Let’s get to the meat of this, shall we? Who do you figure has been blacked out in this NEW X-FORCE promo image to the right? Who’ll be a member of this new incarnation of the team? My first guess is Nightcrawler, fitting in to the silhouette to the bottom left.   He’s got a sword sheathed on his back, a tail curling out from around his derrière and… what looks like an exceptionally-long cast on his right hand? Well, two out of three clues still support a theory, unless Mr. Wagner broken his arm recently and went to the same kind of goofy doctor who will give you a balloon appendix if you come in with an appendicitis.

My next guess is Magik, standing right next to Wolverine. The build might not be apparent, here, but the sword and shield are big clues. Plus, Illyana’s always been characterized as being rather ruthless, anyway, right? The kind of girl who’d have no problem using the old lethal (X) force.  I have no guess for the caped individual to the other side of Wolverine, but I’ll hazard a guess that the person at the top is either Banshee or Siryn, given the manta-ray-esque split cape. Do you figure I’m totally off-base here, oh blotted-out Comic Vine community? Who do YOU figure is actually part of the line-up?

The image to the right is a promo for NEW X-FORCE, which will written by Rick Remender and drawn by Jerome Opena. This was one of Marvel’s many announcements out of C2E2. The premise of this new series is that Wolverine, in between his participation in the Avengers and the X-Men proper, will be leading some hatchet men to kill Apocalypse. Seems like ol’ En Sabah Nur is getting reincarnated and these forceful individuals might have to snuff him out as an infant! Expect moral quandaries amidst the bloodlust - - although, I’ll always think of these guys as “Inferiorego’s Pals” after those X-Force cosplayers recognized him at C2E2.

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Archangel and I hope Nightcrawler

I don't know but they look bad@$$

Elektra. She's been revealed to be involved with the X-Men soon, right? What better place than X-Force?

I think the last one on the ground is Hope.

I think I see Nightcrawler, Magneto, Rogue and ... Blade? 

The caped guy has to be Fantomex, the flying guy is still Angel, and I hope that is Night Crawler its been to long since he wielded his blades
 

Archangel on top 
Fantomex on the far right 
I want to say Deadpool on the far left 
Cable in the middle maybe

Psylocke!

killing apocylpse hell yeah

We can hope to get more Fantomex, and he's definitely hinted that he would like to be on an X-team. Deadpool can only be in so many places, so I hope to high hopes he's not here.

Deadpool was confirmed like... months ago. 
 
But I agree that it looks like Nightcrawler.  The flying figure at the top has got to be Angel.  The new X-Force are going to be tackling Apocalypse's return... so that demands the attention of Warren K Worthington III ;) 
 
I just hope it isn't Fantomex on the right.  I really don't find any redeeming features in him.  I'd rather Vanisher grew a pair and picked up a gun & a cape :p

It's not Nightcrawler on the bottom left unless his two-toed feet changed.

Oh... my... gawd...!!!

The one in the cape is PRIME, and the girl to the right with the sword is MANTRA!  It's the revival of ULTRAVERSE! 

^ That explains... a LOT!  No wonder they've been gone all this time.

" It's not Nightcrawler on the bottom left unless his two-toed feet changed. "

I think it's either Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Angel and Hope or Domino 
but if the tale belongs to the female character and the rumors are true then it's Deadpool Magik, Angel Hope or Domino

Nightcrawler's supposed to be dying (which I seriously hope won't happen but the future looks bleak for the poor guy), and the 'tail' looks more like a sash coming off the hips of the one in the middle. Really can't make heads or tails of any of them.
Though to have Kurt in X-Force would make my year.

from left to right: 
Nightcrawler (definitely, look at the tail and the way hes crouched on the ledge, also of course he'd pull out the cutlasses on x-force) 
Archangel (definitely- not even a question) 
I have no flipping idea, but if most of you say magik- who am I to second guess? 
Wolverine (obviously) 
Fantomex ( definitely, the trench coat, mask shape and gun in hand give it all away) 
 
Now my only question is, does fantomex get a black and blue costume, or does he stay all shiny and white?

Yeah I can see that being Nightcrawler, I'm guessing he will try to be the moral compass of the team given there history having come to light to everyone elce.

Now that I think about it Adam X-treme would be awesome for this team, but I doubt he will make the cut let alone be considered.

im not quite sure why you would put nightcrawler (Someone against killing and very much on the side of forgiveness and humanity) on a team of assasins. but then again, elixir didnt make sense either.
 
wait, did X-23 die or something? why would they take her off of X-force considering her conflicting interests and the dramatic conflict between wolverine and the world for her soul are the only things keeping it on my pull list?

Bishop with the gun on the right of Logan

Link from Zelda on the left of Logan

Archangel, wolverine, Hope deadpool, don't know who is on the far left, i wanna say nightcrawler but he's toast. (lets not kid ourselves)

lets remember that for the "I am an Avenger" promos they changed some of the silhouette's details to throw us off track so what you see in the picture might not be the character's true outline

Magneto on top

Fantomx for sure is the guy Right, hes been teaming up with wolverine a lot lately. I want to say deadpool for the guy on the left but not sure.

I feel crazy because I could have sworn the initial Remender & Opena X-Force story on the Marvel site said that the team would be a dream team anf only one other mystery member would have previous X-Force ties. So either I dreamt this or it got edited/updated out of the current article. Under those assumptions - Angel, Deadpool, Psylocke/Hope make sense (sorry Fantomex or maybe not, someone with no Apocalypse connections makes sense for the team).
 
X-23 is leaving Utopia after XSC and doing the "find myself" solo thing

>_> Bottom Left = Deadpool
 
Left to Wolvie = Psylocke
 
Right to Wolvie = Fantomex
 
Above Wolvie = ArchAngel?

I hope it's not DP.  Looks like Fantomex, Nightcrawler, Archangel, and GAMBIT I think is angled behind Wolverine and it would make sense being that he's been dealing with those weird "transformations". 

 Rick Remender said in the ign interview that the whole cast are "A-listers" so I don't really thing 
Fantomx will be on this team 

Wolverine,  Archangel, Gambit, Psylocke, and the bottom left I dont know, but I think that looks more like an elektra style belt rather than a tail.  Probably not her but someone with similiar outfit. 
 There was a promo image for part of second coming with Dark Gambit.  Hopefully he will be able to switch like archangel. 
 

Psylocke, Angel, Fantomex and maybe deadpool, because i've got my bets on Nightcrawler being the one to die during second coming

I'll guess:
 Don't have any idea of the first one but I only see one sword on the back of the character but the silhouette is kind of obscured so maybe not Deadpool maybe Deadpool.Second person could be Magik as you said Tom or Daniel Moonstar given those two braid looking things down by the leg.Third is Phantomex as people have suggested.The last person I hope is still Angel.

Flying guy I reckon will be either X-Man with his billowing coat, or Mimic.

I'm pretty positive Psylocke is right behind Wolvie, they've been planning to shift her to X-Force since she returned from Exiles and she's a perfect fit. Of course, Warren is flying above...the guy to the right has to be Fantomex, unless Gambit picked up some guns. Far left figure is either Deadpool or Vanisher....maybe Illyana, although she's most likely stickin with the New Mutants...who else carries swords? I feel like Kurt's gonna die, either him or Rogue, so I'm leaving him off the list. 
With Psylocke on board, I'm picking this up!

Looked it up again, its one of the extra books to the main storyline. X-men second coming: Revelations Hellbound 1-3 The image is the cover from book 2.