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R'Klll

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R'Klll (sometimes spelled R'Kill) is a Skrull who is the wife of Dorrek VII, the mother of Anelle, and the grandmother of Hulkling.

Raa of the Caves

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Raava

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Raava is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, created by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward, first appeared in Black Bolt #1 (May 2017). She is a Skrull pirate and the mother of Skragg. Raava was in a deep-space torture prison for being against the Skrull Empire, and worked with Black Bolt, Metal Master, Blinky and Absorbing Man to escape.[1][2]

Raava in other media

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Raava appears in Secret Invasion, portrayed by Nisha Aaliya.[3] This version works as an agent for Gravik's resistance by impersonating James Rhodes in order to engineer political tensions between the United States and Russia before being killed by Nick Fury.

Rabble

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Rabble is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Miles Morales: Spider-Man (vol. 2) #1 (December 2022) and was created by Cody Ziglar and Federico Vicentini.

Raneem Rashad is a technopathic Jordanian American girl and a mechanical prodigy who failed to get into Brooklyn Visions Academy since Miles Morales got the last spot. This loss, coupled with her mother's death and father developing a neurodegenerative disease, drove Raneem into being the supervillain Rabble who plots to take revenge on Spider-Man.[4]

Paul Rabin

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Paul Rabin is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 6) #1 (April 2022) and was created by Zeb Wells.

Paul is the son of Benjamin Rabin, also known as the Emissary, and studied mathematical quantum computation under his father and colleagues, stumbling upon information condensing cryptography that resembled symbols of Mayan scripts and other ancient languages. While Paul and the others were discovering "cheat codes" in reality, Rabin was communicating with Wayep and destroyed their Earth for power. Paul killed his father and survived on the decimated Earth for years until Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson were marked and transported to his reality by their version of the Emissary.

When Peter tried to adjust his dimensional travel watch to send MJ back to Earth-616, MJ pushes him in while also killing Wayep in the process. As Spider-Man scrambles to save her, due to the time dilation between the two dimensions, she bonds with Paul and they adopt two surviving children named Owen and Stephanie. Paul also developed a prototype random powers generating gauntlet that MJ uses to fight off the monsters in their world. Peter, with the help of Norman Osborn, manages to return to their dimension to rescue them. When they come to Earth-616, MJ refuses to part with Paul and her new family, leading to tension between Paul and Peter.

The Emissary eventually returns to kill MJ, but he dies thanks to Ms. Marvel disguising herself as MJ, resulting in him making the wrong sacrifice. Stephanie and Owen are revealed to be magical constructs created by the Emissary and vanish. To cope with the loss of the children, MJ becomes the superhero Jackpot, with Paul operating as her man in the chair. Paul is nearly killed when Peter is infected by Norman Osborn's sins and becomes the Spider-Goblin, but is rescued by MJ. Paul and MJ take custody of Dylan Brock following the event of Venom War, though unbeknownst to him, MJ had become the new host of the Venom symbiote.[5] MJ later breaks up with Paul after admitting their relationship has not been working for a very long time.[6][7]

In the storyline Death Spiral, Paul is murdered by the serial killer Torment when trying to protect Dylan. Though not on Torment's target list, Paul is killed for being in his way, while also disregarded by him as someone with no significance to anybody.[8][9]

Critical reception of Paul Rabin

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Paul Rabin was negatively received by both comic book readers and critics, with much of the criticism centered on his role in separating Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson to maintain the post-One More Day status quo, as well as lacking a distinct personality or meaningful character development.[10] Reader backlash towards Paul was reflected in letters published in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 6), many of which criticized the character and his role in the series.[11]

Comicbook.com's Misael Duran highlighted how Zeb Wells' efforts to portray Paul as a sympathetic and non-antagonistic figure ultimately left him feeling narratively insignificant. While criticizing toxic behavior directed at the character, Duran agreed that much of the criticism toward Paul was justified and joked that the comics would be better if he "pulled a Poochie and returned to his people."[12]

