List of X-Force members

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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.

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Founding members

In April 1991, the members of the New Mutants changed team name and founded X-Force in New Mutants #100. [1]

CharacterName
Boom-Boom / Meltdown Tabitha Smith
Cable Nathan Christopher Charles Summers
Cannonball Samuel "Sam" Zachary Guthrie
Shatterstar Gaveedra Seven
Feral Maria Callasantos
Warpath James Proudstar

Recruits

1990s recruits

CharacterNameJoined in
Siryn Theresa Rourke Cassidy X-Force #3 (October 1991) [1]
Rictor Julio Esteban RichterX-Force #10 (May 1992) [1]
Sunspot Roberto "Bobby" da CostaX-Force #16 (October 1992) [1]
Domino [a] [2] Neena ThurmanX-Force #29 (December 1993)
Caliban [a] [2] X-Force #44 (July 1995)
Danielle "Dani" Moonstar X-Force #68 (August 1997) [3]
Bedlam [4] Jesse AaronsonX-Force #84 (December 1998)

2000s recruits

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]

CharacterNameJoined in
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 IIIX-Force, vol. 3 #2 (March 2008)
Elixir [a] [2] Joshua "Josh" FoleyX-Force, vol. 3 #4 (May 2008)
Vanisher [a] [2] Telford PorterX-Force, vol. 3 #9 (November 2008)

2010s recruits

CharacterNameJoined in
Cypher Douglas "Doug" Aaron Ramsey X-Force , vol. 3 #27 (May 2010)
Deadpool Wade Winston WilsonX-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 WagnerUncanny 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 MunroeUncanny X-Force, vol. 2 (January 2013–January 2014) [7]
Puck Eugene Milton Judd
Bishop Lucas Bishop
Spiral Rita Wayword
Marrow SarahX-Force, vol. 4 #1 (February 2014) [8]
ForgetMeNot XabiX-Force, vol. 4 #15 (February 2015)
Beast Henry "Hank" Philip McCoyX-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 QuireX-Force, vol. 6 #2 (November 2019) [10]

2020s recruits

CharacterNameJoined in
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

Infiltrators

CharacterNameJoined inNotes
Copycat Vanessa Geraldine Carlysle New Mutants #100 (April 1991) [1] Infiltrated by replacing Domino.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 These X-Force members were also the only members of X-Men's strike team: Archangel, Caliban, Cyclops, Domino, Elixir, Hepzibah, Vanisher, Wolfsbane, Wolverine and X-23.

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