


That mission statement would stick: every reinvention of the team (but one) would be centered around using whatever means necessary to proactively protect mutantkind. They rebranded as X-Force and set out to influence the future by being proactive in their own time. They added former Hellion and younger brother of the deceased Thunderbird, Warpath Feral, a savage, former Morlock cat lady and Shatterstar, a Mojoverse refugee who carried two swords with parallel blades.

The then-core team consisted of time-displaced military leader Cable heart of the New Mutants and secretly the most popular guy in the Marvel universe Cannonball ultimate survivor and friend of Beyonders Boom-Boom and preternaturally fortunate mercenary Domino. After leaving Magneto, and following a series of defections, deaths and new colleagues joining the team, they cast out on their own and were eventually taken under the wing of Cable, a mysterious mutant from the future, and trained not to be pacifist schoolchildren, but a preemptive strike force.