Paul's death in Venom (vol. 6) #256, which leaked online prior to the issue's release, was reported to have been widely celebrated among portions of the fandom. Joshua Fox of Screen Rant described some the dismissive reactions from other characters as a "meta commentary" towards Paul's reputation while James Whitbrook of io9 remarked that "the issue handles Paul's death surprisingly cruelly", making it easy to read as reflecting years of fan hostility toward the character.[13][14]

In the film Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Eman Esfandi plays MJ's unnamed boyfriend, who is identified as Paul in the film's subtitles and believed to be based on Paul Rabin.[15] Esfandi subsequently denied that his character was Rabin, acknowledging the character's negative reception among fans.[16]

Rocket Raccoon

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Holden Radcliffe

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Radioactive Kid

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Radioactive Kid is an unnamed young supervillain who wears a hazmat suit that holds back his radioactive abilities, which previously killed his father. He joins up with the Young Masters, who attack an abandoned Hydra base. During a fight with the Teen Brigade, Radioactive Kid is believed to have been killed.[17]

In "Avengers Undercover", Radioactive Kid appears alive and has reunited with the other Young Masters, who now operate out of Constrictor's Snakepit in Bagalia.[18]

Radioactive Man

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Radius

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Radius
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearance(As Jared Corbo) Alpha Flight: In The Beginning #-1 (July 1997)
(As Radius) Alpha Flight volume 2 #1 (August 1997)
Created bySteven Seagle
Scott Clark
In-story information
Alter egoJared Corbo
SpeciesHuman Mutant
Team affiliationsDepartment H
Alpha Flight
X-Corps
Beta Flight
Hellhouse
AbilitiesForce field generation

Radius (Jared Corbo) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a former member of the superhero team Alpha Flight. He first appeared in Alpha Flight: In The Beginning #1 and first appeared as Radius in Alpha Flight (vol. 2) #1 (both published in 1997).

Jared and his younger half-brother Adrian (later codenamed Flex) were raised in the Hull House orphanage, which was actually a facility operated by the Canadian government's secretive Department H. While Adrian became shy, reserved and bookish, Jared became athletically inclined, aggressive, and arrogant. Both brothers manifested mutant powers after puberty: Adrian gained the ability to transform parts of his body into blades, while Jared manifested a personal force field that could not be shut down. The Corbo brothers and several other members of the new team were later reassigned to Alpha Flight's trainee team, Beta Flight.

Radius is later hired by X-Corps, a militaristic strike force founded by former Generation X headmaster and former X-Man Sean Cassidy, a.k.a. Banshee. The X-Corps was ultimately betrayed by its criminal members. Radius is defeated when Avalanche opens a chasm beneath him. Jared survives the fall, and is among the many mutants depowered during the "Decimation" event.[19]

Powers and abilities of Radius

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Radius, before being depowered, could generate a permanent force field around him. He does not feel the impact of blows upon it. While the shield is generally porous enough for him to breathe, he can make it almost impervious, even to air. He could also create extensions of the field to use as a ranged attack, and brace objects against it to "fake" super-strength.

Peggy Rae

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Margaret "Peggy" Rae-Burdick is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, created by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, first appeared in Avengers (vol. 3) #62 (February 2003).

Peggy Rae is the ex-wife of Scott Lang and together had a daughter named Cassandra Lang. She remarries to police officer Blake Burdick. Peggy has an uneven relationship with Scott due to their divorce and has some slight resentment towards superheroes in general. She gets a court ruling that limits the amount of time Scott can spend with their daughter.[20] After the events of Avengers Disassembled, Peggy and Blake got into an argument with Cassie resulting in Peggy slapping her. This pushed Cassie into joining the Young Avengers.[21] For a while, it became apparent that Peggy and Blake did not know of Cassie's double life, but soon began to suspect that she was "the Giant Girl". Peggy learns from Jessica Jones that Cassie had been stealing Pym Particles which worries her as she still thinks that Cassie had a heart condition that had since been cured. Since then, she has forbidden her from anymore super heroics.[22] Later on however, Peggy is upset at Cassie for supposedly injuring Blake accidentally. After some recuperating, Cassie calls Peggy and tells her that Blake will pull through resulting in mother and daughter apologizing and reconciling.[23]

