With X-Force officially making their movie debut in Deadpool 2, we look at the history of the team.
However, that niche was wide and held a lot of different variations in it.
X-Force
The original X-Force team was a fairly logical outgrowth of the New Mutants.
They rebranded as X-Force and set out to influence the future by being proactive in their own time.
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Unfortunately, it wasnt a very sustainable thesis for a long-term single run.
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This wave of X-Force had a dying gasp.
Mike Allred createdMadman, a deep indie superhero who was as much pop art as it was story.
Clayton Crain digitally painted the majority of these issues, and his dark colors matched the books tone well.
They got better, though.
Fantomex tires of the argument, and shoots the kid in the head.
This series more than any other was the logical goal of the X-Force line of mutant storytelling.
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The other book wasCable & X-Force, where Cable led a team with Dr.
Nemesis, Colossus, Domino, Hope, Boom Boom and Forge.
He used this team to try and prevent the visions from coming to pass.
X-Force proper had one last gasp before its current status.
Simon Spurrier and Rock-He Kim reimagined the team as the intelligence service for a newly sovereign mutant race.
He took Cable, Psylocke, Marrow, Fantomex, and Dr.
This version of X-Force was interesting, but not exactly a sales darling.
Uncanny X-…Men?
Its not good, and it was scrapped when the most recent relaunch, ResurrXion, kicked off.
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