Weapon X (Exiles)
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This article is about the reality-jumping Weapon X, for the supersoldier program see Weapon X
Weapon X is a team of comic book anti-heroes created by Judd Winick for the comic book Exiles. Like the Exiles, Weapon X is composed by a number of superhumans removed from their native timelines and forced to correct problems in various timelines of the multiverse. Unlike the Exiles, Weapon X is formed by ruthless individuals that deal with situations .
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Weapon X was formed by the Timebreakers in order to correct timelines by performing acts such as assassinations, massacres and assaults on innocents and heroes, as these acts were supposed to lead to the timelines in question being corrected. Despite the moral dilemma posed by their missions, the members of Weapon X did little to question or circumvent the assigments they received.The team was originally composed by Sabretooth of the Age of Apocalypse, Garrison Kane of Earth-3031, an unknown timeline's Deadpool, Mesmero of Earth-653, Wolverine of Earth-172, and Maverick of Earth-1287. The six members found themselves before the Timebroker and a keg of beer aboard a raft in the middle of an endless ocean. As the six had been involved with the Weapon X Program in their native timelines, they all agreed to name the team Weapon X.
Weapon X suffered the losses of Wolverine, Mesmero and Maverick, who were killed by a version of Captain America, leaving only Sabretooth, Kane and Deadpool to continue the missions. They ignored the existance of the Exiles until they saw them in a timeline in which they were charged with capturing the Hulk.
Following this mission, the fallen Weapon X members were replaced by a second wave of replacements: Daredevil of Earth-181, Hulk of a reality in which she was a mob bookkeeper, and Storm of Earth-23895. At some point, Daredevil was removed from the team and replaced with the Spider (Spider-Man of Earth-15). Later, Kane was killed and replaced with Vision of Earth-10101.
The team was sent to another alternate reality similar to the Days of Future Past, in which they met with the Exiles. Together, the two teams destroyed a Sentinel death camp and rescued the children captured there. However, Weapon X and the Exiles fought after Sabretooth received the mission to kill David Richards (son of Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards), who was destined to become the world's most terrible supervillain. Sabretooth opposed his teammates and allied with the Exiles, snapping Deadpool's neck in the process. Deadpool was then replaced by Iron Man of Earth-2020. Weapon X was defeated and Sabretooth agreed to stay behind to raise David Richards to be a good man and a responsible hero.
Sabretooth was replaced by Gambit of Earth-371, who received the Tallus and became their new leader. At some point, Iron Man was replaced by Archangel of Earth-714. Weapon X was sent to a reality in which Iron Man had become the fascist monarch of Earth and in which Weapon X was charged with helping Stark to destroy Attilan and capture all the Inhumans. In the process, Hulk was sucked into the Negative Zone, which prompted her replacement with Colossus of Earth-1917, though this version of Colossus did not share the ruthlessness of his fellow Weapon X teammates. Weapon X was successful in leading the invasion of Attilan, though they found that the Inhumans had commited mass suicide. Weapon X was teleported to their next destination, ignoring that their mission would lead to the assassination of Stark and the salvation of that Earth.
Later on, Archangel was, supposedly, sent to his home reality and replaced with Ms. Marvel of Earth-4732. Following Ms. Marvel's appereance, Storm was mortally wounded in a reality in which Weapon X was meant to stop Bruce Banner—who was killed by Ms. Marvel, much to Gambit's dissaproval. Weapon X was teleported to a new reality in which they met Storm's replacement, Hyperion of Earth-4023.
The team's new mission was to wipe out the remaining mutant population of the planet. Hyperion, however, planned on becoming stuck in the reality by preventing the mission from being fulfilled, thus giving him a chance to become the undisputed ruler. In his own reality, Hyperion had destroyed every superhuman and alien, though he was the sole inhabitant of an Earth completely devastated by nuclear bombs.
