Trivia / X-Force

• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: In predictive programming conspiracy theories, issue #3 has been referred to as an issue of Spider-Man due to a guest appearance by Spider-Man.
• Executive Meddling: Marvel initially defended the Diana, Princess of Wales plot from Vol. 2, then got cold feet when it was too late to do anything but hastily recolour and rename the character.
• Follow the Leader: Part of the reason why the Externals never really took off is how, aside from Gideon, most of them were derivative of other, more popular characters in appearance. As mentioned above, Absalom was physically interchangeable with Tyler Dayspring, better known as the villain Genesis. Saul had a decent background as a Mongolian warlord who had had the bad luck to cross paths with a younger Apocalypse, but his physical appearance in the modern day was an awful Fu Manchu stereotype. And Candra was more or less a blonde Selene, just with a taste for red rather than black in her wardrobe.
• Technology Marches On: Shatterstar demonstrates advanced mental capability by flipping through television channels rapidly. This ignores the delay between changing channels, and would look like childish behavior.
• What Could Have Been: Jeph Loeb's intention to reveal Shatterstar and Rictor as being in a romantic relationship ended up being dropped after he left, and the characters were both written out not long after.

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