X-FORCE I

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7th September 2012

First appearance: (as X-Force): New Mutants (1st series) #100

Membership: Cable, Cannonball, Boom-Boom, Warpath, Feral, Shatterstar, Domino, Copycat, Rictor, Sunspot, Siryn, Caliban, Moonstar, Bedlam, Pete Wisdom

Allies: Lila Cheney, Adam-X, Prosh, Risque, Arcadia DeVille, Ulysses Dragonblood, Jennifer Kale, Sledge

Leaders: Cable > Cannonball > Siryn > Pete Wisdom


Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers)

First appearance: Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #201

Powers: telekinesis allows him to levitate and manipulate matter with the power of his mind, telepathy enables him to project thoughts, transmit mental commands, and communicate with others from a distance, techno-organic virus has fitted him with a cybernetic arm and eye

Membership stints

  • New Mutants (1st series) #100 to X-Force (1st series) #18 [believed to be dead]
  • X-Force (1st series) #25 to X-Force (1st series) #70 [abandoned by team]
  • X-Force (2nd series) #1 to X-Force (2nd series) #6 [appeared to die defeating Skornn]

Cannonball (Samuel Zachary Guthrie)

First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4

Powers: generate thermochemical energy as a blast field, which can act as propulsion, bio-kinetic blasts, a protective force shield, and a containment field around his opponent, or absorb kinetic energy to create shockwaves or supercharge the force behind his punches

Membership stints

  • New Mutants (1st series) #100 to X-Force (1st series) #44 [graduated to the X-Men]
  • X-Force (1st series) #83 to X-Force (1st series) #115 [team replaced]

Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith)

First appearance: Secret Wars II #5

Powers: generate plasmoids of explosive energy which she can detonate on a delayed time cycle or manipulate into streams of energy

Membership stints

  • New Mutants (1st series) #100 to X-Force (1st series) #115 [team replaced]

Warpath (James Jonathan Proudstar)

First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #16

Powers: superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and resistance to physical injury, hyper-keen senses, self-propelled flight

Membership stints

  • New Mutants (1st series) #100 to X-Force (1st series) #54 [kidnapped by Risque]
  • X-Force (1st series) #59 to X-Force (1st series) #115 [team replaced]

Feral (Maria Callasantos)

First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #99
Last appearance: Wolverine (3rd series) #54

Powers: heightened strength, speed, agility, stamina, and reflexes, hyper-keen senses, prehensile tail, razor sharp claws

Membership stints

  • New Mutants (1st series) #100 to X-Force (1st series) #28 [defected to the Mutant Liberation Front]

Shatterstar (Benjamin Russel / Gaveedra Seven)

First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #98

Powers: superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and senses, personal regeneration, convert sonic frequencies into a vibratory shockwave that he channels through his sword, razor sharp swords, daggers, shuriken and throwing blades

Membership stints

  • New Mutants (1st series) #100 to X-Force (1st series) #70 [quit with Rictor to end Rictor’s family’s black market interests]

Siryn (Theresa Maeve Rourke)

First appearance: Spider-Woman (1st series) #37

Powers: emit various sonic frequencies by altering the sounds sent through her vocal chords, allowing her to fly, create energy lances, shatter or disintegrate solid objects, deflect incoming projectiles, or send others into a trance, render them unconscious, and cause vertigo or hallucinatory fits

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #4 to X-Force (1st series) #91 [quit due to serious injury]

Rictor (Julio Esteban Richter)

First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #17

Powers: sensitive to geological activity, release seismic energy through his fingertips, using it to generate vibratory shockwaves, create earthquakes, and propel earth matter through the air

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #14 to X-Force (1st series) #44 [quit to spend time with family]
  • X-Force (1st series) #59 to X-Force (1st series) #70 [left with Shatterstar to return to his family and end their black market interests]

Sunspot (Roberto da Costa)

First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4

Powers: absorb heat and solar radiation, converting it for superhuman strength, dark solar plasma blasts, infrared heat, and flight

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #15 to X-Force (1st series) #28 [captured by Reignfire]
  • X-Force (1st series) #44 to X-Force (1st series) #93 [deported by INS]

Domino

First appearance: X-Force (1st series) #8

Powers: cerebral cortex emits bioelectric pulses that raise her agility
and reflexes to peak levels and initiate quantum-level events that cause probabilities to fall into place for her

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #30 to X-Force (1st series) #70 [quit to gather herself after undergoing surgery at the hands of Operation Zero Tolerance]
  • X-Force (1st series) #82 to X-Force (1st series) #101 [quit in protest of Pete Wisdom’s new direction]
  • X-Force (1st series) #106 to X-Force (1st series) #115 [team replaced]

Caliban

First appearance: Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #148

Powers: superhuman strength, speed, endurance, reflexes and durability, clawed fingernails, psionically track mutants, can absorb the emotional energy from others to increase his strength and resilience or rechannel it as a psychoactive virus to amplify the fear and panic of those around him, physically and mentally debilitating them

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #44 to X-Force (1st series) #67 [incapacitated due to recurring seizures, kidnapped by Ozymandius for Apocalypse]

Moonstar (Danielle Moonstar)

First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4

Powers: psychoplasmic weapon constructs form as an energy dagger or bow and arrows that force her victims to experience their greatest fear, overloading their neurochemistry and causing paralysis
-temporarily empowered by quantum energy she used to heal others, liquify matter, project tremendous force, as well as sense and influence elemental or electromagnetic energy fields

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #68 to X-Force (1st series) #101 [quit in protest of Pete Wisdom’s new direction]

Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson)

First appearance: X-Force (1st series) #82
Last appearance: Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #423

Powers: psionically emits an electromagnetic wave-pulse that can scan and perceive existing energy fields, disable mechanical and electronic systems, or scramble the human brain's neural chemistry

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #84 to X-Force (1st series) #115 [team replaced]

Peter Winston Wisdom

First appearance: Excalibur (1st series) #87

Powers: generate thermokinetic energy as hot knives or in circular patterns to shield himself from incoming projectiles by incinerating them

Membership stints

  • X-Force (1st series) #102 to X-Force (1st series) #105 [believed to be dead]

 


Copycat (Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle)

First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #98
Last appearance: Deadpool (2nd series) #59

Powers: empathic bio-morph able to form a connection with anyone she is in sustained proximity with, recreating their physical appearance, special abilities, knowledge, memories and even brain wave patterns

Note: X-Force learned "Domino" was a traitor in X-Force (1st series) #11, but it was only in X-Force (1st series) #14 that Cable discovered she was a shapeshifter, who had replaced the real Domino prior to joining the team.

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