12 There Have Been Several Other Iterations Of The TeamĪll these multiple variations of the X-Force team might start getting confusing, so we thought we’d toss in the oft-forgotten celebrity X-Force: X-Statix. Cable created X-Force when the New Mutants were disbanded, and continued to push his team toward more direct and violent action, usually against his arch-nemesis Stryfe and his Mutant Liberation Front. Under his leadership, the New Mutants became distanced from the other X-Teams, and this only continued when the New Mutants were re-formed as Cable’s X-Force. Eventually, of course, Nathan Summers returned to the Marvel ‘present’ as the powerful Cable, and began integrating into the mutant community.Ĭable initially joined the New Mutants, taking over as their leader and starting to take the team in a more militant direction, which many took issue with. A powerful telepathic and telekinetic mutant, Cable was infected with a techno-organic virus as a baby and sent into the future to save his life. 13 The Team As We Know It Was Founded By CableĬable, the time-travelling son of Jean Grey and Cyclops, was the original leader and founder of X-Force, the name he gave to his reformed New Mutants team.
The team ended up rebelling against their government creators and battling Cloak and Dagger before revealing their story and joining forces with them in order to escape. This means that the roster for this short-lived version of the X-Force included a Longshot, Wolverine, Psylocke, Havok (aka Bedlam), Dazzler, Rogue, Storm (aka Tempest) and Colossus – none of whom are the characters commonly associated with those names. This X-Force was created by a branch of the US government, using drugs and radiation to give volunteers superpowers and send them into action.Īlthough the team members are not actually mutants, they were named after existing X-Men. Also known as Uncanny X-Force, the team appeared in February of 1990 for a grand total of four issues. This team made their debut in the Cloak and Dagger series, where they were enemies of the titular team. 15 It’s A New Teamīefore the X-Force as we know it first appeared in The New Mutants, another team appeared in Marvel Comics with the same name. Ahead of this long-awaited entry to the X-Men world, we’ve rounded up 15 things that every X-fan needs to know about this black-ops mutant team.
UNCANNY X FORCE DEADPOOL MOVIE
A Deadpool sequel is already in the works, of course, (as well as Supernova and a New Mutantsproject), but it’s the third Merc With A Mouth movie that has us really excited, as rumor has it that Deadpool 3 will be the film to bring the X-Force team into this cinematic universe.
Now, the upcoming R-rated Logan looks like it could be the hit of 2017, and the darkly trippy Legion is making waves on the small screen, leaving fans thinking that more adult-oriented X-Men movies will be the way forward for Fox. With its irreverent approach to brutal violence (and Ryan Reynold’s inspired portrayal of the title character), Deadpool was the smash hit of the year, and more than made up for the disappointing X-Men: Apocalypse that came out a few months later. After fifteen years of ensemble films, most of which received a thoroughly lackluster fan response, last year’s Deadpool catapulted the mutant heroes back into the limelight. With the current buzz around what will (probably) be Hugh Jackman's final Wolverine movie, Logan, it seems as though Fox may have finally figured out a winning formula for their X-Men movies.