Uncanny X-Force #7
Uncanny X-Force #7 closes out the 'Deathlok Nation' arc and plants the seed — literally — for everything that follows in Rick Remender's run: the final page reveals that Fantomex has been secretly cloning a new infant En Sabah Nur inside the Weapon Plus super-soldier facility known as the World, a disclosure that recontextualizes Fantomex's cold-blooded shooting of the Apocalypse child in issue #4 and ignites the entire Dark Angel Saga. The issue also resolves the Weapon Infinity threat by having Deadpool — played for genuine emotional pathos rather than comedy — decapitate Father, demonstrating Remender's signature trick of finding moral weight in his most absurdist character. Taken together, the two narrative beats of this issue cement Uncanny X-Force as one of the most carefully plotted X-Men runs of the 2000s, where every act of violence carries forward consequences rather than being reset by the next arc.
In "Deathlok Nation Conclusion," X-Force and the enigmatic Deathlok plunge into the hidden depths of the Weapon Plus laboratory known as “The World,” racing against time to locate the mysterious figure known only as the “Father.” With the fate of the future hanging in the balance, Rick Remender’s gripping narrative, brought to life by Esad Ribić’s sharp, intense artwork and Matthew Wilson’s vivid colors, pushes the team to the edge in a high-stakes mission that could alter everything.
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Writer Rick Remender and penciler Esad Ribić produced issues #5–7 together as the 'Deathlok Nation' arc, with Ribić stepping in after Jerome Opeña's opening four-issue stint and bringing a painted, European sensibility to the alien geometry of the World. John Lucas inked, Matthew Wilson colored, and Cory Petit lettered, with Jody Leheup as assistant editor and Axel Alonso as editor-in-chief. The series had launched in October 2010 under Remender and Opeña as a covert black-ops continuation of the X-Force concept, operating without Cyclops's knowledge and built around a team willing to cross lines the X-Men would not.
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- Title of story chapter: 'Deathlok Nation (Conclusion)' — the third and final part of the Deathlok Nation arc spanning issues #5–7.
- Release date: April 13, 2011; cover date: June 2011. Written by Rick Remender; penciled by Esad Ribić; inked by John Lucas; colored by Matthew Wilson.
- Key plot resolution: Deadpool locates and decapitates Father, the architect of the Weapon Infinity program, causing all time-displaced Deathlok troopers to vanish from existence.
- Fantomex Deathlok makes his first — and only — appearance in this issue before being destroyed.
- Critical hidden-page reveal: Ultimaton (Weapon XV) is shown guarding a secret laboratory inside the World containing a living infant clone of En Sabah Nur, 847 days old — a secret Fantomex has kept from the rest of X-Force and the setup for the entire Dark Angel Saga.
- Psylocke kills her own future Deathlok self to protect Archangel from psychic domination, a moment that illustrates the arc's running theme of X-Force's methods producing monstrous mirror images of themselves.
- Issue #7 is collected in the trade paperback Uncanny X-Force Vol. 2: Deathlok Nation (ISBN 978-0-7851-4856-2), which also reprints the classic Deathlok origin story from Astonishing Tales #25 (1974).
- The complete Remender run — including this issue — is also collected in the Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender Omnibus (most recently reprinted July 2024, ISBN 978-1-3029-5773-5).
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Reprinted in Uncanny X-Force: Deathlok Nation #[nn] (2011), Uncanny X-Force #2 (2012), 100% Marvel. Imposibles X-Force #2 (2012), Wolverine and Deadpool #32 (2012), Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender Omnibus #[nn] (2014), Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender: The Complete Collection #1 (2014)
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