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* Rahne transformation often tears up her clothes, especially in her full wolf form. She's learned to [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl stop caring about her nudity]] due to it.
** In Issue #37, while investigating a abandoned warehouse the floor ends up collapsing and everyone but Monet falls in. Longshot thinks his luck powers ran out, but then the warehouse ''explodes'' and only Monet gets caught in it, which [[SuperToughness doesn't hurt her]] but end up destroying her clothes. She ends up having to wear one of Jamie's shirts for the rest of the mission.
** At one point, when falling off a cliff, Darwin fights his body trying to grow wings because it'd [[SkewedPriorities ruin his coat]].
** In Issue #37, while investigating a abandoned warehouse the floor ends up collapsing and everyone but Monet falls in. Longshot thinks his luck powers ran out, but then the warehouse ''explodes'' and only Monet gets caught in it, which [[SuperToughness doesn't hurt her]] but end up destroying her clothes. She ends up having to wear one of Jamie's shirts for the rest of the mission.
** At one point, when falling off a cliff, Darwin fights his body trying to grow wings because it'd [[SkewedPriorities ruin his coat]].
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** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor to [[{{Teleportation teleport]]}} and both the teleporting and his "sword energy blast things" need about as much recovery time as a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]].
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** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor to [[{{Teleportation teleport]]}} [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]] and both the teleporting and his "sword energy blast things" need about as much recovery time as a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played with.
** Guido: CameBackWrong thanks to Layla. Murdered Rahne's son. Is now a lord of Hell.
** Darwin: Gone walkabout after having to evolve to survive an attack from Hela made him sort of a death god wannabe.
** Rahne: Son murdered by Guido. Has left the hero game to become a minister.
** Monet: Brought back from the dead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers. Having a little trouble coping with it.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Siryn: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to godhood, becoming the new Morrigan.]]
** Polaris: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Jamie and Layla: Living happily ever after on Jamie's farm after The Morrigan (formerly Terry), cured Jamie's having been transformed into a demon. They're expecting their first child.
** Guido: CameBackWrong thanks to Layla. Murdered Rahne's son. Is now a lord of Hell.
** Darwin: Gone walkabout after having to evolve to survive an attack from Hela made him sort of a death god wannabe.
** Rahne: Son murdered by Guido. Has left the hero game to become a minister.
** Monet: Brought back from the dead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers. Having a little trouble coping with it.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Siryn: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to godhood, becoming the new Morrigan.]]
** Polaris: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Jamie and Layla: Living happily ever after on Jamie's farm after The Morrigan (formerly Terry), cured Jamie's having been transformed into a demon. They're expecting their first child.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played with.
** Guido: CameBackWrong thanks to Layla. Murdered Rahne's son. Is nowMadrox and Layla go through a lord lot of Hell.
** Darwin: Gone walkabout after having to evolve to survive an attack from Hela made him sort of a death god wannabe.
** Rahne: Son murderedawful things, but by Guido. Has left the hero game to become a minister.
** Monet: Brought back from the dead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers. Having a little trouble coping with it.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Siryn: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to godhood, becoming the new Morrigan.]]
** Polaris: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leaderend of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Jamiestory, they've peacifully retired and Layla: Living happily ever after on Jamie's are living in his old farm after The Morrigan (formerly Terry), cured Jamie's having been transformed into a demon. They're expecting their first child.
** Guido: CameBackWrong thanks to Layla. Murdered Rahne's son. Is now
** Darwin: Gone walkabout after having to evolve to survive an attack from Hela made him sort of a death god wannabe.
** Rahne: Son murdered
** Monet: Brought back from the dead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers. Having a little trouble coping with it.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Siryn: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to godhood, becoming the new Morrigan.]]
** Polaris: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader
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* IHaveNoSon: Rahne's response to her son after he violently attacked her attacker after coming out of her mouth.
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* IHaveNoSon: Rahne's response to her son after he violently attacked murdered her attacker after coming out of her mouth.mouth. She would later come to regret the way she reacted.
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* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Rictor and Monet. Monet starts wearing one in issue 200.
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* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Rictor and Monet. Monet starts and Strong Guy start wearing one in uniforms from issue 200.200 onwards.
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* OracularUrchin: Layla Miller. She knows stuff.
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* OracularUrchin: Layla Miller. She knows stuff. But not because she has any oracular power, but because the future version of her upload her memories into her.
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The third volume of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' revolves around X-Factor Investigations, a detective agency run by Jamie Madrox, formerly known as Multiple Man. The name is taken from the government-sponsored group the three founders previously served on. 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 (Monet), a powerless Rictor, Siryn, and Layla Miller.
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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
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
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* AbortedArc: Early on, Tryp claims Siryn will help resurrect her father, after his catching a bad case of dead. While Sean did eventually come back to life, Terry plays no part in it whatsoever.
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* AbortedArc: A lot of them surround Damian Tryp, who was build up to be the BigBad of the story yet became to have less and less to do with the plot as the series went on.
** Early on, Tryp claims Siryn will help resurrect her father, after his catching a bad case of dead. While Sean did eventually come back to life,Terry plays Siryn played no part in it whatsoever.whatsoever.
** Early on, a lot is made of the fact Damian Tryp and Madrox might not be mutants, but a predecessor to mutants who develops powers at birth referred to as "changelings". This is never elaborated on.
** Vanora is build up to have a major confrotation with Rahne and has a partnership with Elder Tryp, but she's seemingly killed anticlimatically by Shatterstar without them even realizing she was Rahne's daughter from MirrorUniverse. She's later seem fully recovering... but then never shows up again.
** Early on, Tryp claims Siryn will help resurrect her father, after his catching a bad case of dead. While Sean did eventually come back to life,
** Early on, a lot is made of the fact Damian Tryp and Madrox might not be mutants, but a predecessor to mutants who develops powers at birth referred to as "changelings". This is never elaborated on.
** Vanora is build up to have a major confrotation with Rahne and has a partnership with Elder Tryp, but she's seemingly killed anticlimatically by Shatterstar without them even realizing she was Rahne's daughter from MirrorUniverse. She's later seem fully recovering... but then never shows up again.
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** Monet's outfit from issue 200 onwards.
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** Monet's outfit [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monet_x_factor_costume.jpg outfit]] from issue 200 onwards.
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* AccentRelapse: When she starts getting angry, Terry's accent gets increasingly Irish.
* ActuallyADoombot: Played with, when Arcade destroys Mutant Town. Rictor punches him, and it turns out to be a robot, but once everybody leaves, the "robot" turns out to be the actual Arcade, who makes a note to just use an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Layla Miller gets her own one-shot exploring her time alone in Bishop's future, and how she helps kick-start the whole thing.
* AffablyEvil: The elderly Doctor Doom is amazingly polite, by Doom's standards at least, toward Madrox and Layla. [[spoiler:Until his inevitable betrayal]].
* ActuallyADoombot: Played with, when Arcade destroys Mutant Town. Rictor punches him, and it turns out to be a robot, but once everybody leaves, the "robot" turns out to be the actual Arcade, who makes a note to just use an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Layla Miller gets her own one-shot exploring her time alone in Bishop's future, and how she helps kick-start the whole thing.
* AffablyEvil: The elderly Doctor Doom is amazingly polite, by Doom's standards at least, toward Madrox and Layla. [[spoiler:Until his inevitable betrayal]].
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* AccentRelapse: When she starts getting angry, Terry's Siryn's accent gets increasingly Irish.
*ActuallyADoombot: Played with, AccidentalMurder: Actor Jack Vaughn roleplays rape fantasies with his girlfriend and even uses a loaded gun as a prop. This obviously goes fatally wrong when Arcade destroys Mutant Town. Rictor punches him, her sister barges in on them and it turns the gun accidentally goes off, killing his partner. He then gets into contact with Singularity to have them pin the blame on the sister.
* AdaptiveAbility: Darwin's mutant powers has his body "evolving" to survive, resulting in some [[BodyHorror horrifying transformations]]. Shot with a weapon that targets the nervous system, he becomes a sponge creature. Crushed beneath wreckage, he's reduced to an oozing mass that can speak. Decapitated by a headshot, a second head starts growing outto be a robot, of his torso, and so forth. Thankfully these are temporary changes, but once everybody leaves, the "robot" turns out to be the actual Arcade, who makes a note to just use an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
made worse that he's got no control over what he'll become.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Layla Miller gets her own one-shot exploring her time alone in Bishop's future, and how she helps kick-start the wholething.
rebellion.
* AffablyEvil: The elderlyDoctor Doom senile ComicBook/DoctorDoom from [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] is amazingly polite, by Doom's standards at least, toward Madrox and Layla. [[spoiler:Until his inevitable betrayal]].
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* AdaptiveAbility: Darwin's mutant powers has his body "evolving" to survive, resulting in some [[BodyHorror horrifying transformations]]. Shot with a weapon that targets the nervous system, he becomes a sponge creature. Crushed beneath wreckage, he's reduced to an oozing mass that can speak. Decapitated by a headshot, a second head starts growing out
* ADayInTheLimelight: Layla Miller gets her own one-shot exploring her time alone in Bishop's future, and how she helps kick-start the whole
* AffablyEvil: The elderly
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* AmbiguousSyntax: A heavily pregnant Rahne walks in on Star and Rictor getting in on, and in the ensuing argument yells "you did this". Star thinks she means he got her pregnant, and gets confused as to how he could've done that without knowing. She actually means "turned Rictor gay."
* AmicableExes: Longshot and {{ComicBook/Dazzler}}.
* AmicableExes: Longshot and {{ComicBook/Dazzler}}.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: The Isolationist has every mutant power at the same time, and can't turn them off, [[BlessedWithSuck making his life a living hell]]. He gets his name from living in the Arctic to try and dull the mental noise that comes with having the power of every mutant telepath. But when the Decimation occured, it dulled his pain enough for him to be able to travel to the civilized world, so he can try to finish off the remaining mutants.
* AmazonBrigade: All three members of the [=SCARs=] program, Ballistique, Rococo and Sylvius, are female.
* AmazonianBeauty: The beautiful Monet has noticeable abs during her FullFrontalAssault under Cortex's MindControl, and many characters notice how toned her legs are.
* AmbiguousSyntax: A heavily pregnant Rahne walks in onStar Shatterstar and Rictor getting in on, and in the ensuing argument yells "you did this". Star Shatterstar thinks she means he got her pregnant, and gets confused as to how he could've done that without knowing. She actually means "turned Rictor gay."
*AmicableExes: AmicableExes:
** Madrox and Monet. While she's [[WomanScorned furious]] with him when he reveals his dupes slept with her and Siryn on the same night, she doesn't hold a grudge and later becomes a ShipperOnDeck for Siryn and Madrox.
** Longshot and {{ComicBook/Dazzler}}.
* AmazonBrigade: All three members of the [=SCARs=] program, Ballistique, Rococo and Sylvius, are female.
* AmazonianBeauty: The beautiful Monet has noticeable abs during her FullFrontalAssault under Cortex's MindControl, and many characters notice how toned her legs are.
* AmbiguousSyntax: A heavily pregnant Rahne walks in on
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** Madrox and Monet. While she's [[WomanScorned furious]] with him when he reveals his dupes slept with her and Siryn on the same night, she doesn't hold a grudge and later becomes a ShipperOnDeck for Siryn and Madrox.
** Longshot and {{ComicBook/Dazzler}}.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Shatterstar. PAD has stated he's become "sexually curious about anything with a pulse", taking a cue from ''Torchwood'''s Captain Jack Harkness. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Rictor starts thinking he doesn't care about their relationship.
* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes a series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes a series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
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* AntiHero: Darwin during the "Hell on Earth War" arc. He only opposes the protagonists because he wants to kill Tier and prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* AnythingThatMoves: Shatterstar. PAD has stated he's become "sexually curious about anything with a pulse", taking a cue from''Torchwood'''s ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s Captain Jack Harkness. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Rictor starts thinking he doesn't care about their relationship.
* ArcVillain:
** Sheila [=DeSoto=] for the ''Madrox'' mini-series.
** Damian Tryp Sr. and Jr. for the "Singularity" arc.
** Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} for the "X-Cell" arc.
** Josef Huber "The Isolationist" for the "Endangered Species" arc.
** Arcade for the "Divided We Stand" arc.
** Nogor the Talisman for the "Secret Invasion" arc.
** Mr. Maru for the "Karma Project" arc.
** Cortex in the present plot and Anthony Falcone in the [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] plot for the "Summers Rebellion" arc.
** ComicBook/MisterFantastic's EvilDoppelganger for the "Invisible Woman has Vanished" arc.
** Bolivar Trask and the Mutant Response Division for the "Second Coming" arc.
** The Goddess of Death, Hela for the "New Vegas" arc.
** Ballistique for the "[=SCARs=]" arc.
** Agamemnon for the "Original Sins" arc.
** Bloodbath for the "Bloodbath" arc.
** Vanora, Deathlock and [=Earth-TRN196=] Dormammu for the "They Keep Killing Madrox" arc.
** Scattershot for the "X-Treme Measures" arc.
** Morrigan for the "The Morrigan" arc.
** ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} and [[spoiler:Guido]] for the "Hell on Earth" arc.
** Mojo (for Rictor and Shatterstar) and Elder Tryp (for Layla and Madrox) for the "The End of X-Factor" arc.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Siryn's power allows her to manipulate her vocal cords to sound extra sexy, hypnotizing others into lusting after het. It can even happen without her noticing, although mutants are immune to it.
* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that wascancelled canceled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's Creator/PeterDavid's whole plan whenever he writes a series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
* AnythingThatMoves: Shatterstar. PAD has stated he's become "sexually curious about anything with a pulse", taking a cue from
* ArcVillain:
** Sheila [=DeSoto=] for the ''Madrox'' mini-series.
** Damian Tryp Sr. and Jr. for the "Singularity" arc.
** Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} for the "X-Cell" arc.
** Josef Huber "The Isolationist" for the "Endangered Species" arc.
** Arcade for the "Divided We Stand" arc.
** Nogor the Talisman for the "Secret Invasion" arc.
** Mr. Maru for the "Karma Project" arc.
** Cortex in the present plot and Anthony Falcone in the [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] plot for the "Summers Rebellion" arc.
** ComicBook/MisterFantastic's EvilDoppelganger for the "Invisible Woman has Vanished" arc.
** Bolivar Trask and the Mutant Response Division for the "Second Coming" arc.
** The Goddess of Death, Hela for the "New Vegas" arc.
** Ballistique for the "[=SCARs=]" arc.
** Agamemnon for the "Original Sins" arc.
** Bloodbath for the "Bloodbath" arc.
** Vanora, Deathlock and [=Earth-TRN196=] Dormammu for the "They Keep Killing Madrox" arc.
** Scattershot for the "X-Treme Measures" arc.
** Morrigan for the "The Morrigan" arc.
** ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} and [[spoiler:Guido]] for the "Hell on Earth" arc.
** Mojo (for Rictor and Shatterstar) and Elder Tryp (for Layla and Madrox) for the "The End of X-Factor" arc.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Siryn's power allows her to manipulate her vocal cords to sound extra sexy, hypnotizing others into lusting after het. It can even happen without her noticing, although mutants are immune to it.
* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Siryn [[spoiler: becomes the Celtic Goddess Morrigan after the last one picked her as her successor.]]
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** Layla's mutant power. [[spoiler:She can bring people back from the dead!... unfortunately, they no longer have a soul and as such, always have something wrong with them.]]
** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor to teleport and both the teleporting and his "sword energy blast things" need about as much recovery time as a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]].
** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor to teleport and both the teleporting and his "sword energy blast things" need about as much recovery time as a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]].
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** Layla's mutant power. [[spoiler:She can bring people back from the dead!... BackFromTheDead!... unfortunately, they [[CameBackWrong no longer have a soul soul]] and as such, [[LackOfEmpathy always have something wrong with them.]]
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** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor toteleport [[{{Teleportation teleport]]}} and both the teleporting and his "sword energy blast things" need about as much recovery time as a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]].
** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor to
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** Bishop's Future shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].
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** Bishop's Future of Earth-1191 shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].
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* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler: Avengers: Children's Crusade officially repowers him thanks to the Scarlet Witch herself. ]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both cases.]]
* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Once again, Guido and Darwin. Eventually, anyway.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both cases.]]
* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Once again, Guido and Darwin. Eventually, anyway.]]
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* BadassInDistress:
** Siryn is and captured and left BoundAndGagged by an ex-mutant MadDoctor who wants to use her as a hostage to "incentivize" XF Investigations in their investigation on the Decimation. She's rescued by Rictor, but found the humilation of becoming a DamselInDistress way worse than her physical injuries.
** Madrox is captured by Hydra at some point who try to {{Brainwash}} him into being their ManchurianAgent.
** Monet is captured by Baron Mordo so he can turn her into a LivingBattery and cure his cancer.
** ComicBook/BlackCat is captured by the [=SCARs=] members while attempting to track them. She's rescued by XF-Investigations, even though they had no idea she was even in danger.
* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler: Avengers:Children's Crusade ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade officially repowers him thanks to the Scarlet Witch herself. ]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both cases.ComicBook/ScarletWitch herself.]]
* BadDate: After [[spoiler:becoming TheSoulless]] Guido asks Monet out on a date. She accepts, but it ends disastrously when he ditches her to go pick a fight with a supervillain instead.
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin are both bald super powered individuals.
* BaldOfEvil:[[spoiler:Once again, Guido [[spoiler:Guido after he betrays the team and Darwin. Eventually, anyway.]]joins Mephisto.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Monet is completely nude when Cortex takes full control of her, but her body gets covered by some kind of of [[FormFittingWardrobe form fitting]] purple circuitry skin that hides her genitals.
* BavarianFireDrill: The team fakes a bomb threat at Singularity HQ and then pose as bomb squad to sneak inside.
** Siryn is and captured and left BoundAndGagged by an ex-mutant MadDoctor who wants to use her as a hostage to "incentivize" XF Investigations in their investigation on the Decimation. She's rescued by Rictor, but found the humilation of becoming a DamselInDistress way worse than her physical injuries.
** Madrox is captured by Hydra at some point who try to {{Brainwash}} him into being their ManchurianAgent.
** Monet is captured by Baron Mordo so he can turn her into a LivingBattery and cure his cancer.
** ComicBook/BlackCat is captured by the [=SCARs=] members while attempting to track them. She's rescued by XF-Investigations, even though they had no idea she was even in danger.
* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler: Avengers:
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both cases.
* BadDate: After [[spoiler:becoming TheSoulless]] Guido asks Monet out on a date. She accepts, but it ends disastrously when he ditches her to go pick a fight with a supervillain instead.
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin are both bald super powered individuals.
* BaldOfEvil:
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Monet is completely nude when Cortex takes full control of her, but her body gets covered by some kind of of [[FormFittingWardrobe form fitting]] purple circuitry skin that hides her genitals.
* BavarianFireDrill: The team fakes a bomb threat at Singularity HQ and then pose as bomb squad to sneak inside.
* BedTrick:
** {{Downplayed}} with Madrox, as he can be confused with one of his dupes or vice versa, but he never deliberatly uses them to trick anyone in this fashion.
*** Madrox ends up kissing Sheila when she confuses him for the dupe she married.
*** Madrox awakens one morning to find that one of his dupes got out accidentally and has been, uhm, enjoying himself. Later, Siryn and M separately tell him how wonderful the night before was, indicating that he slept with one while the dupe got with the other, pretending to be him. [[spoiler:It later turns out they ''both'' slept with dupes, and that a dupe managed to get Siryn pregnant.]]
** It's heavily implied [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richard's]] EvilTwin was planning to pull something like this on [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan]]. ComicBook/DoctorDoom actually found it so distasteful he had her kidnapped for the sole reason of keeping her out of his reach.
** {{Downplayed}} with Madrox, as he can be confused with one of his dupes or vice versa, but he never deliberatly uses them to trick anyone in this fashion.
*** Madrox ends up kissing Sheila when she confuses him for the dupe she married.
*** Madrox awakens one morning to find that one of his dupes got out accidentally and has been, uhm, enjoying himself. Later, Siryn and M separately tell him how wonderful the night before was, indicating that he slept with one while the dupe got with the other, pretending to be him. [[spoiler:It later turns out they ''both'' slept with dupes, and that a dupe managed to get Siryn pregnant.]]
** It's heavily implied [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richard's]] EvilTwin was planning to pull something like this on [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan]]. ComicBook/DoctorDoom actually found it so distasteful he had her kidnapped for the sole reason of keeping her out of his reach.
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** Don't mess with Monet's mind. Just...don't.
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** Don't mess Madrox completely loses his cool when one their clients reveals he was a scientist trying to recreate the [[DepopulationBomb Legacy Virus]] that targets only mutants.
** Monet ''hates'' being under the mental thrall of others due to her time under the control of her brother, Emplate, and transforming her into the identity of Penance. She punches Cortex ''through his chest'' after he takes control of her for a couple of issues and is furios withMonet's mind. Just...don't. Pip the Troll when he [[BrainUploading transfers his mind into her body to escape death.]]
** Monet ''hates'' being under the mental thrall of others due to her time under the control of her brother, Emplate, and transforming her into the identity of Penance. She punches Cortex ''through his chest'' after he takes control of her for a couple of issues and is furios with
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** Lately, it's become a bad idea to threaten Monet whenever Darwin's around, even if she's very capable of taking care of herself.
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** Lately, it's become It's a bad idea to threaten Monet whenever Darwin's around, even if she's very capable of taking care of herself.
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** Monet and Siryn. In fact, Monet is actually called Veronica Lodge at one point.
** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a wedding]].
** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a wedding]].
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** Early in the story a LoveTriangle pops up between Siryn/Madrox/Monet, Siryn is the Betty while Monet and Siryn.is the Veronica. In fact, Monet is actually called Veronica Lodge at one point.
** Shatterstar (Veronica) andWolfsbane.Wolfsbane (Betty) to Rictor's Archie. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a wedding]].
** Shatterstar (Veronica) and
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** As Jamie notes, every now and then Polaris does things that remind you she ''is'' Magneto's daughter, [[spoiler:like making an alternate evil version of Steve Rodgers blow his own head off.]]
* BigBad: Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]] The rest of the time, the team doesn't really have one, only [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]].
* BlessedWithSuck: The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them. He lives in the Arctic because if he gets any closer to a telepath, his own telepathy increases. And even then, he can still hear thoughts from all over the world.
* BigBad: Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]] The rest of the time, the team doesn't really have one, only [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]].
* BlessedWithSuck: The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them. He lives in the Arctic because if he gets any closer to a telepath, his own telepathy increases. And even then, he can still hear thoughts from all over the world.
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** As Jamie notes, every now and then Polaris does things that remind you she ''is'' Magneto's daughter, [[spoiler:like making an alternate [[AlternateSelf alternate]] evil version of Steve Rodgers blow his own head off.]]
* BigBad: Elder Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]] The rest of the time, the team doesn't really have one, only[[ArcVillain Arc Villains]].
{{Arc Villain}}s.
*BlessedWithSuck: BigCreepyCrawlies: Sheila [=DeSotto=] mutant power has her transform many of her body parts into various types of insect limps, to BodyHorror levels.
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
** Sheila [=DeSotto=] pretends to be a docile fiancee to a dangerous mob boss, when she's actually a mutant that's planning to take over his criminal empire.
** Darwin's father, Hector Muñoz is introduced as a worried father who hired XF Investigations to find his soon, but later it's revealed he wanted to find Darwin just to sell him to the Karma Project.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** One of XF Investigations first clients is a woman whose mutant powers is to become WreathedInFlames when angry but without the RequiredSecondaryPowers that makes her immune to fire.
** The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them. He lives in the Arctic because if he gets any closer to a telepath, his own telepathy increases. And even then, he can still hear thoughts from all over theworld.world.
* BloodKnight:
** Shatterstar is always itching for a brawl, and hopes things go wrong just so he has the chance to fight.
** The [=SCARs=] was mean to be a black ops Search and Rescue team, but the cebernetic upgrades also cause the members to become mentally unstable, with Ballistique and Rococo beggining to [[PsychoForHire take on mercenary jobs]] on the side just to allow them to kill more.
