Not to be mistaken with the X-Hunters from the games, since there are both good and evil versions of them. This page is about the good ones. Note: the folders appear in order of their appearance.
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In General
- Adaptational Heroism: The team is mostly made of (former) Mavericks.
- The Atoner/Must Make Amends: They're one big collective group who either are or feel responsible for the Maverick Wars, and their long-term plan is to end it.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The only ones that never end up like this are X, Dr. Cain (justified in his case since he's a human), Alia and Cadis.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Each of the members has at least one sin.
Dr. Cain
An Archeobotanist who discovered X and used his design to produce Reploids, robots able to think for themselves. When they started going Maverick, he helped to form the Maverick Hunters.
- Ascended Extra: He has a bigger role and appears more often in X Chronicles than in the games.
- The Atoner: To a small degree, at least, compared to Zero. He was a painful subversion: every attempt he makes to rectify that mistake, only made things ''worse: Repliforce, Dr. Doppler, Sigma and the Cain Antivirus. At least joining the X-Hunters, helping the cyborgs and making Signas vice-commander of the Maverick Hunters (despite not knowing he actually gives this possition to Sigma) weren't bad moves.
- The Mentor: One to both X and Zero. He acts as one to Sigma before Sigma went Maverick.
- Name of Cain: Although he's not evil, his attempts to copy Dr. Light's research has ended in disaster.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Despite his field of study being old weeds, Cain could still reverse engineer X's design to create Reploids. This reverse engineering was physically sound, but he then subverts this trope when he neglects Light's warning about morally testing the new reploids.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Cain had good intentions in creating the Reploids from X's design, but not being skilled enough to recreate him 100% and not doing the morality testing resulted in the Mavericks. He then created Sigma to lead the Maverick Hunters, only for the virus in Zero to turn Sigma into humanity's biggest threat in history. And just for extra measure, his formation of the Repliforce for military police work to take stress off the Maverick Hunters also backfired into a full-on war.
Deepfreeze/Chill Penguin
Deepfreeze is a member of Unit 32. In reality, however, he's Chill Penguin, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War.
- Breath Weapon: Can breathe an icy wind to create ice statues that block X's shots. He also fires small icicles and Shotgun Ices from his mouth.
- An Ice Person: Shoots ice shards, can summon a snowstorm, and creates ice sculptures.
- Logical Weakness: Ice Reploid doesn't take well to fire-based weapon. Penguin On Fire is the result.
- My God, What Have I Done?: His sin is killing Alia's unit.
- The Napoleon: Is known for terrorizing Mavericks.
- Recursive Ammo: If Shotgun Ice hits a wall, 5 icicles will fan out from the impact point.
- Shaping Your Attacks: He can create ice copies of himself to be sicced at enemies or act as barriers to block enemy attacks.
- Slide Attack: As Chill Penguin.
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: He's fought in a base in a snowy mountain.
- Utility Weapon: Charging his Shotgun Ice will give X a temporary ice slide which he can slide on.
- Weak to Fire: As an ice-based Reploid, he doesn't take too well to the Fire Wave, taking extra damage and even catching fire when hit by it.
Airstrike/Storm Eagle
Airstrike is a member of unit 14 and the most skilled pilot of the Maverick Hunters. In reality, however, he's Storm Eagle, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War.
- Adaptational Villainy: He appears to show no problem being a Maverick... until it turns out he was just Brainwashed and Crazy.
- Airborne Mook: Fights in the sky and is an excellent pilot.
- Arm Cannon: Uses it to fire his Storm Tornado attack.
- Bird People: Was a humanoid avian robot.
- Blow You Away: The Storm Tornado.
- Cool Airship: Being a pilot, he needs one.
- Feathered Fiend: Originally.
- High-Altitude Battle: He mostly battles using or onto an airship.
- Logical Weakness: As agile and graceful as he is, even he can't outrun a laser attack.
- Additionally, birds hate thorns due to being unable to perch on them.
- Noble Bird of Prey: At first.
