X-FORCE IV

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19th August 2013

First appearance: X-Men: Second Coming #2
Last appearance: Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #35

Membership: Wolverine, Archangel, Psylocke, Deadpool, Fantomex, Deathlok Prime, Nightcrawler (AoA), E.V.A.
Allies: The Amazing X-Men (AoA), Beast, Genesis II, Kitty Pryde, Ultimaton
Leader: Wolverine


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

  • X-Men: Second Coming #2 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #35 [team disbanded]

Archangel (Warren 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-Men: Second Coming #2 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #13 [betrayed team after being overtaken by Apocalypse]

Psylocke (Elizabeth Gloriana Braddock)

First appearance: Captain Britain (1st series) #8

Powers: telepathic, telekinetic, focus her mental energies into a psionic katana
 

Membership stints

  • X-Men: Second Coming #2 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #35 [disbanded team]

Fantomex (Charlie Cluster 7 / Jean-Phillippe Charles)

First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #128

Powers: genetically-engineered strength, speed, agility, endurance and reflexes, nano-active blood, intuitively read the body language of others, misdirection power can implant people with ideas and illusions, manifest his primary nervous system externally as E.V.A.

Membership stints

  • X-Men: Second Coming #2 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #27 [murdered by the Skinless Man]

Deadpool (Wade Wilson)

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

Powers: regeneration factor granting augmented strength, agility, endurance, reflexes, massive recuperative powers and virtual immortality

Membership stints

  • X-Men: Second Coming #2 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #35 [team disbanded]

Deathlok Prime (Unit L17)

First appearance: Wolverine: Weapon X #11

Powers: cybernetic strength, speed, endurance, reflexes, and durability, scanning and targeting sensors, tachyon transmitter, laser claws, repulsor blasts, molecular acid, teleportation

Membership stints

  • Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #8 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #31 [left team to destroy Ultimaton and "the World"]

E.V.A.

First appearance (as part of Fantomex): New X-Men (1st series) #128
First appearance (separate from Fantomex): Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #27

Powers: nano-active metallic gynoid, possessing superhuman intelligence, advanced sensory perception, and the ability to reassume vehicular form as a flying saucer with VTOL capabilities, scanners, bio-laser weapons, and sub-light propulsion engines

Membership stints

  • Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #27 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #35 [team disbands]

    Note: E.V.A. is Fantomex’s nervous system, which exists independently from Fantomex’s body. After his death, she was able to survive by separating from Fantomex’s body and take on a humanoid form.

Nightcrawler (Kurt Darkholme)

First appearance: X-Men Alpha

Powers: peak human agility and reflexes, prehensile tail, teleportation, control over the inter-atomic bonding between molecules allows him to cling to any surface, light-sapping field and indigo fur enable him to blend in with shadows, razor-edged fencing foils

Membership stints

  • Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #19 to Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #32 [betrayed team]

    Note: Kurt Darkholme is an alternate-reality Nightcrawler from the Age of Apocalypse. He joined Wolverine’s X-Force team to get revenge on his enemies from his timeline who had fled into the 616-universe.