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* BrokenPedestal: In "Back from the Dead", as the public sours on X-Statix in the wake of their failure to take out the Random Killer, Guy learns that [[spoiler:Edie helped sell WMD's to Saddam Hussein.]]
* CaptainEthnic: Gleefully parodied with [=EuroTrash=], a supervillain team made up of ethnic stereotypes - The Wall is a {{Germanic Depressive|s}}, Surrender Monkey is a CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey, Oxford Blue is basically Creator/HughGrant as the Hulk, etc. When a potential buyer balks at how crudely stereotypical they are, Spike Freeman cheerfully tells him that that's ''exactly'' how Americans like their stereotypes.
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** Parodied with Venus Dee Milo. Everyone praises Venus when she first shows up, but Guy is extremely wary of adding such a seemingly "perfect" member to the team. It isn't until she reveals just how screwed up and neurotic she is that he warms up toher. her.
** Played straight with Henrietta Hunter; she was supposed to be Princess Di, but Marvel refused to let Milligan and Allred do that, so they were forced to try and sell a generic fictional celebrity as someone that the rest of the team would actually workwith.with.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey: There's actually a character named "Surrender Monkey," leader of a team of supervillains whose entire gimmick is being horrible ethnic stereotypes. He has the amazing mutant ability to know ''exactly'' the right moment to run away from a fight. Subverted when he comes back later on and is revealed to not be French at all but rather an American Francophile.
* CompanionCube: El Guapo's board is sentient.
** Parodied with Venus Dee Milo. Everyone praises Venus when she first shows up, but Guy is extremely wary of adding such a seemingly "perfect" member to the team. It isn't until she reveals just how screwed up and neurotic she is that he warms up to
** Played straight with Henrietta Hunter; she was supposed to be Princess Di, but Marvel refused to let Milligan and Allred do that, so they were forced to try and sell a generic fictional celebrity as someone that the rest of the team would actually work
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey: There's actually a character named "Surrender Monkey," leader of a team of supervillains whose entire gimmick is being horrible ethnic stereotypes. He has the amazing mutant ability to know ''exactly'' the right moment to run away from a fight. Subverted when he comes back later on and is revealed to not be French at all but rather an American Francophile.
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* DirtyOldMan: A RunningGag in this series is Professor Xavier's creepy interest in the sex lives of young mutants, to the point that he ''just happened'' to have a suit prepared for Venus so that she could engage in sex.
* {{Doorstopper}}: The 2011 omnibus clocks in at over 1200 pages (the longest book Marvel has ever printed) and weighs almost eight pounds.
* {{Doorstopper}}: The 2011 omnibus clocks in at over 1200 pages (the longest book Marvel has ever printed) and weighs almost eight pounds.
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* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: When he first joined X-Force, Guy Smith at least tried to be a good guy, but between his depression over Edie's death, his realizations that Edie was not really as wonderful as he thinks, and his growing suspicions that his teammates are all self-absorbed assholes, Guy gets increasingly comfortable with doing terrible things.
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* AttractiveZombie: Despite being reanimated and frequently having noticeable wounds, Dead Girl has no shortage of admirers.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, Phat and Vivisector are both killed off.]]
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:El Guapo gets impaled on his own damned skateboard]].
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Subverted. At the end of the second-to-last issue, the team decides to split up, but Guy convinces them to pull one last mission. [[spoiler:They're all brutally killed, even Dead Girl]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:El Guapo gets impaled on his own damned skateboard]].
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:El Guapo gets impaled on his own damned skateboard.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:El Guapo gets impaled on his own damned skateboard]].
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Subverted. At the end of the second-to-last issue, the team decides to split up, but Guy convinces them to pull one last mission. [[spoiler:They're all brutally killed, even Dead Girl]].Girl.]]
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** In the first arc, poor Ocean has her legs torn off by zombies. Luckily for her, Arnie Lundberg uses his powers to give her new ones.
