Characters that have appeared in X-Force or X-Statix.
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The original first X-Force series
Team Members
Nathan Summers / CableSee Cable, Samuel Guthrie / CannonballSee New MutantsNeena Thurman / Domino
Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: Domino has the power to alter probability, and prefers to use that ability in conjunction with firearms. She can thus perform outstandingly improbable trick-shots, including multiple-ricochet bulls-eyes against moving targets.
Red-Headed Hero: While the length of his hair has changed dramatically over the past twenty years, he's always been a redhead, or at least very strawberry-blond.
Refugee From TV Land: Comes from Mojoworld, where television is life; tends to say things like "May you have many spinoffs."
Take That: His bisexuality, and Marvel's insistence on its remaining canon, seems to be an open dig on creator Liefeld's own aversion to gay characters.
Vibro Weapon: His seldom-used mutant power is to generate vibrations from his body, turning his swords into these. The number of times he has actually used this power on-panel, however, can be counted on both hands.
What Is This Thing You Call Love?: He was brought up to be a killing machine, to have no sense of emotional connections with people. Most of his character growth since his first appearance has been about learning all about human emotions.
Self-Made Orphan: 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).
Token Evil Teammate: Feral in the early issues was a loose cannon. She pratically 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 Face Heel Turn.
Tabitha 'Tabby' SmithSee X-FactorJames Proudstar / Warpath See New MutantsTheresa Cassidy / Siryn / Banshee
Roberto da Costa / SunspotSee New MutantsJulio Richter / RictorSee X-FactorCalibanSee X-FactorDanielle Moonstar / MirageSee New MutantsJesse Aaronson / Bedlam
C-List Fodder: At one point cruxified along with Skin and Jubilee.
Long Lost Sibling: Heavily implied to have been the third Summers brother... Word Of God, however, says that he's just the fourth, and a half-brother at that.
Nineties Anti-Hero: 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 "Adam X the X-Treme".
Recently when he turned up in Utopia crossover, 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.
Scary Impractical Armor: Stryfe wore a suit of armour that looked like it was made out of blades, giving many readers the impression that he'd decapitate himself if he ever shrugged his shoulders.
Split at Birth: Stryfe was created as a clone of the infant Cable who was severely infected with techno-organic virus and would make him as a perfect copy in case the original dies. Unfortunately, he was then kidnapped and raised by the evil Apocalypse.
Off with His Head!: In X-Cutioner's Song crossover, Kamikaze charged behind Archangel (who was busy fighting Forearm) as a sneak attack but he was accidentally decapitated when Archangel swung his sharp metallic wings.
Meaningful Name: As mentioned above, his reckless overconfidence had cost his life.
Boom-Boom (to Archangel): Well, I guess with a name like Kamikaze, you just know he's gonna buy it.
Butt Monkey: Poor Reaper always loses his limbs at every fight and getting artificial limb replacements.
For the Evulz: Reaper enjoys his terrorist work, looking as it's more fun than as a job.
The Paralyzer: Reaper can paralyze his foes by touching them from contact through his skin or scythe before finishing them off but with his artificial limbs, it has less effect.
Heel Face Revolving Door: Although she was allied with MLF, she once seemed to see error in those ways and tried to retire to a normal life. However in Messiah Complex crossover, she reappeared as a villain again when she joined the Acolytes led by Exodus. And in the end, she moved to Utopia and began to work with the X-Men, fighting both Empath and Selene's army.
Time Master: Tempo can manipulate time, though only in her immediate vicinity. Most often she slows or stops her opponents or speeds herself or her teammates.
Kristina Anderson / Thumbelina
Big Sister Instinct: When she heard that her brother (Slab from Nasty Boys) was taken into custody by X-Factor, she went on a mission with her team to bust him out of prison and scolded her brother for getting himself captured.
Out, Damned Spot!: Tike has a handwashing compulsion that gets worse during his period as official team leader.
Sunglasses at Night: While it's never addressed, he is always seen wearing his shades, even in flashbacks to his childhood and in the shower. The implication that they're prescription is fairly strong.
Captain Ethnic: Every gay stereotype you can imagine rolled up into one
Manly Gay: An avid bodybuilder and an especially brutal vigilante
Retirony: Before the new X-Force's first mission he has a romantic get together with his boyfriend and it's established that he's the only member of the team in a relationship. He dies very soon afterward.
From a Single Cell: In her first appearance, she gets reduced to a pile of smoking mush on the floor by an energy blast, but totally regenerates a few minutes later.
