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Volume 2

  • Just after a big fight, Polaris (in the usual skintight spandex) is complaining about being banged up.
    Strong Guy: Try stretching your arms over your head and arching your back.
    Polaris: How's this supposed to help me?
    Strong Guy: It isn't, but it's doing wonders for me.
  • Another funny moment:
    Bystander: Thank you for coming so quickly.
    Multiple Man: Well, it was hard to miss that big "X" you shined on passing clouds.
    Quicksilver: Ignore him. We all do.
  • During an attempted reconciliation with Crystal, Pietro briefly leads her to believe he's coming out of the closet. He's actually attempting to explain he's seeing a psychiatrist. She initially thought he was having an affair with polaris as he referenced seeing someone with green hair (it was actually Doc Samson). When he said "he", that was when the confusion really set in.

Volume 3

  • Issue #3:
    • Terry is having what sounds like a very intense dream about Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson when she is awoken by Layla turning on her alarm and causing her to scream in shock.
    Jamie: Ah. Terry. You're awake.
    Terry: What was your first clue, Master Detective?
    Jamie: All my Star Wars collectible glasses are broken.
    Terry: Good. Grow up.
    • While using her Compelling Voice on an officer to allow her and Jamie to see a crime scene, Terry utters the phrase "Faith and Beggora" for which Jamie wastes no opportunity ribbing her for.
    Jamie: Faith and Beggora?
    Terry: Don't start.
    Jamie: What, did someone swipe your Lucky Charms?
    Terry: I was in the moment. I said don't start.
    Jamie: Wanna borrow my Irish Spring? It's manly, yes, but you'd like it too...
    Terry: That's it. You're walking home.
  • Issue #15: While being held by Hydra, Jamie gives this little gem in response to their "Cut off a limb and two more shall take its place" mantra.
    Wow. Must be tough to find shirts that fit if that keeps happening.
    • Jamie has a field day when he learns he is being taken to Dr Locke.
    Jamie: You're kidding? "Doc Locke"? I'm in shock.
    Diaz: Now.
    Jamie: Bet he's a crock.
    Diaz: Faster!
    Jamie: What, you don't want to hear me mock Doc Locke?
  • Issue #18:
    • Rictor is being questioned by the police about a contact. He finally gives up the name "Robert", describing him as having a pointy nose, a rectangular face, wide eyes, and yellowish skin. The cop comments that "Robert" sounds like a druggie, and the other guy agrees, saying he claims to live under the sea... in a pineapple. The cop remains clueless (and another one, upon finding out, pegs him as not having any kids and gripes that now that song is going to stick in her head all day).
    • Some of the recap pages for the issues are very funny but the one for issue #18 especially so for its hilarious use of alliteration:
    Jamie Madrox, desperately dealing with the death of a Detroit detective dupe, discovers that Mutant Town is under serious siege by squadrons of awesomely armed avatars. Why, you worriedly wonder? It is explained that an excess of ex-Mutants called the X-Cell have expressed exasperation with the government, completely convinced that the catastrophic mutant power outage was a perfidious, unpardonable presidential plot.
  • After a horrifically trying day brought on by Arcade, Val Cooper and Jamie return to X-Factor investigations, and are answered at the door by a twitchy Rictor armed with a gun.
    Rictor: She's a robot, Madrox! Look at those eyes! Dead and soulless!
    Rictor: Oh, right.
  • In Issue #22, Monet and Terry are trying to rescue some kids from a cult and end up being knocked out by mercenaries charged with protecting said kids. This prompts Monet to complain about how injury-prone Terry is.
    Monet: You're Irish for God's sake. Aren't you people supposed to have all the luck?
  • In Issue #28, Rahne is leaving and Monet says she bought her an iPhone. Rahne is touched by this only for Monet to ruin the moment by saying that since Rahne is leaving she won't be needed and crushes the phone.
  • In Issue #29, Theresa is trying to tell Jamie that she is pregnant when they are interrupted. Theresa looks at her stomach and says, "Don't worry, kid. I'm sure I'll manage to tell him before you graduate high school".
  • In Issue #33, Jamie's narration states that Detroit gets an undeserved bad rap and that tarring an entire city with the same brush is unfair. He then goes on to state that Portland, Cleveland and New Jersey deserve their bad reputations.
  • Issue #35:
    • The real Longshot shows up at X-Factor's new headquarters and Guido attacks him thinking he's a Skrull in disguise. Longshot explains - in a rather confusing way - that if he were a Skrull, it wouldn't make sense for him to use the same disguise on the same people twice after being found out by them.
    • Rictor makes the same mistake as Guido when he sees Longshot. Guido hands him a piece of paper with a simple explanation of Longshot's answer written on it by Terry. Rictor still remains somewhat confused.
  • Issue #37:
    • Jamie, Longshot, Guido and Monet are in a warehouse looking for Darwin. The guys step on some loose ground and fall through a hole.
    Guido: What the hell?
    Guido: Oh, you think? Gee, and here I thought we just fell through a plot hole?
