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2'''The X-Men'''\
3[[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam The Original Team]] | [[Characters/XMen60sMembers '60s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen70sMembers '70s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen80sMembers '80s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen90sMembers '90s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2000sMembers 2000s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2010sMembers 2010s Members]] | [[Characters/XMen2020sMembers 2020s Members]]\
4'''Other Teams'''\
5Characters/ChildrenOfTheAtom | [[Characters/ExcaliburMarvelComics Excalibur]] | Characters/GenerationHope | Characters/GenerationX | Characters/NewMutants | Characters/NewXMenAcademyX | [[Characters/SWORDMarvelComics S.W.O.R.D.]] | Characters/XClub | Characters/XCorp | Characters/XFactor | '''X-Force''' | Characters/XStatix | Characters/XTerminators\
6'''Antagonists'''\
7[[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryAToI Rogues Gallery A To I]] | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGalleryJToR Rogues Gallery J To R]] | [[Characters/XMenRoguesGallerySToZ Rogues Gallery S to Z]] | [[Characters/XMenVillainousOrganizations Villainous Organizations]] | [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Acolytes]] | [[Characters/XMenArakko Arakko]] | [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Brotherhood of Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenClanAkkaba Clan Akkaba]] | Characters/ChildrenOfTheVault | [[Characters/XMenExternals Externals]] | [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]] | [[Characters/XMenHellions The Hellions]] | [[Characters/XMenMarauders Marauders]] | [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Mojoverse]] | [[Characters/XMenMorlocks Morlocks]] | [[Characters/XMenMutantLiberationFront MLF]] | [[Characters/XMenOrchis Orchis]] | [[Characters/XMenSentinels Sentinels]]\
8'''Other Characters'''\
9[[Characters/XMenSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] | [[Characters/XMenMutants Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenXavierInstitute Xavier Institute]] | [[Characters/XMenKrakoans Krakoans]] | [[Characters/MarvelComicsSavageLand The Savage Land]] | [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Shi'ar]] | [[{{Characters/Starjammers}} The Starjammers]] | {{Characters/NYX}} | [[{{Characters/Cable}} Cable's supporting cast]] | [[Characters/{{Deadpool}} Deadpool's supporting cast]] | [[{{Characters/Wolverine}} Wolverine's supporting cast]]-]]]]]
10
11Characters that have appeared in ''ComicBook/XForce'' or ''X-Statix''.
12
13-----
14[[foldercontrol]]
15
16!!The original ''X-Force'' series
17!!!Team Members
18
19[[folder:Members on other pages]]
20* [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]]
21* [[Characters/NewMutants Cannonball]]
22* [[Characters/NewMutants Boom-Boom]]
23* [[Characters/NewMutants Warpath]]
24* [[Characters/MarvelComicsSunspot Sunspot]]
25* [[Characters/NewMutants Rictor]]
26* [[Characters/XFactor Caliban]]
27* [[Characters/NewMutants Mirage]]
28* [[Characters/CaptainBritainAndMI13 Pete Wisdom]]
29* Characters/{{Domino|MarvelComics}}
30* [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Shatterstar]]
31[[/folder]]
32
33[[folder:Feral]]
34!!Maria Callasantos / Feral
35[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/feral_995322.jpg]]
36!!!'''Nationality:''' American
37!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
38!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''New Mutants'' #99 (March, 1991)
39
40Feral by power, nature and name. Maria Callasantos's life was dredged in mystery, deceit, and death. Once a member of X-Force, Hellions and X-Corporation, she is trying to live a new life on Krakoa.
41----
42* AnimeHair: Her hairstyle is pretty crazy. It forms some sort of stripes like those of a tiger.
43* AxCrazy: When her mutation gets the better of her.
44* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:She is among the many mutants who have been revived by the Five on Krakoa.]]
45* CatGirl: She's a mutant that developed a feline-like physiology.
46* {{Expy}}: Of Wolfsbane.
47* FaceHeelTurn: The X-Force attempted to rescue government official Henry Peter Gyrich from the terrorist Mutant Liberation Front, led by Reignfire. Feral hated Gyrich, who was no friend to mutants. Reignfire persuaded her to join the Mutant Liberation Front and to kill Gyrich, and she battled with her ex-comrades.
48* HealingFactor: Feral is capable of healing mild to moderate injuries much faster than an ordinary human. Injuries such as broken bones can completely heal within a few days. She is incapable of regenerating missing limbs or organs.
49* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Recently she clashed with Wolfsbane and Shatterstar, trying to kill Rahne and her child, but it turned out that she was just a ghost, and was returned to the world to serve as anchor for the demons and gods, which are hunting for Rahne's child.
50* PrehensileTail: Feral possesses a long, prehensile tail that she uses to help balance herself while running or during combat situations. She is also capable of supporting her weight with her tail.
51* SelfMadeOrphan: Both Feral and her sister Thornn had been abused by their stepfather until she killed their parents as well as her siblings (not Thornn though).
52* SuperSenses / TheNoseKnows: Feral possesses superhumanly acute senses of sight, smell, and hearing comparable to those of certain animals. Feral is capable of seeing with greater clarity and at greater distances than an ordinary human (even in near-total darkness). Her hearing is enhanced similarly, enabling her to both hear sounds that ordinary humans can't and to hear at much greater distances. Feral is able to use her highly developed sense of smell to track a target by scent. Her sense of smell is so acute, she is able to detect the slight chemical differences in different brands of deodorants that, supposedly, have the same scent
53* TokenEvilTeammate: Feral in the early issues was a loose cannon. She practically almost killed Cannonball during training, almost killed her enemies (only being held back by her teammates), and her teammates barely trusted her. She murdered her mother, stepfather, possibly pushed her sister to her death, and watched her little brother fall to his death(when she could have helped him)....then this led to her FaceHeelTurn.
