YMMV / X-Statix

• Arc Fatigue: 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 Schedule Slips and turned what might have been a short arc into a long, drawn-out mess.
• Complete Monster (originally in X-Force (Milligan & Allred): Spike Freeman, the "Trillion-Dollar Man", is a technology mogul and producer of the X-Statix reality TV show. A firm believer in 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 Arms Dealer and smuggler, with among his greatest successes in this regard being the sale of chemical WMDs to dictator Saddam Hussein; 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.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Doop. Even other writers like him!
  • Edith "Edie" Sawyer/U-Go Girl was a fan-favorite. This is probably why she was killed off.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: 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 Astonishing X-Men, in which a cure for mutation is made widely available. And of course, a year or two later, 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.
• Tear Jerker: 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.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A lot of "Liefeld-style" (angst, anger, guns, and innuendo) X-Force fans refused to have anything to do with X-Statix.
• Unintentional Period Piece: 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.
• Wangst: Guy Smith's wangsty-ness is carried over from X-Force (Milligan & Allred).

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