    • When Monet suffers Clothing Damage from an explosion, Jamie makes one of his dupes give her his clothes.
  • Issue #46 - Three Omeganoid Sentinels are sent from the future by Trevor Fitzroy while Cortex is trying to use Monet to kill Theresa. The Sentinels immediately try to kill Monet and Theresa much to Cortex's amusing frustration.
    Cortex: This is like an assassination undertaken by committee. No one's clearing anything with anyone else.
  • Issue #47
    • John Madrox has been the victim of two assassination attempts and notices the common thread of both of them happening after X-Factor personnel show up.
    • Darwin is trying to get back to Lenore Wilkinson when he gets hit by the remains of a Sentinel Theresa had just destroyed.
    Darwin: Come join X-Factor... Fight the good fight... We're low-key... No giant robots... Riiiiight...
  • Issue #200:
    Ben: Seriously? What, are they comin' up with names by just slappin' words together now? Why not Sassyspam? Or Dizzyduck? Or Helmethair? Okay, that one works, but still...
  • In Issue #204, Jamie, Longshot, Darwin and Rictor are holed up in a safehouse to hide from the Mutant Response Division. Longshot is optimistic despite their lack of numbers compared to the MRD and Rictor sarcastically asks him to use some of his luck to get them reinforcements. At that precise moment, Layla, Shatterstar and Siryn come driving through one of Shatterstar's portals while Monet, her father, Guido and Baron Mordo appear through a portal Mordo summoned. A smug Longshot quips, "Any other requests?".
  • Issue #209:
    • The issue opens with Shatterstar challenging some pirate show actors to a fight thinking they are real pirates.
    • Jamie's reaction to Rahne being pregnant.
    Jamie: Yes, Rictor, I figured. Either that or she's become part python and is digesting a shih tzu.
    • When Rictor asks asks if Jamie or one of his dupes got Rahne pregnant, Rahne finally wakes up and says there isn't enough liquor in the world to make her sleep with Jamie.
    • Theresa's own reaction to Rahne being pregnant.
    Theresa: So help me Madrox, if one of your dupes-
  • In Issue #213, Madrox is reaching to open the door saying at least they didn't bring Pip with them (after they teleported and left him in Vegas), *SLAM!* Pip slams the door on Madrox's face from the other side and quips that he can teleport too.
  • The recap page of Issue #219 mentions how Peter David once wandered around WonderCon in San Francisco for two days and no one recognized him because he was dressed as The Green Hornet.
  • A ghostly Feral's snarking about how the more animal-based gods fighting over Rhane's child are easily distracted... only to get distracted by a piece of string.
  • Layla silently covering the walls with salt, and the team reacting with indifference. Even better, Madrox explaining to the team what wards are, and that he knows because one of his dupes was a gopher on the set of Supernatural.
  • Layla's explanation for why magic wards won't get rid of Feral's ghost: They're designed to ward off threats. Feral, meanwhile, is just "an annoyance".
  • Issue #227 has Longshot asking the Hangman if he had anything to do with David Carradine's death.
  • In issue #233, Jamie reveals to Pip the Troll that he is Back from the Dead. Pip's response? "Whatever. Don't bother me when I'm on a porn site".
  • Issue #234:
    • Guido's reaction, or rather lack thereof, to Jamie being alive.
    Guido: I don't get you people. Why does anyone act surprised anymore when stuff like this happens?
    • When everyone gives Jamie a group hug, Jamie feels someone grabbing his butt. Apparently, it was his dupe much to Jamie's disturbance.
    • When she thinks Layla brought Jamie back to life, an enraged Monet carries her to the top of the Empire State Building and then scares off the crowd so she and Layla can talk in private.
    Monet: I'm your worst nightmare, people! I'm a super strong Muslim Mutant with pms! So back the hell off!
    • Monet demands answers from Layla who decides to troll her by reminding Monet that she told her to shut up. Monet yells at her to shut up again and then realizes what she just said and tells Layla to talk.
  • Issue #235 has Shatterstar and Jamie going undercover to see who is killing wannabe superheroes. Shatterstar is wearing the head gear from his X-Force days and one of the wannabe heroes suggests adding shoulder pads would be a better idea.
  • Issue #238 has Monet and Polaris discussing the possibility of Longshot, who was put in a coma two issues ago, remaining in that state possibly forever. The Longshot casually strolls by.

All-New X-Factor

  • Warlock freaking out after Danger brings up sexual intercourse
    Warlock: She wants sexual intercourse. Self will be leaving the planet now.
    • The awkwardness that ensues after Gambit kisses Lorna in that same issue.
  • Gambit and Cypher arguing over whether or not the first Star Trek movie counts while discussing transporter failures in the middle of a fight.
  • Polaris giving her sister the Scarlet Witch her first ever beer. The latter not only chugs it down, but she ends up liking it and chugs down a few more.
    Scarlet Witch: Can I have another beer?
    Polaris: You're not supposed to drink five in a half-hour.
    Scarlet Witch: But it's really good.
    • Made even funnier when they have to stop an attempted murder, and Wanda starts yawning in the middle of the fight.


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