Background/History:This one covers the basics. And this one better covers his time with X-Factor. And because neither of these fully covers all the events that happen up until his canon point, here’s what happened next!
After returning to X-Factor, Rictor and ‘Star find themselves as part of a team in flux. Rahne and Terry are gone and Alex is literally packing his bags. This is only relevant due to the fact that Rictor and his remaining teammates participate in dropping water balloons on Alex as he’s leaving. This is what serves as team-building exercises at X-Factor. Sometime after that Pip the Troll, resident desk worker and secret badass of X-Factor, is shot in the head by a woman named Vera outside of the office. Despite this, he’s still somehow breathing. Lorna and Rictor argue over whether or not to take him to the hospital. This becomes useless when it turns out that Pip transferred his personality into Monet, the team psychic.
After a brief conversation explaining the differences between human and troll physiology, Longshot finds the bullet that shot Pip and uses it to determine the location of the shooter. ‘Star teleports the team to that location, which happens to be a botanical garden where they are surrounded by Vera and her demonic sidekicks. Threats are thrown and then the ground begins opening up and ooze lava like a mini volcano. Pip, in Monet’s body, gets Rictor and ‘Star off the ground for a moment until Monet starts fighting for control of her body and drops them. Rictor and ‘Star attempt a ground assault, however Rictor opens up another fissure of lava after using his powers. Monet swoops in to save them, however Rictor assumes Pip is still in charge, which enrages Monet so much she throws Rictor aside. Luckily, his fall is stopped by Lorna. Battles with demon creatures happen and the tides turn when Jaime and tons of his dupes show up. Also, Rictor uses his powers to shake the demon creature formally known as Vera to death in order to save ‘Star. Finally, the mini volcano, which has grown huge, erupts and out of it comes six figures that no one can make out who basically vanish into the night.
Sometime later, Rahne and Tier return to X-Factor and are welcomed back. This lasts all of ten seconds before Darwin busts in and tries to kill Tier, again. Jaime is able to talk him down, and close on the heels of that their missing, soulless teammate, Guido, also makes his reappearance. Guido is working with a demon woman named Jezebel, and they too are trying to kill Tier. However, before they can the war begins and Rictor and co. are teleported to the realm where the six Hell Lords are waiting. Rictor and his team battle the Lords for a while in an attempt to protect Tier. However, Mephisto, ruler of the Underworld, gets his hands on Tier. But before he can kill the boy his daughter, Jezebel, shoves a sword through his chest before grabbing X-Factor and teleporting out. Once back on earth, Jezebel recounts to the team how the Hell Lords where constantly battling for power until they got tired of the constant warring. They decided that they would wait until the birth of the seventh billionth individual on earth, and whoever killed them would get supreme rule over all the other lords and their dominions. Tier is the lucky seventh billion individual.
Thus begins a string of Hell Lords and their minions who hunt the team down. Rictor and his team fight, but Jezebel says that the way to end the war is for Tier to kill all of the Hell Lords. Reluctantly, Tier does join the fight despite the team being split on whether or not they want to encourage a child to murder demons. Meanwhile, Mephisto has taken the surviving Hell Lords captive and has deemed himself the winner of the war and taken up base on Earth. Unable to accept this, Rictor and co. go to Mephisto’s base to take him down. Or, attempt to as Mephisto quickly captures Tier in a barrier of fire. ‘Star rushes Mephisto in hopes of acting as a distraction but gets blasted out of existence. Enraged, Rictor reacts by rushing in after him and shares the same fate.
You thought it ended there? Why no! Turns out Mephisto is a bigger dick than we thought, and instead of just killing ‘Star and Rictor he teleported them to ‘Star’s home world, the Mojoverse, named for its leader. When we catch up with Rictor he’s been taken captive by Mojo and forced to participate in gladiatorial games. The fight begins between him and his latest opponent, but he’s caught off guard by how familiar the stance and body movements of his opponent are. Rictor uses his power against his foe, knocking the guy’s helmet off. Surprise! It’s Shatterstar. And he doesn’t seem to recognize Rictor. ‘Star continues the fight and nearly has Rictor pinned down until he’s attacked from behind by Longshot, who also doesn’t recognize Rictor, and a group of rebels who take ‘Star and Rictor out of the arena.
They’re brought to the laboratory of Arize, the creator of everything. It turns out that ‘Star dropped from the sky one day and Arize took it upon himself to clone him, a lot, to help fill the ranks of the rebels. Rictor looks on as ‘Star is put in a pod-shaped bed while Arize works to get his brain back “on-line” after Mojo messed with it. Finally, ‘Star wakes up with his memories of Rictor restored just in time for Mojo and his forces to storm Arize’s lab. ‘Star teleports himself and Rictor back in time, so they’re still in Arize’s lab, just at an earlier time point. They run into a very pregnant Dazzler, who is going into labor. When ‘Star doesn’t seem very surprised by this Rictor questions him and he admits that Dazzler is giving birth to him. Sometime later, baby ‘Star is delivered and adult ‘Star is fixing up some of the lab machinery so that they can wipe Dazzler’s memory of being pregnant, then take off to the future and drop the baby with the people who raised ‘Star in order to ensure that history plays out the way it needs to. We’re led to assume Rictor reluctantly goes along with it.
