Rictor!!! Ye great flaming id'jit!
Oh. Uh... Hi, Rahne...
Don't ye be 'Hi, Rahne-ing' me! Suicide?! Do ye know what'll happen if ye kill yuirself? Do ye? It's a mortal sin! It's a death blow to yuir soul! Ye'll go straight to hell! Hell, Rictor! Eternal punishment, burning in th'lake of fire for ever and ever! Or ye'll be hung upside down and flailed by demons with thorny whips, ripping the skin from yuir body and then it grows back and they rip it off again, and maggots will eat yuir entrails and...
Y'know... in Japan, suicide is historically regarded as an honorable means of...
Does this look like Japan?! Does it?! Ye see Shinto shrines anywhere?! A Toshiro Mifune film festival down the street? Do ye?
Uh... no?
Correct! And ye know why? 'cause you're not in bleeding Japan, that's why!
Appearing in "X-Factor"
Featured Characters:
- X-Factor Investigations
- Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox) (Main story and flashback)
- Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
- Strong Guy (Guido Carosella) (Main story and flashback)
- Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) (Main story and flashback)
- Layla Miller (Joins)
Supporting Characters:
- Rictor (Julio Richter)
- Victoria (First appearance; dies)
- The X-Factor Dupe (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Lefty
- NYPD
- Emma Frost (Mentioned)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (Mentioned)
- M (Monet St. Croix) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York State
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Lower East Side
- East Village
- Alphabet City
- Mutant Town
- X-Factor Investigations Headquarters (Main story and flashback) (First appearance as X-Factor Investigations Headquarters)
- Power Plant
- Mutant Town
- Alphabet City
- East Village
- Lower East Side
- Manhattan
- New York City
- New York State
- United States of America
- Japan (Mentioned)
- North America
Items:
Synopsis for "X-Factor"
The story opens with Rictor standing at the ledge of a building preparing to jump. Madrox creates a few dupes and determines which would be the best candidate for saving him. Rictor reveals that he is up on the ledge because he lost his powers in M-Day and doesn't want to live without them. Madrox manages to talk Rictor into staying alive with some help from Rahne and coming to work for him at his new detective agency. Just as Rictor is about to get off the ledge however, Madrox pushes him off the ledge.
Meanwhile Siryn uses her abilities to charm a young woman out of information on a crime boss. Their conversation is interrupted however when the young woman is brutally assassinated. Siryn pursues the assassin but before she is able to catch her, the assassin kills herself. Back at X-Factor Investigations headquarters, a mysterious girl wanders in to the office and tells Siryn that the assassin was an operative for a detective agency called "Singularity Investigations".
Solicit Synopsis
In the fallout from HOUSE OF M and following last year’s surprise hit film-noir series--MADROX, a new mutant team is forged! X-FACTOR is an investigative mutant agency including Madrox—the Multiple Man, Guido—the Strong Guy, Wolfsbane—the shape-shifter, Siryn—the chorus girl, Rictor—the living earthquake, and GENERATION X’s Monet—the pompous witch. Drawn together in the heart of District X, this rag-tag band of heroes has a lot of answers to find, and fast!
BONUS: A key player from HOUSE OF M will play a major roll in X-FACTOR! (No, it’s not Wolverine—sigh)Notes
- Part of the Decimation event.
