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. The team was specifically designed to be media superstars. The team, created by
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and
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, first appears in ''
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'' #116 and originally assumed the moniker X-Force, taking the name of the more traditional superhero team, who appear in #117 (June 2001) claiming to be "the real X-Force".


Publication history

In 2001, the
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family of titles were being revamped by the newly appointed
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editor-in-chief
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. The aim was to make the titles more critically and commercially successful. Former
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hired writer
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, best known for his
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comics such as ''
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'' and ''
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'', and '' Madman'' artist
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, as the new creative team for ''
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'', starting with issue #116. Prior to Milligan and Allred's first issue, ''X-Force'' sold well, but had not been the critical success Quesada wanted. Milligan and Allred completely revamped the series, designing a team more akin to
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contestants than the gritty, violent paramilitary group originally portrayed in the series. The title was laced with Milligan's
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take on the superhero team as well as general
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toward the entire genre. Milligan wrote that he saw the characters'
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s as "vehicles for exploring our celebrity and fame-obsessed society." "My mutants all have agents, negotiate fees for image rights, open megastores and live the dream. People die in my comic. We even have a character called Dead Girl." Milligan and Allred would regularly play with killing off the title characters: In their first issue, they wiped out the entire team, with only two exceptions. This dramatic revision of the series was not universally accepted. Many readers wanted "their" X-Force back, a complaint Milligan later parodied in the pages of the title. Alonso described the series as "a hostile takeover of the X-Men paradigm." However, the title was receiving mainstream media coverage in titles like ''
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''. ''X-Force'' #116 was the first Marvel Comics title since ''
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(CCA) approval seal, due to the violence depicted in the issue. The CCA, which governed the content of American comic books, rejected the issue, requiring that changes be made. Instead, Marvel simply stopped submitting comics to the CCA. ''X-Force'' was canceled with issue #129 in 2002 and renamed ''X-Statix''; it restarted with a new issue #1. ''X-Statix'' carried on the same themes as ''X-Force'', but with an increasingly satirical tone. Milligan planned to deploy
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as a character in a story-arc beginning in ''X-Statix'' #13: she was slated to return from the dead as a mutant superhero. However, when news of this leaked out to the media, a series of objections followed, most notably from the British
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''. A spokesperson for the British royal family called the planned story "appalling." Milligan responded to the controversy, writing in the British daily newspaper ''
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'' that Diana fit in well with X-Statix as someone "famous for being famous" and that he would like to write a story where
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joined the team, if he could convince Marvel to let him. On July 10, 2003, Marvel announced that they would remove Princess Diana from the story, replacing her with a fictional pop star named Henrietta Hunter. Although sales of the title during this time were moderate, they soon began to decline drastically. After a story-arc that pitted X-Statix against The
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, low sales prompted the title's cancellation with issue #26, published in 2004. In the last issue Milligan and Allred killed off the entire team, serving up one last parody of the superhero genre, while tying up the remaining plot threads. In 2006, Marvel Comics published the five-issue miniseries ''X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl'', which featured Dead Girl teaming up with
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to combat a group of villains who have returned from the dead. The series is written by Milligan, with covers by Allred. The storyline (which features the returns of the Anarchist, the Orphan, and U-Go Girl) parodies the manner in which creators in the industry handle death in comic books, with popular characters often brought back from the dead. In 2019, ''Giant Sized X-Statix'' was published and written by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred the original creators of X-Statix. The title showcased a new version of the team consisting of the new U Go-Girl, Doop, Vivisector, Mister Sensitive, The A, and Phatty as well as a new team the X-Cellent with its members being Zeitgeist, Hurt John, Mirror Girl, and Uno and alumni/former members of
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like Plazm, the Anarchist, La Nuit, Battering Ram, and Gin Genie. In 2020, ''The X-Cellent'' was announced as a successor to ''X-Statix''.


Members

X-Statix is a team of colorfully dressed and emotionally immature young
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s. They are assembled and marketed as superstars, first by the mysterious Coach, and later by media mogul Spike Freeman.


Team

*Anarchist, the team's self-proclaimed "token"
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enables him to fire energy bolts *Bloke, a mutant with the ability to change the color of his skin, like a
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*Dead Girl, a mixture of
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and
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. Her civilian name has never been fully revealed, but she admitted after some cajoling that her first name is/was "Moonbeam". Dead Girl's mutant gene allows her to return to semi-life after dying; she is also able to become
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and communicate with other dead people. *
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), and serves as the team's
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*El Guapo, a sexy male mutant with a sentient flying skateboard *Henrietta Hunter, a female pop star who is inexplicably reanimated with enhanced physical abilities and empathy (This character was originally written as Diana, Princess of Wales, but Marvel decided to rewrite her when news of this plan caused controversy.) *Mysterious Fan Boy, the self-proclaimed greatest fan of the X-Statix team. He is placed on the team so that his reality-warping powers and unstable personality can be monitored and controlled. *Orphan, a.k.a. Mister Sensitive, the team's ''de facto'' leader, and a mutant with purple skin and two antennae protruding from his forehead. He possesses heightened senses, superhuman speed, and the ability to levitate *Phat, a gay white man who can harden, soften, and increase the size of any part of his body by expanding his subcutaneous fat layer *Saint Anna, an Irish-Argentinian mutant with the ability to levitate and control the motion of objects as well as physically and mentally heal others *
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, an African American character who is capable of extending thin spikes from his body or launching them as projectiles *U-Go Girl, a blue-skinned, redheaded,
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teleporter who was once romantically linked to Zeitgeist and then to Orphan *Venus Dee Milo, whose body was made entirely of crackling red energy that allowed her to teleport, project concussive blasts of energy, and heal minor wounds *Vivisector, a bookish, gay scholar who can transform himself into a
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Mentors

