X-FORCE III

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Last Updated: 
13th August 2013

First appearance: Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #493
Last appearance: X-Men: Second Coming #2

Membership: Wolverine, X-23, Warpath, Wolfsbane, Caliban, Hepzibah, Archangel, Elixir, Domino, Vanisher, Cable, Cypher
Allies: The Stepford Cuckoos, Deadpool, Magik
Commander: Cyclops
Leader: Wolverine (field)


Wolverine (James Howlett)
First appearance: Incredible Hulk (2nd series) #180

Powers: enhanced strength, speed, agility, stamina, and reflexes, hyper-keen senses, healing factor, adamantium skeleton and retractable claws
 

Membership stints

  • Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #493 to X-Men: Second Coming #2 [team restructured]

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, carries vibranium knives

Membership stints:

  • Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #493 to X-Force (3rd series) #6 [went on sabbatical]
  • X-Force (3rd series) #10 to X-Force (3rd series) #25 [quit team]

X-23 (Laura Kinney)
First appearance: NYX #3

Powers: enhanced strength, speed, agility, stamina, and reflexes, hyper-keen senses, healing factor, adamantium retractable hand and toe claws
 

Membership stints:

  • Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #493 to X-Men: Second Coming #2 [team restructured]

 

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)
First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4

Powers: lycanthrope able to transform into a wolf or various transitional phases between human and animal
 

Membership stints:

  • Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #493 to X-Force (3rd series) #7 [went on trauma-induced sabbatical]
  • X-Necrosha #1 to X-Force (3rd series) #25 [removed from roster by Wolverine]

Hepzibah
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #107

Powers: enhanced strength, speed, agility, stamina, and reflexes, night vision, retractable finger claws, skunk tail, secretes mind-altering pheromones during intercourse
Membership stints:

  • Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #493 to X-Men (2nd series) #207 [not selected for permanent roster]

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

Powers: superhuman strength, 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:

  • Uncanny X-Men (1st series) to New X-Men (2nd series) #45 [killed by the Reavers]

Elixir (Joshua Foley) 
First appearance: New Mutants (2nd series) #5

Powers: Omega-class manipulation of organic molecules allows him to heal himself and others or induce maladies like comas, tumors, cancer or necrosis, golden skin with shifting blotches of black flesh
Membership stints:

  • X-Force (3rd series) #7 to X-Force (3rd series) #25 [quit team to heal wounded on Necrosha]

Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #1

Powers: peak human strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, eyesight, and feathered wings allowing flight, Deathseed enables transformation into blue-skinned form with razor-sharp techno-organic wings, able to retract and fire feather fletchettes filled with a paralyzing neuro-toxin

Membership stints:

  • X-Force (3rd series) #7 to X-Men: Second Coming #2 [team restructured]

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 (3rd series) #8 to X-Men: Second Coming #2 [team restructured]

Vanisher (Telford E. Porter)
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #2

Powers: teleporter able to transport himself and others over great distances instantaneously
 

Membership stints:

  • X-Force (3rd series) #9 to New Mutants (3rd series) #13 [ambushed and critically injured by Bastion's soldiers]

Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers)
First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #87

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:

  • X-Force (3rd series) #27 to X-Force (3rd series) #28 [sacrificed life to return team home from future]

Cypher (Douglas Aaron Ramsey)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #180

Powers: active psionic translation field intuitively translates any languages he comes into contact with, including written, spoken, or computer

Membership stints:

  • X-Force (3rd series) #27 to X-Force (3rd series) #28 [left after completing mission]