** In the "Back from the Dead" arc, El Guapo loses both of his legs in an explosion. He remains legless for the rest of his run.
** In the first arc, poor Ocean has her legs torn off by zombies. Luckily for her, Arnie Lundberg uses his powers to give her new ones.
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* WhiteKnighting: During the "Back from the Dead" arc, Phat redirects a rocket from hitting Henrietta Hunter. This earns him the ire of his teammates when they discover that the rocket ended up hitting El Guapo and blowing his legs off.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As with Milligan and Allred's ''X-Force'', ''X-Statix'' is premised upon the notion that everybody ''loves'' mutants.
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The explosion that kills Phat blows off one of his feet. It later comes falling back to Earth and (literally) brains Dead Girl.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:El Guapo gets impaled on his own damned skateboard]].
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''X-Statix'' was a Creator/MarvelComics series spinning off from Creator/PeterMilligan and Creator/MikeAllred's popular run on ''ComicBook/XForce''. Beginning several weeks after the death of Edie Sawyer, the series follows the team's attempt to rebuild itself. Later arcs dealt with Guy Smith's increasing disillusionment with being a super-celebrity, Miles' Myles' ill-advised efforts to bring his feral powers under control, and Venus Dee Milo's search for her long-lost family, among other stories.
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** In "Moons of Venus", Guy's superhuman sensitivity grows at the same time that he's dealing with the fallout from [[spoiler:Lacuna publically revealing that he had her kill off Fanboy X]]. He doesn't handle it well, and it doesn't help that a lunatic called "Bad Guy" starts appearing.
** Tike's stand-alone issue has him becoming the leader and utterly hating it, and becoming uncomfortable with the fact that the team is frequently sent out to kill dark-skinned terrorists.
** Dead Girl's stand-alone issue has her coming to grips with the fact that being in the spotlight means she might actually be held responsible for the behavior of her more deranged fans. It's further complicated by the fact that her powers give her responsibilities to her fellow deceased that sometimes conflict with her responsibilities to the team.
** A two-part arc had Myles become disillusioned with being known as the gay wolfman with the hair-trigger temper, and his extreme attempts to remedy that situation.
** In "Moons of Venus", Guy's superhuman sensitivity grows at the same time that he's dealing with the fallout from [[spoiler:Lacuna publically revealing that he had her kill off Fanboy X]]. He doesn't handle it well, and it doesn't help that a lunatic called "Bad Guy" starts appearing.
** Tike's stand-alone issue has him becoming the leader and utterly hating it, and becoming uncomfortable with the fact that the team is frequently sent out to kill dark-skinned terrorists.
** Dead Girl's stand-alone issue has her coming to grips with the fact that being in the spotlight means she might actually be held responsible for the behavior of her more deranged fans. It's further complicated by the fact that her powers give her responsibilities to her fellow deceased that sometimes conflict with her responsibilities to the team.
** A two-part arc had Myles become disillusioned with being known as the gay wolfman with the hair-trigger temper, and his extreme attempts to remedy that situation.
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* WorstNewsJudgementEver: "We interrupt this special famine-relief bulletin to bring you a breaking story. Yes, it's official. Venus Dee Milo is a VIRGIN!"
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* TheChainsOfCommand: Guy Smith was originally made the leader of the team to head off a leadership contest between Anarchist and U-Go Girl. He certainly never asked for it or wanted it, and in the "Moons of Venus" arc, the stress gets so bad that he willingly hands over leadership to the Anarchist.
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: [[spoiler:Peter Milligan bloodily slaughtered all the surviving team members in the book's final issue. Not that this stopped him from revisiting some of them for a miniseries set in the afterlife]].
