Cable recruits Jubilee and Sunspot into X-Force in X-Men '97 season 2. The team serves as a more aggressive strike force while the scattered X-Men struggle to reunite and confront Apocalypse.
The season's X-Force includes Cable, Psylocke, Archangel, Jubilee, and Sunspot. Cable's leadership gives the group a distinctly militarized, time-traveling character, fitting his history as Nathan Summers, a soldier from a dystopian future.
Jubilee and Sunspot are especially notable additions because both began as younger or newer members of the X-Men's wider circle. Their involvement shows how the surviving mutants adapt after the original team is presumed dead or missing.
X-Force is easy to confuse with X-Factor. In this season, X-Factor is a government-created group associated with mutant capture and public order, while Cable's X-Force is focused on a covert offensive against Apocalypse. In the comics, X-Force debuted in The New Mutants #100 before receiving its own series.