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Fictional character biography

Alejandro Montoya was born in Madrid, Spain, and later moved to America. Upon discovering his mutant powers, Alejandro decided to use his unique abilities as a swashbuckler and costumed crime fighter, taking up the mantle of El Aguila (The Eagle), an identity passed down by his ancestors. As El Aguila, he preys upon drug dealers and criminals that take advantage of the poor and needy. He is not a certified law authority and is wanted by authorities. This article is about the Spanish capital. ...

Soon after launching his crime-fighting campaign against drug dealers, slumlords, brutal police, and other wrongdoers, Aguila encountered Iron Fist, Power Man, and Misty Knight.^[1] Aguila aided Power Man and Iron Fist against female assassins out to kill Jeryn Hogarth.^[2] He also battled Hawkeye.^[3] Aguila teamed up with Power Man and Iron Fist to capture the Slasher, and fought the Constrictor.^[4] Alongside Colleen Wing and Misty Knight, he battled mercenaries working for Ward Meachum and fought Fera.^[5] He aided Power Man, Iron Fist, Colleen Wing, Bob Diamond, and Rafael Scarfe in an attempt to rescue Misty Knight and D.W. Griffith from captivity by Ward Meachum's mercenaries.^[6] He returned to Spain briefly on a request of his cousin Migdalia to save her village from the mutant Conquistador.^[7] Iron Fist (Daniel Rand) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a practitioner of martial arts. ... Luke Cage, born Carl Lucas and also called Power Man, is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. ... Misty Knight is a fictional character in Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. ... Hawkeye (Clint Barton) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero, a longtime member of the Avengers. ... Sabretooth is a Marvel Comics character, an arch-enemy of the X-Men’s Wolverine. ... Constrictor (real name Frank Payne, alias Frank Schlicting) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Colleen Wing is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics. ... Robert Bob Diamond is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...

Aguila has been confirmed to having been depowered^[8] following the events of "M-Day." Decimation event logo, as shown on the covers of tie-in comics Decimation is the name of the late 2005 Marvel Comics storyline spinning out of the House of M limited series, that focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witchs stripping nearly all of the mutant population of...

The Initiative

Alejandro is being considered as a "potential recruit" for the Initiative program, according to Civil War: Battle Damage Report.

Powers and abilities

Aguila had the mutant ability to generate electrostatic charges and discharge up to 100,000 volts through conductive metal. He most often uses his double-edged steel sword for this purpose, emulating his idol, Zorro. He is a skilled fencer with extaordinary swordsmanship skills, an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, and an excellent acrobat. In Marvel comic books, particularly those of the X-Men mythos, a mutant is a member of the species Homo sapiens superior, an offshoot of regular humanity, Homo sapiens sapiens. ...

Predecessors

• In Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files, the first known Aguila' precursor was an Aztec hero known as both Cuauhtli and the Eagle. He had the identity over 1000 years prior to Montoya.
• Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files also identifies the first Spanish speaking Aguila to use the name. Not much is known of this Aguila.
• Paco Montoya was the Aguila of the Old West. He was a Spaniard and the brother of Enrique. He is Alejandro's ancestor. He disappeared in the 1880s but apparently perished in battle with Devadia's Tarantula in the 1890s. He first appeared in Original Ghost Rider #15 and appeared right through until issue #20. Also had an entry in the Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• A Delvadian friend of Paco Montoya took on the mantle of Aguila after Montoya's death in the 1890s. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• The son of the friend of Paco took the role of Aguila after his father. He traveled to Spain in the 1930s to oppose the USSR-supported Loyalists. He clashed with and seemingly slew Captain Terror during the Spanish Civil War and eventually returned to Central America and settled in Oroco. He passed the title on to another. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• In the 1950s, the mantle of Aguila was taken on by another descendant while vacationing in the Sierra Madres during the mid-1950s. He encountered and defeated the Ambassador of Terror and vanished soon after while investigating a subterranean coral city beneath the Gulf of Mexico. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• A Santo Rican, took the mantle of Aguila in the 1970s and was an agent of their communist regime. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.
• In the 1980s, the next Aguila assisted the leftist freedom fighters in Terra Verde and was executed by Caridad's death squads. First mentioned in Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files.

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Controversy

The comics' rendition of El Aguila's native Spain and its people is considered highly stereotypical and inaccurate by many Spanish readers. This is due to the fact that the usual depiction of "Spanish" landscapes, cities and people in El Aguila's exploits are evidently influenced by those in Zorro's (whose adventures were set in 19th Century California). This is made evident by the depiction of the highly populated present-day Madrid as a tiny Mexican village full of peasants and donkeys. This article is about the Spanish capital. ...

Bibliography

• GLA #2
• Marvel Comics Presents #9
• Marvel Fanfare vol. 2 #1, 3
• Marvel Super-Heroes: Contest of Champions #1-3
• Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files
• Power Man/Iron Fist #58, 65, 78, 99-100

References

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External links

• Paco Montoya bio