X-Factor (comics)/Awesome

X-Factor Investigations

• When Shatterstar beat up The Thing. It may not be on the level of Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?, but it comes pretty close.
  • "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"
• When Rictor uses Quicksilver's own Terrigen crystals against him, getting the chance to use his powers for just one moment. Talk about piling on the angst.
• Monet punching Cortex, an evil dupe of Jamie's, so hard that Jamie Prime can feel it--80 years into the future.
• The end to issue #206, which brings the whole team back together in one glorious fight against the MRD/Bolivar Trask.
  • Not just that but for the first time in the entire series, Madrox's dupes work as one, when normally, you could almost count on the dupe Jamie producing whilst in a fight being a pacifist, Jerkass, self-loathing or just generally unhelpfull.
• Joe Quesada of all people, got one in Real Life because of the Shatterstar & Rictor relationship. How? Shatterstar's creator, Rob Liefeld went on Twitter after the characters kissed, and said "As the guy that created, designed and wrote his first dozen appearances, Shatterstar is not gay. Sorry. Can't wait to someday undo this. Seems totally contrived". Quesada's CMOA came when he responded "If Rob wants to publicly disagree with that, that's his right, and I respect that. But if Rob is intending on flipping what Peter has written, he will have to wait to discuss that with the next Editor-in-Chief."