- Tornado Move: Storm Tornado.
- Winged Humanoid: Originally, he had six limbs: two wings, two arms, two legs.
Inferno/Flame Mammoth
Inferno is a member of unit 14. In reality, however, he's Flame Mammoth, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He shows no Bad Boss tendencies outside the time he's Brainwashed and Crazy, and no animosity towards Deepfreeze.
- Arm Cannon/Fire-Breathing Weapon: He shoots his Fire Wave from his right arm. So does X.
- Conveyor Belt of Doom: Where he fought X.
- Cruel Elephant: While Brainwashed and Crazy, seen when he enslaves some people. According to X, he was once a Honorable Elephant.
- Eternal Engine: He takes over a weapons factory, with lots of "junk" robots being carried around on belts and lots of molten metal pool.
- Honorable Elephant: Was once this according to X. See Adaptational Nice Guy above.
- Logical Weakness: Fire gets blown away by wind.
- Playing with Fire: Shoots fireballs at enemies that ignite if they hit an oil patch.
Shimmer/Sting Chameleon
Shimmer is a member of unit 14. In reality, however, he's Sting Chameleon, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War.
- Birds of a Feather: He considers himself and the cyborgs to be this. He ain't wrong, considering he once was infected.
- Confusion Fu: He often uses surprise attacks.
- Energy Weapon: Chameleon Sting shoots green laser beams.
- Green and Mean: [[spoilers: When he was Brainwashed and Crazy. He becomes more heroic later on.]]
- Hollywood Chameleons: His camouflage is nearly perfect, only distorting the wall behind him.
- Invisibility: Blends into the background to vanish. He also can make other things invisible, like Airstrike's airship.
- Jungle Japes: He's in a jungle with a small swamp near the end.
- Light 'em Up: His Chameleon Sting is a spread of high-level optical laser beams.
- Light Is Not Good: Has light based abilities (invisibility cloak), a light based weapon (see above), and was one of the villains. Gets turned into Light Is Good once he joins the X-Hunters.
- Lizard Folk: Once was a chameleon.
- Logical Weakness: Hanging by the tongue makes him vulnerable to a cutting weapon.
- Overly-Long Tongue: As Sting Chameleon.
- Ship Tease: He gets this with Victoria the Cyborg.
- Spread Shot: His Chameleon Sting shoots in three directions.
Alia
A navigator among the Maverick Hunters. She was once on field duty until her unit was killed by Chill Penguin, prompting her to become a Navigator.
- Action Girl: She's less capable of kicking ass as most Hunters do, but she did kick the asses of Bit and Byte.
- Adaptational Expansion: Unlike the games, Alia's time with the Maverick Hunters before being a Navigator is explained here. She was trained by Flame Stag.
- Age-Gap Romance: Although both are physically the same age, Alia is 100 years younger than X.
- Badass Bookworm: She was a researcher in Reploid engineering before joining the Maverick Hunters. Downplayed since she couldn't take out Chill Penguin or Flame Stag without X's help, but she did kick Bit and Byte out of Maverick Hunter HQ.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Alia has a background as a Reploid researcher before joining the Maverick Hunters.
- Hartman Hips
- Mission Control/Voice with an Internet Connection: She provides hints and strategies to the Maverick Hunters during missions.
- Official Couple: She's X's Love Interest.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her armor parts are composed mainly of this color.
- Took a Level in Badass: Flame Stag's training finally paid off when Alia kicked the ass of Bit and Byte.
Overload/Spark Mandrill
Overload is a member of unit 32. In reality, however, he's Spark Mandrill, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War.
- Anti-Armor: His Electric Spark can break through Armored Armadillo's polarized armor.
- Eternal Engine: A different one from Flame Mammoth, he is set in a power plant that experiences rolling blackouts.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Has large arms.
- Human Popsicle: More like "Mandrill Popsicle" at first, but This is what happens if he is hit by his weakness weapon.
- Killer Gorilla: At first he was more of killer mandrill.
