Team X

Team X
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 Kestrel Mastodon Silver Fox Deadpool Film/TV only: Fred J. Dukes Bradley Maj. William Stryker Lady Deathstrike Mystique Omega Red

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.

In 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

This section consists almost entirely of a plot summary and should be improved to provide more balanced coverage that includes real-world context. Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work rather than merely reiterating the plot. Specific concerns can be found on the Talk page. (May 2009)

In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the team is lead by Col. William Stryker, and consists of James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine, Victor Creed / Sabretooth, Frederick Dukes, John Wraith, Wade Wilson, Chris Bradley, and David North / Agent Zero.

Only Sabertooth and Agent Zero remain faithful to Stryker (though it's implied that Deadpool was brainwashed/electronically bound to Stryker). Sabertooth kills off Bradley. Stryker wishes to let Wolverine rejoin him. After Wolverine's girlfriend is apparently killed by Sabertooth, Wolverine agrees to participate in a Weapon X procedure. Adamantium is put into his skeleton, and in a fit of rage, Wolverine escapes. Agent Zero attacks him, but is killed by Wolverine in return. Wolverine finds Wraith and an obese Dukes, and Wraith leads him to Remy LeBeau, a former captive of Stryker. LeBeau mistakenly thinks Wolverine was sent to recapture him, so LeBeau attacks him, blasting him into an alley where he finds out that Sabertooth has killed Wraith. Wolverine fights Sabertooth and nearly kills him, but Gambit intervenes, allowing Sabertooth to escape. After Wolverine gains LeBeau's trust, LeBeau takes him to Stryker's base, whenre Wolverine and (still alive) Silver Fox help mutants escape. Sabertooth and Wolverine then fight Weapon XI, a bald, pale Wade Wilson who now possesses multiple powers, and ultimately defeat and kill him. Silver Fox is fatally shot while helping other captured mutants escape.

Stryker, Wolverine, and Sabertooth are the only Team X members confirmed left alive. Dukes, also known as "Blob" in the comics, has an unknown fate, even with a deleted scene^[1] of Sabretooth approaching Dukes. However a scene at the end of the credits shows that Deadpool is alive too.

In X-Men, Sabertooth is apparently killed after Cyclops blasted him through the Statue of Liberty although the sequel novelization reveals that he survived. However, in X-Men: The Official Game, Wolverine (seemingly) killed Sabretooth. In X-Men 2, Magneto chains Stryker to a dam in the moments before a catastrophic failure in the spillway. Wolverine finds him shortly before the entire complex is destroyed in the ensuing flood, but he leaves him for dead, deciding that his new life with the X-Men is worth more than any past Stryker could offer him.

References

This Marvel Comics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e