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Characters that have appeared in [[X Factor]] series
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'''Caliban'''
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type I-V depending on which version the writer is using.
* [[Blood Knight]]
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: When he joined Apocalypse...
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Eventually became this after a convoluted series of events.
* [[Emotion Eater]]: Caliban feeds off fear as part of his mutant power
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
* [[Killed Off for Real]]
* [[Only One Name]]
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Subverted, he only joined the X-Factor because he felt that he was helpless to stop the Marauders from killing the Morlocks. Soon after, he [[Face Heel Turn|decided to join Apocalypse]] to make himself stronger.
* [[Third Person Person]]
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: When he was part of the MLF.
* [[The Cape (trope)]]: Originally Cyclops' protege, and stated to have to potential to become a significant leader/figure for mutantkind. He went to prison as part of a protest over the treatment of mutants.....and then he got put on the [[Put on a Bus|first of many buses]].
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
* [[Playing with Fire]]
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: This is the reason why her mutant powers had first activated
* [[Barrier Warrior]]
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: When she was part of the MLF.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Was considered "ugly" by the morlocks.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Artie
* [[Only One Name]]
* [[Power Nullifier]]: Leech has the ability to suppress energy around him, this includes electrical energy and a mutants ability.
* [[Progressively Prettier]]
* [[Third Person Person]]
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]
* [[Totally Radical]]
* [[Valley Girl]]
'''Julio Richter / Rictor'''
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The family business is selling weapons (and drugs) on the black market. He's less than proud of this and once worked to try to dismantle his family's business.
* [[Brought Down to Badass]]: Even though he has been depowered, he still earns his place as a member of [[X-Factor]].
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: By the [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Right]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: He used to have seismic powers until he got depowered on M-day. In Avengers: Children's Crusade #6, {{spoiler|he's the first mutant to have his powers restored by Wanda.}}
* [[Dude in Distress]]: Kidnapped nearly a dozen times so far.
* [[Electric Torture]]: One of the few details given about his torture by the Right.
* [[Family Business]]: The Richter family business? Selling weapons illegally, or "selling death", as he explains it.
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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: He seems to have a thing for them: Rahne, Shatterstar...
* [[Ho Yay]]: With Shatterstar; has since been made canon.
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Three so far — in the original X-Factor (#22), and in the current X-Factor (#1 and #38).
* [[Meaningful Name]]: His surname is Richter. He had {{spoiler|has once again}} earthquake powers. You do the math.
* [[Relationship Reveal]]: He and Shatterstar ''were'' [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]; recent events have chucked the 'heterosexual' bit.
* [[Smug Snake]]: The Age of Apocalypse version is this in spades.
* [[Straight Gay]]: It's been revealed that Rictor is not bi as previously assumed, but full-on gay, having found no fulfillment in his relationships with Rahne and Tabitha.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Held a grudge against Cable because of this, even after the [[Cloning Blues|truth]] came out.
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* [[The Woobie]]
== Villains ==
'''Cameron Hodge'''
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* [[Heel Face Brainwashing]]: In Eve of Destruction storyline, Jean Grey was desperate to find a new team, and quickly to save Professor Xavier. She acknowledges that one of Magneto's lieutenants, Frenzy, has been captured by the US Army. Not only does Jean enter her mind to get the info she needs on Genosha (Magneto's island) and its defenses, but she thinks that having a superpowered guide in that hellhole would be a good idea, so she just rewrites Frenzy's mind and makes her an X-Men enthusiast (so fanatically devoted to the X-Men cause, all of a sudden, that it was creepy).
* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]
* [[Scary Black Man|Scary Black Woman]]: A scary black woman...with muscles!
* [[Super Strength]]
'''Edward Pasternak / Tower'''
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'''Timeshadow'''
* [[Time Master]]
'''Dr. Nathaniel Essex / Mister Sinister'''
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See [[X-Men/Characters/Villains|X-Men]]
'''En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse'''
See [[X-Men/Characters/Villains|X-Men]]
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* [[Fun Personified]] (most likely under Peter David's writing)
* [[Me's a Crowd]]
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Jamie constantly uses his dupes like this, sending them out to learn and explore the world, creating them on the other side of locked doors, playing duets on piano and the super-babysitting.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]
* [[Starfish Character]]: Jamie Madrox has a mutant power that creates duplicates of himself upon physical impact. Each tends to manifest some aspect of his personality.