- Logical Weakness: Mandrills live in tropical climates, thus hating the cold.
- Shock and Awe
Barrel/Armored Armadillo
Barrel is a member of unit 53. In reality, however, he's Armored Armadillo, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War.
- Alliterative Name: Before he rechristened himself as Barrel.
- Energy Ball: The weapon X got from him.
- Deflector Shields: Its charged version.
- Logical Weakness: All of his armor is polarized, so it can be shorted out by a high-powered electrical charge, leaving him vulnerable.
- Minecart Madness: He is set in an Abandoned Mine.
- Wild West Armadillo: At first.
Depthcharge/ Launch Octopus
Depthcharge was a member of unit 14. In reality, he's Launch Octopus, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War. After Doppler Effect, he quitted the Maverick Hunters in order to live peacefully with a human named Jessica.
- Combat Tentacles: Before joining the X-Hunters.
- Fish People: More an octopus-person.
- Homing Projectile: His homing fish (the Homing Torpedo).
- Like a Son to Me: Jessica is like a daughter to him, so it's no surprise the reason he quitted the Maverick Hunters is to stay with her. While he told her that he acts like this because he promised Launch Octopus to, he actually is Launch Octopus, and he promised Jessica's grandfather to take care of her.
- Logical Weakness: All of his homing weaponry doesn't do any good against a weaponized full-body shield.
- Under the Sea: Was fought underwater.
Quickman/ Boomer Kuwanger
Quickman is a member of unit 53. In reality, however, he's Boomer Kuwanger, one of the Mavericks in the first Maverick War.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: See Humans Are Bastards below.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Originally, he resembled a stag beetle, as his name implied.
- Boomerang Comeback: His Boomerang Cutter works this way.
- Expy: Of Robot Masters Cut Man and Quick Man. Exaggerated with the latter, as his disguised form not only is named after him, but also bears a strong resemblance to him.
- Humans Are Bastards: He thought this about them because they abused him. He was willing to forgive them thanks to Dr. Cain, but The Virus made him change his mind.
- Japanese Beetle Brothers: With Gravity Beetle.
- Logical Weakness: His fast speed can't help him dodge a homing projectile.
- Super-Speed: He's an extremely fast Reploid.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one seems to question why a Reploid looking and having the same name as a Wily robot is a Maverick Hunter and close friends with X, a Light robot. Well, no one other than Zero, but he himself is a Maverick Hunter Wily robot that's friends with X, and when he did question, Quickman told him to brush it off.
Signas/Sigma Enigma
Cadis
Tripwire/Wire Sponge
Spikesaw/Wheel Gator
Turbo/Overdrive Ostrich
Snapvice/Bubble Crab
Pyrostrike/Flame Stag
Blast Squirrel/Morph Moth
Mapteron/Magna Centipede
Warp Turtle/Crystal Snail
Iris
One of the Navigators of the Maverick Hunters and Zero's Love Interest.
- Adaptational Origin Connection: It was Gate who created her.
- Cain and Abel: She's Abel, with Colonel/High Max as Cain.
- Easily Forgiven: Zero forgave her without a second thought for fighting him. It helps that Zero himself believes their fight is entirely his fault.
- Foil: To her brother, Colonel. While Iris was created without combat experience (although she does get some, and she used it pretty well), she's an absolute sweetheart who accepts her mistakes and even puts all the blame on herself if something bad happens and a mistake of hers was involved. Colonel, a warrior Reploid, is a prideful Jerkass who never accepts his mistakes.
- It's All My Fault: She believes that her near-death experience in the Repliforce incident is entirely her fault.
- Official Couple: With Zero, duh.
- Spared By Adaptation: One of the most important divergences from canon.
- Token Good Teammate: She's the one of Gate's creations who is an unambiguously good person.
- Took a Level in Badass: In "Fall of X", Iris manages to fare pretty well against High Max. This says a lot for a Reploid that wasn't created to fight.
- Voice with an Internet Connection