* BigBad: Elder Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]] The rest of the time, the team doesn't really have one, only
*
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
** Sheila [=DeSotto=] pretends to be a docile fiancee to a dangerous mob boss, when she's actually a mutant that's planning to take over his criminal empire.
** Darwin's father, Hector Muñoz is introduced as a worried father who hired XF Investigations to find his soon, but later it's revealed he wanted to find Darwin just to sell him to the Karma Project.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** One of XF Investigations first clients is a woman whose mutant powers is to become WreathedInFlames when angry but without the RequiredSecondaryPowers that makes her immune to fire.
** The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them. He lives in the Arctic because if he gets any closer to a telepath, his own telepathy increases. And even then, he can still hear thoughts from all over the
* BloodKnight:
** Shatterstar is always itching for a brawl, and hopes things go wrong just so he has the chance to fight.
** The [=SCARs=] was mean to be a black ops Search and Rescue team, but the cebernetic upgrades also cause the members to become mentally unstable, with Ballistique and Rococo beggining to [[PsychoForHire take on mercenary jobs]] on the side just to allow them to kill more.
** Sheila [=DeSotto=] mutant powers transform her limbs into a hideous amalgamation of insects, making it look like giving the impression of a lean insect, wearing Sheila’s skin.
** Cortex MindControl powers manifest via energy tentacle protruding from his eyes.
* BoomHeadshot: Vera attempts to kill Pip the Troll by putting a bullet in his head, but he ends up surviving it by [[BrainUploading magically transfering his mind into Monet's]].
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Guido at first, but it gets fixed. Shatterstar and Monet later on, courtesy of [[spoiler: Cortex]].
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: BornLucky: Longshot's powers is the ability to affect probability fields through psionic means in order to give himself "good luck" in his activities, allowing incredibly unlikely events to happen in his favor.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Guido at first, is brainwashed into being a ManchurianAgent by Tryp, but it getsfixed. fixed.
** Shatterstar and Monet later on, courtesy of[[spoiler: Cortex]].Cortex.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Guido at first, is brainwashed into being a ManchurianAgent by Tryp, but it gets
** Shatterstar and Monet later on, courtesy of
* BreakingTheFellowship: The "Breaking Point" arc has various member quit the team, one by one for different reasons: Guido, Rahne, Siryn and Havok.
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** One issue begins with Terry telling her priest she's been coveting Monet's new [=iPhone=] (among other, slightly bigger sins). Later on in the issue, Monet reveals she's bought everyone phones because she'd noticed, and it was annoying her.
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** One issue begins with Terry Siryn telling her priest she's been coveting Monet's new [=iPhone=] (among other, slightly bigger sins). Later on in the issue, Monet reveals she's bought everyone phones because she'd noticed, and it was annoying her.
* BrokenAce: Monet is a SuperpowerLottery winner, beautiful, intelligent and acts as if nothing ever fazes her. But during her theraphy sessions she confesses her "M" persona is mostly a front and she suffers from severe trauma due to what her brother Emplate did to her during the time she was stuck as Penance.
* BuriedAlive: Comicbook/MisterFantastic is stuck inside a coffin and buried in Latveria by his EvilDoppelganger from an MirrorUniverse. He leaves him with an air breather so he'd suffocate slowly, but Madrox and the team rescue him.
* BuriedAlive: Comicbook/MisterFantastic is stuck inside a coffin and buried in Latveria by his EvilDoppelganger from an MirrorUniverse. He leaves him with an air breather so he'd suffocate slowly, but Madrox and the team rescue him.
* ButtMonkey: The story has a lot of fun putting the prideful FlyingBrick Monet into a lot of comical situations, usually taking advantage of her SuperToughness to take the brunt of attacks that would be fatal to other characters. She never ends up truly hurt, but it annoys her to no end and they often have comical side effects on her appearance, like leaving her hair a mess or [[ClothingDamage ruining her clothes]].
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** During ''World War Hulk'', Darwin's powers made him teleport to safety rather than fight the Hulk. During the ''Second Coming'' cross-over, it does it again faced with a giant MRD killing machine.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant power does this. Trevor Fitzroy was originally a hero and prominent member of the Summer's Rebellion before Layla was forced to raise him from the dead. The resurrection transformed him into a soulless monster who would go on to murder Bishop's sister and travel back in time to murder the Hellions.]] Later on, this happens to [[spoiler:Guido. Again, thanks to Layla]].
* TheCameo: [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Guess who makes an appearance]] in issue 200, just off-page as Terry's booty call? (Hey, it was a busy year!)
* CasanovaWannabe: Pip the Troll.
* TheCatCameBack: During her fight with Cortex, Siryn blasts him into a disused elevator, and he falls down it. As Terry looks down the shaft, he suddenly pops up behind her and hits her over the head. He is a teleporter.
* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Layla Miller. She knows stuff.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant power does this. Trevor Fitzroy was originally a hero and prominent member of the Summer's Rebellion before Layla was forced to raise him from the dead. The resurrection transformed him into a soulless monster who would go on to murder Bishop's sister and travel back in time to murder the Hellions.]] Later on, this happens to [[spoiler:Guido. Again, thanks to Layla]].
* TheCameo: [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Guess who makes an appearance]] in issue 200, just off-page as Terry's booty call? (Hey, it was a busy year!)
* CasanovaWannabe: Pip the Troll.
* TheCatCameBack: During her fight with Cortex, Siryn blasts him into a disused elevator, and he falls down it. As Terry looks down the shaft, he suddenly pops up behind her and hits her over the head. He is a teleporter.
* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Layla Miller. She knows stuff.
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** During ''World War Hulk'', ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', Darwin's powers made him teleport to safety rather than fight the Hulk. During the ''Second Coming'' cross-over, it does it again faced with a giant MRD killing machine.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant powerdoes this.can bring people BackFromTheDead but leaves them with no soul. Trevor Fitzroy was originally a hero and prominent member of the Summer's Rebellion before Layla was forced to raise him from the dead. The resurrection transformed him into a soulless monster who would go on to murder Bishop's sister and travel back in time to murder the Hellions.]] Later on, this happens to [[spoiler:Guido. Again, thanks to Layla]].
* TheCameo: [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Guess who makes an appearance]] in issue 200, just off-page asTerry's Siryn's booty call? (Hey, it was a busy year!)
* CasanovaWannabe: Pip theTroll.
Troll can't pick up chicks even when he had his human form.
* CatapultNightmare: Ballistique is introduced doing this, after she has a traumatic PTSD nightmare.
* TheCatCameBack: During her fight with Cortex, Siryn blasts him into a disused elevator, and he falls down it. AsTerry Siryn looks down the shaft, he suddenly pops up behind her and hits her over the head. He is a teleporter.
*CatchPhrase / CatchAFallingStar: After a WildCard dupe of Madrox shoves Rictor off a bulding, Monet flies in and saves him before he hits the ground.
* CatchPhrase: Layla Miller is famous for her catch phrase "I know stuff", which is her explanation whenever asks her about the source of her [[WaifProphet comprehensive knowledge of future events]].
** PhraseCatcher:Layla Miller. She knows stuff.The team eventually starts using it more then her, whenever they introduce her to someone else.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant power
* TheCameo: [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Guess who makes an appearance]] in issue 200, just off-page as
* CasanovaWannabe: Pip the
* CatapultNightmare: Ballistique is introduced doing this, after she has a traumatic PTSD nightmare.
* TheCatCameBack: During her fight with Cortex, Siryn blasts him into a disused elevator, and he falls down it. As
*
* CatchPhrase: Layla Miller is famous for her catch phrase "I know stuff", which is her explanation whenever asks her about the source of her [[WaifProphet comprehensive knowledge of future events]].
** PhraseCatcher:
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* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to women. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
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* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to women.anyone that finds him attractive, be it male or female. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
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** The unstable and unpredictable dupe who tries to kill Rictor in issue 1. He promises to come back later, and indeed does so.
** During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]
** In the ''Second Coming'' crossover, one MRD officer is a ginger woman with a facial scar. She turns out to be important a few issues later.
* ChivalrousPervert: Longshot
** During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]
** In the ''Second Coming'' crossover, one MRD officer is a ginger woman with a facial scar. She turns out to be important a few issues later.
* ChivalrousPervert: Longshot
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** The unstable and unpredictable "X-Factor" dupe who tries to kill Rictor in issue 1. He promises to come back later, and indeed does so.
so, killing himself along with Tryp Sr. and Jr at the end of the "Singularity" arc.
** During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, as villain named Cortex having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]
** In the ''Second Coming'' crossover, one MRD officer is a ginger woman with a facial scar. She turns out to beimportant one of the [=SCARs=] members, Sylvius a few issues later.
** While the team is in New Vegas dealing with Hela, Monet is back at the office helping war veteran Noelle Blanc deal with her PTSD. She's later also revealed to be [=SCARs=] member Ballistique, who will become the ArcVillain of a later arc.
* ChickMagnet:
** Madrox ends up attracting a lot of female attention, such as Monet, Siryn and Layla.
** Longshot DNA is hardwired to draw attention from the opposite sex. And [[EvenTheGuysWantHim sometimes even the same sex.]]
%%* ChivalrousPervert: Longshot
** During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, as villain named Cortex having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]
** In the ''Second Coming'' crossover, one MRD officer is a ginger woman with a facial scar. She turns out to be
** While the team is in New Vegas dealing with Hela, Monet is back at the office helping war veteran Noelle Blanc deal with her PTSD. She's later also revealed to be [=SCARs=] member Ballistique, who will become the ArcVillain of a later arc.
* ChickMagnet:
** Madrox ends up attracting a lot of female attention, such as Monet, Siryn and Layla.
** Longshot DNA is hardwired to draw attention from the opposite sex. And [[EvenTheGuysWantHim sometimes even the same sex.]]
%%* ChivalrousPervert: Longshot
* ClothingDamage:
** Guido is shot with a rocket launcher at one point, which [[SuperToughness barely hurts him]], but ends up wrecking his shirt.
* Rahne transformation often tears up her clothes, especially in her full wolf form. She's learned to [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl stop caring about her nudity]] due to it.
** In Issue #37, while investigating a abandoned warehouse the floor ends up collapsing and everyone but Monet falls in. Longshot thinks his luck powers ran out, but then the warehouse ''explodes'' and only Monet gets caught in it, which [[SuperToughness doesn't hurt her]] but end up destroying her clothes. She ends up having to wear one of Jamie's shirts for the rest of the mission.
** At one point, when falling off a cliff, Darwin fights his body trying to grow wings because it'd [[SkewedPriorities ruin his coat]].
** Ballistique shoots an amnestic Rococo with a flamethrower to reveal her fireproof powers to her, incenarating her clothes but leaving her unarmed, causing her memories of S.C.A.R.S to come back.
** Guido is shot with a rocket launcher at one point, which [[SuperToughness barely hurts him]], but ends up wrecking his shirt.
* Rahne transformation often tears up her clothes, especially in her full wolf form. She's learned to [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl stop caring about her nudity]] due to it.
** In Issue #37, while investigating a abandoned warehouse the floor ends up collapsing and everyone but Monet falls in. Longshot thinks his luck powers ran out, but then the warehouse ''explodes'' and only Monet gets caught in it, which [[SuperToughness doesn't hurt her]] but end up destroying her clothes. She ends up having to wear one of Jamie's shirts for the rest of the mission.
** At one point, when falling off a cliff, Darwin fights his body trying to grow wings because it'd [[SkewedPriorities ruin his coat]].
** Ballistique shoots an amnestic Rococo with a flamethrower to reveal her fireproof powers to her, incenarating her clothes but leaving her unarmed, causing her memories of S.C.A.R.S to come back.
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* ComicBookDeath: Explored early on in the series, when Terry is informed her dad has died (over in ''Deadly Genesis''). Terry assumes, not unreasonably given da's an X-Man, that he might still be alive and refuses to even consider the possibility he might be pushing up the daises, much to everyone else's discomfort.
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* ComicBookDeath: Explored early on in the series, when Terry Siryn is informed her dad has died (over in ''Deadly Genesis''). Terry Siryn assumes, not unreasonably given da's an X-Man, that he might still be alive and refuses to even consider the possibility he might be pushing up the daises, much to everyone else's discomfort.discomfort.
* CompellingVoice: Siryn can use her voice to make people become attracted to her, regardless of gender, and they become susceptible to anything she orates. Mutants are immune to this power, but other supers aren't. Notably, she never used these powers before this run.
* CompellingVoice: Siryn can use her voice to make people become attracted to her, regardless of gender, and they become susceptible to anything she orates. Mutants are immune to this power, but other supers aren't. Notably, she never used these powers before this run.
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** The evil Reed Richards the team faces is a leftover from the massive army of alternate Fantastic Fours that team faced over in Mark Millar's "Master of Doom" storyline.
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** The evil [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards Richards]] the team faces is a leftover from the massive army of alternate Fantastic Fours Comicbook/{{FantasticFour}}s that team faced over in Mark Millar's Creator/MarkMillar's "Master of Doom" storyline.
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** ''Secret Invasion'' sees the team briefly tussle with She-Hulk and Jazinda, daughter of Super-Skrull.
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** ''Secret Invasion'' ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' sees the team briefly tussle with She-Hulk Comicbook/SheHulk and Jazinda, daughter of Super-Skrull.
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* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Rahne believes Rictor is only in a relationship with Shatterstar because he's been brainwashed, or something similar. When confronted on this by an irate Rictor, she realises how silly it sounds.]]
* {{Cyborg}}: Cortex is this.
* {{Cyborg}}: Cortex is this.
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** They play a small part in the ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'' story, explaining to ComicBook/ScarletWitch about her [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} brother's]] attempt at restoring muntant's powers with Terrigen Crystals. Rictor also ends up being {{Re Power}}ed by Wanda.
* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Rahne believes Rictor is only in a relationship with Shatterstar because he's beenbrainwashed, {{brainwashed}}, or something similar.similar, and tries to pretend her child is his in order to get him back and "cure him". When confronted on this by an irate Rictor, she realises how silly it sounds.]]
*{{Cyborg}}: {{Cyborg}}:
** The elderly ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} from [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] is more man than machine [[spoiler:which allows ComicBook/DoctorDoom to take control of him]].
** Cortex isthis.a [[spoiler:Madrox dupe]] that was heavily modified by Earth-1191 ComicBook/DoctorDoom.
* DarkHorseVictory: [[spoiler:Guido]] is the one who kills Tier and is the ultimate victor of the "Hell on Earth War".
* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Rahne believes Rictor is only in a relationship with Shatterstar because he's been
*
** The elderly ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} from [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] is more man than machine [[spoiler:which allows ComicBook/DoctorDoom to take control of him]].
** Cortex is
* DarkHorseVictory: [[spoiler:Guido]] is the one who kills Tier and is the ultimate victor of the "Hell on Earth War".
* DeathCourse: Arcade turns Mutant Town into one of his Murderworlds at the behesp of one of the Purifier leaders.
* DeathOfAChild: Infamously PlayedWith. When Syrin gives Madrox their son, Sean for him to hold he inadvertly absorbs him just like he does with his dupes, much to everyone's horror.
* DeathOfAChild: Infamously PlayedWith. When Syrin gives Madrox their son, Sean for him to hold he inadvertly absorbs him just like he does with his dupes, much to everyone's horror.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: The Hell Lords are the antagonists of the "Hell on Earth War" (Hela, Pluto, Satannish, Asmodeus, Satana and Mephisto) and the rulers of their own dimensions of hell. They get into a contest: Whoever kills Tier, the seventh billion soul born on Earth, gets to be the new ultimate ruler of hell.
* DePower: A substantial part of the run deal with the aftermath of the decimation, where most of the mutant population lost their power, most notably Rictor who is the only member of the team with no powers (At least until Wanda [[RePower gives him his powers back]] in ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade).
* DestinationDefenestration:
** Happens to one of Madrox's dupes after he refuses to be bought out by Singularity, courtesy of Damian Tryp Sr.
** Monet throws Madrox out of the window after he tells her about the LoveTriangle situation with between them and Siryn.
* TheDitherer: Madrox has a lot of trouble making decisions for himself or the team. Lampshaded by Val when she's trying to get him to work for the goverment again, he's much more comfortable taking orders than giving them.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Shatterstar dislikes guns, thinking they're not fit as a warriors weapon, as he wants to get close and personal with his opponents.
* DestinationDefenestration:
** Happens to one of Madrox's dupes after he refuses to be bought out by Singularity, courtesy of Damian Tryp Sr.
** Monet throws Madrox out of the window after he tells her about the LoveTriangle situation with between them and Siryn.
* TheDitherer: Madrox has a lot of trouble making decisions for himself or the team. Lampshaded by Val when she's trying to get him to work for the goverment again, he's much more comfortable taking orders than giving them.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Shatterstar dislikes guns, thinking they're not fit as a warriors weapon, as he wants to get close and personal with his opponents.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shatterstar, teaching himself to drive in a stolen vehicle. He isn't BAD, per se, but he drives in the middle of the road and thinks the brake is "useless" because it makes them slow down. No-one is surprised when he crashes several pages later. Terry's reaction causes this to double as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* DudeNotFunny: When Pip the Troll winds up hijacking Monet's body, Longshot is the only one who doesn't think it's amusing. As a result, he's the only one Monet is ''not'' pissed at when she gets control back.
* DumbBlonde: Longshot. Subverted with Layla.
* DudeNotFunny: When Pip the Troll winds up hijacking Monet's body, Longshot is the only one who doesn't think it's amusing. As a result, he's the only one Monet is ''not'' pissed at when she gets control back.
* DumbBlonde: Longshot. Subverted with Layla.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shatterstar, teaching himself to drive in a stolen vehicle. He isn't BAD, per se, but he drives in the middle of the road and thinks the brake is "useless" because it makes them slow down. No-one is surprised when he crashes several pages later. Terry's Siryn's reaction causes this to double as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* DudeNotFunny: When Pip the Troll winds up hijacking Monet'sbody, Longshot is the only one who doesn't think it's amusing.body by necessity, Polaris and Rictor start laughing until Shatterstar points how what a horrible violation it is, prompting both to shut up. As a result, he's the only one Monet is ''not'' pissed at when she gets control back.
* %%* DumbBlonde: Longshot. Subverted with Layla.Layla.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Guido gives one to Monet after he's mortally injured by Ballistique]]
* DudeNotFunny: When Pip the Troll winds up hijacking Monet's
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Guido gives one to Monet after he's mortally injured by Ballistique]]
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** Terry: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to goddesshood.]]
** Lorna: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Lorna: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
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** Terry: Siryn: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to goddesshood.godhood, becoming the new Morrigan.]]
**Lorna: Polaris: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
**
* {{EMP}}: Sylvius is able to emit a blast of EMP out of her hands, instantly frying any tech that comes in contact with it.
* EnemyMine: Guido and Monet team up with Baron Mordo against the Mutant Response Division when they start hunting for both of them.
* EnemyMine: Guido and Monet team up with Baron Mordo against the Mutant Response Division when they start hunting for both of them.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Doctor Doom's involvement in the plot of issues 200-204 comes about because he finds his alternate counterpart's intentions toward Sue Richards distasteful.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Terry, with her sexy hypnosis voice.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Terry, with her sexy hypnosis voice.
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* EroticDream: Madrox walks on Syrin having a wet dream about Franchise/StarWars, moaning about [[Creator/EwanMcGregor Ewan]] and [[Creator/LiamNelsson Liam]].
* EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:In the "They Keep Killing Madrox" arc, after dying, Madrox is sent to various {{Mirror Universe}}s right after the Madrox of that world died in there, each one worst than the last and he ends up dying in all of them only to find himself in a new one. Eventually one has the ComicBook/DoctorStrange of that universe send him back... but the villains Madrox met also come back with him.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:Doctor Doom's ComicBook/DoctorDoom's involvement in the plot of issues 200-204 comes about because he finds his alternate counterpart's Reed's EvilDoppelganger's intentions toward Sue Richards to be distasteful.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer:Terry, Siryn, with her sexy hypnosis voice.voice, seduces one of their female clients involuntarily.
* EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:In the "They Keep Killing Madrox" arc, after dying, Madrox is sent to various {{Mirror Universe}}s right after the Madrox of that world died in there, each one worst than the last and he ends up dying in all of them only to find himself in a new one. Eventually one has the ComicBook/DoctorStrange of that universe send him back... but the villains Madrox met also come back with him.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer:
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* ExposedToTheElements: Rhane's early outfit is a swimsuit (without legs or sleeves, because of the difficulties with full-body wear and fur). During the fight with the Isolationist, she, Jamie and Guido wind up dumped in the Arctic, and she stays human, refusing to go furry (because, in part, she thinks if she dies, she won't wind up killing Jamie).
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* EvilDoppelganger
** An evil AlternateSelf of [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] from an MirrorUniverse and tries to pull a KillAndReplace on the real Reed and tries to ally with ComicBook/DoctorDoom.
** Deathlok is an evil cyborg AlternateSelf of ([[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers Steve Rogers]]) from [=Earth-TRN193=].
* EvilVersusEvil: The Hell Lords fight each other as much as they fight X-Factor.
* ExposedToTheElements:Rhane's Rahne's early outfit is a swimsuit (without legs or sleeves, because of the difficulties with full-body wear and fur). During the fight with the Isolationist, she, Jamie and Guido wind up dumped in the Arctic, and she stays human, refusing to go furry (because, in part, she thinks if she dies, she won't wind up killing Jamie).Jamie).
* {{Expy}}: Anthony Falcone from Earth-1191 is one to Senator Kelly, a politician that [[FantasticRacism hates mutants]] and has the Sentinels hunt them down.
* FaceMonsterTurn: ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} captures Madrox and turns him into one of his demons. Siryn-Morrigan rescues him and turns him back human.
* FantasticSlurs: After the Decimation, Mutant Town starts using "Pans" and "Rems" to refer to it's mutant citizens. Pans stands for '''P'''ass '''A'''s '''N'''ormal who are former mutants that now appear completely human (Like Rictor and Jubilee). Rems is short for Remnants, former mutants left with some artifcat of their former powers such as horns, bone crests, or odd tentacles (Like Marrow and Blob).
* FateWorseThanDeath: Cortex and Falcone and throw into a vortex to a unknown reality and are never seen again.
** An evil AlternateSelf of [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] from an MirrorUniverse and tries to pull a KillAndReplace on the real Reed and tries to ally with ComicBook/DoctorDoom.
** Deathlok is an evil cyborg AlternateSelf of ([[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers Steve Rogers]]) from [=Earth-TRN193=].
* EvilVersusEvil: The Hell Lords fight each other as much as they fight X-Factor.
* ExposedToTheElements:
* {{Expy}}: Anthony Falcone from Earth-1191 is one to Senator Kelly, a politician that [[FantasticRacism hates mutants]] and has the Sentinels hunt them down.
* FaceMonsterTurn: ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} captures Madrox and turns him into one of his demons. Siryn-Morrigan rescues him and turns him back human.
* FantasticSlurs: After the Decimation, Mutant Town starts using "Pans" and "Rems" to refer to it's mutant citizens. Pans stands for '''P'''ass '''A'''s '''N'''ormal who are former mutants that now appear completely human (Like Rictor and Jubilee). Rems is short for Remnants, former mutants left with some artifcat of their former powers such as horns, bone crests, or odd tentacles (Like Marrow and Blob).
* FateWorseThanDeath: Cortex and Falcone and throw into a vortex to a unknown reality and are never seen again.
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* FieryRedhead: Terry, Rahne, and Shatterstar.
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* FieryRedhead: Terry, Rahne, Both Siryn and Shatterstar. Rahne are temperamental redheads, usually quick to anger and always readdy for a fight.
* FingerFirearms: Ballistique fires deadly cyber-bullets from her fingertips and has a tendency to [[FingerGun mimick a gun with her hands]].
* {{Flight}}:
** Syren can fly in the [[NotQuiteFlight same odd manner her father can, by manipulating sounds waves to propel herself through the air]], and sometimes even carries some of her teammates.
** Monet can do this and doubles as a FlyingBrick. She's often seen casually levitating around the office.
* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Monet does this to Madrox during a mission, which weirds out Rahne.
