History ComicBook / XFactor2006

[[caption-width-right:350:Re-tooled [[DorkAge Nineties]] as gritty noir.]]

* HornyDevils: Jezebel[=/=]Mephista is a red demoness with curly horns, an hourglass figure, and a very {{Stripperific}} outfit.

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* ShesGotLegs:
** After a ClothingDamage accident, Monet is forced to wear Madrox's shirt which leaves her legs exposed. Both Guido and Madrox start EatingTheEyeCandy and compliment her toned legs, she icily tells them MyEyesAreUpHere, but when [[TheCasanova Longshot]] starts doing it she [[HypocriticalHumor doesn't mind and says he's sweet to notice]].
** A [[TheQueenpin Queenpin]] Guido meets in South America is nicknamed "señora piernas" (Lady Legs) by the locals, for the shapely legs she ''used'' to have, since she [[AnArmAndALeg lost both her legs due to a landmine]].
** Madrox describes Hela's legs as making up eighty percent of her body.

* AbsoluteCleavage:
** Monet's [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monet_x_factor_costume.jpg outfit]] from issue #200 to #232. She wears her outfit zipped starting from issue #233.
** Hela wears a ''ludicrously'' threadbare outfit when the team tussles with her, until she gets serious and dons her typical outfit.

** They play a small part in the ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'' story, explaining to ComicBook/ScarletWitch about her [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} brother's]] attempt at restoring mutant powers with Terrigen Crystals. Rictor also ends up being {{Re Power}}ed by Wanda.

* DePower: A substantial part of the early run deals with the aftermath of the decimation, where most of the mutant population lost their power, most notably Rictor who is the only member of the team with no powers (At least until Wanda [[RePower gives him his powers back]] in ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade).

* BadassNormal: Rictor, who lost his powers in the Decimation. Creator/PeterDavid describes him as the "moody former mutant who believes he's useless and yet keeps happening to save the day." [[spoiler: Avengers: ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade officially repowers him thanks to the ComicBook/ScarletWitch herself.]]

* AscendedFanboy: Jamie Madrox keeps attempting to treat his Mutant adventures as Noir Detective novels. Usually, he fails miserably.

** In #231, Jamie is talking to the Tony Stark of another universe. When Tony asks if Wanda destroyed Jamie's world as well, Jamie asks if he means the ComicBook/ScarletWitch. Tony responds, "[[SarcasmMode No, Wanda the dog-faced boy. Of course the Scarlet Witch]].

** Bishop's Future of Earth-1191 shows up, when one of Madrox's dupes is sent there. The government is oppressive, several major cities are outright abandoned, Mutants are practically extinct, and the few left are put in camps guarded by [[KillerRobot sentinels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking to Madrox's horror]] no-one has flight rings or [[IWantMyJetpack jetpacks]], or even heard of [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Clouseau]].

** Siryn is and captured and left BoundAndGagged by an ex-mutant MadDoctor who wants to use her as a hostage to "incentivize" XF Investigations in their investigation on the Decimation. She's rescued by Rictor, but found the humiliation of becoming a DamselInDistress way worse than her physical injuries.
** Madrox is captured by Hydra at some point who try to {{Brainwash}} him into being their ManchurianAgent.

* BavarianFireDrill: The team fakes a bomb threat at Singularity HQ and then pose as bomb squad to sneak inside.
* BeardOfSorrow: Jamie grows one, after he [[spoiler:accidentally absorbs his newborn son]].

** It's heavily implied [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richard's]] EvilDoppelganger was planning to pull something like this on [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan]]. ComicBook/DoctorDoom actually found it so distasteful he had her kidnapped for the sole reason of keeping her out of his reach.

** The evil [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] the team faces is a leftover from the massive army of alternate Comicbook/{{FantasticFour}}s that team faced over in Creator/MarkMillar's "Master of Doom" storyline.
** Mention is made of Havok being a 'Nexus Being', meaning he's connected to every other version of himself in the {{Multiverse}}, as was established in {{ComicBook/Exiles}}.

* AllYourPowersCombined: The Isolationist has every mutant power at the same time, and can't turn them off, [[BlessedWithSuck making his life a living hell]]. He gets his name from living in the Arctic to try and dull the mental noise that comes with having the power of every mutant telepath. But when the Decimation occured, it dulled his pain enough for him to be able to travel to the civilized world, so he can try to finish off the remaining mutants.

