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Liefeld's original take on the team holds up well - a group of mutants taking a more pragmatic and proactive approach to the ideals of X-Men founder Charles Xavier's dream. Though the team's concept was later officially expanded to be the X-Men's black-ops assassin squad, that darker edge was something Liefeld baked into X-Force from day one.

X-Force by Rob Liefeld (Image credit: Marvel Comics)ДЄlthough there was an X-Force before Liefeld took over New Mutants (Google it!), it's Liefeld's take on this team of Xavier's School drop-outs that made a mark in 1991. The character was adapted for live-action in Deadpool 2 by actor Zazie Beetz. It wasn't until years later she joined Cable and his then-team Six Pack, eventually following him to X-Force, even becoming the team's leader for a time.Дomino is currently in the revived X-Force, working with Wolverine. Mutant by birth (with the power of luck, no less), Domino was raised in a top-secret breeding program - a la Black Widow's Red Room - before being rescued and taken in by a Catholic priest. Some might see Domino as a character built around a name with the white-and-black pattern she has, but there's more to her than you might think.ДЄlthough originally introduced as the right-hand woman to Cable in New Mutants #98 (yep, the same issue as Deadpool's debut), that appearance was eventually revealed as really being the shapeshifter Copycat masquerading as Domino - meaning the character didn't actually debut until a year later in X-Force #8.Дespite that odd start, the character has grown into a significant part of the X-Men mythos through co-starring roles in team books and several solo miniseries (including one drawn by Black Panther's Brian Stelfreeze). DominoДomino by Rob Liefeld (Image credit: Marvel Comics) Some people might be turned off by Bloodwulf's derivative origins, but remember - there wouldn't be a Wade Wilson without a Slade Wilson (That's Deadpool and Deathstroke, for those that don't know). Between his multiple wives, dozens of children, and straight-out lampooning of everything from Star Wars to Neil Gaiman (One word: 'Gaimanwank'), Liefeld pushed buttons up and down the board to generate comedy and controversy. Originally introduced in the unique Image anthology Darker Image, Bloodwulf was typecast as a Lobo ripoff right out of the gate - and Liefeld didn't shy away from the comparison, using Lobo in early issues without DC's permission to frame it as an over-exposed parody of his creators' intentions.Д«ut whereas Bloodwulf started as a derivative of Lobo, the character evolved to become something Lobo's owners, DC, would arguably never allow. Yes, another Liefeld concept with 'blood' in the name.

BloodwulfД«loodwulf by Rob Liefeld (Image credit: Rob Liefeld (Image Comics))

At one point, Bloodstrike's team roster was decimated, making it a de facto solo book for Cabbot, with him taking the team name as his own.

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The series frequently put the Bloodstrike team into conflict with Liefeld's other team Brigade, led by Battlestone - the brother of Bloodstrike's Cabbot Stone. Whereas recruits of DC's Task Force X AKA the Suicide Squad are kept in check by a brain bomb, Liefeld's Bloodstrike was held in line by ongoing treatments that kept the re-animated soldiers alive - treatments they could only get if they continued to work for the government. Resurrected by military scientists, Cabbot Stone and his fellow Bloodstrike members were revived and forced to fight another day. Launched in 1993 by Liefeld, Dan Fraga, and Eric Stephenson, Bloodstrike was a black-ops special forces squad recruited from the US's military servicemen - but they didn't recruit the living, only the dead. Picture Suicide Squad mixed with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and you have a close approximation of Bloodstrike. Bloodstrike by Rob Liefeld (Image credit: Rob Liefeld (Image Comics))

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