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Weapon X-Men is a 2024 comic book series from Marvel Comics. It's written by Christos Gage with art by Yildiray Çinar and color art by Nolan Woodard.
Weapon X-Men includes examples of the following tropes:
- Alternate Universe:
- The one-handed "Age of Apocalypse" Wolverine is recruited from Earth-295
- According to captions, the zombified Wolverine is from Earth-2149
- According to captions, the "Earth X" Wolverine is from Earth-9997.
- Jane Howlett is from Earth-1281, and from over a century in the past (1909).
- Alliance of Alternates: The team is entirely composed of different versions of Wolverine.
- Amicable Exes: In issue #2, Jean Grey visits the home of her exe, Cyclops. He's married to Madelyne, and Logan to Mariko Yashida. At the start, everyone is on speaking terms.
- Big Bad: A Phoenix-infused Onslaught is the main threat the team of Wolverines is chasing after.
- Big Good: A middle-aged Jean Grey with Phoenix powers from Earth-80777 is guiding the Wolverine team across realities to hunt down Onslaught.
- The Bus Came Back: The Wolverine of the Earth X setting returns for the first time since 2002's Paradise X.
- Heroic BSoD: Old Man Logan completely shuts down after he's forced to kill an alternate Jubilee who's been assimilated into Onslaught's Hive Mind, as it's painfully similar to the way he was tricked into killing his own world's Jubilee.
- Hive Mind: Onslaught assimilates unwilling humans and mutants into a hive-mind, and it's strongly implied that there's jo way to save them and recover their individual identities once that happens.
- In Spite of a Nail: In issue #2, the team goes to Phoenix's home reality in their chase againt Onslaught, and are invited to Nathan Summers's wedding party to Amiko. Onslaught hides in Nathan's mind, Earth X's Wolverine cuts off his arm to sever the connection. Bleeding to death, Warlock uses a shard of itself to create a replacement arm for Nathan with its techno-organic virus. It appears that it is unavoidable that Cyclops and Madelyne's son will lose a human arm, regardless of reality.
- Mythology Gag: The series is filled to the brim with these, and Gage provides a listing of them all at the end of each issue.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In issue #3, on seeing Dracula and Selene vanishing, Zombie Wolverine wants to be bitten by the vampire, wondering if he could be a zombie and a vampire.
- Poorly Disguised Pilot: The series's premise was first presented in the one-shot The Original X-Men (2023), by Christos Gage and Greg Land.
- Shout-Out: In issue #2, an elderly Wolverine takes his children away from the Zombie Wolverine, and laments that he had them read too much Junji Ito.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: In issue #3, Zombie Wolverine goes in for the bite on mutant vampire Selene. The woman admires Zombie Wolverine's "intelligent plan" to infect her with his zombie state, so her powers are focused on curing the virus. Zombie Wolverine simply agrees to her assessment.
- What If?: The whole premise comes off as a knockoff of the What If? animated series; specifically the "What If... The Watcher Broke His Oath?" and "What If... Strange Supreme Intervened?" episodes, with Jean Grey in the role of the Watcher, all the multiple Wolverines in place of Captain Peggy Carter, and Onslaught playing like both Ultron and Strange Supreme.
- You Are Fat: Earth-X Wolverine is repeatedly the butt of fat jokes due to his poor physical condition, to the point Zombie Wolverine accuses him of deliberately being "a tease" with his gut constantly hanging out.
