Pity… it was good times to have someone that wasn’t raised to superheroing tagging along with the X-Men, and occasionally showing them the simple, NORMAL way to do things… like use doors.

Alas, Cecilia got trapped in that scrap yard for minor (read: disposable) X-Men Characters, Tieri’s “Weapon X.” Last time we saw her she was being kept alive (due to the supposedly useful nature of her powers) in WX’s prison camp. So she’s still alive, and MIGHT come back in the upcoming Weapon X mini. Though I doubt it.

Still, it’s a better fate than similarly unwanted characters like Maggot or Locus (It’s so, so very sad that I mourn Locus’s fate. She had the best power though; she could teleport only parts of a person, thus killing them graphically in the process.)

Anyway as annoying as she sometimes could be there was another cool bit in that their force field powers were highly unique in comic books. Most of force fields are quite insulating and Reyes’ was not.

It would protect her from harm but not at all from sensation. I shoot Invisible Woman with a death ray and she puts up her force field she’s protected from nearly all the normal, expected effects. I mean, she can still see the death ray and all, and it’s exerting pressure on her field.

Reyes’ force field activate involuntarily. She cannot extend her force field in any direction and while it protects her from harm, if I shot her with the same death ray I fired at Invisible Woman, Reyes would actually feel it. She would not be harmed in the ways the death ray inventor intended but she’d certainly feel like she got shot with a death ray.

A very crappy super-heroine but simply put…. she was one of the more useful members of the X-Men and a good deal more entertaining than a Shi’Ar healing machine.