List of Marvel Comics characters: R
R'Klll
R'Klll is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.She is depicted as the wife of Dorrek VII, the mother of Anelle, and the grandmother of Hulkling.
Raa of the Caves
Raava
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. 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.Raava in other media
Raava appears in Secret Invasion, portrayed by Nisha Aaliya. 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
Rabble is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1 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.
During the "Gang War" storyline, Rabble collaborated with the Hobgoblin to find the Queen Goblin.
Paul Rabin
Paul Rabin is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 and was created by Zeb Wells.Paul is the son of Benjamin Rabin aka 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 later 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. Mary Jane later breaks up with Paul after admitting their relationship hasn't been working for a very long time.
Critical reception of Paul Rabin
Since his introduction, Paul has been negatively received by both comic book fans and critics, with most of the criticism surrounding his role in separating Spider-Man and MJ to maintain the post-One More Day status quo. The character has also been criticized for his lack of a personality or character development. Many fans sent Marvel editorial mail that was featured in highlighting these complaints.Comicbook.com's Misael Duran highlighted how Wells' attempts to make Paul likeable and less of an antagonistic force or "someone to hate" made him a non-entity, "Plenty of fans' outcries are unwarranted, chiefly from the recent toxic behavior within the Spider-Man comics fandom. Nevertheless, plenty of fair criticism towards Paul exists, and the comics would be better if he pulled a Poochie and returned to his people."
Rocket Raccoon
Holden Radcliffe
Radioactive Kid
Radioactive Kid is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.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.
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.
Radioactive Man
Radius
Radius 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 #1.Jared and his younger half-brother Adrian 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. Jared rejects the initial flirtations of his teammate Murmur for personal reasons.
Later, he is sent to corral the mutant Wolverine, whom the entire team believes has killed the ex-Alpha Flight member Box. This was part of the lies and mind-control that Department H was using on the entire team. Jared's bravado, when the team corrals Wolverine, is met with shock by Adrian, who has a high level of respect for the man. Jared stands up to Wolverine's intimidation tactics, but soon a fight breaks out anyway. Backup X-Men soon join in. It is Adrian, though, who calms things down by wanting to talk instead of fight. Various discrepancies in the mission lessen the Alphans' desire to do battle. The brothers were recruited into a new incarnation of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight.
They assist the new Alpha Flight in battling several foes, including the Zodiac organization and the Brass Bishop. The Bishop is found by Alpha Flight after many innocent civilians go missing. He has brainwashed them and is building a Tower of Babel, an enormous structure that is intended to reach heaven. The team also confronts Department H's own power-mad leader, Jeremy Clarke, who dies of radiation poisoning during a Zodiac raid on the Department H headquarters. Their Alpha Flight team fight several members of the original Flight and later team up with them to defeat a new Weapon X, who had been created by a rogue Department H scientist. Both groups of Alphans merged into a unified Alpha Flight following this adventure. 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.
It was later revealed that Radius' father is Unus the Untouchable after Flex starts searching for their fathers through their adoption agency.
Powers and abilities of Radius
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
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 #62.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. 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. 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 forbade her from anymore super heroics. 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.
However, Peggy is still bothered by Scott's influence on Cassie and decides to move her to Miami to get away from super heroics though Scott comes along anyway. She is further perturbed by Scott's new job, but he informs her that it is simply a security company and will not be dangerous in any way. Cassie is kidnapped by Augustine Cross, the son of Darren Cross, in another attempt to revive his father. After Scott rescues her, Dr. Erica Sondheim covers for him and tells Peggy and Blake that Cassie suffered a heart attack and Scott called her. Peggy is relieved and tells Scott that she can loosen up on Scott's visits. Though she does briefly get angry at him for visiting in the middle of the night after he disappeared for a long time. Peggy becomes slightly less aggravated with Scott despite him not showing up as often as he claimed he wanted to. She attempts to talk to Cassie about it, but she herself is mad at him and herself due to not having the Pym Particles in her body.
After a fight at school, Peggy berates Cassie and grounds her and demands that she write an apology letter to the girls she beat up. When Cassie runs away, Peggy calls on Scott to find her, though she admits that she is mad at him due to his lifestyle. When Scott allows himself to be arrested, Peggy loses all faith in him, but Cassie decides to tell her the truth about why he did it. They head to the courthouse where the trial is interrupted by the arrival of Crossfire, Egghead and Cross as the new Yellowjacket. Scott, Cassie, Darla Deering, Grizzly, Machinesmith and She-Hulk jump into action to defeat the villains. Afterwards, Janice Lincoln, who was the opposing attorney against Scott and She-Hulk, calls Peggy to testify against Scott so that she can obtain his Pym Particles. However, to everyone's shock Peggy stands up for Scott and finally comes to terms with his and Cassie's superhero lives, even dropping the court ruling against him.