| Uncanny X-Force | |
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 Cover forUncanny X-Force #1 (December 2010). Art byEsad Ribic. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
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| Publication date | List
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| No. of issues | List
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| Main character(s) | Wolverine X-Force |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | List
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| Penciller | List
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| Inker | List
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| Colorist | List
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| Collected editions | |
| The Apocalypse Solution | ISBN 0-7851-4855-8 |
| Deathlok Nation | ISBN 0-7851-4857-4 |
Uncanny X-Force was acomic bookongoing series published byMarvel Comics. Created by writerRick Remender and artistJerome Opeña, the first volume of the series continued the story ofWolverine and hisX-Force team from the seriesX-Force, vol. 3.[1] The title was relaunched after issue #35 as part of theMarvel NOW! relaunch event, and the new volume featuresPsylocke andStorm leading a new team of "outcasts and scoundrels".[2] The second volume was one of two X-Force ongoing titles, along withCable and X-Force.
Uncanny X-Force, vol. 1, was launched in October2010 to replaceX-Force, vol. 3.[3] This new series features members of the previous X-Force team, which was to have been shut down byX-Men leaderCyclops due to the existence of the team having been previously exposed and now operates without him knowing. Being led byWolverine, the squad features new team membersPsylocke,Fantomex, andDeadpool. According to Remender, "This is a group of characters that have had their souls stained by evil forces in the past, a common thread connecting them. They've already made the hard compromises in the past; they've all taken life."[4]
The title had a three-issue "Fear Itself" tie-in mini-series, written byRob Williams, with art bySimone Bianchi.[5]
The relaunchedUncanny X-Force is written by Sam Humphries and pencilled byRon Garney, and features aPsylocke led team with an initial roster ofStorm,Puck, Cluster, andSpiral.
As part of the "All-New Marvel NOW!" campaign, a new volume ofX-Force was launched in February2014, replacingCable and X-Force andUncanny X-Force vol.2. It was written byX-Men: Legacy authorSimon Spurrier and illustrated by Rock-He Kim and Jorge Molina. It features a team of Cable, Psylocke, Fantomex andMarrow.[6]
The first mission of the new team is an assassination job to killApocalypse, reborn in the form of a child and being indoctrinated byClan Akkaba on their Moon base. After defeating Apocalypse'sFinal Horsemen and getting to the young Apocalypse, no one on the team can summon up the courage to kill a child. When the group resigns to bring the child back with them and to reeducate him, Fantomex fires a shot in the child's head, killing him.[7]
Fantomex discovers there's something wrong withthe World, as a presence calling itself Weapon Infinity has started manipulating the timestream within. Fantomex is attacked by a group ofDeathlok cyborgs based on the Avengers who apparently want to kill him and take possession of the World. With the aid of a rogue Deathlok unit the team travels inside the World and faces Deathlok versions of themselves while Deadpool kills the architect of Weapon Infinity, the enigmatic Father, erasing the attacking Deathlok strain. The rogue Deathlok joins the team and Fantomex is revealed to be growing a clone of the child Apocalypse inside the World, unbeknownst to the rest of the team, watched over byUltimaton.[8]
Warren's "Archangel" persona continues to grow stronger, leading X-Force to seek advice fromDark Beast, a former servant of Apocalypse. Dark Beast proposes that the team accompany him back to his lab in the alternateAge of Apocalypse universe (Earth-295), where he can retrieve a "seed of life" to counteract the "seed of death" that is driving Warren mad. Once they reach Earth-295, Dark Beast betrays them and cuts them off from their universe, leading X-Force to seek the help of theAoA's X-Men. They eventually acquire a new Life Seed and useGateway to return home but discover they are too late as Archangel has completely overtaken Warren. Using the Life Seed to fuel the World, Archangel plans to extinguish all life on Earth and reset evolution, enlistingOzymandias, Dark Beast, the Final Horsemen,Autumn Rolfson and her sonGenocide, as well as the AoAIceman andBlob in his army. X-Force is initially outmatched until the timely arrival of the AoA X-Men evens the odds, while Fantomex reluctantly releases the young clone of Apocalypse to fight Archangel. Although the clone (now calling himself "Genesis") is unable to defeat him, the fight gives Psylocke an opening to stab Archangel with the Life Seed, killing him. Angel later appears, seemingly fine, but it soon becomes clear the Life Seed removed any trace of both Archangel and Warren inside him. Wolverine sends Genesis and Angel to theJean Grey School for Higher Learning.[9]
Fantomex is abducted byCaptain Britain and theCaptain Britain Corps to be put on trial inOtherworld for his murder of the Apocalypse child. Psylocke is also abducted. Wolverine, Deadpool and the Age of Apocalypse version ofNightcrawler attempt to rescue them both but land in the middle of a battle against a demon which wishes to access the base of the Captain Britain Corps so that it can spread its influence across the multiverse. When Fantomex is sentenced to death, Psylocke saves him and betrays her brothers. However they are then ambushed by theSkinless Man, who seeks vengeance against Fantomex after he was flayed alive due to Fantomex's thieving. He cuts off Fantomex's face but is stopped by Psylocke; eventually it is revealed that the demon is a future incarnation ofJamie Braddock. Captain Britain is unable to kill his brother, so Psylocke possess him and kills Jamie to prevent his demonic ascension.
