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[[File:X-Force_Vol_1_1_Wraparound_Cover_7192.jpg|frame|[[The Dark Age of Comic Books|Nineties!!!]]]]
''[[X-Force]]'' has been the name of four different [[Marvel Universe]] [[Superhero]] teams and comics, with few common members and very little generally to link them except for being closely tied to the [[X-Men]], with varying degrees of cooperation between the two at different times.
The original X-Force was created when [[Rob Liefeld]] and Fabian Nicieza were given control of the [[New Mutants]] book and made it [[Darker and Edgier]]. Adding several [[Badass|badasses]] and making them more of an "ends justify the means" group, they became a militant strike force very different in attitude from the X-Men. The title was at first extremely popular, with the first issue becoming the #2-selling comic of all time. Liefeld however quickly became frustrated by working with characters he didn't own, and soon left Marvel to form [[Image Comics]] in 1992. Nicieza continued to write up through the ''[[Age of Apocalypse]]'' storyline of 1995, afterwards leaving and being replaced by Jeph Loeb.
Loeb moved the team back to the Xavier Mansion and focused more on character development than fighting. After Loeb's departure in 1997, John Francis Moore took over writing duties and sent X-Force on a roadtrip to San Francisco, where they would reunite with former members Cannonball and Domino, but sales of the book began to fall. In 2000, [[Warren Ellis]] was brought in and portrayed the team as a covert group under the leadership of his character Pete Wisdom, but only made the decline worse as far as alienating more fans than before.
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* [[Time Stands Still]]: Lacuna's powers
* [[To Hell and Back]]: the ''Dead Girl'' mini-series.
* [[Token Minority Couple]]: The execs behind the X-Statix movie feel it's more appropriate for Venus Dee Milo to be paired with the Anarchist instead of the Orphan.
* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: Played with for all it's worth in one storyline with the entire team worried about a prophecy to this effect. {{spoiler|U-Go Girl dies.}}
* [[Torch the Franchise and Run]]: although Milligan and Allred still did the ''Dead Girl'' spin-off mini afterwards.
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Not only do Wolverine and X-23 have their adamantium claws, Warpath carries several knives and ArchAngel is fond of shooting metal "feathers" through the air.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Pretty much the entire point of the comic.
** [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]]: Type IV.
* [[Animal-Themed Superbeing]]: Wolverine and Wolfsbane.
* [[Badass Crew]]: With the addition of Domino, six out of seven members of the team have at least double-digit body counts.
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* [[Painted-On Pants]]: In full effect, with both [[Mr. Fanservice]] and [[Ms. Fanservice]] versions.
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: Neither Wolverine, X-23 or Wolfsbane are especially tall, but angering ''any'' of them will probably be the last thing you do.
* [[Pregnant Badass]]: {{spoiler|Wolfsbane}} appears to be shaping up into one of these; being that her child is {{spoiler|half Asgardian wolf-spirit}}, Elixir had to alter her DNA to be more like the baby just to keep the pregnancy from killing her. This has given her superhuman strength, bulletproof skin, and more acute senses than Wolverine or X-23.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: As noted above, Wolverine is just [[Older Than They Look|older than he looks]]. But he seems like an embryo next to Selene, who physically looks to be in her mid-to-late 30's at the most. Turns out she's really '''17,000'''.
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: The ''entire original group'' (Wolverine, X-23, Warpath and Wolfsbane) have heightened senses, and Warpath is also an Apache indian.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The mysterious {{spoiler|Eli Bard}} manipulates The Purifiers into recreating genocidal maniac Bastion, then into finding a fragment of the old New Mutants techno-organic enemy Magus, and after Bastion uses it to bring a group of the X-Mens's old mutant-killing human enemies back to life, {{spoiler|Bard}} combines with the entity. Not good.
* [[Sinister Minister]]: Reverand William Stryker, then Matthew Risman. The [[Back
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Rahne and {{spoiler|Hrimhari}}. They originally met back when Rahne first joined the [[New Mutants]], and though they fell in love, had to part ways. Now they meet again, finally consumate their relationship, Rahne gets pregnant...and {{spoiler|Hrimhari}} has to give up his own life to save Rahne's and their baby's. These two just can't catch a break.
* [[The Stoic]]: X-23. Unless it's a threat to someone she cares about, she tends to be very matter-of-fact about any given situation.