** Siryn is and captured and left BoundAndGagged by an ex-mutant MadDoctor who wants to use her as a hostage to "incentivize" XF Investigations in their investigation on the Decimation. She's rescued by Rictor, but found the humilation of becoming a DamselInDistress way worse than her physical injuries.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Monet is completely nude when Cortex takes full control of her, but her body gets covered by some kind of of [[FormFittingWardrobe form fitting]] purple circuitry skin that hides her genitals.

** Layla helps start the Summers Rebellion, meaning she has a part in Bishop's origins. [[spoiler: And since she's responsible for Trevor Fitzroy's supervillian origin, she's also indirectly responsible for Emma Frost's turn to good.]]

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Layla manages to kick-start the Summers Rebellion by informing a few people that the government of Earth-1911 are planning to spy on everyone, not just what's left of Mutantkind. And as an extra nod, the issue contains a few visual references to the ''1984'' movie.

* BoomHeadshot: Vera attempts to kill Pip the Troll by putting a bullet in his head, but he ends up surviving it by [[BrainUploading magically transfering his mind into Monet's]].

* BuriedAlive: Comicbook/MisterFantastic is stuck inside a coffin and buried in Latveria by his EvilDoppelganger from an MirrorUniverse. He leaves him with an air breather so he'd suffocate slowly, but Madrox and the team rescue him.

** PhraseCatcher: The team eventually starts using it more then her, whenever they introduce her to someone else.

** Siryn can fly in the [[NotQuiteFlight same odd manner her father can, by manipulating sounds waves to propel herself through the air]], and sometimes even carries some of her teammates.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Arcade: "Why be timid when you can be boulder?"[[note]] For context, he is saying this while Guido has been imbedded into a boulder[[/note]].

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Tryp Jr. uses a TranquillizerDart on Siryn, which is extra effective on her, since not only it incapacitates her but leaves her vocals cords weakened for a while. When he tries it again a second time, he discovers she started using [[BulletproofVest kevlar collars]].

-->'''Guido''': Evening, gentlemen. My code name is "Can Crush You With A Glance" Man. And she's "Once Disemboweled A Man Just To Watch Him Die" Girl. Let's take ten seconds to to consider why we're called that and what it can mean for your long-term health prospects.

** In Issue #17, Rahne and Julio interfere in what they think is a mugging. However, the the "muggers" are actually FBI agents and their "victim" is actually Elijah Cross, the leader of the ex-Mutant terrorist group known as X-Cell.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Darwin's father Hector sells him out to the Karma Project for the promise of half a million dollars. Unfortunately for him, they have no intention of paying him and shoot him instead leaving him a coma.

** Monet having her mind or body taken over by someone else is a huge BerserkButton for her. When Pip accidentally jumps into her brain, she is pissed at him and threatens to kil him if he stays. Pip leaves the team to avoid Monet's wrath.

* WildCard: Madrox has a "X-Factor" dupe that likes to act in an unpredictable manner for amusement, doing things such as pushing Rictor off a roof or [[spoiler: strapping a bomb on himself and blowing up Tryp Sr. and Jr.]]

* BaldOfAwesome: Guido and Darwin are both bald super powered individuals.

** The [=SCARs=] was mean to be a black ops Search and Rescue team, but the cebernetic upgrades also cause the members to become mentally unstable, with Ballistique and Rococo beggining to [[PsychoForHire take on mercenary jobs]] on the side just to allow them to kill more.

* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: The future version of Cyclops has a robotic right arm and leg?]]

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: During ''The Quick and the Dead'', a man who fishes Pietro out of the sea calls him "Py-tro", instead of the usually more commonly accepted pronunciation of "pe-ay-tro"

Following the events of the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' storyline, Madrox's new-found wealth from winning a ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''-style game show allows him to recruit several of his former colleagues from the Paris branch of the now-defunct X-Corporation. New members include M (ComicBook/MonetStCroix), a powerless Rictor, Theresa Cassidy (Siryn), and Layla Miller (Butterfly). Later on other members would also join, such as Armando Munoz (Darwin), Comicbook/{{Longshot}}, Gaveedra-7 (ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}) and Pip the Troll. Lorna Dane (ComicBook/{{Polaris|Marvel Comics}}) and Alex Summers (Havok) also join the team in the final arcs.