* FingerFirearms: Ballistique fires deadly cyber-bullets from her fingertips and has a tendency to [[FingerGun mimick a gun with her hands]].
* {{Flight}}:
** Syren can fly in the [[NotQuiteFlight same odd manner her father can, by manipulating sounds waves to propel herself through the air]], and sometimes even carries some of her teammates.
** Monet can do this and doubles as a FlyingBrick. She's often seen casually levitating around the office.
* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Monet does this to Madrox during a mission, which weirds out Rahne.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During "They Keep Killing Madrox, part 1", Jamie stumbles upon alternate Rahne and alt!Terry talking about how Valerie Cooper has just left alt!Jamie and Layla's wedding reception completely sloshed. This turns out to be pertinent at the end of the issue, when she manages to run into Jamie in a literal sense.
* ForTheEvulz: Terry uses her hypnotic voice to make a concert-goer at a hate rally go and buy the most expensive rug he can find. Monet approves of this, and neither of them feel slightly guilty for it.
* ForWantOfANail: Jamie's multiversal trip, naturally demonstrates some examples.
** In the first, Rahne's kid with Hrimahri was a girl, named Vanora, and Rahne tried to raise her, which didn't work terribly well. Also, among other things, Jamie and Layla didn't get an "m" brand on their face, Shatterstar still has his 90s outfit and attitude, he and Longshot are apparently brothers, Banshee is still alive, Peter Parker is apparently a police chief, and Jamie's dupes all have different powers.
** In the second, Wanda Maximoff said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even Captain America. Iron Man 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.
** And in the third, there's been a "Hell on Earth" war going on for some time. This reality's Jamie is a mage, and served as Doctor Strange's apprentice.
** In a non-Jamie related case, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection]] starts screwing up Layla's predictions.
* FutureSlang: Some characters in Earth-1191 use the expletive "shock", previously seen in ComicBook/Marvel2099 (which, not coincidentally, Peter David did some writing for).
* ForTheEvulz: Terry uses her hypnotic voice to make a concert-goer at a hate rally go and buy the most expensive rug he can find. Monet approves of this, and neither of them feel slightly guilty for it.
* ForWantOfANail: Jamie's multiversal trip, naturally demonstrates some examples.
** In the first, Rahne's kid with Hrimahri was a girl, named Vanora, and Rahne tried to raise her, which didn't work terribly well. Also, among other things, Jamie and Layla didn't get an "m" brand on their face, Shatterstar still has his 90s outfit and attitude, he and Longshot are apparently brothers, Banshee is still alive, Peter Parker is apparently a police chief, and Jamie's dupes all have different powers.
** In the second, Wanda Maximoff said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even Captain America. Iron Man 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.
** And in the third, there's been a "Hell on Earth" war going on for some time. This reality's Jamie is a mage, and served as Doctor Strange's apprentice.
** In a non-Jamie related case, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection]] starts screwing up Layla's predictions.
* FutureSlang: Some characters in Earth-1191 use the expletive "shock", previously seen in ComicBook/Marvel2099 (which, not coincidentally, Peter David did some writing for).
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During "They Keep Killing Madrox, part 1", Jamie stumbles upon alternate Rahne and alt!Terry alt!Siryn talking about how Valerie Cooper has just left alt!Jamie and Layla's wedding reception completely sloshed. This turns out to be pertinent at the end of the issue, when she manages to run into Jamie in a literal sense.
* ForTheEvulz:Terry Siryn uses her hypnotic voice to make a concert-goer at a hate rally go and buy the most expensive rug he can find. Monet approves of this, and neither of them feel slightly guilty for it.
*ForWantOfANail: ForWantOfANail:
** Despite "knowing stuff", Layla is afraid of changing things too much only to make them worse later, expecifically referencing to the Butterfly Effect. And later, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection starts screwing up her predictions.]]
** Jamie's multiversal trip, naturally demonstrates some examples.
** *** In the first, first (Earth-7153), Rahne's kid with Hrimahri was a girl, named Vanora, and Rahne tried to raise her, which didn't work terribly well. Also, among other things, Jamie and Layla didn't get an "m" brand on their face, Shatterstar still has his 90s outfit and attitude, he and Longshot are apparently brothers, Banshee is still alive, Peter Parker is apparently a police chief, and Jamie's dupes all have different powers.
** *** In the second, second ([=Earth-TRN193=]), [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda Maximoff Maximoff]] said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers Captain America. Iron Man 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.
** *** And in the third, third ([=Earth-TRN196=]), there's been a "Hell on Earth" war going on for some time. This reality's Jamie is a mage, and served as Doctor Strange's apprentice.
ComicBook/DoctorStrange's apprentice and was murdered by Dormammu.
* FrameUp: One of their first clients is framed for killing her sister by Singularity. They even mess with her mind to make her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia not remember what really happened]], but Monet finds out the truth with her {{Telepath}}y.
* FullFrontalAssault:
**In After being captured by the Karma Project, Darwin is kept [[PeopleJars naked in a non-Jamie related case, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection]] starts screwing up Layla's predictions.
tank]]. Later, his body evolves into giving him enough strenght to break the glass and attack his captors completely starkers, with some CensorShadow or SceneryCensor covering his crotch.
** Monet under Cortex's MindControl strips naked in front of Darwin to seduce him, but when he [[IgnoreTheFanservice doesn't fall for it]] Cortex had Monet try to kill him and Lenore instead, leading to several issue with Monet fighting completely nude (Cortex's MindControl gives her some purple techno skin that makes her have a BarbieDollAnatomy). When the MindControl is eventually severed, Monet is so furious at Cortex she attacks him without bothering to put some clothes back on.
** Rahne's clothes are destroyed after transforming to fight the Sin-Eater and she dons a bloodstained coat to get back home.
** When Madrox visits the morgue to investigate Sally Roland's body, she gets [[PossessingADeadBody possessed by Bloodbath]] and attacks them, with a ModestyBedsheet being glued to her body for most of the fight.
* FutureSlang: Some characters in Earth-1191 use the expletive "shock", previously seen inComicBook/Marvel2099 ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'' (which, not coincidentally, Peter David Creator/PeterDavid did some writing for).for).
* FunWithAcronyms: S.C.A.R.s, Strategic Capture And Retrieval, is a cybernetic update the SuperSoldier program acting as black ops for the United States Army.
* GladToBeAliveSex: Layla and Madrox get it on after she manages to bring him back from his Death Loop.
* ForTheEvulz:
*
** Despite "knowing stuff", Layla is afraid of changing things too much only to make them worse later, expecifically referencing to the Butterfly Effect. And later, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection starts screwing up her predictions.]]
** Jamie's multiversal trip, naturally demonstrates some examples.
* FrameUp: One of their first clients is framed for killing her sister by Singularity. They even mess with her mind to make her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia not remember what really happened]], but Monet finds out the truth with her {{Telepath}}y.
* FullFrontalAssault:
**
** Monet under Cortex's MindControl strips naked in front of Darwin to seduce him, but when he [[IgnoreTheFanservice doesn't fall for it]] Cortex had Monet try to kill him and Lenore instead, leading to several issue with Monet fighting completely nude (Cortex's MindControl gives her some purple techno skin that makes her have a BarbieDollAnatomy). When the MindControl is eventually severed, Monet is so furious at Cortex she attacks him without bothering to put some clothes back on.
** Rahne's clothes are destroyed after transforming to fight the Sin-Eater and she dons a bloodstained coat to get back home.
** When Madrox visits the morgue to investigate Sally Roland's body, she gets [[PossessingADeadBody possessed by Bloodbath]] and attacks them, with a ModestyBedsheet being glued to her body for most of the fight.
* FutureSlang: Some characters in Earth-1191 use the expletive "shock", previously seen in
* FunWithAcronyms: S.C.A.R.s, Strategic Capture And Retrieval, is a cybernetic update the SuperSoldier program acting as black ops for the United States Army.
* GladToBeAliveSex: Layla and Madrox get it on after she manages to bring him back from his Death Loop.
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads. Terry has hooked up with both Jamie and later [[spoiler:Deadpool]].
* HolierThanThou: Quicksilver, who actually ''says'' the phrase in his narration in issue #19 (he is, at this point, quite nuts).
* HolierThanThou: Quicksilver, who actually ''says'' the phrase in his narration in issue #19 (he is, at this point, quite nuts).
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads. Terry has hooked up GoodShepherd: One of Madrox dupes, Father John, is a respected preacher in his community with both Jamie his own family and later [[spoiler:Deadpool]].on manages to talk Syrin and Rahne out of their depressions.
* GroinAttack: ComicBook/SheHulk kicks Guido in the crotch during their brief crossover fight, hard enough that he even lets out BloodFromTheMouth.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Jezebel / Mephista betrays her father and temporarily aids X-Factor in opposing the Hell Lords in the "Hell on Earth War" arc.
* HarmlessElectrocution: When Monet is eletrecuted by one of Arcade's {{Death Trap}}s, it causes her to lose councious for a small period of time but no real damage, but more amusingly, it leaves her hair a wild mess for a while.
* HealingFactor: All the [=SCARs=] members can heal from nearly fatal wounds, with Ballistique surving a bullet to the head, as well as aging much slower.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Both Rahne and Monet and prone to eating a lot of ice cream when they get depressed.
* HeroesWantRedHeads:
** Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads.
** Siryn has hooked up with both Jamie and later [[spoiler:Deadpool]].
* HeroicBSOD:
** Jamie Madrox has a mental breakdown after [[spoiler:he absorbs his son]] and ends up quitting the team for a while.
** Polaris has a massive mental breakdown after she learns the truth about her parents.
* HeroicSacrifice: After being mortally wounded by Ballistique, [[spoiler:Guide still strains himself to save a crowd from being crushed by a falling robot {{mook}}. The effort puts too much strain in his heart and ends up killing him.]]
* HeroKiller:
** [[spoiler: Ballistique fatally wounds Guido with one of her cyber bullets. He does [[BackFromTheDead come back]], but [[CameBackWrong without his soul.]]
** [[spoiler: Bloodbath kills Madrox by impaling him InTheBack with his sword. He comes back due to multiverse shenanigans]]
** [[spoiler: Pluto give Monet a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that gives her an brain injury. She succumbs to it later while fighting Guido. She's brought back to life by Guido when he becomes one of the Death Lords.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Polaris uses her MagnetismManipulation to aim Deathlock's ArmCannon at his head, killing him.
* HolierThanThou:Quicksilver, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, who actually ''says'' the phrase in his narration in issue #19 (he is, at this point, quite nuts).nuts).
* HomeNudist: One issue shows Monet in the privacy of her room, shrugging off her robe and dancing to the tune of "I'm Too Sexy". Naturally, [[AccidentalPervert Rictor barges at that moment]] and gets an eyeful.
* HoneyTrap: Vera, a girl who seems to be into Pip the Troll turns out to be a demon trying to kill him.
* HopelessSuitor: Darwin crushes on Monet, but she has absolutely no romantic interest in him.
* GroinAttack: ComicBook/SheHulk kicks Guido in the crotch during their brief crossover fight, hard enough that he even lets out BloodFromTheMouth.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Jezebel / Mephista betrays her father and temporarily aids X-Factor in opposing the Hell Lords in the "Hell on Earth War" arc.
* HarmlessElectrocution: When Monet is eletrecuted by one of Arcade's {{Death Trap}}s, it causes her to lose councious for a small period of time but no real damage, but more amusingly, it leaves her hair a wild mess for a while.
* HealingFactor: All the [=SCARs=] members can heal from nearly fatal wounds, with Ballistique surving a bullet to the head, as well as aging much slower.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Both Rahne and Monet and prone to eating a lot of ice cream when they get depressed.
* HeroesWantRedHeads:
** Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads.
** Siryn has hooked up with both Jamie and later [[spoiler:Deadpool]].
* HeroicBSOD:
** Jamie Madrox has a mental breakdown after [[spoiler:he absorbs his son]] and ends up quitting the team for a while.
** Polaris has a massive mental breakdown after she learns the truth about her parents.
* HeroicSacrifice: After being mortally wounded by Ballistique, [[spoiler:Guide still strains himself to save a crowd from being crushed by a falling robot {{mook}}. The effort puts too much strain in his heart and ends up killing him.]]
* HeroKiller:
** [[spoiler: Ballistique fatally wounds Guido with one of her cyber bullets. He does [[BackFromTheDead come back]], but [[CameBackWrong without his soul.]]
** [[spoiler: Bloodbath kills Madrox by impaling him InTheBack with his sword. He comes back due to multiverse shenanigans]]
** [[spoiler: Pluto give Monet a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that gives her an brain injury. She succumbs to it later while fighting Guido. She's brought back to life by Guido when he becomes one of the Death Lords.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Polaris uses her MagnetismManipulation to aim Deathlock's ArmCannon at his head, killing him.
* HolierThanThou:
* HomeNudist: One issue shows Monet in the privacy of her room, shrugging off her robe and dancing to the tune of "I'm Too Sexy". Naturally, [[AccidentalPervert Rictor barges at that moment]] and gets an eyeful.
* HoneyTrap: Vera, a girl who seems to be into Pip the Troll turns out to be a demon trying to kill him.
* HopelessSuitor: Darwin crushes on Monet, but she has absolutely no romantic interest in him.
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* HowWeGotHere: Issue #18 begins with Nicole smashing something with a rock on a bridge in Central Park. At the end of the issue, [[spoiler:it turns out to be Terry's pregnancy test, after having knocked Layla out and over into the water on the Isolationist's orders.]]
* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture Future Doctor Doom gives to Madrox, as to why the government hates and fears Mutants, yet gladly give people like Doom free reign (with a mix of UngratefulBastard).
* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture Future Doctor Doom gives to Madrox, as to why the government hates and fears Mutants, yet gladly give people like Doom free reign (with a mix of UngratefulBastard).
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* HornyDevils: Jezebel / Mephista is a red demoness with curly horns, a hourglass figure and a very {{Stripperific}} outfit.
* HowWeGotHere: Issue #18 begins with Nicole smashing something with a rock on a bridge in Central Park. At the end of the issue, [[spoiler:it turns out to beTerry's Siryn's pregnancy test, after having knocked Layla out and over into the water on the Isolationist's orders.]]
* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture FutureDoctor Doom gives to Madrox, as to why the government hates and fears Mutants, yet gladly give people like Doom free reign (with a mix of UngratefulBastard).
* HowWeGotHere: Issue #18 begins with Nicole smashing something with a rock on a bridge in Central Park. At the end of the issue, [[spoiler:it turns out to be
* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture Future
* GodivaHair: The ''Vanity Fair'' spread cover Monet did has he nude from [[ShouldersUpNudity the waist up]] with her long hair covering her chest. Another ''Vanity Fair'' photo Guido carries with him also has her toplessness covered by her hair.
* IHaveYourWife:
** Monet's father is kidnapped by terrorists, forcing her and Guido to go to his rescue in South America.
** Bloodbath kills Hangman's ex-wife and kidnaps his son to force Hangman to keep reaping souls for him.
** Monet's father is kidnapped by terrorists, forcing her and Guido to go to his rescue in South America.
** Bloodbath kills Hangman's ex-wife and kidnaps his son to force Hangman to keep reaping souls for him.
* EnfantTerrible: The very first thing Rahne's child, Tier does upon being born is violently killing Agamemnon, [[TorsoWithAView ripping a hole in his torse]]. It disturbs Rahne enough to proclaim ThatThingIsNotMyChild.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Bloodbath impales the [[spoiler:real Madrox InTheBack while he's distracted while possessing one of his dupes]].
** Tier dies being stabbed InTheBack by [[spoiler:Guido]].
* InferredSurvival: When told by ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} about her father's death, Siryn refuses to believe it because X-Men come back from the dead all the time, but it's clear she just in [[FiveStagesOfGrief denial]] at that point.
* InterruptedIntimacy: When Rahne comes back, she ends up walking on her previous LoveInterest Rictor while he's in bed with Shatterstar.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Bloodbath impales the [[spoiler:real Madrox InTheBack while he's distracted while possessing one of his dupes]].
** Tier dies being stabbed InTheBack by [[spoiler:Guido]].
* InferredSurvival: When told by ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} about her father's death, Siryn refuses to believe it because X-Men come back from the dead all the time, but it's clear she just in [[FiveStagesOfGrief denial]] at that point.
* InterruptedIntimacy: When Rahne comes back, she ends up walking on her previous LoveInterest Rictor while he's in bed with Shatterstar.
** Rictor is DrivenToSuicide after [[DePower losing his powers]] on [[ComicBook/HouseOfM M-Day]], and stands on a rooftops trying to work up the courage to jump, until Madrox and Rahne intervene.
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** Issue 242 has Layla running across New York to cause one of these. Between one thing and another, she doesn't make it early enough to talk the woman down with a reassuring speech, but she does manage to stop her going splat.
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** Issue 242 #240 story "[[Film/RunLolaRun Run, Layla, Run]]" has Layla running across New York to cause one of these. Between one thing and another, she doesn't make it early enough to talk the woman down with a reassuring speech, but she does manage to stop her going splat.
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* ItAmusedMe: An elderly Doctor Doom's reason for [[spoiler:assisting Tryp and Falcone in creating Cortex.]]
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* ItAmusedMe: An elderly Doctor Doom's ComicBook/DoctorDoom's reason for [[spoiler:assisting Tryp and Falcone in creating Cortex.]]
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Tryp Jr. uses a TranquillizerDart on Syrin, which is extra effective on her, since not only it incapacitates her but leaves her vocals cords weakened for a while. When he tries it again a second time, he discovers she started using [[BulletproofVest Kevlar Collar]].
* JawDrop: When the team teleports back from a job into the roof, they find [[{{Fanservice}} Monet there sunbathing in a bikini]], and Guido can be seen doing a jaw drop in the background.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Monet's attitude causes her to come off as a jerk at times, but she still has her heart in the right place when it matters, such as her empathy towards Gloria Santiago after Singularity screwed with her mind and made her think she killed her own sister.
* JawDrop: When the team teleports back from a job into the roof, they find [[{{Fanservice}} Monet there sunbathing in a bikini]], and Guido can be seen doing a jaw drop in the background.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Monet's attitude causes her to come off as a jerk at times, but she still has her heart in the right place when it matters, such as her empathy towards Gloria Santiago after Singularity screwed with her mind and made her think she killed her own sister.
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* LamarckWasRight: Ruby Summers, the Earth-1911 daughter of Cyclops, has a mix of his powers (eye beams) and Emma Frosts' diamond form (though, as her name might hint, she's a different type of mineral). She also has blond hair, despite both parents being natural brunettes (Emma dyes her hair).
* LargeHam: Jamie Madrox, especially early in the series when he hasn't grown up as much. Shatterstar. Rictor, when he's undercover. In fact, everyone on the team has probably had a LargeHam moment at one point or another.
* LargeHam: Jamie Madrox, especially early in the series when he hasn't grown up as much. Shatterstar. Rictor, when he's undercover. In fact, everyone on the team has probably had a LargeHam moment at one point or another.
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* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:After he becomes TheSoulless, Guido loses his empathy for others and starts doing odd things such as making jokes about innocents dying.]]
* LamarckWasRight: Ruby Summers, the Earth-1911 daughter ofCyclops, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, has a mix of his powers (eye beams) and Emma Frosts' ComicBook/EmmaFrost's diamond form (though, as her name might hint, she's a different type of mineral). She also has blond hair, despite both parents being natural brunettes (Emma dyes her hair).
* LargeHam: Everyone on the team has probably had a LargeHam moment at one point or another.
** Jamie Madrox, especially early in the series when he hasn't grown up asmuch. Shatterstar. much.
** Rictor, when he's undercover.In fact, everyone on the team has probably had a LargeHam moment at one point or another.
* LamarckWasRight: Ruby Summers, the Earth-1911 daughter of
* LargeHam: Everyone on the team has probably had a LargeHam moment at one point or another.
** Jamie Madrox, especially early in the series when he hasn't grown up as
** Rictor, when he's undercover.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** After their cybernetic implants made Ballistique and Rococo unstable the SCAR program was disbanded and their were both mind wiped and given civilian lives. Sylvius, the only member who wasn't affected, was allowed to continue her military career and was told her former teammates were killed in action. When they learn this, they team up go into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the former heads of the program.
** Mastermind erased Polaris memories of when first awakened her powers which [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan caused the planet crash that killed her parents]].]]
** After their cybernetic implants made Ballistique and Rococo unstable the SCAR program was disbanded and their were both mind wiped and given civilian lives. Sylvius, the only member who wasn't affected, was allowed to continue her military career and was told her former teammates were killed in action. When they learn this, they team up go into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the former heads of the program.
** Mastermind erased Polaris memories of when first awakened her powers which [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan caused the planet crash that killed her parents]].]]
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* LeeroyJenkins: The alternate Shatterstar seen in "They Keep Killing Madrox". His response to armed police showing up to investigate a murder is to charge them, while Longshot tries to get him to stop. Cue muttering from that reality's Wolverine and Rictor about how much they hate him.
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* LeeroyJenkins: TheLeader: Madrox is the leader of X-Factor Investigations, a position he struggles with a lot due do his indeciviness. When Havok and Polaris rejoin the team, Havok and Madrox end up splitting the leadership, with Madrox leading the civilian jobs while Havok leads the ones given by Valerie Cooper and the X-Men.
* LeeroyJenkins:
** When arriving in Latveria to rescue ComicBook/InvisibleWoman, a pissed Monet, Shatterstar and ComicBook/TheThing simply decide to storm Doom's castle from the front door. ComicBook/MisterFantastic later points out how insane the idea of a frontal attack on Doom's castle is.
** Thealternate welf Shatterstar seen in "They Keep Killing Madrox". His response to armed police showing up to investigate a murder is to charge them, while Longshot tries to get him to stop. Cue muttering from that reality's Wolverine ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and Rictor about how much they hate him.him.
* LegacyCharacter: Happens twice with Siryn / Terry:
** After she accepts her father's death, Siryn takes on his name -- Banshee. She also has a LampshadeHanging moment saying that she was never quite sure why he named himself after a female spirit in the first place.
** Much later, Morrigan reveals to Siryn that her name is actually a title that was passed down from one woman to another in Ireland and that she was tired of being the Morrigan and picked Siryn to be her successor. Siryn accepts, mostly to help Polaris with her mental breakdown.
* LiteralMinded: Longshot and Shatterstar take things very literally. When Monet advices Shatterstar to "mark his territory" (concerning the Rahne/Rictor/Shatterstar LoveTriangle) he thinks she's suggesting for him to urinate on Rictor. She almost let's him do it.
* LivingMacguffin: Rahne's unborn baby with Hrimhari is sought by many of the Gods in the Marvel universe for the part he's supposed to play in a future war, and they end up sending mythic creatures to attack her even ''before'' her baby's born.
* LeeroyJenkins:
** When arriving in Latveria to rescue ComicBook/InvisibleWoman, a pissed Monet, Shatterstar and ComicBook/TheThing simply decide to storm Doom's castle from the front door. ComicBook/MisterFantastic later points out how insane the idea of a frontal attack on Doom's castle is.
** The
* LegacyCharacter: Happens twice with Siryn / Terry:
** After she accepts her father's death, Siryn takes on his name -- Banshee. She also has a LampshadeHanging moment saying that she was never quite sure why he named himself after a female spirit in the first place.
** Much later, Morrigan reveals to Siryn that her name is actually a title that was passed down from one woman to another in Ireland and that she was tired of being the Morrigan and picked Siryn to be her successor. Siryn accepts, mostly to help Polaris with her mental breakdown.
* LiteralMinded: Longshot and Shatterstar take things very literally. When Monet advices Shatterstar to "mark his territory" (concerning the Rahne/Rictor/Shatterstar LoveTriangle) he thinks she's suggesting for him to urinate on Rictor. She almost let's him do it.
* LivingMacguffin: Rahne's unborn baby with Hrimhari is sought by many of the Gods in the Marvel universe for the part he's supposed to play in a future war, and they end up sending mythic creatures to attack her even ''before'' her baby's born.
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** Terry's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
** Monet is a FlyingBrick. She still needs to breath, so chloroform works on her the same as anyone else.
** Monet is a FlyingBrick. She still needs to breath, so chloroform works on her the same as anyone else.
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** Terry's Siryn's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
immune.