Progressively Prettier: Early issues often have her drawn looking quite wizened and mummified, but soon she ends up more usually just looking like a really hot girl with blue-grey skin and rings round her eyes.
Memetic Sex God: Doop, in-series and to much of the book's fandom.
Noodle Incident: Doop's history before joining the team is occasionally hinted at but never really explored. Suffice it to say, he knows Wolverine well enough that Wolvie knows Doop-speak.
Suddenly Sexuality: Revealed to be bisexual in a comic issue after the main run.
Wing Ding Lish: However, it has been claimed that Doop's dialogue is in a wingding font known as "Roswell Wreckage".
Companion Cube: He talks to his skateboard when nobody else is around, and even has arguments with it that sometimes get physical. Whether he's out of his mind and doing it himself or the board is partially sentient is never established.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Received probably the single most unceremonious death of any member of the team.
New Meat: After joining the team he has his own mini arc about getting used to it
Latin Lover: With a name that means "the handsome one"...
Executive Meddling: Was in fact originally intended to be Diana, Princess of Wales, but Marvel chickened out when it was too late to do anything but a hurried job of changing the original dialogue and artwork.
The Cape: During his time with X-Statix he tried his damnedest to adhere to this archetype and his innocent worship pushed the rest of the team to at least try and do the same.
Death Seeker: Has a secret death wish, if his daily game of Russian Roulette is any indication.
Disability Superpower: In an interesting use of the trope, the Orphan's senses are so strong that they're extremely debilitating.
Meaningful Rename: After his first mission, which involved reuniting a child with his parents, he changed his codename to "the Orphan" so he'd never forget his roots. He kept the name even after discovering his parents had been alive the whole time, partially on the advice of his publicist.
Reincarnation Romance: parodied in the Dead Girl miniseries: we find Guy initially searching for Edie in Heaven, but later find out that they already resumed their love affair there and that she dumped him because she wasn't ready to make an eternal commitment.
Super Senses: The Orphan's powers, exaggerated to the point of deconstruction.
Armoured Closet Gay: After claiming he was never really gay and that was just a phase he was going through; somehow this caused his powers to become unreliable/disappear almost entirely until he told the truth and permanently came out.
Heroic Sacrifice: Dies shielding everyone else from the bomb implanted in Mister Code's body.
Multiple Choice Past: When Phat first appears, he had a happy upper-class upbringing and is only pretending to have been a hard-luck gangbanger. When his parents appear a second time, they really are white trash (although it's possible they might be acting as well).
Shock Value Relationship: Vivisector and Phat's relationship started as a publicity stunt, and they eventually decided that while they are both gay, that's all it was and they were never really attracted to each other.
Stout Strength: His powers are that he can fill up his body with extradimensional gunk, causing it to balloon to grotesque proportions and increasing his strength exponentially
White Gang Bangers: Phat deliberately crafted this image around himself as a ploy to gain X-Force membership; he's actually from a very wealthy family.
Parental Abandonment: she left her baby with her parents because she wasn't ready to be a mother
Reincarnation Romance: parodied in the Dead Girl miniseries: we find Guy initially searching for Edie in Heaven, but later find out that they already resumed their love affair there and that she dumped him because she wasn't ready to make an eternal commitment.
Secret Diary: A whole issue after her death has Venus reading her diary and some extra details being given about her backstory.
Venus Dee Milo
Brother Chuck: Nowhere to be seen or even mentioned in the Dead Girl miniseries, which involved the Orphan in the afterlife still pining after U-Go Girl.
Can't Have Sex, Ever: Because she doesn't really have a body. Then Professor X shows her a special suit he had made in case she ever wanted a relationship to go in that direction.
Death by Origin Story: Subverted as usual: when her powers first manifested she accidentally teleported her family away to an unknown fate and she was terrified that she killed them or sent them to a hell-dimension, but when she finally finds them in another dimension they've been having a perfectly OK time.
Calling the Old Man Out: Except Myles himself, no matter how harsh his feelings for his father turned, could never bring himself to express these frustrations; it took a Mad Scientist who had taken his powers (and, unwittingly, primal thoughts and feelings) for himself for them to ever get out.
Expy: he is Wesley from Angel, if Wesley were a gay werewolf.
Faux Yay: Myles and Phat until they realise that they both really are gay.
Shock Value Relationship: Vivisector and Phat's relationship started as a publicity stunt, and they eventually decided that while they are both gay, that's all it was and they were never really attracted to each other.
The Unreveal: Like Mister Code, the characters recognise him when he's unmasked, but we aren't told who he was.