** Vanora is build up to have a major confrontation with Rahne and has a partnership with Elder Tryp, but she's seemingly killed anticlimatically by Shatterstar without them even realizing she was Rahne's daughter from another universe. She's later seem fully recovering... but then never shows up again.

** In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently)he has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some early ''X-Factor'' issues make a big deal out of how Jamie has to absorb his dupes before they die, or else lose their memories. Dead dupes get the ability to be absorbed automatically right around the time Jamie needs to send some into potential future timelines.

** Baron Mordo gives one to Guido when the latter castigates him for feeding on Monet's life force to put his cancer into remission. [[NotSoDifferent Mordo replies by asking if the lengths he is going to for his survival is any different from what Mutants do to stay alive.]] Guido doesn't have an answer.

* WaifProphet: Layla comes off as one, being a small child that can [[{{Seer}} apparently tell the future]].

* CatchPhrase: Layla Miller is famous for her catch phrase "I know stuff", which is her explanation whenever asks her about the source of her [[WaifProphet comprehensive knowledge of future events]].

* CivvieSpandex: Jamie Madrox no longer has to wear a full-body costume to keep his powers relatively controlled, just a shirt version of it. Siryn, Shatterstar, Longshot and Strong Guy also sport clothing that is a mix between regular civilian outfits and superhero costumes. Monet occassionally wears a long jacket over her SpyCatsuit.

** In Issue #37, while investigating a abandoned warehouse the floor ends up collapsing and everyone but Monet falls in. Longshot thinks his luck powers ran out, but then the warehouse ''explodes'' and only Monet gets caught in it, which [[SuperToughness doesn't hurt her]] but end up destroying her clothes. She ends up having to wear one of Jamie's shirts for the rest of the mission.

* ComicBookDeath: Explored early on in the series, when Siryn is informed her dad has died (over in ''Deadly Genesis''). Siryn assumes, not unreasonably given da's an X-Man, that he might still be alive and refuses to even consider the possibility he might be pushing up the daises, much to everyone else's discomfort (admittedly, Siryn is GenreSavvy enough to point out the DeathIsCheap tendencies of X-Men, but the rest of X-Factor seem to be incapable of even considering the possibility that she might be right. Which she eventually is, of course[[note]]Though not for a few real-life years after this series ended[[/note]]).

* CureYourGays: [[spoiler:Rahne believes Rictor is only in a relationship with Shatterstar because he's been {{brainwashed}}, or something similar, and tries to pretend her child is his in order to get him back and "cure him". When confronted on this by an irate Rictor, she realises how silly it sounds.]]

* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: Baron Mordo who at some point contracted cancer and needs an oxygen tank. He captures Monet's father in order to lead her to a trap and then drain her so his body can fight back the cancer.

* DeathOfAChild: Infamously. When Siryn gives Madrox their son, Sean for him to hold he inadvertly absorbs him just like he does with his dupes, much to everyone's horror.

** Monet's skin colour changes hues a lot, most often leaning to lighter.

** Monet throws Madrox out of the window after he tells her about the LoveTriangle situation with between them and Siryn.

* TheDitherer: Madrox has a lot of trouble making decisions for himself or the team. Lampshaded by Val when she's trying to get him to work for the goverment again, he's much more comfortable taking orders than giving them.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Shatterstar dislikes guns, thinking they're not fit as a warriors weapon, as he wants to get close and personal with his opponents.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Madrox and Layla go through a lot of awful things, but by the end of the story, they've peacifully retired and are living in his old farm expecting their first child.

* EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:In the "They Keep Killing Madrox" arc, after dying, Madrox is sent to various {{Mirror Universe}}s right after the Madrox of that world died in there, each one worst than the last and he ends up dying in all of them only to find himself in a new one. Eventually one has the ComicBook/DoctorStrange of that universe send him back... but the villains Madrox met also come back with him.]]

** An evil AlternateSelf of [[Comicbook/MisterFantastic Reed Richards]] from an MirrorUniverse and tries to pull a KillAndReplace on the real Reed and tries to ally with ComicBook/DoctorDoom.

* FaceMonsterTurn: ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} captures Madrox and turns him into one of his demons. Siryn-Morrigan rescues him and turns him back human.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Cortex is thrown into a vortex to a unknown reality and are never seen again. Falcone was thrown into one, and since they're Fitzoy's time portals, he probably ended up ''somewhere''...