** Monetis a FlyingBrick. She has SuperToughness but she still needs to breath, so chloroform works on her the same as anyone else.else.
* LoopholeAbuse: The Isolationist possesses the power of every other mutant on the planet, but is psychologically unable to directly kill any mutants as a side-effect of his abilities, forcing him to find loopholes to try to kill them such as using Forge's knowledge to create a teleportation system that would allow him to send some X-Factor members to a frozen land where they would eventually freeze to death, or manipulate others into setting up a mutant rally in a location where he had planted bombs that would go off and kill the gathered mutants later.
* LustObject: Monet to Darwin and Guido, who both have her ''Vanity Fair'' spread. Guido is later revealed to have a photo of her topless that he carries with him.
* MadeOfIron: Rococo's has some sort of protective metallic armor under her shallow skin, which allows her withstand direct blunt attacks and even makes her immune to flames.
* MakeMeWannaShout:
** Terry / Siryn mutant power is sonic screams, much like her father but she can also channel them into more focused sound vibration she calls a "sonic lance".
** Morrigan can emit a sonic scream that easily overpowers Siryn's.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Damian Tryp is the one behind Althony Falcone and Cortex's actions in the "Summers Rebellion" arc.
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler: Damian Tryp turns Guido into one for Singularity, with the trigger being a phone call. Madrox even uses the term "Manchurian Agent".]]
** Monet
* LoopholeAbuse: The Isolationist possesses the power of every other mutant on the planet, but is psychologically unable to directly kill any mutants as a side-effect of his abilities, forcing him to find loopholes to try to kill them such as using Forge's knowledge to create a teleportation system that would allow him to send some X-Factor members to a frozen land where they would eventually freeze to death, or manipulate others into setting up a mutant rally in a location where he had planted bombs that would go off and kill the gathered mutants later.
* LustObject: Monet to Darwin and Guido, who both have her ''Vanity Fair'' spread. Guido is later revealed to have a photo of her topless that he carries with him.
* MadeOfIron: Rococo's has some sort of protective metallic armor under her shallow skin, which allows her withstand direct blunt attacks and even makes her immune to flames.
* MakeMeWannaShout:
** Terry / Siryn mutant power is sonic screams, much like her father but she can also channel them into more focused sound vibration she calls a "sonic lance".
** Morrigan can emit a sonic scream that easily overpowers Siryn's.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Damian Tryp is the one behind Althony Falcone and Cortex's actions in the "Summers Rebellion" arc.
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler: Damian Tryp turns Guido into one for Singularity, with the trigger being a phone call. Madrox even uses the term "Manchurian Agent".]]
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* MoralPragmatist: In the AlternateTimeline of Earth-1191, SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom has become old and unsound in mind and body. He chooses to help the heroes simply because it allows him to stretch his still-impeccable intellect and retain mental lucidity for greater periods of time. He makes it clear, however, that if he ever became healthy again, he'd probably go back to his old ways.
* MrFanservice: Shatterstar
* MsFanservice: Monet
* MrFanservice: Shatterstar
* MsFanservice: Monet
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* MesACrowd:
** This is Jamie Madrox's power (triggered via physical impact), his duplicates are also independent and can developed their own personalities the longer they remained separate from him. Any personality trait can be literally embodied in one of his "dupes"; as well, he sent out dupes to master certain occupations and skills, which after the dupes are reabsorbed, he learns as well.
** PlayedWith with Damian Tryp who [[exists in all points in his own lifetime, being a "true multiple man". He can even pull versions of himself from the past]].
* MindControl: Cortex is able to mentally dominate and control several people at once. He can gain control of individuals either through physical contact or even from psychic contact through one of his already possessed minions.
* TheMole: Pip the Troll joined XF Investigations to keep a tab on Rahne's child, under Agamemnon's orders.
* MoralPragmatist: In the AlternateTimeline of Earth-1191,SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom ComicBook/DoctorDoom has become old and unsound in mind and body. He chooses to help the heroes simply because it allows him to stretch his still-impeccable intellect and retain mental lucidity for greater periods of time. He makes it clear, however, that if he ever became healthy again, he'd probably go back to his old ways.
* %%* MrFanservice: Shatterstar
* MsFanservice:MonetMonet shows plenty of skin during the story, either with revealing outfits or by getting naked.
* MultilayerFacade: After the team captures Arcade, Rictor punches him, making his face falls off and revealing it's [[ActuallyADoombot actually a robot]]. But once everybody leaves, the Arcade "robot" gets up and takes off his robot mask revealing he's the ''actual'' Arcade, who makes a note to just use an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: [[spoiler: The Tryp "family" is are all Tryp using his TimeTravel powers to snatch them from their own timelines.]]
* MysticalPregnancy: Rahne's child with the Wolf God Hrimhari is much quicker than normal pregnancies, leaves her with NighInvulnerability and she births him by ''vomiting him out of her mouth''.
* NakedFirstImpression: Madrox first meets Sheila [=DeSotto=] when he finds her SkinnyDipping in her pool, arriving just as she's [[SexySurfacingShot climbs out of the pool topless]]. Her naughty are either concealed by SceneryCensor or by it being [[ShouldersUpNudity just out of frame]] and later wraps herself in a ModestyTowel.
** This is Jamie Madrox's power (triggered via physical impact), his duplicates are also independent and can developed their own personalities the longer they remained separate from him. Any personality trait can be literally embodied in one of his "dupes"; as well, he sent out dupes to master certain occupations and skills, which after the dupes are reabsorbed, he learns as well.
** PlayedWith with Damian Tryp who [[exists in all points in his own lifetime, being a "true multiple man". He can even pull versions of himself from the past]].
* MindControl: Cortex is able to mentally dominate and control several people at once. He can gain control of individuals either through physical contact or even from psychic contact through one of his already possessed minions.
* TheMole: Pip the Troll joined XF Investigations to keep a tab on Rahne's child, under Agamemnon's orders.
* MoralPragmatist: In the AlternateTimeline of Earth-1191,
* MsFanservice:
* MultilayerFacade: After the team captures Arcade, Rictor punches him, making his face falls off and revealing it's [[ActuallyADoombot actually a robot]]. But once everybody leaves, the Arcade "robot" gets up and takes off his robot mask revealing he's the ''actual'' Arcade, who makes a note to just use an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: [[spoiler: The Tryp "family" is are all Tryp using his TimeTravel powers to snatch them from their own timelines.]]
* MysticalPregnancy: Rahne's child with the Wolf God Hrimhari is much quicker than normal pregnancies, leaves her with NighInvulnerability and she births him by ''vomiting him out of her mouth''.
* NakedFirstImpression: Madrox first meets Sheila [=DeSotto=] when he finds her SkinnyDipping in her pool, arriving just as she's [[SexySurfacingShot climbs out of the pool topless]]. Her naughty are either concealed by SceneryCensor or by it being [[ShouldersUpNudity just out of frame]] and later wraps herself in a ModestyTowel.
* NighInvulnerability:
** Monet and Guido have SuperToughness can take an enormous amount of physical damage.
** Darwin's AdaptiveAbility makes him very hard to hurt, since his body will shapeshift into whatever it needs to survive an attack, such as turning his nack into rubber if someone tries to slash his throat.
** While pregnant with Hrimhari's child Rahne becomes impervious to any damage.
** Monet and Guido have SuperToughness can take an enormous amount of physical damage.
** Darwin's AdaptiveAbility makes him very hard to hurt, since his body will shapeshift into whatever it needs to survive an attack, such as turning his nack into rubber if someone tries to slash his throat.
** While pregnant with Hrimhari's child Rahne becomes impervious to any damage.
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* NoSell: As part of the terrigen crystals defending him, Rictor manages to survive a point-blank shot from Huber using Cyclops' eye-beams (which at full strength can demolish ''tanks''). And by "survive" we mean "doesn't even wobble slightly".
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* NoSell: NoSell:
** As part of the terrigen crystals defending him, Rictor manages to survive a point-blank shot from Huber using Cyclops' eye-beams (which at full strength can demolish ''tanks''). And by "survive" we mean "doesn't even wobbleslightly".slightly".
** When Bloodbath stuns the team by draining their souls, Guido is completely immune since [[spoiler:he lost his soul after Layla revived him.]]
** As part of the terrigen crystals defending him, Rictor manages to survive a point-blank shot from Huber using Cyclops' eye-beams (which at full strength can demolish ''tanks''). And by "survive" we mean "doesn't even wobble
** When Bloodbath stuns the team by draining their souls, Guido is completely immune since [[spoiler:he lost his soul after Layla revived him.]]
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* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Rictor. Monet up until issue 200.
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* NotSoHarmLessVillain: The old senile ComicBook/DoctorDoom from [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] doesn't seem like a real threat at first and recruited as an ally for the Summers Rebellion [[spoiler:until he inevitably betrays them, bringing Cortex back and taking control of the cyborg Cyclops.]]
* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane,Rictor. Rictor and Monet. Monet up until starts wearing one in issue 200.200.
* NumberTwo: Syrin is this for Maddox in XF-Investigations, she's a natural leader and sometimes Maddox even thinks she may be better fit for the job than him. When Maddox has his HeroicBSOD and leaves the team, she steps up and takes charge for a while.
* OnlySaneMan: Whenever a fight between two heroes start, Monet is the one to stop it and point out how stupid both parties are acting. It helps she's usually strong enough to physicaly restrain them too.
** NotSoAboveItAll: But once when Monet was trying to stop a pointless fight with ComicBook/SheHulk, the latter splashed her with water, pissing off Monet who then started the fight herself.
* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane,
* NumberTwo: Syrin is this for Maddox in XF-Investigations, she's a natural leader and sometimes Maddox even thinks she may be better fit for the job than him. When Maddox has his HeroicBSOD and leaves the team, she steps up and takes charge for a while.
* OnlySaneMan: Whenever a fight between two heroes start, Monet is the one to stop it and point out how stupid both parties are acting. It helps she's usually strong enough to physicaly restrain them too.
** NotSoAboveItAll: But once when Monet was trying to stop a pointless fight with ComicBook/SheHulk, the latter splashed her with water, pissing off Monet who then started the fight herself.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: One case has Madrox and Layla dealing with a Vandella, a North African vampiric demon spirit that [[DemonicPossession possessed]] one of their clients.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Rahne Sinclair /Wolfsbane.Wolfsbane mutant power is being able to shapeshift into a werewolf. Aside from its obvious combat application, she uses her [[TheNoseKnows enhanced sense of smell]] to track down targets for XF Investigations.
* PeopleJars: Once they capture him, Project Karma keeps Darwin contained fully concious in a huge jar full of liquid. Darwin can only watch on in horror the experiments they're doing to their other captives.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Rahne Sinclair /
* PeopleJars: Once they capture him, Project Karma keeps Darwin contained fully concious in a huge jar full of liquid. Darwin can only watch on in horror the experiments they're doing to their other captives.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Just narrowly avoided by Jamie and Terry when she's pregnant. The two aren't on the same wavelength, but still having what they think is the same argument. Monet eventually weighs in by pointing out they're acting like something out of ''Three's Company''.
* PortalCut: Happens to an alternate version of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] at one point.
* PrecociousCrush: In a way. Layla didn't act like she had a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him, that they eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:After she got ''much'' older, this indeed happened.]]
* PregnantBadass: Terry. And Rahne. Don't count on what you think a hormonal WMD will do, indeed.
* PortalCut: Happens to an alternate version of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] at one point.
* PrecociousCrush: In a way. Layla didn't act like she had a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him, that they eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:After she got ''much'' older, this indeed happened.]]
* PregnantBadass: Terry. And Rahne. Don't count on what you think a hormonal WMD will do, indeed.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Guido's first act as The King of Hell is to bring Monet BackFromTheDead. He even mocks her, throwing at her face how "souless" he is.]]
* PlayingPossum: ComicBook/BlackCat pretends to have been defeated in a single hit by Rococo in order to get the drop on her later.
* PoorCommunicationKills:
** Just narrowly avoided by Jamie andTerry Siryn when she's pregnant. The two aren't on the same wavelength, but still having what they think is the same argument. Monet eventually weighs in by pointing out they're acting like something out of ''Three's Company''.
''Series/ThreesCompany''.
** PlayedWith during the ''Secret Invasion'' crossover with ''ComicBook/SheHulk''. When it looks like a fight is about to break out between ComicBook/SheHulk and X-Factor, Monet ''tries'' to play ambassador and gives Jen a chance to explain the situation. But Jen finds Monet's tone so condescending that she starts a fight with her ''anyway''.
* PopCulturedBadass: Madrox makes pop culture reference all the time, no matter the situation. When he gets stuck in a BadFuture, he's dismayed no one gets them.
* PortalCut: Happens toan alternate version the EvilDoppelganger of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour [[ComicBook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] at when he gets punched in the face by Guido, throwing his head into Shatterstar's portal just as he happens to close it, which instantly severs his head.
* PossessingADeadBody: Bloodbath can posse dead bodies, which he does to attack the team. He even does it with onepoint.
of Madrox's dupes and even ''his own'' original dead body after Guido kills him once.
* PostFinalBoss: Elder Tryp has a final petty against Layla and Madrox, arranging for the police to find the Demonized Madrox so they kill him. His plan is foiled by The Siryn-Morrigan who reverts Madrox back to normal just as the police arrives. Tryp is then seemingly killed offscreen by an AlternateSelf of his.
* PowerSource: Morrigan's {{Familiar}} Raven, Branwen is the source of her powers. Siryn defeat her by destroying him.
* PrecociousCrush:In a way.PlayedWith. Layla didn't act like she had a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him, that they eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:After she got ''much'' older, this indeed happened.]]
* PregnantBadass:Terry. And Siryn and much later, Rahne. Don't count on what you think a hormonal WMD will do, indeed.indeed.
* {{Prequel}}: The ''Madrox'' mini series, which shows Madrox, Rahne and Guido first forming XF Investigations and taking their first few cases.
* PlayingPossum: ComicBook/BlackCat pretends to have been defeated in a single hit by Rococo in order to get the drop on her later.
* PoorCommunicationKills:
** Just narrowly avoided by Jamie and
** PlayedWith during the ''Secret Invasion'' crossover with ''ComicBook/SheHulk''. When it looks like a fight is about to break out between ComicBook/SheHulk and X-Factor, Monet ''tries'' to play ambassador and gives Jen a chance to explain the situation. But Jen finds Monet's tone so condescending that she starts a fight with her ''anyway''.
* PopCulturedBadass: Madrox makes pop culture reference all the time, no matter the situation. When he gets stuck in a BadFuture, he's dismayed no one gets them.
* PortalCut: Happens to
* PossessingADeadBody: Bloodbath can posse dead bodies, which he does to attack the team. He even does it with one
* PostFinalBoss: Elder Tryp has a final petty against Layla and Madrox, arranging for the police to find the Demonized Madrox so they kill him. His plan is foiled by The Siryn-Morrigan who reverts Madrox back to normal just as the police arrives. Tryp is then seemingly killed offscreen by an AlternateSelf of his.
* PowerSource: Morrigan's {{Familiar}} Raven, Branwen is the source of her powers. Siryn defeat her by destroying him.
* PrecociousCrush:
* PregnantBadass:
* {{Prequel}}: The ''Madrox'' mini series, which shows Madrox, Rahne and Guido first forming XF Investigations and taking their first few cases.
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* PretenderDiss: The Morrigan doesn't think too highly of Terry taking the name "banshee".
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* PretenderDiss: The Morrigan doesn't think too highly of Terry Siryn taking the name "banshee"."Banshee" and tries to kill her over it. [[spoiler:Subverted in that she's actually testing if Syrin is worth of taking ''her'' place as the next Morrigan.]]
* TheProtagonist: While the run focuses on the team, Madrox often takes center stage and is the main character, being the one in charge of X-Factor Investigations.
* ProudBeauty: Monet is hot and she knows it. A lot of her ego seems to come from her beauty.
-->'''Rictor''': ''[about the X-Factor Investigations office]'' What a ''dump''. Kind of a come-down for a high-toned girl like Monet St. Crox.\\
'''Monet''': Actually I've done wonders with beautifying the interior. To begin with, I moved in.
* PrivateDetective:
** X-Factor Investigations is a private detective agency run by the protagonists. They became known for being "mutant detectives".
** Singularity Investigations, run by the Tryp family, is a [[TheRival rival]] agency that becomes the direct competition to XF Investigations in many cases.
* {{Psychometry}}: Longshot can get a psychic read out of objects, getting visions of their previous history, which comes in handy in quite a few cases.
* TheProtagonist: While the run focuses on the team, Madrox often takes center stage and is the main character, being the one in charge of X-Factor Investigations.
* ProudBeauty: Monet is hot and she knows it. A lot of her ego seems to come from her beauty.
-->'''Rictor''': ''[about the X-Factor Investigations office]'' What a ''dump''. Kind of a come-down for a high-toned girl like Monet St. Crox.\\
'''Monet''': Actually I've done wonders with beautifying the interior. To begin with, I moved in.
* PrivateDetective:
** X-Factor Investigations is a private detective agency run by the protagonists. They became known for being "mutant detectives".
** Singularity Investigations, run by the Tryp family, is a [[TheRival rival]] agency that becomes the direct competition to XF Investigations in many cases.
* {{Psychometry}}: Longshot can get a psychic read out of objects, getting visions of their previous history, which comes in handy in quite a few cases.
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* PutOnABus: Quicksilver is a secondary character in the early parts of the book, until he gets his powers back around 2007, and leaves to be a part of ''Mighty Avengers''.
* 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.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how...
* 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 who can morph into any wolf form, including her mother's. Oh, and that it doesn't take place on Earth-616, either]].
* RedSkiesCrossover: The ''Civil War'' tie-in, which largely consists of Terry complaining about the SHRA, and a Madrox dupe coming to make them sign up.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into the future.]]
* 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.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how...
* 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 who can morph into any wolf form, including her mother's. Oh, and that it doesn't take place on Earth-616, either]].
* RedSkiesCrossover: The ''Civil War'' tie-in, which largely consists of Terry complaining about the SHRA, and a Madrox dupe coming to make them sign up.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into the future.]]
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* PutOnABus: Quicksilver PutOnABus:
** ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} is a secondary character in the early parts of the book, until he gets his powers back around 2007, and leaves to be a part of ''Mighty Avengers''.
** Layla gets stuck in [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] during the Messiah Complex crossover.
** Rahne quits the team in Issue #28, partly in order to try to prevent the BadFuture Tryp showed her and partly to join ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} new ''Comicbook/XForce''
*** TheBusCameBack: She returns in #207 after leaving ''Comicbook/XForce''.
** Darwin quits the team and goes on a JourneyToFindOneself after surviving Hela's TouchOfDeath changes him.
** Havok quits the team in the "Breaking Point" arc, feeling he doesn't know his place in the new world and amicably parts way with Polaris.
* 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.jpgEuropean-looking]].
**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.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits:And how...
XF-Investigations has a very odd crew for a detective agency, even for a mutant one, filled with characters who have a DarkAndTroubledPast and with a least two members being weirdos from the [=MojoWorld=].
* ReadyForLovemaking: Layla texts Madrox that she wanted to chat about something in his room, but he gets distracted and lets her wait, figuring its not important. Cut to Madrox’s bedroom filled with lit candles and roses, where a bored and naked Layla lies in the bed, seductively covered only by a ModestyBedsheet. Sighing at Madrox’s lack of presence, she remarks that she should’ve brought a book.
* RedheadInGreen: Syrin is a green-eyed redhead with green as a predominant color in her costume. Even in her civvies she's usually wearing green. Once when she started bleeding on her clothes, she made a dark joke about how "red goes with her outfit".
* 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''Civil War'' ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' tie-in, which largely consists of Terry Siryn complaining about the SHRA, SuperRegistrationAct, and a Madrox dupe coming to make them sign up.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into thefuture.future, he was captured and turned into Cortex by Doctor Doom.]]
** ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} is a secondary character in the early parts of the book, until he gets his powers back around 2007, and leaves to be a part of ''Mighty Avengers''.
** Layla gets stuck in [[BadFuture Earth-1191]] during the Messiah Complex crossover.
** Rahne quits the team in Issue #28, partly in order to try to prevent the BadFuture Tryp showed her and partly to join ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} new ''Comicbook/XForce''
*** TheBusCameBack: She returns in #207 after leaving ''Comicbook/XForce''.
** Darwin quits the team and goes on a JourneyToFindOneself after surviving Hela's TouchOfDeath changes him.
** Havok quits the team in the "Breaking Point" arc, feeling he doesn't know his place in the new world and amicably parts way with Polaris.
* 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
**
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits:
* ReadyForLovemaking: Layla texts Madrox that she wanted to chat about something in his room, but he gets distracted and lets her wait, figuring its not important. Cut to Madrox’s bedroom filled with lit candles and roses, where a bored and naked Layla lies in the bed, seductively covered only by a ModestyBedsheet. Sighing at Madrox’s lack of presence, she remarks that she should’ve brought a book.
* RedheadInGreen: Syrin is a green-eyed redhead with green as a predominant color in her costume. Even in her civvies she's usually wearing green. Once when she started bleeding on her clothes, she made a dark joke about how "red goes with her outfit".
* 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
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into the
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** The Tryps are actually one person, just at different points in their timeline.
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** The Tryps are [[spoiler: actually one person, just at different points in their timeline.]]
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** One of the last issues finally, ''finally'' answers just what the connection is between Star and Longshot (along with one or two other questions, like what happened to the baby Dazzler had way back when). [[spoiler:It's complicated. It's really complicated.]]
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** One of the last issues finally, ''finally'' answers just what the connection is between Star and Longshot (along with one or two other questions, like what happened to the baby Dazzler had way back when). [[spoiler:It's complicated. It's [[spoiler: He is the biological son of Dazzler, a human mutant, and Longshot, an ArtificialHuman who also happens to be genetically based on Shatterstar himself, due to a StableTimeLoop.]]
** Guido's UnexplainedRecovery is actually [[spoiler:Layla going against destiny and using her ressurective powers o bring him BackFromTheDead, but he ends up [[TheSoulless without a soul.]]]]
** Monet and Longshot help Polaris find out what reallycomplicated.happened in the plane crash that killed her parents: [[spoiler: A [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening nasty fight between her parents awakened her mutant powers]] and the resulting AngstNuke caused the plane to crash.]]
** Guido's UnexplainedRecovery is actually [[spoiler:Layla going against destiny and using her ressurective powers o bring him BackFromTheDead, but he ends up [[TheSoulless without a soul.]]]]
** Monet and Longshot help Polaris find out what really
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** The [=SCARs=] members go after the head of the program who responsible (including Jonah Jameson) for ruining their lives. They only managed to kill one before they're stopped by XF-Investigations.
** Monet goes on one against Ballistique for [[spoiler:mortally wounding Guido]], doing a MindRape on her that leaves her on a coma.
* RoboticReveal: Nicole, the orphan Monet adopts in Paris is revealed to have just been posing as an orphaned ex-mutant and was actually a robot created by The Isolationist to infiltrate XF Investigations.
** The [=SCARs=] members go after the head of the program who responsible (including Jonah Jameson) for ruining their lives. They only managed to kill one before they're stopped by XF-Investigations.
** Monet goes on one against Ballistique for [[spoiler:mortally wounding Guido]], doing a MindRape on her that leaves her on a coma.
* RoboticReveal: Nicole, the orphan Monet adopts in Paris is revealed to have just been posing as an orphaned ex-mutant and was actually a robot created by The Isolationist to infiltrate XF Investigations.
* SadClown: Guido almost always joking and smiling, despite having quite a DarkAndTroubledPast and being in near-constant physical pain because of his powers. [[spoiler:When he loses his soul, his humor becomes much more disturbing due to his LackOfEmpathy.]]
* SexForSolace:
** Rahne and Rictor end up sleeping together after going through a lot of traumatical ordeals (Rahne getting a glimpse of a BadFuture, Rictor losing his chance at getting his powers back).
** After she comes BackFromTheDead, a drunk Monet aggressively corneres Darwin and tells him that she needed to feel something after her experience with death and they end up sleeping together.