WhenDaken returns from the dead, he plots to destroy X-Force by creating a new incarnation of theBrotherhood of Mutants withMystique,Sabretooth, the Skinless Man,Blob,Shadow King, and theOmega Clan.
In their first attack, they capture Genesis (Evan Sabahnur) to train him to become the newApocalypse. They then ambush X-Force, the Skinless Man kills Fantomex by tearing his heart out, destroys Cavern X, and killsGateway. As his last act, Gateway saves X-Force by teleporting them to a dystopian world ruled by X-Force, who kill innocents who have a possibility of becoming criminals.
Horrified, Psylocke attemptsseppuku but is saved by the future version of herself. Upon X-Force's return to the present, they capture Mystique and argue over whether or not to kill Evan. During the commotion, Deadpool infiltrates the Brotherhood's base to try rescuing Evan but is stopped by Daken, the Blob and Omega Black; he is then brought in front of Evan and tortured by Omega Black.
Meanwhile, Nightcrawler betrays X-Force to get his revenge on Blob; he incapacitates EVA (now sentient after Fantomex's death) and Wolverine. Nightcrawler kills Blob by teleporting a shark inside of him and letting it eat him from the inside out. Following this, he is confronted by EVA for his betrayal.
Shadow King shatters Psylocke's mind after she refused to kill him but trapping him in the empty shell of Omega White instead. Daken tries to drown his father (the only way of killing someone with a healing factor) but Wolverine is saved by Deadpool. Deadpool tells him to stop Evan, who has donned the Apocalypse armor and is running rampant.
Evan nearly kills Mystique and the Skinless Man; in retaliation for his brutal murder of Fantomex, Deadpool kills the Skinless Man. Mystique is saved by Nightcrawler, and Wolverine is forced to confront Daken as Sabretooth escapes. In the battle, he ends up drowning Daken because of a message given to him by the dystopian future version of himself – that Daken will kill thestudents if he is allowed to live.
In the end, Deadpool tells Evan that to him, Evan is a symbol that anyone, no matter who they are, can be redeemed. X-Force helps AoA Nightcrawler assassinate AoA Iceman. Wolverine and Betsy, with EVA, head to a meeting with Deadpool, who has improperly programmed a duplication machine to bring Fantomex back to life. Because Fantomex had three brains, he is resurrected as three different people: Weapon XIII, an evil version of himself; Fantomex, a mischievous but good version of himself; and Cluster, a good, female version of himself. Psylocke pursues a relationship with Fantomex at the end of the story.
Psylocke is expelled fromWolverine's School, so she and Storm go on a mission withPuck to hunt downSpiral, who is a drug dealer. It turns out Spiral is not selling drugs, but just using a new telepathic mutant named Ginny to make people think they are high.Bishop returns from the future possessed by the White Owl Demon and hunts Ginny. Storm and Psylocke attempt to cure Bishop, but the demon possesses Ginny. Weapon XIII kidnaps Fantomex, so Cluster seeks help from Psylocke.
Pyslocke and Cluster travel toMadripoor to hunt Weapon XIII. Weapon XIII uses his power of misdirection (which Fantomex and Cluster not longer possess) to confess his love to Psylocke. She agrees to stay with him only if he allows her to kill Fantomex, who betrayed her during a heist at theLouvre. During a heated battle she decides to free Fantomex and stun Weapon XIII, stating that she is done with all three of them. Psylocke then rehabilitates Bishop, but they are attacked by the White Owl. Storm, Puck, and Psylocke are captured and have revenants, or evil clones, made of them. Bishop is eventually able to free them and are confronted by Spiral, who explains that she is trying to save Ginny and wants X-Force to help her. Bishop also realizes that the White Owl is actuallyCassandra Nova.
