History Trivia / XForce

* IKnewIt: With his bright pink skin tone, knowledge of advanced sentinel technology, and predisposed disdain for mutants, many people assumed Bastion was the reincarnated form of Nimrod well before his background was revealed, and they were right. Technically, though, he is a fusion of Nimrod and Master Mold.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: In predictive programming UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories, issue #3 has been referred to as an issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' due to a guest appearance by Spider-Man.

* NamesTheSame: In ''X-Force'' #2, Garrison Kane introduces himself as Weapon X. Deadpool asks if that moniker is not already trademarked.

* NamesTheSame:
** In ''X-Force'' #2, Garrison Kane introduces himself as Weapon X. Deadpool asks if that moniker is not already trademarked.
* Shares codename with a character from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'', but are otherwise very different.

** * NamesTheSame: Shares codename with a character from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'', but are otherwise very different.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Plenty of 90's references, including a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] poster, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' on TV, and the World Trade Center still standing after the 1993 bombing.

* FollowTheLeader: Part of the reason why the Externals never really took off is how, aside from Gideon, most of them were derivative of other, more popular characters in appearance. As mentioned above, Absalom was physically interchangeable with Tyler Dayspring, better known as the villain Genesis. Saul had a decent background as a Mongolian warlord who'd had the bad luck to cross paths with a younger Apocalypse, but his physical appearance in the modern day was an awful [[YellowPeril Fu Manchu]] stereotype. And Candra was more or less a blonde Selene, just with a taste for red rather than black in her wardrobe.
* IKnewIt: With his bright pink skin tone, knowledge of advanced sentinel technology, and predisposed disdain for mutants, many people assumed Bastion was the reincarnated form of Nimrod well before his background was revealed, and they were right. Technically, though, he's a fusion of nimrod and Master Mold.

** In ''X-Force'' #2, Garrison Kane introduces himself as Weapon X. Deadpool asks if that moniker isn't already trademarked.

* NamesTheSame: In ''X-Force'' #2, Garrison Kane introduces himself as Weapon X. Deadpool asks if that moniker isn't already trademarked.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The issue where the World Trade Center is attacked has been called a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' issue due to a guest appearance by Spider-Man. Even though it is referencing the then recent 1993 World Trade Center bombing, it is included in examples of media predicting 9/11.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Shatterstar demonstrates advanced mental capability by flipping through television channels rapidly. This ignores the delay between changing channels, and would look like childish behavior.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Shatterstar demonstrates advanced mental capability by flipping through television channels rapidly. This ignores the delay between changing channels, and would look childish. It would make more sense to watch simultaneous videos playing on a computer, or multiple monitors.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Shatterstar demonstrates advanced mental capability by flipping through television channels rapidly. This ignores the delay between changing channels, and would look childish. It would make more sense to watch simultaneous videos playing on a computer.

* NamesTheSame: In ''X-Force'' #2, Garrison Kane introduces himself as Weapon X. Deadpool asks if that moniker isn't already trademarked.

* IKnewIt: With his bright pink skin tone, knowledge of advanced sentinel technology, and predisposed disdain for mutants, many people assumed Bastion was the reincarnated form of Nimrod well before his background was revealed, and they were right. Technically, though, he's a fusion of nimrod and Master Mold.