Last week during
New York Comic Con we learned from
Hasbro that we are steps closer to being able to round out both the original
90's X-Force and
X-Factor teams in their next wave of
X-Force themed Marvel Legends, but would they allow fans to complete those teams in their entirety in the next wave? The answer is yes they could, but will they?
Here is what we know so far about what has already come and is coming for both teams.
The original
Rob Liefeld X-Force included members
Cable, Cannonball, Boom Boom, Shatterstar, Warpath, Domino and
Feral. Out of those, we've already gotten
Cable, Cannonball, Boom Boom, Domino, Shatterstar, and it was just announced last week that
Warpath will be included in the next wave. That only leaves
Feral as the last original member to be made into a action figure.
For
X-Factor, in the 90's when legendary writer
Peter David took over the book, the original X-Men members were replaced with a team that included
Havoc, Polaris, Multiple Man, Forge, Wolfsbane and
Strong Guy. This incarnation of the team was a US government sanctioned team, all of which featuring members wearing similar looking blue and yellow outfits.
Out of that team we've already gotten
Multiple Man and
Forge. During San Diego Comic Con this past summer it was announced we would be getting a new figure 2-pack featuring both
Havoc and
Polaris in their 90's X-Factor outfits and
Strong Guy would be released as a
Build-A-Figure in the near future, confirming last week in fact for the next
X-Force wave. That only leaves
Wolfsbane in her
X-Factor outfit to be released.
So now we know from last week the next X-Force wave of figures to be released at the end of this year or early next year will include
X-Force Warparth, X-Force Sunspot and
Deadpool in blue X-Men outfit, with
X-Factor Strong Guy being the
Build-A-Figure for the wave. That leaves at least 3 more figures to be included in the wave, possibly four (For the sake of speculation in this article we are going to assume this will only be a 6 figure wave as opposed to 7.)
So could Hasbro give us both an
X-Force Feral and
X-Factor Wolfsbane in this next wave which would technically allow folks to round out those original team members for both teams, and if so what would the remaining figure be?
Sunspot while technically not an original member of X-Force was a founding member of the
New Mutants, which is the team that eventually became
X-Force. He was there up until the end of New Mutants and soon returned to the ranks of X-Force during the Rob Liefeld era.
So in keeping with that, another member that would almost be icing on top the cake for X-Force fans is
Siryn. Like with
Sunspot, technically not an original X-Force member, the daughter of long-time X-Men member Banshee joined up with Cable and his team soon after issue #1 and was a long-time fixture to the team.
Another possibility is the character known as
Rictor. He and
Boom Boom started out hanging with the
original X-Factor team when it consisted of the
original X-Men, and then they made their way to the
New Mutants.
Rictor left the team right before they became
X-Force but soon returned.
In all honesty it's hard to believe
Hasbro would load up one wave with so many in-demanded characters, in fact it would probably be more likely if Hasbro found a way to give us 3 more
Deadpool figures, but we can always hope, right?
What three/four figures would you want to see round out the next
X-Force wave? Let us know below in the
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