54[[/folder]]
55
56[[folder:Siryn]]
57!!Theresa Maeve Rourke Cassidy / Siryn / Banshee / The Morrigan
58[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theresa_cassidy_xmen.png]]
59!!!'''Nationality:''' Irish
60!!!'''Species:''' Human Mutant
61!!!'''Current Group Affiliations:''' X-Men, Fallen Angels, Muir Island X-Men, X-Corporation, X-Factor, X-Force
62!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Woman'' Vol. 1 #37 (April 1981)
63
64Daughter of X-Man Sean Cassidy, Theresa was was raised by her father's cousin Black Tom Cassidy to be his partner in crime after the death of her mother. However, she eventually learned the truth of her parentage and was reunited with her father. Theresa spent the next few years jumping between X-teams while engaging in a on-off romantic relationship with Jamie Maddox, with the two becoming key members of X-Factor Investigations.
65----
66* AccidentalAimingSkills: In Issue #8 of X-Factor Volume 3, Siryn fires a "sonic lance" at a gunman's hand to disarm him. When Spider-Man congratulates her on her aim, she admits she was actually aiming for his head. Considering the sonic lance destroyed the gun and broke the man's hand, one gets the feeling she wasn't all that concerned about killing the guy.
67* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: At the end of X-Factor she became the most recent incarnation of the Celtic goddess the Morrigan.
68* CompellingVoice: Her voice works on men '''and'' [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer women]].
69* DistaffCounterpart: To her father.
70* KnightInSourArmor
71* LegacyCharacter: After coming to terms with her father's death she retired her codename of Siryn and took his codename to honor and continue his legacy.
72* MakeMeWannaShout: She has the same sonic scream as her father.
73* MamaBear: She threatens to kill Val Cooper when she thinks the latter is threatening her child.
74* MoralityPet: To Deadpool
75* MostCommonSuperPower: She's pretty busty despite being relatively young.
76* NoSell: After [[spoiler: becoming a goddess she is able to casually shrug off a blast from a {{BFG}} that was able to punch through a force field built by ''ComicBook/DoctorDoom'']]!
77* NotQuiteFlight: In the same ludicrous way her father does, by screaming.
78* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her son with Jamie turned out to have been fathered by a dupe and was thus also a dupe, causing baby Sean to be reabsorbed into him the first time he held him.
79* ParentalAbandonment: Her mother was killed in an [=IRA=] bombing while her father was undercover for Interpol and unaware that he even had a daughter. The authorities assumed Theresa died with her mother and Banshee's superiors decided not to place any more burden on him by telling him of her existence and supposed death. This allowed Black Tom to take and raise her as his own.
80* PregnantBadass: In ''X-Factor'', she becomes pregnant with Jamie's child. She is no less dangerous. If anything, she was more terrifying than before as she tells Val Cooper.
81-->'''Theresa''': My vocal cords are lethal. My estrogen levels are berserk. Between braxton-hicks and my huge belly, I haven't slept in weeks. And I gotta pee. Again. Free advice, Ms Cooper: Never bet your life on what you think you know about a hormonal, sleep-depraved W.M.D with a full bladder.
82* PutOnABus: After becoming the Morrigan, Theresa disappeared from the ''Marvel'' universe for a few years, outside of a couple of single issue appearances.
83* RecoveredAddict: She is an alcoholic, but has managed to remain on the wagon outside of one relapse the she recovered from. Theresa does have a habit of drinking water from empty wine bottles, which she says is to see if God truly loves her by turning the water into wine.
84* RedheadInGreen: Much like her father, she is a redhead and she usually dresses in green.
85* ScreamingWoman: She is a woman, whose screams are sonic weapons.
86* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: She has emerald eyes and red hair.
87* StatusQuoIsGod: As of ''ComicBook/XMen2019'' she has returned to the mutant fold, seemingly no longer the Morrigan.
88** ''ComicBook/XFactor2020'' [[spoiler:subverts this by revealing that she still has the powers of the Morrigan, but didn't use them until she died and was resurrected.]]
89* WrenchWench: She picked it up from her father.
90[[/folder]]
91
92[[folder:Bedlam]]
93!!Jesse Aaronson / Bedlam
94[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jesse_aaronson_bedlam.jpg]]
95!!!'''Nationality:''' American
96!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
97!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Force'' #82 (October, 1998)
98
99Bedlam is a mutant with the ability to generate a bio-electric field for a variety of effects. He is skilled in covert ops.
100----
101* BackFromTheDead: He is one of many mutants revived by the Five on Krakoa.
102* ElectricBlackGuy: The only Black member of the team during the "Counter-X" phase, and the one with electric powers (although it is described as a "bio-electric field").
103* {{EMP}}
104* KilledOffForReal: At one point ''crucified'' along with Skin and Jubilee. He would remain dead for years until he was revived in Krakoa.
105* MindRape: Jesse can can affect the neural chemical responses of a living brain to induce states such as pain, sleep, or confusion.
106* ShockAndAwe
107* WalkingTechbane: He can use his powers to mess up technology.
108[[/folder]]
109
110!!!Recurring Characters
111
112[[folder:Characters on other pages]]
113* [[Characters/NewMutants Lila Cheneny]]
114* [[Characters/DeadpoolSupportingCharacters Copycat]]
115* [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]]
116[[/folder]]
117
118[[folder:Risque]]
119!!Gloria Dolores Muñoz / Risque
120[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/risque.jpg]]
121!!!'''Nationality:''' American
122!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
123!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Force'' #51 (February, 1996)
124
125Formerly involved with X-Force and X-Corporation, Risque was a menacing vixen who seduced Warpath as part of a deal with Sledge. She gained real feelings for Warpath. She was killed by the U-Men and afterwards resurrected as part of Selene's undead mutant army.