* SexGod:
** Siryn and Monet both shower Madrox with compliments after sleeping with him. Or at least his "libido dupe".
-->'''Monet''': Now I know why they call you [[DoubleEntendre "Multiple Man."]]
** When prompted about Rictor about which one of the girls is better in bed, Madrox admits it's [[SexGoddess Monet]].
-->'''Madrox''': Theresa's like... like ocean waves washing over you. Monet's like a monsoon.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Used every time a characters has sex, usually we only see them kiss or starting to undress and the next time we see them they're post-coital under a ModestyBedsheet.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Rahne transformation often destroys her clothes, so she eventually got used to being seen naked. But she's still disturbed when she's left naked after a fight and notices Shatterstar (her ex-boyfriends ''boyfriend'') EatingTheEyeCandy. He explains that it's because he's never seen a pregnant women naked. She ends up [[SexyCoatFlashing flashing him]] more just to sate his curiosity.
* ShesGotLegs:
** After a ClothingDamage accident, Monet is forced to wear Madrox's shirt which leaves her legs exposed. Both Guido and Madrox start EatingTheEyeCandy and compliment her toned legs, she icily tells them MyEyesAreUpHere, but when [[TheCasanova Longshot]] starts doing it she [[HypocriticalHumor doesn't mind and says he's sweet to notice]].
** A [[TheQueenpin Queenpin]] Guido meets in South America is nicknamed "señora piernas" (Lady Legs) by the locals, for the shapely legs she ''used'' to have, since she [[AnArmAndALeg lost both her legs due to a landmine]].
** Madrox describes Hela as having eighty percent of her body being her legs.
** Rahne and Rictor end up sleeping together after going through a lot of traumatical ordeals (Rahne getting a glimpse of a BadFuture, Rictor losing his chance at getting his powers back).
** After she comes BackFromTheDead, a drunk Monet aggressively corneres Darwin and tells him that she needed to feel something after her experience with death and they end up sleeping together.
* SexGod:
** Siryn and Monet both shower Madrox with compliments after sleeping with him. Or at least his "libido dupe".
-->'''Monet''': Now I know why they call you [[DoubleEntendre "Multiple Man."]]
** When prompted about Rictor about which one of the girls is better in bed, Madrox admits it's [[SexGoddess Monet]].
-->'''Madrox''': Theresa's like... like ocean waves washing over you. Monet's like a monsoon.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Used every time a characters has sex, usually we only see them kiss or starting to undress and the next time we see them they're post-coital under a ModestyBedsheet.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Rahne transformation often destroys her clothes, so she eventually got used to being seen naked. But she's still disturbed when she's left naked after a fight and notices Shatterstar (her ex-boyfriends ''boyfriend'') EatingTheEyeCandy. He explains that it's because he's never seen a pregnant women naked. She ends up [[SexyCoatFlashing flashing him]] more just to sate his curiosity.
* ShesGotLegs:
** After a ClothingDamage accident, Monet is forced to wear Madrox's shirt which leaves her legs exposed. Both Guido and Madrox start EatingTheEyeCandy and compliment her toned legs, she icily tells them MyEyesAreUpHere, but when [[TheCasanova Longshot]] starts doing it she [[HypocriticalHumor doesn't mind and says he's sweet to notice]].
** A [[TheQueenpin Queenpin]] Guido meets in South America is nicknamed "señora piernas" (Lady Legs) by the locals, for the shapely legs she ''used'' to have, since she [[AnArmAndALeg lost both her legs due to a landmine]].
** Madrox describes Hela as having eighty percent of her body being her legs.
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* ShoutOut: When you have many sarcastic characters written by Peter David, it happens.
* SkewedPriorities: Monet, as comes of being incredibly rich and vain. At one point, she's shot by an assailant. She's perfectly fine, due to being a FlyingBrick, but she's pissed that he's ruined her shirt, and wants to break several of his bones for it.
* SkewedPriorities: Monet, as comes of being incredibly rich and vain. At one point, she's shot by an assailant. She's perfectly fine, due to being a FlyingBrick, but she's pissed that he's ruined her shirt, and wants to break several of his bones for it.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Noelle Blanc (aka Ballistique) is a veteran from Iraq that hires Monet to try to get rid of her PTSD with the {{Telepath}}ic powers. Only to find out her memories are fake and she was actually part of the S.C.A.R.s program and got mind-wiped and given a civilian life after she was dismissed. The revelation makes her go into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* ShipTease: Between Monet and Guido during the latter half of the series.
* ShipSinking: [[spoiler:Madrox absorbing their son ruined any chance of him and Syrin having a relationship again, even after they made up.]]
* ShirtlessScene
** Madrox gets a few gratuitous ones, showing his toned physique.
** Guido whenever he suffers from ClothingDamage.
* ShoutOut: When you have many sarcastic characters written byPeter David, Creator/PeterDavid, it happens.
happens. There are many references and jokes to things such as ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/HarryPotter'',''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants'' and even the ''Series/XFactor'' show.
* SkewedPriorities: Monet, as comes of being incredibly rich and vain. At one point, she's shot by an assailant. She's perfectly fine, due tobeing a FlyingBrick, her SuperToughness, but she's pissed that he's [[ClothingDamage ruined her shirt, shirt]], and wants to break several of his bones for it.
* ShipTease: Between Monet and Guido during the latter half of the series.
* ShipSinking: [[spoiler:Madrox absorbing their son ruined any chance of him and Syrin having a relationship again, even after they made up.]]
* ShirtlessScene
** Madrox gets a few gratuitous ones, showing his toned physique.
** Guido whenever he suffers from ClothingDamage.
* ShoutOut: When you have many sarcastic characters written by
* SkewedPriorities: Monet, as comes of being incredibly rich and vain. At one point, she's shot by an assailant. She's perfectly fine, due to
* SleepsInTheNude: When Ballistique wakes up in shock after a CatapultNightmare, she's shown to be sleeping in the nude.
* SmashSisters: Monet and Siryn often end up pairing and fighting together. When Siryn disbands the Detroit branch of XF, Monet is the only one to accompany her to Ireland.
* SmashSisters: Monet and Siryn often end up pairing and fighting together. When Siryn disbands the Detroit branch of XF, Monet is the only one to accompany her to Ireland.
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* SpottingTheThread: Meeting with Rahne, absent Rictor and Shatterstar after they were apparently travelling with her, Madrox and Havok note something is off. Then Jamie asks about her cross necklace, which "Rahne" casually dismisses as not important. This clues both in that something is massively off.
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* TheSoulless: Layla's mutant power is to be able to bring people BackFromTheDead, but she doesn't bring back their souls and while they preserve their personality, they become devoid of [[LackOfEmpathy any empathy]].
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** Layla joining XF Investigations ruined Damian's Tryp future predictions regarding them.
** The "X-Factor" dupe retained the memory of [[spoiler:Tryp killing Madrox parents and when he kills himself, Madrox absorbs him and gets that memory back.]]
** The Terrigen Crystals CQuicksilver gives to Rictor end up making him immune to The Isolationist's powers, foiling his plans.
* SpottingTheThread: Meeting with Rahne, absent Rictor and Shatterstar after they were apparentlytravelling traveling with her, Madrox and Havok note something is off. Then Jamie asks about her cross necklace, which "Rahne" casually dismisses as not important. This clues both in that something is massively off.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** Layla joining XF Investigations ruined Damian's Tryp future predictions regarding them.
** The "X-Factor" dupe retained the memory of [[spoiler:Tryp killing Madrox parents and when he kills himself, Madrox absorbs him and gets that memory back.]]
** The Terrigen Crystals CQuicksilver gives to Rictor end up making him immune to The Isolationist's powers, foiling his plans.
* SpottingTheThread: Meeting with Rahne, absent Rictor and Shatterstar after they were apparently
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* SuddenlySexuality: Rictor asserts that he is gay, not bisexual (the latter having been implied, but not canon, for some time). Likewise, Shatterstar, formerly asexual, is now bisexual and into AnythingThatMoves.
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* SuddenlySexuality: Rictor asserts that he is gay, not bisexual (the latter having been implied, but not canon, for some time). Likewise, Shatterstar, formerly asexual, is now bisexual [[BiTheWay bisexual]] and into AnythingThatMoves.
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* TakeThat: Issue #8 has Layla reading ''Atlas Shrugged'', which creeps out Jamie and Guido.
* TakingYouWithMe: The unstable dupe blows up Singularity Investigations, killing young Tryp and modern Tryp.
* TakingYouWithMe: The unstable dupe blows up Singularity Investigations, killing young Tryp and modern Tryp.
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* TakeThat: Issue #8 has Layla reading ''Atlas Shrugged'', ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', which creeps out Jamie and Guido.
* TakingYouWithMe: The unstable dupe blows up Singularity Investigations, killingyoung Tryp Sr. and modern Tryp.Tryp Jr.
* TalkingInBed: Layla comes clean with Madrox about her secrets while laying in a ''morgue'' bed post-sex ([[spoiler:Madrox just came BackFromTheDead and they had some GladToBeAliveSex]]).
* TakingYouWithMe: The unstable dupe blows up Singularity Investigations, killing
* TalkingInBed: Layla comes clean with Madrox about her secrets while laying in a ''morgue'' bed post-sex ([[spoiler:Madrox just came BackFromTheDead and they had some GladToBeAliveSex]]).
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* {{Teleportation}}: Shatterstar and Pip the Troll.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madrox travels to several alternate realities where he's been killed. The end of each issue tends to have him die again.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Rahne, when Wolverine comes to visit the office during the "Regenesis" mini-event, mainly because she believes it means something horrible is going to happen, specifically to her, again.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madrox travels to several alternate realities where he's been killed. The end of each issue tends to have him die again.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Rahne, when Wolverine comes to visit the office during the "Regenesis" mini-event, mainly because she believes it means something horrible is going to happen, specifically to her, again.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]
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* {{Teleportation}}: {{Teleportation}}:
** Shatterstarand can create X shaped teleportation portals via his swords, as long as he has someone to use as an anchor that knows know about the location they're teleporting to.
** Pip theTroll.
Troll can teleport via his magic.
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Rahne has this reaction upon giving birth to Tier who viciously murders Agamemnon moments after being born. She later greatly regrets having rejected her child.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madroxtravels [[spoiler:dies]] and ends traveling to several alternate realities where he's been killed. The end of each issue tends to have him die again.
again.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Rahne, whenWolverine ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} comes to visit the office during the "Regenesis" mini-event, mainly because she believes it means something horrible is going to happen, specifically to her, again.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]again.
** Shatterstar
** Pip the
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Rahne has this reaction upon giving birth to Tier who viciously murders Agamemnon moments after being born. She later greatly regrets having rejected her child.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madrox
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Rahne, when
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]
** Tige gets these during the "Hell on Earth War" arc.
* TimeSkip: After the team moves to Detroit we skip a couple of months into the future, with Syrin going from early pregnancy to the late stages.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]
* ToplessnessFromTheBack:
** Rahne when she takes off her shirt just before having sex with Rictor.
** The reader only sees Monet's bare back when Rictor walks in on her naked.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: After Layla returns from the BadFuture, she briefly allies with ComicBook/DoctorDoom becoming his adviser in exchance of him mentoring her on magic. This proves to be a controversial issue for the team, especially Monet and Rictor.
* TouchOfDeath: As a Goddess of Death, Hela's touch itself is fatal. She tries to dispose of Maddox with it, but then Darwin gets hit with it instead and "evolves" into a god of death himself.
* TwoTimerDate: {{Downplayed}}. After sleeping with both Monet and Siryn at the same night without the other knowing, Madrox is hesitant about telling both the truth and keeps the pretense of being in a relationship with them for a while, although he does half-heartedly tries to reject their advances and he eventually tells them the truth.
* TimeSkip: After the team moves to Detroit we skip a couple of months into the future, with Syrin going from early pregnancy to the late stages.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]
* ToplessnessFromTheBack:
** Rahne when she takes off her shirt just before having sex with Rictor.
** The reader only sees Monet's bare back when Rictor walks in on her naked.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: After Layla returns from the BadFuture, she briefly allies with ComicBook/DoctorDoom becoming his adviser in exchance of him mentoring her on magic. This proves to be a controversial issue for the team, especially Monet and Rictor.
* TouchOfDeath: As a Goddess of Death, Hela's touch itself is fatal. She tries to dispose of Maddox with it, but then Darwin gets hit with it instead and "evolves" into a god of death himself.
* TwoTimerDate: {{Downplayed}}. After sleeping with both Monet and Siryn at the same night without the other knowing, Madrox is hesitant about telling both the truth and keeps the pretense of being in a relationship with them for a while, although he does half-heartedly tries to reject their advances and he eventually tells them the truth.
* VideoWill: After Sean Cassidy's death, Cyclops delivers his video will to Siryn, explaining that Cassidy Keep is now her's and he wanted to leave her something else, something special his father left him: an old pipe.
* VillainousRescue: Hangman ends up saving the team from Bloodbath at the request of his son (who thinks he's a super-hero).
* VillainTakesAnInterest:
** Damian Tryp took notice to Madrox when he learned of his powers when he was young. He tried to convince his parents to let him take him under his tutelage over Chavier's, but they refused.
** The Skrulls are interested in Darwin due to his AdaptiveAbility being similar to their own powers.
* WaifProphet: Layla comes off as one, being a small child that can [[{{Seer}} apparently tell the future]].
* VillainTakesAnInterest:
** Damian Tryp took notice to Madrox when he learned of his powers when he was young. He tried to convince his parents to let him take him under his tutelage over Chavier's, but they refused.
** The Skrulls are interested in Darwin due to his AdaptiveAbility being similar to their own powers.
* WaifProphet: Layla comes off as one, being a small child that can [[{{Seer}} apparently tell the future]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Valerie Cooper just disappears from the comic after the Cortex arc. She doesn't reappear until the ''Regenesis'' cross-through.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Early on, Monet adopts a French orphan named Nicole. A few issues later, she gets thrown in front of a subway train by Layla and turns out to be a robot. Precise amount of time spent acknowledging this at all (or indeed, that Nicole's gone at all)? 0.00 seconds.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Early on, Monet adopts a French orphan named Nicole. A few issues later, she gets thrown in front of a subway train by Layla and turns out to be a robot. Precise amount of time spent acknowledging this at all (or indeed, that Nicole's gone at all)? 0.00 seconds.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: WhatDidIDoLastNight: Madrox awakes hungover one morning to find both Siryn and Monet acting ''very'' amorous to him and saying how amazing he had been the previous night. PlayedWith in that ''he'' didn't actually do anything as they both slept with his dupes. He does get their memories when he absorbs them.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** After the renumber, Valerie Cooperjust almost disappears from the comic after the Cortex arc. story, with only a brief appearance when she warns Monet about her father's kidnapping. She doesn't reappear until the ''Regenesis'' cross-through.
cross-through.
** After Ballistique is defeated and captured, Rococo and Sylvius manage to escape, but are never seen again.
** Jezebel / Mephista first appearance is trying to recruit The Isolationist to her cause, and she seemingly succeeds... yet he never shows up ever again.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Early on, Monet adopts a French orphan ex-mutant named Nicole. A few issues later, she gets thrown in front of a subway train by Layla and turns out to be a robot. Precise amount of time spent acknowledging this at all (or indeed, that Nicole's gone at all)? 0.00 seconds.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** After the renumber, Valerie Cooper
** After Ballistique is defeated and captured, Rococo and Sylvius manage to escape, but are never seen again.
** Jezebel / Mephista first appearance is trying to recruit The Isolationist to her cause, and she seemingly succeeds... yet he never shows up ever again.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Early on, Monet adopts a French orphan ex-mutant named Nicole. A few issues later, she gets thrown in front of a subway train by Layla and turns out to be a robot. Precise amount of time spent acknowledging this at all (or indeed, that Nicole's gone at all)? 0.00 seconds.
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* WorldOfSnark: It's Peter David. Everyone snarks. The mutants, the humans, the Asgardian goddesses...
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: When Madrox tries to have a fist fight with Cortex, the latter just pulls out a gun and shoots him.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks:
** Madrox used his powers to help him win a ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''-style game.
** The very premise of X-Factor Investigations is of mutants using their powers to run a detective agency.
* WeatherManipulation: Damian Tryp can create and control high powered winds, including tornadoes.
* WildCard: Madrox has a "X-Factor" dupe that likes to act in an unpredictable manner for amusement, doing things such as pushing Rictor off a roof or [[spoiler: strapping a bomb on himself and blowing up Tryp Sr. and Jr.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** Issue #39 has Siryn and Jamie's son being born [[spoiler:and then absorbed by him like a dupe the moment he touches him.]]
** The "Breaking Points" arc advertized itself as one and it has [[spoiler:Guido pulling a FaceHeelTurn and joining Mephisto, Rahne finding her son and quitting the team, Lorna finding out she accidentally killed her parents as a child, Syrin becoming the new Morrigan]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The final arc, "The End of X-Factor" shows where the protagonists ended up after the "Hell on Earth War":
** Guido: [[spoiler: Had a FaceHeelUrn, murdered Rahne's son and [[HellHasNewManagement became King of Hell]]]].
** Darwin: Gave up on trying to revert his "death god" status and ended up having a one-night stand with Monet in Vegas.
** Rahne: [[spoiler: Son murdered by Guido.]] Has left the hero game to become a minister in Reverend Madrox's church.
** Monet: [[spoiler:Brought BackFromThedead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers.]] Having a little trouble coping with it, ended up having SexForSolace with Darwin.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Siryn: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to godhood, becoming the new Morrigan]], reverted Madrox back into human.
** Polaris: Broke up with Havok, got her team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk and into a fight with her half-brother ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Jamie and Layla: [[EarnYourHappyEnding Living happily ever]] after on Jamie's farm after The Morrigan (formerly Terry), cured Jamie's having been transformed into a demon. They're expecting their first child.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Layla often acts more mature than her grown-up teammates, constantly helping their in personal issues.
* TheWorfEffect: To show off how stronger the Hell Lords are compared to the previous villains they've faced, Pluto defeats the entire team on his own. ''Then'' Tier kills him with a few strikes.
* WorldOfSnark: It'sPeter David.Creator/PeterDavid. Everyone snarks. The mutants, the humans, the Asgardian goddesses...
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks:
** Madrox used his powers to help him win a ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''-style game.
** The very premise of X-Factor Investigations is of mutants using their powers to run a detective agency.
* WeatherManipulation: Damian Tryp can create and control high powered winds, including tornadoes.
* WildCard: Madrox has a "X-Factor" dupe that likes to act in an unpredictable manner for amusement, doing things such as pushing Rictor off a roof or [[spoiler: strapping a bomb on himself and blowing up Tryp Sr. and Jr.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** Issue #39 has Siryn and Jamie's son being born [[spoiler:and then absorbed by him like a dupe the moment he touches him.]]
** The "Breaking Points" arc advertized itself as one and it has [[spoiler:Guido pulling a FaceHeelTurn and joining Mephisto, Rahne finding her son and quitting the team, Lorna finding out she accidentally killed her parents as a child, Syrin becoming the new Morrigan]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The final arc, "The End of X-Factor" shows where the protagonists ended up after the "Hell on Earth War":
** Guido: [[spoiler: Had a FaceHeelUrn, murdered Rahne's son and [[HellHasNewManagement became King of Hell]]]].
** Darwin: Gave up on trying to revert his "death god" status and ended up having a one-night stand with Monet in Vegas.
** Rahne: [[spoiler: Son murdered by Guido.]] Has left the hero game to become a minister in Reverend Madrox's church.
** Monet: [[spoiler:Brought BackFromThedead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers.]] Having a little trouble coping with it, ended up having SexForSolace with Darwin.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Siryn: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to godhood, becoming the new Morrigan]], reverted Madrox back into human.
** Polaris: Broke up with Havok, got her team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk and into a fight with her half-brother ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Jamie and Layla: [[EarnYourHappyEnding Living happily ever]] after on Jamie's farm after The Morrigan (formerly Terry), cured Jamie's having been transformed into a demon. They're expecting their first child.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Layla often acts more mature than her grown-up teammates, constantly helping their in personal issues.
* TheWorfEffect: To show off how stronger the Hell Lords are compared to the previous villains they've faced, Pluto defeats the entire team on his own. ''Then'' Tier kills him with a few strikes.
* WorldOfSnark: It's
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* YouCantFightFate: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Normally, you can't change the timeline, as it just creates a new timeline instead, but if one has a Doomlock, then you can re-write time.
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* YouCantFightFate: YouCantFightFate:
** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Normally, you can't change the timeline, as it just creates a new timeline instead, but if one has a Doomlock, then you can re-write time.
** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Normally, you can't change the timeline, as it just creates a new timeline instead, but if one has a Doomlock, then you can re-write time.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Damian Tryp [[spoiler:killed Madrox parents with a tornado in the hope he would fall into his custody as a child.]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: To become the next incarnation of the Celtic Goddess Morrigan, one has the kill the previous one.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** One of their first cases has them investigating a mutant that's cheating on his wife via AstralProjection.
** When Monet finds the captive [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan Richards]] in Latveria she's strapped in a LotusEaterMachine having a sexy fantasy about [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]].
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: To become the next incarnation of the Celtic Goddess Morrigan, one has the kill the previous one.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** One of their first cases has them investigating a mutant that's cheating on his wife via AstralProjection.
** When Monet finds the captive [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan Richards]] in Latveria she's strapped in a LotusEaterMachine having a sexy fantasy about [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]].
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* AbortedArc: Early on, Tryp claims Siryn will help resurrect her father, after his catching a bad case of dead. While Sean did eventually come back to life, Terry plays no part in it whatsoever.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Layla Miller gets her own one-shot exploring her time alone in Bishop's future, and how she helps kick-start the whole thing.
* AnalogyBackfire: While trying to reassure Falcone that their plan will work, Tryp brings up Joan of Arc and Ghandi. Falcone notes that the martyr theme is not reassuring him in the slightest.
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* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers in a CrisisCrossover, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes a series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
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* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers in a CrisisCrossover, powers, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes a series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
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* BadFuture: Bishop's Future shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].
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* BadFuture: BadFuture:
** Bishop's Future shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].
** Bishop's Future shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].
** Tryp seems to come from one where the events of M-Day were undone, and Mutantkind went wild. He's determined to prevent it.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Darwin is normally the nice, quiet guy on the team. But when he finally gets angry? Yeah, you're pretty screwed.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Darwin is normally the nice, quiet guy on the team. But when he finally gets angry? Yeah, you're prettyscrewed.screwed.
** As Jamie notes, every now and then Polaris does things that remind you she ''is'' Magneto's daughter, [[spoiler:like making an alternate evil version of Steve Rodgers blow his own head off.]]
** Darwin is normally the nice, quiet guy on the team. But when he finally gets angry? Yeah, you're pretty
** As Jamie notes, every now and then Polaris does things that remind you she ''is'' Magneto's daughter, [[spoiler:like making an alternate evil version of Steve Rodgers blow his own head off.]]
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* BrickJoke: After their return from their run in with Hela, Pip bothers M while she's sunbathing, and she warns him if he doesn't buzz off, she'll pitch him off the roof. A few pages later, as the team realizes they need a tracker, they see Pip fall past the window.
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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
** One issue begins with Terry telling her priest she's been coveting Monet's new [=iPhone=] (among other, slightly bigger sins). Later on in the issue, Monet reveals she's bought everyone phones because she'd noticed, and it was annoying her.
** After their return from their run in with Hela, Pip bothers M while she's sunbathing, and she warns him if he doesn't buzz off, she'll pitch him off the roof. A few pages later, as the team realizes they need a tracker, they see Pip fall past the window.
** One issue begins with Terry telling her priest she's been coveting Monet's new [=iPhone=] (among other, slightly bigger sins). Later on in the issue, Monet reveals she's bought everyone phones because she'd noticed, and it was annoying her.
** After their return from their run in with Hela, Pip bothers M while she's sunbathing, and she warns him if he doesn't buzz off, she'll pitch him off the roof. A few pages later, as the team realizes they need a tracker, they see Pip fall past the window.
* TheCameo: [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Guess who makes an appearance]] in issue 200, just off-page as Terry's booty call? (Hey, it was a busy year!)