Hyperion met opposition from Vision, who was blindly loyal to Weapon X's mission, for which he was disabled. Ms. Marvel and Spider joined Hyperion as their shared his ambitions, while Gambit and Colossus, tired of the constant killings, did not want to go along with the elimination of the reality's mutants, as they included Storm and Shadowcat. However, Earth was doomed to suffer an asteroid collision, courtesy of Magneto, for which Hyperion accepted to complete the mission in order to move on to another reality. Colossus and Shadowcat tried to escape, but ended up sucked into space and died, while Vision was destroyed alongside the planet. They were replaced by a Hulk of Earth-873 and an unnamed reality's Firestar, who were sent to ensure the fulfillment of the mission, but also to deal with Hyperion. The extermination of the mutants was completed when the reality's Storm was mercy-killed by Gambit.
For various missions, Gambit, aided by Firestar and Hulk, tricked Hyperion, Ms. Marvel and Spider into completing their missions, until Weapon X was sent to a new reality, in which they received no mission. Hyperion realized he was being deceived and ripped off Gambit's arm in order to obtain the Tallus. However, the Tallus reappeared on Gambit's other arm. Gambit escaped and Hyperion quickly took over New York City, killing the Fantastic Five, the original X-Men and some Avengers in the process. Hulk and Firestar, as always opposed to Hyperion, were incapacitated.
Weapon X was finally disbanded when the Exiles arrived and both Blink and Gambit received the mission: Weapon X and the Exiles were meant to fight to the death until only six remained. Magik, and Hulk were killed by Hyperion, while Firestar killed the Spider, immolating herslef in the process. Ms. Marvel was killed in battle with Morph and finally, Hyperion was killed thanks to Gambit's sacrifice. Instead of six survivors, there were only five: Blink, Mimic, Morph, Sasquatch and Nocturne.
The Exiles wouldn't meet any member of Weapon X until their visit to the Panoptichron, in which they saw all former members of Exiles and Weapon X placed in stasis in one of the galleries of the Crystal Palace.
Membership
- Sabretooth: originally of the Age of Apocalypse. Replaced by Gambit.
- Deadpool: from an unknown timeline. Neutralized by Sabretooth and replaced by Iron Man. Was reawakened in the Panoptichron and began a rampage until killed by Hulk/Jennifer Walters.
- Kane: apparently a member of Six-Pack and involved with the Weapon X program in his home reality. His body was sent back to his native timeline and buried by Cable, Domino and Grizzly.
- Wolverine: seemingly involved with his reality's Mariko Yashida. Burned in a funeral pyre before Mariko and the Silver Samurai.
- Maverick: an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury's top agent. Buried in an official ceremony
- Mesmero: an agent of the Weapon X Program. His body ended up cremated at Weapon X's compound
- Daredevil: an assassin of the Kingpin in his native reality. After being sent back he returns to his job.
- Hulk I: Jennifer Walters, a tough mob bookkeeper. She's sent back to her home reality in exchange for killing Deadpool
- Storm: a sixteen years old witch that rules over the half of Africa. Buried by the Black Panther and his people.
- Spider: a psychopath bonded with the Carnage symbiote and sentenced to death in his home reality.
- Vision: seemingly an emotionless robot, with half of his face burned and revealing his robotic structure. Nonetheless is involved with the Scarlet Witch in his home timeline.
- Iron Man: the cause of a World War in his reality of origin and also sentenced to death. Sent back without his armor.
- Gambit: bitter and ruthless, though still honorable. Involved with Storm in his native timeline. Buried by the Thieves Guild.
- Angel: a gun-totting assassin, though still bearing the X symbol on his uniform.
- Colossus: a somewhat pacifist version, more akin to the members of the Exiles than the rest of Weapon X. Buried in his home farm.
- Ms Marvel: cruel and decadent. Ends up on the Beast's authopsy table.
- Hyperion: after his defeat, he then takes over the Crystal Palace, though he's later stopped by two other Hyperions and sent back to his native timeline, on which he seems to be the only living creature.
- Hulk II: the replacement to Colossus, this male version of the Hulk was killed by Hyperion during the Time Breaker's membership battle
- Firestar: this hero was the replacement of Vision when he finally "died", and later died herself by her own powers during the Time Breaker's battle for membership
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