126----
127* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After being dead for decades, she finally returns to life as part of S.W.O.R.D.'s new team The Six.]]
128* BadassNative: She is part-Seminole on her mother's side.
129* BecomingTheMask: She was hired to seduce Warpath but gained real feelings for him.
130* GravityMaster: Risque can create gravity fields to compress inorganic matter into small, high-density masses.
131* MostCommonSuperpower: She has a generous bust.
132* SpyCatsuit: Wears a dark blue catsuit that highlights her curves.
133* TwoferTokenMinority: She's half-Cuban and half-Seminole.
134* WeHardlyKnewYe: Risque is more remembered for her death motivating Domino to take on John Sublime in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' over anything she actually did in ''X-Force''.
135[[/folder]]
136
137[[folder:Adam X]]
138!!"Adam Neramani" / Adam-X
139[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adamxxtreme1.jpg]]
140!!!'''Nationality:''' Shi'ar Empire
141!!!'''Species:''' Shi'ar/Human mutant hybrid
142!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Force Annual'' #2 (October, 1993)
143
144Adam-X has the power to "flash fry" or burn the blood of an adversary once it has been oxygenated, usually done by opening a wound on them using his Thet'je blades.
145----
146* BizarreAlienBiology: Maybe. After surviving a headshot in Mojoworld, he claimed his brain was actually in his butt. Whether this is the literal truth or a joke is unclear, even to the other characters.
147* BloodyMurder: His powers are weaponizing other people's blood by making them bleed then igniting the oxygen in the exposed blood. Or cutting himself and making ''his own'' blood explode after bleeding on them.
148* TheBusCameBack: After not playing any important role since 2011, he finally reappeared in ''ComicBook/XFactor2020'' as the one who [[spoiler:killed Wind-Dancer at her request so she could be freed from Mojoworld]].
149* ButtMonkey: When he appears in ''X-Men '92'', it's pretty much entirely as a punchline; he thinks of himself as a hardcore revolutionary, but absolutely no one (outside of his gang of like-minded idiots) takes him seriously.
150* FacialMarkings
151* FadSuper: Why he hasn't been seen much since the 90s.
152* HalfHumanHybrid: He is a half-human, half-Shi'ar.
153* LongLostSibling: He was heavily implied to be third Summers brother in his earliest appearances. This position was ultimately taken by Vulcan. WordOfGod, however, says that he's actually the ''fourth'' Summers brother, and a half-brother at that. It may be a joke at the expense of his FadSuper status that in-universe, nobody knows this or even really cares. In 2021, twenty-eight years after his first appearance, ''X-Men Legends'' finally revealed exactly where he came from - he was a genetic experiment by Shi'ar emperor D'Ken, and is biologically the son of D'Ken and Katherine Summers, meaning, yes, he is indeed biologically the fourth Summers brother and a half-brother at that.
154* NinetiesAntiHero: He had long hair, a backwards baseball cap, and his power was to make his blood explode so he had to cut himself in battle. Oh, and technically, his full name is "[[XtremeKoolLetterz Adam X the X-Treme]]".
155** When he turned up in the ''Utopia'' crossover (2009), his nineties look was toned down by getting rid of his spiky costume and many blades. However, his backwards baseball cap and long hair still remained and he swears more than the other rioters.
156* NoSell: All the Summers brothers are mutually immune to each others' powers.
157* ScaryImpracticalArmor
158* XtremeKoolLetterz
159[[/folder]]
160
161!!''Characters/XStatix''
162
163!!The third ''[[ComicBook/XForce2008 X-Force]]'' series
164!!!Team Members
165
166[[folder:Characters on other pages]]
167* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]
168* [[Characters/NewMutants Wolfsbane]]
169* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLauraKinney X-23]]
170* [[Characters/NewMutants Warpath]]
171* [[Characters/MarvelComicsAngel Archangel]]
172* Characters/{{Domino|MarvelComics}}
173* [[Characters/NewXMenAcademyX Elixir]]
174[[/folder]]
175
176[[folder:Vanisher]]
177!!"Telford Porter" / Vanisher
178[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vanisher.jpg]]
179!!!'''Nationality:''' American
180!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
181!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #2 (November, 1963)
182
183A powerful teleporter with the ability to move himself and passengers across the planet in a single jump, the Vanisher was one of the X-Men's earliest enemies and a recent member of their X-Force Strike Team.
184----
185* AntiHero: type V
186* BackFromTheDead: He is revived by the Five on Krakoa.
187* BoxedCrook: He is kept under control by Elixir who gave him an inoperable brain tumor.
188* ButtMonkey: He's completely over his head, scared out of his mind, forced to help out by an inoperable brain tumor only Elixir can reveal, and surrounded by people willing to torture him ''on top'' of that. He later thinks he is dying of the tumor only to find out Elixir had already removed it and he had stage 4 syphilis instead, which Elixir also healed him of.
189* DirtyCoward: Most of the time if danger is around he will think of himself first and leave whoever he is working with behind. During ''[[ComicBook/XMenSecondComing Second Coming]]'', the moment he hears that Bastion's forces have been targeting mutant teleporters he splits to one of his safehouses, which had already been compromised and he is quickly gunned down.
190* MeaningfulName: "Telford Porter" sounds like teleporter, and is an alias Vanisher came up with himself.