* CharacterDevelopment: Layla Miller was the LivingMacguffin of ''House of M''. This series actually gives her a personality.
** The unstable and unpredictable dupe who tries to kill Rictor in issue 1. He promises to come back later, and indeed does so.
* ComicBookDeath: Explored early on in the series, when Terry is informed her dad has died (over in ''Deadly Genesis''). Terry assumes, not unreasonably given da's an X-Man, that he might still be alive and refuses to even consider the possibility he might be pushing up the daises, much to everyone else's discomfort.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Doctor Doom's involvement in the plot of issues 200-204 comes about because he finds his alternate counterpart's intentions toward Sue Richards distasteful.
* NotHelpingYourCase: During a meeting with the X-Men at Utopia, Jamie points out their current actions make them look pretty suspicious. Cyclops tries defending their actions, when Magneto comes in and unironically says "welcome to our brotherhood". Layla tries not to fall over laughing.
* {{Retcon}}: Two, with Layla. The first is a scene involving her at the end of ''House of M'' implying she lived happily with a family, which is revealed to be not true (just one last bit of the warped reality). The second is the nature of her powers, with her "zapping people so their memories come back" ability being completely abandoned, in favour of "knowing stuff".
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* TheReveal: Cortex is [[spoiler:one of Madrox's dupes]].
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* TheReveal: TheReveal:
** The Tryps are actually one person, just at different points in their timeline.
** Cortex is [[spoiler:one of Madrox'sdupes]].dupes]].
** One of the last issues finally, ''finally'' answers just what the connection is between Star and Longshot (along with one or two other questions, like what happened to the baby Dazzler had way back when). [[spoiler:It's complicated. It's really complicated.]]
** The Tryps are actually one person, just at different points in their timeline.
** Cortex is [[spoiler:one of Madrox's
** One of the last issues finally, ''finally'' answers just what the connection is between Star and Longshot (along with one or two other questions, like what happened to the baby Dazzler had way back when). [[spoiler:It's complicated. It's really complicated.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: The unstable dupe blows up Singularity Investigations, killing young Tryp and modern Tryp.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Valerie Cooper just disappears from the comic after the Cortex arc.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Valerie Cooper just disappears from the comic after the Cortex arc. She doesn't reappear until the ''Regenesis'' cross-through.
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* BaldOfEvil: [[Once again, Guido and Darwin. Eventually, anyway.]]
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* BaldOfEvil: [[Once [[spoiler:Once again, Guido and Darwin. Eventually, anyway.]]
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* BigBad: Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them.
* BlessedWithSuck: The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them.
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* BigBad: Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]]
]] The rest of the time, the team doesn't really have one, only [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]].
* BlessedWithSuck: The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them. He lives in the Arctic because if he gets any closer to a telepath, his own telepathy increases. And even then, he can still hear thoughts from all over the world.
* BlessedWithSuck: The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them. He lives in the Arctic because if he gets any closer to a telepath, his own telepathy increases. And even then, he can still hear thoughts from all over the world.
** Nicole, at least in Layla's opinion. [[spoiler:But she's not actually a child.]]
* DudeNotFunny: When Pip the Troll winds up hijacking Monet's body, Longshot is the only one who doesn't think it's amusing. As a result, he's the only one Monet is ''not'' pissed at when she gets control back.
* ExposedToTheElements: Rhane's early outfit is a swimsuit (without legs or sleeves, because of the difficulties with full-body wear and fur). During the fight with the Isolationist, she, Jamie and Guido wind up dumped in the Arctic, and she stays human, refusing to go furry (because, in part, she thinks if she dies, she won't wind up killing Jamie).
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* ForTheEvulz: Terry uses a her hypnotic voice to make a concert-goer at a hate rally go and buy the most expensive rug he can find. Monet approves of this, and neither of them feel slightly guilty for it.
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* ForTheEvulz: Terry uses a her hypnotic voice to make a concert-goer at a hate rally go and buy the most expensive rug he can find. Monet approves of this, and neither of them feel slightly guilty for it.
* GodwinsLaw: In the ''Quick and the Dead'' one-shot, Quicksilver rails against his own actions up to that point by bringing up a certain Austrian dictator. He is then berated by a hallucination of Magneto for it.
* HolierThanThou: Quicksilver, who actually ''says'' the phrase in his narration in issue #19 (he is, at this point, quite nuts).
* HowWeGotHere: Issue #18 begins with Nicole smashing something with a rock on a bridge in Central Park. At the end of the issue, [[spoiler:it turns out to be Terry's pregnancy test, after having knocked Layla out and over into the water on the Isolationist's orders.]]
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: During ''The Quick and the Dead'', a man who fishes Pietro out of the sea calls him "Py-tro", instead of the usually more commonly accepted pronunciation of "pe-ay-tro"
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* LogicalWeakness: Terry's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
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* LogicalWeakness: LogicalWeakness:
** Terry's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk areimmune.immune.
** Monet is a FlyingBrick. She still needs to breath, so chloroform works on her the same as anyone else.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Isolationist mentions having supported Singularity Investigations and X-Cell as part of his attempts to kill the mutants.
** Terry's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are
** Monet is a FlyingBrick. She still needs to breath, so chloroform works on her the same as anyone else.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Isolationist mentions having supported Singularity Investigations and X-Cell as part of his attempts to kill the mutants.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently) Jamie has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some early X-Factor issues make a big deal out of how Jamie has to absorb his dupes before they die, or else lose their memories. Dead dupes get the ability to be absorbed automatically right around the time Jamie needs to send some into potential future time-lines.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: NewPowersAsThePlotDemands:
** In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently) Jamie has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some earlyX-Factor ''X-Factor'' issues make a big deal out of how Jamie has to absorb his dupes before they die, or else lose their memories. Dead dupes get the ability to be absorbed automatically right around the time Jamie needs to send some into potential future time-lines.time-lines.
** The terrigen crystals in Quicksilver, which then move to Rictor, and give him the ability to defend himself from Huber... somehow, before disappearing with none of the characters ever once dwelling on it for a moment. (In fairness, many comics over the years have hinted the terrigen crystals are sort-of alive and capable of predicting things, which ''might'' have something to do with it).
** In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently) Jamie has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some early
** The terrigen crystals in Quicksilver, which then move to Rictor, and give him the ability to defend himself from Huber... somehow, before disappearing with none of the characters ever once dwelling on it for a moment. (In fairness, many comics over the years have hinted the terrigen crystals are sort-of alive and capable of predicting things, which ''might'' have something to do with it).
* NoSell: As part of the terrigen crystals defending him, Rictor manages to survive a point-blank shot from Huber using Cyclops' eye-beams (which at full strength can demolish ''tanks''). And by "survive" we mean "doesn't even wobble slightly".
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Siryn's attempt to tell Jamie she's pregnant by him is stymied by him presuming she's telling him she's going to quit and they both argue without clarifying what they're talking about. Lampshaded by M as something out of Three's Company.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Siryn's attempt to tell Jamie she's pregnant by him is stymied by him presuming she's telling him she's going to quit and they both argue without clarifying what they're talking about. Lampshaded by M as something out of Three's Company.''Three's Company''.
* PunchClockVillain: Solo and Clay, who Siryn and Monet tussle with during the Isolationist arc, are defending a pair of hate singers not out of any real prejudices. They're just being paid [[spoiler:as part of a distraction.]]
* TakeThat: Issue #8 has Layla reading ''Atlas Shrugged'', which creeps out Jamie and Guido.
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* VillainBall: Cortex is capable of time travel and is tasked with taking out X-Factor. Rather than going the most efficient route of killing them in the crib, he'd much rather leave them a fighting chance in the present because an easy victory is boring and he's sadistic.
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* VillainBall: Cortex is capable of time travel and is tasked with taking out X-Factor. Rather than going the most efficient route of killing them in the crib, he'd much rather leave them a fighting chance in the present because an easy victory is boring and he's sadistic.sadistic (that, and he doesn't have much of a choice).
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Early on, Monet adopts a French orphan named Nicole. A few issues later, she gets thrown in front of a subway train by Layla and turns out to be a robot. Precise amount of time spent acknowledging this at all (or indeed, that Nicole's gone at all)? 0.00 seconds.
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** They also get a side-story in ''ComicBook/SecondComing'' focusing on Bastion's attempt to kill them, via the Mutant Response Division and Bolivar Trask.
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** They also get a side-story in ''ComicBook/SecondComing'' ''ComicBook/XMenSecondComing'' focusing on Bastion's attempt to kill them, via the Mutant Response Division and Bolivar Trask.
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** Layla helps start the Summers Rebellion, meaning she has a part in Bishop's origins. [[spoiler: And since she's responsible for Trevor Fitzroy's StartOfDarkness, she's also indirectly responsible for Emma Frost's HeelFaceTurn.]]
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** Layla helps start the Summers Rebellion, meaning she has a part in Bishop's origins. [[spoiler: And since she's responsible for Trevor Fitzroy's StartOfDarkness, supervillian origin, she's also indirectly responsible for Emma Frost's HeelFaceTurn.turn to good.]]
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** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a ShotgunWedding]].
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** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a ShotgunWedding]].wedding]].
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* KickTheDog: At the start of Day 5 of "[[BreakingTheFellowship Breaking Points]]", Madrox explodes at Havoc over the departures of roughly half the team, eventually asking him "[[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen Isn't there a beloved teacher you should be killing?]]]]"
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* KickTheDog: At the start of Day 5 of "[[BreakingTheFellowship Breaking Points]]", Madrox explodes at Havoc over the departures of roughly half the team, eventually asking him "[[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen "[[spoiler: Isn't there a beloved teacher you should be killing?]]]]"killing?]]" (Refrencing then current events in ''Avengers vs. X-Men.''
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[ObliviousToLove Monet]] starts flirting with Darwin. As it turns out, she's [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]].
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[ObliviousToLove Monet]] starts flirting with Darwin. As it turns out, she's [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]].[[spoiler:under mind control]].
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* PrecociousCrush: In a way. Layla didn't act like she had a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him, that they eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:After she got a PlotRelevantAgeUp, this indeed happened.]]
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* PrecociousCrush: In a way. Layla didn't act like she had a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him, that they eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:After she got a PlotRelevantAgeUp, ''much'' older, this indeed happened.]]
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* UncannyFamilyResemblence: When not white and furry, Vanora is almost a dead ringer for her mother, [[spoiler:Rahne.]]
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* UncannyFamilyResemblence: UncannyFamilyResemblance: When not white and furry, Vanora is almost a dead ringer for her mother, [[spoiler:Rahne.]]
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** Layla also tries this when she [[spoiler:resurrects Guido. It... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes badly]]]].
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** Layla also tries this when she [[spoiler:resurrects Guido. It... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes badly]]]].badly]].
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* SoapOperaRapidAgeSyndrome: Tier goes from a newborn to looking like somewhere in his preteens in less than a year. His part-Asgardian wolf biology has something to do with that. [[spoiler:This was apparently true for Vanora Sinclair as well, which was not a good mix with uncontrolled rage issues.]]
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* SoapOperaRapidAgeSyndrome: SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Tier goes from a newborn to looking like somewhere in his preteens in less than a year. His part-Asgardian wolf biology has something to do with that. [[spoiler:This was apparently true for Vanora Sinclair as well, which was not a good mix with uncontrolled rage issues.]]
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** DarkhorseVictory: Guido in the penultimate arc, The Hell On Earth War. [[spoiler:While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Teir -- Wolfsbane's son -- and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells. ''All'' the hells.]]
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* EnfantTerrible: Rahne's son may be one of these. Especially when he [[spoiler:[[KillerRabbit disembowels someone]] moments after being born]]. Subverted, eventually, [[spoiler:when he turns out to just be an ordinary kid.]]
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* EnfantTerrible: Rahne's son may be one of these. Especially when he [[spoiler:[[KillerRabbit [[spoiler: disembowels someone]] someone moments after being born]]. Subverted, eventually, [[spoiler:when he turns out to just be an ordinary kid.]]
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* AffablyEvil: The elderly Doctor Doom is amazingly polite, by Doom's standards at least, toward Madrox and Layla. [[spoiler:Until his [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitable betrayal]].]]
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* AffablyEvil: The elderly Doctor Doom is amazingly polite, by Doom's standards at least, toward Madrox and Layla. [[spoiler:Until his [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitable betrayal]].]]
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** Layla's mutant power. [[spoiler:She can bring people back from the dead!... unfortunately, they no longer have a soul and as such, always CameBackWrong.]]
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** Layla's mutant power. [[spoiler:She can bring people back from the dead!... unfortunately, they no longer have a soul and as such, always CameBackWrong.have something wrong with them.]]
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* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler:As of Avengers: Children's Crusade #6, he officially has been repowered by the Scarlet Witch herself. Creator/PeterDavid has stated on his blog that he will not be reversing it.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both cases, it starts going toward BaldOfEvil later on.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both cases, it starts going toward BaldOfEvil later on.]]
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* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler:As of [[spoiler: Avengers: Children's Crusade #6, he officially has been repowered by repowers him thanks to the Scarlet Witch herself. Creator/PeterDavid has stated on his blog that he will not be reversing it.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In bothcases, it starts going toward BaldOfEvil later on.cases.]]
* BaldOfEvil: [[Once again, Guido and Darwin. Eventually, anyway.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both
* BaldOfEvil: [[Once again, Guido and Darwin. Eventually, anyway.]]
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant power does this. Trevor Fitzroy was originally a hero and prominent member of the Summer's Rebellion before Layla was forced to raise him from the dead. The resurrection transformed him into a soulless monster who would go on to murder Bishop's sister and travel back in time to murder the Hellions.]] As of issue #218, [[spoiler:Guido. Again, thanks to Layla]].
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant power does this. Trevor Fitzroy was originally a hero and prominent member of the Summer's Rebellion before Layla was forced to raise him from the dead. The resurrection transformed him into a soulless monster who would go on to murder Bishop's sister and travel back in time to murder the Hellions.]] As of issue #218, Later on, this happens to [[spoiler:Guido. Again, thanks to Layla]].
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* CivvieSpandex: Jamie Madrox no long has to wear a full-body costume to keep his powers relatively controlled, just a shirt version of it.
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* CivvieSpandex: Jamie Madrox no long longer has to wear a full-body costume to keep his powers relatively controlled, just a shirt version of it.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: A heavily pregnant Rahne walks in on Star and Rictor getting in on, and in the ensuing argument yells "you did this". Star thinks she means he got her pregnant, and gets confused as to how he could've done that without knowing. She actually means "turned Rictor gay".
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* AmbiguousSyntax: A heavily pregnant Rahne walks in on Star and Rictor getting in on, and in the ensuing argument yells "you did this". Star thinks she means he got her pregnant, and gets confused as to how he could've done that without knowing. She actually means "turned Rictor gay".gay."
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* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers in a CrisisCrossover, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
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* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers in a CrisisCrossover, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes a series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
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* AllGaysLoveTheater: Lampshaded when Rictor refuses to watch musicals with his TV-obsessed boyfriend, ComicBook/{{Shatterstar|Marvel Comics}}, because he "doesn't want to be stereotypical". Shatterstar asks Rahne about this, but she just says [[BlatantLies has no idea what he meant]].
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* AllGaysLoveTheater: Lampshaded when Rictor refuses to watch musicals with his TV-obsessed boyfriend, ComicBook/{{Shatterstar|Marvel Comics}}, because he "doesn't want to be stereotypical". stereotypical." Shatterstar asks Rahne about this, but she just says [[BlatantLies she has no idea what he meant]].
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* ActuallyADoombot: Played with, when Arcade destroys Mutant Town. Rictor punches him, and it turns out to be a robot, but once everybody leaves, the "robot" turns out to be the actual Arcade, who makes a note to just an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
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* ActuallyADoombot: Played with, when Arcade destroys Mutant Town. Rictor punches him, and it turns out to be a robot, but once everybody leaves, the "robot" turns out to be the actual Arcade, who makes a note to just use an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
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* AbsoluteCleavage:
** Monet's outfit from issue 200 onwards.
** Hela wears a ''ludicrously'' threadbare outfit when the team tussles with her, until she gets serious and dons her typical outfit.
** Monet's outfit from issue 200 onwards.
** Hela wears a ''ludicrously'' threadbare outfit when the team tussles with her, until she gets serious and dons her typical outfit.
* AmbiguousSyntax: A heavily pregnant Rahne walks in on Star and Rictor getting in on, and in the ensuing argument yells "you did this". Star thinks she means he got her pregnant, and gets confused as to how he could've done that without knowing. She actually means "turned Rictor gay".
* BrickJoke: After their return from their run in with Hela, Pip bothers M while she's sunbathing, and she warns him if he doesn't buzz off, she'll pitch him off the roof. A few pages later, as the team realizes they need a tracker, they see Pip fall past the window.
* CallBack:
** Baron Mordo tries draining Monet of her life energy because there's something about her that makes her attractive to life-draining, as her brother Emplate did back in the ''Generation X'' days.
** During ''World War Hulk'', Darwin's powers made him teleport to safety rather than fight the Hulk. During the ''Second Coming'' cross-over, it does it again faced with a giant MRD killing machine.
** Baron Mordo tries draining Monet of her life energy because there's something about her that makes her attractive to life-draining, as her brother Emplate did back in the ''Generation X'' days.
** During ''World War Hulk'', Darwin's powers made him teleport to safety rather than fight the Hulk. During the ''Second Coming'' cross-over, it does it again faced with a giant MRD killing machine.
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* ChekhovsGunman: During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: ChekhovsGunman:
** During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]]]
** In the ''Second Coming'' crossover, one MRD officer is a ginger woman with a facial scar. She turns out to be important a few issues later.
** During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.
** In the ''Second Coming'' crossover, one MRD officer is a ginger woman with a facial scar. She turns out to be important a few issues later.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Longshot, in [[TheDitz far too many occasions]] to list.
* DealWithTheDevil: Pip the Troll made a deal with Hela to regain his original, non-troll form for a year, in exchange for being her jester. He reneged and hid himself, so Hela sends X-Factor to find him for her. [[spoiler:It turns out Pip has made another deal with another entity so he'd be with X-Factor.]]
* DopeSlap: Guido, to Longshot, after one dumbass comment too many.
* FemmeFatale: Hela's outfit when pretending to be a human looking to hire X-Factor. Jamie's narration notes it plays the trope to the hilt, complete with anachronistic outfit.
* IGaveMyWord: Monet agrees to help Baron Mordo in exchange for his saving her, Guido and Monet's father from an MRD attack, and keeps her word when everyone points out he's Baron Mordo. Monet states that she's keeping her word because it proves she's better than him.
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* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Rictor.
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* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Rictor. Monet up until issue 200.
* PretenderDiss: The Morrigan doesn't think too highly of Terry taking the name "banshee".
* ShoutOut: When you have many sarcastic characters written by Peter David, it happens.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Rahne, when Wolverine comes to visit the office during the "Regenesis" mini-event, mainly because she believes it means something horrible is going to happen, specifically to her, again.
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* {{Unfortunate Name|s}}: Jamie's first choice of name for his business was XXX Investigations. Everyone keeps telling him it sounds like he investigates porn.
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* {{Unfortunate Name|s}}: Name|s}}:
** Jamie's first choice of name for his business was XXX Investigations. Everyone keeps telling him it sounds like he investigatesporn.porn.
** During the ''Second Coming'' crossover, an MRD mook notes to Trask that maybe they should've gone with a name that, when said out loud, doesn't sound like the French word for "shit".
** Jamie's first choice of name for his business was XXX Investigations. Everyone keeps telling him it sounds like he investigates
** During the ''Second Coming'' crossover, an MRD mook notes to Trask that maybe they should've gone with a name that, when said out loud, doesn't sound like the French word for "shit".
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* VillainBall: Cortex is capable of time travel and is tasked with taking out X-factor. Rather than going the most efficient route of killing them in the crib, he'd much rather leave them a fighting chance in the present because an easy victory is boring and he's sadistic.
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* VillainBall: Cortex is capable of time travel and is tasked with taking out X-factor.X-Factor. Rather than going the most efficient route of killing them in the crib, he'd much rather leave them a fighting chance in the present because an easy victory is boring and he's sadistic.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin. [[spoiler:In both cases, it starts going toward BaldOfEvil later on.]]
** Just seeing Rahne sends Vanora into a frothing rage.
* BullyingADragon: Future!Cyclops gets in the senile Future!Doom's face, despite Jamie trying to tell him to stop, concluding with telling Doom to stay out of his way. Doom blasts him a good distance away with a device he just cobbled together (hey, [[ExactWords they're not in each other's way anymore]]).
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** DarkhorseVictory: Guido in the penultimate arc, The Hell On Earth War. [[spoiler:While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Tyre -- Wolfsbane's son -- and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells. ''All'' the hells.]]
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** DarkhorseVictory: Guido in the penultimate arc, The Hell On Earth War. [[spoiler:While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Tyre Teir -- Wolfsbane's son -- and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells. ''All'' the hells.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: During "They Keep Killing Madrox, part 1", Jamie stumbles upon alternate Rahne and alt!Terry talking about how Valerie Cooper has just left alt!Jamie and Layla's wedding reception completely sloshed. This turns out to be pertinent at the end of the issue, when she manages to run into Jamie in a literal sense.
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* ForWantOfANail: Jamie's multiversal trip includes one reality where Wanda Maximoff said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even Captain America.
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* ForWantOfANail: Jamie's multiversal trip includes one reality where trip, naturally demonstrates some examples.
** In the first, Rahne's kid with Hrimahri was a girl, named Vanora, and Rahne tried to raise her, which didn't work terribly well. Also, among other things, Jamie and Layla didn't get an "m" brand on their face, Shatterstar still has his 90s outfit and attitude, he and Longshot are apparently brothers, Banshee is still alive, Peter Parker is apparently a police chief, and Jamie's dupes all have different powers.
** In the second, Wanda Maximoff said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even Captain America. Iron Man 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.
** And in the third, there's been a "Hell on Earth" war going on for some time. This reality's Jamie is a mage, and served as Doctor Strange's apprentice.
** In a non-Jamie related case, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection]] starts screwing up Layla's predictions.
** In the first, Rahne's kid with Hrimahri was a girl, named Vanora, and Rahne tried to raise her, which didn't work terribly well. Also, among other things, Jamie and Layla didn't get an "m" brand on their face, Shatterstar still has his 90s outfit and attitude, he and Longshot are apparently brothers, Banshee is still alive, Peter Parker is apparently a police chief, and Jamie's dupes all have different powers.
** In the second, Wanda Maximoff said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even Captain America. Iron Man 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.
** And in the third, there's been a "Hell on Earth" war going on for some time. This reality's Jamie is a mage, and served as Doctor Strange's apprentice.
** In a non-Jamie related case, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection]] starts screwing up Layla's predictions.
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* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture Doctor Doom gives to Madrox, as to why the government hates and fears Mutants, yet gladly give people like Doom free reign.
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* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture Future Doctor Doom gives to Madrox, as to why the government hates and fears Mutants, yet gladly give people like Doom free reign.reign (with a mix of UngratefulBastard).
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* InterruptedSuicide: Jamie eventually decides to kill himself [[spoiler:after absorbing his son. But just when he's about to do it, Layla returns from the future, and takes him with her]].
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* InterruptedSuicide: InterruptedSuicide:
** Jamie eventually decides to kill himself [[spoiler:after absorbing his son. But just when he's about to do it, Layla returns from the future, and takes him withher]].her]].
** Issue 242 has Layla running across New York to cause one of these. Between one thing and another, she doesn't make it early enough to talk the woman down with a reassuring speech, but she does manage to stop her going splat.
** Jamie eventually decides to kill himself [[spoiler:after absorbing his son. But just when he's about to do it, Layla returns from the future, and takes him with
** Issue 242 has Layla running across New York to cause one of these. Between one thing and another, she doesn't make it early enough to talk the woman down with a reassuring speech, but she does manage to stop her going splat.
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-->'''Darwin''': "Join X-Factor, she said. We're low-key. No giant robots..."
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-->'''Darwin''': "Join X-Factor, she said. We're low-key. No giant robots..."" Riiiight...
