File 18 Ricochet
Real Name : Rikki Shaefer
Occupation : Bounty Hunter.
Legal status : US citizen with a criminal record for petty theft.
Former aliases : None.
Identity : Secret.
Height : 4' 11"
Weight : 90 lbs.
Eyes : Blue.
Hair : Red.
Date of Birth : June 12, 1979.
Place of Birth : Mt. Vernon, Washington.
Marital Status : Married.
Known relatives : Barney "Barbaric" Runningbear (husband), daughter (name unrevealed),
Blake Shaefer (father), Uma Shaefer (mother).
Group affiliation : Special Operations Strikeforce, former member of Freak Force.
Base of operations : Chicago, Illinois.
First appearance : The Savage Dragon #1 (ongoing series).
Powers : Ricochet can bounce like a ball. Her body is very rubber-like and she's able to land safely from falls as high
Origin : Rikki Shaefer was born a mutant with the ability to bounce like a rubber ball. Her parents were disturbed that their daughter was a mutant and tried to stop her from using her powers. Rikki loved to use them, however, and this caused friction in her family. When it came to an ultimatum from her father, Rikki ran away from homer. Falling on hard times, Rikki became a petty thief. She met Barney Runningbear and they became friends. They were both arrested and eventually relocated to Arizona to the Mutate Manpower Management Service, a super-villain detainment and rehabilitation unit that was, in fact, a freak work camp headed up by Dr. Verlag. It was there that Rikki was codenamed Ricochet and Barney Runningbear was codenamed Barbaric. When The MMMS started to develop mind control devices to keep prisoners in line that wouldn't do their bidding, Ricochet, Barbaric and Jerry (Inhabiter) Steele made a break for it. When it appeared that Jerry had been shot dead, Ricochet and Barbaric escaped on their own, deserting Jerry.
The two found their way to Chicago where they hid out in the Chicago underground, living with other homeless freaks. It was there they met Officer Dragon who befriended them and eventually persuaded Barbaric to the Chicageo Police Department and what they unofficially called, their "Freak Force" program, where he met Dart, Rapture, and Horridus. Ricochet was, at the time, too young to join the police department.
Recently, Ricochet became a member of Special Operations Strikeforce, a government-based squadron of superhuman adventurers. Soon afterwards, she married Barbaric, and gave birth to a baby daughter soon afterwards.