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 Cover art for Wolverine: Origins #7.Art by Joe Quesada. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men (vol. 2) #5 (1992) |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Espionage |
| Agent(s) | Wolverine Sabretooth Maverick (Agent Zero in film) Kestrel (simply John Wraith in film) Mastodon (comics only) Silver Fox (did not join Team X in film, but is part of the team in the comics) Deadpool Blob (Film Only) Bolt (Film Only) |
Team X is a fictional black ops team in the Marvel Universe.
Comics
In the Marvel Universe, Team X was a CIA black ops team that operated during the 1960s and was linked to Weapon Plus. It was made up of Logan (Wolverine), Victor Creed (Sabretooth), Maverick, Kestrel, Mastodon, Silver Fox, and Deadpool. Team X was apparently disbanded after a botched mission concerning Omega Red, though its members were captured and used as test subjects by the Weapon X Project. Omega Red has conflicted with Team X during a mission to get the Carbonadium Synthesizer to help neutralize his death factor and stabilize his body. That happened when Sabretooth and Omega Red clashed.
Other media
Television
Team X featured in the X-Men: The Animated Series of the mid-1990s in an episode called "Weapon X, Lies & Video Tape". In this episode, Wolverine, as do all the original members, had several flashbacks and returned to a Weapon X facility in Canada. The other team members are Sabretooth, Silver Fox, and Maverick. They recalled their previous missions and their battles with Omega Red, but also they realized that much of these memories were implanted into them by the Weapon X scientists. They were brought there to die at the hands of a Weapon X robot called Thalos. Thalos fails, but only because the team works together again to destroy the Weapon X countermeasure.
Team X has also figured prominently in the storyline of the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon that began in 2008. In this series, the team consisted of Wolverine, Sabretooth, Mystique and operated as a section of the Weapon X project under the supervision of Dr. Cornelius. Following the departures of both Wolverine and Mystique, Maverick was captured, brainwashed and made to join the team.
Film
Team X is featured in the 2009 feature film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It is a prequel to the X-Men film trilogy, focusing on the mutant Wolverine and his time with Team X, before Wolverine's skeleton was bonded with the indestructible metal adamantium. The team consists of Wolverine, Sabretooth, Deadpool, Agent Zero, John Wraith, Bolt, and Frederick Dukes. Under the command of William Stryker, they travel to Lagos, Nigeria and confront a diamond-sorting operation over their possession of adamantium. The team disbands shortly thereafter when Wolverine leaves, unwilling to participate in a massacre of villagers. Team X is gradally dissolved over the course of the next few years, and its remnants absorbed into the WEAPON project.
Only Sabretooth, Deadpool and Agent Zero stayed faithful to Stryker. Sabretooth kills off Bolt. Stryker wishes to let Wolverine rejoin him. After Wolverine's girlfriend (Silver Fox) is killed by Sabretooth, Wolverine agrees to participate in a Weapon X procedure. Adamantium is put into his skeleton, and in a fit of rage, escapes. Agent Zero attempts to pursue him, but dies in the process. Wolverine finds Wraith and an obese Dukes (now Blob), and Wraith leads him to Remy LeBeau, a former captive of Stryker. Gambit mistakenly thinks Wolverine was sent to recapture him, so Gambit attacks him, only to find out that Sabretooth killed Wraith. Wolverine fights Sabretooth and nearly kills him, but Gambit intervenes, causing Sabretooth to escape. When Gambit gets the trust of Wolverine, he brings him to Stryker's base, where Wolverine and a still-alive Silver Fox help mutants escape. Sabretooth and Wolverine then fights Deadpool, now with multiple powers, and ultimately defeats and kills him, in revenge for killing Silver fox for real.
Only Stryker, Wolverine, Sabretooth and Blob are the only Team X members left alive.
References
- "Fox Sets New Avatar, Museum 2 Dates". Comingsoon.net. 2007-12-12. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
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