While infiltrating Singularity's headquarters, Siryn is once again shot in the throat with a tranquilizer dart by Damian Tryp. However, Siryn reveals that she learned from the last time Tryp ambushed her and wore a kevlar collar.
Layla pulling off a hell of a Batman Gambit by causing a traffic jam to impede the movement of two Singularity Investigations henchmen and freeing Alix Buchanan from their grasp while they're distracted.
In Issue #20, the X-Cell are in Quicksilver's apartment when the ground starts shaking. At first, Quicksilver assumes it is an unconscious Rictor's powers acting up. Then Elijah looks out the window and sees an army of Madrox dupes with garbage can lids with the letter "M" on them. Madrox points out that the dupes are united by their desire to avenge a dupe that was killed and the attempted murder of Theresa. Even better, the army of dupes is actually a distraction so Layla could sneak into the clinic and play the recording that reveals that Scarlet Witch caused M-Day and Quicksilver was covering for her.
When Rictor uses Quicksilver's own Terrigen crystals against him, getting the chance to use his powers for just one moment. Talk about piling on the angst.
In Issue #24, Layla kills Nicole, Huber's spy, by pretending to pick up a penny and tripping her into the path of an oncoming train.
Issue #31: Arcade tricking the X-Factor team into thinking he is a robot.
Issue #32: Following the destruction of Mutant Town by Arcade and Taylor, X-Factor are offered two choices by Val Cooper - go into witness protection or join the government as agents. They choose neither and go into hiding, leaving a message for Val that self-destructs after 30 seconds. Five months later, Val tracks down Jamie in Detroit and let's him no in know uncertain terms that his stunt did not scare her at all.
In Issue #40, Jamie talks a gunman out of shooting two people by describing in exact detail what happens when you shoot someone.
In Issue #41, John Madrox, a dupe of Jamie's who became a priest, takes out an assassin sent to kill him.
Monet punching Cortex, an evil dupe of Jamie's, so hard that Jamie Prime can feel it—80 years into the future.
Prior to that, her managing to ram through a future model of Sentinel in the middle of a Freak Out.
The elderly Doom proves just how dangerous he still is when he meets the Cyclops of his timeline. Cyclops says that he doesn't approve of Doom being around but will tolerate it and tells Doom to stay out of his way. Doom responds with, "As you wish" and the next thing we see is Cyclops being sent flying away from Doom and landing on a beach next to Layla who sarcastically asks him how it went.
The elderly version of Doctor Doom managing to effortlessly override Cortex's systems in a matter of seconds. Even when's he's senile, Doom is Doom.
Falcone's plan is this in concept if not execution. He attacked Mutants with Sentinels that they were able to destroy with surprising ease. However, it turns out those Sentinels where loaded with specially-charged hadron particles that clung to any nearby Mutants. Falcone's plan was to open a time vortex that would suck in every Mutant loaded with hadron particles. Fortunately, Fitzroy and Ruby are able to stop that plan by distracting Falcone and opening up another portal to send Falcone and Cortex to the past.
Issue #204 has the Mutant Response Division running a simulation in which they stage a direct assault on X-Factor headquarters and it ends up in disaster for the MRD. They only succeed in killing Rictor which just pisses off Shatterstar who proceeds to slaughter the ground troops with ease while dodging enemy fire. Then Madrox gets his hands on one of their guns and makes duplicates of himself and the gun he's holding. When they try to bring in a tank, Siryn shows up. The fight then attracts the attention of numerous other superheroes in the Marvel Universe.
Issue #205:
The MRD have ambushed Theresa at the Dublin Airport. As they are about to execute her, Shatterstar and Layla come to her rescue.
MRD member: Orders are: No one walks away.
Shatterstar: Yes. By all means, no one walk away. Instead... Run. Run, very, very quickly.
Layla: Or, y'know, don't. I'm good either way.
Issue #204 ended with Jamie seemingly being killed. Issue #205 reveals that it was actually Darwin in disguise.
Rictor continues to prove he is still useful without his powers. Not only did he create the holographic disguise Darwin used but he also gathered intel on the MRD through use of disguise. He also claims that if given time he'd have programmed a hologram that could drive a car.