Peggy Rae in other media

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A character based on Peggy Rae named Margaret "Maggie" Lang appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, portrayed by Judy Greer.[24][25][26]

Irani Rael

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Irani Rael is an alien character in Marvel Comics. The character was created by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Wellinton Alves and Geraldo Borges, and first appeared in Nova (vol. 4) #18 (December 2008).

Irani Rael is a Rigellian who was recruited into the Nova Corps after it was destroyed by the Annihilation Wave. She was chosen by the Xandarian Worldmind to become a Nova Centurion alongside new recruits Qubit, Malik, Tarcel, Morrow and Fraktur. Rael and her new comrades arrive on Earth to aid Nova Prime Richard Rider and his brother, Robbie, who had also become a new recruit.[27]

She has since fought alongside the rest of the Nova Corps on Earth against such threats as the Serpent Society and Dragon Man.[28] She aided in fighting the Imperial Guard and Emperor Vulcan, during which many of her comrades were killed.[29] After fighting Ego the Living Planet, it became apparent to Rider that the new recruits did not have proper training, resulting in Rael and several others agreeing to be demoted. Rael became a Nova Millennian.[30]

Irani Rael in other media

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Rage

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Ragnarok

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Tamara Rahn

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Tamara Rahn
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceSub-Mariner #58 (Feb 1973)
Created byBill Everett (writer)
Steve Gerber (writer)
Sam Kweskin (artist)
In-story information
Team affiliationsDeep Six
Notable aliasesTamara of the Sisterhood

Tamara Rahn is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily in association with Namor. She is a Banari, a humanoid aquatic alien from the planet Laab, and the last of her kind after her planet was destroyed and the other refugees were killed by the Atlanteans.

Initially, Tamara fought the Atlanteans, but was defeated by Namor and became an ally of his. She later took Tiger Shark as a lover.[35]

Raiders

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Raina

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Raina is a character who originated in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before appearing in Marvel comics. Created by Brent Fletcher, she first appeared in "Girl in the Flower Dress" on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (October 22, 2013), portrayed by Ruth Negga.

She is depicted as a recruiter for Project Centipede. In the second season, she is revealed to be an Inhuman, and develops a thorn-covered body and dream-based precognition. She is rescued from S.H.I.E.L.D. by Gordon and brought to Afterlife. During Daisy Johnson's time there, Raina is killed by Jiaying.

Raina in comics

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Raina made her comic book debut in Inhuman Annual #1 (July 2015), by Charles Soule and Ryan Stegman. She is among those who received Lineage's message when he used the Inhuman Codex to contact every Inhuman in the world.

Raina in other media

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Raina appears as a boss in Marvel: Future Fight.[36]

Rain Boy

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Rain Boy (Carl Aalston) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men (vol. 2) #171 (August 2005), and was created by Peter Milligan and Salvador Larroca.

Rain Boy is a mutant whose abilities transformed his body into living water, forcing him to be held together using a containment suit. As a student at the Xavier Institute, he joins Gambit's Chevaliers team.[37] It is not known whether Rain Boy retained his powers after the events of "Decimation"; however, he resurfaces during the Krakoan Age with his powers intact.[38]

Powers and abilities of Rain Boy

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Rain Boy's body is made of living water, which he can expel as pressurized blasts.[37] His water is conductive, allowing individuals held within his body to share their powers with one another.[39]

Rajah

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Rakkus

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Rebel Ralston

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Robert "Rebel" Ralston is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in