History Trivia / XStatix

* ExecutiveMeddling:
** Marvel shot down "Di Another Day", a storyline that would have featured Princess Di coming back from the dead and joining the team, because of outrage from the United Kingdom... after Milligan and Allred had already done much of the scripting and art for it. Consequently, the arc was hastily cobbled into "Back from the Dead", a convoluted, messy storyline in which a generic celebrity comes back from the dead and joins the team.
** After a tweak in Marvel's standards and practices, ''X-Statix'' got moved to the Marvel Knights imprint for its final arc.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Marvel shot down "Di Another Day", a storyline that would have featured Princess Di coming back from the dead and joining the team, because of outrage from the United Kingdom... after Milligan and Allred had already done much of the scripting and art for it. Consequently, the arc was hastily cobbled into "Back from the Dead", a convoluted, messy storyline in which a generic celebrity comes back from the dead and joins the team.

* ExecutiveMeddling:
** The new name was mandated due to Marvel fearing that they would have to pay royalties to Creator/RobLiefeld for the use of the name ''X-Force''.
** Marvel shot down "Di Another Day", a storyline that would have featured Princess Di coming back from the dead and joining the team, because of outrage from the United Kingdom... after Milligan and Allred had already done much of the scripting and art for it. Consequently, the arc was hastily cobbled into "Back from the Dead", a convoluted, messy storyline in which a generic celebrity comes back from the dead and joins the team.

* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: [[spoiler:Peter Milligan bloodily slaughtered all the surviving team members in the book's final issue. Not that this stopped him from revisiting some of them for a miniseries set in the afterlife]].

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is loaded with references to early 00's culture, including a reality TV-based team made up of members chosen by the viewers, X-Statix frequently engaging in foreign military interventions, and Vivisector and Phat coming out as gay in order to get more fans.

** Marvel shot down "Di Another Day", a storyline that would have featured Princess Di coming back from the dead and joining the team, because of outrage from the United Kingdom. Instead, readers got "Back from the Dead", a convoluted, messy storyline in which a generic celebrity comes back from the dead and joins the team.

* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: [[spoiler:Peter Milligan bloodily slaughtered all the surviving team members in the book's final issue. Not that this stopped him from revisiting some of them for a miniseries set in the afterlife]].

* ExecutiveMeddling: Marvel shot down "Di Another Day", a storyline that would have featured Princess Di coming back from the dead and joining the team, because of outrage from the United Kingdom. Instead, readers got "Back from the Dead", a convoluted, messy storyline in which a generic celebrity comes back from the dead and joins the team.

* ArtistDisillusionment: A frequent theme in this series.
** In "Moons of Venus", Guy's superhuman sensitivity grows at the same time that he's dealing with the fallout from [[spoiler:Lacuna publically revealing that he had her kill off Fanboy X]]. He doesn't handle it well, and it doesn't help that a lunatic called "Bad Guy" starts appearing.
** Tike's stand-alone issue has him becoming the leader and utterly hating it, and becoming uncomfortable with the fact that the team is frequently sent out to kill dark-skinned terrorists.
** Dead Girl's stand-alone issue has her coming to grips with the fact that being in the spotlight means she might actually be held responsible for the behavior of her more deranged fans. It's further complicated by the fact that her powers give her responsibilities to her fellow deceased that sometimes conflict with her responsibilities to the team.
** A two-part arc had Myles become disillusioned with being known as the gay wolfman with the hair-trigger temper, and his extreme attempts to remedy that situation.

* In "Moons of Venus", Guy's superhuman sensitivity grows at the same time that he's dealing with the fallout from [[spoiler:Lacuna publically revealing that he had her kill off Fanboy X]]. He doesn't handle it well, and it doesn't help that a lunatic called "Bad Guy" starts appearing.
* Tike's stand-alone issue has him becoming the leader and utterly hating it, and becoming uncomfortable with the fact that the team is frequently sent out to kill dark-skinned terrorists.
* Dead Girl's stand-alone issue has her coming to grips with the fact that being in the spotlight means she might actually be held responsible for the behavior of her more deranged fans. It's further complicated by the fact that her powers give her responsibilities to her fellow deceased that sometimes conflict with her responsibilities to the team.
* A two-part arc had Myles become disillusioned with being known as the gay wolfman with the hair-trigger temper, and his extreme attempts to remedy that situation.

* ScheduleSlip: After Marvel vetoed "Di Another Day", Milligan and Allred were forced to rework it into the arc called "Back from the Dead". The resultant delays were a major factor in the book's dropping sales and eventual cancellation.