!CharacterSheet for the ComicBook/XMen's Secondary Teams.

->''"Force, Factor, Men, it does get so confusing. Let me elucidate. X-Force does things with an overabundance of testosterone. X-Factor, a modicum of humor."''
-->'''Beast''', laying out the state of things in TheNineties

The X-Men have various spinoff and sister teams helmed by other mutants.

The most prominent and steady one is the "Junior X-Men" team, which has gone through many name-changes (ComicBook/NewMutants, ComicBook/GenerationX, [[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX New X-Men]], and the Young X-Men) but retains the mission of preparing teenage mutants for the hardships mutants must go through and gives them the training they need to defend themselves and become X-Men in the future if they wish. These teams have to have a ''very'' high mortality rate, as the writers usually employ a shotgun strategy of introducing new characters - tossing out a ton of them at a time and killing off anyone who doesn't become popular. This leads to even more angst and survivor's guilt for the remaining members of the teenage teams. Only a few members graduate to the actual X-Men, with the rest killed off, depowered, or sent into comic book limbo. Because of this, these series have a very high reader turnover rate.

ComicBook/XFactor started out as an undercover team of the original five X-Men members pretending to hunt down mutants, while secretly protecting them and aiding them. In the '90s, X-Factor more or less became a team of X-Men working for the government; this ended up going badly. Eventually, a couple of members of that team got back together with some other C-list mutants to become became X-Factor Investigations, led by Multiple Man - who are superhero detectives for hire. The "detectives" part stayed the same during the ComicBook/DawnOfX-era when X-Factor investigated mutant deaths and approved them for resurrection.

When MediaNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}} hit, the New Mutants got [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdarked]] into ComicBook/XForce, a paramilitary team with big guns, bigger shoulder pads, and questionable anatomy. Eventually, X-Force went back to more character-focused stories before being given a DarkerAndEdgier ReTool ''again'' and then being killed off. That was when things got interesting. Another team who bought the X-force name to use as a superhero team based on reality television, back when that hadn't been run into the ground yet. They had to change to ComicBook/XStatix when the real X-Force was forced to come out of the shadows and admit they weren't dead after all, so the name was ''not'' up for grabs like they'd thought in the first place. X-Statix was a [[MindScrew rather strange]] series where the team members [[KilledOffForReal died]], [[AnyoneCanDie a lot]]. Nowadays X-Force is back as the X-Men's black ops team, while the original New Mutants are back together under that name. And when ''that'' X-Force was disbanded, Wolverine and Angel decided to keep it as an unofficial mutant death-squad as the ''Uncanny'' X-Force. Confusing enough?

'''Remember''', this page is for characters and examples from the Prime Marvel Universe X-Men series only. Please do not list characters, or examples from other shows, movies or alternate universes here. If you have thought of a trope that fits anyone in their rogues gallery from another universe please take that example to its respective page.

'''WARNING:''' There are unmarked spoilers on these sheets for all but the most recent comics.
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!!Prime Marvel Universe [[note]]Earth-616[[/note]]

