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Rictor (Julio Esteban "Ric" Richter) is a fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe, who appears in the ''X-Men'' family of books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by writer Louise Simonson and artist Walt Simonson and first appeared in ''X-Factor'' #17 (June 1987). In subsequent years, the character was featured as a member of the original New Mutants team and the original X-Force team, and continued to appear in various ''X-Men'' franchise publications thereafter. In comic books published in the 1980s and 1990s, Rictor's mutant powers were to generate seismic energy and tremendously powerful vibrations in any nearby object, inducing earthquake-like phenomena and causing objects to shatter or crumble. When the character was reintroduced in 2005, it was as one of many depowered mutants adjusting to civilian life. The character remained depowered until a 2011 comic. Introduced in the late 1980s as a supporting character in ''X-Factor'', Rictor appeared in Marvel comics for ten years under the pens of a number of different writers; much of his character development in this period came from Fabian Nicieza's run on ''X-Force''. The character returned to publication in 2005 with the ''X-Factor'' vol.3 and has been written by Peter David continually since then. Responding to fan interest in the gay subtext surrounding the character in Jeph Loeb's ''X-Force'' run, Rictor's kiss with teammate Shatterstar in the pages of ''X-Factor'' vol.3 in 2009 became the first depiction of a same-sex kiss in a mainstream Marvel Comics publication. Since then, Rictor has been written as an out gay man who is fully accepting of his sexual identity, and one of few gay superheroes in the Marvel Universe. ==Publication history== Created by writer Louise Simonson and artist Walt Simonson, Rictor first appeared in ''X-Factor'' #17 (June 1987). Rictor was introduced in the late 1980s under Louise Simonson's run on ''X-Factor''. ''X-Factor'' owed its early popularity to reuniting the five original ''X-Men'' characters. As the series continued, it needed to distinguish itself from the earlier ''X-Men'' stories. New characters were introduced to the series, and Simonson's run introduced Mexican earth-manipulator Rictor as one of several young wards to the senior ''X-Men'' characters. These characters would be spun off into their own title, Simonsons's ''X-Terminators'', in 1988. Simonson would later transfer Rictor to the cast of ''The New Mutants'', during her run on that series, when she made sweeping changes to the existing cast and folded several of the X-Terminators into the New Mutants team. Later, under Rob Liefeld's run on ''The New Mutants'', Rictor would abandon the team in the final scenes of ''The New Mutants'' #98 (1991). At this point in the character's history, he was popular enough to feature in ''Marvel Illustrated: The Swimsuit Issue vol.1 #1'', also in 1991. In the next issue, Liefeld introduced one of several of his "edgier" additions to the series, namely Shatterstar, a swashbuckling warrior from another dimension. With help from writer Fabian Nicieza, who provided the dialogue for Liefeld’s plots, Liefeld transformed the New Mutants into X-Force in ''The New Mutants'' #100, the book's final issue. Liefeld and Nicieza launched ''X-Force'' in August 1991. Later in ''X-Force'', Liefeld brought Rictor back; he appeared in ''X-Force'' #10 and joined the team in ''X-Force'' #15. Introduced to Shatterstar for the first time, Liefeld's issues — a high-octane, gritty run typical of 1990s comic book trends — would establish the characters' friendship. After his time on ''X-Force'', departing in ''X-Force'' #28, the character made appearances in issues of ''Cable'', ''Excalibur'', ''New Warriors'' and ''X-Men'' (vol. 2). Fabian Nicieza brought the character back for ''X-Force'' #38, and wrote a story in ''X-Force'' #43 depicting Rictor's attempts to take Shatterstar to a nightclub and try to understand humans better immediately prior to Jeph Loeb's run, which as a subplot explored the characters' relationship, mostly by way of subtext. Loeb's intention to write the characters into a relationship was not followed-up by his successors writing the character, and the romantic connection between the characters was not made explicit. Rictor then made periodic guest appearances in Marvel titles until ''X-Force'' #64 in 1997, which would be the character's last appearance for five years. In 2002, the character returned in the pages of ''New X-Men'' as a member of Professor Xavier's X-Corporation. Following the ''House of M'' company crossover event storyline in 2005, which saw the character lose his mutant abilities, Rictor returned to the ''X-Factor'' title with Peter David's third volume of the title. ''X-Factor'' vol. 3 began with Rictor extremely depressed and suicidal over the loss of his powers, joining as a civilian member of Jamie Madrox (Multiple Man)'s team of superhero detectives, X-Factor Investigations. David's run would explore the character's romantic relationship with Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), as first visited in the Liefeld run, and later made comic book history when the character was reunited with Shatterstar in ''X-Factor'' #45 (2009), which saw the two characters kiss. Storylines since, in the renumbered ''X-Factor'' #200 and onwards, have focused on the pair's explicitly romantic and sexual relationship. Marvel continued to depict Rictor as powerless until ''Avengers: The Children's Crusade'' #6 (2011), in which the Scarlet Witch restored his abilities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rictor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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