[2] The original group of cyborgs calling themselves the Reavers operated out of an underground complex beneath the fictional ghost town of Cooterman's Creek in North Central Australia.

[3] The Reavers are reassembled under the leadership of Donald Pierce, who reorganizes the team as an assassination squadron to undertake para-military style commando operations, dedicated to taking vengeance on the X-Men in particular and eliminating mutants in general.

Pierce combines the three survivors of the original Reavers with Lady Deathstrike and the three former Hellfire Club mercenaries Cole, Macon, and Reese.

[8] Around this time, Bonebreaker, Reese, and Pretty Boy are dispatched to a New York warehouse after Microchip, an associate of the Punisher, in a self-confessed mistake, infiltrates their computer system.

[13] As part of the Upstarts' game, Trevor Fitzroy dispatches his own Sentinels to the Reavers' Australian hideout to kill Pierce and anyone else they find there.

[16] Donald Pierce puts together a new group of Reavers, composed of young anti-mutant humans (with the exception of Elixir, who at the time was unaware that he was a mutant).

[19] The Reavers return to play a role in the comic book crossover storyline Messiah Complex event under the leadership of Lady Deathstrike.

[citation needed] Deployed as an elite commando unit designed to eliminate organized mutant resistance, the Reavers manage to track down and confront Cable in Alberta, Canada before being attacked by the new X-Force.

[21] In the ensuing battle, Deathstrike and the Reavers are all terminated by Wolverine's strike team, but not before killing the mutant Caliban and injuring Cable.

To this date only Deathstrike's fate was revealed, and it remains to be seen whether the Purifiers will be able to upgrade more of their fighters with Reaver technology to replace the ones lost in Canada.

[volume & issue needed] During the "Hunt for Wolverine" storyline, Donald Pierce later leads a new group of Reavers, composed of Star and Shine whom together go by the Starshine moniker, Pretty Boy, Skullbuster (Cylla Markham) and Bonebreaker.

In exchange for their incarceration, Robert would give them much-needed augmentations and bionic enhancements tethered to an in-built safeguard to enforce their obedience.

After a lengthy battle, it is revealed that the reason why the office of National Emergency had them hunting these individuals was due to the possibility of one amongst their number unknowingly possessing the final piece of equipment needed to initiate a whole new sentinel program their employer's outfit had been building up too.

[27] Havok would opt to team up with the distaff cyborg mercenaries to free their boss and fellow mutants in exchange for the missing puzzle piece he possesses on his person for one final assault on their shared enemy's headquarters.

[28] But they soon betray Beast, Havok, Warpath, and the recently freed Dazzler by displaying all that the techno-organic coding Alex had implanted on him by Bastion during his moral inversion could really do, Pretty Boy and Bonebreaker technologically overtaking the general's incomplete sentinels and turning them on the X-Men.

After Albert subdues the Reavers, Pierce states that he sold Elsie-Dee's head to Yakuza boss Kimura, the arms to the Jade Dragon Triad, and the legs to the Vladivostok Mafia.

[32] The Reavers appear in Logan,[33][34] consisting of Donald Pierce, Bonebreaker, Pretty Boy, Angelo Macon, Danny Rhodes, and Mohawk.