History ComicBook / XFactor2006

* IncrediblyLamePun: Arcade: "Why be timid when you can be boulder?"[[note]] For context, he is saying this while Guido has been embedded into a boulder[[/note]].

* ProudBeauty: Monet is hot and she knows it. A lot of her ego seems to come from her beauty.

'''Monet''': Actually I've done wonders with beautifying the interior. To begin with, I moved in.

** In Issue #32, Jamie's subconscious in the form of Layla tells him that his and Siryn's baby will be "one of us". When the baby is born, Jamie [[absorbs him]].

* HeroesWantRedHeads:
** Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads.
** Siryn has hooked up with both Jamie and later [[spoiler:Deadpool]].

* ShipSinking:
** [[spoiler:Madrox absorbing their son ruins any chance of him and Siryn having a relationship again, even after they made up.]]
** [[spoiler:Guido losing his soul, killing Tier and becoming king of hell kills any feelings M might've had for him.]]

* SpitTake: In Issue #33, Guido does this in response to Jamie's joke about Mutants have rights protected under the constitution.
-->'''Guido''': "Rights". Jeez, what an imagination.

The third volume of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' by Creator/PeterDavid. It revolves around X-Factor Investigations, a detective agency run by Jamie Madrox, formerly known as ComicBook/MultipleMan, which was founded in his own miniseries ''ComicBook/{{Madrox}}''. The name is taken from the government-sponsored group the three founders previously served in. The initial staff consists of Madrox's best friend and special enforcer, Guido Carosella (Strong Guy), and former teammate Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane).

Following the events of the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' storyline, Madrox's new-found wealth from winning a ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''-style game show allows him to recruit several of his former colleagues from the Paris branch of the now-defunct X-Corporation. New members include M (ComicBook/MonetStCroix), a powerless Rictor, Theresa Cassidy (Siryn), and Layla Miller (Butterfly). Later on other members would also join, such as Armando Munoz (Darwin), Comicbook/{{Longshot}}, Gaveedra-7 (ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}) and Pip the Troll. Lorna Dane (ComicBook/{{Polaris}}) and Alex Summers (ComicBook/{{Havok}}) also join the team in the final arcs.

!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

* RaceLift: Monet, big time which has caused a lot of controversy about her race. Originally, she was AmbiguouslyBrown, possibly falling under ButNotTooBlack. In ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', she was clearly black, ranging from her original [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/1205828/1205828_900.png caramel to chocolate in complexion]]. Here, at first, she's not black or even AmbiguouslyBrown. She just appears to be white. WordOfGod says fans complained, asking why Monet was white all of a sudden. He says in response, they started gradually making her darker again, resulting in [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/1218970/1218970_900.jpg this]]. But this still got complaints. Eventually, she was changed again, and went to tan [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/1206757/1206757_900.jpg European-looking]]. Confusion possibly caused by her mother being said to be from Algeria, which black Africans are an extreme minority, as thus her race & complexion was changed to be that of a more typical Algerian.

* OffModel: Page 16 of Issue #2 has Monet drawn with white skin, red hair and a green outfit making her look like Theresa.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Hela's voice is described as low and throaty by Jamie.

* PreserveYourGays: WordOfGod has explicitly stated that killing either Rictor or Shatterstar would be too obvious, and he'd rather find more [[AnythingThatMoves interesting]] ways of creating angst.

* RedHerring: Early in the series (Prior to ''ComicBook/CivilWar'') we see that [[spoiler:Wolfsbane will kill Madrox & Layla on their wedding night]]. Fast forward to 2011, and it turns out [[spoiler:that it's actually Rahne's daughter Vanora who kills them as she can morph into any wolf form, including her mother's. Oh, and that it doesn't take place on Earth-616, either]].
* RedSkiesCrossover: The ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' tie-in, which largely consists of Siryn complaining about the SuperRegistrationAct, and a Madrox dupe coming to make them sign up.

*** In the second ([=Earth-TRN193=]), [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda Maximoff]] said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers Captain America]], becoming a villain called Deathlok. ComicBook/IronMan avoided this because, for unknown reasons, he was off in space with some other heroes. Apparently the [[ComicBook/CivilWar Registration Act]] [[InSpiteOfANail still happened.]] Here, Jamie's dupes also have superpowers, but they can only exist for between five and twenty seconds before disappearing.

* AnythingThatMoves: Shatterstar. PAD has stated he's become "sexually curious about anything with a pulse", taking a cue from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s Captain Jack Harkness. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Rictor starts thinking he doesn't care about their relationship.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid:
** Darwin has this complaint when bits of [[KillerRobot sentinel]] fall on him.
-->'''Darwin''': "Join X-Factor, she said. We're low-key. No giant robots..." Riiiight...
** Layla has this complaint in regards to her and Jamie's rather small honeymoon suite and getting hit in the head by room service.
-->'''Layla''': "We could get married in Delaware," I said. "No waiting time, no blood tests," I said. "Who wants to get married in Delaware? Let's go to Vegas!" he said. "It'll be fun!" he said.

* GagBoobs: In Issue #226, Shatterstar claims that Monet's breasts appear to defy gravity after Pip makes a comment about them sagging.