191* {{Teleportation}}
192* UnexplainedRecovery: His return after seemingly being killed during ''Second Coming'' has never been explained.
193[[/folder]]
194
195!!!Villains
196
197[[folder:Characters on other pages]]
198* [[Characters/XMenVillainousOrganizations Reverend Craig Sinclair]]
199* [[Characters/XMenSentinels Bastion]]
200* [[Characters/WolverineRoguesGallery Kimura]]
201* [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Selene]]
202* [[Characters/XFactor Caliban]]
203* [[Characters/XMen2010sMembers Blink]]
204* [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Senyaka]]
205* [[Characters/NewXMenAcademyX Wither]]
206* [[Characters/{{Dazzler}} Mortis]]
207[[/folder]]
208
209[[folder:Leper Queen]]
210!!Leper Queen
211[[quoteright:213:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leper_queen.png]]
212!!!'''Nationality:''' American
213!!!'''Species:''' Human
214!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''House of M The Day After'' #1 (January, 2006)
215
216The Leper Queen is an anti-mutant terrorist who once had a mutant daughter of her own. Her two year-old daughter was killed when the child's powers burned down their home, also resulting in the Leper Queen's disfigurement.
217----
218* BaldnessMeansSickness: While she wears a wig, she lost all her hair in the explosion that disfigured her.
219* CoolMask: She wears her mask to cover her disfigured face.
220* FacialHorror: Her face beneath the mask is not a pretty sight.
221* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]
222* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name is unknown, although apparently her last name is Page.
223* ScarsAreForever: She allegedly started the group because of her hatred of mutants. This hatred stemmed from the fact that her daughter was born a mutant and her powers ended up killing herself and disfiguring Leper Queen's face.
224[[/folder]]
225
226[[folder:Eli Bard]]
227!!Eliphas / Eli Bard
228[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eli_bard.jpg]]
229!!!'''Nationality:''' Roman
230!!!'''Species:''' Human immortal
231!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Force'' Vol 3 #1 (April, 2008)
232
233Born Eliphas, he was a Roman senator that was bewitched by Selene and turned into a vampire-like immortal.
234----
235* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: At the end, he is executed by Selene after doing everything in her name. Even his own enemy Warpath was shocked by his death]].
236* AntiVillain: It's very hard to hate the guy once you learn his backstory. Unlike most X-Men villains, he is neither a supremacist or bigoted himself (though he would join forces with them just to meet his own objectives) and he is motivated primarily to earn Selene's love.
237* TheChessmaster: He joined the Purifiers and brought Bastion and several others deceased X-Men villains, but this was just a set up so he could feed on their souls as offering for Selene.
238* TheDragon: To Selene in ''Necrosha''.
239* FateWorseThanDeath: Selene cursed him with eternal life and banished him from her presence. He walked the Earth for ages, always separated from the woman he loved.
240* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was a HenpeckedHusband whose wife had no qualms in cuckolding with another man in front of him, which made Eliphas the laughing stock of everyone around him. Then he ran into Selene, who offered to love him forever if he were to sacrifice every soul in Rome to her. He failed and as punishment, she turned him into a vicious monster.
241* LoveMakesYouEvil: A textbook example.
242* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: As soon as he walked down his path of villainy, one moment of kindness had costed him everything.
243* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Selene had magically cursed him and made him a vampire-like being. He doesn't share the same weakness as Marvel Universe vampires.
244* PetTheDog: Horribly deconstructed, Eliphas was nice to a young slave girl and even gave her some jewels to help her family. After agreeing to sacrifice every soul of Rome, he tells the girl and her family to flee for their safety. Unfortunately for him, they ended up warning the authorities who arrived just in time to stop him from performing his spell.
245* TookALevelInBadass: Was originally a weak willed mortal man; two thousand years later, he's a vampiric immortal who almost singlehandedly manipulates the Purifiers, comes VERY close to killing X-23, and succeeds in giving Selene all she ever wanted - godhood. Unfortunately, she wasn't that grateful.
246* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: For all his faults, all he ever wanted was to be loved.
247[[/folder]]
248
249!!''ComicBook/UncannyXForce''
250!!!Team Members
251
252[[folder:Characters on other pages]]
253* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]
254* [[Characters/MarvelComicsAngel Archangel]]
255* [[Characters/XMen2010sMembers Fantomex]]
256* [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]]
257* [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psylocke]]
258* ComicBook/{{Deathlok}}
259* [[Characters/AgeOfApocalypse [=AoA=] Nightcrawler]]
260[[/folder]]
261
262!!''[[ComicBook/XForce2013 Cable and X-Force]]''
263!!!Team Members
264
265[[folder:Characters on other pages]]
266* [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]]
267* Characters/{{Domino|MarvelComics}}
268* [[Characters/NewMutants Boom-Boom]]
269* [[ComicBook/GenerationHope Hope Summers]]
270* [[Characters/XClub Doctor Nemesis]]
271* [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]]
272[[/folder]]
273
274!!The fifth ''[[ComicBook/XForce2018 X-Force]]'' series
275!!!Team Members
276
277[[folder:Characters on other pages]]
278* [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Kid Cable]]
279* Characters/{{Domino|MarvelComics}}
280* [[Characters/NewMutants Cannonball]]
281* [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Shatterstar]]
282* [[Characters/NewMutants Boom-Boom]]
283* [[Characters/NewMutants Warpath]]
284* ComicBook/{{Deathlok}}
285[[/folder]]
286
287!!The sixth ''[[ComicBook/XForce2019 X-Force]]'' series
288!!!Team members
289
290[[folder:Characters on other pages]]
291* [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]]
292* [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Black Tom Cassidy]]
293* [[Characters/{{Domino|MarvelComics}}
294* [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]]
295* [[Characters/XMen2000sMembers Sage]]
296* [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]
297* [[Characters/WolverineRoguesGallery Omega Red]]
298* [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]]
299[[/folder]]
300
301[[folder:Kid Omega]]
302!!Quintavius "Quentin" Quirinius Quire / Kid Omega / Old Man Omega
303[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quintavius_quire_earth_616_from_west_coast_avengers_vol_3_5_001.jpg]]
304!!! '''Nationality:''' American, Krakoan
305!!! '''Species:''' Human mutant
306!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''New X-Men'' #134 (January, 2003)
307
308--> ''I'm only playing devil's advocate, Professor. You've always encouraged us to dream... I just wondered what would happen if one of us had a dream you didn't like?''