* FemmeFatale: Hela when pretending to be a human looking to hire X-Factor. Jamie's narration notes that it plays the trope to the hilt, complete with a very revealing outfit.

** Despite "knowing stuff", Layla is afraid of changing things too much only to make them worse later, expecifically referencing to the Butterfly Effect. And later, [[spoiler:Guido's resurrection starts screwing up her predictions.]]

** After being captured by the Karma Project, Darwin awakes to find he's been [[UndressingTheUnconscious stripped naked]] and is being kept [[PeopleJars in a tank full of liquid]]. Later, his body evolves into giving him enough strenght to break the glass and attack his captors completely starkers, with some CensorShadow or SceneryCensor covering his crotch.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: When Theresa reveals she is pregnant with [[spoiler: Jamie's]] child, Monet suggest abortion. Theresa refuses because of this trope.

** All the [=SCARs=] members can heal from nearly fatal wounds, with Ballistique surving a bullet to the head, as well as aging much slower.

* HornyDevils: Jezebel[=/=]Mephista is a red demoness with curly horns, a hourglass figure and a very {{Stripperific}} outfit.

** Issue #215 opens with a close-up of something clawing at Jamie's face. The story reveals it to be a Vandella, a vampiric demon spirit that is spoiler: possessing Jamie's client, Adina Malcolm.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Arcade: "Why be timid when you can be boulder?"[[note]] For context, he is saying this while Guido has been imbeded into a boulder[[/note]].
* InferredSurvival: When told by ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} about her father's death, Siryn refuses to believe it because X-Men come back from the dead all the time, but it's clear she just in [[FiveStagesOfGrief denial]] at that point.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Theresa, who is a recovering alcoholic, finally gives into temptation after her first encounter with the Morrigan. [[spoiler: She is stopped by the ghost of her father]].

* KarmaHoudini: Several of the team's villains tend to get away scott-free. Sometimes it's because they're above the team's weight-class, but in a few cases, such as the [=SCARs=], they don't think it's worth the effort.

** After their cybernetic implants made Ballistique and Rococo unstable the SCAR program was disbanded and their were both mind wiped and given civilian lives. Sylvius, the only member who wasn't affected, was allowed to continue her military career and was told her former teammates were killed in action. When they learn this, they team up go into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the former heads of the program.

* TheLeader: Madrox is the leader of X-Factor Investigations, a position he struggles with a lot due do his indeciviness. When Havok and Polaris rejoin the team, Havok and Madrox end up splitting the leadership, with Madrox leading the civilian jobs while Havok leads the ones given by Valerie Cooper and the X-Men.

** When arriving in Latveria to rescue ComicBook/InvisibleWoman, a pissed off Monet, Shatterstar and ComicBook/TheThing simply decide to storm Doom's castle from the front door. ComicBook/MisterFantastic later points out how insane the idea of a frontal attack on Doom's castle is.

** During a crossover tha ties into the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', Monet and Guido end up in a brawl with She-Hulk event when She-Hulk goes after Longshot [[spoiler: who is actually a Skrull in disguise]].

* LiteralMinded: Longshot and Shatterstar take things very literally. When Monet advices Shatterstar to "mark his territory" (concerning the Rahne/Rictor/Shatterstar LoveTriangle) he thinks she's suggesting for him to urinate on Rictor. She almost lets him do it.

** Siryn's CompellingVoice power requires people to be able to hear her. So deaf folk, or anyone with ear plugs, are immune.
** Monet has SuperToughness but she still needs to breath, so chloroform works on her the same as anyone else.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Damian Tryp is the one behind Althony Falcone and Cortex's actions in the "Summers Rebellion" arc.

-->'''Monet''': Remind me to kill Layla.
-->'''Theresa''': Not if I get to her first.

** In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently)he has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some early ''X-Factor'' issues make a big deal out of how Jamie has to absorb his dupes before they die, or else lose their memories. Dead dupes get the ability to be absorbed automatically right around the time Jamie needs to send some into potential future time-lines.

* PeopleJars: Once they capture him, Project Karma keeps Darwin contained fully concious in a huge jar full of liquid. Darwin can only watch on in horror the experiments they're doing to their other captives.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: A de-powered Blob calls Julio, who is latino, a "dumb tamale tosser". Julio understandably does not take this kindly.