The White Owl unleashes the revenants upon Earth after sacrificing a telepath named Philip. The White Owl can only be stopped by the death of a telepath, so she kidnaps Psylocke. The White Owl revives a revenant based on Psylocke original body before she transformed intoher Japanese body. X-Force eventually overcomes the revenants and Psylocke sacrifices her revenant in order to stop the White Owl.
Later the team breaks up since Bishop is upset that Storm erased several of his memories. Hope Summers, who is withCable's X-Force team, tracks him and tries to kill him. Cable attempts to stop the battle but is kidnapped by his evil cloneStryfe, who unlike Cable is still an Omega-level telepath. The two X-Force teams initially clash, but reconcile. They build a tracking device, then track down Cable and defeat Stryfe. Storm returns the X-Mansion and thetwo teams combine.
| Issues | Year | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| #1–6 | 2010 | Archangel,Deadpool,E.V.A.,Fantomex,Psylocke,Wolverine |
| #7–10 | 2011 | Archangel, Deadpool,Deathlok, E.V.A., Fantomex, Psylocke, Wolverine |
| #11–18 | 2011 | Deadpool, Deathlok, E.V.A., Fantomex, Psylocke, Wolverine |
| #19–27 | 2011–2012 | Deadpool, Deathlok, E.V.A., Fantomex, AoA Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Wolverine |
| #28–32 | 2012 | Deadpool, Deathlok, E.V.A., AoA Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Wolverine |
| #33–34 | 2012 | Deadpool, Deathlok, E.V.A., Psylocke, Wolverine |
| #35 | 2012 | Cluster, Deadpool, Deathlok, E.V.A., Fantomex, Psylocke, Wolverine |
| Issues | Year | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| #1–17 | 2013-2014 | Bishop, Psylocke,Puck,Spiral,Storm |
| Title | Material collected | Publication Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 1: Apocalypse Solution | Uncanny X-Force #1–4, material fromWolverine: Road to Hell | May 2011 | 0-7851-4854-X |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 2: Deathlok Nation | Uncanny X-Force #5–7, 5.1,Astonishing Tales (vol. 1) #25 | June 2011 | 0-7851-4856-6 |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 3: The Dark Angel Saga Book 1 | Uncanny X-Force #8–13 | November 2011 | 0-7851-4660-1 |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 4: The Dark Angel Saga Book 2 | Uncanny X-Force #14–19 | March 2012 | 0-7851-5887-1 |
| Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force/The Deep | Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force #1–3,Fear Itself: The Deep #1–4 | April 2012 | 0-7851-5796-4 |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 5: Otherworld | Uncanny X-Force #20-24 | June 2012 | 0-7851-6181-3 |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 6: Final ExecutionBook 1 | Uncanny X-Force #25-29 | November 2012 | 0-7851-6183-X |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 7: Final ExecutionBook 2 | Uncanny X-Force #30-35, material fromWolverine: Dangerous Games #1,Deadpool #1000 | February 2013 | 0-7851-6185-6 |
| Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender: The Complete Collection Volume 1 | Uncanny X-Force #1-19, 5.1,Wolverine: Road to Hell #1,All-New Wolverine Saga;X-Men Spotlight | August 2014 | 978-0785188230 |
| Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender: The Complete Collection Volume 2 | Uncanny X-Force #20-35, 19.1 | December 2014 | 978-0785188247 |
| Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender Omnibus | Uncanny X-Force #1-35, 5.1, 19.1,Wolverine: Road to Hell #1,All-New Wolverine Saga;X-Men Spotlight | March 2014 | 978-0785185710 |
| Title | Material collected | Publication Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 1: Let it Bleed | Uncanny X-Force (vol. 2) #1-6 | July 2013 | 978-0785167396 |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 2: Torn and Frayed | Uncanny X-Force (vol. 2) #7-12 | December 2013 | 978-0785167402 |
| Uncanny X-ForceVolume 3: The Great Corruption | Uncanny X-Force (vol. 2) #13-17,Cable and X-Force #18-19 | April 2014 | 978-0785189855 |