309\
310
311Quintavius Quirinius Quire (more commonly known as Quentin Quire or Kid Omega) first appeared in Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly’s ''New X-Men'' #134 in 2003.
312
313A mutant student of Xavier's introduced in the early 2000s, Quentin was trouble from the start. Gifted with prodigious psychic powers in addition to a brilliant mind, he had neither the maturity nor the character to handle his gifts. After a series of escalating rebellious 'stunts', he finally rallied a gang of flunkies and seized control of the school in a failed bid to win the respect of Sophie Cuckoo. Though Quire died of a drug overdose after this story, he was brought back a handful of times over the years, culminating in his full return to the school and HeelFaceTurn[[note]]including a notable incident where he used the last little bit of his Phoenix shard to cure Jubilee's vampirism and give her her powers back[[/note]].
314
315After a short stint with a new iteration of the [[ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018 West Coast Avengers]], Quentin joined the new mutant nation of Krakoa. He was quickly recruited into the newly reformed X-Force as a black ops agent. He surprisingly found himself entering a relationship with Phoebe Cuckoo and dealing with the frustration of not having lived up to his full potential. Sadly, in 2022 he performed a HeroicSacrifice against a sentient, malevolent version of Cerebro which seemingly removed him from existence (including deleting all of his past backups in Cerebro, which renders any chance of resurrecting him impossible)... until he [[https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-force-41-quentin-quire-old-man-omega returned in 2023 as "Old Man Omega"]], having fused himself with Cerebrax and time-travelled in an attempt to stop Beast's machinations[[note]]he also revealed that he himself had been the one to remove his backups from Cerebro[[/note]].
316
317He survived the events of the disastrous Hellfire Gala of 2023 and was on the run with Logan (finding and rescuing Phoebe from the rubble of Krakoa in the process), but was [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice murdered]] and eaten alive by a bunch of multiversal Sabretooths on Logan's birthday (time will tell if this one sticks).
318----
319* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Sophie Cuckoo. All of the Stepford Cuckoos thought he was unpleasant with terrible B.O. long before Quire went off the deep end, and when he revealed that he started the riot at the Institute in order to impress Sophie, the Cuckoos responded with "Ew" before psychically taking him down. In fact, when Quire briefly revives Sophie in ''Endgame'', she makes it perfectly clear she'd rather stay dead then have anything to do with him (which makes more sense since he's one of the reasons why she died).
320** Averted later when he and Phoebe end up getting together instead.
321* AdoptionAngst: Got a rather nasty shock when the woman he thought was his birth mother dropped him at Xavier's then later told him over the phone that he was adopted - oh, and this was ''on his birthday''. This triggered the majority of his issues/insecurity complex.
322* AlliterativeName: To the point where it's revealed at one point that his real name is 'Quintavius'. Yes, his full name is 'Quintavius Quirinius Quire'. No ''wonder'' he's such a little shit.
323* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Fell for one of the Stepford Cuckoos. She wasn't interested. He took it very badly.
324* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Then he came back.
325* AttentionWhore: One of his most glaring character flaws. Like the immature child he is, Quire ''constantly'' has to be the center of attention. Later grows out of this, and instead develops into someone who'd much rather be left alone - largely due to his generalised contempt of the rest of humanity. Aspects do return in his appearance in ''Thor'', when he temporarily becomes the new god of the Shi'ar (the old Gods having violated certain divine laws by summoning the Phoenix to their dispute with ComicBook/{{Thor|2014}} (Jane Foster), and Quire talking the entity in question into backing off and leaving him with a fragment of its power), and ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018'', when he cons a TV crew into making a reality show about him by lying about being in a superhero team and then essentially inviting himself to the WCA once they catch on.
326* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Quentin's original character design was [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kidomega.png not even remotely attractive]], with harsh, angular features and a leering SmugSnake's smirk. Compare that to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/f/fc/Wolverine_and_the_X-Men_Vol_1_3_Textless.jpg his WXM design]] and then his modern day look on this page.
327* BigDamnHeroes: Uses his shard of the Phoenix Force to transform ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} from a vampire back into a human being (and just in time, too, as she'd almost been killed by an Emplate-possessed [[Characters/MarvelComicsMonetStCroix Monet]]).
328** His psychic realization that Phoebe was still alive (in diamond form) underneath the ruins of Krakoa and rescuing her also counts.
329* BrilliantButLazy: He has mountains of power and intelligence that he almost never applies past petty, if still grand, acts of rebellion, preferring to brag about being better than others instead.
330* ButtMonkey: Since his transition from villain to hero (or at minimum hero-adjacent), this has been used to preserve his characterization while also making him palatable. Every time he gets a little too smug for his own good, an X-lady (Rachel in particular relishes the role) is there to give him a good kick in the pants.
