X-Force #10 (2025)

[mastermahan]

X-Force was cancelled with issue 10, so you know that means: time to desperately rush to a conclusion!

Here are the reveals.




The big bad was Moses Magnum. He wants to create human-mutant coexistence by murdering a bunch of people.



Tank was Colossus, just like everyone thought from issue 1. It's not explained why he was pretending to be a robot.



Fake Colossus was Zanda. Also, Zanda is a shapeshifter now. EDIT: Her cartoon version was, she wasn't.



If I had a nickel for every time an Asian teenager with electrical powers who shares her name with a brand of soda died but came back as an energy being…

I'm glad Surge didn't stay dead, at least.

---- EDIT ----

PIOTR: Surprise! Tank was Colossus the whole time!

BETSY: Yeah, we all knew.

PIOTR: No, you couldn't of. I was shielded from telepathy and my acting was flawless.

BETSY: Peter, Rachel and I known you for ages. It wasn't hard to figure out who the giant metal guy was.

SAGE: And I have a computer brain.

PIOTR: ...Aren't you at least going to ask me why?

RACHEL: We really don't care.

--- LATER ---

NORIKO: Oh hey, Colossus finally stopped pretending he was a robot.

PIOTR: Oh, come on! You don't even know me!

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

Grimm+? Riiight. Was this written by the president of Moses Magnum fan club?

[scorntx]

Thought Zanda already was a shapeshifter?
Or was that just Panther's Quest Zanda?


Not too worried about Surge.
She's one of the New X-Men, so next time she appears it'll likely be in the background of a crowd shot where she's gone back to flesh and blood and her New X-Men outfit like none of this ever happened.


... but Rachel's okay, right? There looked like there was something about her turning into a Hound again. Nothing bad happened to her, did it?

[onsokumaru]

That series lost me when Nori was killed. I couldn't care less about Rachel and Betsy, and I had a feeling that Tank was going to be "yawn" Colossus, so that left me with only Forge and Sage. Not enough. Glad she is back, though. For characters like her, it's often a matter of "if" rather than "when".

Marvel is really doing dirty to the writer and the readers, though. Not just the cancellation despite the sales not being that bad, but also the fact that the 9th issue being a Manhunt tie-in, it won't be collected in the second TPB. Despite the fact it was a part of the whole story. But you know what will be in the TPB? That one shot about Cable published in the 10th issue, something totally unrelated to that iteration of X-Force.

[blues32]

Really overselling Mose Magnum here.

[thanekos]

Moses Magnum might be a superpowered weapons dealer/crime lord whose history involves literally earth-shaking plots, but apparently he's only as impressive as how many " Top 10 Villains " lists he would make.

[zachbeacon]

This run was really peak X-Force.

...in that it didn't didn't even pretend to have a story.



Why is the team doing [Insert mission here]?

Forge built a plot device and they're all just blindly following it.


What's going on with Rachel?

Nothing, she gets better immediately after the reader finds out she has a problem.


What's the deal with Tank?

He's Colossus. He's obviously Colossus.

Why is he pretending to be a robot?

Don't worry about it.


Who's the evil mastermind behind all the crises Forge's plot device is detecting?

*Throws dart at dartboard*



Anyway happy Surge's very stupid death didn't stick. The Jolt comparison is interesting because her teammates actually mourned her and here Sage was just mad at Forge for an issue. Anyway, here's hoping she doesn't get dumped of Counter Earth (I guess the mutant equivalent is Arakko), never to be seen again except for a brief cameo in Avengers vs X-Force.

[windleopard2]

Who's the other Asian teenager who came back as energy and is named after a drink?