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* LogicalWeakness: Terry's power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
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* LeeroyJenkins: The alternate Shatterstar seen in "They Keep Killing Madrox". His response to armed police showing up to investigate a murder is to charge them, while Longshot tries to get him to stop. Cue muttering from that reality's Wolverine and Rictor about how much they hate him.
* LogicalWeakness: Terry's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
* LogicalWeakness: Terry's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
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* RunningGag: Once Shatterstar shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly ''some'' connection to them, but which the audience doesn't get to hear.
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* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:The murder of alternate Jamie and Layla. Apparently Layla ''wanted'' it to happen for some reason, begging and even paying Vanora to do so, but in typical Layla fashion she didn't say why, and Vanora doesn't especially care.]]
* RunningGag: Once Shatterstar shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly ''some'' connection tothem, Longshot, but which the audience doesn't get to hear.
* RunningGag: Once Shatterstar shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly ''some'' connection to
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* SoapOperaRapidAgeSyndrome: Tier goes from a newborn to looking like somewhere in his preteens in less than a year. His part-Asgardian wolf biology has something to do with that. [[spoiler:This was apparently true for Vanora Sinclair as well, which was not a good mix with uncontrolled rage issues.]]
* SpottingTheThread: Meeting with Rahne, absent Rictor and Shatterstar after they were apparently travelling with her, Madrox and Havok note something is off. Then Jamie asks about her cross necklace, which "Rahne" casually dismisses as not important. This clues both in that something is massively off.
* SpottingTheThread: Meeting with Rahne, absent Rictor and Shatterstar after they were apparently travelling with her, Madrox and Havok note something is off. Then Jamie asks about her cross necklace, which "Rahne" casually dismisses as not important. This clues both in that something is massively off.
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* TalkToTheFist: Facing Cortex, Jamie decides to just punch him.
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* UncannyFamilyResemblence: When not white and furry, Vanora is almost a dead ringer for her mother, [[spoiler:Rahne.]]
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* AccentRelapse: When she starts getting angry, Terry's accent gets increasingly Irish.
* ActuallyADoombot: Played with, when Arcade destroys Mutant Town. Rictor punches him, and it turns out to be a robot, but once everybody leaves, the "robot" turns out to be the actual Arcade, who makes a note to just an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
* ActuallyADoombot: Played with, when Arcade destroys Mutant Town. Rictor punches him, and it turns out to be a robot, but once everybody leaves, the "robot" turns out to be the actual Arcade, who makes a note to just an actual robot next time - getting punched in the face ''hurts''.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: More recent than most, but according to Monet, she had a part in the Marvel universe's versions of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie getting together.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: BeenThereShapedHistory:
** More recent than most, but according to Monet, she had a part in the Marvel universe's versions of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie getting together.
** More recent than most, but according to Monet, she had a part in the Marvel universe's versions of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie getting together.
* TheCatCameBack: During her fight with Cortex, Siryn blasts him into a disused elevator, and he falls down it. As Terry looks down the shaft, he suddenly pops up behind her and hits her over the head. He is a teleporter.
* CharmPerson: Longshot's power makes him irresistible to women. However, he notes that after a while, they realize this and start to become repulsed in just as equal magnitude.
* ChekhovsGunman: During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: During ''Messiah Comple[=X=]'', Jamie sends two dupes into alternate futures. We follow one that goes with Layla into Bishop's future, but the other is completely forgotten about. [[spoiler:He reappears a few years later, having changed, and understandably a little pissed about his treatment.]]
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* ContinuityNod: Mention is made of Havok being a 'Nexus Being', meaning he's connected to every other version of himself in the {{Multiverse}}, as was established in {{ComicBook/Exiles}}.
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** The evil Reed Richards the team faces is a leftover from the massive army of alternate Fantastic Fours that team faced over in Mark Millar's "Master of Doom" storyline.
** Mention is made of Havok being a 'Nexus Being', meaning he's connected to every other version of himself in the {{Multiverse}}, as was established in {{ComicBook/Exiles}}.
** The evil Reed Richards the team faces is a leftover from the massive army of alternate Fantastic Fours that team faced over in Mark Millar's "Master of Doom" storyline.
** Mention is made of Havok being a 'Nexus Being', meaning he's connected to every other version of himself in the {{Multiverse}}, as was established in {{ComicBook/Exiles}}.
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** The team takes part in the ''Messiah [=CompleX=] storyline, which results in Rahne going on a bus to join ''X-Force'', and Layla being PutOnABusToHell, getting left stuck in Bishop's future. She came back eventually.
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** The team takes part in the ''Messiah [=CompleX=] [=CompleX=]'' storyline, which results in Rahne going on a bus to join ''X-Force'', and Layla being PutOnABusToHell, getting left stuck in Bishop's future. She came back eventually.
* FutureSlang: Some characters in Earth-1191 use the expletive "shock", previously seen in ComicBook/Marvel2099 (which, not coincidentally, Peter David did some writing for).
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Cortex can't directly act against his targets because doing so would cause unbelievably bad things, like reality bleed-through. Eventually, the situation going so badly has him decide "screw it".]]
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Cortex can't directly act against his targets because doing so would cause unbelievably bad things, like reality bleed-through. Eventually, the situation going so badly has him decide "screw it".]]
* LamarckWasRight: Ruby Summers, the Earth-1911 daughter of Cyclops, has a mix of his powers (eye beams) and Emma Frosts' diamond form (though, as her name might hint, she's a different type of mineral). She also has blond hair, despite both parents being natural brunettes (Emma dyes her hair).
* RunningGag: Once Shatterstar shows up, it becomes a running thing that there is clearly ''some'' connection to them, but which the audience doesn't get to hear.
* SkewedPriorities: Monet, as comes of being incredibly rich and vain. At one point, she's shot by an assailant. She's perfectly fine, due to being a FlyingBrick, but she's pissed that he's ruined her shirt, and wants to break several of his bones for it.
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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madrox travels to several alternate realities where he's been killed.
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* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madrox travels to several alternate realities where he's been killed. The end of each issue tends to have him die again.
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* TheUnReveal: During the Cortex arc, he starts probing Longshot's brain, noting on his similarities to Shatterstar. Just as his inner monologue is about to say ''what'' the connection is, one of Longshot's discarded knives recoils off a wall and stabs him in the brain.
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* VillainBall: Cortex is capable of time travel and is tasked with taking out X-factor. Rather than going the most efficient route of killing them in the crib, he'd much rather leave them a fighting chance in the present because an easy victory is boring and he's sadistic.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversation: Siryn's attempt to tell Jamie she's pregnant by him is stymied by him presuming she's telling him she's going to quit and they both argue without clarifying what they're talking about. Lampshaded by M as something out of Three's Company.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversation: OneDialogueTwoConversations: Siryn's attempt to tell Jamie she's pregnant by him is stymied by him presuming she's telling him she's going to quit and they both argue without clarifying what they're talking about. Lampshaded by M as something out of Three's Company.
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** Monet's skin colour. (Though this might be more of a RaceLift.)
** Also true for Darwin.
** Also true for Darwin.
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** Monet's skin colour. (Though this might be more of colour changes hues a RaceLift.)
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** Also true for Darwin. Justified as his mutant powers of adapting for survival acting on racial prejudices.
** Also true for Darwin. Justified as his mutant powers of adapting for survival acting on racial prejudices.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shatterstar, teaching himself to drive in a stolen vehicle. He isn't BAD, per se, but he drives in the middle of the road and thinks the brake is "useless" because it makes them slow down. No-one is surprised when he crashes several pages later. Terry's reaction causes this to double as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shatterstar, teaching himself to drive in a stolen vehicle. He isn't BAD, per se, but he drives in the middle of the road and thinks the brake is "useless" because it makes them slow down. No-one is surprised when he crashes several pages later. Terry's reaction causes this to double as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
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* AllGaysLoveTheater: Lampshaded when Rictor refuses to watch musicals with his TV-obsessed boyfriend, Shatterstar, because he "doesn't want to be stereotypical". Shatterstar asks Rahne about this, but she just says [[BlatantLies has no idea what he meant]].
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* AllGaysLoveTheater: Lampshaded when Rictor refuses to watch musicals with his TV-obsessed boyfriend, Shatterstar, ComicBook/{{Shatterstar|Marvel Comics}}, because he "doesn't want to be stereotypical". Shatterstar asks Rahne about this, but she just says [[BlatantLies has no idea what he meant]].
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After 50 issues, the title reverts to ''X-Factor'' Volume 1 and is renumbered starting with #200. The series ended with issue #262 in September 2013.
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** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler: Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a ShotgunWedding]].
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** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler: Rictor [[spoiler:Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a ShotgunWedding]].
* BlessedWithSuck: The Isolationist has the power of every mutant on Earth, and little control over any of them.
** An early issue has Layla direct two guys at Pietro, hoping they'd kill him. Instead, they accept his attempt to give them their mutant powers back, which just causes one to turn to X-Factor's doorstep, slowly melting.
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* CivvieSpandex: Jamie Madrox
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** Layla Miller. [[spoiler:Not anymore though: she was stranded in the future, and returned as an adult.]]
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** Layla Miller. [[spoiler:Not anymore though: she was [[spoiler:Until she's stranded in the future, and returned returns as an adult.]]
* CrisisCrossover:
** The team takes part in the ''Messiah [=CompleX=] storyline, which results in Rahne going on a bus to join ''X-Force'', and Layla being PutOnABusToHell, getting left stuck in Bishop's future. She came back eventually.
** ''Secret Invasion'' sees the team briefly tussle with She-Hulk and Jazinda, daughter of Super-Skrull.
** They also get a side-story in ''ComicBook/SecondComing'' focusing on Bastion's attempt to kill them, via the Mutant Response Division and Bolivar Trask.
** The team takes part in the ''Messiah [=CompleX=] storyline, which results in Rahne going on a bus to join ''X-Force'', and Layla being PutOnABusToHell, getting left stuck in Bishop's future. She came back eventually.
** ''Secret Invasion'' sees the team briefly tussle with She-Hulk and Jazinda, daughter of Super-Skrull.
** They also get a side-story in ''ComicBook/SecondComing'' focusing on Bastion's attempt to kill them, via the Mutant Response Division and Bolivar Trask.
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* DeceptiveLegacy: A supervillain behaves heroically for the sake of his son, whose mother told him that his dad is a superhero.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Jamie and Siryn decide to name their kid "Nate". Siryn thinks it's after Nathan "Cable" Summers, who'd just a few months prior gone on the run with the newborn Hope Summers, but Jamie names it after a guy he'd met that night, who'd died from smoke inhalation.
* DeceptiveLegacy:A supervillain The Hangman, a supervillain, behaves heroically for the sake of his son, whose mother told him that his dad is a superhero.
* DeceptiveLegacy:
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** DarkhorseVictory: Guido in the penultimate arc, The Hell On Earth War. [[spoiler: While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Tyre -- Wolfsbane's son -- and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells. ''All'' the hells.]] And as of this writing and the now-current Thunderbolts run, this victory seems to have stuck.
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** DarkhorseVictory: Guido in the penultimate arc, The Hell On Earth War. [[spoiler: While [[spoiler:While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Tyre -- Wolfsbane's son -- and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells. ''All'' the hells.]] And as of this writing and the now-current Thunderbolts run, this victory seems to have stuck.]]
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* EnfantTerrible: Rahne's son may be one of these. Especially when he [[spoiler: [[KillerRabbit disembowels someone]] moments after being born]].
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* EnfantTerrible: Rahne's son may be one of these. Especially when he [[spoiler: [[KillerRabbit [[spoiler:[[KillerRabbit disembowels someone]] moments after being born]].born]]. Subverted, eventually, [[spoiler:when he turns out to just be an ordinary kid.]]
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads. Terry has hooked up with both Jamie and later [[spoiler: Deadpool]].
* HopeSpot: Rahne finds her son, Tier, and vows to look after him. [[spoiler: Cue Hell on Earth, and Guido killing him to rule Hell.]]
* HopeSpot: Rahne finds her son, Tier, and vows to look after him. [[spoiler: Cue Hell on Earth, and Guido killing him to rule Hell.]]
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* ForWantOfANail: Jamie's multiversal trip includes one reality where Wanda Maximoff said "no more ''humans''". Almost everyone human got turned into a warped monstrosity, even Captain America.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads. Terry has hooked up with both Jamie and later[[spoiler: Deadpool]].[[spoiler:Deadpool]].
* HopeSpot: Rahne finds her son, Tier, and vows to look after him.[[spoiler: Cue [[spoiler:Cue Hell on Earth, and Guido killing him to rule Hell.]]
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads. Terry has hooked up with both Jamie and later
* HopeSpot: Rahne finds her son, Tier, and vows to look after him.
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* IDieFree: Bolivar Trask, during the Second Coming crossover, after Monet frees him from Bastion's control.
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* IDieFree: Bolivar Trask, during the Second Coming ''Second Coming'' crossover, after Monet frees him from Bastion's control.
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* ImmortalAssassin: Cortex seems like this. He shrugs off getting punched through the chest by [[FlyingBrick Monet]], recovers instantly from getting dropped down an elevator shaft, [[AnArmAndALeg getting his arm chopped off]] just annoys him. About the only person that can threaten him is Trevor Fitzroy, which is why he takes him out instantly. [[spoiler: Then Layla brings him back.]]
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* ImmortalAssassin: Cortex seems like this. He shrugs off getting punched through the chest by [[FlyingBrick Monet]], recovers instantly from getting dropped down an elevator shaft, [[AnArmAndALeg getting his arm chopped off]] just annoys him. About the only person that can threaten him is Trevor Fitzroy, which is why he takes him out instantly. [[spoiler: Then [[spoiler:Then Layla brings him back.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Dr. Anthony Falcone's parents were supposedly killed in a "mutant-related incident" when he was a child. This left him with a fanatical (even by the standards of his timeline) hatred of mutants. He would eventually institute an elaborate and convoluted plot (involving TimeTravel) to wipe out mutantkind. But in attempting to suck all the mutants into the time vortex, it turns out [[spoiler: that ''he'' and his giant sentinel robots get sucked into his own past, crashing into his childhood home and killing his parents. He was really the one responsible for their deaths all along]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Dr. Anthony Falcone's parents were supposedly killed in a "mutant-related incident" when he was a child. This left him with a fanatical (even by the standards of his timeline) hatred of mutants. He would eventually institute an elaborate and convoluted plot (involving TimeTravel) to wipe out mutantkind. But in attempting to suck all the mutants into the time vortex, it turns out [[spoiler: that [[spoiler:that ''he'' and his giant sentinel robots get sucked into his own past, crashing into his childhood home and killing his parents. He was really the one responsible for their deaths all along]].along]].
* LogicalWeakness: Terry's power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
* LogicalWeakness: Terry's power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk are immune.
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* NoodleIncident: Lorna mentions she had a psychotic episode at a Comicon once, but doesn't elaborate.
** Whatever happened to Shatterstar before he reappeared.
** Whatever happened to Shatterstar before he reappeared.
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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
** Lorna mentions she had a psychotic episode at a Comicon once, but doesn't elaborate.
** Whatever happened to Shatterstar before hereappeared.reappeared under Cortex's control.
** Lorna mentions she had a psychotic episode at a Comicon once, but doesn't elaborate.
** Whatever happened to Shatterstar before he
* PeoplePuppets: Anyone controlled by Cortex.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Just narrowly avoided by Jamie and Terry when she's pregnant. The two aren't on the same wavelength, but still having what they think is the same argument. Monet eventually weighs in by pointing out they're acting like something out of ''Three's Company''.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Just narrowly avoided by Jamie and Terry when she's pregnant. The two aren't on the same wavelength, but still having what they think is the same argument. Monet eventually weighs in by pointing out they're acting like something out of ''Three's Company''.
* PutOnABus: Quicksilver is a secondary character in the early parts of the book, until he gets his powers back around 2007, and leaves to be a part of ''Mighty Avengers''.
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* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler: What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into the future.]]
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* RedSkiesCrossover: The ''Civil War'' tie-in, which largely consists of Terry complaining about the SHRA, and a Madrox dupe coming to make them sign up.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion:[[spoiler: What [[spoiler:What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into the future.]]
* ReforgedIntoAMinion:
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** Shatterstar's finally-revealed origin story.
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** Shatterstar's finally-revealed origin story. [[spoiler:He's the genetic progenitor of Longshot, who is his father via Alison Blaire.]]
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* {{Unfortunate Name|s}}: Jamie's first choice of name for his business was XXX Investigations.
* WeirdnessMagnet: One of the side-effects of Layla [[spoiler: resurrecting Guido is that it attracts the attention of demons.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: One of the side-effects of Layla [[spoiler: resurrecting Guido is that it attracts the attention of demons.]]
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* {{Unfortunate Name|s}}: Jamie's first choice of name for his business was XXX Investigations.
Investigations. Everyone keeps telling him it sounds like he investigates porn.
* WeirdnessMagnet: One of the side-effects of Layla[[spoiler: resurrecting [[spoiler:resurrecting Guido is that it attracts the attention of demons.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: One of the side-effects of Layla
* WorldOfSnark: It's Peter David. Everyone snarks. The mutants, the humans, the Asgardian goddesses...
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** Layla also tries this when she [[spoiler: resurrects Guido. It... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes badly]]]].
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** Layla also tries this when she [[spoiler: resurrects [[spoiler:resurrects Guido. It... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes badly]]]].
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* RaceLift: Monet, big time which has caused a lot of controversy about her race. Originally, she was AmbigiouslyBrown, 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 to 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 race lifted again, and went to tan [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/1206757/1206757_900.jpg European-looking]].
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* RaceLift: Monet, big time which has caused a lot of controversy about her race. Originally, she was AmbigiouslyBrown, AmbiguouslyBrown, possibly falling under ButNotTooBlack. In ''{{ComicBook/GenerationX}}'', ''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 first, she's not black or even AmbiguouslyBrown. She just appears to be white. WordOfGod says fans complained to 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 race lifted changed again, and went to tan [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/1206757/1206757_900.jpg European-looking]].
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* RaceLift: Monet, big time which has caused a lot of controversy about her race. Originally, she was AmbigiouslyBrown, 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 to 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 race lifted 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.
** 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.
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The third volume of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' revolves around X-Factor Investigations, a detective agency run by Jamie Madrox, formerly known as Multiple Man. The name is taken from the government-sponsored group the three founders previously served on. 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 (Monet), a powerless Rictor, Siryn, and Layla Miller.
After 50 issues, the title reverts to ''X-Factor'' Volume 1 and is renumbered starting with #200. The series ended with issue #262 in September 2013.
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!!The third series provides examples of the following tropes:
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* AffablyEvil: The elderly Doctor Doom is amazingly polite, by Doom's standards at least, toward Madrox and Layla. [[spoiler:Until his [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitable betrayal]].]]
* AllGaysLoveTheater: Lampshaded when Rictor refuses to watch musicals with his TV-obsessed boyfriend, Shatterstar, because he "doesn't want to be stereotypical". Shatterstar asks Rahne about this, but she just says [[BlatantLies has no idea what he meant]].
* AmicableExes: Longshot and {{ComicBook/Dazzler}}.
* AnythingThatMoves: Shatterstar. PAD has stated he's become "sexually curious about anything with a pulse", taking a cue from ''Torchwood'''s Captain Jack Harkness. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Rictor starts thinking he doesn't care about their relationship.
* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers in a CrisisCrossover, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
* AscendedFanboy: Jamie Madrox keeps attempting to treat his Mutant adventures as Noir Detective novels. Usually, he fails miserably.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Layla's mutant power. [[spoiler:She can bring people back from the dead!... unfortunately, they no longer have a soul and as such, always CameBackWrong.]]
** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor to teleport and both the teleporting and his "sword energy blast things" need about as much recovery time as a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]].
* BadFuture: Bishop's Future shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].
-->'''Madrox''': The future sucks.
* BadassLongcoat:
** Madrox seems to prefer one of these.
** Shatterstar wore one when he first showed back up, but has since switched to a shorter jacket.
* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler:As of Avengers: Children's Crusade #6, he officially has been repowered by the Scarlet Witch herself. Creator/PeterDavid has stated on his blog that he will not be reversing it.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin.
* BeardOfSorrow: Jamie grows one, after he [[spoiler:accidentally absorbs his newborn son]].
* BeenThereShapedHistory: More recent than most, but according to Monet, she had a part in the Marvel universe's versions of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie getting together.
** Layla helps start the Summers Rebellion, meaning she has a part in Bishop's origins. [[spoiler: And since she's responsible for Trevor Fitzroy's StartOfDarkness, she's also indirectly responsible for Emma Frost's HeelFaceTurn.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Don't mess with Monet's mind. Just...don't.
** Trying to hurt anyone who Shatterstar sees as a teammate is a ''very'' bad idea, unless you fancy having two feet of sharp metal shoved through your abdomen. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Double this]] if you're threatening his boyfriend.
** Lately, it's become a bad idea to threaten Monet whenever Darwin's around, even if she's very capable of taking care of herself.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** Monet and Siryn. In fact, Monet is actually called Veronica Lodge at one point.
** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler: Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a ShotgunWedding]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Darwin is normally the nice, quiet guy on the team. But when he finally gets angry? Yeah, you're pretty screwed.
* BigBad: Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]]
* BodyHorror:
** Darwin. His powers will transform him into whatever is necessary to survive -- shoot his head off, and he'll grow a head from his torso, drop wreckage on him and he'll become an oozing mass.
** Mutant Town was filled with plenty of examples, especially of former mutants that still had their physical deformities.
* BoldlyComing: Heroics aside, Longshot's main contributions to Earth are making a LOT of women happy. Sometimes repeatedly.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Guido at first, but it gets fixed. Shatterstar and Monet later on, courtesy of [[spoiler: Cortex]].
* BrainyBrunette: Monet and Rictor. Madrox might also count.
* BuryYourGays: Averted. 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.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant power does this. Trevor Fitzroy was originally a hero and prominent member of the Summer's Rebellion before Layla was forced to raise him from the dead. The resurrection transformed him into a soulless monster who would go on to murder Bishop's sister and travel back in time to murder the Hellions.]] As of issue #218, [[spoiler:Guido. Again, thanks to Layla]].
* CasanovaWannabe: Pip the Troll.
* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Layla Miller. She knows stuff.
* ChivalrousPervert: Longshot
* CivvieSpandex: Jamie Madrox
* CListFodder: Somewhere between this and AscendedExtra for almost all the team. Best demonstrated in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk: X-Men'', where Hulk comments that the battle was becoming ridiculous as he didn't even know who the members of X-Factor ''were''.
* ContinuityNod: Mention is made of Havok being a 'Nexus Being', meaning he's connected to every other version of himself in the {{Multiverse}}, as was established in {{ComicBook/Exiles}}.
* CreepyChild:
** Layla Miller. [[spoiler:Not anymore though: she was stranded in the future, and returned as an adult.]]
** The team also regards [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Valeria Richards]] as quite creepy, remarking on her similarity to Layla.
* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Rahne believes Rictor is only in a relationship with Shatterstar because he's been brainwashed, or something similar. When confronted on this by an irate Rictor, she realises how silly it sounds.]]
* {{Cyborg}}: Cortex is this.
* DeceptiveLegacy: A supervillain behaves heroically for the sake of his son, whose mother told him that his dad is a superhero.
* DependingOnTheArtist:
** Monet's skin colour. (Though this might be more of a RaceLift.)
** Also true for Darwin.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shatterstar, teaching himself to drive in a stolen vehicle. He isn't BAD, per se, but he drives in the middle of the road and thinks the brake is "useless" because it makes them slow down. No-one is surprised when he crashes several pages later. Terry's reaction causes this to double as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* DumbBlonde: Longshot. Subverted with Layla.
* EarAche: What happens when Siryn uses the phone while flying.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played with.
** Guido: CameBackWrong thanks to Layla. Murdered Rahne's son. Is now a lord of Hell.
** Darwin: Gone walkabout after having to evolve to survive an attack from Hela made him sort of a death god wannabe.
** DarkhorseVictory: Guido in the penultimate arc, The Hell On Earth War. [[spoiler: While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Tyre -- Wolfsbane's son -- and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells. ''All'' the hells.]] And as of this writing and the now-current Thunderbolts run, this victory seems to have stuck.