*Coach, the manipulative mentor of the team while it was still operating as X-Force. He has only one arm and red eyes. Coach has the second X-Force team eradicated in order to start a new one. *Spike Freeman, an amoral, thrill-seeking billionaire, he assists the team by auditioning new members, and by managing its public relations


Allies

*Lacuna, a young girl named Woodstock who seeks to join the team, she has the power of time manipulation *
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, the mentor of the X-Men who assists X-Statix on some occasions. He constructs special suits to accommodate Orphan and Venus Dee Milo's mutations. *
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, an old friend of Doop's who helps Orphan take down Coach and his back-up team *O-Force, a mutant superhero team


X-Force

In Milligan and Allred's first issue of ''X-Force'', nearly the entire team is killed off in an incident called the Boyz R Us Massacre. This precursory team, of which only U-Go Girl, Doop, and Anarchist survive, also included: *Battering Ram, who has superhuman strength and durability as well as a thick skull which sported two ram-like horns and purple skin. *Gin Genie, who can direct
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energy from her body if she had consumed alcohol *La Nuit, a Frenchman who can generate a cloak of dark energy around him that disperses light and controls objects. *Plazm, a living, lighter-than-air, liquid man who can control metabolic functions upon contact with another or through a spray from his hands *Sluk, who has a face composed of tentacles. *Zeitgeist, the team leader, who can vomit acidic ooze from his mouth. He conspires with Coach to have his teammates killed, but is caught in the crossfire and killed as well. He previously had a
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with U-Go Girl.


Collected editions

X-Statix's appearances have been collected into the following
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: Famous, Mutant & Mortal'' (hardcover, 288 pages, July 2003, ) collects: ** ''Volume 1: New Beginnings'' (collects ''X-Force'' #116–120, 128 pages, November 2001, ) ** ''Volume 2: Final Chapter'' (collects ''X-Force'' #121–129, 224 pages, November 2002, ) *''X-Statix'': ** ''Volume 1: Good Omens'' (collects ''X-Statix'' #1–5, Marvel, 2002, ) ** ''Volume 2: Good Guys & Bad Guys'' (collects ''X-Statix'' #6–10, ''Wolverine/Doop'' #1–2 and ''X-Men Unlimited'' #41, Marvel, 2003, ) ** ''Volume 3: Back From the Dead'' (collects ''X-Statix'' #11–18, Marvel, 2004, ) ** ''Volume 4: X-Statix vs. The Avengers'' (collects ''X-Statix'' #19–26, Marvel, 2004, ) *''X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl'' (collects 5-issue limited series, Marvel, 2006, ) The entire run of ''X-Statix'' is collected in a hardcover
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, which collects: ''X-Force'' #116–129; ''Brotherhood'' #9; ''X-Statix'' #1–26; ''Dead Girl'' #1–5; ''Wolverine/Doop'' #1–2; and material from ''X-Men Unlimited'' #41; ''I ♥ Marvel: My Mutant Heart'' and ''Nation X'' #4. (Marvel, 2011, )


Reception

Despite receiving condemnation from the British royal family, ''X-Statix'' received critical acclaim, if not high popularity among readers. In naming ''X-Statix'' as one of "5 Marvel Properties That, Even After ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ Are Still Too Weird for the Big Screen", ''
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'' wrote that ''X-Statix'' "viciously deconstructed every phony bit of comic-book artifice", put "fame-whoring media culture on trial", and confronted issues of race, class, and sexuality. IGN wrote that the frequency with which characters were killed off "lent the book an air of danger and unpredictability rare to mainstream superhero titles." In 2012, ''Entertainment Weekly'' included ''X-Statix'' in a list of "15 Comic Books We Want to See as Movies", saying that the work "has never looked more timely." Previously, in 2003, the magazine had given the series an A rating, calling it a "razor-sharp media critique with hyperbolic dialogue." Fumettologica praised the subtlety of the
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in its satire, mentioning the character Anarchist's fear that people won't support adding a second African American to the team.


In other media

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in opposing a
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cure, only to be killed by Iceman. *Zeitgeist appears in the film ''
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'', portrayed by
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recruit him into
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. However, Zeitgeist is killed on their first mission after crosswinds blow him into a woodchipper.


Notes


References

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