nursed back to health by Rictor and the mutant children. They offer Logan a serum to improve his healing factor and fighting abilities, which he uses. When the Reavers are approaching, Rictor and the mutant children try escape across the Canadian Border. Logan kills most of the Reavers, but they eventually holds most of the mutant children at gunpoint, with Donald Pierce doing the same to Rictor after shooting the young mutant in the arm. Logan shoots and kills Zander Rice while he is talking and the mutant children manage to escape.
During the battle, the mutant children used their combined powers to kill Pierce, and Rictor uses his powers to levitate one the Reavers trucks up into the air and drop it on top of X-24, who was engaged in battle with Logan. While X-24 was buried underneath the truck Rictor dropped on top of him, a weakened and exhausted Logan tells the mutant children to run. However, X-24 began to dig his way out from underneath the truck, and the mutant children ran as X-24 engaged and overwhelmed Logan. Eventually, Laura then killed X-24 with an adamantium bullet in an attempt to save Logan. Unfortunately, Logan then died due to his slowed healing factor and injuries sustained fighting X-24 and a funeral was held by the mutant children. At Logan's funeral, Laura quotes the Western classic, Shane. Afterwards, Rictor, with his arm in a cast and sling, grabs his backpack and tells his comrades that they need to go. Laura, and the others then make their way across the Canadian border
Powers
- Telekinesis - Rictor can Jean levitate, move, immobilize, and manipulate objects with a mere thought. He used this ability to levitate a truck into the air and drop it on top of X-24.
Relationships
Trivia
- In the comics, Rictor is not a clone of Dominic Petros and is instead the son of a Mexican arms dealer.
- Despite Dominic Petros being listed as the the genetic template for Rictor, Rictor doesn't exhibit the power of seismic energy manipulation. Instead, another one of the mutant children that helped kill Donald Pierce possesses the said ability, while Rictor possesses telekinesis.