That’s the environment Shatterstar was born into - or would be born into, as he comes from a century in the future. The swords are sharp and losers don’t survive the episode. In the Mojoverse, reality TV uses real gladiators. 15 He's a reality TV star/revolutionary/superheroįorget American Gladiators. Until then, here are 15 Crazy Facts About Shatterstar Only X-Force Members Know. Perhaps Shatterstar's presence in Deadpool 2, played by Lewis Tan, will push the MU prototype to a higher level of success. He's also acquired a backstory that even he admits is insanely confusing.
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While he didn’t equal Cable or Wolverine in popularity, Shatterstar did get a four-issue series in 2005, and has remained a presence in various mutant books. Instead he wound up fighting alongside his Deadpool 2 costars Cable and Domino on Cable’s new team, X-Force. He’d traveled from the alien, other dimensional Mojoverse to enlist the X-Men’s help, but the X-Men weren’t around. Co-created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, Shatterstar first appeared in New Mutants #99, lying on the floor of the Danger Room. Continuity, backstory, character arcs and plots all became convoluted as different writers struggled to impose, retcon and plot-twist their vision on different series.Īppearing in 1991, Shatterstar was perfectly positioned to ride the mutant wave. The Marvel Universe teemed with an insane number of mutant teams, characters, and books: the X-Ternals, X-Force, X-Factor, the X-Men, X-Man, Weapon X, X-Men 2099, X-Caliber and Generation Next. Marvel’s mutants had been a big hit in the 1980s, but they were a juggernaut in the 1990s. Deadpool's ally in Deadpool 2 is, after all, a time-traveling alien mutant/ Like crazy facts? Then Shatterstar's your guy.