On their first mission, they encountered a young child who was a clone of Apocalypse and destined to take over as the new Apocalypse eventually. The new group was made up of Wolverine, Psylocke, Archangel, Deadpool and Fantomex. Rather than shut the team down, however, he restarted the team as an independent group using the same basic agenda that it had under Cyclops’ rule, just with the agenda being set by the team members and not Cyclops. One of the most offensive aspects was team member X-23, a mutant who had come to the X-Men for help with her urges to kill (she had been cloned from Wolverine and raised to be an assassin), so to see Cyclops turn around and use her worst impulses to help his murder squad was dispiriting.Įventually, Wolverine decided that X-Force could no longer follow Cyclops’ direction. Wolverine, Warpath, Wolfsbane, Domino, Archangel and X-23 were the main members of the team, with Elixir serving as essentially their medic through his healing powers, and the Vanisher as their transportation through his teleporting powers. In effect, Cyclops created his own little secret murder squad. It would be a team that could go out and eliminate threats to the X-Men before they attacked the X-Men. The original X-Force contested the use of the name and eventually this X-Force renamed themselves X-Statix.Īfter a few reunions of the original Cable-led version of X-Force, the next big step for the group was when Cyclops decided that the X-Men should have its own secret black ops team. The new X-Force was a group of reality-show-style heroes, whose adventures were constantly being recorded, and they were treated like rock stars.
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When that series ended with the whole cast of the book seemingly dying, they were quickly replaced with the strangest version of X-Force yet. Right before the original X-Force ended, it was revamped to be more of a black ops team, working with Pete Wisdom (a British operative) and Domino. Eventually, X-Force just became the New Mutants under another name. Slowly, more and more of his New Mutants teammates were working their way back to the team, like Sunspot and Rictor and then Dani Moonstar ( Siryn also joined the team pretty early on - she was a bit more of an old-school hero, so she did not fit that well with the “extreme” heroes like Feral and Shatterstar). When Cable disappeared on the group (Cable has always been very prone to disappearing on people, typically through some sort of time-traveling adventure), Cannonball took over the reins of the team. The team was driven by Cable, who apparently felt it was his duty to get Cannonball and the others ready for a dark future by turning them into an elite paramilitary unit (Domino was important for this job, since she had formerly worked with Cable on precisely that sort of unit when they were both mercenaries together). Only Cannonball and Boom-Boom remained from the original New Mutants, and Boom-Boom was used mostly as comic relief. Slowly but surely, Rob Liefeld got rid of most of the members of New Mutants and replaced them with tougher, more “extreme” characters like Shatterstar, Feral, Domino and Warpath. The first X-Force was the logical extension of the New Mutants being given a new, militaristic leader in Cable. X-Force is the name of a variety of prominent teams related to the X-Men, who were generally quite different in tone from each other, but shared one major thing in common - their willingness to work outside “the line.” The below except from the new book 100 Things X-Men Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die chronicles the rise and fall of various incarnations of the X-Force in the comics.
The version of the team in Deadpool 2 is just one of the many X-Force lineups over the years.
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