Julio "Rictor" Richter | Marvel 616 | Reserved 2/?
After returning to X-Factor, Rictor and ‘Star find themselves as part of a team in flux. Rahne and Terry are gone and Alex is literally packing his bags. This is only relevant due to the fact that Rictor and his remaining teammates participate in dropping water balloons on Alex as he’s leaving. This is what serves as team-building exercises at X-Factor. Sometime after that Pip the Troll, resident desk worker and secret badass of X-Factor, is shot in the head by a woman named Vera outside of the office. Despite this, he’s still somehow breathing. Lorna and Rictor argue over whether or not to take him to the hospital. This becomes useless when it turns out that Pip transferred his personality into Monet, the team psychic.
After a brief conversation explaining the differences between human and troll physiology, Longshot finds the bullet that shot Pip and uses it to determine the location of the shooter. ‘Star teleports the team to that location, which happens to be a botanical garden where they are surrounded by Vera and her demonic sidekicks. Threats are thrown and then the ground begins opening up and ooze lava like a mini volcano. Pip, in Monet’s body, gets Rictor and ‘Star off the ground for a moment until Monet starts fighting for control of her body and drops them. Rictor and ‘Star attempt a ground assault, however Rictor opens up another fissure of lava after using his powers. Monet swoops in to save them, however Rictor assumes Pip is still in charge, which enrages Monet so much she throws Rictor aside. Luckily, his fall is stopped by Lorna. Battles with demon creatures happen and the tides turn when Jaime and tons of his dupes show up. Also, Rictor uses his powers to shake the demon creature formally known as Vera to death in order to save ‘Star. Finally, the mini volcano, which has grown huge, erupts and out of it comes six figures that no one can make out who basically vanish into the night.
Sometime later, Rahne and Tier return to X-Factor and are welcomed back. This lasts all of ten seconds before Darwin busts in and tries to kill Tier, again. Jaime is able to talk him down, and close on the heels of that their missing, soulless teammate, Guido, also makes his reappearance. Guido is working with a demon woman named Jezebel, and they too are trying to kill Tier. However, before they can the war begins and Rictor and co. are teleported to the realm where the six Hell Lords are waiting. Rictor and his team battle the Lords for a while in an attempt to protect Tier. However, Mephisto, ruler of the Underworld, gets his hands on Tier. But before he can kill the boy his daughter, Jezebel, shoves a sword through his chest before grabbing X-Factor and teleporting out. Once back on earth, Jezebel recounts to the team how the Hell Lords where constantly battling for power until they got tired of the constant warring. They decided that they would wait until the birth of the seventh billionth individual on earth, and whoever killed them would get supreme rule over all the other lords and their dominions. Tier is the lucky seventh billion individual.
Thus begins a string of Hell Lords and their minions who hunt the team down. Rictor and his team fight, but Jezebel says that the way to end the war is for Tier to kill all of the Hell Lords. Reluctantly, Tier does join the fight despite the team being split on whether or not they want to encourage a child to murder demons. Meanwhile, Mephisto has taken the surviving Hell Lords captive and has deemed himself the winner of the war and taken up base on Earth. Unable to accept this, Rictor and co. go to Mephisto’s base to take him down. Or, attempt to as Mephisto quickly captures Tier in a barrier of fire. ‘Star rushes Mephisto in hopes of acting as a distraction but gets blasted out of existence. Enraged, Rictor reacts by rushing in after him and shares the same fate.
You thought it ended there? Why no! Turns out Mephisto is a bigger dick than we thought, and instead of just killing ‘Star and Rictor he teleported them to ‘Star’s home world, the Mojoverse, named for its leader. When we catch up with Rictor he’s been taken captive by Mojo and forced to participate in gladiatorial games. The fight begins between him and his latest opponent, but he’s caught off guard by how familiar the stance and body movements of his opponent are. Rictor uses his power against his foe, knocking the guy’s helmet off. Surprise! It’s Shatterstar. And he doesn’t seem to recognize Rictor. ‘Star continues the fight and nearly has Rictor pinned down until he’s attacked from behind by Longshot, who also doesn’t recognize Rictor, and a group of rebels who take ‘Star and Rictor out of the arena.
They’re brought to the laboratory of Arize, the creator of everything. It turns out that ‘Star dropped from the sky one day and Arize took it upon himself to clone him, a lot, to help fill the ranks of the rebels. Rictor looks on as ‘Star is put in a pod-shaped bed while Arize works to get his brain back “on-line” after Mojo messed with it. Finally, ‘Star wakes up with his memories of Rictor restored just in time for Mojo and his forces to storm Arize’s lab. ‘Star teleports himself and Rictor back in time, so they’re still in Arize’s lab, just at an earlier time point. They run into a very pregnant Dazzler, who is going into labor. When ‘Star doesn’t seem very surprised by this Rictor questions him and he admits that Dazzler is giving birth to him. Sometime later, baby ‘Star is delivered and adult ‘Star is fixing up some of the lab machinery so that they can wipe Dazzler’s memory of being pregnant, then take off to the future and drop the baby with the people who raised ‘Star in order to ensure that history plays out the way it needs to. We’re led to assume Rictor reluctantly goes along with it.