Infinity War has a neat mix of avenger fighting for good and you know what?
There’s someone else in town rounding up a super-team to fight evil!
Deadpool 2 appropriates the X-Force to take on the time-travelling Cable.
While we want to take a closer look at its members, we’ll leave Colossus and Negasonic
Teenage Warhead out of it because in the end, they will still be more X-Men than X-Force.
Domino
Domino is the only female member of DP’s new team.
She’s the result of a secret government project to create the perfect weapon (apparently
the government is not very imaginative when it comes to secret projects), similar to the
weapon-X project that created Wolverine.
Domino was the the program’s sole survivor (imagine that.), but still discarded as a
failure due to her powers not matching what the government had in mind for a perfect weapon.
After escaping the program she became an ice cold merc.
In her early days she already worked with Cable in the mercenary group Six Pack and
they were even an item at one point.
Later she joined X-Force and was even their leader for a time.
What can Domino do?
Simply put, Domino is a really lucky gal.
She unconsciously manipulates things using telekinesis so that they are always at an
advantage and the opponent is always on the losing end.
This ability cannot be consciously controlled and comes to the fore in dangerous or otherwise
stressful situations.
So it's really just changing one’s own luck.
In addition, she is an expert shooter and fighter and will most certainly keep DP’s
foes on their toes.
Bedlam
The second team member is Bedlam, who actually has a super tragic backstory.
Orphaned at age 5, Jesse Aaronson (Bedlam’s real name) went from one foster home to the
next and also went from one therapist to the next, needing treatment for his emotional
outbursts.
Jesse later discovered that he had a brother named Christopher who was responsible for
the death of their parents.
When Jesse was 19 he hired to Domino to find his brother, along with the X-Force’s help.
What can Bedlam do?
Bedlam generates a bio-electromagnetic field.
This allows him to recognize energy signatures, scan them and manipulate them.
As you can imagine, if Bedlam’s around you might want to hide your electrical appliances.
He can also affect a human brain’s electric field, inflicting a lot of pain and confusion.
Shatterstar
We come to perhaps the most outlandish X-Force member.
Shatterstar hails from the planet Mojoworld where he lived as a gladiator in the arenas
of the tyrant Mojo.
He has a big connection to Earth however, being the child of the mutants Dazzler and
Longshot.
And guess what, thanks to some time-travelling shenanigans, he is also his own grandfather!
Exciting huh?
Because of his gladiatorial career in Mojoworld he was genetically modified - and his DNA
was later used to create Longshot.
All very simple as you can see, but you know what?
This is exactly the kind of messy backstory that Deadpool can take the piss out of.
Maybe in the film Shatterstar is simply a stowaway in Cable’s journey or maybe, given
all the wackiness already going on, this just won’t even be talked about.
What can Shatterstar do?
Shatter is endowed with super-everything basically, strength, speed, you name it!
He was after all, engineered to be the perfect killing machine.
And of course, he fights with two swords, which always ups the cool factor.
Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is an interesting mutant.
The young Axel Cluney - no relation to George - got his skills aged 14 - in a way that haunted
him and gave him nightmares for a long long time.
What can Zeitgeist do?
To put it simply, Zeitgeist can vomit an acid that can eat through almost anything.
It can allegedly eat through 10 cm of steel in less than 30 seconds.
To avoid unfortunate accidents he wears a mouthpiece made of some unknown super-resistant
polymer.
As we said before, this ability manifested itself when Axel was 14.
He was in make out town with a girl on the beach when an unfortunate accident happened.
This event tormented him for a very long time.
But to be sure, an acid-regurgitating mutant would be perfect fodder for Deadpool’s jokes.
Peter
Peter is the final member of Deadpool’s X-Force.
So far he’s been shown only once.
He has no powers or special abilities (from a mutant point of view at least), he’s just
an average joe.
According to his twitter profile he’s really into bees, enjoys videos of underwater lava
and have we mentioned bees?
What utility he has in battle remains to be seen.
Maybe he can call upon bees to help him?
So, which member of Deadpool’s X-Force do you think is the best?
Are you looking forward to Deadpool 2?
Let us know in the comments.
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