The 3rd X-Force series
Team Members
James 'Logan' Howlett / WolverineSee WolverineRahne Sinclair / WolfsbaneSee New MutantsLaura Kinney / X-23See X-23James Proudstar / Warpath See New MutantsWarren Kenneth Worthington III / Angel, ArchangelSee X-Men The Original TeamNeena Thurman / DominoJosh Foley / ElixirA teenage boy who joined an anti-mutant group with the desire to be popular. The group attacks a team of teenage mutants from Xavier's and he discovers he has the power to heal during the fight. Rejected by his friends and family, he moves in at Xavier's and initially has a hard time fitting in. He has a controversial relationship with Wolfsbane, because he's technically underage. As he continued to study, his powers grew enormously, going from simple healing to genetic manipulation. He eventually turns his skin gold after being forced to heal himself. After a large group of students were killed by anti-mutant fanatics, he went mental and developed the power to create disease and kill people as well. Since then, he's been overwhelmed by his power and is starting to question the world at large. He has "mood skin" - when he's feeling calm, happy, or using his healing power his skin is gold, but when he's feeling angry, depressed or using his powers to do harm, his skin turns black.On a side note, it's too damn bad he wasn't introduced early enough to be include in the X-Men action RPGs, since he's the only member of the X-Men ever to have dedicated healing as a power.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Literally??? But Josh is a good guy who eventually dedicates himself to learning and helping others, vowing to never use his 'dark side' again. He does have the occasional sarcastic comment to share, though.
Moral Event Horizon: In the beginning of Messiah Complex crossover, the Purifiers destroyed a town in Alaska and killed the newborn babies as well as the children all because a newest mutant child was born there.
Reverand Craig
Abusive Father: Wolfsbane's father helped a group of religious fanatics brainwash his daughter to be a programmed killer sent after her teammate Angel. However, the plan did not turn up well on him.
Death by Irony: Reverand Craig falls victim to the psychological conditioning The Purifiers put Wolfsbane through, when they were only able to capture her because she was trying to "save" him.
Complete Monster A vile, hateful bastard. Messy as his death is, it's still too good for him.
Offing the Offspring: Earlier on, he tried to kill his daughter Rahne (by chasing her down with a mob and burning her at the stake!) but fails when Moira rescued and adopted her.
I Knew It: With his bright pink skin tone, knowledge of advanced sentinal technology, and predisposed distain for mutants, many people assumed Bastion was the reincarned form of Nimrod well before his background was revealed, and they were right.
Scars Are Forever: 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.
KimuraShe is X-23's handler in the Facility that created X-23 and assigns the clone to missions. Throughout Kimura's time as X-23's handler, she abused X-23, finding any excuse to bully her, regardless of whether X-23 failed or not.
Took In A Level Of Badass: Was originally a weak willed individual; later he almost singlehandedly manipulates the purifiers and comes VERY close to killing X-23
SeleneFormer and most prominent Black Queen of the Hellfire club, Selene has been around for quite some time and is actually the oldest mutant alive. She doubles as a superior sorceress, is incredibly powerful and very hard to kill. She singlehandedly exterminated the Externals and survived total molecular disintegration. Regal, vain and manipulative, she has recently resurfaced and maybe we'll see the full extent of her powers which has never been completely revealed.
A Goddess Am I: Her recent surfacing gives this as her motivation.
Combo Platter Powers: She can animate objects plus suck people's life force to feed her youth and immortality (plus some minor Psychic Powers and Functional Magic, and various inconsistently enhanced physical abilities). Until she got upgraded; as of Chasing Hellfire, it's "turn into living shadow, plus absorb people entirely to feed her youth and immortality, as well as take on the form of victims."
Ensemble Darkhorse: Blink gained quite a fan following after a fairly short-lived existence in their mainstream storylines. She (or rather, her Alternate Continuity counterpart) got an upgraded role in the Age Of Apocalypse storyline. She was so popular that she survived the destruction of that universe and became a main character in the Exiles spinoff (though it took five years).
Evil Twin: Became this to her Age Of Apocalypse incarnation following her Face Heel Turn. Ironically, not only is she the mainstream (albeit less used) version of her character, but she has never even encountered her other universe self as of yet.
Face Heel Turn: Recently, Blink was seen in the company of Selene. Her apparent death seems to have been retconned. Instead of accidentally killing herself she transported herself to a different location and her mutant power allowed her to arrive intact.
Heroic Sacrifice: Before Generation X was founded, she sacrificed herself to destroy Harvest and was presumed dead until years later...