!!!Secondary teams
[[index]]
* Characters/ChildrenOfTheAtom: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Cyclops-Lass, Gimmick, Cherub, Marvel Guy, and Daycrawler[[/labelnote]]
* [[Characters/ExcaliburMarvelComics Excalibur]]: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Captain Britain, Gloriana, Black Knight, Faiza Hussein, Pete Wisdom, Spitfire, Blade, Kylun, John the Skrull, Captain Midlands, Cerise, Feron, Opal Saturnyne, Courtney Ross, The Fury, Mad Jim Jaspers, Albion, Gravemoss[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/GenerationHope: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Hope Summers, Oya, Primal, Velocidad, Transonic, Zero[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/GenerationX: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Banshee, Synch, Husk, Skin, M, Chamber, Hollow, Mondo, The M-Twins, Leech, Artie, Franklin Richards, Gaia, Blink, Maggott, Emplate, D.O.A., White Queen, Dirtnap, Bianca [=LaNeige=], Sentinel Girl, Miguela Tores, Cordelia Frost, Cartier St. Croix, Chief Authier and Tracy Authier, Tristan Brawn[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/NewMutants: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Mirage, Cannonball, Karma, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Cypher, Warlock, Magma, Magik, Firefist, Skids, Boom-Boom, Rictor, Empath, Catseye, Jetstream, Roulette, Tarot, Warpath, White Bishop, Magus, Legion, Lila Cheney, Maxime and Manon[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/NewXMenAcademyX: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Wind-Dancer, Prodigy, Surge, Elixir, Wallflower, Icarus, Hellion, Mercury, Rockslide, Tag, Dust, Wither, Pixie, Anole, Gentle, Graymalkin, Ink, Cipher, Stepford Cuckoos, Loa, Aero, Match, Trance, Wolf Cub, Blindfold, DJ[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/SWORD2009: [[labelnote:Click to expand]] Abigail Brand, Henry Peter Gyrich, Agent Deems, Sydren [[/labelnote]]
* Characters/XClub:
* Characters/XCorp:
* Characters/XFactor: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Caliban, Firefist, Artie, Skids, Boom-Boom, Rictor, Wiz Kid, Cameron Hodge, Frenzy, Tower, Stinger, Timeshadow, Multiple Man, Strong Guy, Quicksilver, Valerie Cooper, Random, Shard, Wild Child, Archer, Fixx, Greystone, Layla Miller, Darwin[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/XForce: [[labelnote:Click to expand]] Domino, Shatterstar, Feral, Banshee, Bedlam, Risque, Copycat, Adam X, Elixir, Vanisher, Purifiers, Reverend Craig, Bastion, Leper Queen, Kimura, Eli Bard, Selene, Blink, Senyaka, Wither, Mortis, Kid Omega/Quentin Quire[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/XStatix: [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Mr. Sensitive/Orphan, U-Go Girl, Vivisector, Anarchist, Doop, Bloke, Dead Girl, Phat, Coach, Spike Freeman, the Spike, Venus Dee Milo, El Guapo, Henrietta Hunter, Saint Anna, Lacuna, Arnie Lundberg, Mister Code[[/labelnote]]
* Characters/XTerminators:

!!Other teams
* ComicBook/{{Alpha Flight}}: Canada's national superteam. Extremely prone to infighting. The only team afiliated with the X-Men to constantly have a majority of non-mutant members, but more likely to have mutants than most non-X-Men teams. Tends to go through a lot of ConspiracyRedemption, since the Marvel version of Canada leans towards evil, racism, and fascism for some reason.
* ComicBook/{{Exiles}}: A group of dimension-hopping mutants out to help the multiverse - sort of like ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' meets ''X-Men''
* ComicBook/{{Hellions}}: A group of "bad" mutants on Krakoa during the ComicBook/DawnOfX era. Since they cannot just live peacefully, the Quiet Council has put them under the command of Mister Sinister to allow them to use their mutations in a healthier way -- mainly in black-ops suicide missions. The team is led by [[ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} Kwannon]], with members including Havok, Greycrow, Empath, Wild Child, Nanny and Orphan-Maker.
* ComicBook/{{Marauders|2019}}: A group of mutant pirates working during the ComicBook/DawnOfX era. Led by Captain [[ComicBook/KittyPryde Kate Pryde]], their mission is to rescue any mutant who can't get to Krakoa and facilitate the black market shipmets of Krakoan drugs. Do not confuse with Mister Sinister's [[Characters/XMenMarauders Marauders]].
* ComicBook/{{Starjammers}}: A team of heroic SpacePirates who pop up occasionally when one of the X-series is doing a space opera story. Their leader, Corsair is [[LukeIAmYourFather Cyclops's long-lost dad]].
* [[ComicBook/XTremeXMen2001 X-Treme X-Men]]: A short-lived splinter group that acted more internationally, [[WalkingTheEarth traveling the world, wandering the earth looking for adventure.]]
[[/index]]
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