331** When he joins [[Characters/XMenKrakoans Krakoa]]’s [[ComicBook/XForce2019 X-Force]], he gets [[TheyKilledKennyAgain killed more often than anyone else on the team]]. This is mitigated by The Five’s [[DeathIsCheap ability to resurrect mutants]] but he’s still not pleased about it.
332*** Made horrifying when, while investigating several deaths that he couldn't remember, he and Phoebe discover that he had been held captive and tortured by XENO. He had a brief HeroicBSOD until she helped him get over it (and additionally process his other issues regarding his family and his inferiority complex in general).
333** It's also made quite clear during ''Battle of the Atom'' that the Phoenix considers him to be second best compared to Jean or one of her relatives.
334* CasanovaWannabe: He does tend to successfully woo girls his own age after his return, but more often then not he strikes out.
335* CharacterDevelopment: By the modern day, he seems to have grown out of his revolutionary pretensions and FantasticRacism, instead favoring a kind of bored apathy born of thinking that everyone else in the world is an idiot.
336* DeadpanSnarker: Driven by the fact that he's an InsufferableGenius who thinks everyone else is an idiot.
337* DrivenToMadness: As originally written, Kid Omega was just another UnwittingPawn out of many to John Sublime. The drug Quire kept taking [[spoiler:was actually an aerosol form of Sublime's true form]].
338* DrugsAreBad: His original appearance had him boosting his powers with the aid of the mutant drug Kick and eventually overdosing on it.
339* DumpedViaTextMessage: How his relationship with [[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]] ended, because of her insane plan to seduce [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] so [[NoFourthWall she'd have something cool to put on the comics cover.]]
340* EmoTeen: Can come off as this, particularly in his modern incarnation.
341* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: In an awesome showcase of how [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascending to the astral plane]] taught him ''nothing'', Quire announced his return to the land of the living by hijacking airwaves around the world to air the dirty secrets of various world leaders. The incident didn't ''quite'' incite the global mutant uprising he hoped for, though he did get to spend a brief time shackled in the custody of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica over the stunt. Interestingly, this incident wasn't forgotten; see EnemyMine below.
342* EnemyMine: ''A+X'' #4 had him being forced to team up with Captain America, who is essentially the living embodiment of everything Quire hates. The team-up was... well, ''interesting'', if not particularly productive. It ends with Cap ''throwing'' Quentin back into the Jean Grey School while Quentin quotes [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] ... which is staged because Cap respects that this is what Quentin needed the other students to see.
343* EnergyBeing: Per ''X-Men: Schism'', Quentin's ascension to another plane of existence was actually the result of his secondary mutation activating, which apparently turned him into this. Finding non-corporeality "boring", he chose to return to his human form and became TheFettered.
344* FantasticRacism: Of the anti-human variety. He was fond of whipping up these feelings in fellow students too via his EmotionControl. Now, he doesn't seem to care.
345* TheFettered: Surprisingly enough for a little shit like him, but he has willingly chosen to be this. Keep reading for the specifics.
346* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: A form he himself is comfortable with, as he reverted to his human body after becoming an EnergyBeing because he found the latter to be boring.
347* FreudianExcuse: It eventually comes out in X-Force that his self-destructive behavior that lead to his excessive deaths and erratic identity issues is a form of self-punishment born from a suppressed memory of [[SelfMadeOrphan killing his birth parents with his powers]].
348* TheFriendNobodyLikes: In every book he’s been in there’s maybe one person that likes him while the others at best tolerate him in varying degrees.
349** Wolverine apparently now considers him "one of his cubs", which makes it even worse [[ItMakesSenseInContext when a bunch of Sabretooths murder him in an attempt to get to Logan on his birthday.]]
350* FunTShirt: His T-shirts, which have a different snarky catchphrase on them in each appearance. It's eventually revealed that it's actually blank and that he's telepathically casting an illusion it has a design.
351* FusionDance: Appears to have done one with Cerebrax, although it hasn't gone smoothly.
352-->''[[MadnessMantra Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin is Cerebrax is Quentin]]''
353* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In his first appearances, Quire was a thinly-veiled analogue to [[TeensAreMonsters Klebold-Harris type kids]]. Years later, writers more sympathetic to his position reformed him by focusing on more of his TragicVillain tendencies. Inevitably, he always ends up going too far and making a public enemy of himself.
354** Since joining the Jean Grey School, and what happens thereafter (including joining the ''West Coast Avengers''), he's settled on Face - and while he's still a smug prick for much of that, a BreakTheHaughty experience or three has made him think a lot more bearable to be around.
355* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Per ''X-Men: Schism'', he willingly holds himself back from the full range of his abilities by choosing to return to and remain in his corporeal human form rather than the Energy Being state his secondary mutation activated.
356* HiveQueen: In ''Age of Apocalypse'' his psychic potential is apparently low. He figured out to compensate for it with a "psychic pyramid scheme" where he mind controls low level telepaths en masse to funnel their power into him. He refers to himself as the Overmind - which if nothing else, demonstrates that his ego is more consistent than his power set.
357* ImpossibleGenius: Supposedly he thinks ten billion "brilliant thoughts" per ''second''.
358* InNameOnly: Quite literally in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', as a minor character in that movie is called Kid Omega but is not even a lousy adaptation of Quire -- he's actually an adaptation of ''Quill'', a TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth member of the X-students, and was given Quire's codename by mistake. A more accurate design can briefly be seen at the end of ''Film/DarkPhoenix''.
