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* CompleteMonster (originally in ''ComicBook/XForce'' Vol. 1): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Spike Freeman]], the "[[Fiction500 Trillion-Dollar Man]]", is a technology mogul and producer of the X-Statix reality TV show. A firm believer in [[IfItBleedsItLeads getting ratings through sheer carnage]], Spike engineers disasters so that he can film the X-Statix stopping them, not caring in the slightest that this invariably results in gruesome ends for civilians and team members alike. Freeman is also an international ArmsDealer and smuggler, with among his greatest successes in this regard being the sale of chemical [=WMDs=] to dictator UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein; he has also deliberately worded the contracts for these deals to imply that the X-Statix members themselves were complicit, so that if he were ever brought down, he could take them with him. Freeman is so callous and selfish that his very last action before the Orphan kills him is to hire mass-murderer Mr. Code to murder former team member Lacuna to prevent her from releasing documents incriminating him.
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* CompleteMonster (originally in ''ComicBook/XForce'' Vol. 1): ''ComicBook/XForceMilliganAndAllred'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Spike Freeman]], the "[[Fiction500 Trillion-Dollar Man]]", is a technology mogul and producer of the X-Statix reality TV show. A firm believer in [[IfItBleedsItLeads getting ratings through sheer carnage]], Spike engineers disasters so that he can film the X-Statix stopping them, not caring in the slightest that this invariably results in gruesome ends for civilians and team members alike. Freeman is also an international ArmsDealer and smuggler, with among his greatest successes in this regard being the sale of chemical [=WMDs=] to dictator UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein; he has also deliberately worded the contracts for these deals to imply that the X-Statix members themselves were complicit, so that if he were ever brought down, he could take them with him. Freeman is so callous and selfish that his very last action before the Orphan kills him is to hire mass-murderer Mr. Code to murder former team member Lacuna to prevent her from releasing documents incriminating him.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The first arc has a scene set in suburban Los Angeles that includes a cameo from Creator/WoodyAllen. Allen is notorious for his hatred of LA.
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* 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.
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* CompleteMonster (originally in ''ComicBook/XForce'' Vol. 1): [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Spike Freeman]], the "[[Fiction500 Trillion-Dollar Man]]", is a technology mogul and producer of the X-Statix reality TV show. A firm believer in [[IfItBleedsItLeads getting ratings through sheer carnage]], Spike engineers disasters so that he can film the X-Statix stopping them, not caring in the slightest that this invariably results in gruesome ends for civilians and team members alike. Freeman is also an international ArmsDealer and smuggler, with among his greatest successes in this regard being the sale of chemical [=WMDs=] to dictator UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein; he has also deliberately worded the contracts for these deals to imply that the X-Statix members themselves were complicit, so that if he were ever brought down, he could take them with him. Freeman is so callous and selfish that his very last action before the Orphan kills him is to hire mass-murderer Mr. Code to murder former team member Lacuna to prevent her from releasing documents incriminating him.
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** Blink gained quite a fan following after a fairly short-lived existence in their mainstream storylines. She (or rather, her AlternateContinuity counterpart) got an upgraded role in the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse storyline. She was so popular that she survived the destruction of that universe and became a main character in the Exiles spinoff (though it took five years).
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A lot of "Liefeld-style"(angst, anger, guns, and innuendo) X-Force fans refused to have anything to do with X-Statix.
* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: although Milligan and Allred still did the ''Dead Girl'' spin-off mini afterwards.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A lot of "Liefeld-style"(angst, "Liefeld-style" (angst, anger, guns, and innuendo) X-Force fans refused to have anything to do with X-Statix.
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: although Milligan and Allred still did the ''Dead Girl'' spin-off mini afterwards.
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* {{Squick}}: Brad Gutman, the team's in-house mortician. He takes a little too much satisfaction in his work...
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The first arc has a scene set in suburban Los Angeles that includes a cameo from Creator/WoodyAllen. Allen is notorious for his hatred of LA.
