Mr. Rictus
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| Mr. Rictus | |
 Mr. Rictus, art by J.G. Jones. |
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| Publication information | |
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| Publisher | Top Cow |
| First appearance | Wanted #2 |
| Created by | Mark Millar |
| In story information | |
| Team affiliations | The Fraternity |
Mr. Rictus is a fictional character, a comic book super-villain in Mark Millar's Wanted mini-series.
[edit] Fictional character history
From Wanted: Dossier:
"Once, he saved souls. Now, he damns them. The man who would become Mr. Rictus was once a devout Christian, the most pious of men. But he died briefly on the operating table after a horrible accident. He expected heaven, but found...
Nothing.
No God. No heaven. No afterlife. None of what he had been promised for living his devout life. Just a void. And the void left a void in his heart.
The incident created a man without a conscience. Rictus now lives completely without moral compass. He knows there is no eternal consequence for his action. He lives for the day, and that is all.
Rictus does everything you've ever thought about in your darkest moments. Every whim he comes up with, he caters to. And his whims tend toward the dark end of the spectrum.
If he wants to eat, fuck, or kill something, he does it, without thought. He is the creature of pure id. Rictus spent years embracing a light, a light that was never there. Now, there is only darkness."[1]
[edit] Background information
Different names were considered for the character of Mr. Rictus. At one point, the creators considered naming him "The Martyr".[2]