* PopCulturedBadass: Madrox makes pop culture reference all the time, no matter the situation. When he gets stuck in a BadFuture, he's dismayed no one gets them.

* ProperlyParanoid: During a phone conversation in Issue #217, [[ComicBook/BlackCat Felicia Hardy]] warns Jameson that using his phone to communicate with her is dangerous as his line is not secure. Jameson dismisses her as paranoid, siting his bodyguards and the impossibility of anyone wanting to kill him. As it turns out, not only are the [=SCAR=]s team after Jameson for their next target but one of them has indeed tracked down Jameson by tapping his phone.

* RelationshipReveal: Rictor and Shatterstar, after years of subtext, finally got that on-panel kiss. After issues of dealing with an unrelated crossover, they finally score their second on panel kiss, and eventually [[spoiler: their first on panel love scene. Well, almost anyway. A certain wolf had to just show up and accidentally ruin it for the poor guys.]]

** Guido's UnexplainedRecovery is actually [[spoiler:Layla going against destiny and using her resurrective powers to bring him BackFromTheDead, but he ends up [[TheSoulless without a soul.]]]]

** The [=SCARs=] members go after the head of the program who responsible (including Jonah Jameson) for ruining their lives. They only managed to kill one before they're stopped by XF-Investigations.

** In Issue #231, [[spoiler: Deathlok aka Steve Rogers of Earth-TRN193, shoots his Tony Stark's secretary. It turns out she isn't a human but a robot and she returns fire]].

* ScienceFantasy: Keeping in mind that the protagonists are {{Mutants}}, whose super powers have a scientific, genetic basis (if in a HollywoodEvolution sort of way). But many of their antagonists, especially later in the series, are [[FunctionalMagic fully supernatural]] beings.

** Rahne and Rictor end up sleeping together after going through a lot of traumatical ordeals (Rahne getting a glimpse of a BadFuture, Rictor losing his chance at getting his powers back).

* SexyDiscretionShot: Used every time a characters has sex, usually we only see them kiss or starting to undress and the next time we see them they're post-coital under a ModestyBedsheet.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Rahne's transformation often destroys her clothes, so she eventually got used to being seen naked. But she's still disturbed when she's left naked after a fight and notices Shatterstar (her ex-boyfriends ''boyfriend'') EatingTheEyeCandy. He explains that it's because he's never seen a pregnant women naked. She ends up [[SexyCoatFlashing flashing him]] more just to sate his curiosity.
* SherlockScan: In Issue #201, Jamie deduces that Mister Fantastic (or rather, his counterpart from another universe) was the one at the cemetary since the set of foot prints found at the scene were more than two and a half feet apart while still maintaining even weight distribution, something that could only make sense if the person could literally [[RubberMan stretch his legs]].

** Madrox describes Hela's legs as making up eigthy percent of her body.

** In the mutant concentration camp of a BadFuture, Layla mentions how 80 years ago, China blasted a satellite in space into millions of pieces that were scattered across Earth's orbit. Some of those pieces then begin falling into the camp. Layla mentioned that there was a department focused on focused on monitoring these types of issues but it was shut down when the government reallocated funds to focus on mutants as a threat.

* SpitTake: In Issue #33, Guido does this in response to Jamie's joke about Mutants have rights protected under the constituion.

* SuicideByCop: One dupe does this after being DrivenToSuicide in order to prevent Madrox reabsorbing him.

** Shatterstar can create X shaped teleportation portals via his swords, as long as he has someone to use as an anchor that knows know about the location they're teleporting to.

-->'''Layla''': Madrox, you're kind of squishing my, y'know, things.
-->'''Jamie''': Sorry...

-->'''Theresa''': Your kid's still using my gall bladder as a trampoline, Madrox.
-->'''Monet''': Why does Siryn feel the need to announce these things?

** In Issue #4, Damian Tryp, Jr neutralizes Theresa by shooting her in the throat with a tranquilizer dart and the beats her up. He tries to tranq her again in Issue #12, but reveals that she learned from the last time Tryp ambushed her and wore a kevlar collar.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Early on, Monet adopts a French orphan ex-mutant named Nicole. A few issues later, she gets thrown in front of a subway train by Layla and turns out to be a robot. Precise amount of time spent acknowledging this at all (or indeed, that Nicole's gone at all)? 0.00 seconds.