** Rahne: Son murdered by Guido. Has left the hero game to become a minister.
** Monet: Brought back from the dead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers. Having a little trouble coping with it.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Terry: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to goddesshood.]]
** Lorna: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Jamie and Layla: Living happily ever after on Jamie's farm after The Morrigan (formerly Terry), cured Jamie's having been transformed into a demon. They're expecting their first child.
* EnfantTerrible: Rahne's son may be one of these. Especially when he [[spoiler: [[KillerRabbit disembowels someone]] moments after being born]].
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Terry, with her sexy hypnosis voice.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Longshot, and to a lesser extent Shatterstar.
* FieryRedhead: Terry, Rahne, and Shatterstar.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Rictor (accidentally) gets temporary use of Quicksilver's [[GreenRocks Terrigen crystals]].
* ForTheEvulz: Terry uses a her hypnotic voice to make a concert-goer at a hate rally go and buy the most expensive rug he can find. Monet approves of this, and neither of them feel slightly guilty for it.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads. Terry has hooked up with both Jamie and later [[spoiler: Deadpool]].
* HopeSpot: Rahne finds her son, Tier, and vows to look after him. [[spoiler: Cue Hell on Earth, and Guido killing him to rule Hell.]]
* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture Doctor Doom gives to Madrox, as to why the government hates and fears Mutants, yet gladly give people like Doom free reign.
* IDieFree: Bolivar Trask, during the Second Coming crossover, after Monet frees him from Bastion's control.
* IHaveNoSon: Rahne's response to her son after he violently attacked her attacker after coming out of her mouth.
* ImmortalAssassin: Cortex seems like this. He shrugs off getting punched through the chest by [[FlyingBrick Monet]], recovers instantly from getting dropped down an elevator shaft, [[AnArmAndALeg getting his arm chopped off]] just annoys him. About the only person that can threaten him is Trevor Fitzroy, which is why he takes him out instantly. [[spoiler: Then Layla brings him back.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: Jamie eventually decides to kill himself [[spoiler:after absorbing his son. But just when he's about to do it, Layla returns from the future, and takes him with her]].
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: In Bishop's future, JFK Airport has been renamed BHO Airport.
* ItAmusedMe: An elderly Doctor Doom's reason for [[spoiler:assisting Tryp and Falcone in creating Cortex.]]
* 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..."
* KickTheDog: At the start of Day 5 of "[[BreakingTheFellowship Breaking Points]]", Madrox explodes at Havoc over the departures of roughly half the team, eventually asking him "[[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen Isn't there a beloved teacher you should be killing?]]]]"
* LargeHam: Jamie Madrox, especially early in the series when he hasn't grown up as much. Shatterstar. Rictor, when he's undercover. In fact, everyone on the team has probably had a LargeHam moment at one point or another.
** This is how Jamie knows when Guido is [[BadLiar lying]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Dr. Anthony Falcone's parents were supposedly killed in a "mutant-related incident" when he was a child. This left him with a fanatical (even by the standards of his timeline) hatred of mutants. He would eventually institute an elaborate and convoluted plot (involving TimeTravel) to wipe out mutantkind. But in attempting to suck all the mutants into the time vortex, it turns out [[spoiler: that ''he'' and his giant sentinel robots get sucked into his own past, crashing into his childhood home and killing his parents. He was really the one responsible for their deaths all along]].
* MoralPragmatist: In the AlternateTimeline of Earth-1191, SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom has become old and unsound in mind and body. He chooses to help the heroes simply because it allows him to stretch his still-impeccable intellect and retain mental lucidity for greater periods of time. He makes it clear, however, that if he ever became healthy again, he'd probably go back to his old ways.
* MrFanservice: Shatterstar
* MsFanservice: Monet
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently) Jamie has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some early X-Factor issues make a big deal out of how Jamie has to absorb his dupes before they die, or else lose their memories. Dead dupes get the ability to be absorbed automatically right around the time Jamie needs to send some into potential future time-lines.
* NoodleIncident: Lorna mentions she had a psychotic episode at a Comicon once, but doesn't elaborate.
** Whatever happened to Shatterstar before he reappeared.
* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Rictor.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Get Siryn mad enough, and this starts to happen.
* OracularUrchin: Layla Miller. She knows stuff.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[ObliviousToLove Monet]] starts flirting with Darwin. As it turns out, she's [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]].
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane.
* PortalCut: Happens to an alternate version of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] at one point.
* PrecociousCrush: In a way. Layla didn't act like she had a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him, that they eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:After she got a PlotRelevantAgeUp, this indeed happened.]]
* PregnantBadass: Terry. And Rahne. Don't count on what you think a hormonal WMD will do, indeed.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how...
* 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 who can morph into any wolf form, including her mother's. Oh, and that it doesn't take place on Earth-616, either]].
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler: What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into the future.]]
* RelationshipReveal: Rictor and Shatterstar, after years of subtext, finally got that on-panel kiss. After issues of dealing with an unrelated crossover, they finally score their second on panel kiss, and eventually [[spoiler: their first on panel love scene. Well, almost anyway. A certain wolf had to just show up and accidentally ruin it for the poor guys.]]
* {{Retgone}}: What Tryp and Falcone try to do to members of the Summers Rebellion, by killing their ancestors via TimeTravel. Interestingly, the fact that people are disappearing is noticed.
* TheReveal: Cortex is [[spoiler:one of Madrox's dupes]].
* ScienceFantasy: Keeping in mind that the protagonists are {{Mutants}}, whose super powers have a scientific, genetic basis (if in a HollywoodEvolution sort of way). But many of their antagonists, especially later in the series, are [[FunctionalMagic fully supernatural]] beings.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Havok eventually gets fed up with everything that's happened and leaves.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Falcone thinks that he's doing this with [[FinalSolution Operation: Clean Sweep]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Layla, [[spoiler:after her trip to the future resulted in her returning to the present an attractive young woman instead of the tweenager that left.]]
* SlapSlapKiss: Rictor and Rahne. Madrox and [[spoiler:Layla]].
* StableTimeLoop: Forms various subplots within the series, which is not surprising given the amount of TimeTravel involved.
** Jamie and Layla get caught up in this, Layla in particular.
** Doctor Anthony Falcone attempts to overcome the normal laws of TheMultiverse in order to achieve this in his goal of [[FantasticRacism exterminating mutankind]]. The one he ends up creating is one that that will make his entire life suck.
** Shatterstar's finally-revealed origin story.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Very strongly implied to be what happened to [[spoiler:Cortex]].
* SuddenlySexuality: Rictor asserts that he is gay, not bisexual (the latter having been implied, but not canon, for some time). Likewise, Shatterstar, formerly asexual, is now bisexual and into AnythingThatMoves.
* SuicideByCop: One dupes does this after being DrivenToSuicide in order to prevent Madrox reabsorbing him.
* {{Teleportation}}: Shatterstar and Pip the Troll.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madrox travels to several alternate realities where he's been killed.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]
* ThoughtCaption:
** Jamie Madrox manages to monologue over just about everything, including himself.
** Darwin gets to do this for an issue as well, having been told by Madrox that internal monologues help.
** Cortex has one as well. Not surprising, given that he's [[spoiler:one of Madrox's dupes.]]
* {{Unfortunate Name|s}}: Jamie's first choice of name for his business was XXX Investigations.
* WeirdnessMagnet: One of the side-effects of Layla [[spoiler: resurrecting Guido is that it attracts the attention of demons.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Valerie Cooper just disappears from the comic after the Cortex arc.
* WhatTheHellHero: After Pip is forced from his body into that of the nearest psychic, which happened to be Monet, Polaris & Rictor start laughing about Monet being forced to share her body the perverted troll. Shatterstar doesn't see what's so funny and call them out over it. Later, when Monet regains control, she promptly attacks Polaris over it.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Madrox is usually pretty good about this, but he sometimes needs to be reminded that he's in a SharedUniverse FantasyKitchenSink and not a FilmNoir.
* YouCantFightFate: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Normally, you can't change the timeline, as it just creates a new timeline instead, but if one has a Doomlock, then you can re-write time.
** Trevor Fitzroy appears as part of the Summers Rebellion, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution for the most part]]. Jamie and Layla are more than aware of what he's going to do in the future, but neither of them want to kill him. Then Cortex shows up...
** Layla also tries this when she [[spoiler: resurrects Guido. It... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes badly]]]].
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After 50 issues, the title reverts to ''X-Factor'' Volume 1 and is renumbered starting with #200. The series ended with issue #262 in September 2013.
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!Tropes
[[folder:X-Factor Noir (2000s)]]
!!The third series provides examples of the following tropes:
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* AffablyEvil: The elderly Doctor Doom is amazingly polite, by Doom's standards at least, toward Madrox and Layla. [[spoiler:Until his [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitable betrayal]].]]
* AllGaysLoveTheater: Lampshaded when Rictor refuses to watch musicals with his TV-obsessed boyfriend, Shatterstar, because he "doesn't want to be stereotypical". Shatterstar asks Rahne about this, but she just says [[BlatantLies has no idea what he meant]].
* AmicableExes: Longshot and {{ComicBook/Dazzler}}.
* AnythingThatMoves: Shatterstar. PAD has stated he's become "sexually curious about anything with a pulse", taking a cue from ''Torchwood'''s Captain Jack Harkness. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} when Rictor starts thinking he doesn't care about their relationship.
* AscendedExtra: Same as in the second series. Monet was the AlphaBitch of an X-Men spinoff series that was cancelled years before, Rictor was CListFodder who had lost his powers in a CrisisCrossover, Shatterstar is a ContinuitySnarl NinetiesAntiHero, Siryn is a DistaffCounterpart of her father and Layla was a LivingMacGuffin in a CrisisCrossover. It seems like Peter David's whole plan whenever he writes series named X-Factor is to create as many examples of this trope as possible. And it is glorious.
* AscendedFanboy: Jamie Madrox keeps attempting to treat his Mutant adventures as Noir Detective novels. Usually, he fails miserably.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Layla's mutant power. [[spoiler:She can bring people back from the dead!... unfortunately, they no longer have a soul and as such, always CameBackWrong.]]
** Shatterstar's powers would be this ANYWHERE but X-Factor, since he requires one of three teammates as a psychic anchor to teleport and both the teleporting and his "sword energy blast things" need about as much recovery time as a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]].
* BadFuture: Bishop's Future shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].
-->'''Madrox''': The future sucks.
* BadassLongcoat:
** Madrox seems to prefer one of these.
** Shatterstar wore one when he first showed back up, but has since switched to a shorter jacket.
* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler:As of Avengers: Children's Crusade #6, he officially has been repowered by the Scarlet Witch herself. Creator/PeterDavid has stated on his blog that he will not be reversing it.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin.
* BeardOfSorrow: Jamie grows one, after he [[spoiler:accidentally absorbs his newborn son]].
* BeenThereShapedHistory: More recent than most, but according to Monet, she had a part in the Marvel universe's versions of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie getting together.
** Layla helps start the Summers Rebellion, meaning she has a part in Bishop's origins. [[spoiler: And since she's responsible for Trevor Fitzroy's StartOfDarkness, she's also indirectly responsible for Emma Frost's HeelFaceTurn.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Don't mess with Monet's mind. Just...don't.
** Trying to hurt anyone who Shatterstar sees as a teammate is a ''very'' bad idea, unless you fancy having two feet of sharp metal shoved through your abdomen. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Double this]] if you're threatening his boyfriend.
** Lately, it's become a bad idea to threaten Monet whenever Darwin's around, even if she's very capable of taking care of herself.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** Monet and Siryn. In fact, Monet is actually called Veronica Lodge at one point.
** Shatterstar and Wolfsbane. It doesn't help that [[spoiler: Rictor thinks he's the Baby Daddy and has previously stated he believes in having a ShotgunWedding]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Darwin is normally the nice, quiet guy on the team. But when he finally gets angry? Yeah, you're pretty screwed.
* BigBad: Tryp is this for the initial storyline. [[spoiler:And for the Cortex arc as well.]]
* BodyHorror:
** Darwin. His powers will transform him into whatever is necessary to survive -- shoot his head off, and he'll grow a head from his torso, drop wreckage on him and he'll become an oozing mass.
** Mutant Town was filled with plenty of examples, especially of former mutants that still had their physical deformities.
* BoldlyComing: Heroics aside, Longshot's main contributions to Earth are making a LOT of women happy. Sometimes repeatedly.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Guido at first, but it gets fixed. Shatterstar and Monet later on, courtesy of [[spoiler: Cortex]].
* BrainyBrunette: Monet and Rictor. Madrox might also count.
* BuryYourGays: Averted. 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.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Layla's mutant power does this. Trevor Fitzroy was originally a hero and prominent member of the Summer's Rebellion before Layla was forced to raise him from the dead. The resurrection transformed him into a soulless monster who would go on to murder Bishop's sister and travel back in time to murder the Hellions.]] As of issue #218, [[spoiler:Guido. Again, thanks to Layla]].
* CasanovaWannabe: Pip the Troll.
* CatchPhrase / PhraseCatcher: Layla Miller. She knows stuff.
* ChivalrousPervert: Longshot
* CivvieSpandex: Jamie Madrox
* CListFodder: Somewhere between this and AscendedExtra for almost all the team. Best demonstrated in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk: X-Men'', where Hulk comments that the battle was becoming ridiculous as he didn't even know who the members of X-Factor ''were''.
* ContinuityNod: Mention is made of Havok being a 'Nexus Being', meaning he's connected to every other version of himself in the {{Multiverse}}, as was established in {{ComicBook/Exiles}}.
* CreepyChild:
** Layla Miller. [[spoiler:Not anymore though: she was stranded in the future, and returned as an adult.]]
** The team also regards [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Valeria Richards]] as quite creepy, remarking on her similarity to Layla.
* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Rahne believes Rictor is only in a relationship with Shatterstar because he's been brainwashed, or something similar. When confronted on this by an irate Rictor, she realises how silly it sounds.]]
* {{Cyborg}}: Cortex is this.
* DeceptiveLegacy: A supervillain behaves heroically for the sake of his son, whose mother told him that his dad is a superhero.
* DependingOnTheArtist:
** Monet's skin colour. (Though this might be more of a RaceLift.)
** Also true for Darwin.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shatterstar, teaching himself to drive in a stolen vehicle. He isn't BAD, per se, but he drives in the middle of the road and thinks the brake is "useless" because it makes them slow down. No-one is surprised when he crashes several pages later. Terry's reaction causes this to double as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* DumbBlonde: Longshot. Subverted with Layla.
* EarAche: What happens when Siryn uses the phone while flying.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played with.
** Guido: CameBackWrong thanks to Layla. Murdered Rahne's son. Is now a lord of Hell.
** Darwin: Gone walkabout after having to evolve to survive an attack from Hela made him sort of a death god wannabe.
** DarkhorseVictory: Guido in the penultimate arc, The Hell On Earth War. [[spoiler: While everyone else is busy fighting everyone else, and thus aren't paying much to attention to him, Guido stabs Tyre -- Wolfsbane's son -- and in doing so, becomes the new Lord of all the Hells. ''All'' the hells.]] And as of this writing and the now-current Thunderbolts run, this victory seems to have stuck.
** Rahne: Son murdered by Guido. Has left the hero game to become a minister.
** Monet: Brought back from the dead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers. Having a little trouble coping with it.
** Rictor and Shatterstar: Last seen on Mojoworld, working to ensure that Shatterstar's [[StableTimeLoop past]] plays out correctly.
** Terry: [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to goddesshood.]]
** Lorna: Dumped by her boyfriend. Team scattered to the four winds after the Hell war. Got drunk. Tried to shoot her brother. Bailed out of jail by Harrison Snow and became leader of the new corporate-sponsored X-Factor.
** Jamie and Layla: Living happily ever after on Jamie's farm after The Morrigan (formerly Terry), cured Jamie's having been transformed into a demon. They're expecting their first child.
* EnfantTerrible: Rahne's son may be one of these. Especially when he [[spoiler: [[KillerRabbit disembowels someone]] moments after being born]].
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Terry, with her sexy hypnosis voice.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Longshot, and to a lesser extent Shatterstar.
* FieryRedhead: Terry, Rahne, and Shatterstar.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Rictor (accidentally) gets temporary use of Quicksilver's [[GreenRocks Terrigen crystals]].
* ForTheEvulz: Terry uses a her hypnotic voice to make a concert-goer at a hate rally go and buy the most expensive rug he can find. Monet approves of this, and neither of them feel slightly guilty for it.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Rictor seems to exclusively date violent redheads. Terry has hooked up with both Jamie and later [[spoiler: Deadpool]].
* HopeSpot: Rahne finds her son, Tier, and vows to look after him. [[spoiler: Cue Hell on Earth, and Guido killing him to rule Hell.]]
* HumansAreMorons: The general crux of a lecture Doctor Doom gives to Madrox, as to why the government hates and fears Mutants, yet gladly give people like Doom free reign.
* IDieFree: Bolivar Trask, during the Second Coming crossover, after Monet frees him from Bastion's control.
* IHaveNoSon: Rahne's response to her son after he violently attacked her attacker after coming out of her mouth.
* ImmortalAssassin: Cortex seems like this. He shrugs off getting punched through the chest by [[FlyingBrick Monet]], recovers instantly from getting dropped down an elevator shaft, [[AnArmAndALeg getting his arm chopped off]] just annoys him. About the only person that can threaten him is Trevor Fitzroy, which is why he takes him out instantly. [[spoiler: Then Layla brings him back.]]
* InterruptedSuicide: Jamie eventually decides to kill himself [[spoiler:after absorbing his son. But just when he's about to do it, Layla returns from the future, and takes him with her]].
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: In Bishop's future, JFK Airport has been renamed BHO Airport.
* ItAmusedMe: An elderly Doctor Doom's reason for [[spoiler:assisting Tryp and Falcone in creating Cortex.]]
* 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..."
* KickTheDog: At the start of Day 5 of "[[BreakingTheFellowship Breaking Points]]", Madrox explodes at Havoc over the departures of roughly half the team, eventually asking him "[[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen Isn't there a beloved teacher you should be killing?]]]]"
* LargeHam: Jamie Madrox, especially early in the series when he hasn't grown up as much. Shatterstar. Rictor, when he's undercover. In fact, everyone on the team has probably had a LargeHam moment at one point or another.
** This is how Jamie knows when Guido is [[BadLiar lying]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Dr. Anthony Falcone's parents were supposedly killed in a "mutant-related incident" when he was a child. This left him with a fanatical (even by the standards of his timeline) hatred of mutants. He would eventually institute an elaborate and convoluted plot (involving TimeTravel) to wipe out mutantkind. But in attempting to suck all the mutants into the time vortex, it turns out [[spoiler: that ''he'' and his giant sentinel robots get sucked into his own past, crashing into his childhood home and killing his parents. He was really the one responsible for their deaths all along]].
* MoralPragmatist: In the AlternateTimeline of Earth-1191, SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom has become old and unsound in mind and body. He chooses to help the heroes simply because it allows him to stretch his still-impeccable intellect and retain mental lucidity for greater periods of time. He makes it clear, however, that if he ever became healthy again, he'd probably go back to his old ways.
* MrFanservice: Shatterstar
* MsFanservice: Monet
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently) Jamie has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some early X-Factor issues make a big deal out of how Jamie has to absorb his dupes before they die, or else lose their memories. Dead dupes get the ability to be absorbed automatically right around the time Jamie needs to send some into potential future time-lines.
* NoodleIncident: Lorna mentions she had a psychotic episode at a Comicon once, but doesn't elaborate.
** Whatever happened to Shatterstar before he reappeared.
* NotWearingTights: Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Rictor.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Get Siryn mad enough, and this starts to happen.
* OracularUrchin: Layla Miller. She knows stuff.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[ObliviousToLove Monet]] starts flirting with Darwin. As it turns out, she's [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy]].
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Rahne Sinclair / Wolfsbane.
* PortalCut: Happens to an alternate version of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] at one point.
* PrecociousCrush: In a way. Layla didn't act like she had a crush on Jamie Madrox, but several times told him, that they eventually going to get married. [[spoiler:After she got a PlotRelevantAgeUp, this indeed happened.]]
* PregnantBadass: Terry. And Rahne. Don't count on what you think a hormonal WMD will do, indeed.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how...
* 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 who can morph into any wolf form, including her mother's. Oh, and that it doesn't take place on Earth-616, either]].
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler: What happened to the second dupe Madrox sent into the future.]]
* RelationshipReveal: Rictor and Shatterstar, after years of subtext, finally got that on-panel kiss. After issues of dealing with an unrelated crossover, they finally score their second on panel kiss, and eventually [[spoiler: their first on panel love scene. Well, almost anyway. A certain wolf had to just show up and accidentally ruin it for the poor guys.]]
* {{Retgone}}: What Tryp and Falcone try to do to members of the Summers Rebellion, by killing their ancestors via TimeTravel. Interestingly, the fact that people are disappearing is noticed.
* TheReveal: Cortex is [[spoiler:one of Madrox's dupes]].
* ScienceFantasy: Keeping in mind that the protagonists are {{Mutants}}, whose super powers have a scientific, genetic basis (if in a HollywoodEvolution sort of way). But many of their antagonists, especially later in the series, are [[FunctionalMagic fully supernatural]] beings.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Havok eventually gets fed up with everything that's happened and leaves.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Falcone thinks that he's doing this with [[FinalSolution Operation: Clean Sweep]].
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Layla, [[spoiler:after her trip to the future resulted in her returning to the present an attractive young woman instead of the tweenager that left.]]
* SlapSlapKiss: Rictor and Rahne. Madrox and [[spoiler:Layla]].
* StableTimeLoop: Forms various subplots within the series, which is not surprising given the amount of TimeTravel involved.
** Jamie and Layla get caught up in this, Layla in particular.
** Doctor Anthony Falcone attempts to overcome the normal laws of TheMultiverse in order to achieve this in his goal of [[FantasticRacism exterminating mutankind]]. The one he ends up creating is one that that will make his entire life suck.
** Shatterstar's finally-revealed origin story.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Very strongly implied to be what happened to [[spoiler:Cortex]].
* SuddenlySexuality: Rictor asserts that he is gay, not bisexual (the latter having been implied, but not canon, for some time). Likewise, Shatterstar, formerly asexual, is now bisexual and into AnythingThatMoves.
* SuicideByCop: One dupes does this after being DrivenToSuicide in order to prevent Madrox reabsorbing him.
* {{Teleportation}}: Shatterstar and Pip the Troll.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: At one point, Madrox travels to several alternate realities where he's been killed.
* TonightSomeoneDies: [[spoiler:Apparently Jamie Madrox in #227, but not everything is as it seems.]]
* ThoughtCaption:
** Jamie Madrox manages to monologue over just about everything, including himself.
** Darwin gets to do this for an issue as well, having been told by Madrox that internal monologues help.
** Cortex has one as well. Not surprising, given that he's [[spoiler:one of Madrox's dupes.]]
* {{Unfortunate Name|s}}: Jamie's first choice of name for his business was XXX Investigations.
* WeirdnessMagnet: One of the side-effects of Layla [[spoiler: resurrecting Guido is that it attracts the attention of demons.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Valerie Cooper just disappears from the comic after the Cortex arc.
* WhatTheHellHero: After Pip is forced from his body into that of the nearest psychic, which happened to be Monet, Polaris & Rictor start laughing about Monet being forced to share her body the perverted troll. Shatterstar doesn't see what's so funny and call them out over it. Later, when Monet regains control, she promptly attacks Polaris over it.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Madrox is usually pretty good about this, but he sometimes needs to be reminded that he's in a SharedUniverse FantasyKitchenSink and not a FilmNoir.
* YouCantFightFate: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Normally, you can't change the timeline, as it just creates a new timeline instead, but if one has a Doomlock, then you can re-write time.
** Trevor Fitzroy appears as part of the Summers Rebellion, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution for the most part]]. Jamie and Layla are more than aware of what he's going to do in the future, but neither of them want to kill him. Then Cortex shows up...
** Layla also tries this when she [[spoiler: resurrects Guido. It... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goes badly]]]].
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