The above two moments would not have been possible if Jamie hadn't been smart enough to have Longshot use his Psychometry on the money the Absorbing Man gave them to follow his wife Titania and see that the whole thing was a set up by the MRD.
The end to issue #206, which brings the whole team back together in one glorious fight against the MRD/Bolivar Trask. Not just that but for the first time in the entire series, Madrox's dupes work as one, when normally, you could almost count on the dupe Jamie producing whilst in a fight being a pacifist, Jerkass, self-loathing or just generally unhelpful.
When the MRD locate X-Factor in Jamie's safehouse:
Trask: Attention, X-Factor! Come out immediately and spare yourself unnecessary conflict! A conflict that you will certainly lose. We have the superior weapons, the superior firepower, the superior numbers.
Jamie: Oh yeah? Count again!
Layla shows how powerful the device Dr Doom gave her is by using it to create a shield that destroys the Dread-X's saw.
In Issue #207, Monet subverts Honor Before Reason by using her telepathy to make Mordo think she'd let him drain her as she promised to do if he'd saved her, Guido and her father from the Mutant Response Division.
Issue #211 has Jamie, Guido, Theresa, Darwin, Longshot and Shatterstar staring down an army of undead Vikings and remaining Defiant to the End. Fortunately for them, Thor comes to their rescue.
In Issue #212, Jamie provokes Hela into attacking him and then has Darwin stand in the way of her attack. The result? Darwin evolves to become a death god himself and commands Hela's horde to kill her.
Issue #217:
The issue features an anti-immigrant protest. Monet, who is both Muslim and a Mutant, shows up to the protest and her mere presence completely silences the crowd. Granted, it's somewhat undercut by Guido mistaking it for an I Am Spartacus moment.
Joe Quesada of all people, got one in Real Life because of the Shatterstar and Rictor relationship. How? Shatterstar's creator, Rob Liefeld went on Twitter after the characters kissed, and said "As the guy that created, designed and wrote his first dozen appearances, Shatterstar is not gay. Sorry. Can't wait to someday undo this. Seems totally contrived". Quesada's CMOA came when he responded "If Rob wants to publicly disagree with that, that's his right, and I respect that. But if Rob is intending on flipping what Peter has written, he will have to wait to discuss that with the next Editor-in-Chief."
Longshot wanders away from the team in Vegas. They find him several hours later in a casino he's well on the way to bankrupting. Apparently, he's even too lucky to be caught and thrown out by security.
Longshot catching all of his knives as they are thrown at him by Polaris who is suffering a mental breakdown.
Issue #246 shows how Pip the Troll keeps X-Factor afloat without them even knowing it:
A woman comes to him hoping to do a séance so she can contact her dead husband. Pip reveals that the man is actually alive having faked his death and is hiding out in the Bahamas. Unlike most of their other jobs, Pip makes sure he is paid for this one.
When a team of assassins from the Friends of Humanity attack the building, Pip defeats them using a portable worm hole generator he got from the space equivalent of a practical joke shop.
Issue #249:
Jamie arriving with an army of dupes to X-Factor's battle against the demons. Especially awesome is that Jamie decides to fight alongside them personally, not letting them do all the dirty work.
Rictor killing Vera, the demon who shot Pip, by focusing his vibratory powers onto her and making her head explode.
Later, Tier is able to scare Satanna into retreating.
Satanna goes to the prison where the other hell lords are held by Mephisto only to see that Tier has killed them all. He kills her too.
All New X-Factor
Pietro choosing X-Factor over the Avengers.
In the same issue, Pietro admitting on camera to all the horrible things he's done recently, and that it was wrong after Fatale crashes the press conference.
Lorna standing up for Pietro when Harrison considers firing him after the above. He backs down, albeit reluctantly.
Danger manages to take apart one of the most feared of the Egyptian gods single-handedly: Ammut, The Devourer of Souls. She utterly annihilates it so terribly- even causing it physical pain (which is a feat for anyone in the Marvel Universe who isn't god-tier)- that it would rather retreat back to Duat (the Egyptian Underworld) than face her.
what happens when you shoot someone.