359* InformedAbility: According to his bio, Quire is apparently one of the most powerful telepaths and telekinetics on the planet, with telepathy on the level of the Greys and telekinesis that rivals that of Vulcan and Apocalypse. Nothing he has ever done lives up to this hyping -- Rachel, Jean, and the Stepford Cuckoos have all owned him for free in every confrontation he's ever had with them, he's never even gone up against any of the mutant heavy hitters, and his greatest telekinetic feat is [[https://i.imgur.com/u3y23kA.jpg putting a smashed room back together brick by brick]] -- not a bad showing to be sure, but again nothing that seems to merit the much vaunted "omega" designation.
360** [[FridgeBrilliance Then again,]] Quire is consistently shown to very rarely learn anything from his experiences. As a result, his relatively limited powers (compared to where they should be) are perhaps because he's never really worked at them, or had to work at it - Rachel underwent TrainingFromHell, Jean levelled up over time under Xavier's guidance, while the Cuckoos trained under Jean, Xavier, and Emma Frost. Quire, on the other hand, thinks he doesn't need to listen to anyone - meaning that he doesn't actually ''learn'' anything.
361** By the mid New 10's, he's become somewhat more consistent, developing his psychic weaponry more effectively and, when his powers get chopped back, using them more effectively on the WCA. He's still not on the same level as any of the above, but there's now at least some justification to his claims. Some.
362* HeroicSacrifice: In ''X-Force'' he performs this to rescue Krakoa from Cerebrax (a sentient version of Cerebro that was eating mutants' brains); after which a distraught Phoebe realizes she can no longer sense his mind, and Sage discovers that he has been wiped from the Cerebro records, thus making any attempt at resurrecting him impossible... [[spoiler:at least until he returns as "Old Man Omega", having merged with Cerebrax, removed all his backups from the records and travelled forward through time in an attempt to stop Beast.]]
363* [[InsufferableGenius Insufferable]] TeenGenius: Frequently to SmugSnake levels. Emma compliments his intelligence and in the Age Of Apocalypse universe Jean notes his intellect is more exceptional than his powers.
364* InexplicablyAwesome: No reason is given for why this "My Little Brony" (as Hellion so memorably calls him) was chosen by the Phoenix Force to be one of its hosts.
365* JamesBondage: His attempt to infiltrate the Hellfire Academy really didn't end well for him and he ended up having to be rescued by Toad and Idie.
366* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Gold would be stretching it, but in the 2010s he has proven willing to be helpful to the X-Men without being arm-twisted into it. He also develops an OddFriendship with Krakoa, the rest of the ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018'' team, and, bafflingly, a relationship with ''[[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]]'' of all people. The most definitive example is when he experiences the depth of feeling that elephants are capable of and suggests aid for conservationists in Africa.
367* KarmaHoudini: The most recent time he came back, when he was accepted into Wolverine's X-academy with little more than [[EasilyForgiven a nod and a wink]] to his past actions -- though that might be because as was observed when he was handed over, doing that was more likely to turn him into something ''other'' than a monster, and if he was Wolverine's school, he had ComicBook/RachelSummers to keep an eye on him (which is useful, since she proved able to turn his brains to porridge when required).
368* KavorkaMan: Is usually depicted as not very attractive, if not outright grotesque, but since his HeelFaceTurn he's gotten many girls who are out of his league to go out with him, most recently the identical twin[[note]]Phoebe Cuckoo[[/note]] of his long time unrequited crush[[note]]Sophie Cuckoo[[/note]].
369* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: He and his flunkies literally download a schematic of a psi-blocking helmet off the Internet in order to subdue Professor X. Presumably Chuck installed filtering software on his school's computers after this escapade.
370* LoveMakesYouCrazy: In ''New X-Men'', he's the classic neckbeard who goes all StalkerWithACrush when rejected (really, it's a surprise we never see Quire eating Doritos and guzzling Mountain Dew). Mercifully, he grows out of it.
371* {{Mutant}}: Wields PsychicPowers, if consistently ill-defined ones:
372** EmotionControl: Frequently abused to fire up his fellow teens into acts of rebellion.
373** HavingABlast: He calls this his 'psychic shotgun', and forms a mental construction of a shotgun - or, latterly, a revolver - to wield it.
374** MasterOfIllusion: At least if Marvel editor Jordan D. White is to be believed, as according to him Quire's signature T-shirts are all really blank and he just telepathically whips up illusions of whatever slogan of the day he wants them to have. Considering his personality, this makes a certain amount of sense.
375** MentalWorld: Is capable of creating one within his own head. He loses control shortly after testing it out by taking Armor and Wolverine up into it though.
376** MindManipulation: Being a high-order telepath, he is capable of mind control. At one point he was successfully able to control ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} himself.
377** MindOverMatter: Wields limited telekinetic abilities, though he doesn't seem to be at Jean Grey levels.
378** {{Telepathy}}: Called "one of the most powerful telepaths of his generation" by Professor X. However, he's no match for Rachel Grey, as he finds out the hard way.
379* NightmareFetishist: Apparently has a fascination with serial killers (revealed in conversation with a more or less reformed John Sublime, who was unimpressed), managed to use all the horrors in his head to destroy an Arkea-animated Sentinel, and when mind-probed by Psylocke, what she saw in there was enough to thoroughly disgust her:
380--> '''Psylocke''': You perverted little scrub--
381--> '''Quentin Quire''': If you can't take the heat, get the hell out of my imagination.
382* OppositesAttract: The most reasonable explanation of him falling for [[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwen Poole]] in ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018''. They literally have nothing in common except for dyed pink hair and when they start out, literally LoveToHate each other, which morphs to BelligerentSexualTension fairly quickly. He's an ultra powerful mutant, who likes to ''play up'' his own uniqueness and deep understanding of reality to serve his own ego, but actually just follows the status quo at the end of the day, she's (initially) a baseline human [[PowerBornOfMadness warps reality with her actually unique]] [[FourthWallObserver understanding of the world]] so a free spirit in ways he can't even start to understand. Oddly enough, it ends up developing into a reasonably happy and functional relationship.
