The second volume of
Uncanny X-Men was launched in 2011, and was written by
Kieron Gillen. This volume was launched after the
Schism event which itself was born out of the event
House of M, in which nearly the entire mutant race was depowered. The
X-Men split themselves into two, following either
Cyclops's or
Wolverine's ideologies. This volume focused on Cyclops's "Extinction Team" as they went to any length to prevent the extinction of mutants or save the world in general, while demonstrating to the world that mutants still had a
Badass Army. The volume ended in 2012 with the
Avengers vs. X-Men event changing the entire course for Cyclops and his followers.
The second volume provides examples of the following tropes:
- An Arm and a Leg: Emma loses an arm against Mr. Sinister. Being in diamond form, she doesn't die from blood loss or anything, and she gets better.
- Badass Army: Cyclops' goal, kind of carried over from the previous volume, was to establish that mutants still had one, despite the even lower numbers.
- Badass Crew: The Extinction team, who are the protagonists. They are the biggest heavy hitters of the X-Men.
- Big Bad: Mr Sinister. He watches the team since Schism, then tries to replace humanity with an army of his clones using Celestial tech, nearly succeeds in defeating the Phoenix Five during Avengers vs. X-Men and ends up murdering and impersonating their PR-specialist to leave completely without punishment at the end of the run. He is also the first reason for Scott to become willing to escape his captivity.
- The Big Guy: Colossus and Namor are the heavy hitters of the Extinction Team.
- Cannon Fodder: When the Extinction Team attacks Sinister's new city, they find that he has turned the civilians into clones of himself. Most are barely equipped to deal with one X-Man, let alone a team, and are dressed mainly for style. Needless to say, he did not give any shits about their well-being.
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Continuity Lockout: You may think an issue 1 is a good place to jump on... No.- Even if you read all of the previous issues, the mural the Apex made of the cast of Uncanny X-Force will make no sense unless you read that series, specifically the "Dark Angel Saga".
- Don't Make Me Destroy You: Logan rigs the island/asteroid to blow up and claims he will press the trigger whether or not anyone evacuates. He turns out to be bluffing.
- Friendly Sniper: Hope Summers.
- Planet of Hats: Well, Area of Hats. The Apex, a species that was born from the actions of Archangel during Uncanny X-Force, are all elitist snobs who look down on others.
- Power Copying: Hope can copy more than one power at a time.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: During Schism, Cyclops is the Blue Oni to Wolverine's Red Oni.
- Secret-Keeper: Magneto goes out of his way to keep X-Force a secret from Scott, who disbanded the previous incarnation of the team. It helps that he got Wolverine to assassinate someone for him.
- Ship Tease: Emma and Namor. They already had a history, since Emma tried to recruit Namor into the Hellfire Club.
- Take That!: The Apex didn't think humans were sophisticated enough to grasp the concept of a man's husband, so in the translation device he made it comes out as "unwife".
- Token Evil Teammate:
- Colossus, who at the time was host of Cyttorak, although it wasn't a consistent thing.
- Also, Magik, who is still in the brig for her actions in the New Mutants series.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Captain America gives one to Cyke when he has his team leave a team-up in order to help Hope.
