X-Force is a team of superheroes published in American comic books by Marvel Comics. Over the decades, X-Force have featured a rotating line up composed of large number of mutant characters.
Notations:
In April 1991, the members of the New Mutants changed team name and founded X-Force in New Mutants #100. [1]
Character | Name |
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Boom-Boom / Meltdown | Tabitha Smith |
Cable | Nathan Christopher Charles Summers |
Cannonball | Samuel "Sam" Zachary Guthrie |
Shatterstar | Gaveedra Seven |
Feral | Maria Callasantos |
Warpath | James Proudstar |
Character | Name | Joined in |
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Siryn | Theresa Rourke Cassidy | X-Force #3 (October 1991) [1] |
Rictor | Julio Esteban Richter | X-Force #10 (May 1992) [1] |
Sunspot | Roberto "Bobby" da Costa | X-Force #16 (October 1992) [1] |
Domino [a] [2] | Neena Thurman | X-Force #29 (December 1993) |
Caliban [a] [2] | X-Force #44 (July 1995) | |
Danielle "Dani" Moonstar | X-Force #68 (August 1997) [3] | |
Bedlam [4] | Jesse Aaronson | X-Force #84 (December 1998) |
During late 2000s, the X-Men's strike team was formed by Cyclops in Uncanny X-Men #493, with Wolverine serving as the field leader. The team took on missions which required responses "too violent or controversial" for the X-Men to deal with directly. When Cyclops disbanded the team, Wolverine assembled a new independent team. [2]
Character | Name | Joined in |
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Peter "Pete" Paul Wisdom [4] | X-Force #102 (May 2000) | |
Cyclops [a] | Scott Summers | Uncanny X-Men #493 (December 2007) [3] [2] |
Hepzibah [a] | ||
Wolfsbane [a] | Rahne Sinclair | |
Wolverine [a] | James "Logan" Howlett | |
X-23 / Wolverine [a] | Laura Kinney | |
Archangel [a] [2] | Warren Kenneth Worthington III | X-Force, vol. 3 #2 (March 2008) |
Elixir [a] [2] | Joshua "Josh" Foley | X-Force, vol. 3 #4 (May 2008) |
Vanisher [a] [2] | Telford Porter | X-Force, vol. 3 #9 (November 2008) |
Character | Name | Joined in |
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Cypher | Douglas "Doug" Aaron Ramsey | X-Force , vol. 3 #27 (May 2010) |
Deadpool | Wade Winston Wilson | X-Men: Second Coming #2 (July 2010) [5] |
Fantomex | Charlie-Cluster 7 | |
Psylocke / Captain Britain | Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock | |
Deathlok Prime | Uncanny X-Force #8 (April 2011) [3] | |
Nightcrawler [2] | Kurt Wagner | Uncanny X-Force #19 (December 2011) |
Colossus | Piotr "Peter" Nikolaievitch Rasputin | Cable & X-Force #1 (December 2012) [6] |
Doctor Nemesis | James Nicola Bradley | |
Forge | ||
Hope Summers [2] | Cable & X-Force #14 (September 2013) | |
Storm | Ororo Munroe | Uncanny X-Force, vol. 2 (January 2013–January 2014) [7] |
Puck | Eugene Milton Judd | |
Bishop | Lucas Bishop | |
Spiral | Rita Wayword | |
Marrow | Sarah | X-Force, vol. 4 #1 (February 2014) [8] |
ForgetMeNot | Xabi | X-Force, vol. 4 #15 (February 2015) |
Beast | Henry "Hank" Philip McCoy | X-Force, vol. 6 #1 (November 2019) [9] |
Black Tom | Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy | |
Marvel Girl | Jean Elaine Grey | |
Sage | Tessa | |
Kid Omega | Quintavius "Quentin" Quirinius Quire | X-Force, vol. 6 #2 (November 2019) [10] |
Character | Name | Joined in |
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Tommy | Inferno, vol. 2 #1 (September 2021) | |
Omega Red [3] | Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich | X-Force , vol. 6 #27 (April 2022) |
Phoebe Cuckoo | Wolverine , vol. 7 #48 (April 2024) | |
Askani | Rachel "Ray" Anne Grey (birth surname Summers) | X-Force, vol. 7 #1 (July 2024) [11] |
Surge | Noriko "Nori" Ashida | |
Tank |
Character | Name | Joined in | Notes |
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Copycat | Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle | New Mutants #100 (April 1991) [1] | Infiltrated by replacing Domino. |
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