383* ObliviousAdoption: Is informed by his parents that he's adopted, on his birthday, and over the phone. It's after this that [[FreakOut he dyed his hair and started lashing out]].
384* OddFriendship: With Krakoa, who makes up the grounds of the Jean Grey School and later, it would seem, Quire's personal desert island. Certainly, Krakoa seems to be the only person he actually likes. He later gets a soft spot for Benjamin Deeds who is on of the few students who can tolerate him.
385** Astonishingly, he also ends up getting a couple of moments like this with Teen Jean - oddly enough after his immediate thought is that he'll never forgive himself if he doesn't score with her. Mostly, she's just amused, and remarks that it's refreshing to be looked at as something other than TheParagon or TheDreaded, and they get on surprisingly well.
386* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Xavier often describes Quire as his #1 student, so ''of course'' Quire winds up walking around wearing 'Magneto Was Right' T-shirts and leading student riots.
387* PetTheDog: Gave up his Phoenix shard in order to save Jubilee's life, which it did by reverting her from a vampire to a mutant.
388* PowerCreepPowerSeep: He's an omega level telepath in the main timeline (though his powers take a dive in the late 2010s after another encounter with the Phoenix, but remain formidable), but a low-level one in the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse. Possibly the result of ForWantOfANail, but it's never specified.
389* PurelyAestheticGlasses: He used to need his glasses, but requested after some resurrections on Krakoa to have his vision corrected. He still wears them, even using his powers to wear an armless holographic pair to go with a new uniform.
390* ProgressivelyPrettier: He was downright ''ugly'' in his original appearances. Later appearances have smoothed out his face and given him more stylish hair and clothing.
391* RandomPowerRanking: While it was hinted at before, 2019's ''House of X'' title confirms him to be an omega level mutant.
392* RealMenWearPink: He apparently is a believer in this, if his hair is anything to go by.
393* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: For his first foray as a supervillain Quire, along with the rest of his "Omega Gang", adopted this look.
394* SelfMadeOrphan: Unwillingly - his first manifestation of his powers wound up killing his birth parents.
395* SmallNameBigEgo: Considers Professor X and Magneto to be yesterday's news and himself to be the revolutionary mutantkind needs to 'wake up'. Wolverine dismisses his actions as pretty low-level, when goading him into helping Wolverine cheat at an intergalactic casino to fund the Jean Grey School, and the fact that no one actually cares about him becomes a RunningGag. It's later played more seriously as Quentin takes a long, hard look at himself and realises that yeah, he's this trope.
396--> '''Quentin Quire''': I am apparently the only mutant in all of Westchester County who is not a complete and utter ''imbecile''. If it wasn't already a certainty, it is now.
397* SmugSnake: Frequently. He tries to mess with Rachel Grey's head by bringing up her Hound memories, simply for the sake of SuperDickery. Rachel was not fazed and fried his brain within two seconds.
398* StalkerWithACrush: Towards Sophie Cuckoo. Mercifully, he grew out of it.
399* SuperDickery: The aforementioned 'air the dirty secrets of all the world leaders' stunt. Sure, it felt good to ''[[ItsAllAboutMe him]]'', but it drew a big red bullseye on the backs of all his fellow mutants he claimed to be doing it for, and Wolverine dismisses it (and the riot) as pretty pathetic, considering.
400** He also tries this on Rachel Grey, digging up her Hound memories with a smug smirk. [[CurbStompBattle About two seconds later, she floors him]] and gives him a PsychicNosebleed for good measure.
401* TeenageWasteland: Turns the Xavier Institute into this for all of a few hours in the ''Riot at Xavier's'' story.
402* TeensAreMonsters: Particularly in his original incarnation, where he was essentially a school shooter with superpowers.
403* TheyKilledKennyAgain: During ''ComicBook/XForce2019'', he has the annoying tendency (for him) of getting killed and then being revived. His reaction at his most recent killing: OhNoNotAgain.
404** He apparently gets killed off permanently after sacrificing himself to stop Cerebrax, [[spoiler:but comes back a year as "Old Man Quire". He seems to die again after taking out a [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext sentient Beast planet]], but somehow manages to survive both that and an impossibly long fall back to Earth - although he vomits up a strange-looking slug after impact.]]
405* TokenEvilTeammate: Even after making his HeelFaceTurn, he still remains an amoral dick who just so happens to not be a full-on villain anymore.
406* TookALevelInKindness: His relationship with Gwenpool shows him slowly coming to care for her and her well-being. By the end of ''West Coast Avengers,'' he and Gwen have moved beyond their SlapSlapKiss relationship and decide to become a loving couple. The kinship he develops with Gwen's pet land-shark, Jeff, implies that he's changing for the better.
407** Continued on with his relationship with Phoebe, as well as his rescue of Jubilee.
408* UnskilledButStrong: On paper he's a major heavyweight but is near effortlessly humbled by anyone with a similar but equal, or even technically weaker, powerset that can draw on deeper experience to use it with.
409* UnwittingPawn: Quire's return to corporeality was retconned after the fact to be the work of Kade Kilgore, who knew that the impulsive young mutant would do something stupid to heighten anti-mutant tensions upon his return to Earth.
410* WholeCostumeReference: His striped shirt and whip look was based on an "artist's impression of a mutant overlord" used to justify FantasticRacism in ''X-Men'' #14, back in 1965.
411* YoungConqueror: Often portrayed as wanting to ''be'' this but being too wet behind the ears to pull it off.
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