* [[Super Strength]]: Warpath
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Wolfsbane, when she {{spoiler|kills and eats her father.}} And Selene and her inner circle embody this trope. Each and every one of them are essentially death in human (well, mutant) form
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Inverted comically. You start off thinking this about Wolverine and the others. Then you remember that what they're doing isn't really that different from what they've done in the past. ''Then'' you remember that they're only together because of Scott "Mr. By-The-Book" Summers. Wolverine calls him on it more than once, and it's insinuated that Wolverine only agreed to do it because he cares for Laura, James and Rahne; and he also realized that if he refused, Scott would just find someone else to lead the team, and that person might not be as concerned as Wolverine would be with keeping them safe (or [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|sane]]).
** Cyclops has to perpetually keep X-Force a secret from fellow X-Men founders Beast and Iceman because he knows he'll get this reaction from them.
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: There's a reason a major story arc is called the Dark {{spoiler|Angel}} Saga. Also, {{spoiler|The Sinister A.o.A. Iceman.}}
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]] / [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Deadpool and Fantomex seem to be going this route.
{{quote|'''Fantomex''': If there was ever a time to set aside my feelings about you and give a motivational speech, [[The End of the World as We Know It|it would be now.]]
'''Deadpool''': Go on.
'''Fantomex''': No, well. [[Genre Savvy|It was just the thought that I should do it.]] [[No Except Yes|I'm not capable of telling you that you're a tremendous fighter,]] and that we'll halt whatever mischief {{spoiler|Worthington has devised.}}
'''Deadpool''': Too bad. [[Friendship Moment|Would have been a real sweet moment between us.]] }}
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Wolverine, team leader and resident [[Cool Old Guy]]. Pretty disciplined when you get right down to it.
** [[The Lancer]]: Deadpool. Motor mouth, nowhere near as disciplined, but damn funny in contrast to Wolverine's seriousness. Also not seen with the team until the very end of issue #1.
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** [[The Smart Guy]]: Fantomex. His teammates opt more for [[Katanas Are Just Better|bladed weapons]] while he's more of [[The Gunslinger|a gunslinger]]. Not to mention E.V.A.
** [[The Big Guy]]: ArchAngel. His "you go, I'll handle this" moment in issue #1 pretty much puts him right here.
** [[The Chick]]: Psylocke, of the [[Lady of War]] variety.
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Apparently {{spoiler|1=Deathlok, and now AoA!Nightcrawler.}}
* [[Funny Schizophrenia]]: Very averted with this incarnation of Deadpool. While he is still pretty funny, Remender explicitly states that he views Deadpool's mental problems as caused by very traumatic things in his life, like many real mental disorders, instead of just using it to make Deadpool funny.
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* [[My Greatest Second Chance]]: {{spoiler|Fantomex actually creates a clone of Kid!Apocalypse to see if someone with his power could grow up to be a good person, rather than a dictator bent on cleansing the world of humanity.}}
* [[Never Be Hurt Again]]: Psylocke. {{spoiler|She sacrificed her ability to feel sorrow in order to save Fantomex.}}
* [[Not in This For Your Revolution]]: [[Ao A]]!Nightcrawler makes it clear that he's here purely for revenge against Dark Beast.
** [[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]]:
* [[Put on a Bus]]: {{spoiler|Angel and Deathlok, who go with Genesis to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning.}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Deadpool is red, while Fantomex is blue.
* [[Robotic Psychopath]]: Inverted with Deathlok. The AI recognizes the value of human life, but when it's time for a bit of the old hyperviolence, he switches control of the body back to it's [[Blood Knight|original human host.]]
{{quote|'''Fantomex''': Our cyborg's gone all "Ted Bundy" on us.}}
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: {{spoiler|In one of the chapters of Dark Angel Saga, Deadpool was fighting against the giant Sinister Iceman (the Age of Apocalypse version who betrayed his teammates by cowardly running away) when he was apparently frozen to death and he was absent throughout the arc until [[Unexplained Recovery|he got better]] in the epilogue.}}
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Deadpool just wants to be loved...
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Deadpool and Fantomex are definitely the odd men out in the main roster. Neither technically count as mutants, and they rarely, if ever, appear in any big X-Events. Both of them had to be hired for the team, and they interact with each other on a fairly regular basis. In the context of the ''Uncanny X-Force'' series, however, they're just as important as everyone else.
* [[Took a Level
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Deadpool again.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Archangel, the only member retained from the previous team (not counting team leader Wolverine).
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