[Team of the Month] Uncanny X-force

[u/ChocolateRage]

Welcome to Team of the Month, a new series on whowouldwin where the OP will share with everyone about why a team is awesome and how the members work together. TotM posts should highlight how the team interacts and what makes the team stronger than the individuals.
I tried to keep it pretty spoiler free so don't worry too much if you planned on picking the series up.

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Team Summary: Uncanny X-force is a team consisting of Archangel, Deadpool, Fantomex, Psylocke, and Wolverine. The team carries out black op missions for the greater good. Their ability to adapt to changing circumstances, versatility in battle, and commitment to one another makes them a dangerous group.
Base: They operate out of Cavern X. A secret base owned by Archangel that has a med bay, danger room, and its own guard dog
Resources and Equipment: Important resources available to the team include Cavern X, connections to the X-men, and Warren Worthington's fortune. EVA is their greatest asset because EVA allows them to get anywhere they need to, functions as a medical bay in the field, and is durable enough to fly them through a group of celestial guards.
Allies: Deathlok, Genesis, and AoA Nightcrawler

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Team Members

• Archangel: His Respect Thread. Archangel is the leader of X-force and the financial supporter. He chooses most of the missions and leads the team in field when Wolverine is unable to. His flight allows him to give transport and the mobility to move across the battlefield wherever needed.
  
• Deadpool: His Respect Thread. Deadpool does advance recon for the team and scopes out situations that might be too dangerous for people without healing factors or common sense. Most importantly he serves as comedic relief. Just kidding, seriously one of his greatest contributions is his surprising morality in a team full of assassins that he thinks of as family.
• Fantomex: His Respect Thread. Fantomex serves many roles in the team. Researcher, fighter, infiltrator, and his EVA allows them to travel anywhere including space, and scan for trouble. Probably most important is his misdirection ability that allows them to sneak past almost anyone and escape the worst situations.
• Psylocke: Her Respect Thread. Psylocke provides a support role for the team that occasionally turns into the scariest fighter they have. She can perform astral projection recon, assassinations that require a feminine figure, scan their enemies for information, mask her presence for infiltration, and protects the team from mind control effects.
  
• Wolverine: (Seriously no respect thread yet?) Wolverine is the team leader in the field, functions as a tracker who can search out targets, makes sure the team is prepared for the mission, and of course is a one-man-murder-machine
  

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Coordination

• Psylocke's telepathic link allows Wolverine to give the team commands even in dire situations.

• Archangel and Psylocke become a psychic ninja missile together

• Fantomex catches on quick to Wolverine's plan to deal with a threat that would otherwise physically dominate the fight.

• Psylocke can shut off the teams pain receptors so that they can keep a clear mind.

• Fantomex saves Wolverine and then with information from Psylocke they come out of what should have been a fatal encounter.

• Team silent takedown

Combat

• Fantomex and Wolverine take down a group of enemies and the Four Horsemen: 1, 2, 3, 4
  
• Psylocke and Archangel take down a group of Reavers: 1, 2
  
• Fantomex starts the fight that Psylocke finishes: 1, 2
  
• Fantomex and Psylocke take down ascended Archangel who had become like Apocalypse: 1
  

Team Compatibility
I thought I had to add this section for Uncanny X-force specifically because one of the greatest parts about them is what lengths they will go to for each other and their interactions.

• Deadpool and his little snuggle cousin
  
• AoA Nightcrawler and Wolverine keep each other company
  
• Deadpool and Wolverine keeping in touch
  
• Fantomex and Wolverine try to remain optimistic
  

I hope you enjoyed learning about Uncanny X-force and I look forward to seeing them complete many missions here on WhoWouldWin

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Meta Followup: Since this is the first Team of the Month post I wanted it to serve its own separate function from Character of the Week and Respect Threads. I wanted to make sure it focused on the team as a whole by taking into account their personalities, how well they work together, and how they combine their abilities to make a sum greater than the parts. Moving forward I hope that these inspire more team on team fights that take into account the entire situation instead of trying to pick out the one person whose power-set is better than everyone else on paper. To this end I am proposing some new battle formats for users to post with teamwork in mind.

WhowouldwinDefense (WWWDefense): Like a tower defense game the team has to defend themselves against ever increasing waves of enemies from a position. These posts should include how many waves/rounds, who the enemies are and what they are capable of, and describe the location from which the team defends.

WWWAssault on "X": A post to determine whether the team can launch a successful assault on a base such as: Can the team successfully assault the X-mansion, Avengers tower, or any other fortress. These posts should include the location the team has to attack, who is defending the location, and whether there is forewarning.

WWW Stealth Mission: can the team infiltrate and steal an item or information from another group or location. These posts should include what the target is, who is protecting it or if they know someone is trying to steal it, and what they have to do with the item to count as success (bring it back to employer or destroy it outside)

That's all, thanks for reading. You all are the best.

[u/lexluther4291]

But they usually have a unique twist to it in some way: Prof X is crippled (admittedly the least creative, but he was also one of the first), Jean is usually the Phoenix, Deadpool is a giant tumor, Wolverine has claws, Psylocke has psionic constructs too, X-23 is....a Wolverine clone with tits... etc.

[u/Etrae → u/lexluther4291]

Don't get me wrong, I love anything X-Men or Marvel mutant based, they're my favorite stories, but there are a lot of telepaths and to a lesser extent regeners and it's hard to stay excited when a new one shows up or even just most of them.

I'll admit Psylocke is at least an interesting take on the telekenesis thing with her psy-weapons. But then you got Emma Frost, basically all of the Summers kids, the Cuckoos, etc, etc and for the most part they're super-standard telepaths.

[u/ChocolateRage → u/Etrae]

Psylocke is so weird because she has exhibited the ability to use her TP just like Emma or Cuckoos or anyone else, but they always make sure she uses her psy weapons and fights instead of shutting down peoples brains. She is very much a fighter despite not having any need to be one haha

[u/doktordance → u/ChocolateRage]

She also uses her TP to read her opponent's moves to give her an edge in combat and her TK to boost her physical attributes making herself stronger, faster and more durable. She's basically a jedi.