** When Madrox tries to have a fist fight with Cortex, the latter just pulls out a gun and shoots him.

* WeatherManipulation: Damian Tryp can create and control high powered winds, including tornadoes.

** The "Breaking Points" arc advertized itself as one and it has [[spoiler:Guido pulling a FaceHeelTurn and joining Mephisto, Rahne finding her son and quitting the team, Lorna finding out she accidentally killed her parents as a child, Syrin becoming the new Morrigan]]

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Layla often acts more mature than her grown-up teammates, constantly helping their in personal issues.

* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: Guido claims that he turned down Val Cooper's offer for him to become sheriff of Mutant Town. In actuality, Val withdrew the offer since with the dwindling Mutant population, not to mention so many Mutants and former Mutants leaving Mutant Town, the post would be meaningless. When Guido asks Jamie how he figured this out, Jamie points out that Guido makes really big hand gestures when he lies.

** Trevor Fitzroy appears as part of the Summers Rebellion, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution for the most part]]. Jamie and Layla are more than aware of what he's going to do in the future, but neither of them want to kill him. Then Cortex shows up...

** Monet again in Issue #219 to the SCARs team. Pretty understandable as she is angry at one of them for [[spoiler: killing Guido]].

* RealityEnsues:
** When the team are dealing with an erupting volcano, at one point Jamie shows up late to the party and tries yelling something to Polaris, Rictor and Star. Then it shifts to their point of view, trying to figure out what the hell he's saying, because he's too far away for them to make out.
** In Issue #237, a petty drug dealer named Alfonse shoots at a Mojoworld assassin named Scattershot. It doesn't kill him but gives Shatterstar an opportunity to strike. Lord Defender, the leader of the amateur superhero team called the X-Ceptionals, offers Alfonse a spot on his team. Alfonse refuses in disgust not wanting to risk his life.
** [[spoiler: Monet suffers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown at the hands of Pluto which causes a brain injury. She refuses to tell anyone about it and gets into a fight with Guido resulting in her death.]]
** Monet having her mind or body taken over by someone else is a huge BerserkButton for her. When Pip accidentally jumps into her brain, she is pissed at him and threatens to kil him if he stays. Pip leaves the team to avoid Monet's wrath.

** A lot of them surround Damian Tryp, who was build up to be the BigBad of the story yet came to have less and less to do with the plot as the series went on.

* MyFutureSelfAndMe: [[spoiler: The Tryp "family" is are all Tryp using his TimeTravel powers to snatch them from their own timelines.]]

** In the third series and the miniseries preceding it, Jamie explained that for the past several years (after the end of the previous series, apparently) Jamie has been sending out dupes to lead independent lives. When they return to him and he reabsorbs them, he gets all their knowledge and skills, such as martial arts, lockpicking and lawyering. Additionally, both the Madrox mini and some early ''X-Factor'' issues make a big deal out of how Jamie has to absorb his dupes before they die, or else lose their memories. Dead dupes get the ability to be absorbed automatically right around the time Jamie needs to send some into potential future time-lines.

Following the events of the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' storyline, Madrox's new-found wealth from winning a ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''-style game show allows him to recruit several of his former colleagues from the Paris branch of the now-defunct X-Corporation. New members include M (ComicBook/MonetStCroix), a powerless Rictor, Theresa Cassidy (Siryn), and Layla Miller (Butterfly). Later on other members would also join, such as Armando Munoz (Darwin), Comicbook/{{Longshot}}, Benjamin Russell (ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}) and Pip the Troll. Lorna Dane (ComicBook/{{Polaris|Marvel Comics}}) and Alex Summers (Havok) also join the team in the final arcs.

* YouCanAlwaysTellALiar: Guido claims that he turned down Val Cooper's offer for him to become sheriff of Mutant Town. In actuality, Val withdrew the offer since with the dwindling Mutant population, not to mention so many Mutants and former Mutans leaving Mutant Town, the post would be meaningless. When Guido asks Jamie how he figured this out, Jamie points out that Guido makes really big hand gestures when he lies.

* YouKilledMyFather: Damian Tryp [[spoiler:killed Madrox parents with a tornado in the hope he would fall into his custody as a child.]]

** Monet: [[spoiler:Brought BackFromThedead by Guido thanks to his Hell lord powers.]] Having a little trouble coping with it, ended up having SexForSolace with Darwin.