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'''''X-Statix''''' was a Creator/MarvelComics series spinning off from Creator/PeterMilligan and Creator/MikeAllred's popular run on ''ComicBook/XForce''. Beginning several weeks after the death of Edie Sawyer, the series follows the team's attempt to rebuild itself. Later arcs dealt with Guy Smith's increasing disillusionment with being a super-celebrity, Miles' ill-advised efforts to bring his feral powers under control, and Venus Dee Milo's search for her long-lost family, among other stories.
!!This series contains examples of:
* BadassGay: Phat and Vivisector.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In one two-part arc, Vivisector tries to have his powers removed. Unfotunately, the scientist he hired to remove them took those powers for himself and became convinced that ''he'' was Vivisector, and went after Miles' father.
* CreepyChild: Arnie Lund, a disfigured teenage boy with frightening reality-warping powers.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: For a long time, Venus believed that she'd accidentally vaporized her whole family.
* DeathIsCheap: Utterly subverted in this series.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Marvel shot down "Di Another Day", a storyline that would have featured Princess Di coming back from the dead and joining the team, because of outrage from the United Kingdom. Instead, readers got "Back from the Dead", a convoluted, messy storyline in which a generic celebrity comes back from the dead and joins the team.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Subverted. At the end of the second-to-last issue, the team decides to split up, but Guy convinces them to pull one last mission. [[spoiler:They're all brutally killed, even Dead Girl]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Phat dies in order to protect the rest of the team from a bomb]].
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: El Guapo is forced into this role after getting his legs blown off during a mission. He's not exactly thrilled about it.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:All of the surviving team members die in the final issue]].
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Phat is a white boy who acts and talks like a black dude.
* PunnyName: Venus Dee Milo.
* RapeAsBackstory: It's heavily implied in the "Moons of Venus" arc that Venus was sexually abused by her cousin.
* SuperOCD: Ironically (given his moniker), the Anarchist has obsessive-compulsive disorder. It gets exacerbated after he's temporarily made the leader of the team.
* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: [[spoiler:Peter Milligan bloodily slaughtered all the surviving team members in the book's final issue. Not that this stopped him from revisiting some of them for a miniseries set in the afterlife]].
* TheUnFavorite: Nothing that Vivisector does will ever be good enough for his Ivy-League professor dad.
!!This series contains examples of:
* BadassGay: Phat and Vivisector.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In one two-part arc, Vivisector tries to have his powers removed. Unfotunately, the scientist he hired to remove them took those powers for himself and became convinced that ''he'' was Vivisector, and went after Miles' father.
* CreepyChild: Arnie Lund, a disfigured teenage boy with frightening reality-warping powers.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: For a long time, Venus believed that she'd accidentally vaporized her whole family.
* DeathIsCheap: Utterly subverted in this series.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Marvel shot down "Di Another Day", a storyline that would have featured Princess Di coming back from the dead and joining the team, because of outrage from the United Kingdom. Instead, readers got "Back from the Dead", a convoluted, messy storyline in which a generic celebrity comes back from the dead and joins the team.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Subverted. At the end of the second-to-last issue, the team decides to split up, but Guy convinces them to pull one last mission. [[spoiler:They're all brutally killed, even Dead Girl]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Phat dies in order to protect the rest of the team from a bomb]].
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: El Guapo is forced into this role after getting his legs blown off during a mission. He's not exactly thrilled about it.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:All of the surviving team members die in the final issue]].
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Phat is a white boy who acts and talks like a black dude.
* PunnyName: Venus Dee Milo.
* RapeAsBackstory: It's heavily implied in the "Moons of Venus" arc that Venus was sexually abused by her cousin.
* SuperOCD: Ironically (given his moniker), the Anarchist has obsessive-compulsive disorder. It gets exacerbated after he's temporarily made the leader of the team.
* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: [[spoiler:Peter Milligan bloodily slaughtered all the surviving team members in the book's final issue. Not that this stopped him from revisiting some of them for a miniseries set in the afterlife]].
* TheUnFavorite: Nothing that Vivisector does will ever be good enough for his Ivy-League professor dad.