'''Guido Carosella / Strong Guy'''
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]
* [[Fun Personified]]
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Strong Guy has the power to absorb kinetic energy and redistribute it as super strength, but if he doesn't let it out soon enough, it has affects on his physiology (which is the reason for his... unique appearance).
* [[Super Strength]]
* [[The Big Guy]]
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Generally a Type II, but recently downgraded to type IV, and briefly even type V, since most American writers don't like stereotypcial "[[Euro Trash]]" characters.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]
* [[Bishounen]]: Depending on the art, Quicksilver is usually not a bishounen except for X-Men Evolution cartoon. However, in one X-Factor issue, he was called 'Pretty Boy' by his inmates when he was put in prison for vagrancy.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: It happens in the Ultimate universe
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: He thought he had it bad when life moved in slo-mo, but after losing his powers, everything seemed so... ''fast''. He went crazy, stole mutating mists from his in-laws, and used them to get time travel powers.
* [[Cry Cute]]
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]] (in ''X-Men Evolution'' cartoon)
* [[In the Blood]]: Pietro's ''really,'' '''''really''''' prone to [[Face Heel Turns]]. It doesn't help that he looks almost exactly like Magneto anyway.
* [[Jerkass]]: Quicksilver has been a good guy, bad guy, and in-between, but never stops being an arrogant, self-centered dick. This extends to his other incarnations, such as his apperances on the different cartoons and Ultimate X-Men.
** [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Just think about Pietro's life.
*** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: [[Depending on the Writer]], Pietro is usually, beneath his jerkassery, a good guy who does anything for his friends.
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* [[Super Speed]]
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Quicksilver once explained his angry personality by asking his psychologist to imagine living in a world consisting entirely of the slowest queue at the checkout.
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Magneto's relationship with his kids is equally screwed up, with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver being the Un-Favorite in both the regular and Ultimate Marvel Universe.
** In particular, in the Ultimate Marvel Universe, Magneto is quite open with with his disdain for Quicksilver/favoritism towards Wanda, by "punishing" Wanda for betraying him by way of making her watch him kneecap her brother, who Magneto berated for going to work for the Ultimates.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
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Started as a subordinate to Senator Kelly and Agent Henry Peter Gyrich, later rose to become a kind of US government superpowers and mutant czar and one of the top people of the O*N*E. Served as government liaison to X-Factor for a long time and also appeared a few times in the current incarnation of the title.
* [[Badass Normal]]: The Shadow King once sent her to assassinate Mystique, but at the crunch she overcame his mind control enough to turn the gun on herself.
* [[Shout-Out]]: In an X-Factor story written by Peter David, Val once mentioned her brother, an [[Twin Peaks|FBI agent who had been involved in a case concerning a dead girl wrapped in plastic]]. PAD also gave her an assistant called [[Blackadder|Baldrick]].
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* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]: Subverted, since Random is actually a heroic guy whose unsettling power is to shoot you with guns.
** Until recently, he was a [[Mook]] in the Marauders team.
*** Not exactly. Just like back in the days, when he had to fight X-Factor, he has doubts on his allegiance. Also, he's shown to be the more charitable of his team... suggesting to his foes that they're lucky having to fight him, because he's ''the nice one''.
* [[BFG]]
* [[Cool Shades]]
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* [[Bad Future]]
* [[But Not Too Black]]: She is an Aborigine mutant with blonde hair
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]
* [[Virtual Ghost]]
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* [[Facial Markings]]: Layla Miller has recently received the 'M' brand on her face as a result of visiting Bishop's future.
* [[Oracular Urchin]]
* [[Phrase Catcher]] "I'm Layla Miller. I know stuff."
* [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]: Recently she has grown into an adult after staying too long in Bishop's [[Bad Future]] timeline.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]
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* [[Adaptive Ability]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Slow to anger, but when he does get mad? RUN. Very fast.
* [[Body Horror]]: His powers allow him to evolve to survive, resulting in some horrifying transformations. Shot with a weapon that targets the nervous system, he becomes a sponge creature. Crushed beneath wreckage, he's reduced to an oozing mass that can speak. Decapitated by a headshot, a second head starts growing out of his torso, and so forth. Thankfully these are temporary changes, but made worse that he's got no control over what he'll become.
* [[Race Lift]] / [[But Not Too Black]]: Lampshaped within the series. Darwin's powers had turned him white in a primarily white community "to better survive", but once he gains some confidence he changes himself back to his original darker skin tone. The characters point out the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this.
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See [[X-Men/Characters/80s Members|X-Men]]
'''Shatterstar'''
See [[X-Force/Characters|X-Force]]
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