* HilariousInHindsight: Towards the end of its run, the series had a two-part arc where Vivisector seeks a cure for his own powers and desperately seeks out the help of a disgraced scientist to do it. That same year saw the debut of ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', in which a cure for mutation is made widely available. And of course, a year or two later, [[ComicBook/HouseOfM the Decimation]] happened, stripping the vast majority of the world's mutant population of their powers.
* {{Squick}}: Brad Gutman, the team's in-house mortician. He takes a little too much satisfaction in his work... and ''way'' too much interest in his stepdaughter.
* HilariousInHindsight: Towards the end of its run, the series had a two-part arc where Vivisector seeks a cure for his own powers and desperately seeks out the help of a disgraced scientist to do it. That same year saw the debut of ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', in which a cure for mutation is made widely available. And of course, a year or two later, [[ComicBook/HouseOfM the Decimation]] happened, stripping the vast majority of the world's mutant population of their powers.
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* ArcFatigue: This is pretty much what killed the series. Marvel forced Milligan and Allred to turn the controversial "Di Another Day" into "Back From the Dead", a process that led to ScheduleSlips and turned what might have been a short arc into a long, drawn-out mess.
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* ArcFatigue: This is pretty much what killed the series. Marvel forced Milligan and Allred to turn the controversial "Di Another Day" into "Back From the Dead", a process that led to ScheduleSlips Schedule Slips and turned what might have been a short arc into a long, drawn-out mess.
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* JumpingTheShark: The "Back From The Dead" arc. Originally, it was going to be "Di Another Day", a scathing parody of Britain's worship of Princess Diana and the insane conspiracy theories surrounding her death, with her returning from the dead to prove that the conspiracy theories were true. Marvel apparently feared that sternly-worded letters might be sent in their direction, and thus forced Milligan and Allred to rewrite the story. Di became Henrietta Hunter, a wholly fictional generic celebrity that nobody had ever heard of or cared about, the arc was yet another generic, ultraviolent parody of celebrity worship, and the series died soon after.
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* TearJerker: After being accused of being a bad influence on young women, Dead Girl tries to talk one particularly troubled fan out of going on a shooting spree. It doesn't end well, and the misguided fan gets shot by a police sniper.
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* TearJerker: After being accused of being a bad influence on young women, Dead Girl tries to talk one particularly troubled fan out of going on a shooting spree. It doesn't end well, and the misguided fan gets shot by a police sniper.
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* ArcFatigue: This is pretty much what killed the series. Marvel forced Milligan and Allred to turn the controversial "Di Another Day" into "Back From the Dead", a process that led to ScheduleSlips and turned what might have been a short arc into a long, drawn-out mess.
* JumpingTheShark: The "Back From The Dead" arc. Originally, it was going to be "Di Another Day", a scathing parody of Britain's worship of Princess Diana and the insane conspiracy theories surrounding her death, with her returning from the dead to prove that the conspiracy theories were true. Marvel apparently feared that sternly-worded letters might be sent in their direction, and thus forced Milligan and Allred to rewrite the story. Di became Henrietta Hunter, a wholly fictional generic celebrity that nobody had ever heard of or cared about, the arc was yet another generic, ultraviolent parody of celebrity worship, and the series died soon after.
* Wangst: Guy Smith's wangsty-ness is carried over from ''ComicBook/XForce''.
* JumpingTheShark: The "Back From The Dead" arc. Originally, it was going to be "Di Another Day", a scathing parody of Britain's worship of Princess Diana and the insane conspiracy theories surrounding her death, with her returning from the dead to prove that the conspiracy theories were true. Marvel apparently feared that sternly-worded letters might be sent in their direction, and thus forced Milligan and Allred to rewrite the story. Di became Henrietta Hunter, a wholly fictional generic celebrity that nobody had ever heard of or cared about, the arc was yet another generic, ultraviolent parody of celebrity worship, and the series died soon after.
* Wangst: Guy Smith's wangsty-ness is carried over from ''ComicBook/XForce''.
