Cerebra's Files
Spiral
Real Name: "Ricochet" Rita
Affiliation: Works for Mojo
Previous Affiliations: Freedom
Force
Alternate-X Versions: (Ultimate)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced spī'rəl [From Latin spīra "coil"]; The path of a point in a plane moving around a central point while continuously receding from or approaching it.
Powers & History: Spiral was created when a movie star named Ricochet Rita was captured
by Mojo and twisted, physically and psychically, into a six-armed, sword-wielding
sorceress/teleporter. (Note: This appears to have happened in the future.) Part
of the reason for her transformation is that she was Longshot's love interest for a time, and Mojo wanted
to hurt his greatest enemy by subverting his girlfriend. Spiral is able to cast
different types of spells, including teleportation through time and space. She
worked with Freedom Force for a while, but also runs the Body Shoppe, a place
where genetics and technology are used to twist people in the same way that Spiral
herself was twisted. Spiral is responsible for giving Psylocke new eyes (which she then used as camera feeds
from our world), kidnapping Rachel Summers and making her Mojo's prisoner, placing
Shatterstar's spirit into Benjamin Russell's body,
and for the creation of Lady Deathstrike and her Reavers: Cole, Macon and Reese.
In one possible future, she returned to Mojoworld with Arize, creator of the slave biped race,
and helped overthrow Mojo I. She has an intense emotional connection to both Longshot
and Shatterstar.
After leaving Freedom Force, Spiral appeared bearing the mark of the Crimson
Dawn, but the full ramifications of that fact are still unknown. Meanwhile, some time later she was back working with Mojo, and had no such mark. Nocturne had possessed her and used her powers to open a portal back to Earth, but Spiral's magics allowed her to revive faster than expected, and she reduced the X-Men to little children until they were able to force Mojo to return them to normal.
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